Episode 4 scheduled to drop tomorrow! Let’s start recruiting for Ep 5!
The doodle below is for next weekend, August 5th and 6th. Check the time zone stated - I’m not sure if it automagically switches to your time zone or not! I’m in PST so it might default to that - just double check.
https://doodle.com/poll/h7h2xvghzws4zmni
We’re going to be playing Drift King Shutokou Battle 2 - Tsuchiya Keiichi & Bandou Masaaki, our first Japan only game. There’s no fan translation, but I’m going to guess that the game has something to do with the King from Burger King.
We’re changing Mahjong Minute to Salaryman Corner (Thanks for the name Sakurina!). The SNES has a glut of pachinko, horse racing, and mahjong games that couldn’t support a full hour long podcast. Instead of dedicating entire episodes to those games, we’re going to play them for 5 minutes and then talk about it for 5 minutes in the podcast. This week it’s “Pachinko Maruhi Hisshouhou,” which is apparently the Mavis Beacon of pachinko games. So give it a very brief whirl and we’ll discuss our very brief impressions sometime during the episode
Here’s a package containing an emulator and the ROMs, in case you need it. By default it’s set up to use the keyboard, in whatever weird configuration SNES9x defaults to.
Feel free to use your own setup though! I’m using RetroArch this time because the CRT filters are ace, but it gives a lot of people a hard time so like, whatever makes you happy.
EDITED OUT THANKS TULPA
As a reminder, we discuss the game based on 5 topics, listed below:
Gun - mechanics of play, essentially
Vanity - look, sound, feel, etc.
Mystery - does this game feel like it has any deeper mysteries? interpret as you will
Poetry - anything particularly striking, visually or word-ually or whatever
Harmony - how does it all come together?
If you’re recording, please play the main game for an hour or so, and take a couple of notes on those 5 topics. Last time I typed my notes in a word doc and printed them, like the octagenarian I apparently am.
And for Pachinko, seriously, don’t spend more than 5 minutes on it unless you’re really digging it.
Recording is still happening on Discord. I’ve created a channel just for this purpose, it’s also a neat hangout and I added a bunch of emoji for all the games we’ve played already.
I’m limiting it to 6 total people this time. I’ll prioritize people who haven’t been on the 'cast before, but otherwise it’s first come first serve!
Right that’s it bye
