Ep 80 - Mario Vs Donkey Kong + Our Favorite Puzzle Platformers

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RetroLogic - Episode 80

Introduction

Welcome to RetroLogic episode 80 - I'm Dan Caporello here with John Cummins, Sam Wagers.

Guys, I’m terrified to solder my GBA.

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 - RetroRewind - Earthworm Jim 2

• Next Month RetroRewid - Mario Vs DK

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

Sam:Bought: Evolution: Worlds (Gamecube); Bangai-O Spirits (DS)

Played: Rogue Legacy 2,Solar Striker, Kirby Star Stacker, Legend of Zelda, Majora’s Mask(on NSO app), Mother 3, Umihara Kawase

John: Endless Ocean and Endless Ocean Blue World wii, Mother 3 guide, Chrono Cross Radical Dreamers edition Switch, Golden Sun the lost age, First4figures Zelda Breath of the wild Hylian shield, and the Playdate!

Dan: The Dan Cave is packed up.

Chameleon Twist 2, Gameboy: Lemmings, Dr Mario, Kirby’s Dreamland 2.

35:27

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”

• Dan

“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 crap?

- Ambassador

“Trivia Card”

1:08:00

Show Topic

Topic: Mario Vs Donkey Kong and our favorite Puzzle Platformers.

What is a puzzle platformer?

"The platformer ven diagram"

Skill platformers

Combat Platformers

Puzzle Platformers

Were the first platformers actually puzzle platformers?

Dan:

Toki Tori

Pushmo

Portal

Mario Vs DKDK King Of Swing/Jungle ClimberLemmings?

Box Boy

Mighty Switch forceLode Runner

Eric Plunk — Today at 11:40 AM

Krusty’s Fun House

solo_something — Today at 12:08 PM

Trine series

Flightsy — Today at 12:32 PM

Obviously Mario vs DK itself, although I’ve only played the one for Retro Rewind (Mini-Land Mayhem), I recently bought the rest on the 3DS eshop so I’ll have a chance to play them. I’ve also been enjoying Box-boy, but I just started that…

bozo — Today at 1:33 PM

Wario Land 2 and 3

Stevens_NES — Today at 3:47 PM

The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle games. I haven't played much of them, but playing it gave me Mario vs DK vibes. You don't jump though so that makes it not really a platformer.

DesolateSaturation — Today at 4:40 PM

My favorites are Little Nightmares, Thomas Was Alone, Human Fall Flat, and Unravel.

I also think Forgotten Anne and Gris are worth checking out, but they’re more cool due to visual esthetic than gameplay.

PrestoTheMagnificent — Today at 4:58 PM

Does Super Paper Mario count?

HeyItsChad! — Today at 9:32 PM

Other than the Mario DK I did like Solomon’s Key. I had never played it until the Switch Online service showed up. It is a close second place to MDK

1:42:20

Community Couch

Questions

PrestoTheMagnificent

What old, forgotten series would you want to return the most?

Stevens_NES

So #JurassicJune is right around the corner and I'm curious what are your favorite Dinosaur games? I know Dan will probably say Turok, but I'm curious if there are others you may like or have just even played.

Outro

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