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SHOWNOTES

00:00-Show Intro
07:08-Drunk Dials
13:27-Mailbag
22:54-Joe Danger Review (PSN)
28:33-Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker Review (PSP)
39:02-Blur Review with DJ Incompetent (360)
57:41- Retro Review: Night Driver (2600)
1:02:16-Feature Presentation: Modern Gamers View Contest
1:19:33-Five Things
1:27:43-The Last Shot
1:28:20-Show Close

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DGR: 06.13.2010

Over at Shmupmonth.com things are in full swing! MC Wilson and DJ Incompentent have put out the first of a weekly podcast dedicated to all kinds of shmup greatness. If you’re looking for some ideas on what to play or just need some SCIENCE! to help you play better, then the Weekly Shmupdate is the place for you!

Here’s a run down of what you’ll find on this week’s episode!

M.C. Wilson and DJ Incompetent present this first episode of the Weekly Shmupdate, a podcast that examines all that’s worthy of Shmuppreciating during Intergalactic Shmuppreciation Month. This episode features some great basic information on shmups presented by both the Couch Bandits and DJ Incompetent, as well as the first 2010 Shmup Month Contest entry. Good luck to all participants!

Add it to your list of podcasts today by going here:

Weekly Shmupdate: Week One

We are joined by DGR favorites, Phil Kollar and DJ Incompetent for this week’s show! Problem is, Moe got HAMMERED and as you can imagine, drove the show right off the tracks and over a cliff. Despite all that we manage to get a little coherent talk (make that very little) about Shatter and Splosion Man. Our Feature Presentation segment returns as industry legends Trickman Terry and Ken “Sushi-X” Williams give us Part I of their thoughts on Street Fighter IV. Five Things returns and Moe decides he’s not quite done with the 50 ‘Cent conversation right before the show explodes.

Our thanks (and apologies) to all our guests for their contributions to the show!

We apologize in advance. This one’s gonna be a difficult listen.

Thanks for listening!

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SHOWNOTES
00:00-Show Intro
07:44-Voicemails
16:37-Mailbag
25:50-Tiger Woods PGA Tour Contest
29:21-Shatter Review (PSN)
42:00-Splosion Man Review (XBLA)
49:14-Retro Review: Pac-Man (NES)
54:13-Feature Presentation: Trickman Terry and Sushi-X Present: SF IV
1:12:53-Five Things
1:49:01-The Last Shot
1:50:36-Show Close

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DGR: 07.26.2009

I made another of these music mixing things awhile back. Loop 3 is like playing Very Hard in this WiiWare title. Or it means I beat the game a bunch of times and it’s getting all super-the-hardest-y. No miss, 1 Life Clear as usual. Enjoy the music and the playing.

High Quality button is your friend. Super-play will let you download this, place it on your USB drive, plug it into your xbox or PS3 for upscaled layback entertainment. Or you can always watch it in the tiny youtube window. Here’s an auto playlist or use the other option, provided your browser likes it.

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Well then. This be the most complicated DS game I’ve ever played. Woah kids. I never said “fuck this noise.” There’s some good combat up in this. This is a one-of-a-kind battle system everybody should experience as it’s a Strategy RPG that moves at the speed of you. Think Secret of Mana * Disgaea * Big Bang Mini. Despite all the complaining on the complexity, I haven’t lost yet on Normal. There’s too much tutorial for one player to take in without stabbing one’s face, so let me tell you things ya actually need to know as opposed to the encyclopedia the game wants you to know…at least to get you through the first 10 stages…

I’m a lazy guy, you’re a lazy guy. This here’s a beginner’s guide for lazy people that don’t suck at videogames.

Step 1: Watch all the Basic Steps section before you start the game. Don’t worry about the Tutorial right away.

Step 2: Read this guide

Step 3: Play game with sound. Audio cues are very important when trying to follow what the hell this game is doing, despite the failwhale voice acting.

