Hi everybody, welcome to RetroNots Pocket. Number 15, I'm Ray Barnholt and with me in

the studio are the exact same people from the last main episode Bob Mackie and Jeremy

Parris on the line. Yay! And our guest Gary Butterfield from Watch Out for Fireballs.

Very nice. Show similar to ours in some ways. Wouldn't you say so, Gary?

In some way. I would say so. I would say we're in direct cut through a competition with

each other. I don't check the glasses that you're all drinking from. There's a secret

special ingredient. I don't think that's how friendship works. Anyway, this episode of

Pocket is about Capcom's destiny of an Emperor and it is a topic brought to us by one of

our Kickstarter backers, Stephen Stuck. He wrote a little message for us that includes

such insight as the following. I was only ten or so when I played it, along with my

eight-year-old brother, so I think a lot of the game subtlety flew right over our heads.

At this point, I've experienced the yellow turban rebellion more times than I can remember,

but at the time, this was pretty much my first exposure to the whole ancient China myth

os. And that is, well, what destiny of an Emperor is all about. It is not the same as

Koei's Romance of the Three Kingdoms series, although it does deal with the same sort

of subjects. In fact, Bob, you were just telling me an anecdote before recording it.

That's right. I mean, I avoided this game because that's what I thought it was until much,

much later, and when Emulation caught on, I played it. And I think Gary, you were the

same way. And people we were out to dinner with, we brought up what we were talking about

today. And they're like, oh, isn't that that like Koei game? That tactical...

Isn't that no Bunga's ambition? Yeah, no Bunga's ambition.

Yeah, no Bunga's ambition.

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