Legion Gaming Podcast

Earlier this week, the Game Boy celebrated it's 35th anniversary after being released on July 31st, 1989. The Game Boy and Game Boy Color would go on to sell over 118 million units and are THE reason handheld gaming has evolved the way it has today with the Switch and Steam Deck.  Deucy and I thought there's no better way to celebrate the iconic and influential handheld by sharing our top 10 favor...

With EVO, the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, happening this weekend and Capcom announcing "MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics", it's a great time to continue our deep dive into the X-Men and Marvel universe of games. This episode is dedicated to the fighting game era of Capcom's Marvel games covering Marvel Super Heroes all the way to 2017's Marvel vs Capcom: In...

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins is a game we've wanted to talk about for a looooong time and this week we finally made it happen! Our friend Vito, @8bitbarrister on Instagram, joins us once again to experience Super Mario Land 2 all over again. This gem of a GameBoy game was originally released in 1992 and it took Mario in a drastically different direction than the NES games. We talk about how...

Our long awaited episode on Super Metroid is here! We invited our friend Vito, @8bitbarrister in Instagram, to talk about one of the best games ever released. The three of us consider Super Metroid as one of our favorite games of all time and we really enjoyed revisiting the game as it celebrates its 30th anniversary. Deucy also talks about how he's able to beat the game in just over an hour! Supe...

For our 35th episode we felt it made sense to celebrate with an NES game celebrating it's 35th anniversary this year. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse was original released in December 1989 in Japan with a U.S. release following it in September 1990. Dracula's Curse was a return to the series roots after Castlevania II: Simon's Quest left fans divisive with it's non-linear structure. Castlevania I...

 This week, we've compiled a list of the good, the bad, and some of the ugly games based on some of our favorite cartoons! Our recent Tiny Toon Adventures episode got us thinking about some of the one-off games that we've played over the years. Many of these probably wouldn't need their own episode but were perfect for an afternoon block of podcasting. We talk everything from Beavis & Butthead...

The only thing better than a great game is an amazing sequel (and that two is better than one). We were putting a list together and it wasn't long before we realized we had a lot to talk about this week. We fire off over 30 sequels across all generations and how some of them changed gaming forever and influenced many others. It's sequel mania and we've got everything from Super Mario Bros. 3, Stre...

This week, Deucy and I revisit the 8 and 16-bit Tiny Toon Adventure games! The original cartoon debuted in 1990 and very quickly became a favorite and immensely successful. The Stephen Spielberg produced hit starred younger versions of Looney Toon favorites like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Taz, Porky Pig brought a larger appeal to a new and younger audience. Naturally, video game versions of the after...

This week, it's guest's choice as we have have our friend Mike from the Hollywood Video Guys podcast joining us to talk about Phantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium! The final chapter in Sega's original sci-fi fantasy RPG was received with mixed reviews at the time, but is now one of the most underrated RPGs of the era. We talk about the history of the series beginning on the Master System an...

This week we're venturing back into the Lylat System to talk about one of Nintendo's greatest franchises - Star Fox!  The original Star Fox was released in 1993 and blew everyone away with 3D graphics that were thought to be impossible on the Super Nintendo. The on-rail shooter looked unlike anything else released on a console and it was all possible because of the Super FX chip. We talk about how...

This week, Deucy and I go through our recent pickups from our local game store and talk about what we've been playing recently. This is a bit of a catch up since Deucy was gone for our Ghostbusters episode and we also just really like talking about what new (or old) games have held our attention. We'll talk about Pong: The Next Level, Reboot, The Punisher for Sega Genesis and more for our retro pi...

This week is a little different! I invited our friend Vito, @8BitBarrister on Instagram, to talk about games based on the iconic Ghostbusters series. The original movie is one of the most successful comedies of all time and one of our favorites, so Vito though it'd be fun to cover a few of the hits (and definitely misses). We talk about memories and origins of the first movie what led to the Commo...

It's morphin' time! The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers TV series launched in 1993 and became an instant cultural phenomenon and was the top conversation during ever recess. The Rangers were PERFECT to translate into video games and this week, Deucy and I revisit all of the early Mighty Morphin' games for the Super Nintendo, Genesis, GameGear, GameBoy and even the Sega CD version! We'll also talk ab...

