Introduction
Welcome to RetroLogic! I’m Sam Wagers here with , John Cummins
How are you?
But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast. It’s a community of retro gamers!
- We’ve got an active, friendly, and free discord.
- Giveaways
- Contests
- AND Dive into our family of Retro podcasts! Like RetroGroove, a music history podcast, Filmlogic, streaming and movie film podcast, and On Topic Retro, a podcast dedicated to 1 video game per episode hosted by our very own John Cummins.
- you can find everything at our website retrologic.games
Housekeeping
Sam: Now Streaming Battle Network 4 Blue Moon!
blog - Games from across the multiverse: How Plok Saved the world in Verse 16121511! Also,
John: On Topic Retro; Joy Mech Fight Tourney!,
FilmLogic: Mission Impossible and Fall movies
RetroGroove: Season 3 episode 4: spooky playlist
The Price Is Retro
If this is your first time playing Price Is Retro, here’s how we play. I’m going to list off 4 or 5 games and everyone has to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closest to the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list and everyone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player that won the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for the robot Deus Guess Machina! He averages all of our guesses together for his own guess
Sam’s list
John’s list
Mike’s guest list
Trivia Card
Show Topics
What’s the Deal with Shmups?
Sub-topic Smorgasbord
Sam: how the TG-16 mini and sunk cost fallacy convinced me to give the genre more attention
Side-scrolling vs vertical scrolling
Multidirectional shooters
Difficulty: are shmups too hard to be approachable?
Which games are a good gateway?
Solar Striker
UN Squadron
Twinbee
Blazing Lasers
Soldier Blade
Salamander/Life Force
Einhander?
Shmups on NSO
Gradius
Pop’n twinbee
Star soldier
S.C.A.T. (Special cybernetic attack team)
Super E.D.F.
M.U.S.H.A
Zero Wing
Super Fantasy Zone
Other games of interest:
Ikaruga
Radiant Silvergun
Gradius
Darius
Raiden
R-type
Lords of Thunder
Twinkle Star Sprites
Parodius
Cho Aniki
Cotton Series
Playing shmups through emulation/remasters: things to keep in mind
When to use rewind/save states
Turbo
Controllers, esp. For arcade games
Shmup Levels in other games
Community Couch
Thanks for listening to the RetroLogic Podcast! We are proudly part of the Nintendo Dads family of podcasts. If you like what you hear, You’re also welcome to jump into our friendly and 100% non-toxic Discord Community!
You can also find everything on our website Retrologic.games
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