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00:00-Show Intro
02:49-Drunk Dials
11:59-Mailbag
26:00-R-Type Review (iPhone/iPad)
33:35-DoDonPachi Ressurection Review (iPhone/iPad)
43:05-Shank Review (XBLA)
48:47-Retro Review: Kid Niki the Radical Ninja (NES)
53:45-Feature Presentation: Creepy Contest
1:26:18-Five Things
1:37:28-The Last Shot
1:38:21-Show Close

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DGR: 08.29.2010

As you may have heard on this week’s podcast, we’re giving away three Vic Viper Gradius II Version models to the three best epic shmup poems we receive. In addition, the grand prize will be awarded one of these models along with a TurboGrafx-16 and a copy of Galaga ’90.

The Gradius models were donated to us by the good folks at www.HLJ.com and our longtime friend The Danger Boy, who runs a site and a podcast over at www.HenshinJustice.com.

To enter, using the Shmopera for inspiration, write your own shmup-related story in the style of an epic poem. Weave us a tail of heroism and defeat, honor and betrayal… You know, all that bullshit. The top three entries will receive one of the models and the best overall will also receive Moe’s TurboGrafx and Galaga ’90.

Send your entries to mailbag@drunkengamersradio.com.

Good luck!

Here at Robot Panic headquarters, staff has been working around the clock to tabulate the scores from last week’s Oscar prediction contest. It was a close race, with the runner-up coming only one point behind the winner. But we have a winner all the same, and they’ve won their choice of any one of the ten films nominated for Best Picture on DVD! That’s one hell of a prize, so be sure to send your mailing address to mailbag@drunkengamersradio.com to claim it!

Before I announce the winners, let’s give give out some superlative awards.

First is the Intuition award, given to the person who best predicted the final outcome. This was actually a tie between Alex Ma and Brian Bedard, who racked up 34 points in the prediction category. That’s a whopping 17/24 correct! Not too shabby, you two.

Next up is the In-Touch award, given to the person whose desired outcome was closest to the final results. This award goes to Grant Montgomery, who got 14/24 correct in the “want to win” category. Looks like you’ve got great taste, Grant!

The Well Duh award is given to the category or categories in which there was a unanimous outcome. This year’s award is a tie between Best Visual Effects (Avatar) and Best Animated Feature (Up).

Finally, the Who Now? award is given to the category or categories in which not a single person correctly predicted the outcome. This is another tied category. The first award goes to Best Animated Short. Our voters came out overwhelmingly for Wallace And Gromit: A Matter of Loaf & Death to win it, but it ended up going instead to Logorama. The second category is Documentary Short; Here the favorite was The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, but the award instead went to Music By Prudence.

Now before we get to the scores themselves, let’s take a quick look at the breakdown (my statistics professor would be proud):

• Mean: 35.89
• Median: 36
• Mode: 36
• Range: 27
• Standard Deviation: 7.45 (With a standard variance of 55.56)

And now, for the part you’ve all been waiting for: The results! If you don’t see your name below, it is likely that you were disqualified, either for submitting your ballot too late, submitting an incomplete ballot or not formatting the ballot correctly.

1.) Brian Bedard – 46 points

2.) Geraldine – 45 points

3.) Alex Ma – 44 points

4.) Rusty Shackleford – 43 points

5.) David Webb – 40 points

6.) TIE: Scott Grannan & Josh Hunt – 39 points

7.) Nathan Godwin – 37 points

8.) TIE: Apoch, Tiggermango, Grant Montgomery & myself – 36 points

9.) Ryker XL – 35 points

10.) John Luedtke – 34 points

11.) Alek Shybut – 33 points

12.) Skeletonframes – 24 points

13.) Lag – 23 points

14.) Fluffynuts – 19 points

Thanks again to everyone for entering!

Hey Everyone,

Just a reminder that tonight at 7pm Central, Mitch (rwiggum) will be hosting a live Oscar chat in our Ustream page. In the meantime, we’ll be recording the podcast (not live) and chatting along.

If you haven’t already, fill out the ballot for our Oscar Contest. The winner will receive their choice of Best Picture Nominees on DVD.

Speaking of prizes, if you like free stuff, you’ll want to listen to the new episode of Drunken Gamers Radio, which will be released on Tuesday or Wednesday. We’ll have the Nation Red contest as well as an Xbox Live giveaway. Listen later this week for more details.

We hope to talk to you tonight!

We here at Robot Panic love a little glitz and glamor. Don’t get John started on red carpet fashion, he can talk for hours about some of his favorite dress/handbag combos throughout history. (His favorite was Holly Hunter at the 1988 ceremony, in case you were wondering). So to celebrate the most important film awards of the year, we will be holding another contest. It will be just like last year, but this year we will be offering a prize to the winner!

