Ha! Well I'll be. There was no reality in which I was going to recognise that first letter as an r :p
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Retronauts Podcast Thread
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Ha! Well I'll be. There was no reality in which I was going to recognise that first letter as an r :p
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SMT is superior because it introduces people to both. Check and mate, Shivam.
the BBS episode was fun, I had almost the same story as Benj, we would dial up the Yale Gopher service and use a few steps to get a free telnet access and jump on muds, but the dial in was 2400 baud during the 14.4 days so it sucked, but first time I was really on the internet ~1993.
(It actually made me think of everything on the internet being just specific version of telnet, since could telnet to the FTP port or POP3 port and do files or mail stuff.)
Everyone either had a Renegade BBS or tried to run a PC Board.
LORD was ok, but I really liked Falcon's Eye
and Arrowbridge was a rare door game that I downloaded and played offline, was basically just a text based rpg and was pretty good!
http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Arrowbridge
(It actually made me think of everything on the internet being just specific version of telnet, since could telnet to the FTP port or POP3 port and do files or mail stuff.)
Everyone either had a Renegade BBS or tried to run a PC Board.
LORD was ok, but I really liked Falcon's Eye
and Arrowbridge was a rare door game that I downloaded and played offline, was basically just a text based rpg and was pretty good!
http://breakintochat.com/wiki/Arrowbridge
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Arrowbridge was legit good, had an overworld map, "real time" combat with ANSI (I think it was real time...i know the door game The Pit had it and you could pvp if 2 phone lines or the sysop dropped in to play)
Sorry to bump to bring up an ancient episode. But wow is the tail end of episode 13 (Golden Age of Arcade) really weird to listen to in light of Hamster starting the Nintendo Arcade Archives earlier this year. Amazing how things have changed since this show re-started.
Look up Noah Caldwell-Gervais (sp?) on YouTube. I think it was his deep dive.
Thanks. I caught the Noah part, but I didn't catch the last name.
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It is interesting. Those were done in a very transitional time for the industry.
The episodes from the relaunch are as much of a time capsule as the old 1up episodes at this point. Time for me to go coffin shopping.
Dear Gary,
I loved Bonfireside Chats, and I enjoy your appearances on Retronauts. I know that humor is subjective and anchored in time. I went back to the Watch Out for Fireballs episode about Mega Man2 and 3 because that seems safe, and the opening skit was cringeworthy enough that I would have turned off the podcast if I weren't in the shower. The whole "Mega Man sex bro" thing felt really alienating and out of place compared to the actual discussion about classic Mega Man games. I know that was from January 2017 and I'm not asking you to excuse the skit or stop doing skits, but that particular skit was a rough intro to the podcast.
I loved Bonfireside Chats, and I enjoy your appearances on Retronauts. I know that humor is subjective and anchored in time. I went back to the Watch Out for Fireballs episode about Mega Man2 and 3 because that seems safe, and the opening skit was cringeworthy enough that I would have turned off the podcast if I weren't in the shower. The whole "Mega Man sex bro" thing felt really alienating and out of place compared to the actual discussion about classic Mega Man games. I know that was from January 2017 and I'm not asking you to excuse the skit or stop doing skits, but that particular skit was a rough intro to the podcast.
It was just funny hearing the equivalent of "Nintendo will never re-release their arcade games". 4 years later not only did we get Donkey Kong but also Sky Skipper.
2018. What a year.
(Hey, am I retrospecting a retrospective podcast?)
If you didn't like that intro then you should probably never listen to their Abject Suffering podcast
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Protip: If you break the DVD in half, open up your phone, and put the pieces inside, it will also play DVDs.
Damn it, whenever I hear people talk about these old school RPGs (the Gold Box games, The Bard's Tale, etc.) I feel determined to finally master them, and then I get my ass kicked and find that it's impossible to heal/revive myself because I have no money, and then I just give up and replay DQIII.
Just finished listening to the Chasm episode just after finishing the game.
Great listen and a great game, exactly what I wanted the game to be. I played Hollow Knight and Dead Cells which just left me cold, obviously they're bad games they just did nothing for me, but Chasm was the game I wanted the aforementioned games to be.
Great listen and a great game, exactly what I wanted the game to be. I played Hollow Knight and Dead Cells which just left me cold, obviously they're bad games they just did nothing for me, but Chasm was the game I wanted the aforementioned games to be.
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The Keep in Chasm is kicking my butt, nevertheless I love it. I didn't realize how much I needed a game like this until I played it.
The Keep is brutal but a piece of cake compared to the Temple.
All the little things add for me, like accidentally finding a hidden area, then going back to all the previous areas to see if I had missed any more.
