Episode 037 What We Learned from Emulation, ROMs and playing Swindle

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