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- Mappy Land (NES) and the Technically Also Dig-Dug 2
This week, we talk about letting people enjoy things and not being a judgmental jerk just because people do things differently from you. This isn't brought on as some sort of passive-aggressive thing, it's just us reflecting on how we used to be less compassionate people.
Also, Gachapons! Faygo! Nintendo Switch Sports! And two podcast games for the price of one, even though that price is "free" and neither of the games are very good!
Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 52 min - Light Crusader (Genesis) and the Instant Sora Doxxing
We dive even deeper into the Treasure library to find what is maybe the LEAST "Treasure" game yet in Light Crusader.
Also, Kingdom Hearts 4 gets announced, and people immediately determine the location, size, and price of Sora's apartment in Tokyo, because it's 2022 and that's just what people do now. Also-also, we do an awful lot of showing our age as we talk about a bygone relic known as "long distance phone plans."
Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 55 min - Double Dragon 2: The Revenge (NES) and the iPod Archeology
This week, we talk Vampire Survivors, and TW plugs in an old iPod from a thrift store for some reason.
But nevermind all that, DOUBLE DRAGON 2 IS WILD WHAT IS UP WITH THIS GAME ACTUALLYSend us an email to read on the show! [email protected]TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
2 hr 18 min - Avenging Spirit (GB) and the Lime Skittles Apology
Breath of the Wild is delayed to 2023, is it a sign of a new console launch? TW's been playing stuff in Mystery Fun Fest, where he learned that Fall Guys is somehow actually more fun now than at launch! Also, we talk about how annoying it is when you can tell advertising is successfully manipulating you.
Literally the only reason we played Avenging Spirit is because of Tom digging up the ridiculous box art differences between regions. We had to know why it was like that, and it somehow ended up making sense almost immediately. And then it turned out to be a surprisingly good game from a bizarrely obscure development studio (but published by Jaleco, which is honestly more of a running gag at this point than anything).Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
2 hr 6 min - The Quantum Blade (PC) and the BUSINESS SUIT feat. Alex Zandra!
This week, Alex Zandra, aka Zandravandra, joins TW on the show to talk about the very first games she made as a teenager in the 90s, The Quantum Blade 1 and 2! These games were featured in Kusogrande 6, but they were very much worth talking about more because they are an absolute CELEBRATION of mid-90s indie games.
So we get into talking the design ideas behind the game, the joy of starting and finishing a passion project regardless of quality, learning from mistakes, Final Fantasy MIDIs, and the state of the internet in the mid-90s (shoutouts to FFGaming, TW's long-dead Final Fantasy fansite with information that was just straight-up incorrect). Also Elden Ring.
Thanks to Zandra for being on the show and sharing in the love of these and her other creations! Check the links below to follow Zandra on Twitch and Twitter, check out her books, and play many of her games for yourself!Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
Follow Zandra on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/zandravandraAnd also Twitter! https://twitter.com/zandravandraRead Zandra's Books! http://books.zandravandra.com/2 hr 21 min - Kirby's Adventure (NES) and the Doors vs. Wheels
There's a new Kirby game out this week, so we decided to go back to the game where he just turns into a wheel, instead of just stretching his skin over an entire car. Real talk, that new Kirby game seems fun, so maybe don't let the weirdness of the body deformity stuff turn you off - or do, it's your call.
Also discussed: GPU prices are coming down, La-Mulana is still weird, and the current meme question: are there more doors or wheels in the world today?Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 46 min - Sin and Punishment (N64) and the Stranger of Paradise
So, it turns out Tom hasn't seen anything at all about Final Fantasy Origin: Stranger of Paradise. So if you would like to hear Tom's live reaction to the bizarre trailers starring main edgelord Jack Garland, that's here in this podcast!
We've also got talk about Amazon Luna, sorta talking about the Sony State of Play, and finally getting into Sin and Punishment, a Treasure game which we now very much recognize as EXTREMELY TREASURE. It's good, but it is Metal Wolf Chaos levels of "what is happening?" anime nonsense, which makes it both better and worse.Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
1 hr 59 min - Daikatana (GBC) and the Reason It's Called Discord
This week, John Romero doesn't make anybody anything, because Kemco made this game. Welcome to the little-known Game Boy Color version of Daikatana, a completely different game from its infamous original! This is a downright playable Zelda-like that tries really hard to pull off the convoluted story beats of the original game, to hilarious effect.
The North American release of Big Sword was cancelled, so we played the unreleased prototype version that Romero himself dumped the ROM of on his own website some 20+ years ago!
Also: We talk about how Discord got its name, the "Gaming Pentathlon," and a neat little meta touch to the opera scene in the Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster! And some other stuff, as usual, you know how it goes.Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
2 hr 17 min - River City Girls Zero (Switch) and the Gabe Newell Crypto Dunk
Before I forget, here's a link to the official source where you can hear the FANTASTIC tracks for this game recorded by Megan McDuffee, RichaadEB and DEMONDICE! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzt65O3BsmY
Anyway, Gabe Newell came out from his pile of money to let everyone know that crypto sucks, and it was glorious. Also, we talk HD-2D, Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and PC Elden Ring problems (though neither of us are playing it so that's mostly hearsay).
Full disclosure, River City Girls Zero is technically a brand new re-release on Switch from Wayforward, but it's just a souped-up port of Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-Tachi no Banka, a Super Famicom game from 1994, so IT COUNTS.
Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
2 hr 2 min - Joe and Mac (SNES) and the First Draft of Super Mario RPG
This week we delve into the okayest game maybe ever on the podcast! Along the way, we talk about video game camping, Road Rash 64, and the director of Super Mario RPG's initial concept for the game, in which Mario rides a horse.
Also, now accepting your votes for worst underwater area in video games! Oh, and we talk about Infernax a bit because it's more interesting than Joe and Mac.
Send us an email to read on the show! [email protected]
TW's Discord: https://discord.gg/dTrBruG
Podcast games streamed live at: twitch.tv/timewanderer
TW on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/timewanderer
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About The Retro Breakdown
From the publisher's feed
Every week, Dean (twitch.tv/timewanderer) and Tom discuss current gaming news, and then check out some old (or sometimes new) piece of gaming history to see how it holds up, and test the strength of…
nostalgia.