Legion Gaming Podcast

Jan 31 2025 53 ep. 88 mins 2

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Welcome to Legion Gaming! A retro gaming retrospective podcast hosted by lifelong best friends (really, over 30 years), Donny (DonVanDam) and Deucy. We love to talk about video games and share our passion with other gamers. Each episode we’ll revisit some of our favorite video games over the last 35+ years and talk about development, history, memories, and how well these games hold up. Come with us back to the future and get ready for Deep Dives, Top 10 Lists, Retrospective comparisons, and more! Press Start to Continue. Follow us to tell us what you’d like to see covered and your favorite gaming memory: [email protected] X/Twitter: LegionGamingPod Instagram: LegionGamingPodcast

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Episode 53: Onimusha: Warlords (PS2) - The Ninja Resident Evil

Jan 31 2025 65 mins

This week is all about demon-slaying samurai! We were very excited to see Capcom announce Onimusha: Way of the Sword and wanted to give everyone a primer on the original Onimusha: Warlords. Onimusha was an early PS2 game released in March of 2001 (just six months after the U.S. launch of the system) and was originally named ”Sengoku Biohazard” as it was a ninja themed Resident

Episode 52: Iconic Weapons

Jan 17 2025 86 mins

This week Deucy and I are talking iconic gaming weapons! We took a small break from our normal deep dives and decided to spin up a big list of some of the best weapons we’ve ever used. Both of us made our lists and we break it down by generation starting with the NES all the way to some of the more recent favorite like the G.L.O.O Cannon from Prey in 2017. What makes a weapon ico

Episode 51: The Streets of Rage Trilogy

Jan 03 2025 90 mins

Happy New Year! Our first episode of 2025 covers one of the greatest beat ’em up trilogies EVER - Streets of Rage! Sega released the original Streets of Rage exclusively on the Genesis in 1991 when Capcom and Konami had been dominating the beat ’em up scene at the arcades. It released to wide acclaim for it’s fantastic graphics, 90’s club vibe, and an amazing soundtrack com

Episode 50: Our Game of the Year - The Best (and Worst) of 2024

Dec 20 2024 112 mins

We've made it to episode 50! 2024 was a very good year for game releases - Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Astro Bot, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom are just a handful of the heavy hitters we saw this year. Deucy and I played A LOT and for our final episode of the year, we share our individual lists of the BEST and some of the more disappointing games we pla

Episode 49: Street Fighter: The Movie 30 Years Later

Dec 06 2024 88 mins

We're doing something a little different this week! We're reviewing and diving into a movie based on a game and also the game based on the movie that was based on the game... We invited our friend Vito, the 8BitBarrister, to discuss Street Fighter: The Movie and Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game. After Super Mario Bros. and Double Dragon stunk up the theaters, Capcom wanted join

Episode 48: Gunstar Heroes (with special guest Juan) - A Genesis Run n' Gun Treasure

Nov 22 2024 84 mins

This week, Deucy and I invited our friend Juan to talk about one of the Genesis’ run n’ gun gems Gunstar Heroes! This is one of Juan’s favorite games of all time and he really wanted to revisit it with us and talk about why this cult classic is one of the best games on the Genesis. Gunstar Heroes was Treasure’s debut game before they would quickly be known as one of Sega’

Episode 47: Turok on the N64 - From 1950's Comics to First Person Dinosaur Hunting

Nov 08 2024 120 mins

We've got a nice beefy episode of dinosaur hunting this week when Deucy and I revisit the entire Turok series on the N64. We're covering it from it's comic book beginnings in the 1950's to it's incredible, if underappreciated, quadrilogy of games on Nintendo's iconic fifth generation console. Deucy and I share our thoughts on recent games we've been playing including Call of Duty:

BONUS EPISODE! Episode 46: Resident Evil - Suvival Horror Defined

Oct 31 2024 89 mins

This episode is dropping on Halloween and there’s no other game that deserves a bonus episode - Resident Evil! We open the episode some recent games we’ve been getting into - I talk about how great the Silent Hill 2 Remake really is and and Retro Realms: Halloween and Ash vs Evil Dead, a really cool sidescrolling slasher by Way Forward. We recently got Analogue Pockets and Deu

Episode 45: DOOM - The Most Important Game of All Time?

Oct 25 2024 75 mins

We’re continuing Horrorfest this month with a brand new episode about one of the most important games of all time - DOOM! Released in December 1993, it quickly became the biggest PC game of all time for its stunning graphics and sound, incredible level design, and ripping and tearing into any demon that stands in the Space Marine’s way. We revisit the history of ID Software and

Episode 44: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Oct 11 2024 75 mins

It’s October and our first episode cover the 1997 PS1 masterpiece Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! This was a massive departure from anything the Castlevania had previously done and it created an entirely new genre that has hundreds of games released every year. SotN is one of my favorite games of all time and in this episode we dive into the development history including its