Usually I'd be all over this as a portable game, however I started on PS4 and just kept going, these types of games not being on home consoles made me a portable game but having them come back and play them on the TV is bringing me straight back to simpler times.
I've described Chasm as comfort food gaming to people.
All the little things add for me, like accidentally finding a hidden area, then going back to all the previous areas to see if I had missed any more.
Usually I'd be all over this as a portable game, however I started on PS4 and just kept going, these types of games not being on home consoles made me a portable game but having them come back and play them on the TV is bringing me straight back to simpler times.
I've described Chasm as comfort food gaming to people.
Like (I think?) I said in the podcast, the moment I put on a random hat I found and it became my tiny best friend, I knew I loved it.
Ran across this on reddit: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/248938613/n64-wiivc-controller-adapter-with-full-stick-corre
It's an N64 to GCN (or Wii VC) adaptor with analog stick correction, for the four diffferent strange analog stick mappings (apparently) used in the VC games, about which i just learned, from this project.
It's an N64 to GCN (or Wii VC) adaptor with analog stick correction, for the four diffferent strange analog stick mappings (apparently) used in the VC games, about which i just learned, from this project.
Listening to the Super Mario Oddities episode and on the subject of Wrecking Crew not coming back, I always thought it was a shame in the Wii era that we didn't get more downloadable reimaginings of black box NES games after Excitebike World Challenge. That seemed like a great avenue for those now-smaller games to be revisited in a modern way
Maybe Wrecking Crew 98 will show up on the Switch subscription service so it can once again disappear into the ether after a few years.
Dragon Warrior 1+2 was another really great episode and my only further comment on it is about the AI in DQ4 on. The computer cheats so you should always set them to heal for you. Example.
Character 1 takes catastrophic damage early in the turn and dies. If you have AI healing on they'll immediately heal that person skipping whatever turn they were originally going to do. Yes there is a rare circumstance where this will get your entire party killed but more often than not this bit of cheating the turn system ends up saving your bacon.
Character 1 takes catastrophic damage early in the turn and dies. If you have AI healing on they'll immediately heal that person skipping whatever turn they were originally going to do. Yes there is a rare circumstance where this will get your entire party killed but more often than not this bit of cheating the turn system ends up saving your bacon.
Dedicated healer type usually have enough MP that it doesn't bug me. I put offensive spell casters on either conserve or use zero mp for regular fights, depending on how good their non spell abilities are.
DQ has the best party AI for any turn based game I've played.
DQ has the best party AI for any turn based game I've played.
https://www.kickstarter.com/project...our-favorite-classic-gaming-pod/posts/2288793
The DVDs from the Retronauts Kickstarter are finally done and ready to ship out. Those that backed for them should get a survey today to get mailing info.
The DVDs from the Retronauts Kickstarter are finally done and ready to ship out. Those that backed for them should get a survey today to get mailing info.
holy moly. i think i pledged at this level, i honestly don't remember. i got the dinosaur t shirt.
edit: checked my email, and yep, I'm gonna get a DVD!
It's not in my inbox on Kickstarter, in my email inbox, or any junk/spam folders etc.
By the looks of the comments on the kickstarter post, the survey was setup as US only for the shipping options anyway. I'm going to Portland Retro Gaming Expo so I can pick it up in person so you save the international shipping if you want.
Speaking of Portland, I'm intrigued at what Tommy Tallarico is going to be showing off. I don't have any nostalgia for Intellivision, but it has train wreck possibilities.
Ah, I am Patreon supporter but I did not get on the Kickstarter train when things re-launched a few years ago. I had forgotten about this!
Also: just listened to the Super Mario Oddities episode and it's made me want to revisit all of the games discussed moreso than probably any episode I've listened to in a long time. I actually didn't quite realize how much extra/new content was packed into SMB Deluxe. Really too bad about the cropped FOV, though. I wish they'd re-master this one with a restored FOV.
Also: just listened to the Super Mario Oddities episode and it's made me want to revisit all of the games discussed moreso than probably any episode I've listened to in a long time. I actually didn't quite realize how much extra/new content was packed into SMB Deluxe. Really too bad about the cropped FOV, though. I wish they'd re-master this one with a restored FOV.
Retronauts is some good stuff, the only gaming podcast I listen to besides Game Maker's Notebook.
2 part Atari Lynx Video podcast with Bob, Jeremy and Steve Lin
3 part evolution of the NES platformer video series which is similar to Jeremy's "Works" output.
Namco really becomes just the house that Tekken built in the arcade from the mid 90's on. The rest of the lineup is a bunch of novelty games. Nothing wrong with that as it was one of the best performers in the sector but not the variety of arcade staples that it had during its golden years.
Latest episodes have been great. Dragon Quest 1 and 2 was a good one. I would love if they kept going with them. I know so little about them.