This week Dustin shows his culinary side and Scott remembers enjoying Roald Dahl books. We talk about No Clip's first documentary on Rocket League, Lion King's issues on Genesis, Wii U production stopping, the phallic gun in Shadow of the Damned, Battlecorps, Monster in my Pocket, TMNT IIon the NES versus TMNT IV on SNES, and more! Enjoy!
Round of Beers Rule - Episode 203
This week Dustin ventures back to Road Rash and Scott resists the temptation to return a game on Steam. Some of the news item discussed are Nintendo's Switch trailer, Link's Awakening remade in the Ocarina of Time engine, the Voice Actor's strike, Bethesda's new Review policy, Bo Jackson playing Techmo Bowl and more. Enjoy!
Shmeppelin Options - Episode 202
Dustin is in the middle of installing a cap kit in his Turbo Duo and Scott gives his first impressions of PlayStation VR. We chat about Odell Beckham Jr wearing Kirby cleats, Aesop Rock's video for Shrunk being arcade inspired, Read Dead Redemption 2's announcement, a Note 7 GTA mod being DMCA'd on YouTube by Samsung, AVGN's Berentain Bears episode, and games we've been playing. Enjoy!
Genesis Attitude - Episode 201
This week Dustin gets in depth with Silent Hill and Scott is blown away by the sound in Castlevania III for Famicom. This week we chat about 505 Game publishing Bloodstained, Google's October 4th press conference, other people's impressions of PS VR, Mini Famicom, Twitch Prime, changing Battle.net names, Knock Knock being a terrible movie, and the new Turbo Grafx CD game Henshin Engine. Dustin has been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Silent Hill while Scott has been getting into Mega Man 3, Aragami, Dead Space, and a fussy Famicom Disk System.
The Book of JAWS - Episode 200
This week Dustin is in full Halloween mode and Scott was hilariously memed by our good buddy Xearrik! We are tired of political stuff so we focused on the news of TJ Perkins using chiptune as his WWE entrance music, No Man's Sky being investigated by the UK's Advertising & Standards Authority, Castlevania turning 30 years old, Destiny 2 launching on PC along side consoles and it looks like Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Dredd, 28 Days Later) is doing the screen play for a Halo movie. It's another retro heavy episode so we hope you enjoy!
Boink Equals Die - Episode 199
This week Dustin talks about his three year old son finishing levels in Sonic on his own and Scott has begun the journey of getting the best possible picture from his NES, SNES and Genesis carts without emulation. News topics we chat about are Valve changing how Steam review work, Nvidia GTX 970 settlement site goes live, Chris Metzen retiring from Blizzard and the PS4's firmware 4.0 update. We also deliberate over our votes for round 3 of The Retro League's best-games-of-1991 Tournament and have great listeners comments. Enjoy!
It Feels Like Magic - Episode 198
This week Dustin got to see his old friends and Scott has his Wii U hard drive fail. We both agree that ordering retro games from Japan feels like magic. We also talk about the new Friday the 13th game, paid DLC for an Early Access game on Steam, the first batch of AVS units have arriving to the US, some odd things about the PlayStation Pro, Run the Jewels being in the Gears of War 4 trailer, Phil Fish coming back to game development, Great Battle Cyber and the movie Looper! Our listener comments are fantastic this week and we go over Round 2 of The Retro League's tournament for the best games of 91! Enjoy!
It Looked Like Freedom - Episode 197
This week is the start of The Retro League tournament! This year is the "Best Games of 1991" so be sure to check out our deliberations at the end of the episode as we cast our official podcast vote. Scott is thrilled by a shout-out from Rally Point, an eSport podcast from The Bleacher Report, and Dustin talks about his Army buddies coming to Nashville for a reunion. The game trailer for Owlboy really impressed us and we also talk about Pewdiepie's twitter ban, the AVS NES clone from RetroUSB.com, Konmani said something about Metal Gear Solid V and some fantastic videos about No Man's Sky from Jim Sterling and Paul Taylor. Enjoy!
Stale Hookah Flavor - Episode 196
This week Dustin is dealing with Murphy's Law at work while Scott is dangerously close to falling down the deep rabbit hole of collecting for the Famicom. We chat about ToeJam and Earl: Back in the Groove is coming in 2017 and being published by Adult Swim, PlayStaion Now coming to PC, The Legend of Zelda Art & Artifacts book, Giant Bomb Game Academy and a hololens emulator for the NES exists. Dustin played some Sonic 3 and Super Mario 3D World with his son and Scott is enjoying Uncharted 4 quite a bit.
I Hate Poop - Episode 195
This week was light on news but heavy on laughs so it turned into a longer one than we expected. Despite it being a long episode we promise it's worth listening to the end! No Man's Sky is shredded on a long reddit post outlining missing features promised throughout development, Nordic games rebranding as THQNordic, Metal Gear Survive Trailer is well received, AVGN is back with a Beavis and Butthead episode and GoldenEye: Source is very cool. Scott is becoming a true Castlevania fan and Dustin gets a lesser-known but very cool Genesis. Enjoy!