The Famicom Dojo Podcast

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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“One More Continue” and “RPG” theme songs by the Imari Tones: http://imaritones.net. Vinnk and SeanOrange pixel art by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk.

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Five console generations ago, Nintendo gathered up its cast of Mario characters (and Mario-adjacent franchises), put them into 2D sprites on kart racers, and propelled them around a track rendered in the Super Nintendo’s Mode 7. A phenomenon was born.

Sean and Vinnk look back on three decades, and eight installments of the Mario Kart franchise, and wonder if Mario Kart 8 is too popular to ever be supplanted. In Future Retro, Vinnk shares his thoughts on Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and Sean plays a Star War with Knights of the Old Republic on a Limited Run Games kart for Nintendo Switch.

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“One More Continue” and “RPG” theme songs by the Imari Tones: http://imaritones.net. Vinnk and SeanOrange pixel art by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk.

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When is the golden age of video games? Are we living through it now? Is it yet to come? (Those are basically the only options.)

Vinnk and Sean discuss their opinions with each other and the No Brand Con audience as we try to pin down the answer. Plus, Vinnk opines about Sam & Max Save the World, and Sean talks about what got him to finally buy a ColecoVision.

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“One More Continue” and “RPG” theme songs by the Imari Tones: http://imaritones.net. Vinnk and SeanOrange pixel art by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk.

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In our accidental crossover episode with our new podcast Two Boobs Watch the Tube, we talk about video games, but quickly sidebar into movies and television.

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Nintendo is shutting down the Wii U and 3DS eShops in 2023, and there won’t be any last-minute reprieve like Sony gave to the PS3 and PS Vita.

Sean and Vinnk discuss what this means for the platforms, Sean plays Halo multiplayer for the first time in a decade, and Vinnk wonders how he’ll ever play any new games on his PS4.

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“One More Continue” and “RPG” theme songs by the Imari Tones: http://imaritones.net. Vinnk and SeanOrange pixel art by Louis Lloyd-Judson: https://louistrations.co.uk.

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We answer your lingering, burning questions. What are our favorite podcasts? Well, we break them down for you. And more!

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The video game market can be unpredictable, and the last year has proven that even well-founded leaks are unreliable in the face of global chip shortages. Even so, we try to read the tea leaves about what’s coming in 2022. Five years into the Nintendo Switch, will there be a successor? How will NFTs impact gaming, if at all? Will Sean finally beat Bart vs. the Space Mutants, and stop making us all suffer with live streams?

Vinnk and Sean try to use their powers of anti-prognostication for good for the coming year, which apparently includes Sean finding an Xbox Series X less than a week after recording this episode. What other good things will come from this recording? We also enjoy not two but three games for our Pile of Same and Future Retro segment.

This episode is dedicated to our long-time fan Mario the M Hat Hero. Please consider supporting his family at this difficult time: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-with-david-smith-funeral-services

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We share our favorite Christmas memories past and present, and answer whether we’ll ever get tired of gaming… or if modern gaming will just forsake us first.

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We predicted earlier this year that we would never be getting a Switch Pro, despite persistent rumors to the contrary. Then the Switch OLED dropped and we were… sort of right. Unfortunately, it was for reasons that were so specific that even our valuable power of taking a firm stance on something only to be proven wrong could not overcome the circumstances. We tried! Sean and Vinnk break down the ongoing, pandemic-fueled disruptions to the global supply chain of advanced computer components affecting every major industry, the ways it has affected the gaming industry for the last two years, and will likely continue to do for the foreseeable future.

In Future Retro we talk about Metroid Dread: great game, or greatest game? Plus Vinnk shares his progress on Great Ace Attorney.

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This week we’re following up the main episode by answering your questions about the value of remakes, how Nintendo’s marketing practices, hobbled the TubroGrafx-16 library in the US, among other things, and we share some of our favorite cameos in our videos and what a joy they were to direct.

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