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Yu-Gi-Oh World Championship with William Morgan (The Geek Gauntlet Podcast)
Every kid who ever begged a parent for money to hit GameStop on release day understands the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship series in their bones: it’s the same card game, sold back to you once a year, wearing a slightly fancier hat each time. Konami ran this bit from 2003 to 2006 with the discipline of a Swiss watchmaker and the restraint of absolutely nobody when it came to naming the things. Four games! Four years! Somehow four completely different amounts of the word “World Championship” crammed into each title!
And somewhere in that run, things got weird. By the last entry, Konami had apparently decided Yugi, Kaiba, and the rest of the cast had done enough work, and quietly let you duel the actual monster cards instead, like the whole show got replaced by its own trading cards in some kind of legal dispute. There’s also a tiny RPG town nobody asked for, a cartridge somehow refereeing six languages at once, and just enough real cardboard cards taped inside the box that there’s a real argument the packaging outsold the game.
Grabbing a seat at the table to help me sort genuine dueling nostalgia from pure cardboard-fueled compulsion is William Morgan, host of The Geek Gauntlet Podcast, self-billed as the fastest hour in podcasting, a claim that tracks given how fast he and the crew burn through a week’s worth of comics, movies, anime, and gaming news.
So keep an eye on your Life Points, don’t forget your face-downs, and let’s find out if the World Championship series was Konami’s finest run of Game Boy dueling, or just years of very well-packaged déjà vu.
Learn such things as:
- Why do I think this is so weird but yearly sports games aren’t?
- How far back into a game’s ruleset can you go if you weren’t there when it was current?
- Who bought the game for the game, and who bought it just for the included card?
- And so much more!
You can find William on The Geek Gauntlet Podcast.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Anime Field Guide and Just the Facts and More for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who can play the Yu-Gi-Oh theme on the theremin.
#GameBoyAdvance #Konami #NintendoDS #Shueisha #VizMedia #WilliamMorgan -
Avui fa 20 anys que ens arribava "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest" per "Game Boy Advance" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #PiratesOfTheCaribbeanDeadManSChest #Disney #PiratesOfTheCaribbean #GameBoyAdvance #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming
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Avui és el vint-i-cinquè aniversari de la publicació a casa nostra de "Mario Bros." per "Game Boy Advance" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #MarioBros #Mario #GameBoyAdvance #Plataformes #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames
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Marvel Ultimate Alliance with Perry Constantine (Superhero Cinephiles, Japan on Film)
This week on play comics we ask ourselves what happens if you you can’t decide what you want to make a game about. Should you just give up? Should you really dig into your soul and decide what you’re super passionate about? Should you look and see if there’s any other related media coming out that you can tie this game into? Or should you act like you’re at the end of five different boxes of sugary cereal and justice dump the mall into a single bowl and see what happens?
There’s certainly one thing that I made my mind up about this one, and that’s how Perry Constantine from Superhero Cinephiles and Japan on Film needed to come by and help me make sure that I kept everything straight here. And it’s a good thing too because with more playable character than I want to count spread out across 7 consoles upon release and a few more as back catalogs were taken advantage of it would have been really easy to miss something here.
So was there an actual story for this game? Or was it just a giant excuse to squeeze in as many tidbits as they could so the other kids would think they’re cool? You’ll have to listen to find out!
Learn such things as:
- Is it possible to have too many characters to pick from?
- What happens when there’s an actually good original story?
- Are there any deep cuts that didn’t make it into this one?
- And so much more!
You can find Perry on Bluesky @percivalconstantine.com, Threads @perconstantine, catch some of his writing on Sub Stack or Patreon, or his own podcasts Superhero Cinephiles and Japan on Film,
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Coffee and Comics and Once Upon a Geek for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who spent forever trying to make the Ninja Turtles show up.
#Activision #BlackPanther #BlackWidow #Blade #CaptainAmerica #CaptainMarvel #Colossus #Cyclops #Daredevil #Deadpool #DoctorDoom #DoctorStrange #Elektra #GameBoyAdvance #GhostRider #Hawkeye #Hulk #HumanTorch #Iceman #InvisibleWoman #IronMan #JeanGrey #LukeCage #Magneto #Marvel #MisterFantastic #MoonKnight #MsMarvel #Namor #NickFury #Nightcrawler #PerryConstantine #PS2 #PS3 #PS4 #PSP #RavenSoftware #Ronin #Sabretooth #SilverSurfer #SpiderMan #SpiderWoman #Storm #Thing #Thor #Venom #Wii #Wolverine #Xbox #Xbox360 #XboxOne -
Popeye Rush for Spinach with Ryan Estrada
Grab your canned vegetables and your questionable licensed tie-ins, because this week on Play Comics we’re diving headfirst into Popeye: Rush for Spinach on the Game Boy Advance—the game that looked at a classic comic strip about a gruff sailor punching his problems and said, “Actually, what if everyone just… ran a lot instead?” This is a world where the Sea Hag steals the global spinach supply, the solution is apparently time-traveling track meets, and Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, and Wimpy all agree that the best way to settle things is to sprint through history like someone off-screen yelled “last one there buys lunch.”
