Ep 78 - Controllers Part 2

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RetroLogic - Episode 78

But 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:

• On Topic - Retro Rewind episode about toejam & Earl incoming!

• Space Station Silicon Valley video up now!

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

Sam: Bought: Mother 3 CIB from Japan, 8Bitdo M30 controller, Turrican Flashback (switch)

Played: Genesis: Toejam & Earl, X-Men 2: the Clone Wars, Ranger-X (beat!), NHL ‘94 (2021 patch), Shining Force, The Ooze,

Turrican Flashback (Turrican 1)More Etrian Odyssey VEarthbound Beginnings (streaming Sing-along finale Tuesday night)

John: Ace attorney games on 3DS, Kirby Star Stacker GB, Turok Rage Wars GBC, Kirby Adventure NES, NFL Blitz PSP, and Sonic Rivals PSP

Played Grapple Dog Switch, Chex Quest, and PSP AV Cables

Dan: Played: Hey Pikmin, Turok Switch, Turok Gameboy, Turok 2 Gameboy, Turok 3 N64, Kirby Forgotten Lands,

Bought: Turok 3 (Gameboy and N64), Turok 2 GameBoy, DK King of Swing, Nintendo Power issues (low 200s to 266), Super Gameboy, N64 arcade stick, LEGO Mario, Turrican Flashback, my first Mercari return.

How do I display gameboy games?

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.”

• 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.”

NEW GAME - fact or cap?

“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: Controllers - Part 2

• Wii
• Motion controller
• Peripheral madness -Light Gun -steering wheel -grips
• Most unnecessary peripheral?
• Gamecube Controller Support
• Wii Motionplus?
• How does switch motion control compare? Are motion controls dead?
• classic/ Pro controller: design improved for later consoles

• Xbox, Playstation, Nintendo controller philosophies.

• Handheld gaming.
• Game & Watch
• Gameboy
• Virtual Boy
• Gameboy Advance VS SP

DS & 3DS: touch controls-also, microphone

-that time you had to close the ds to progress in phantom hourglass

-circle pad pro: just because people were mad about kid icarus uprising?

-the c stick nub on the new 3ds

Crossover into Wii UAsynchronous multiplayer

Touch controls built off of DS

Was the gamepad justified?Gamecube controller support

Switch

Joycon detachabilityHD rumble: underutilized?Touch control and motion control still exist, but are they as good?

Did the lite kill some of the controller gimmicks?Gamecube controller support

Labo

Community Couch

Every Other Week!!

Questions

ElPeeDee (Liam D)

not sure if this fits for a community couch but putting here in case anyone has any similar experiences...

so I FINALLY beat the 1st Resident Evil game (HD remake on Switch). In the past I've beaten RE2 on 64, RE4 on Gamecube, Code Veronica on Dreamcast, and Revelations on Wii U.

I'm glad I did it, it's something I've been meaning to play for a while. unlike those other games, I don't think I'll ever play RE1 again. there is just too much about it that seemed dumb/cheap, that I ultimately used a guide for the final 1/3 of the game

I currently own it for Gamecube, the DS remake (which lists for ~100$) and the digital Switch version. I'm thinking of selling at least the DS copy, if not the GC one as well.

TL; DR does anyone else have similar experiences where they finally played a backlog game theyve collected for a while and ultimately decided that they would sell that game after finishing it?

Fight Crab Fanatic — Today at 7:57 AM

What gameplay challenges irk you the most?

1. Boss
2. Give me cover fire while I hack into this computer
3. Escort mission
4. Operate a turret level
5. We can't move on until we clear the enemies in this room
6. Lock pick mini games
7. Quick time event

Outro

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