Ep 75 - The year of Tactics!

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RetroLogic - Episode 75

RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast, It’s a whole community of retro gamers! Visit RetroLogic.games for our discord link, fair trade merch, blog posts written by Sam Wagers… And dive into our family of podcasts! 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.

Housekeeping: What’s up with Retro Rewind?

• Retro Rewind will be once per month, a currently available game with a corresponding episode of On Topic Retro.
• Retro Rewind PLUS will be every 3 month and feature a more obscure game that may require you to buy physically. Keeping cost in mind.

Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play?

Sam: Bought: Pocket Card Jockey,Crimson Shroud, Goemon (gameboy), Legend of the River King (GBC) on 3DS Played: Beat Triangle Strategy, More F Zero X,

John: Bought: Mario Golf N64, Zelda Oot Gold cart, Kobe Bryant NBA courtside, Super Bomberman 3 SF, Donkey Kong 3 FC, Last Bible II GB, G ARMS, Advance Wars Days of Ruin DS, and Installed DQ switch Joycon shells Played: Dicey Dungeons, Borderlands, and Glory Hunters GB

Dan: Starfox Zero/Guard, Played Triangle Strategy, Mario Kart 8 new tracks

The price is RETRO

“If this is your first time playing The Price Is Retro, this is how we play. I’m going to list off 4-5 games, and everyone else has to guess how much the games are worth in total. Whoever’s guess is the closest wins that round, and the next person lists off their games. Everyone brought a list of games, and everyone guesses on each other’s lists. At the end of the game, whoever won the most rounds wins the game! But look out for Polterguest! He guesses $300 on each list, and if he wins the game I have to give away a sticker from the merch store!”

Dan’s list Sam’s list John’s list

“Spot the fake” We’re given a list of game titles, and we have to guess which one was made up.

“Games Described Badly” We’re given several descriptions of video games and we have to guess what game is being described.

"Retro-pedia" I’m going to start reading the description of a game from wikipedia. As soon as you think you know it, yell out your answer! If you’re wrong I’m giving the other people an opportunity to guess. If everyone’s wrong I’ll keep reading until someone else yells out.

“Trivia Card”

Check out the Price Is Retro Database at Retrologic.games, we’ll be having Flightsy on an episode coming up to talk PiR stats!

Show Topic

Topic: 2022, the year of tactics.

Advance Wars: Re-Boot Camp Triangle Strategy Mario VS Rabbids: Sparks of Hope Metal Slug Tactics Front Mission 1st Dune Spice Wars

twodollarhero — My love for the criminally underrated Codename STEAM is well documented at this point, but I’m constantly thinking about how good Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle was. Every time it comes up in conversation, it’s like a fever dream. That concept had no business being that good of a strategy game.

the Well-Red Mage — FF Tactics, somedays my all-time favorite Final Fantasy ❤️

Fight Crab Fanatic — Jeanne D'Arc for the PSP was really good (and unforgiving) Mystaria Realms of Lore for the Sega Saturn

oops — Tactics ogre and final fantasy tactics (my favorite game of all time)are the goats but a very underrated game I really enjoyed was arc the lad twilight of spirits on ps2.

ElPeeDee (Liam D) — the Fire Emblem and Advance Wars GBA games are favorites of mine since I played them on my SP in the back of my college Economics classes (woops). in the broader strategy sense, i spent a lot of time playing the Command & Conquer series over the years and just started playing through Warcraft 2 again. I love base building and planning out offensives

Flightsy — Does Pikmin count? I don’t really play tactics games, but they’ve always seemed interesting. Actually, this leads into a CCQ of my own! What are some good Strategy and Tactics games I could try out?

solo_something — FE 3 houses. Love how it’s tactics and some drops of rpg running around the grounds as I complete quest, reunite missing items, and take time for a cup of tea; sometimes from what I planted. Also, helping a girl realize she doesn’t have to stay locked up in her room.

SpiderShan — I have the most experience with Fire Emblem games which I first picked up on a whim on GameCube (Path of Radiance). Since then I’ve played nearly all the English released games in the series. I don’t mind the newer games like Three Houses, but I miss the older ones without the dating/marrying/kids stuff. My favorite strategy game is probably the original FF:Tactics. The GBA sequel was okay but I wasn’t crazy about the Law mechanics which bogged down the battles. I really want to get into Triangle Strategy one of these days!

Community Couch

Questions Flightsy — CCQ: How do you find good retro stores near you? I’ve tried looking it up and only stuff like Game stop and Disc Replay seems to come up.

Fight Crab Fanatic — If you had to collect a niche of retro games what would you pick? (example: WWII games, Wrestling games, The DS Imagine Babysitters series)

oops — 03/19/2022 What’s a game you missed when it was new then revisited later and you could not believe how good it was?

Outro

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