Ep. 188 - Mariountain Dew, with John Linneman
Added 2021-06-07 04:56:10 +0000 UTCDigital Foundry and Eurogamer’s John Linneman joins the panel to consider Mario on the Zune, the fabled Duplidonkus, and most importantly, The Guy Fieri Of Video Games. Original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- From Brandon Sheffield: How would you run a cafe-arcade hybrid, and what would you call it? (03:10)
- How would video games be different if Microsoft bought Nintendo twenty years ago? (10:33)
- What factors decide whether a video game should be first person view or third person view? (15:02)
- What historical video game hardware breakthroughs are bigger deals than people realize? (20:26)
- What scenes do you hope to see in the new restored version of the Super Mario Bros. Movie? (25:29)
- What video games suffer the most from being played on unintended hardware? (30:37)
- Dirtbag Devils Blush asks: Who is your favorite developer of games you aren’t interested in playing? (39:33)
- As a player, when can you feel the absence of a cut feature the most? (43:21)
- How do you make a cool video game desert? (48:01)
- Who is the Guy Fieri of video games? (53:02)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Product Placement (58:47)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Misophonia
- Ys: Origins
- Thief: The Dark Project
- Project Milo
- insaneintherain
- Microsoft Surface coffee table
- uWink
- SPARTAN-458
- Jiu Jitsu (2020)
- Breakdown
- Tom Petty - Breakdown (Live 1985)
- En Vogue - My Lovin' (Never Gonna Get It)
- Nvidia GeForce 3
- What Are Vertex And Pixel Shaders?
- Bump Mapping
- U.S. Games, a subsidiary of Quaker Oats
- NEMO
- Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankle Cut
- The Thief and the Cobler: Recobbled Cut
- Video Game History Hour Ep. 23 - Working on Donkey Kong Country and Dinosaur Planet with Kev Bayliss & David Wise
- Warlock
- Warlock's transparent logo screen
- Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
- Eternal Champions
- VectorMan
- The Adventures of Batman & Robin dithered and undithered
- EVE Online
- Jeff Minter
- Will Wright
- Polyphony Digital
- Final Fantasy XV Dragoon Lady
- Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
- Dark Sector
- Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
- Phantom Dust
- Planet Earth II
- Tom Brady
- Guy Fieri
- Cliff Bleszinski
- Tingle
- Daxter
- Sobble
- Peter Molyneux
- Tomonobu Itagaki
- Hideki Kamiya
Recommendations:
Frank: Video Game History Foundation "Blind Box" Vintage Video Game Magazines
Brandon: Enjoy the media you've collected over the years, The Brat - Attitudes EP
John: DF Retro, Retrotink 5X
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
@matthew i have no way to at you but if you're in korea and wanna hit it after covid, i'd be down to go. think the old couple running the place would still remember me
coughsoda
2021-06-13 07:54:45 +0000 UTCwhen in korea, gotta get your KRW up
coughsoda
2021-06-13 07:53:02 +0000 UTCWario def would have been good for a sequel.
Matthew Yon
2021-06-10 00:06:10 +0000 UTCOohhhhh, I gotta visit this place soon!
Matthew Yon
2021-06-10 00:05:20 +0000 UTCEvery time I've been there I've seen something that was still too pricey for me but which was like $200 off the current going rate. Somebody was selling a complete/boxed supergrafx software collection for ~480. you can't even buy 1941 alone for that much now. Another time someone was selling Blast Wind SEALED for $100 less than the going price for an opened one on ebay. I didn't buy either one because I just don't have enough god darn KRW for that kinda transaction
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2021-06-09 21:29:11 +0000 UTCinteresting! that's true, they do have the loosies, that definitely boosts it up a bit. come to think of it i did buy a loosie SNES game there once for posterity, for maybe $3, but that's the only games transaction i've ever seen there. most people just go to hang, drink coffee, maybe eat some saccharine bread
coughsoda
2021-06-08 23:21:24 +0000 UTCmaybe they've changed the number of things for sale since I was last there (I know there's only about 50 things in the glass case but there are also the loose bins etc. I've bought games every time I was there and was always waiting in line behind someone else buying games, ha ha. But I've only been there a half dozen times. Anyway I think the critical thing with them is HEADPHONES which isn't gonna work with arcades so well... maybe!?
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2021-06-08 22:14:48 +0000 UTCtrue, your friend does seem to have something a bit different in mind. but for the record, i think retro trader's model is actually all about the food/drinks – most people don't go there to buy games (there's only 20 or 30 items there at a time anyway, they're only taking commissions on other people's sales, and they largely aren't priced to move). i've probably been there a few dozen times and i've never once bought a game, or seen anyone else do so. their clientele is mostly young couples, which is pretty dang cool. and fair play re: consoles/headphones, though they do have one big arcade cabinet by the door, which is one of the more popular seats in the room
coughsoda
2021-06-08 02:38:56 +0000 UTClol for me the appeal of Franz is that I don't think he did as much wacky stuff, I know him for playing cops and sleazebags in serious movies and I like the idea of playing him against type
GigaSlime
2021-06-08 00:35:46 +0000 UTCIs danny devito too on the nose? dennis franz is a pretty good one though. (~brandon)
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2021-06-07 22:15:23 +0000 UTCWho would you have cast as Wario in the Super Mario Bros movie? I think I would have gone with Dennis Franz
GigaSlime
2021-06-07 21:51:58 +0000 UTCDefinitely my favorite guest you guys have had on in the past couple of months. Good episode. 🙂👍
Sam
2021-06-07 19:06:43 +0000 UTC(brandon again) since retro trader doesn't have arcade games, they have game consoles, they can put headphones in there and keep things chill. Plus they seem to do more business as a game store than as a cafe? It seems like a unique model, and milo is more interested in selling food, so it doesn't quite work, but I did discuss this one with him, as well as a couple others. realistically I don't think our discussion was too relevant to what he wants to do, though advising that he cater more to tourists is proooobably a good idea even if it's a bit gross.
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2021-06-07 17:38:31 +0000 UTC(brandon here) well, it's mostly the wet ones, but repetitive sounds in general just wear on me. Skip around in this video and see for yourself (especially around the 5 minute mark it's just the same 4 step loop eternally) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjzfoJ16ldE Also btw I meant Ys Eternal not origins
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2021-06-07 17:36:11 +0000 UTCjohn rules!
syswivv
2021-06-07 14:16:57 +0000 UTCbrandon, the answer to your question is: retro trader! in seoul! i know you've been there, but i guess the secret formula is a combination of cafe, snacks, casual game museum, a nominal retro game mini-store, relatively low rent, big street-facing windows...and korea.
coughsoda
2021-06-07 06:26:57 +0000 UTCoh wow. as a fellow misophone, i'm surprised to learn that some people have it for footsteps! my sympathies, brandon
coughsoda
2021-06-07 06:23:08 +0000 UTCI would just like to state that I appreciate both DigitalFoundry’s content and the Castle Shikigami reference Frank made at the start
MVB
2021-06-07 06:21:42 +0000 UTCoh HECK YEAH...its almost 1am here and I just got home from a grueling weekend shift and Insert Credit + John Linneman is PRECISELY the sequence of words I needed to see to lift my spirits! Can't wait to listen!
Kory
2021-06-07 04:58:43 +0000 UTC
