25¢: A Video Game Podcast

Nick is trying to convince Chris to buy a Playdate. How has Nick enjoyed his Playdate? What games are grabbing him? What's he cranking on? Also: There's now VR in Chris' home.

Topics:

• (00:24) - Welcome back

• Play.date
• Podcast.Play.date
• Playdate SDK
• Playdate Pulp
• Playdate game collection
• Catalog Update #1
• Playdate - $199 starting April 7
• Pre-Order for late 2023
  • Cover?
• Playdate Pulp
• Recommendation Dog
• GameDev Journal by Dave Rupert
• Scratch
• The Murderbot Diaries
• Meta Quest 2
• Gorilla Tag
• Lego Star Wars
• Minecraft
• Mario Party
• Pokemon Scarlet
• Castle Crumble Apple Arcade
• It Takes Two

Console Corner

• MarioKart Expansion Pack
• Halo TV series
• Supposedly separate timeline? I assumed prequel
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Lego Star Wars?

Apple Corner

• Crossy Road Castle
• Zen Pinball Party
• Frogger in Toy Town
• Alto’s Adventure - The Spirit of the Mountain
• Globle
• Heardle
• Murdle

Tabletop Corner

• Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

Book Corner

• The Bone Orchard

Console Corner

• Siracusa on Bungie acquisition by sony
• Nintendo WiiU and 3DS eShop EOL
• Mario Kart Wheel (available at Costco)
• Nintendo Direct 2022-02-09 Raw Notes
• Chrono Cross
• Radical Dreamers text adventure from Satellaview!
• No Man’s Sky
• Portal: Companion Collection
• Earthbound and Earthbound Beginnings
• Lego Brawls
• MarioKart Deluxe Booster Course Pass
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land
• Mario Strikers Battle League
• Nintendo Switch Sports

PC Corner

• Political Arena covered in NYT
• Dad games
• A Little to the Left
• Aperture Desk Job
• Jean and Jorts the cats added to Stardew Valley

Apple Corner

• Crosswordle — Solve backwards
• Wordie Bird — Golf style scoring
• Prattle — Shakespeare word list, variable length
• Worldle — Guess country shape
• Polydle — Play 2-2315 boards at once.
• Mathler
• Risk: Game of Thrones Edition
• Battleship
• Pokemon TCG
• Race for the Galaxy

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Console Corner

• Sony buys Bungie
• Star Trek: Resurgence trailer
• Found via Transporter Lock
• https://www.startrek-resurgence.com

Star Trek Corner

• Takeover! Amok Time battle music
• List of Star Trek Games
• Begin (maybe Begin 2?) (1991)
• Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992)
• Later had MacPlay CD-ROM version (with actual character dialogue)
• Star Trek: Judgement Rites (1993)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future’s Past (1994)
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger (1996)
• Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force (2000)
• Eventually played expansion pack
• Star Trek: Voyager: Elite Force II (2003)
• Star Trek: Conquest (2007)
• Star Trek Online (2010)
• Star Trek Rivals (2013)
• Star Trek Trexels (2014)
• Star Trek Timelines (2016)
• Star Trek: Legends (2021)
• Apple Arcade, covered in episode 29

Tabletop games

• Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive VCR Board Game — A Klingon Challenge (1993)
• Star Trek Customizable Card Game (1994)

• Way Too Seriously

Apple Corner

• Hidden Folks
• Bridge Constructor+
• Reminiscent of Poly Bridge
• Crashlands+
• Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis
• Wordle acquired
• Quordle
• Starwordle

Tabletop Corner

• Asmodee purchase by Embracer Group
• Restoration Games

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Console Corner

• Hades wins Best Video Game Hugo
• Power Up graphic novel
• Square Enix looking into NFTs
• Castlevania NFTs
• Axie Infinity NFT rentals 🤮
• Playdate Pulp game maker in public beta
• Bitsy
• Forza Horizons 5
• Skywalker Saga gameplay overview

PC Corner

• Riot Games settles discrimination lawsuit
• Microsoft buys Activison-Blizzard
• Warcraft 3 Reforged

Apple Corner

• A Starting Point
• Jackbox games
• A Five Letter Word for Ripoff
• Hearts+
• Spades+
• Wingspan
• Wordle
• Townscaper converter
• Absurdle
• Primel
• Dordle
• Sweardle
• Lewdle

Tabletop Corner

Skipped this week!

