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Boxtrick: Ep 99 - SNES Classics Volume 2 with Age_of_Retro

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Matt Brady pitches Metal Marines as a futuristic Battleship with missiles, scramblers, anti-air defenses and droppable mechs.

1. Boxtrick: A Retro Gaming Podcast Ep 99 is the second SNES Classics episode, where each host picks three Super Nintendo games after a short talk about TikTok's return. 2. Host Matt Brady, known online as Super Gains Bros, is joined by Kyle of Age of Retro, whom Matt calls a "Super Nintendo guy" and who names the SNES his favorite generation for RPGs. 3. The format has each host present three games, with Matt choosing Metal Marines and Metal Morph while Kyle brings Super Punch-Out and EarthBound. 4. Matt describes Namco's 1993 Metal Marines as a "futuristic version of Battleship" with eight levels, three bases to protect, missiles, scramblers and droppable mechs, and says a loose cart runs about $80 on eBay. 5. Kyle calls Super Punch-Out a showcase of SNES sprite hardware that he uses to test emulators on handhelds, and says he prefers it to the Mike Tyson version, while Matt would rather play the NES or Wii games. 6. Matt presents the 1994 Metal Morph by Origin Systems, the Ultima and Wing Commander studio, as a Starfox and Metroid blend with four planets and eight short levels, now about $150 loose. 7. Kyle says he started EarthBound five or six times before finishing it with about 40 hours on the SNES Classic, and the two discuss Nintendo's unused N64 prototype for Mother 3 and a possible remake. 8. Matt tells Kyle the Analogue-style Super Station FPGA device costs about $150 plus $40 for a dock, and says its hardware-level emulation could help N64 and PlayStation 1 games run at 60 fps or native 4K. 9. Matt admits he stopped Breath of Fire at the underwater stage, about three quarters through, saying "it's just too slow" and confusing, and the two note SNES prices ranging up to roughly $1,000. 10. Suited to retro gamers and SNES collectors looking for lesser-known picks.

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