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Episode 379: DizzneyEpisode 379: Dizzney
This week’s episode was going to be short thanks to a lack of news, but Paul and Jonah get into a long discussion about the Disney Afternoon from the 90’s. which makes up for the lack of a Gaming Flashback or History.
This week’s news includes:
- Lenovo preinstalled Superfish adware on its laptop
- The FCC approves strong net neutrality rules
- Capcom takes co-op out Of Resident Evil, modders put it back in
- No One Lives Forever re-release isn’t happening after all
- Star Trek Online players pay their respects to Leonard Nimoy
All this and Listener Feedback too.
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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Episode 426: Paul’s Return Part 2Episode 426: Paul’s Return Part 2
As promised, the second half of the two hour long podcast, in which there’s a long, long ramble about pop culture and potential future specials with Paul and company.
The other news items included in the podcast are:
- 2K announces Sid Meier’s Civilization VI
- Nintendo NX “is neither the successor to the Wii U nor to the 3DS”
The next podcast will be recorded live at E3’s show floor in two weeks – stay tuned!