Ep 95 - The GameCube Bracket feat. SpiderShan!

On this special 100th episode of RetroLogic, our collection of 7 hosts rank our top 10 SNES games of all time! Thanks for listening!

  Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers. Bill! A Gamer Looks At 40   But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games Tell me one thing that happened this week! Housekeeping Final Fantasy Mystic Quest Retro Review ft. Spidershan! Sam: Blog and Streaming updates MMBN2 Hard Mode -Battle chip Challenge complete! John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates, Metroid Prime, dynamite heady FilmLogic: Mike Writes, Solo Something, Tim: Oscars and Rise Roar Revolt RetroGroove: Busta Rhymes   A Gamer Looks At 40 The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Dan’s list Sam’s list Jon’s List Bills List   Niche Please : Plumber Free Kart Racers   Trivia Card Show Topics   E3 is going away A little history: First E3 expo in 1995 Early troubles, 1996 saw Sony do it’s own playstation expo and sega pull out at last minute Held in Atlanta Georgia 1997 and 1998 Flirted with smaller scale event in 2007 and 2008 Reverted to larger format, increasing emphasis on being open to the public, not just industry insiders 2020 cancellation Dead? ESA allegedly still planning a conference in 2024 Favorite E3 memories Community Couch Q from Stevens_NES: Does anyone else have an example of this? A genre of game that they played as a kid that has now secretly morphed into their favorite? (his example was metroid) I’m Back!!! Aka Flightsy: Community Couch Question: What do you think of my glorious return to the discord? See you on Episode 100!   Thanks BILL!   Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter at @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

  Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers.    But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games Tell me one thing that happened this week! Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates MMBN2 Hard Mode -Battle chip Challenge John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates, Waverace, Tetris FilmLogic: Mike Writes, Solo Something, Tim RetroGroove: High Five: Top 5 1990’s Cartoon Theme Songs New Merch! The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Dan’s list Sam’s list Jon’s List   Trivia Card Show Topics   When what’s old is new: Playing games at launch vs. coming into retro games fresh -games panned at the time vs. beloved classics now WindWaker EarthBound   Community Couch Games panned at launch but gained popularity: Ri Sol-ju : God Hand Octorock (Adam): Zelda II PrestoThe Magnificent: Among Us Spider Shan: no man’s sky   Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter at @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers.    But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week!   Housekeeping - Big Week! Sam: Blog and Streaming updates MMBN2 Hard Mode - postgame wrap up!  Battle chip Challenge start! Blog: Games from Across the Multiverse #1: The Legend of Zelda Harmonica of Time for the Atari Jaguar John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates, survey results, Retroid Pocket Review Crazy Taxi Waverace, Retro Rewind Champions FilmLogic: Mike Writes, Solo Something, Tim - Best Fictional movie Presidents, plus Marvel fatigue RetroGroove: Best Cartoon Theme Songs from the 80’s , 90’s are next and the competition is fierce! National Weights and Measures Week   The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Dan’s list Sam’s list Jon’s List   Trivia Card   Ambassador’s new game “Niche Please”   Show Topics Re-Playing Games How has your opinion on a game changed on a repeat playthrough?   Earthworm Jim Claymates Pokemon BOTW Metroid Prime   Community comments   Presto Sonic Colors. Played the OG on Wii, it was my first Sonic game, and had good memories.    Bozo F-Zero GX comes to mind. When I first played it in 8th grade I couldn't understand how anyone could even reach the credits, Now after 100%-ing the game multiple times and beating all the staff ghosts, GX provides a catharsis and a sense of mastery that other racing games simply can't compete with. Everything else feels so pedestrian in comparison. It's gaming in its purest, most intense form and I love it. Octorock (Adam) Replaying games multiple times is a luxury that I haven’t really had in a long time. The first exception to this is probably going to be Breath of the Wild which I just recently started a quick playthrough in anticipation of Tears for Fears coming out in May. Conversely, having just started playing Metroid Prime Remastered, I’m amazed at how much I actually remember considering I haven’t played it in 20 years! SoloSomething Elden Ring currently playing a second time and will say opinion did change on this one.  The 1st play thru I got so frustrated multiple times I literally deleted the game off my PS5 because I was drained by the boss fights.  And now on my 2nd play it is my junk food game that I love to just jump and go raise Hell and see what trophy I can get.   Community Couch Two Dollar Hero Are there any games you actually never want to replay? I call these “big fish” games — I want them to stay rose tinted in my memory; I want to always remember the fish that I caught being massive and I don’t want to revisit it and see that it actually wasn’t. A good example of this for me is Journey. I’ll never play that game again - I had my experience. Danverse Finale (or is it?)   Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter at @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play? Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers.    But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers! - We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week!   Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates MMBN2 Hard Mode - postgame Hamtaro Ham Ham Heartbreak Special Valentines day John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates, Crazy Taxi FilmLogic: Mike Writes, Solo Something, Tim - Best and worst movie relationships RetroGroove: The Cover Up!!! Music’s best, weirdest, and most unexpected cover songs.   The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess Dan’s list Sam’s list Andross’s List   Trivia Card Show Topics Breath of the Wild - 6 Years later   How does it Hold up?   Tears of the Kingdom Community Couch electricmastro Question for all: What is a game series that you think would work well as a tactical RPG even though it never had such a game before?   ChrisHL94 For all the N64 Goldeneye fans; what is your favourite multiplayer scenario/settings? Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter at @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games  

