#DojoCast

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We've talked before about movies based on video games, and video games based on movies (sometimes themselves based on video games; looking at you, Street Fighter: The Movie The Game!), but have we talked about TV shows inspired by video games?

Vinnk and Sean react to the Mario movie trailer, talk about the video game cartoons of their childhood, and how the genre has grown to include more mature and live action fare in the modern era -- including shows that have been announced but haven't even been released yet! But also certainly shows that have, and what is lost (or potentially gained) in translation. In Pile of Shame, Vinnk figures he should finally get in on this Minecraft thing all the kids are playing, and Sean describes his experience with the interactive movie game "I Saw Black Clouds" in Future Retro.

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First episode of DojoCast is coming this Saturday, December 20 !! BE THERE .

They'll also be taking questions from time to time via Twitter: #dojocastquestions

Also be sure to catch me on episode 2 !

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First episode of DojoCast is coming this Saturday, December 20 !! BE THERE . They'll also be taking questions from time to time via Twitter: #dojocastquestions

Now what is DojoCast? This is a new podcast series working to shine some light on a few unknown artists and animators every week from all over the world, in Hyun's Dojo !

Also be sure to catch me on episode 2 !

Become a part of Hyun's Dojo here !

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YEE I'M IN THIS! The first installment, of the Dojocast! We start our season 1 wild ride, with some words from Puto on doors 4, how the Dojocast will work, and some general talk on animation. Will Mav and Bepler get that Dojocon 2016? Find out now. Casters: MavMighty, Bepler, Reflx, Pluto, and Hyun. Recommendations: MAV Hamen - http://hamen.hyunsdojo.com/ Studio Wolf Smoke 'Kung-Fu Cooking Girls' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY9Kndy0ZMs BEPLER Gobelins 'Wand Wander' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub7i1psMpMQ REFLX Collide - http://collidefa.deviantart.com/ PLUTO Gobelins 'The Kingdom: King and Beaver' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6ZmMjMdrqs Nelson Boles 'This One Time' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzTw0d6Gv0k Jeffery Lai - https://www.youtube.com/user/jefflaianimation HYUN Albinorice 'Captain Japan Saves America' - http://www.hyunsdojo.com/dojo/2982/

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The bad news keeps compounding for Sony. First came the announcement that the PS3, PSP, and Vita online stores would be shutting down this July. Then some intrepid investigators discovered that the death of the CMOS battery in PS3 and PS4 models means your digital libraries would be useless -- even if the batteries are replaced -- unless it can connect to online servers that will no longer be in service after this year. And lo and behold, this problem affects the PS5 as well! On this 10th anniversary episode of the DojoCast,

Sean and Vinnk recall the first episode about the DLC Apocalypse, and how it's really been here all along. Sean talks about how Pile of Shame LIVE! turned his opinion around about Double Switch, and Vinnk is still playing Phoenix Wright after all these years -- this time on a region-free Switch cartridge collection of the first three games.

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Most games are made with some kind of crunch to meet sales targets and match up with buying patterns, but sometimes the motives of publishers (and it's almost always the publishers) can be more nefarious. Why does crunch happen, and how can consumers stop it, if at all? Would you pay more for a game that was made ethically?

Vinnk and Sean recount stories of developer woe, and ways to combat the scourge of "crunch". In Future Retro we go back to two second sequels: Myst III and Pikmin III. And we answer your questions with our "live" audience, from our Discord, and more!

Videos and links to articles in the show notes: https://v2.famicomdojo.tv/s/dojocast-170

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Another new generation of gaming is nearly upon us, but what value does it bring? What does it mean? And how the heck do you remember the progression of Xbox names? Sean and Vinnk feel their age as they discuss what the ninth generation of gaming may bring, try to differentiate from the "pro" versions of the eighth generation, and worry about yet another push towards digital-only consoles. We talk about Animal Crossing again in Future Retro, this time with Sean's perspective, and Vinnk surprises himself, and us, with his latest review.

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When we last talked about the various video game ratings systems, we concluded that they were useless. Now that we're older and wiser, our perspective has evolved accordingly. What if video game ratings are good, actually? Vinnk and Sean dive into the history of Night Trap (now that Sean's actually played it), and how the congressional hearing lead to a surge in sales that may not have happened for such a... mediocre game. Sean reviews the 2014 Shadowgate remake on his Nintendo Switch, and Vinnk tries to convince Sean why he should play Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

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Why do some video game genres endure, when others fizzle out? What happens when one of the genres that dies is one that you really happen to love? Graphic adventure games gave us a scare for a while, but text adventures are toast. Sean and Vinnk talk about Myst, its remake realMyst, its re-remake (also) Myst, and try to pin down its categorization. Is it a walking similuator, or is Myst its own genre now? We discuss other genres that are gone or have changed fundamentally so as to no longer be any fun. And we answer your questions in our latest Denshimail segment!

