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TD Gaming Podcast 199: Now In QuadTD Gaming Podcast 199: Now In Quad
This week we’ve got four folks on the show, including Jonah Falcon who will soon take over the reins from Don as the third host of the gaming podcast. This week we’ve got a bit of user comments (a few didn’t make it as they were stuck in my queue, hopefully next week) and we’re flashing back to Food Fight while hitting up news:
- Update: Kinect Sales Surpass 2.5M
- Xbox Live TV?
- Axl Rose Suing Activision for $20M
- Music Games Down 75% since 2008
- Sega Wipes Sonic 4 Leaderboards
- Konami hates on Windows Phone 7 and Android
Question of the Week: What did you buy on Black Friday?
Episode 397: Closing InEpisode 397: Closing In
A good episode this time, if a little meandering. The episode is slowly reaching its milestone.
The news items for the week include:
- Nintendo patents new hardware, doesn’t include a disc drive
- VS. Excitebike coming to Nintendo’s Virtual Console
- Nintendo increasingly considering movies
- 2DS dropping to $100
- Darkest Dungeon adds option to turn off controversial features
Check us on twitter: Jonah Falcon is @jonahfalcon, Paul Nowak is @stagermonkey, and Scott Dirk is @alphashard.
Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]Gaming Flashback: Double Dragon II [NES]
Double Dragon II: The Revenge, this is a sequel title to a game which arrived earlier on the NES as an arcade port, something pretty standard back in the day of arcades, and like it’s original port, has variations from the arcade.
The trick is, the variations are much less than that of the original (which might as well been it’s own version of the arcade game but sucky). I was a huge fan of the original Double Dragon title in the arcade and was met with extreme disappointment when I found out it was strictly single player on the NES console.
This game was 300% better than the disappointing Double Dragon release on the NES. Granted, the NES version was fun to play, in single-player, but I purchased it for the two-player nature of the arcade version so I could play the game with my friends. Double Dragon II, on the NES had finally restored my faith in Technos Japan and the american publisher Acclaim. They took a bad situation and made it much better in the second release, why they didn’t make the original multiplayer is beyond me.
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