Ep 82 - Beat em ups & Shredder's Revenge!

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RetroLogic - Episode 82

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Housekeeping:

• On Topic Retro

• Mother Mondays stream

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

Sam:Bought: New stuff: Shredder’s revenge, Mario Strikers, Played: above, plus lots of steam next fest demos, still streaming mother 3, rolled credits on ham hams unite.crusader kings 3

John: Gamecube controller,Classic NES Series Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Xbox 360, Castlevania Lords of Shadow Limited Edition Xbox 360, Batman Vengeance Gamecube, Monster Hunter Freedom PSP, and Pac-man Atari 2600

Played: Mario vs. DK mini land mayhem, Shredders revenge, and Bionic Commando

Dan: Bought: Pokemon Cards and I'm not sorry. Pokemon Fire Red, Pokemon Moon, GB Operator, Turok Trex figure, GB lot (Shrek 2, DKC, Van Helsing, Namco Museum, Ty 2, Club House Games DS, Bejeweled Twist, Animal Crossing Wild World.)

Played: Pokemon Fire Red, Shredders Revenge, Pokemon TCG

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

Spidershan

“Spot the fake”

“We’re given a list of game titles, and we have to guess which one was made up”Sam’s List

• Sam

“Games Described Badly”

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

-Ambassador

“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.”

Fact or crap?

• Ambassador

“Trivia Card”

Show Topic

Topic: our favorite Beat-em-ups!

OctoRock (Adam) — Today at 9:46 AM

My three favorite non-TMNT bmups are The Simpsons arcade game, Battletoads and River City Ransom.

The Simpsons may actually beat out TMNT for me as far as the 4 player arcade experience goes. Just such a hilarious and well crafted game.

Battletoads speaks for itself, I’m not sure if it’s a full blown bmup because of the platforming and speeder bike levels, but they teamed up with Double Dragon so that’s gotta say something.

River City Ransom is probably the only oddball here. A great semi-obscure NES game that thankfully a lot of people are now aware of thanks to River City Girls. One of my favorite NES titles and up there with Battletoads for me.

the Well-Red Mage — Today at 9:50 AM

Shredders Revenge is AH MAH GAHHHHHHHH so good. A beat em up nobody gives enough love to is Fight N Rage. Seriously amazing.

ElPeeDee (Liam D) — Today at 10:09 AM

mine has to be Batman Returns for SNES. I loved the grabbing & throwing mechanics, breaking parts of the environment and the bat gadgets you could employ. the sprite art was gorgeous and, while I hadn't even seen the movie at that point, I loved the characters

twodollarhero — Today at 10:25 AM

For me, it’s Scott Pilgrim. It’s not the most mechanically dense beat-em-up, but I’ve come to realize that I prefer the River City Ransom approach of simpler gameplay, but a more fleshed out world with characters, shops, etc. Paul Robertson’s artwork is gorgeous and the soundtrack by Anamanaguchi is among the greatest in video game history, full stop.

CrazyGreekDre — Today at 10:51 AM

Turtles in time, Final fight both sNES and TMNT arcade game

ChrisHL94 🇨🇦 — Today at 11:47 AM

I’ll vouch for the Streets of Rage series. My favourite is SOR II, but I like them all. The sequel on the Nintendo Switch is great as well.

solo_something — Today at 12:00 PM

NARC. Still can see it in the arcade when closing my eyes.

SpiderShan — Today at 1:45 PM

The TMNT games are easy favorites but I have a couple others that are right up there for me. The first is the X-Men 4 player Arcade game. So many quarters with my friends at the small pizza joint in our town that had this cabinet. The second game I want to shout out is Death and Return of Superman on the SNES. This was a pretty great adaptation of the comic event and allowed you to play as all the various Supermen at the time (Superman, Superboy, Cyborg Superman, and Eradicator). I lost track of the amount of times I played through it wanting to relive the story.

WarriorofWASD — Today at 2:18 PM

I was a big fan of Jaleco's Final Fight knock off like Rival Turf. You could do a code that would let you edit all the bad guy's names: Butt Man, Turd Ferguson, Captain Urine...etc

Eric Plunk — Today at 9:37 PM

Late entry here! Have you heard the good word about Die Hard Arcade? I thoroughly enjoyed my time with it recently on the Sega Saturn. A seemingly endless amount of various weapons, moves, and 3D low-poly charm make this short but endlessly replayable gem must-play. The same could be said for it’s Dreamcast sequel Dynamite Cop. On a related note, has anyone tried Breakneck City on Switch? I’ve been curious about the Die Hard Arcade vibes it gives.

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Outro

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