In this episode, we invited our friends Mike and Randy to talk about our Top 10 favorite game characters ever! Everyone meticulously put their lists together and we revisit the games they originated from and why they're among the best in the history of video games. We hope you'll enjoy this episode as much as we enjoyed recording it; we all have pretty different tastes in gaming and it was a lot o...

Welcome to WRESTLEMANIA MANIA! With Wrestlemania XL just a few days away, Deucy and I felt it was only right to go through our own royal rumble of every Wrestlemania game from the NES to WWE 2K24's most recent Showcase of the Immortals. In this episode, we chronicle nearly 35 years of Wrestlemania games starting with the history of the very first pay-per-view event and the development of the origi...

We're continuing our mini-series this week with the original Metroid II: Return of Samus for the GameBoy and its remake Metroid: Samus Returns for the 3DS. Metroid II was a sequel specifically developed for the GameBoy and featured lots of enhancements and changes that would influence future Metroid games. Deucy and I talk about how Nintendo R&D1 crafted a unique portable game that was unlike...

This week, we're diving into the original Metroid and one of the best remakes ever made in Metroid: Zero Mission for the GameBoy Advance. It's the first in our mini-series that will culminate to our episode celebrating Super Metroid's 30th Anniversary in April! We thought it would be fun to revisit the beginning of gaming's first bounty hunter and her iconic remake. In 1987, Nintendo R&D1 was...

In our newest episode, Deucy and I rank 19 games from the Mega Man and Mega Man X series. We thought it'd be fun to individually rank each game and combine our lists into one definitive, no argument, ranking. We'll be covering Mega Man 1-11 and Mega Man X-X8, spinoffs or remakes like the excellent Mega Man X remake on PSP, Mega Man: Maverick Hunter X, will have to wait for their time to shine on t...

Before Resident Evil 3: Nemesis was the "third" Resident Evil, there was Resident Evil - Code: Veronica. This week, Deucy and I are celebrating RE: CV's 24th Anniversary and looking back at the ORIGINAL third game of the Resident Evil series. A series of events beginning with the failure to port Resident Evil 2 to the Sega Saturn ultimately led to the creation of the next generation of survival ho...

In June 1999, the world witnessed skateboarding history as Tony Hawk landed the first ever 900 at the X Games. The feat would be the catalyst that would propel skateboarding into the cultural zeitgeist and three months later, Neversoft released Tony Hawk's Pro Skater for the PlayStation. The tight and intuitive controls with the open levels gave every single person the ultimate skate park.  Deucy...

In this X-citing episode, Deucy and I cover the first seven years of X-Men games! Created by Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, the iconic X-Men comics originally released in 1963. As video games recovered from the crash in the early 80's, it was inevitable that the world would see games based on their favorite mutants and we sure did... We start at the beginning with the disastrous The Uncanny X-Men (publi...

In this episode, we invite our friends Mike and Randy from the Hollywood Video Guys podcast to talk about the best and worst games based on movies. We cover the early history of movie tie-in games beginning with Porky's, Halloween, and the infamous Atari 2600 failure E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial. We'll take you through each console generation and discuss our memories of favorites and the ultimate d...

Have you ever really enjoyed a game and then you reach a boss fight that just somehow is the WORST part of the game? Even rage inducing? We have too. This week, Deucy and I are sharing some of our not quite fondest memories of some of the most difficult and, in some cases, flat out cheap and quarter munching bosses we've faced throughout our gaming lives, right down to the Game Over. Not every gam...

We're concluding our Donkey Kong miniseries today with Donkey Kong 64 for the Nintendo 64! Before DK64 celebrated it's 25th(!!!) anniversary later this year, we wanted to go back and see if it's still as great as we remember it. We'll talk about how this was originally supposed to be a 2.5D game before Rare decided to transform DK64 into a 3D game using Banjo-Kazooie's engine. 1999 was also a pret...

This week, we're covering the final release in the DKC trilogy on the SNES with Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! Released in November 1996, just before the final year of the SNES' lifecycle, DKC3 would be among one of the best swan songs to the console you could hope for. A unique open world inspired by the European countryside, nearly 50 levels, over 100 secrets, bigger and bad...