Retronauts Episode 408: Tales of Series

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

When the plucky developer Wolf Team set out to make a Super Famicom RPG on a grand scale in the mid-90s, the resulting production nearly destroyed the group, but resulted in Tales of Phantasia. Now, nearly 26 years later, the Tales of series stands as one of the few b-tier RPG brands from the 90s that's still going strong with regular installments, while the Star Oceans and Wild Armses of the world have fallen by the wayside. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Victor Hunter, and Destructoid's Eric Van Allen as the crew discusses just where the Tales of series has been over the past quarter-century.

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0:00.0	RetroNots is part of the Greenlit Podcast Network.
0:03.2	For more information, please go to GreenlitPodcasts.com.
0:08.0	This week on RetroNots, we tell Tales of Out of School.
0:33.6	Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of RetroNots.
0:35.7	I'm your host for this one, Bob Mackie, and today's topic is the Tales of RPG series,
0:40.8	26 years going strong.
0:43.6	And we passed the 25th anniversary in 2020, and to date there have been 18 installments.
0:48.4	Plenty of spin-offs, a large series that I feel is mostly ignored by the mainstream press,
0:55.0	but it's found a niche obviously because the newest entry in the series just came out
0:59.2	in September.
1:00.2	For this podcast, we're going to focus mostly on the first game, Tales of Fantasia, and
1:04.4	the production of that game.
1:06.0	But of course, there's a lot to talk about with this series, and I'm sure we will towards
1:09.3	the end of the podcast.
1:10.3	But first, I want to introduce our guest for this podcast.
1:13.2	Let me introduce our first guest.
1:14.4	He is the sponsor of this episode.
1:17.0	Please introduce yourself.
1:18.2	So our ladies, I only marry and kill like a tiger.
1:22.4	It's Victor Hunter.
1:23.5	And we'll talk about that reference.
1:24.8	I'm very familiar with it.
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