Step 4?: Reread guide or go this way if still confused: www.atlus.com/knights

WTF is the Objective?
Before the fight, see that 4×4 grid on the bottom left (top screen) with the horizontal lines? Some of them may say ‘KILL’. All you’re doing is playing 4×4 Tic Tac Toe/Connect Four. You want to run a line of four kills horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Every horizontal line represents the lifeline of a bad guy. Kill one, you get the ‘KILL’ label on the grid part the enemy represents. Every “battle” you think you’re fighting with that wisp countdown is really just called a turn (and I’ll just call ‘battle turn’). You are given something like 9-ish of these ‘battle turns’ to kill enough enemies to make a tic tac toe on this 4×4 grid. At the beginning of each battle turn you get to pick which spots on the grid you fight the enemies in what looks like a slot machine. If you have any Mario Party dice-manipulation skills whatsoever, you can time it so you can pick any grid space you want. The colored lights flash in the same order, so count how many flashes it takes for your light to reach the space you want and stop the slot machine accordingly.

SideTip: If you see one horizontal bar has two different color lifelines, that enemy is going to recover health. Depending on the bad guy, it could recover over time if you don't select it again, or it can recover if you hand pick that enemy for another fight right away. It’s kinda like the Vs. Street Fighter series when you swap a partner out. The longer lifeline is the amount the bad guy can recover. In most cases, just try to select the same enemy multiple times in a row until dead since enemy damage accumulates across multiple turns.

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Why hello again. This is a perfect run of Gekirindan for Arcade and Saturn. It’s on Taito Legends 2 collections so I’m using that version. One Life Clear no miss, all that legitimate business. I think I’m using Type-C with the Dietza guy. Nobody knows what that means, do they. It’s a’ight. If it interests you, this game is about time traveling, so every stage is set in a different year. I went too much out of my way to include music from the year of the stage I’m playing on. I’m also so hip and trendy I know exactly what all the cool kinds will be listening to in the year 4580. P-P-P-Prophet, yo! Here, look at some videos.

I have more things to tell you.
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Midwest Gaming Classic has its own extravaganza of contests. But you got times, qualifying, places to be, people to hang out with, schedules, all that stuff.

So here’s a totally impromptu personal challenge I put forth to everybody who ends up there. No scheduling, no fee, none of that style.
All you gotta do is approach me at MGC and ask to play against you in somethin’ I can agree with. You win the match, I give you spacebucks. A Wii or Live points card. Maybe a PSN card if I find one.

That’s it.

Use them-thar social skills to request a battle at the arcade games, the console museum, the pinball, an afterparty, some random-ass hotel room if I end up there, DS, anywhere you happen to find me at the time if I’m on-site. All you gotta do is approach me and request to play for a spacebucks card. I’m down for random competition, so I’ll be all about it. You like free download games, so you’ll be all about it.

I don’t really know where pics of me are online unless you were all-up stalkin’ my Facespace or whatever, so here’s some strange trademarks on how you identify me:
-Holding an Arrogant Bastard Ale.
-Wearing some sort of shirt referencing Science.
-Reddish hair ‘n goatee, like the avatar. Or Hilden.
-That guy causing a positive ruckus.

If I run out of points cards to hand out, I’ll tell ya beforehand. ‘Not gonna raincheck dat stuff. I dunno about giving a guy the chance to win multiple times. ‘Depends on what the terms are. I’d make sure the game you’re thinking about isn’t busted on a player’s side before asking me to play though.

So yeah. See ya this weekend. ^_^

What the hell is this?

Look up. Way up. See that “Game Night” section on the main menu? This is somethin’ like that. You interested in getting together and playing some Soulcal for awhile? Let’s say 7pm EST this Wednesday? Let’s do it. It’ll be fun. If you go to Player Match, you can host a room of four players and it simulates the Arcade days where two people play each other and up to two others watch and chat on the headsets. The winner stays and plays the next person in line. Everybody laughs and says “OOOHHHHHHH!!!” a lot. Good stuff kids go for. Like Sunny D, but better, and more violence. Vitamin D? Not so much.