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play? 08:00 Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers.    But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers!- We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week! 18:00 Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates MMBN2 Hard Mode - postgame next mega monday! Hamtaro Ham Ham Heartbreak Special Valentines day Developer Showcase - Quintet Co., Ltd. John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates, Legend of Valkyrie, Smash 64 FilmLogic: Mike Writes, Solo Something, Tim - Janime, howl’s moving castle RetroGroove: Damon Days, Damon Albarn, Lead Singer of Blur and Gorillaz   24:00 The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for this own guess Dan’s list John’s list Sam’s list Trivia Card 39:55 BREAK 41:50 Show Topics GAMECUBE GAME BRACKET   Analogue Pocket discussion Quick review from Sam and John Features Custom Firmware options 1:23:49 Community Couch Mike Writes (The Ambassador) Community Couch Question: You can only exclusively play one of these niche genres for the whole year of 2023. Which one do you play? (Also assumes that you can get the hardware and software to achieve the goal) A) Puzzle Solving first Person games B) Kinect and PS Move motion games C)  Tetris, Columns and Puyo type puzzles D) Kart racers based on cartoon and movie franchises E) Any game based on a Shonen Jump license   Presto What's your biggest gaming pet peeve? Mine is people calling it "Kirby and the forgotten lands" instead of "Kirby and the Forgotten Land"   Question for both Retro and Film Logic: If you were forced to choose, would you rather make the world lose 15 years of Video games (the newest games you see will be from 15 years ago) or lose 15 years of movies?   For important reasons: What’s your best pickup line? @SpiderShan Question for the show: if you could bring back any now defunct developer who would you choose and what game would you want them to make?   1 Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play?   Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers.    But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers!- We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week!   Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for this own guess! Dan’s list John’s list Sam’s list   Sam’s Spot the Fake   Trivia Card Show Topics PLOK Award for outstanding Weirdness - 1990 and 1991 Community couch goodness   Sam’s Nominees: 1990:  Bubble ghost (game boy), Penguin Wars, (game boy) , Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars (DOS), JJ and Jeff (Turbografx 16) 1991: Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (NES), Eliminator boat duel (NES), Phalanx (SNES), just for the box artDan’s Nominees1990 - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker1991 - ToeJam & Earl, Decap Attack,    Community Couch   Mike Writes aka The Ambassador Question for the couch: Which major media company would absolutely nail it if they made their own console with exclusives?   Follow up question. Which gaming company would make a great stand alone console? They would take all their past and future offerings and put it on one system, making them exclusive. CAPCOM, SEGA (too soon?), UBISOFT, EA?    Community Couch Q: What Nintendo franchise makes your skin crawl? Me: Dr. Mario   Flightsy CCQ:  How dare you think that  [insert opinion from GOTY30]?!?!?!  What we’re you thinking?!?!   CCQ: What is the best gift you've ever given?   CCQ:  What is the meaning of this?   Presto Do you usually spend your winter indoors or outdoors more? What 3 community members would you trust to run the podcast for you?   Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games

This is our yearly awards show dedicated to the very best in gaming! This year we're celebrating the banger year of 1992. Listen in and get ready for some fun!

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play?   Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers. And special guest Philip! AKA Flightsy!   But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers!- We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week!   Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates Show Topics Kirby’s Anniversaries, then and now 2022 recap Dan -How Forgotten Lands changed my mind about Kirby. Sam- Kirby co-op The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for this own guess!Dan’s list John’s list Sam’s list Flightsy’s list Flightsy’s Spot the Fake Flightsy’s Spot the Real Flightsy’s Games Described Horribly Flightsy’s Fact or Crap Flightsy’s Retropedia Flightsy’s Survey Trivia Card   Flightsy’s Better Fake Trivia Card   Enter the Shattered Danverse, Part 2 Community Couch MaddieBeth —  Is Kirby your favorite Nintendo character? If so, why?   GalaxyWolf —  Well, here’s an obvious one. What’s your favorite Kirby ability!   BintendoMan —  What ability does Kirby gain if he swallows you?Eric Plunk —  What type of game genre would you like to see Kirby in that he’s never been in before?   PrestoTheMagnificent —  What's your pitch for a Kirby game that focuses on the fact that Kirby is a ball? Mike Writes —  What would a T rated Kirby game look like? If Kirby was a Street Fighter character what would his special attacks be?   PurpleRiolu —  Wasn’t it @PrestoTheMagnificent and @Flightsy that came up with the Kirby life sim? If so Flightsy you must re-explain it!     Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games

Pre-Show What did you buy? What did you play?   Introduction Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Dan Caporello here with John Cummis and Sam Wagers. And today we’ll be talking about ________________   But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers!- We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord. - Giveaways - Contests - AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins. - you can find everything at our website retrologic.games   Tell me one thing that happened this week!   Housekeeping Sam: Blog and Streaming updates John: On Topic/Retro Rewind updates The Price Is Retro If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for this own guess!Dan’s list John’s list Sam’s list LIAM’S SPOT THE FAKE TheAmbassador Game Quiz: Which 90s Not-Tendo Console are you? Trivia Card Show Topics Sam’s Topic: Game Difficulty/ Hard modes -Good difficulty, bad difficulty -Default difficulty: the way a game is meant to be played (?) -can a game be too hard/ too easy? -*RPGs and grinding to adjust difficulty yourself   Community Couch   ChrisHL94 Question for the podcast; is the only way to play NES Power Pad games on original hardware?   Mike Writes (AKA The Ambassador) Which one of these Playstation IPs deserves to replace The Last of US Remastered ? Syphon Filter Resistance Wipeout Twisted Metal Sly Cooper Flightsy CCQ: Are Cheezits and Cheetos Chips?   Presto the Magnificent What is the worst game you’ve ever played?   Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, check me out on Twitter and Instagram @RetrologicGames. You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community! The link to that is in my twitter bio. You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games