Gaming Podcast’s Jonah Falcon and Shack News’ T.J. Denzer do a totally-not-ripping-off-Zero-Punctuation’s-Let’s-Drown-Out video of the former playing Prince of Persia 2008 as they discuss some of the news of the day.
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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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Episode 644: Nintendo At It AgainEpisode 644: Nintendo At It Again
Jonah considers Elden Ring too grind-y, and talks about the name of an infamous handheld console.
News items include:
- PlayStation 5 owners report online issues following system update
- Mass Effect Trilogy co-creator returning to science fiction
- Bungie says last week’s Destiny 2 video takedowns were ‘fraudulent‘
- Nintendo takes down scans of 1996 Super Mario 64 Strategy Guide
Let us know what you think.
Episode 423: Nintendo NXEpisode 423: Nintendo NX
This week revolves around Nintendo’s upcoming console. Otherwise, there isn’t much to speak of in terms of shocking news. However, there is a lot of it this time around.
The news items include:
- Stardew Valley multiplayer, console ports confirmed
- Nintendo NX launching March 2017, new mobile games on way
- Oculus Rift arrives at Best Buy stores ahead of pre-orders
- Nintendo won’t sell NX at a loss
- Classic Sega Mega Drive ROM hacks hit Steam workshop
Question of the Week: “Ever play any console ROM hacks?”