Helping us untangle this leafy green disaster is the wonderful Ryan Estrada from the comic-making side of the internet, a man who knows exactly what it looks like when characters escape the page and do something absolutely no one asked them to do. Ryan’s here to help figure out how a comic icon who started life in newspaper strips, got famous selling spinach, and spent decades punching sea monsters somehow wound up in a handheld racing game that feels like it was brainstormed during a very strange lunch break.
So power up that tiny GBA screen, flex those forearms, and get ready for an episode that’s equal parts comic history lesson, adaptation autopsy, and incredulous laughter at the phrase “Popeye racing game.”
Learn such things as:
- Were our parents lying to us about spinach all these years?
- What’s the point of dropping plot threads if you never plan on picking them up?
- Will somebody just bring me a cheeseburger already?
- And so much more!
You can find everything you could ever want to know about Ryan on RyanEstrada.com. Let’s see if anyone can pick out my favorite part. I’ll give you a hint, it’s on the home page.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Peace Bound and Down – A Wonder Woman Podcast and Carnival of Glee Creations for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who prefers arugula.
#Bluto #CharltonComics #DellComics #Fantagraphics #GameBoyAdvance #GoldKeyComics #HarveyComics #IDW #KingFeaturesSyndicate #MagicPockets #NamcoHometek #OliveOyl #Popeye #RyanEstrada #WesternPublishing #Wimpy -
X-Men the Official Game with Alex Zalben (Comic Book Club)
Listen up, mutation enthusiasts and multi-platform adventurers, because this week on Play Comics we’re strapping on our Kevlar suits and diving straight into the bewildering, beast-infested, cross-console chaos of X-Men: The Official Game! We’re talking about the 2006 game that launched on practically every system known to mankind (GBA, GameCube, Nintendo DS, PS2, Xbox, and Xbox 360. Seriously, did they forget a platform?), which based the story nominally on the third X-Men film from Fox. You know, the one that showed us what happens when Professor Xavier and Magneto finally decided to outsource their beef settlement to a video game developer.
This particular romp through Marvel’s merry mutant universe was brought to you by the folks who looked at a film featuring Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Iceman and thought, “What if we made this game SLIGHTLY different on each platform?” It’s like they were challenged to see just how elastic the definition of ‘the same game’ could be, and frankly, the results are beautifully inconsistent. The story was co-written by Chris Claremont (yes, THAT Chris Claremont) and Zak Penn, and it featured voice acting from the actual film cast, which means you got Hugh Jackman’s growl in your living room, your handheld, and probably also your neighbors’ living rooms at 2 AM.
Joining us to make sense of this portable and stationary pandemonium is none other than Alex Zalben from Comic Book Club, a weekly live talk show about comics that’s been running since 2006, performed at every major comic convention you can think of, written up in the New York Times more than once, and hosted literally hundreds of guests with more swagger than most podcasts muster in a lifetime. Alex is a writer, editor, and podcaster who knows his way around both four-color storytelling and video game adaptations, making him the perfect guide to help us determine whether this cross-generational, cross-console adventure managed to capture what makes the X-Men actually work, or if it just made us wish we could teleport away from our screens.
So sync up your Danger Room protocols, pick your favorite handheld or home console, and get ready for an episode that’s guaranteed to be more chaotic than a Sentinel factory explosion and infinitely more confusing than trying to figure out why THIS game exists on THAT console!
Learn such things as:
- Who thought it was a good idea to put this on so many consoles?
- Is it possible to get that team feeling when you’re playing solo?
- Is it better to look at this game as a sequel to the 2nd movie, or a prequel to the 3rd movie?
- And so much more!
You can find Alex on YouTube @ComicBookClub, BlueSky @comicbookclub and of course Comic Book Club Live.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Nerd Best Friends and Escape the Mojoverse for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who has not stopped the face palm from this one yet.
