Ep 60 - Mature content in retro gaming

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RetroLogic - Episode 60

28:26 - The Price Is Retro + Spot The Fake 57:47 - Show Topic: Mature content in retro gaming 1:33:42 - Community Couch

Introduction

Welcome to RetroLogic episode 60 - I'm Dan Caporello. Here with John Cummins, and Sam Wagers.

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How’s it going?

Housekeeping: Taking a break from Retro Rewind at the moment, it will return in 2022. In the meantime get ready for… ODAMA-RAMA Coming Jan 2022. Get your copy today while they’re cheap. (gamecube mic required)

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

Sam:Played: Silhouette Mirage (PS1) Megaman X2 (all items no backtracking!), Front Mission Gun Hazard.

John: Recore Xbox one, Sudeki Xbox, and Spectral Force Genesis DS Played: Finished The Outer Worlds, Pokemon Brilliant Diamond

Dan: Issue 29 of NP from the Video Game History Foundation, Grandia Collection (digital eshop) Star Fox on NSO (plug mage cast this week), Dan Cave 2.0 is very close to done! Skyward Sword

The price is RETRO

How to play: I’m going to list off 4-5 games. You’re going to guess how much the games are worth in total, dollars and cents. Whoever is closest to guessing the actual price of the lot, wins! Everyone has a list, and everyone guesses. The “ghost” always guesses $300

Dan’s list Sam’s list John’s list Galaxywolf’s list Oops list

“Spot the fake game” oops The Ambassador Flightsy Liam

Check out the Price Is Retro Database in the discord server for history and stats for all of our past games!

Show Topic (Game Highlight, News Highlight, Discussion topic)

WARNING: adult content ahead,

Topic: Mature content in video games

- Mystique developed adult Atari games: Beat 'Em & Eat 'Em, Bachelor Party and Custer's Revenge - NES adult games: bubble bath babes, hot slots and peek-a-boo poker - Night Trap for Sega CD - No adult games for Genesis/SNES/N64? - 19 Years Ago (November 29, 2002) GameCube BMX XXX - “The Guy Game” story - Leasure Suit Larry - Playboy: The Mansion - The Witcher, GTA, etc...

Community submissions: what was the first experience you remember in a video game where you had a feeling of "...should I be watching this?" or "I hope mom doesn't walk in right now 👀 "

Flightsy This one is kinda tough to answer. I’m not sure I’ve ever played a game that was “mature” in that way, and nowadays I’m too old to be shocked by it if I did. I remember Mom thought Super Smash Bros Brawl was distastefully violent, but I remember thinking she was being ridiculous, especially compared to what else was out there.

Also SMG4 on youtube

Oops I had that moment when I was in college. I came home for Christmas vacation already 60+ hours into persona 3 and never really noticed anything until my mom came into talk to me and was like are they shooting themselves in the head. It never crossed my mind until that moment. BintendoMan89 I don’t have memory of feeling like I shouldn’t play or see something in gaming. My parents were surprisingly open about games and let me play a lot of things. My dad had a decent NES and Genesis collection growing up. I was born in 90 and had access to Mortal Kombat 3 on genesis, and Cliff Hanger, played them heavy and the violence or blood was never an issue. The first time I remember it being and issue for my family was the South Park game on N64, my mom wouldn’t let me rent it. But when I did play it at a friends I didn’t feel like I shouldn’t be.

Solo_something My first experience of seeing true violence I felt was playing Mortal Kombat when it first came out. It was not my thing so went back to Street Fighter. Can’t recall skimpily dressed ladies; just know it was later. It was not shocking as already had the kid experience of finding my dad’s Playboy mag with Madonna in it when I was a youngster in the 80’s, lol. Most of my “parented” video game years were Atari and NES so by material alone it was a sheltered time in video games.

hambone jonny Mortal Kombat is a great call out. I agree. My parents let me rent it, but weren’t all to happy about it when they saw it on the tv. I’d say another would be Wrestemania 2000. With the female wrestlers, def had a few moments where is was like, “hope mom doesn’t walk in!!”

Llaffer I don't remember having that feeling when I was at home, but the first game I remember playing as an adult with young kids that I thought that I should only play this when they are in bed was Dante's Inferno (PS3).

ChrisHL94 As a teenager I had a PC copy of a Leisure Suit Larry game that I was worried my parent would walk in on me playing.

Eric Plunk I never had that moment growing up. Mortal Kombat II was probably the only M rated game I had growing up. Fatalities were such a pain to pull of that there wasn’t much danger of my parents seeing anything risqué. It was more of a challenge in the PS3/Xbox era to play M rated games around my daughter’s sleep/school schedule.

ElPeeDee (Liam D my grandma saw me playing Duke Nukem 3D on my family's PC and told my mom I was looking at porn

Adr0ck I never ended up playing it but every time I went to Outback Video I would always sneak a peek at “Bubble Bath Babes” for the NES.

SpiderShan Mortal Kombat just because my parents told me they wouldn’t approve even though I hadn’t asked. Of course my friend and I then had to try it. We were already 13 when it came out so we had already seen worse in R rated movies he got his older sister to rent us. My buddy got really into it and could do all the fatalities but I wasn’t that good at it. Even though I couldn’t have the game, we did somehow end up with Killer Instinct (still don’t recall how we got it) and I always made sure to look around to see if someone was watching when doing Orchid’s move where she flashes her opponent. You didn’t see anything but it was very obvious what she was doing.

Community Couch

Retro Rewind Taking a break from Retro Rewind at the moment, it will return in 2022. In the meantime get ready for… ODAMA-RAMA Coming Jan 2022. Get your copy today while they’re cheap. (gamecube mic required)

Questions:

Fight Crab Fanatic — Today at 10:19 AM Couch question: Which series needs to be adopted by the Switch right now!? 1. WWE Day of Reckoning 1 + 2 2. Tekken 4, 5, 6 3. Far Cry 3,4,5 4. SSX 1,2,3 5. Time Splitter 1,2,3

Outro

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