In which we discuss the strange world of game emulation and JRPGs that never made it to the West back in the 90's, stealth game mechanics and we get a great and engaging email from friend of the show Robert Ring from the Classic Gaming Podcast. We also have a guest show up right at the end unexpectedly, spoilers it’s Chase’s son waking up so he has to step out a bit early.
Games discussed this Episode:
Diablo for PC and PS1
Anthem for Contemporary Consoles
Trails of Mana/Secret of Mana 2/seiken densetsu 3 for SNES and now Switch
Final Fantasy Adventure/Sword of Mana for a number of systems
Secret of Mana for SNES
Bahamut’s Lagoon for SNES
Treasure of Rudras for SNES
Front Mission for SNES
Front Mission 3 for PS1
The Swindle for PC
Dwarf Fortress for PC
Mega Man games for everything
Super Mario Bros for NES
Portal for PC and some last gen consoles
Cultist Simulator for PC
Binding of Isaac for PC/Contemporary console
Items discussed in What we Learned this Month:
Chase brings up that Lightsaber dueling is now an official sport in places like France: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/19/18231268/lightsaber-dueling-french-fencing-federation-official-sport
Diablo and Hellfire are now on GoG? https://www.gog.com/game/diablo
Blizzard official release: https://news.blizzard.com/en-gb/diablo3/22887361/diablo-now-available-on-gog-com
We did not really want to talk about Anthem or the news cycle around it, we just wanted to play it. Some of us couldn’t even do that though: https://www.polygon.com/gaming/2019/5/7/18514310/anthem-bugs-delays-development-issues-bioware
Unreleased NES Wrestling game found: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2019/03/random_unreleased_wrestling_game_on_nes_discovered_after_30_years
A discussion of the design of Super Mario 1-1 from Extra Credits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH2wGpEZVgE
Stu says check this video out about Megaman and game Design and it gets some points across but is NSFW and involves punching Roll, which isn’t cool. Robots need love to. Egoraptor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FpigqfcvlM
Shoutouts:
Thanks to Joe Gottli for doing our art!
Thanks to Dmitry for doing our intro/outro music!
Thanks Robert Ring for the Email! Checkout Classic Gaming Podcast at https://classicgamingpodcast.com/
Thanks for all the great work done at Fantasy Anime in terms of JRPG preservation: https://www.fantasyanime.com/index
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