#AlexZalben #AmazeEntertainment #Colossus #GameBoyAdvance #Gamecube #HypnosEntertainment #Iceman #Magneto #Marvel #Nightcrawler #NintendoDS #PS2 #WayForwardTechnologies #Wolverine #Xbox #Xbox360 #ZAxis -
Tal dia com avui de 2005 ens arribava "Crayon Shin-chan: Arashi no Yobu Cinema-Land no Daibouken!" per "Game Boy Advance" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #CrayonShinChanArashiNoYobuCinemaLandNoDaibouken #CrayonShinChan #GameBoyAdvance #Arcade #Videojocs #Gaming
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I totally lost track with #OnionOS on my #MiyooMini and just found out that my version 4.3.0 is outdated. Installing the currently latest beta version 4.4.0-beta2 worked flawlessly. 😊 Now I can play #TetrisDX again AND get my achievements registered with #RetroAchievements because of the latest #RetroArch version! Yayyy! 🤩 #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #HandheldConsole #GameBoy #GameBoyAdvance #GameBoyColor #Tetris
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I totally lost track with #OnionOS on my #MiyooMini and just found out that my version 4.3.0 is outdated. Installing the currently latest beta version 4.4.0-beta2 worked flawlessly. 😊 Now I can play #TetrisDX again AND get my achievements registered with #RetroAchievements because of the latest #RetroArch version! Yayyy! 🤩 #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #HandheldConsole #GameBoy #GameBoyAdvance #GameBoyColor #Tetris
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I totally lost track with #OnionOS on my #MiyooMini and just found out that my version 4.3.0 is outdated. Installing the currently latest beta version 4.4.0-beta2 worked flawlessly. 😊 Now I can play #TetrisDX again AND get my achievements registered with #RetroAchievements because of the latest #RetroArch version! Yayyy! 🤩 #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #HandheldConsole #GameBoy #GameBoyAdvance #GameBoyColor #Tetris
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I totally lost track with #OnionOS on my #MiyooMini and just found out that my version 4.3.0 is outdated. Installing the currently latest beta version 4.4.0-beta2 worked flawlessly. 😊 Now I can play #TetrisDX again AND get my achievements registered with #RetroAchievements because of the latest #RetroArch version! Yayyy! 🤩 #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #HandheldConsole #GameBoy #GameBoyAdvance #GameBoyColor #Tetris
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I totally lost track with #OnionOS on my #MiyooMini and just found out that my version 4.3.0 is outdated. Installing the currently latest beta version 4.4.0-beta2 worked flawlessly. 😊 Now I can play #TetrisDX again AND get my achievements registered with #RetroAchievements because of the latest #RetroArch version! Yayyy! 🤩 #RetroGaming #HandheldGaming #HandheldConsole #GameBoy #GameBoyAdvance #GameBoyColor #Tetris
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Fantastic Four with Anthony Sytko (Capes on the Couch)
Flame on, podcast listeners! This week we’re stretching our way back to 2005 to tackle the Fantastic Four game that somehow managed to land on more consoles than Reed Richards has had scientific breakthroughs. Based on the first Fox movie that made us all question whether Hollywood truly understood what “fantastic” meant, this multi-platform adventure promised to let us clobber our way through levels faster than Ben Grimm goes through doorframes.
Joining us for this cosmic-powered gaming expedition is Anthony Sytko from Capes on the Couch, who’s here to help us determine whether this game was the ultimate power or just another case of “it’s clobberin’ time” gone wrong. We’ll be exploring how this tie-in game managed to squeeze onto everything from GameCube to Game Boy Advance, and whether any version actually captured the magic of Marvel’s first family – or if they all just left us feeling more invisible than Sue Storm on a bad day.
So grab your unstable molecules costume and prepare for a gaming experience that’s sure to be more unpredictable than Johnny Storm’s dating life. It’s time to see if this Fantastic Four adaptation was truly marvelous or just another victim of the superhero movie game curse!
Learn such things as:
- Does yelling “FLAME ON!” improve your loading times?
- Is this the worst timeline for Dr. Doom?
- How long can we go without saying something about America’s Ass?
- And so much more!
You can find Anthony @CapesOnTheCouch on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and of course the Capes on the Couch website.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.
A big thanks to Nerd Best Friends and TransMissions Podcast Network for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who is willing play the game, but is going to pretend that the movie doesn’t exist.
