I’ve always been a big fan of what people now consider “retro” games, to me the best times in gaming are the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System and so forth.

One thing I think that has sadly been lost on gamers of today is the fun factor in which these games bring out more than anything, at least to me. Today everything seems to be about graphics and big explosions, while back then they couldn’t do that and had to focus on just making something that was fun (or completely horrible, heres looking at you McKids).

So anyway, I figured I’d make a little tribute video showing off some of my favorite games on the NES, I’ll probably continue making these over time since it was a pretty cool project.

I’ve never had to release a video on the feed, lets hope it works! If it doesn’t then you can always watch the video over on YouTube.

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Congratulations to Kyle Dumond for his one year with the Playgasm / Critical Strike podcast! We were a bit harsh on him in this episode, kind of a throw back to us being dicks but hes a trooper!

• What we’ve been up to
• Top 5 games we want for the rest of 2008
• Our view on DLC / user created content thus far in this generation

Music in this episode: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!, Bloody Roar

 

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Now that E3 is out of the way, we decided to spend this episode discussing the June NPD numbers… Ok, not really. Just me and Keith on this one, Kyle lost his poor little dongle!

• What we’ve been up to
• VGMM winner (kinda)
• E3 conference grading and discussion

Music in this episode: Zombies Ate My Neighbors, Chrono Trigger

 

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Keith now returns to us after moving and buying a special item that fills his void while Kyle remains the same and still talks over everybody. Heres what we discussed:

• Where the hell has Keith been?
• What we’ve been up to
• Video game music montage
• Josh’s problem with current generation games
• Our E3 “predictions”

If you’d like to submit an answer for the video game music montage then head over here and private message “Josh”.

Music in this episode: MegaMan 3 (OCRemix), Bionic Commando Rearmed (buy it), Rockman X7

 

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Another episode and once more it’s just me and Kyle, Keith was sadly not with us since he is currently in the process of moving. Heres what we discussed:

• What we’ve been up to
• Top 5 video game soundtracks
• VGM challenge announced
• Our view on hype for games
• Kyle’s lack of picking games on his own without reviewers validating his purchase

Thanks for the continued support and iTunes reviews, keep it up. If you’d like to suggest a top 5 topic for us to discuss then please send over an email and we’ll give it a look.

Music in this episode: Castlevania Symphony of the Night, Space Invaders Extreme, Super Smash Bros. Melee, MetalStorm, The Megas

 

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Welcome to episode 23, in this episode it’s just me and Mr Kyle Dumond. Sadly, yes we are short one Mr Keith Harbourt but we made do anyway and Kyle really picked up the ball and ran with it. Heres what we discussed:

• What we’ve been up to
• Josh’s hate for Mass Effect
• Video game music challenge
• Spiffy new LittleBigPlanet videos
• When the hell is Kyle getting a PS3?
• Microsoft’s lack of a dashboard update and removal of failure XBLA titles

Music in this episode: Everyday Shooter, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, The Megas

As always, please hook us up with some iTunes reviews and if you’d like to submit an answer for the video game music challenge then head over to our forums.

 

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Once more we gather to record a new episode, but this one is kind of special. This one is our one year anniversary of podcasting under the Playgasm / Critical Strike name! In this episode we discussed:

• What we’ve been up to
• Video game music challenge
• What do we think of our past and future hopes
• Montage of clips from past episodes
• Our announcement of being affiliated with Platform Nation

As always, please give us some iTunes reviews, we’d appreciate the support. Also, no Grand Theft Auto 4 was mentioned on this podcast, you’re welcome.

Special thanks: The Fanboys, Player One Podcast, GamerHusbands, The Megas, Steve519, PSH Radio

Music in this episode: MegaMan: Powered Up, F-Zero, Ghostbusters, Final Fantasy 6, Final Fantasy 7, New Super Mario Brothers, The Last Ninja (remix), StarTropics, Goonies 2, Ultima Online, Castlevania: SOTN, Diablo, MegaMan III, The Megas - Metal Dance

If you’d like to buy The Megas cd then head over here.

 

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That’s right folks. We here at Critical Strike have been invited to join a swell group of other podcasts known as Platform Nation.

Platform Nation is a site dedicated to gamers and podcasts. They have a great community that you can always count on to find someone to play a game with. If you ever want to know what’s going on in the game industry, then you should check out the podcasts that are  affiliated with the site.

Do yourself a favor and check out Critical Strike and the other podcasts over at Platform Nation.

Hello faithful listeners, I’d like to take this time to remind you that we will be recording our one year anniversary show on May 11th. We’d like to have some messages from our fellow podcasters and of course our listeners.

If you’d like to take part in this, then it’s pretty simple. All you need to do is record a short message with some well wishes for us in a mp3 format then just mail it to me at cstrikepodcast[at]gmail[dot]com. Just try to do us a favor and get these to us by May 9th.

Pretty simple? Yeah and it would mean quite a bit to us so please take a few minutes out of your busy schedules and hook us up with some encouraging messages.

At long last, we grace the world with our 21st episode! Sorry it’s late, we have some technical problems and we had to convince Kyle to actually put on some clothes.

• What we’ve been up to
• Critical Strike action figures
• Josh’s Xbox 360 woes
• Video game music challenge
• Our gaming confessions
• Our one year anniversary announcement

If you would like to submit a sound clip for the one year anniversary episode then you can do so by mailing it to josh[at]critical-strike[dot]org the deadline for that is May 9th.

Transition music in this episode: Gyruss, Lifeforce

 

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