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BoxTrick: Ep 109 - NES Classics with Age_of_Retro | Punchout, Zelda 2, Dr. Mario and more!!!

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Nintendo already has its own version of almost every big game style, so the Switch never needed third-party franchises.

1. BoxTrick: A Retro Gaming Podcast Ep. 109 is an NES-classics episode in which each host picks three games, opening with 2025 pickups and news before the NES discussion. 2. Matt, who goes online as Super Gains Bros, hosts, and Kyle of Age of Retro returns after the earlier N64 episode, with the pair aiming for a new episode every five or six weeks. 3. The central thread is that NES games considered lesser entries, including Gargoyle's Quest II, Zelda II and Super Mario Bros. 2, deserve more credit than their reputations suggest. 4. Matt opens the picks with Gargoyle's Quest II, the 1992 Capcom spinoff starring Firebrand from Ghouls 'n Ghosts, which mixes platforming with RPG town-to-town conversations and items, and compares it to Demon's Crest. 5. Kyle defends Zelda II as a bold experiment with faster sword combat than Castlevania, notes that the Hollow Knight creators cited it as an inspiration, and concedes that its localization leaves players stuck without a guide. 6. Matt recalls renting Super Mario Bros. 2 from Major Video with his dad and not knowing "up was a thing" for entering doors, and credits Miyamoto with fixing Doki Doki Panic into a top-10 NES game for him. 7. The news segment covers Matt's 80 hours of Hades in five weeks, Madden 26 on Switch, and Hollow Knight: Silksong's seven-year wait and $20 price on every major platform. 8. They also weigh Ubisoft's statement that micro SD Express cartridges were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws, which Kyle suggests may be PR aimed at Nintendo, set against Cyberpunk running fully on the cartridge. 9. Introducing Dr. Mario, Kyle argues from the Tetris movie that Nintendo's best-sellers on Switch are all first-party because it already has Splatoon, Zelda, Mario Kart and its own sports games. 10. Retro Nintendo fans and NES collectors who enjoy debating overlooked classics will enjoy it.

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