Dec 14, 2021
RetroLogic - Episode 62
33:56 - The Price Is Retro
1:14:48 - Show Topic - Half-Life
1:45:25 - Community Couch
Welcome to RetroLogic episode 62 - I'm Dan Caporello. Here with
John Cummins, Sam Wagers
And special guest Sean Capri from the Podcasting Network ‘You, Me,
and Capri’
But RetroLogic isn’t just a podcast, It’s also a Blog! Visit
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content every month! Sam, tell us what’s coming this week…
Housekeeping:
GOTY30 episode on Dec 28th - 1991
Join the discord to vote
Icebreaker - what did you buy? And what did you play?
Sean: Big Brain Academy, Halo Infinite, Forza Horizon 5, Pokemon
Diamond, Furi,
Sam: Mega man Battle Network,
John: Bought: Mario Golf Advance Tour, Kung Fu Chaos XB, Perfect
Dark Zero XB360, Brute Force XB, Kameo XB360, Sonic Unleashed Wii,
General Chaos Genesis, Sonic the Hedgehog PS3, Sudeki XB, House of
the Dead Overkill PS3, Popeye NES, and Popeye Famicom
Played: Pokemon Brilliant Diamond, Star Wars KOTOR, Far Lone Sails,
and Forgone.
Dan: Archvale, TG16 mini
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
Sean’s list
Galaxy Wolf’s list
BintendoMan89’s list
Ken L’s list
“Spot the fake game”
The Ambassador
Galaxy Wolf
Ken L
Trivia Questions from cards
Check out the Price Is Retro Database at Retrologic.games for history and stats for
all of our past games!
Show Topic
Topic: Half Life
Releases: Half-Life, was released on November 19, 1998 for
Windows
November 16, 2004, Valve released Half-Life 2.
Half-Life 2 was the first game to use Valve's Steam content
delivery system
Episode One was released on June 1, 2006
Episode Two was released for Windows, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on
October 10, 2007 as part of the compilation The Orange Box.
Valve released Half-Life: Alyx, a virtual reality (VR) game, on
March 23, 2020, for Windows.
Hal-Life Developement:
According to designer Harry Teasley, Doom was a major influence,
and the team wanted Half-Life to "scare you like Doom did".
According to designer Brett Johnson, the level design was inspired
by environments in the manga series Akira.
By September 1997, the team found that while they had built some
innovative aspects in weapons, enemies, and level design, the game
was not fun and there was little design cohesion.[16] The company
postponed the release and reworked every level.
They also produced a 30-page document for the narrative, and hired
science fiction novelist Marc Laidlaw to help manage the
script.[11][16] Laidlaw said his contribution was to add "old
storytelling tricks" to the team's ambitious designs: "I was in awe
of [the team]. It felt to me like I was just borrowing from old
standards while they were the ones doing something truly new."[
Half Life 2 Developement:
Valve announced Half-Life 2 at E3 2003, with demonstrations of the
characters, animation, and physics. The reaction was positive, and
the game won the E3 Game of the Show award.[8] Newell also
announced a release date, September 30, 2003
Rumors spread of a delay, but Valve made no announcement until
September 23, when they released a statement targeting a "holiday"
release, leading to fan backlash.
In early October, the Half-Life 2 source code was leaked online by
a German hacker, Axel Gembe, who had infiltrated Valve's internal
network months earlier. A week later, a playable version of
Half-Life 2 was compiled from the source code, revealing how
unfinished it was.
In 2004, the development team returned after Christmas to long
hours, stressful working conditions, and no guarantee that the
game, which was costing $1 million a month to develop, would be
finished soon.
Eric Plunk — Today at 11:55 AM
Like many other PC games of the era, I enjoyed Half Life 1 & 2
vicariously through one of my best friends who always had the
latest and greatest video cards. Half Life felt very much like the
beginning of in engine cinematic storytelling and Half Life 2 built
on that. Unfortunately the home console versions of these games
didn’t live up to the original releases so I haven’t played through
them on my own to this day. I need to acquire The Orange Box
collection for my HL2 fix.
Community Couch
Questions
Eric Plunk — 12/10/2021
Before you started collecting, when is the last time you remember
playing a NES or other console? For me I remember playing one of
the Sharp TV’s with a NES built in at a friend’s apartment around
2002. Punch Out was the main game I remember playing.
Outro
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