Legion Gaming Podcast

We're concluding our Bond anthology and covering 007's final decade in the gaming world. EA undertook a huge task trying to follow up Goldeneye after it set  the console gaming on fire and they actually made some great games! Deucy and I revisit the last of the Bond games starting with 2001's arcadey-but-still-awesome Agent Under Fire which led to the best games Bond would ever see with Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and From Ru...

We covered the first era of James Bond games in Episode 57 and there's no way we couldn't dedicate an entire episode to Goldeneye! We invited Vito and Randy to revisit one of the N64's most legendary and influential games. Goldeneye is synonymous with console gaming and multiplayer and we talk about how it started off as a Virtua Cop-like rail shooter before it evolved into one of the most iconic first person shooters in history.

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FINALLY, we have come BACK with another wrestling episode! Wrestlemania has passed and we thought we'd go on our own road to nostalgia and cover all of the PS1/N64 WCW & WWF wrestling games. We're go through 14 games released between 1996 and 2000 start with WWF: In Your House and WCW vs The World to the truly legendary and hall of fame worthy WWF No Mercy on the N64.  Not everything we talk about today is a slobberknocker, but...

We've decided to anthologize all of the James Bond games and this week we're covering releases from 1982 until 2000. Goldeneye on the N64 was the first major 007 game for many people, including us, but Bond had almost 15 years of games before that. We start with the 1982 U.K. only release of 'Shaken But Not Stirred' and all the way through the Twisted Metal/Driver-inspired 007 Racing for PS1 in 2000.

Goldeneye is such a massivel...

Street Fighter II recently celebrated its 34th anniversary and it's one of my favorite series of all time. I grew up with fighting games and none made more of an impact at the arcades and fighting games than Street Fighter II. We invited our friends Randy and Juan to talk about the origins of fighting games, the original Street Fighter and each version of its iconic sequel. SF2 lead to a HUGE boom of fighting games and the four of ...

Super Mario Kart on the SNES was an instant classic that spawned an iconic series that's spanned over 33 years at this point. Deucy's birthday wish was to rank all of the Mario Kart games and we invited our friend, the 8BitBarrister Vito, to join us! We go through each game in chronological order and share our individual ranks before we total them to score the DEFINITIVE Mario Kart ranking. It's a really fun episode on one of the m...

Beat 'em ups have had a huge resurgence in the last five years or so. The genre was at its peak in the early 90's until it slowly fizzled out over the last couple of decades, partly because there wasn't a whole lot of innovation. What's old is eventually new again and we're celebrating "Beat 'Em Ups Strike Back" in this episode as we dive into three games that all have their own legacies from the past - Streets of Rage 4, Teenage M...

We've got a big episode this week for your (hopefully) long Valentine's weekend! We invited our friend Randy to put together a list of the Most Influential Games... of ALL TIME! The three of us made a list of 15 games each that we thought made a significant impact on gaming decades after they were released. Lots of outlets have done their own lists with some choices that we wouldn't include so we thought we'd 1-Up them in this epis...

This week is all about demon-slaying samurai! We were very excited to see Capcom announce Onimusha: Way of the Sword and wanted to give everyone a primer on the original Onimusha: Warlords. Onimusha was an early PS2 game released in March of 2001 (just six months after the U.S. launch of the system) and was originally named "Sengoku Biohazard" as it was a ninja themed Resident Evil game. Deucy and I talk through its development his...

This week Deucy and I are talking iconic gaming weapons! We took a small break from our normal deep dives and decided to spin up a big list of some of the best weapons we've ever used. Both of us made our lists and we break it down by generation starting with the NES all the way to some of the more recent favorite like the G.L.O.O Cannon from Prey in 2017. What makes a weapon iconic? It can be anything from how it looks, its utilit...

Happy New Year! Our first episode of 2025 covers one of the greatest beat 'em up trilogies EVER - Streets of Rage! Sega released the original Streets of Rage exclusively on the Genesis in 1991 when Capcom and Konami had been dominating the beat 'em up scene at the arcades. It released to wide acclaim for it's fantastic graphics, 90's club vibe, and an amazing soundtrack composed by Yuzo Koshiro. Streets of Rage 2 followed in late 1...

We've made it to episode 50! 2024 was a very good year for game releases - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Astro Bot, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom are just a handful of the heavy hitters we saw this year. Deucy and I played A LOT and for our final episode of the year, we share our individual lists of the BEST and some of the more disappointing games we played. We first cover what we're looking forward to a...

We're doing something a little different this week! We're reviewing and diving into a movie based on a game and also the game based on the movie that was based on the game... We invited our friend Vito, the 8BitBarrister, to discuss Street Fighter: The Movie and Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game. After Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon stunk up the theaters, Capcom wanted join the fight in December 1994 with Street Fighter: The...

This week, Deucy and I invited our friend Juan to talk about one of the Genesis' run n' gun gems Gunstar Heroes! This is one of Juan's favorite games of all time and he really wanted to revisit it with us and talk about why this cult classic is one of the best games on the Genesis. Gunstar Heroes was Treasure's debut game before they would quickly be known as one of Sega's best and most unique game developers. We dive into the hist...

We've got a nice beefy episode of dinosaur hunting this week when Deucy and I revisit the entire Turok series on the N64. We're covering it from it's comic book beginnings in the 1950's to it's incredible, if underappreciated, quadrilogy of games on Nintendo's iconic fifth generation console. Deucy and I share our thoughts on recent games we've been playing including Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 and Dragon Age: The Veilguard before we...

This episode is dropping on Halloween and there's no other game that deserves a bonus episode - Resident Evil!

We open the episode some recent games we've been getting into - I talk about how great the Silent Hill 2 Remake really is and and Retro Realms: Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead, a really cool sidescrolling slasher by Way Forward. We recently got Analogue Pockets and Deucy we get into what it is and how well it plays GameBoy/...

We're continuing Horrorfest this month with a brand new episode about one of the most important games of all time - DOOM! Released in December 1993, it quickly became the biggest PC game of all time for its stunning graphics and sound, incredible level design, and ripping and tearing into any demon that stands in the Space Marine's way. We revisit the history of ID Software and Doom from the origins of the genre that it would ultim...

It's October and our first episode cover the 1997 PS1 masterpiece Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! This was a massive departure from anything the Castlevania had previously done and it created an entirely new genre that has hundreds of games released every year. SotN is one of my favorite games of all time and in this episode we dive into the development history including its origins on the 32X! This was Deucy's first time actua...

In episode 40, we covered the original NES trilogy of TMNT games and this week we're back covering the 16-bit games! This era of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games is arguably the peak of all TMNT games. Turtles in Time was a sequel to the hit original arcade game and it was made even BETTER on the SNES and we cover the big differences between to the do and which one gets turned into turtle soup. We also cover Hyperstone Heist for t...