Monthly Archives: February 2009

My Street Fighter Memories

I remember the first time I played Street Fighter II. I was 15, visiting family from out of state, and I went with a younger cousin to an arcade. I was playing a bunch of different games – NARC and Double Dragon II: The Revenge were my favorites – but my cousin Mitchell plunked all [...]

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The Summer of PlayStation

[NOTE: This, too, is a repost of a blog entry I did a couple years back. Originally posted July 1, 2004. Enjoyyyyy. -CJ] During the summer of ’95 I got to come back and do another project for Sendai—a one-shot PlayStation guide. Both the PlayStation and Saturn were scheduled to hit in the fall and [...]

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Episode 122 (02/23/09) – Hands Across the Universe

This week! CJ, Phil and Greg (Ford) talk about the last week’s worth of games. Including Noby Noby Boy and Street Fighter IV. In fact those are the main two things we talk about in this episode. Yeah there are a couple other games mentioned like Retro Game Challenge, GTA IV: Lost and Damned, Banjo-Kazooie, [...]

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My name’s the teacher. That is what I call myself.

In my last post, I apologized for not doing much blogging lately. Especially after I had been bugging CJ for so long about setting up the thing. Well, I’m doing it again. Once again I will bust out the excuse that California really runs its teaching candidates through the ringer. I’ve spent the past week [...]

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How Street Fighter IV could make other XBL (or PSN) games better

I picked up Street Fighter IV for the 360 today after work. And, it’s pretty awesome. I suck at it, but it’s really fun. But that’s not the point of this post. Street Fighter IV has this setting called Arcade Req. You turn it on and it makes you available for matchmaking as you play [...]

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Game Club: Beyond Oasis

Two Game Clubs in one month? Surely not! Because we haven’t pimped Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection enough, the next Game Club is all about Sega’s oft-overlooked adventure game, Beyond Oasis. Let’s see if this masterpiece from Yuzo Koshiro’s Ancient development house stands the test of time. Get your stories/comments/memories of this game post to the [...]

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Watch out now the Ghoulies gonna grab ya…

I must be remembering the Xbox 1 era of gaming wrong. Because I thought that there were more than 20 games worth owning on the system, but you wouldn’t have guessed it by the games Microsoft’s been putting out via their Xbox Originals program. The Originals banner, which does not seem to imply any sort [...]

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Episode 121 (02/16/09) – Petal to the metal

This week CJ, Phil and Greg Ford (Sewart’s away having a baby) discuss the following game tapes: Far Cry 2, Banjo-Kazooie, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, Retro Game Challenge, Lit, Flower, Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, Onechanbara Bikini Samurai Squad and Loco Roco 2, among others. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to visit our [...]

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The Ultimate Street Fighter Saturday – February 28

So, in a couple of weeks, Phil, Greg Ford and I are planning to celebrate Street Fighter IV’s release the right way… with a full day of revelry. We’ll start with an early afternoon of SFIV on Xbox 360, having two Hori arcade sticks in hand. Eventually, we’ll shift to watch the Street Fighter IV [...]

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Episode 120 (02/09/09) – The Bird and the Bear

Game Club returns in this episode and we spend the last segment talking about Rare’s original Banjo-Kazooie game for the Nintendo 64/Xbox Live Arcade. CJ and Phil and joined once again by Gregs Sewart and Ford for that plus a discussion of the game tapes that took up our free time in the last week. Those include R-Type Dimensions, Dead Space, 3 on 3 NHL Arcade, Fable II, Killzone 2 (demo), Halo Wars (demo), Ratchet & Clank: Quest For Booty, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, Burnout Paradise, Far Cry 2, Donkey Kong JENGA, DJ Max Fever and Phantasy Star Portable, among others.

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Running time: 2:03:43

This week’s links:
Our forum topic on Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection
MTV Multiplayer: Halo Wars feels like a Diablo RTS
Direct download: 02_09_09-Episode120.mp3

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