Retrologic: Ep - 114 All good Shops must come to an end! (2025)

Apr 26, 2024

Introduction

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Housekeeping

Sam: Streaming to return….sometime

John: On Topic Retro: Pokemon X & Y wrapping up May15th, On topic Modern Unicorn soon?

FilmLogic: Fallout ep 1 review

RetroGroove: High Five - Top 5 Hollywood actors turnedmusicians

Star Wars Dads launching May 4!

What We’ve Been Playing

Guest -

Sam - , Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights, DarkArms: Beast Buster 1999, Metal Slug 1st Mission

John - Assassins Creed Black Flag, Pokemon X, andSpider Man 2 on hold finished the Fallout series

Shannon - Unicorn Overlord, LoZ:Four Swords Adventure,Stitched, Cryptrio

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 everyonehas to guess how much the lot is worth in total. Whoever is closestto the actual value wins that round! Everyone has a list andeveryone guesses on each other's list. At the end, the player thatwon the most rounds wins the episode! But watch out for for ourtrio of automated competitors: The Ghost (Polterguest), the Robot(Deus Guess Machina), and the Dinosaur (???Retrosaurus???)They each make their own guess as well!

Sam’s list

John’s list

Shannon’s list

Trivia Card

Show Topics 36:10

Online Shut Downs

• DS

• April 1, 2016: The day it wasannounced that the Nintendo DSi Shop would close in 2017.

• September 30, 2016: The last dayto have purchased points in the Nintendo DSi Shop using a creditcard or to have redeemed Nintendo DSi Points Cards in the NintendoDSi Shop.

• March 31, 2017: The last day tohave purchased software in the Nintendo DSi Shop.

• Photo dojo, Dragon Quest Wars,Dark Void Zero, SteamWorld: Tower Defense, Pyoro, Mighty FlipChamps!, A Kappa's Trail, WarioWare: Snapped!, The Legend of Zelda:Four Swords Anniversary Edition

-Wii

- September 29, 2017: The day it wasannounced that the Wii Shop will close in 2019.

• March 26, 2018: The last day tohave purchased points in the Wii Shop or redeem Points Cards in theWii Shop.

• January 30, 2019: The last day tohave purchased software in the Wii Shop.

• Adventure Island: TheBeginning,Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth, Contra ReBirth,Excitebike: World Rally, FAST Racing League, Gradius ReBirth

- 3DS

• As of May 23, 2022, it is nolonger possible to use a credit card to add funds to an account inNintendo eShop on Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

• As of August 29, 2022, it is nolonger possible to use a Nintendo eShop Card to add funds to anaccount in Nintendo eShop on Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family ofsystems.

• As of April 3, 2023, it is nolonger possible to redeem download codes in Nintendo eShop on Wii Uor the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

• As of March 11, 2024, it is nolonger possible to combine the Nintendo eShop fund balance betweena Nintendo Network ID and a Nintendo Account

Crimson Shroud, Rusty's Real Deal Baseball, AceAttorney Dual Destinies, Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice,Pushmo, Crashmo and Stretchmo, Attack of the Friday Monsters, BoxBoy, Box Box Boy, Bye Bye Box Boy, Liberation Maiden, Harmo Knight,Sakura Samurai Art of the Sword, Rhythm Heaven Megamix, NintendoBadge Arcade

-Wii U

Dr. Luigi, Affordable Space Adventures,

-Xbox 360

- The Xbox 360 Store and the Xbox 360 Marketplace(marketplace.xbox.com) will be retired on July 29, 2024

Eric Plunk

I think Microsoft has done the best job out of anyoneon backwards compatibility and preservation of their Xbox library.630 out of 2,155 360 games and 60 out of 998 original Xbox gameshave been made available on the Xbox One & Series X. While thissoftens the blow of the 360 marketplace’s closure there are still amassive amount of games being left behind. Physical copies of thesegames will and in some cases already have seen an increase invalue. Digital only games like Rush ‘N Attack Expatriot, Rez HD,Vigilante 8 Arcade, and all of the Arcade Kinect games will belargely left to time, piracy notwithstanding. Here’s hoping thatthe recently rumored renewed focus on backwards compatibility fromMicrosoft comes to fruition.

- PS3

-While Sony had previously announced in 2021 that itwas shutting down its PS3 digital storefront, the company reversedits decision after a backlash from fans. Both the PS3 servers andstore remain in operation in 2024.

Thoughts -

Community Couch

JosiahP.

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04/22/2024 10:21 AM Super Mario Maker for the Wii uhit me hard- do you think that revival services like RiiConnect24or PriiTendo are a good option for revival projects?

Eric Plunk

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04/22/2024 10:40 AM

I wish I had the foresight to download the KonamiRebirth series of games from WiiWare before the Wii Shop closeddown. Every company should make a better effort to preserve andmake these games available on future hardware.

adam

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04/22/2024 2:21 PM

don’t have a story to tell, but instead a meme toshare! but it’s wild to me that games like the crew can getdelisted.

Presto

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04/22/2024 2:48 PM

What's your favorite WiiWare game?

Mike Writes

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04/22/2024 4:09 PM

Xbox 360 store is going offline in June. It might beyour last chance to Ms. Splosion.

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