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Gaming Podcast 138: BoomshakalakaGaming Podcast 138: Boomshakalaka
This weeks gaming podcast covers the history of NBA Jam and takes a look back at The Bitmap Brothers. All while juggling some cool news stories and cooler community comments. This week’s comments talk a bit about what generations are the best, in the eyes of our listeners, and why. This weeks news includes:
Apple approves Commodore 64 emulator- Sony PS3 has Patch issues
- Tales of Vesperia Coming to PS3
- PlayStation 3 Slim off to a good start
- Video Games Are Evil, Says Guy Who Made a Lot of Money Creating Video Games
- OnLive Enters Beta
This weeks question of the week, what would you have in your ultimate gamer cave?
Gaming Podcast 181: Bag of FailGaming Podcast 181: Bag of Fail
This weeks gaming podcast, we’re going through a bit of Sega content, Sonic The Hedgehog CD and the second tier of Sega history. We’ll hit some listener feedback about Steam and Blizzards RealID as well as some meaty news topics including:
- Starcraft 2 will have a 3D option
- After four years, Sony is finally making a profit on the PS3
- Activision comments on Xbox Live
- Gamers want physical media over digital media
- Now you really can drink like a Murloc
This weeks question of the week, what video game genre’s could really benefit from 3D gaming that may not have been considered yet?
Gaming Flashback: Mega ManGaming Flashback: Mega Man
Mega Man, a series franchise was born in the month of December, a series we rarely hear about today but one that inspired many great games in the side scrolling genre. Mega Man was foundation brick in the early Nintendo consoles and a bread winner for Capcom, he was a mascot to represent a genre typically dominated by Mario.
The name Mega Man, in the 1980’s was synonymous with the word awesome. It was also synonymous with the word difficult.
A character that had so much potential you can now find him in mobile phone gaming and the virtual console in Europe.
“In the year 200X, master robot designer Dr. Thomas Light, and his assistant, Dr. Wily, worked on a project to create human-like robots with advanced intelligence.” (wikipedia) Each robot was designed to perform a specific task, Cut Man was designed to cut down trees, Guts Man is designed to pickup heavy things, Ice man for arctic exploration, etc. His assistant grew envious of Dr Light so he reprogrammed the robots to do his bidding, which was nothing but evil. Your job is to undo this evil.
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