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Gone are the days that shipping a game meant it was "done", and the development team would move on to a new project. In the 2020s, like other software, distributing games over the internet can mean spending more time and money creating a new experience than what lead up to the launch date. Games that were "finished" years ago can see updates that fundamentally change the experience. Sometimes this is by design. Sometimes it's because the game that was launched was a dud. Vinnk and Sean discuss whether this behavior is throwing good money after bad, or if it's a model that's here to stay... and whether that's a good thing, plus games we wish we could play as they used to be, but no longer can. In Pile of Shame, Sean describes getting back into No Man's Sky for the first time in nearly four years, and Vinnk shares his newfound love of Chess and 50 other worldwide classics with Clubhouse Games for Nintendo Switch.

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We're still stuck at home (well, some of us are), wondering how the closure of non-essential businesses is will affect not just giant video game retailers, but our home-grown favorite resellers, such as the eponymous Famicom Dojo. Sean and Vinnk recover from a failed live stream to ponder anew the physical vs digital question. In Future Retro we take a Journey, and Sean learns from Vinnk what Ron Gilbert was up to after his LucasArts days.

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Vinnk and Sean talk about the games they're playing while Safer at Home, hopefully reduce their Pile of Shame by finally playing through the original Doom games and Final Fantasy VII and VIII -- all available now for Nintendo Switch -- plus how out of all the games that were announced in last March's Nintendo Mini Direct the most appealing seems to be... Clubhouse Games??

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Some of the most interesting deviations between US retro games and their Japanese originals are the decisions made when they were localized to non-Japanese countries, the politics of the time, and subsequent censorship. What if we had it all to do over again? Sean and Vinnk explore new localizations of games that either never got one, or are getting new ones, and in Pile of Shame we try to figure out if the release of Shenmue III is 15 years too late, Vinnk realizes he's never played Riven: The Sequel to Myst, and discovers out he has a massive Pile of Shame of Good Old Games...

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Console life cycles are fairly predicable, especial for Nintendo consoles. Right now we're about halfway through the wildly-successful Switch, but the only hardware revision we have to show for it is the Switch Lite. If a Switch Pro doesn't come this year, does that mean it won't come at all?

Vinnk and Sean debate the clues, and what a Switch Pro would even have to offer. In Future Retro we talk about the latest Switch games we've been playing, which are a remake and sequel respectively: Link's Awakening and Luigi's Mansion 3. And we come clean on our YouTube Pile of Shame. 

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Usually console anniversaries are celebrated events, but when the Dreamcast turned 20 years old it seemed like an afterthought -- assuming anyone thought about it at all. What happened? Sean and Vinnk discuss their Dreamcast memories, and speculate why the 20th wasn't as big as the 10th or even the 15th. Vinnk's Future Retro is Grandia II, his favorite Dreamcast game. And Sean talks about playing lots of... chess??

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I miss Manuel.

It’s not every game, and not every company, but every once in a while a title will come out that is so badly tested, has a day one patch for a game-breaking bug, or isn’t even on the disc or cartridge at all, that the box on the shelf is little more than eye candy.

Sean and Vinnk discuss the phenomenon of game publishers using their paying customers as beta testers, when having an “incomplete” game is acceptable, and what resale value – if any – that these games will have in the long term. Vinnk talks about the downloadable-only version of Bayonetta in most versions of the Bayonetta 2 Nintendo Switch release in Future Retro, and Sean laments the sorry state of the Famicom Disk System version of Zelda II in Pile of Shame. Plus, a haiku, and a voicemail!

The Famicom Dojo Video Game Podcast is now on YouTube! Watch the video-enhanced version for more information about our discussion topics, pop-ups to related content, and subscribe to the Famicom Dojo Channel to make sure you never miss an episode. • Watch now: https://youtu.be/Xc_s-dFBIY8

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SeanOrange is a retro game fan from the US. Vinnk is a retro import fan who took things one step further and moved to Japan. Together they make Famicom Dojo: a web series dedicated exploring the Japanese history of video games and consoles from the other side of the Pacific.