It’s hard being a gamer! Or maybe it’s just hard being an aging gamer. Why buy new games when there are so many old ones, and so many of them are just SO good? Why add to one’s pile of shame when you can just whittle it down instead? Or, even more interesting, how histories intersect and create games you never know existed, like a Super Mario Bros. game designed by HudsonSoft and written for computers older than the Famicom!

This week, Vinnk and Sean are very tired. But it’s because they’ve been working otherwise tirelessly to bring exciting new videos all summer long! We might even talk about one or two of them. However, that leaves this episode potentially a little incoherent. Also: yogurt.

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Xbox 360 owners rejoice! Our love-struck hero is not only being joined by his roommate Wallace Wells as a new playable character, but up to three of your friends can join Scott Pilgrim’s posse via online multiplayer. However, these new powers also come with a 400 MS point price tag. Wait, we’re still using MS Points? Weren’t those phasing out this year?

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Grandpappy shows us how to limber up our most important gaming appendages. Avoid serious finger-sprain with these tried-and-true exercises for training your game!

Famicom Dojo is delivering one video per week for the rest of the summer! We’ve already launched the “On the Go” segment covering the AppBlaster, and will be releasing the first installment of another new segment “Train Your Game” and a new Denshimail before the month of August is out. Exciting, no?

Keep watching Powet.TV every Wednesday (or your money back) for new episodes of Famicom Dojo and other great Powet.TV series!

Catch up on Season 2 at FamicomDojo.TV, and don’t forget to subscribe to the weekly Famicom Dojo Podcast for news about games and behind-the-scenes commentary about the new upcoming episodes.

New games come out every year, and we tend to play them now and again. But there are also those games that you come back to year after year, when something new and fancy just won’t cut it, and you just need a little bit of that video game soul food.

Sean and Vinnk bring up their favorite games which have that exciting spark even years after first playing them. Sometimes those games aren’t even all that good, just supremely… comforting. Which games are your “soul food”?

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Famicom Dojo on the Go is a new video segment for reviewing video game products and esoterica that we encounter while out and about the consumer-driven economy. Sometimes amazing, sometimes downright weird, you never know what you’re going to get — and neither do we!

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The Ouya is making waves in the console world. Not many get a chance to be a part of history and fund a new console that could change the way we look at console gaming. But will it? Can it even make money? And what value is the experience if hackers are encouraged to do what they want?

Vinnk and Sean grapple with these questions, answer listener voicemail, and talk about the new Famicom Dojo episode The Neo Geo Affair, and the onslaught of videos that are being released every week for the rest of the summer!

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Continuing the 16-bit wars after the introduction of the Sega Genesis and TurboGrafx-16, we turn to a “24-bit” system that was truly like the arcade machines that its competitors were trying to emulate.

Direct Link: Famicom Dojo Season 2: The Neo Geo Affair

Vinnk reveals his decade-long tryst with SNK’s Neo Geo Advanced Entertainment System, the one console in the 16-bit generation that made good on its promise of arcade-quality graphics on a home console, and the hefty price tag to back it up.
 
 

Head over to our show notes to read more about the history of the Neo Geo and the making of this episode!

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Do you watch video game videos to find out which game to play next? Or do you watch the videos so you don’t have to play those games? Or, GASP, do you not watch video game videos at all?

Sean and Vinnk answer more listener calls, launch the “Vinnk Was Wrong” segment, and announce their weekly video release schedule for the summer! Get an inside look at the newest episode, and find out why it took so long to make!

Direct Link:
Famicom Dojo Podcast 55: Video Game Videos

Show notes after the jump!

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