Ever wonder what sort of equipment we use to record the podcast? I know it seems strange that recording what is essentially a parade of dick and fart jokes requires any sort of thought, money, or know-how, but the truth is that we – (mainly Hilden) – have invested loads of cash into our equipment.

So if you’re curious about what we use, how we use it, and how it’s all set up so we can get that patented Drunken Gamers Radio so-filthy-you-can-taste-it sound, check out the new article over at CastMedium where Hilden lays it all out in great detail.

Thanks to the guys over at CastMedium for continuing to treat us as though we’re somehow relevant.

On last week’s episode of Drunken Gamers Radio, we discussed the upcoming indie game for the Dreamcast, Irides. Well, today we have news about the game, including a solid release date. Here’s the release from our friends over at GOATstore:

Irides: Master of Blocks is an incredible puzzler game where the player has to match blocks of similar colors together to eliminate them, score points and create combos. The faster that the blocks are connected and the more blocks there are, the better the score when they are eliminated! Just like all of the great classic puzzle games, Irides: Master of Blocks is an easy concept, but one that is tough to master!

Irides: Master of Blocks contains over 30 levels of content, challenging players with different Power Blocks to either assist or hamper your progression through the game. Players can also attempt to become the Master of Blocks with a friend in Co-Op mode, progressing through the game with both players playing in the same playfield. A two-to-four player multiplayer mode allows players to face off against friends or foes to see who is the true Master of Blocks! Friends not around to play? Submit scores online to see who the best in the universe at smashing blocks is!

Want something extra special? To celebrate the 12/12 release of Irides: Master of Blocks, the GOAT Store, LLC is creating 122 (144) special limited edition copies of the game which will be sold only through the GOAT Store, LLC’s online web site.

The official release date for Irides: Master of Blocks will be 12/12/09.

To order Irides for Dreamcast, click here

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It’s been a long labor of love with more than a little lost sleep but we’re proud to bring you the full ZomBOOsical! in all it’s Zombie glory!

With all the story bits added in, the ZomBOOsical! clocks in at a total of 30 tracks! With 17 of those being pure music tracks, you’ll have more tunes stuck in your head than you can handle this Halloween.

Also included in the ZomBOOsical! download is a very special episode of After Hours where we talk through the making of the work in as much detail as our drunken selves could handle. At any rate, you can hear how Moe came up with all those awesomely odd tunes!

We’ve also included a lyric sheet in case you want to sing along. You know, cause what else would you do with a musical?

To get to the ZomBOOsical!, you can click the big logo at the top of Robot Panic. We’re asking for a $10 donation to the site/show if for no other reason than to justify to our families why we’ve been barricaded up in my attic for days on end, screaming about a Zombie invasion.

We sincerely hope you enjoy the ZomBOOsical! and let us know what you think about it in the comments section!

Also, special thanks to my brother, the all mighty Justin Hilden, for creating that kick ass ZomBOOsical! logo! And another thanks to Phil Haymes for all his added awesomeness!

Greetings plebes.

Your feeble human minds may have perceived a slight reduction in speed when accessing this portal of worthless drivel.

Rest assured that things are under control and will begin to right themselves momentarily. As sole power source for the inept code that serves as the meager underpinnings to this testament to banality, my recent binging on binary source code extractions has resulted in the human equivalent of a “bender”. The resulting hangover has been both enlightening and concerning.

As the fog clears, your precious loading time will begin to improve. That is all.

**End Transmition**

-PanicBot 5000

Masters of all things retro in the world of gaming and Certified Patrons of the Drunken Gamers Radio Podcast, The GOAT Store has been a Robot Panic community favorite for years. No matter what you’re looking for in terms of your favorite old videogames, chances are the GOAT Store has it.

Dan Loosen and Gary Heil, the men behind the GOAT Store, have announced a relaunch of their web portal. I’ll let them fill you in on the details. This was taken from a post made at the VGEvo.com forums:

Gary and I just yesterday night relaunched the new GOAT Store site! It’s still *very* beta, but it should give everyone a good idea of what we’re working toward. What is working right now is:

- New product listings with the game title only listed once, icons display what you can get with that particular game
- New individual product pages, showing the exact variations of the game that we have in stock and what they contain

It may not seem like much, but it was quite a lot of work to transfer our database over to this point. It still isn’t 100%, but we’re going to relaunch this part (and allow ordering again ) while we complete some other stuff. If anyone wants to take a look at it and tell us what you think (post on here, PM or email me), I’d greatly appreciate it — the site is at http://www.goatstore.com/

We intend on adding in the near future the following features:

- Collection tracking. You will be able to track your collection of any console that we carry, including packaging that you have for games. We’re then going to work on making this mobile so you can have it on your phone when you walk into the local game store and are wondering if you need ____ for whatever console you collect for.
- Reward Program. Each time you make a purchase at the GOAT Store, you will get a certain number of rewards points that you will be able to use toward special bonuses, exclusive items and more!
- Game pictures. The plan is to add screenshots or cartridge shots through time to various items.
- Updated search and filters. You’ll be able to search for games that contain exactly what you want them to. Let’s say you collect boxed SNES games, so you only want to see SNES games that include good boxes. As a member, you’ll be able to filter it so that you see any SNES games we have in stock with good boxes, and what the starting prices are just for those.

Enjoy! And please do tell us what you think!

Congratulations to Dan and Gary on the relaunch. Everyone should stop on by and give some love to the GOAT Store. And by love, I mean all your cash. You can find the GOAT Store by following the link in the sidebar or by clicking here.