So Wednesday February 18th, 7pm EST, 6pm CST, 5pm the other one, 4pm Left Coast, however you recognize the clock, get online with your headsets, Boot up some Xbox 360 Soulcalibur IV, invite your friends to some matches with optional private slots and we’ll go from there. You don’t wanna wait for people? Check the Standard Battle Ranked Matches. That’s where I’ll be until I’m invited somewhere.

Yeah “boo hoo, Street Fighter 4,” I get it. We’ll do that another time after Mad Catz finishes fucking up every peripheral known to man. Fight me at MGC or somethin’. Look, shutup for a minute. We’re going to have a contest. I’m going to be a cocky douchebag with prizes to give away, and you’re going to beat me and win those prizes. That is the nature of the boss fight. I am the boss of “Drunken Gamers Boss Fight.” First one to beat me under set conditions wins what I have to offer. Good times.

Objective:
1. Use Xbox 360 Soulcalibur IV…
2. …in Standard Versus…
3. …at versus default of required round wins (best 3 of 5) or higher .
4. Defeat gamertag DJ Incompetent while I’m using my custom character PanicBot5000.
5. First one to do it without some intentional/unintentional shady network connection bullshit wins two prizes.

Prize:
Xbox 360 Virtual Fighter 5 Online.
New, sealed, and shrink wrapped. Mailed straight to you.

Prize:
Phneri’s Team Fremont Forums Member of the Year 2007 Plaque
OH it exists, son. Nobody quite knows how the fuck I have it. Some have chased this item for months. Few have stabbed and twisted knives into others through fan letters. Others perished waiting for it. Like a one console owner Nintendo fan waiting for that next high-quality first-party fix, but dying of withdrawal instead, because it never came. It never came.

Do whatever you like with it. Taunt some more, write additional hilarious fan letters, Give it to Rusty Shackleford for no particular reason, let Darkradish use it as toilet paper, mail it back to the authentic owner, or set the art ablaze and post pictures of it on a future user submitted article.

This can all be yours, if you can defeat DJ Incompetent

Check for a post Wednesday and we’ll sort out rules of engagement. As for now, I have unlocked 5 entries on my friends list. First come first serve. You’ll obviously have the “invite to game” advantage after we begin if you send a friend request first. See ya then.

ugh. I feel like that stone head from Legends of the Hidden Temple. What was it, Olmec? Weird.

Because nobody’s sick of seeing this image on the left or anything. This is the guy I don’t get. Where do they get the elbow pads? How do they all know to put on the elbow pads?  How is his hood always on? I am baffled, sir. Valve has turned their reports over to the Center of Disease Control. Current day scientists have computed the demographics and their estimated zombie type mutation results when the coming zombie apocalypse hits:
All infected obese people become Boomers.
All infected bodybuilders become Tanks.
All infected rock stars become Smokers.
All infected skaters become Hunters.
All infected teenage white girls become Witches.
All infected doctors become Faust.
All infected iPod owners become Sheep.
All infected athiests become Christians.
All infected WOW players become Angry German Kids.
All infected Spanish and black people become Drones with really weird alienish things controlling them.
All infected Europeans become Rage.  And when asking about it, nobody will every clearly describe what the hell that means…or why they felt they had to trash the good name of the first movie by making a meh sequel.
All infected animals become WTF Mitochondria things from Parasite Eve…
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erm…Let’s move on!

Criken2 provides the moving pictures this round.

Written guide for playing as Hunter continues:

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As much as I wanna rifle through an armada of Gene Simmons jokes, I’ll take the high road and make a half-hearted cliche reference about eating pussy. Because hey, Girls & Corpses.
*ahem*

“Dude. This guy can work the clit.”

ew.
If Boomer is a Civil War general in bizarro world, a bizarro sniper would mean the less elevated you are, the more devastating your shot can be. Yes, that comes with additional risk, but once you shoot, your position is forfeit anyway. Ah yes, and for those not knowing, a “pull” is a successful tongue attack in which the victim is dragged or pulled toward the Smoker’s location. You’ll be reading that word quite a bit.

mookalokka is responsible for this setup. A jolly thanks to him.

‘Written guide to playing as a Smoker is as follows:

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