Now, on to how you enter. The scoring will be familiar to those of you who entered last year, but if you are new, it may be a little bit different than how you are used to doing it. For each category, you will make two picks, rather than just one. The first will be the film that you predict will win the award. If you get that right, you will receive two points. The second pick will be the film that you want to win the award. If you get that right, then you will get one point. For example, let’s say I want Coraline to win for best animated film, but I predict that Up will win. Here is what that will look like on my ballot:

Best Animated Film:

1.) Up

2.) Coraline

Remember, the first pick will be the prediction, and your second will be the pick you want to win. If it helps, you may put a (p) next to your prediction and a (w) next to the one you want to win. Another thing that I should point out is that you must fill in every category. Last year there were several people who would have likely won if they had not put “I don’t know” in several of the categories. To curb that this year, any incomplete entry will be disqualified.

The Prize

As I mentioned earlier, the winner of this year’s contest will be awarded a prize: any one of the ten films nominated for Best Picture on DVD. Considering the quality of the nominees this year, you may have quite the choice on your hands. In the event of a tie, a random name will be chosen from the first-place entries.

How to Enter

So here’s all you have to do:

1. – Copy the below ballot into the word processor/email client of your choice.

2. – Go here for a list of all the nominees.

3. – Fill in each spot on the ballot with your choices for that category.

4. – Send your entry to OscarPanic@gmail.com with the subject “Robot Panic Oscar Ballot: (Your name here)” before 4:00 CST on Sunday.

5. – Join us at 7:00 CST on Sunday at the uStream page (located here) to live chat the awards and see how you’re doing!

Now snag the ballot after the break and get to it!
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As promised, here they are – unedited – the entries for our Bayonetta contest. Thanks to all who entered and thanks to BenFromOhio for donating the prize.

Oh…and NSFW!!!

Trashonetta

I took the dump truck boss idea and ran with it. Or stole it. Whatever.

Character name: Trashonetta (aka Yuki Yoshiharu)

Sex: Female

Design: Trashonetta is a based on a front loading garbage truck with a clam shell style rear dump. Once just a typical school girl, she was transformed when she was hit by a trash truck full of radioactive waste. After the accident the corrupt politician who was driving put her body in the back of the truck and then abandoned them both in a remote field. In the back with the trash and the radioactive waste, Yuki was left for dead but instead she was transformed and mutated. She grew to stand at just over thirty feet tall and she gained horrible, trash based, powers. She now wears the trash truck like a dress with its headlights as a bra, its clam shell rear door covering her behind and its wheels as roller skates. Her hair is a giant wadded up newspaper that sits on her head like an afro and her hands a dumpsters.

She has three attacks. The first is a basic laser attack from her headlights and the second is a throwing attack where she scoops trash out of her head and throws it at you. For her main attack Trashonetta stops, sticks her butt out at you and looks over her shoulder, touching her fingers to her lips with a “Oh, I’m so naughty!” look. As she does this the rear door of the truck opens with a “BEEP BEEP BEEP” revealing her shapely ass. Soon after this a cloud of noxious gas is released, dealing a great deal of damage to the player and doubling him over so he can’t fight back. It is during her main attack that Trashonetta is vulnerable and the player must run up to her ass and melee attack it in order to defeat her.

Katsumi Clamidia-Son

Here is my entry for the crazy Japanese character contest. It is slightly shocking but I hope it will explain a few things.

Name: Katsumi Clamidia-Son

Gender:Female

Description:Katsumi Clamidia-Son is a crazy bitch. At a glance she appears to be a fairly average person. She has long flowing brown hair, delicate hands, oversized breasts and is extremely overweight. She wears a school girl uniform to help compensate for the fact that she is in her mid forties, overweight and single. These attributes do have a negative effect on the performance of Katsumi Clamidia-Son but she can easily overpower any man. Beneath her uniform lies her very powerful secret. Katsumi Clamidia-Son has a large growth protruding from her vaginal area. This growth has a mind of its own and must be taken care of as if it were a child. The scientific term for this growth is a shrimporis but is commonly referred to as a shrimp by Katsumi. This growth is named after the commonly eaten shrimp and both have a similar smell.

When stimulated the shrimporis grows to an enormous size and devours Katsumi’s enemies. This growth has also been passed on to Katsumi’s offspring who goes by the name of Jessica Chobot. When feeding her shrimp a chipmunk Katsumi misplaced the poor creature and was impregnated a day later. Jessica has the shrimporis of her mother and the cheeks of her father which are perfect for stuffing full of nuts. Jessica cannot take part in traditional intercourse because her shrimporis would tear the poor bastard’s dick clean off leading her to become a master of oral sex.

Well that is it…….

Sincerely,
Sunamic
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In a weekend full of toddler birthday parties, we take a minute out of putting together race tracks and playing with Play-Doh and talk about some games. This week it’s Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor and Trials HD.

We award the winner of our contest for Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 in our Feature Presentation and we talk about the demise of Chromehounds and much more in 5 Things.

