Ep - 118 RPG fun with the Bros!

Retrologic

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12:24 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

Dan’s list

Shan’s list

Sam’s list

Trivia Card

28:38

Show Topics

Mario & Luigi Brothership was announced during the June 18th Nintendo Direct, so to celebrate we’re talking about the history of the Mario & Luigi games!

Game

Year

Metacritic

Console

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga

2003

90/100[24]

GBA, NSO

Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time

2005

86/100[25]

DS, Wii U

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story

2009

90/100[26]

DS

Mario & Luigi: Dream Team

2013

81/100[27]

3DS

Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam

2015

76/100[28]

3DS

Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga + Bowser's Minions

2017

81/100[29]

3DS

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr.'s Journey

2018

84/100[30]

3DS

• The developer of the Mario & Luigi games began as a fledgling RPG house. Making both the japanese only Koto Battle: Tengai no Moribito for GBC and Tomato Adventure for GBA.

• In Tomato Adventure the player, as DeMille, a tomato-hater in the Ketchup Kingdom, fights his way from his outcast village to rescue his girlfriend. The in-game weapons are toy-like and the battles against opponents involve minigames. Some consider it to be the spiritual precursor to Mario & Luigi.

• Tetsuo Mizuno, Square's second president, and Fujioka and Yoshihiko Maekawa, who were game directors at Square. The name AlphaDream, meaning the 'first dream', is a play on Final Fantasy, Square's most notable series.

• Alphadream was also notable for being the developer for the Hamtaro license and created several games using the IP.

• Specifically, the later games in the series, Rainbow Rescue and Ham Ham games, both of which featured minigames that served as a prototype for those featured in mario & luigi series.

44:52-48:00

• On October 1, 2019, AlphaDream declared bankruptcy, citing sluggish revenues and high development costs, and being unable to keep up with growing debt (which as of March 2018 was over ¥465 million)

• Many of the staff were scooped up Monolithsoft, ILCA, and Nintendo.

Community Couch

SpiderShan — Today at 6:17 PM

@everyone a little late notice but we will be talking about the Mario & Luigi games tonight for the next episode of RetroLogic. We’d love to hear about your experiences with the series? What games have you played? What are your favorites in the series?

Just being Bruce — Today at 6:50 PM

Oh sorry guys, but I can’t leave any messages for you about that because I’m concentrating on the Oilers winning all the way!!!!!!!!!

Your Wallet's Defense Attorney — Today at 7:08 PM

The Mario & Luigi games are my childhood Mario RPGs. I had Partners in Time and Bowser's Inside Story as a kid. I view the series as an underrated classic. I own and have played the core four games, but I only beat PiT and BiS. I almost got to the end in Superstar Saga, tho. I haven't played Paper Jam. I think my favorite is absolutely Bowser's Inside Story.

Eric Plunk — Today at 8:07 PM

I’ve only dabbled in the series but have played enough them to enjoy their comedic charm. Superstar Saga has a special place in my heart because it was the last Christmas gift I got from my Grandmother before she passed.

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