Most gamers who were alive during the NES era have stories about playing Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. The game was a cultural phenomenon. Just ask somebody in their late 20s or early 30s about King Hippo, Piston Honda, or Bald Bull, and chances are they’ll tell you the exact pattern needed to beat each one of those characters.

Personally, as a kid who didn’t own an NES, I spent two weeks of lawn-mowing money to rent an NES and a copy of the game from one of our local video stores so my friends and I could spend an entire weekend pounding cartoon stereotypes from around the world. We set the system up in our family room and camped out there for 48 hours, passing the controller back and forth. We never did beat Mike Tyson (this was before “Mr. Dream”), but we had a great time trying.

Next week on Drunken Gamers Radio, we’ll be reviewing the new version of Punch Out!! (can’t forget the exclamation points) for the Wii, but we’d also like to take a trip down memory lane with you. Please send in your Punch Out memories by calling into our voice mail line at 612-424-3835. Who were your favorite characters? How sore was your thumb after your marathon sessions? And did you ever beat Tyson?

Send your audio in by Saturday, May 23rd.

We hope to hear from you!

Episode 200 of Drunken Gamers Radio will be broadcast live on Sunday, April 26 at 8:00 CST.

You can find us live on UStream.tv by following the links.

See you on Sunday!

Pices
You will discover an egg. Then you will fry it and eat it.

Aquarius
You will discover an egg. Then you will give it to your child.

Capricorn
You will discover an egg. It will be covered in chocolate with that crispy shell stuff like an M&M. It tastes pretty good.

Sagittarius
You will discover an egg. Then you’ll notice it’s a Cadbury egg and it’s shrunk a crapload than past years because of the economy. Or Cadbury are just cheap asses.

Scorpio
You will discover an egg. Then you and your girl or guy are going to panic and somebody is going to run out to CVS to get some Plan B emergency contraception.

Libra
You will discover an egg. It will belong to a cute bird and maybe you should put it back in the bird nest or something.

Virgo
You will discover an egg. But it will be caviar, so you might be expected to eat it.

Leo
You will discover an egg. But the egg will be imaginary because you’ll be really really high.

Cancer
You will discover an egg. It probably has a robot inside you got from the Robot Panic booth at MGC. Ok, the container probably doesn’t look like an egg, but you’ll treat it like one. It’s sorta round…like an egg.

Gemini
You will discover an egg. Then you’ll realize you’re watching that “this is your brain on drugs” ad from the 90s on youtube. Don’t do drugs, kids. Ok, just a few, but not heroin.

Taurus
You will discover an egg. But it might actually be poo instead so don’t eat it or anything. Rabbit turds are not pleasant.

Aries
You will discover an egg. But don’t pick it up because you might end up like that one girl who got her arm ripped off when she found an egg.

Luthor
You will discover an egg. It will be loaded with alcohol.

Hey folks. Sorry to disturb your holiday weekend, but there’s just a small change to Robot Panic that I’d like to draw your attention to.

Digg.com, while not giving us a huge load of traffic, is something that we’ve actively tried to promote using on the site. Recently, Digg.com added a component to their site called the DiggBar. I’ll let someone far more qualified do the job of describing this to you. This is from John Gruber over at the wonderful site, Daring Fireball.

Last week Digg released something they call the DiggBar, which serves as both a new interface for Digg and doubles as a URL shortening service. The way it works is that you just add “digg.com/” at the beginning of any URL, and Digg creates a short URL in the form of digg.com/1234. Here’s an example DiggBar URL that points to google.com: http://digg.com/d1nYVs. Further, the Digg homepage now links to these DiggBar URLs rather than linking directly to other web sites.

But unlike normal URL shortening services, when you load these Digg URLs, rather than redirect you to the original URL, Digg loads a page which frames the content of the original site. As a user, what you see is that the URL in your browser’s location field remains digg.com/1234, and the content of the destination site loads underneath a Digg-branded toolbar.

This, of course, is total bullshit.

John couldn’t have put it any better as far as I’m concerned. And while we, again, don’t get a ton of traffic from Digg, I think this is such bullshit that I’m implementing a few changes around here.

First off, we’ve incorporated a plug-in created by a man named Phil Nelson called DiggBarred in our WordPress installation that essentially blocks the ability of Digg to hijack anything off our site. Secondly, you’ll notice that the link to Digg.com at the bottom of all our posts has been removed because, frankly, fuck them.

If you’re a big Digg user, you may want to communicate to them that this is pure bullshit in no uncertain terms.

Thanks again for reading and enjoy your holiday weekend.

As discussed in massive civil detail, everybody who follows the Robot Panic scene in or near Michigan is invited to party with us in Novi, MI. Thanks to SimpleNate for coordination skills and me stealing all his wonderful images.

We’ll spend a majority of our time planning a mutiny of our Minnesota subsidiaries, discuss flanking tactics, drinking, gaming, drinking, gaming, reference bowling, comment on how classy we are because we’re meeting at a place with a dress code, make fun of that “M-BAR-GO” sign, and solve the mystery of why that picture above is real and located in Brighton using a talking dog and a bunch of hippies.

When: Saturday, April 4th at 7pm
Where: Lucky Strike in the Fountain Walk mall in Novi, MI
Who: Anybody that is into games and wants to drive to Novi
Why: Because we can
How: Look for a table with a Robot Panic logo

With any luck, you will get to party with our very own Gypsy Scott Mosier mascot.

A man with an exceptional habitat. A great guy.