#7Studios #Activision #AnthonySytko #GameBoyAdvance #Gamecube #HumanTorch #JohnnyStorm #Marvel #PlayStation2 #ReedRichards #SueStorm #TheThing #TorusGames #Xbox -
Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu with Andrew Young (Behold!)
Gather ‘round, Dragon Ball devotees and gluttons for punishment! This week on Play Comics, we’re subjecting ourselves to the digital equivalent of getting hit by Frieza’s Death Beam repeatedly-Dragon Ball Z Taiketsu for the Game Boy Advance. Imagine taking the most explosive anime franchise in history and cramming it into a game with all the fiery intensity of a damp firecracker. Spoiler alert: This isn’t a battle for glory-it’s a battle for survival against one of the most bafflingly awful licensed games ever conceived.
Joining me in this masochistic quest is Andrew Young from Behold!, who’s agreed to lend his expertise (and his remaining sanity) to dissect this pixelated travesty. Together, we’ll answer the burning question: How did a game about planet-destroying superhumans end up feeling as thrilling as watching paint dry on Master Roshi’s houseboat? Hint: It involves more clipping issues than Yamcha’s career and combat mechanics flatter than Krillin’s scalp.
From animations that resemble a PowerPoint presentation gone rogue to a soundtrack that sounds like a kazoo orchestra trapped in a washing machine, Taiketsu doesn’t just drop the ball-it spikes it into the core of the Earth, unleashes a Spirit Bomb of disappointment, and then forgets to animate the explosion. Whether you’re here for the schadenfreude or just morbid curiosity, grab your Dragon Radar and a stiff drink. This episode’s gonna hurt. A lot.
Learn such things as:
- What happens when the developers are put not only behind the 8 ball, but also in front of a really high cliff on a windy day and that cliff is made of ice?
- So I guess games really do need a story don’t they? Even if it’s just a hand wave at one.
- Is this the new worst representation of the comic source material?
- And so much more!
You can find Andrew by looking at the Behold! account on Twitter or of course the Behold! website. You should especially check out the episode looking at X-Men 97 because I love that series and need something good in my life, and the episode looking at Fan4stick because it has me in it.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscaston Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Groupon Facebook.
A big thanks to the Kickstarter campaign for I Brought A Gorilla to a Gunfight and the Kickstarter campaign for Starlite for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who forgot that this game exists and is now on a mission to destroy me because I brought this fact back to light.
#AndrewYoung #Android16 #Android18 #Atari #Broly #Frieze #FutureTrunks #GameBoyAdvance #Goku #Gotenks #ImprefectCell #JumpComics #Krillin #MajinBuu #Nappa #PerfectCell #Piccolo #Shueisha #SuperBuu #Taditz #Vegeta #VizMedia #WebfootTechnologies -
Friends! Finally, the thrift store beat-up GBA revival is complete! Enjoy the video !
https://youtu.be/7CIzUkqGbPA?si=S5GHR7CaiwRjlphb#gameboy #nintendo #gameboyadvance #retrogame #retrogaming #gba #handheldconsoles #handheldgame #gbc #vintagegames #diy #repair #consolemodding #soldering #fix #recycle
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🎮✨ Ready to relive the magic of Far Far Away? Dive into the hilarious adventure with Shrek, Donkey, and all your favorite characters in the classic Shrek 2 Nintendo GameBoy Advance game! 🐉🌟 Don't miss out on this nostalgic journey – click the link to learn more and grab your copy now! 👉 https://nuel.ink/oOSvSG
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Wll this worked pretty well for me last time, let's see if it does again! Here's my latest video, this time a review of the MiSTer FPGA compatible Mister Pi from Taki Udon's Retro Remake company!
Link: https://youtu.be/DxwCRs8zPqs
#misterfpga #misterpi #mister #review #segasaturn #playstation #n64 #gba #gameboyadvance #retrogaming #retrogames
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Avui és el 20è aniversari de la publicació a casa nostra de "Shrek 2" per "Game Boy Advance" de #Nintendo 🕹🎮. #Shrek2 #Shrek #GameBoyAdvance #Plataformes #Aventura #Videojocs #Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming #ClassicGaming #RetroGames #VideojocsAntics
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Greetings, fellow Play Comics aficionados and Dragon Ball Z fanatics! It’s time to power up your ki and get ready for an adventure unlike any other. We’re diving headfirst into the wild world of the Dragon Ball Z Collectible Card Game on the Game Boy Advance, and trust us, it’s going to be a blast!
