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EndgameRadio Prime: Episode 176

Published on October 10, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 comments
Categories: News, Reviews, Raves, Endgameradio Prime, Wii, PC, Asian, Cosplay, Conventions, First Person Shooters, Psychology, Local Events
This week we’ll talk about Anime Con Carne, Portal, and all the crazy Nintendo news that dropped this week. Anime on Carne was a blast, Oizys won a prize. We support the effort totally and are going to rock that stuff out hardcore next year. Nintendo news!~ Sonic vs. Mario?! Finally?! Games games games?! Miyamoto’d all over us. Lasty but not leasty, we fanboy over Portal, a masterfully crafted game. Come drool with us.

SC3 Event

Published on September 17, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | 2 comments »
Categories: Features, Journal, Raves, Arcades, Retro

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This weekend it was time for our bi-yearly pilgrimage to Claremont to dig up and dust off our gaming roots. The Southern California Classic Collectors got together once again to bring out the best of the best from classic gaming history.

This visit offered a few more cabinets, in addition to an xbox with emulators being hooked up and projected onto a big screen.

The usual fare of games was there, with a few more additions in terms of gaming cabinets and a computer projected on a screen in the back. There was much more Wii-playing, as people enjoyed Wii sports and other games. We also caught a glimpses of a Japanese jun-ken-pow/ro-sham-bo hentai game, where winning a round of rock paper scissors meant your attractive host takes off another article of her clothing… wooo hoo.

The big projector in the back was playing a showing of “SC3 TV,” which was a montage of retro-gaming themed shows, specials, and commercials from back in the day.

While we were there, we got a chance to interview some of the founders and collaborators of the event, We also chatted with as Rob from Coin-op.tv, who coincidentally interviewed our friend Rog over at i-mockery.com. It’s a small world!. These events are set to happen at least twice a year, and don’t worry; we’ll sound the alarms when it happens again so we can hook up for more old school gaming.

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Interview with the creators of the SC3

Interview with Rob from Coin-op TV

Pictures of the event

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Che Casinos

Published on April 6, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | 0 comments
Categories: Raves, Second Life, Yiff Yiff Yiff, Legality

I think this is what disturbs me most about Second Life. They clamp down on the ability for casinos to spam ad the system due to potential Feds/legal problems (as far as I’m sure most courts are concerned, SL could be considered harboring/agenting online gambling and since they’re an American company hosted here, this is completely illegal). This doesn’t mean they’re killing casinos, just not allowing them to advertise easily (read: not allowing the feds to pull up a quick index for a report).

And yet, check out these comments *shudder*
You’d think a 12-year-old online furry Che Guevara had just been captured by the CIA and executed, and the guerrillas were brandishing their shouts for their new martyr.

EndgameRadio Episode 148

Published on March 28, 2007 by Tom Mannino | 0 comments
Categories: News, Audio, Raves, Endgameradio Prime, Wii, History, Nintendo DS, Rumors, GBA, Conventions, Dreamcast, NES
It finally happened. Mario vs. Sonic, in bed together, having romance. The two legends of gaming history are now going to be in a game together. We touch upon this topic and concept several times this episode, with discussions ranging from actual game mechanic differences, the amount of success (more like disparity am i rite) between both games, and the future of both franchises. A Chinese MMO creates a new, innovative and creative way to unban your character from your favorite MMO: Donate blood! (Yeah, real blood from your real body.) We saw TMNT this weekend, and it was badass. PAX PAX PAX. It’s going to be harder, better, faster, stronger, bigger, badder, and more radical this year then ever before. We will be there with power and fury.

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Miss T’s Barcade Adventure

Published on February 18, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | one comment
Categories: Journal, Raves, Arcades, Retro

So last night we hit up the new Barcade we had posted about previously. EndgameRadio listener Anniex0r, Zug and myself wound up representing and checking it all out with a vengance. Rampage, Centipede, Gauntlet (man is the Elf ever weaksauce), Ms Pacman, Punch Out and others were played (some with high scores tattooed to prove that we were there) all for a real 25cents US quarter (no stupid tokens or ‘rape cards’ like in other nameless alcohol+games establishments). The staff was friendly, the drink prices reasonable, the Fried Egg Sandwich comforting, and the music hopping. Small and a bit hard to find but definitely worth it, this bar will definitely become an EndgameRadio approved hangout from this point forward.

Check out the bar’s Myspace page here (note that the latest comment currently is a Picture of the Church of Chickenology that is right across the street from it).

Heart Factory

Published on February 14, 2007 by Aaron Matthew | 0 comments
Categories: Journal, Raves, PC, Religion, Robots, Real Time Strategy, Supreme Commander

Being that it’s valentine’s day, I thought I’d dish out some valentines card greetings/pick up lines and poetry dedicated to my valentine right now:
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So here goes:
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Traumatized

Published on December 30, 2006 by Aaron Matthew | 0 comments
Categories: Journal, Raves, Wii

Ok, got Trauma Center for the Wii for Xmas from my girlfriend (sorta to herself as well because she was better at the DS version than me).

The game is daunting. Even going to the game channel in the Wii interface to start it, kicking industrial music starts up, and the game proclaims to you: “I’m going to kick your ass if you try to play me”. Games don’t usually make me nervous, but it’s a cool kind of nervous.

And it got me thinking Kaneko Kazuma + Medical fetish = Best Halloween Costume Ever.
That and hexagons! Lots of hexagons!
This warm fuzzy really helps tide me over until Persona 3.

Endgameradio Prime 133 : We Had a Fallout

Published on December 13, 2006 by Aaron Matthew | 0 comments
Categories: Audio, Raves, Endgameradio Prime, Fallout, MMOs
After hearing renewed news about a possible Fallout MMO, we go Fallout crazy. Vaulting off a show we did 2 years ago about Fallout, we discuss this rumor then and now and what it means. Setting our fandom fully on the table we brainstorm what we would like to see in the Fallout MMO and what kinds of characters we’d play. Genre-Jumping: When a game franchise famous for one genre (say, Real-Time Strategy) takes a leap and makes a game in a different genre type (say, MMORPG). Warcraft and now Fallout will be doing this.

Download the Fallout discussion from our old show #9 (two years ago!) here: (8.5 mb, ~20 minutes)
EndgameRadio Episode 9: Excerpt

Download our entire old show (#9 from 07-14-2004) here: (74 mb, ~3 hours)
EndgameRadio Episode 9

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