July 2011

I’m gonna tell you about a mental illness I have. It’s called Nintendamnesia. This particular illness tends to flair up every single time Nintendo releases a new console. No matter how bad the lineup looks, what people tell me or how much it costs, I can’t wait for the thing to come out. I’ll preorder it at GameStop, wait in line and walk home with it happily. If I’m lucky I’ll have one or two launch games, but more realistically my bag will only contain the system itself. Once I get home, I’ll be fascinated by the console’s built-in features and mess around with the menus. Then it will sit on a shelf for months without being touched. This happens every damn time Nintendo releases a console. What does Nintendamnesia have to do with Drill Dozer on the GBA? Hit the jump to find out. READ MORE

Boulder Dash was first released on the on Atari 8-bit computers in 1984, and later released on other systems such as the Commodore 64 and ColecoVision, as well as being ported to the NES. The Commodore 64 version also made its way to the Virtual Console in 2008 and 2009 for Europe and North America respectively. Now, though, this classic computer game finally gets an update with new graphics and everything on Xbox Live Arcade. READ MORE

Podcast time! Graham, Andrew, Shawn and Matt discuss Bastion, Capcom, Shin Megami Tensei, the Humble Indie Bundle and more!

 

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Hosts: Matthew Jay, Andrew Passafiume, Graham Russell, Shawn Vermette

Music: Mega Man 2  ‘Air Shooter’: Joshua Morse, OverClocked ReMix (http://www.ocremix.org)

When thinking of Sony’s monkey-based Ape Escape series, ne normally pictures open environments, tons of monkeys to capture and 3D platforming. With the Move, Ape Escape tries to forgo the platforming part, as it ventures into the not-as-open-or-free world of rail shooters. READ MORE

In this episode we talk about a few topics, but all you’re going to notice are the references to Mega Man. It’s okay, really. We understand.

Current standings:

Andrew
800
Gerry
378
Graham
888
Shawn
560

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