Console Corner

• PlayStation subscription service
• Sonic 2 movie updates

PC Corner

• Star Wars Eclipse cinematic trailer
• Downstream episode 4

Apple Corner

• Apple's 2021 App Store Award winners
• Apple TV Game of the Year: Space Marshals 3, from Pixelbite.
• Apple Arcade Game of the Year: Fantasian, from Mistwalker.
• Mac Game of the Year: Myst, from Cyan.
• Apple's most downloaded iOS Apps and Games of 2021
• Builderment

Tabletop Corner

• Scorekeeper
• Gin
• Canasta
• MattRix - trainyard developer

• Nick: Hades if they haven't played it yet (all three consoles)
• Chris: Halo Infinite (Xbox)
• Nick: Civ VI Anthology (if it's still on sale)
• Chris: Dorfromantik
• Nick: iTunes Gift Card (for Apple Arcade)
• Nick: Villainous.
• Chris: Sleeping Queens. 
• Halo TV series teaser
• Download on Relay.fm
• Game Awards
• Star Citizen still not out
• Five formative games meme
  • Nick: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, Sim City 2000, Escape Velocity, Myst, Tetris
  • Chris: Space Quest, Doom, Warcraft series, Age of Empires, Diablo 2
• Epic buys Harmonix
• Lego Star Wars Castaways
• Netflix Games: Teeter
• The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine
• Pitch

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Console Corner

• Reality is Broken by Jane McGonigal
• Niantic opens Lightship platform
• MGS games removed due to archival footage licensing
• Unpacking players don't know what a GameCube is
• KotOR available for Switch $15
• Playdate update
• Xbox's 20th Anniversary - adds 70 new backward compatible games
• Ted Lasso car in Forza

PC Corner

• Chris played Civilization 6 for an hour
• Extra Life Game Day - Nick streamed on Twitch
• Political Arena kickstarter
• Mass Effect Teaser

Apple Corner

• Castlevania: Grimoire of Souls
  • Small amounts of action platformer trapped in character/item upgrade menu system
  • Auto attack makes game more accessible
  • This was an IAP powered Android game launched in 2019
  • Worked well with controller
• The Oregon Trail
  • Getting back into it. Many game updates (about 20 onboarding screens!): new trails (California, Mormon), fishing mini game, more story quests (eg bring nitroglycerin to mine without blowing up), more challenges ("contracts" to complete a trail segment with added difficulty)
  • Menus work with controller okay, but definitely touch first
• Galaga Wars+
  • Never played previous release
  • Weird hold to unpause mechanic, bad RSI scenario
  • Fun progression, pretty high difficulty
• Netflix Games
  • First on Android, now on iOS
  • One app per game to follow App Store guidelines
  • not streaming like Luna or xCloud
• Listener Andrew
  • "You and Chris were great entertainment on my way to and from getting cat supplies."
  • Tiny Wings developer wanted to transfer achievements
• 🍋 HomePod mini
• Fraggle Rock TV+ show
• Marathon series / Marathon emulator
  • Friend of the show Angela
  • Gabe wants multiplayer

Tabletop Corner

• MegaCity
• Rating bias towards new games

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Console Corner

• Playdate order update
• Tetris and similar games can help with PTSD
• Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack 10/25
• Nintendo's Online Expansion Pack Trailer Is Now Its Most Disliked Video On YouTube
• Happy Home Paradise DLC also out Nov 5th on it's own
• Hades Halloween costumes
• Sega + Microsoft

PC Corner

• Steam banning NFT and blockchain games
• NFT and gaming Twitter thread
• NFT game using Mario NFTs
• Bloomberg article
• Scalzi quote

Apple Corner

• Crossy Road+
• Tiny Wings+
• Mini Motorways update
• M1 Pro/Max Macs Impressive GPU performance close to gaming laptops
• Upgrade #379: They Feed on Memory Bandwidth - Relay FM
• Townscaper out for mobile
• Fun comic
• GoodSudoku+
• In-game events listed in App Store
• Crayola Create and Play+
• Tsuro - The Game of the Path on the App Store

Tabletop Corner

• Tsuro: Phoenix Rising
• Suspend