But wait, there’s more! Joining us on this epic journey is the one and only Kyle Billie from The Rad(io) Shorts podcast. With his wicked sense of humor and infectious enthusiasm, we know Kyle will bring a whole new level of fun and excitement to our exploration of this classic card game. Just imagine the shenanigans we’ll get into as we battle it out with our favorite characters and try to outsmart each other with clever strategies.
So, whether you’re a seasoned card game pro or a die-hard Dragon Ball Z fan, you won’t want to miss this episode. Get ready to laugh, strategize, and reminisce about the good old days of portable gaming. It’s going to be a wild ride, and we’re thrilled to have you along for the journey!
Learn such things as:
- Can you make a good game based on another game?
- How much of the story do you need to include to really say that something is based on it?
- Did anyone get to use the two player mode in this one?
- And so much more!
You can find Kyle on The Rad(io) Shorts Podcast and as a part of Subterranean Suites & Suspect Serpents. And maybe at a card convention near you.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicscast on Twitter and in the Play Comics Podcast Fan Group on Facebook.
A big thanks to Team CLOK and Super Bracket Bros. for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Best Day, who is still holding on his cards hoping to retire on the profits from them.
https://playcomics.com/dragon-ball-z-collectible-card-game-with-kyle-billie-radio-shorts-podcast/
#Bandai #Frieza #GameBoyAdvance #GarlicJr #Gohan #Goku #Guldo #Infogrames #JumpComics #KingCold #Krillin #KyleBillie #Nail #Piccolo #Shueisha #Trunks #Vegeta #VizMedia
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Swapped out the SSD (from #SiliconPower to #ADATA's XPG line) and it works fine now but my god this laptop I used to think was magic (for a really short while) has not aged well.
Its screen, if it could even be called that, is horrendous. Reminds me of an OG #GameBoyAdvance screen with an overhead light attachment shone on it. Its keyboard is fine but nothing to write home about, it's definitely aged noticeably based on the (wobbly) typing experience. Not having a fingerprint sensor is painful considering #macOS is too dumb to not ask you to authenticate (redundantly) for doing absolutely anything. Updating an app? Sign in. Launch the app afterwards? Please allow the app to launch first, oh and ofc, please do sign in again.
Its trackpad is small, and requires physical primary and secondary clicks, unlike #MacBook (haptic) trackpads of today that does not rely on physical buttons and allows you to click anywhere on the surface of the trackpad - that thing REALLY spoiled me and made me hate any trackpads without such "feature".
Its speaker is meh, my old, and far, far cheaper #Dell notebook had significantly superior speakers but I personally don't care about that. Its camera is decent, but I've never really thought of it that way until I got the M1 MacBook Air - literally everyone around me have noted about how this 2013-2017 MacBook Air's webcam is somehow more decent than the one on the M1.
Its charger has not aged well either. I personally have always hated #MagSafe (as much as I hate any other proprietary/non-standard chargers) and curse at the fact that I've to lose 1 socket for its charger that only it alone uses instead of just using USB-C from my multi-port GaN charger. If there's one thing the M1> MacBooks got right is the battery life. This thing, even with its battery replaced very recently and sits at about ~343 charge cycles, lasts for jack shit lol - you will definitely need to carry its bulky charger along with you everywhere.
Speaking of bulk, this thing is heavy af esp with a case on, which you will definitely want to have since its shell dents and scratches extremely easily (even with a hard case on). Last but not least, its performance is definitely insanely poor even for the most basic of things. I don't remember it being THIS slow back in the day, but maybe macOS Monterey (the latest OS supported on it) is just too much for it. From my exp with Macs and (especially) #iPhone's, #Apple seems to love overpromising/extending OS support for hardwares that could barely even run the thing, when it ran perfectly fine (and much faster/smoother) 1-2 OSes prior.
All in all, I don't know if I'd even recommend this to a kid lol - maybe if it ran faster on Mojave, or Catalina, I would. As things stand, I'll prolly only use this for #iTunes/iPhone backups and nothing more since there's no such alternative for these on #Linux. For anyone needing a MacBook, please just go get a MacBook Air M1 - nothing newer, and defo nothing older. -
Analogue’s supercharged modern-day Game Boy now glows in the dark - Enlarge / The Analogue Editions: Pocket Glow console is $30 more expens... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1963785 #nintendogameboy #analoguepocket #gameboyadvance #nintendosnes #nintendones #retrogaming #openfpga #retropie #gameboy #gaming #tech #fpga
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I couldn't stop with just the Analog Pocket. Here's the Game Genie for the Game Boy plugged into my Game Boy Advance SP-101