Retronauts Micro 78: Square's PS1 fighting games

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ah, yes, Squaresoft… the company that only made RPGs. Right? Well. During the PlayStation era, the company's output was all over the place — and that includes the FIVE fighting games it published. All good, all unique! Just in time for their newest fighter, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, Jeremy Parish & Ben Elgin look back at them all.

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0:00.0	This weekend, RetroNots, God bless the ring!
0:02.8	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:24.9	Everyone and welcome to another RetroNots Micro.
0:27.9	I'm Jeremy Parrish and this is a tiny episode of RetroNots.
0:31.4	That's why it's called Micro.
0:32.9	Hopefully we won't go more than an hour this time for once.
0:35.9	With me this week is Ben Algin.
0:38.9	And it's just the two of us because no one else knows about this topic or cares about it,
0:44.9	which is the fighting games of Squaresoft.
0:47.9	Yeah, now we usually think when you think about Squaresoft.
0:50.9	No, but back in the 90s, back when the PlayStation launched,
0:55.9	Squares was all over the place.
0:58.9	They weren't just doing RPGs.
1:00.9	They were doing shooters, action games, and then fighting games.
1:05.9	And so you had stuff like Einhander and Internal Section or Layer Section,
1:10.9	Internal Section, and that's what it was called, which never came to the US.
1:14.9	There was like Sokhaegi, which was like a 3D action game that didn't come to the US.
1:19.9	They were doing kind of weird stuff.
1:22.9	But we're going to talk specifically about their 3D fighting games for PlayStation 1.
1:26.9	No, we're not talking about the Bouncer.
1:29.9	Sorry Ben.
1:30.9	No, we're not talking about the Bouncer.
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