80-Bit Podsmash

Penguin and Termite discuss how differing personality types may affect which games you buy and play as well as how you might approach playing them.

We also come up with our top 10 must have N64 Classic titles.

Resources:

Link to N64 Classic leak http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1408657 Article about personalities and video games https://www.16personalities.com/articles/might-or-magic-a-study-of-gamers-personality-types 16 personalities' test https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test Music: Those of Us Who Fight - Halcyonic Falcon X https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Penguin and Termite interview the fabulous, wonderful, internet sensation, Kristen Corradeno aka "Shut Up Kristen!"

We discuss cosplay and video gaming culture and we dare take on the hot button topic of women in gaming.

Shut Up Kristen's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/users/kristencakess Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/shutupkristen Kristen's collaboration with Pemberley Digital https://www.youtube.com/user/PemberleyDigital/featured https://kotaku.com/women-play-video-games-1796102588 Music: Of Rainbows and Unicorns - Halcyonic Falcon X https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Penguin and Termite discuss the issue of timelessness in video games. Is it just nostalgia or is there something more to it?

Music:

8-Bit Heroes | Daydream Anatomy Nin10day

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Releasing unfinished video games seems to be normal and acceptable. We are declaring it "acceptable" because it keeps happening.

Why does this happen, what are the causes? GameStop circle of life issue http://kotaku.com/new-gamestop-program-leads-employees-to-lie-to-customer-1791874332 Mass Effect Andromeda released March 21st, big patch Thursday April 6th http://gematsu.com/2017/04/mass-effect-andromeda-update-roadmap-detailed Batman Arkham Knight PC version https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2015/06/batman-arkham-knight-for-pc-pulled-from-steam-and-retailers-due-to-bugs/ Destiny http://kotaku.com/the-messy-true-story-behind-the-making-of-destiny-1737556731 References: http://kotaku.com/crunch-time-why-game-developers-work-such-insane-hours-1704744577 https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/broken-video-games/ https://kotaku.com/quality-assured-what-it-s-really-like-to-play-games-fo-1720053842 Music: 8-Bit Heroes | Daydream - Conflict Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

-Roger Ebert famously claimed that "video games cannot be art". We take that argument to task.

http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-never-be-art

-Links to the TED talk given at USC by Kellee Santiago are in the link provided.

-Kojima's comment http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/news240106kojimaart -Wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_as_an_art_form#List_of_artistic_video_games -Majora's Mask art http://www.zeldainformer.com/eiji-aonuma-comments-on-the-5-stages-of-grief-theory-wanted-to-hook-players/ Music: 8-Bit Heroes | Daydream Anatomy - Dragon Slayer https://daydreamanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-heroes Creative Commons License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

Get to know the personalities behind Penguin and Termite as well as the 80 Bit Podsmash name. We discuss the reasons we want to start this Podcast as well as lay the foundation for what types of things we'll be discussing.

Music Credit: 8-Bit Heroes | Daydream Anatomy

https://daydreamanatomy.bandcamp.com/album/8-bit-heroes

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