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Presented by Dsheinem New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club For many gamers, Wolfenstein 3D is considered the game that launched the most popular genre of the last twenty years: the first person shooter. And while it can’t technically boast being the first ever FPS, Wolfenstein 3D remains one of the best loved and most influential games ever created in any genre. If you haven’t ever sat down to play it through or if you haven’t done [...]
Presented by Flake New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Sometimes retro gaming is not just about re-experiencing old games that were good. In the case of this month’s game, Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, it’s about re-experiencing an old series that used to be good. In recent years, the Tony Hawk skating game franchise has done itself approximately zero favors. Wacky peripherals, questionable game design, and a lack of quality have tarnished the reputation of this [...]
Presented by noiseredux New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Let’s get this out of the way: take the word “East” and and drop the T at the end. That’s how you pronounce Ys. Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s explore the 1987 first installment of Falcom’s action RPG series and find out why it has such a huge cult following. Story The store of Ys I follows Adol, a seventeen year old swordsman [...]
Presented by Flake New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Soul Calibur V is upon us and thus it is time to return to the stage-of-history-of-the-soul-that-burns-within-the-battle-of-the-heart or whatever excuse you need to pick up an awesome looking sword and start waving it at elaborately dressed warriors. Here at Together Retro, we figure the best way to welcome a new game of a classic series is to spend a month ignoring it in favor of an old game [...]
Presented by noiseredux New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club In 1990 Sega released a spin-off of the Golden Axe series for their Master System which played nothing like prior slash-em-ups that the Golden Axe name was known for. Instead, it was bore a striking resemblance to the NES hit The Legend of Zelda. In fact, it was so similar that it’s long been cast aside as nothing but a Zelda clone. This month we’ll be playing [...]
Presented by Flake New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Welcome to the final installment of Together Retro for 2011. It has been a great year for our retro gaming club! We have won the World Series, flown spaceships through enemy fleets, solved murders, competed in an international martial arts tournament, and battled fallen angels. All of this was just a warm-up, however. Now the real challenge begins. Join us this month as we close out [...]
Presented by Ivo New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club This month’s Together Retro title is a turn-based Strategy RPG, and part of the Shining series. Shining Force’s Legacy and What Made It Special The Shining series started as first-party Sega games with RPG elements (so Sega’s major RPG-based IP in addition to Phantasy Star). The games span several genres, the series debuted with that debuted the series in Shining in the Darkness, a traditional “first-person” view [...]
Presented by Flake New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Welcome to Together Retropiece Theatre. For this month’s installment we look to a classic tale of love in the speculative dramatic feature “Splatterhouse”, a treatise on the lengths an academic beleaguered by paranormal antagonistic forces will go to in order to reunite with his lady fair. It is a classic story of love, and loss, and love again along with the pools of blood, drippings of gore, [...]
Presented by retrosportsgamer and racketboy New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Since Together Retro’s inception back in March of 2008, there have been two sports titles spotlighted with the gaming club. Punch-Out!! and NBA Jam were golden choices as games that originated in the arcades before making their way to a home console. Both had sequels or re-releases in subsequent gaming generations – most recently with a Wii release for Punch-Out!! (can’t leave off the [...]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Imagine an RTS where you do not have dircet control individual troops but rather indirect control? Where you dont tell the workers to trade their plows for swords to go to war, but rather you must convince them to. That is what Populous is. Populous is a game where you play a god and try to get your believers to rule the world. Now that would be [...]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club Imagine for a minute it is 1995. Thats right: Arnold is a robot and not a politician, some sort of super cd is announced called DVD, OJ is found not guilty, and the console wars are very strong. There are consoles from every major company in a heated dogfight: Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn, Super Nintendo, and Atari Jaguar all vying for your dollar. While Nintendo is pushing [...]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club What do a spaceship, a paper airplane, giant space snakes, Maoi, and options, have in common? If you guessed the Gradius series, well you might be a gamer. If you guessed something else, please post it below. Thats right boys and girls this month’s Together Retro is another two parter – Gradius III and Parodius. And not just any Parodius, Gokujō Parodius! ～Kako no Eikō o Motomete～(Fantastic [...]
Zoop is kind of a hard one to classify. It is an arcade puzzle game in the vein of Taito’s Plotting that was released on most every console at the time (4th generation). Most gamers have heard of the title but have not played it because it was released in 1995. It is one of the very few games that Hookstone created and one of the handful that Viacom published. So lets get to piloting our little triangle. History Not [...]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club A nightmare that has come true. You awake in a bathroom stall, unable to remember who you are, and potentially about to be eaten by a grue. It is the 1940s, Chicago, and you have no idea whats going on but there is a deadman upstairs. What do you do? This month for Together Retro we have chosen a game close to my heart and unknown [...]
Presented by fastbilly1 New To Together Retro? Check out the introduction to the club A long time ago in an office that continues to pump out Star Wars games. A team of programmers cranked out a so called Doom clone that married the vast Star Wars universe with the world of first person shooters, and Dark Forces was born. Dark Forces puts you in control of Kyle Kataran, a neutral mercenary who use to be a decorate Imperial officer who [...]
