Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above.
Don’t invisible wall me in.
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Eight and a Half Bit
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Episode 104 – Child of Leaf
Paul is a little hung over but he still loves him some Child of Light. Simone is deep in debt to Tom Nook in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and James loves yelling in Space Team. New Call of Duty, TV on XBone, a bunch of crowd funding and a little headless puppet to cap the whole bundle off.
Crowd Funding Picks:
James: Dieselstormers
Simone: Axethrower: The Great Axe
Ben: The Old City
Paul: Pann the game
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Show notes after the jump.
Top 5 – Parody Games
If you ever do something wrong, just say it’s a parody and no one will judge you. In our family we never used the word accident. I was always my parent’s little parody.
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Episode 103 – Totally Fract Up
Paul is back from the wilderness after defeating all of the nature and he is mad as hell! Also he played the smooth synthetic tones of FRACT OSC while Simone got down and dirty with Portal 2 Thinking with Time Machine Mod and James gets it on with Hitman Go. Not to mention that the landfill of ET cartridges has finally been uncovered, Mario Golf World Tour, Snoop Dogg, The Great Ace Attorney and much more including another great week of crowd funding projects.
Crowd Funding Picks
Simone: The Universim
James: Imagine Earth
Ben: OMORI
Paul: Hover
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Quiz Show: Pill Beat Down
Questions! Answers! Some of them correct! Ben tests the crew’s gaming knowledge in the first 8.5bit Quiz Show. Are Simone and James a match for Ben’s mighty Wikipedia skills?!
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Episode 102 – Layton or Wright
Paul is off climbing a mountain or something, so this week Ben takes the reins as host! Simone joins us again to talk about her iron-fisted management in Prison Architect, and all the genderly ambiguous green dinosaurs you can handle with Yoshi’s New Island. James says some stuff about Elder Scroll Online again, and totally didn’t throw up when riding a virtual Hoverboard in Hill Valley. Kickstarters, mystery sounds, this episode has it all!
Except Paul. There is very little Paul in this episode.
Crowd Sourcing Picks:
James: No. 2 Game
Simon: Hearth Forth, Alicia
Ben: Salvaged
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Top 5 – Multiplayer games that failed to foster a community
I thought there was a party here tonight? Oh there is. Did everyone leave already? Can I stay? Actually.. umm I have to be somewhere else. Thanks though. Looks great.
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Retrospective: Road Rash
When I was a kid, years before Electronic Arts became the obscenely greedy, morally bankrupt parody of cartoonish supervillainy that they are today (“Bah! He was a rank amateur compared to… Dr. Colossus!”), to me they were a company synonymous with interesting and fantastic games due to the titles developed and / or published by EA that I owned for my Sega Mega Drive: The Immortal, Populous, John Madden American Football, Desert Strike, etc. (Also, it was easy to recognise EA Mega Drive games by the oversized boxes and oversized, yellow-chipped cartridges).
One such EA title I owned and became a huge fan of was motorcycle racing / combat game Road Rash, which debuted on the Mega Drive in 1991. The game would later receive ports to numerous other systems and would also turn out to be just the first title in a series that continued throughout the 1990s.
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