Thanks to all who entered the contest and a big thanks again to Santa Faust for donating the prize.

Thanks for listening!

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SHOWNOTES

00:00-Show Intro
07:28 Drunk Dials
15:34-Mailbag
32:58-Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor Review (iPhone)
42:41-Trials HD Review (XBLA)
52:44-Retro Review: Karateka (7800)
1:03:03-Feature Presentation: Contest Winner
1:15:20-Five Things
1:38:42-The Last Shot
1:40:20-Show Close

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DGR: 08.16.2009

After a year of great films, the 2009 Academy Awards are almost here. To celebrate, we here at Robot Panic will be holding an Oscar Pool. All you have to do is fill out your entry form, (more about that below) send it in before noon CST this Sunday, and join us on our uStream page on Sunday night as we live chat the awards!

Now, on to how you enter. We’ll be scoring this a little differently than normal. For each category, you will make two picks, rather than the usual one. The first will be the film that you predict will win the award. If you get that right, you will receive two points. The second pick will be the film that you want to win the award. If you get that right, then you will get one point. For example, let’s say I want Kung Fu Panda to win for best animated film, but I predict that Wall-E will win. Here is what that will look like on my ballot:

Best Animated Film:

1.) Wall-E

2.) Kung Fu Panda

Remember, the first pick will be the prediction, and your second will be the pick you want to win. If it helps, you may put a (p) next to your prediction and a (w) next to the one you want to win. So here’s all you have to do:

1. – Copy the below ballot into Word or your word processor/email client of choice.

2. – Go here for a list of all the nominees.

3. – Fill in each spot on the ballot with your choices for that category.

4. – Send your entry to mailbag@drunkengamersradio.com with the subject “Robot Panic Oscar Ballot: (Your name here)” before noon CST on Sunday.

5. – Join us at 7:00 CST on Sunday at the uStream page (located here) to live chat the awards and see how you’re doing!

Now snag the ballot after the break and get to it!

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…And a big freaking gun. Or two.

Greetings, mortals.

As you know, I have held a contest.  Winners shall be announced. And the decision…well, that will come later.  I had planned on finishing this saga today, but Bethesda was determined to thwart me with DLC.  Of course we must play through that.  So, at the end of the article I’ll announce the two winning entries, who may send their contact info to me so that I may send them swag.  Or a box of scorpions.  You’ll get something.

Anyway, let’s get back to Stabitha. When we left off she was well-equipped with energy and melee weapons and ready to kick the stuffing out of something while on the way to complete another mission of calculated sadism for Moira.

…You all went down to the end early to see if you won, didn’t you? Suckers. The winners are Delerat and Mitch.

The mirelurk nest was actually pretty easy to get through. My first playthrough it was a terrifying, arduous trip through several stories of mirelurk guards with only a couple stealthboys to see me through the course. This time I found the back door and realized that whole trip was completely unnecessary.

Whoops.

The mirelurk quest over, I head back to Moira and acquire my pile of exp, some stealthboys, and sell of what I’m not going to use from my loot runs. While selling I stop by the nuke for…an errand, then head back outside.  Right into the merchant Crow.

Aside from the brotherhood outcast with a terminal case of pants-explode-itis, this is my best piece of luck yet. Crow has a fantastic repair skill and sells mint combat armor. Hello giant damage reduction.  With that done, we’re going to go out questing and get a couple of locations, then head off to investigate this lovely new radio signal I’m getting that I’m sure has nothing whatsoever to do with the transaction of spacebucks from my account.

First up is Girdershade.  We take the tour, get the quest, and meet the competition. Fortunately Stabitha has the black widow perk, and sends this guy off to meet a horrific end. Following him to the nuka-cola plant I collect the Kneecapper. Not an energy weapon, but I could do worse for a backup gun.  After that we headed to investigate the radio signal. Well, me, not we. Dogmeat still hasn’t returned.  Hopefully he survived his last run for gear.  I’ve leveled up a bit and the wastes are starting to get nastier.
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So, when last I left you, we had acquired Stabitha’s penultimate weapon. It is the epitomy of stabbing tools, the master of machetes, the king of knives, the supreme overlord of sharp things. Why, you might ask? Why does anything gain such great power in the realm of sharp things?

Because it’s a sword that’s ON FIRE. Made from scrap parts and SCIENCE. If DJ were lost in a radioactive wasteland, he’d be building flaming swords from motorcycles and lawn mowers. Completely true statement.

Anyway, with the fire sword in hand, it’s time to go to Canterbury commons and find the only people in this place weirder than the chick with a motorcycle gas tank strapped to her back.

8: I wandered in the city, looking for some other resource besides the insane woman who wanted me to infiltrate the home of an army of murderous crab people peacefully. And found out things can get worse. So much worse.

Click on for the rest…and a contest!

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