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  1. TMNT with Jeremy Powers (Zenspath Entertainment Network)

    Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll take it,” the video game equivalent of adopting somebody else’s very large, very established pet. They tied the whole thing to Imagi’s brand new fully CGI turtle movie and then, in an act of scheduling chaos I can only respect, shipped the game three entire days before the film hit theaters. Bold! Confusing! Possibly the result of someone losing a calendar!

    And then, because apparently one platform was never going to cut it, Ubisoft just kept going. PlayStation 2! GameCube! Xbox 360! Wii! PC! A PlayStation 3 version that got paraded around at trade shows like a prize pony and then quietly put out to pasture, never to be seen again! And just when you think the roster’s full, Nintendo DS and PSP roll in with an entirely separate game wearing the same name tag, because why make one turtle game when you could make several turtle games and let the consumer sort it out. Also, bonus points to whoever in marketing decided the title needed zero subtitles, zero colons, zero numbers, just “TMNT,” like it’s the only one that’s ever existed. Confidence!

    Climbing out of the sewer to help me survey this multi-console fever dream is Jeremy Powers, host and creator of the Zenspath Entertainment Network, a man who apparently collects retro hardware, works as an engineer, and still finds time to run a podcast, which is either elite time management or a full refusal to acknowledge the concept of a day off.

    So track down whichever version of this thing actually ended up in your house back in 2007, because statistically there’s a good chance it wasn’t the same one as your neighbor’s, and let’s find out if TMNT earned its spot in the turtle hall of fame, or if it should’ve stayed a trade show prototype.

    Learn such things as:

    • Do we ever stop to think that maybe the people making these games knew what they were doing all along?
    • Will we ever get that chance to see Splinter and Iroh together?
    • How much retreading is acceptable when you’re the new guy making things?
    • And so much more!

    You can find Jeremy on YouTube @Zenspathcom and of course at the Zenspath Entertainment Network.

    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 Behold! and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

    Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who dips pizza in honey mustard.

    #ArchieComics #Donatello #DreamwaveProductions #GameboyAdvance #Gamecube #IDW #Image #JeremyPowers #Leonardo #Michelangelo #Mirage #NintendoDS #PS2 #PSP #Raphael #Ubisoft #Wii #Xbox360
  2. Yu-Gi-Oh Destiny Board Traveler & World Championship Tournament 2004 with David (Anime Field Guide)

    Some duels are fought with cards. Some are fought with dice. And then some… are fought with the Game Boy Advance’s eternal struggle against decent menu navigation. This week on Play Comics, we’re shuffling up and drawing into Yu-Gi-Oh! Destiny Board Traveler and World Championship Tournament 2004, two games that take everything we love about Yu-Gi-Oh!, monsters, strategy, friendship laser beams, and cram it into a tiny cartridge that smells faintly of childhood and battery corrosion.

    Joining Chris for this summoning circle of digital nostalgia is David from Anime Field Guide, who brings the kind of anime expertise that makes you question whether your life points can drop below zero if you cringe too hard at English dub dialogue. Together, they’ll explore why these particular duels feel like being trapped in a friendship-branded fever dream, complete with turn-based confusion and more “draw phase” puns than anyone asked for.

    So grab your duel disk, blow into that GBA cartridge like it owes you rent, and prepare to enter a world where forbidden memories and confusing mechanics go hand-in-hand. It’s the heart of the cards… but maybe also a faint cry for a player’s guide.

    Learn such things as:

    • Whether the heart of the cards can survive low battery warnings.
    • The surprising crossover between duel monsters and chaos theory.
    • Why Destiny Board Traveler isn’t just Monopoly with a Yu-Gi-Oh skin.
    • And so much more!

    You can find David on BlueSky @anifieldguide.bsky.social, Threads @anifieldguide, and of course hear him over at Anime Field Guide.

    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 The Monsters that Made Us and Worst Collection Ever for the promos today.

    Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who is just sitting there waiting for me to spring the traps.

    #DarkMagicianGirl #DavidAnimeFieldGuide #GameBoyAdvance #Grandpa #JoeyWheeler #Kaibaman #Konami #MaiValentine #MaximillionPegasus #Mokuba #RebeccaHawkins #SetoKaiba #Shueisha #VizMedia #YamiBakura #YamiYugi #YugiMutou
  3. Ultimate Muscle The Kinnikuman Legacy The Path of the Superhero & Legends vs New Generation with SerpyMatt

    Strap on your meat-based wrestling tights and oil up those biceps because Play Comics is about to suplex you straight into the absurdly wonderful world of Kinnikuman! This week we’re tag-teaming not one, but TWO Ultimate Muscle games—The Path of the Superhero for GameCube and Legends vs New Generation for Game Boy Advance. That’s right, we’re going double or nothing like a Choujin who forgot leg day exists and decided to compensate with twice the spandex.

    These games, spawned from the legendary Kinnikuman manga and anime, brought us a universe where wrestling isn’t just a sport—it’s the entire basis of intergalactic civilization, which honestly makes about as much sense as any other comic book logic we’ve tackled on this show. Whether you’re commanding Kid Muscle through his heroic quest to not embarrass his legendary father or settling the age-old debate of who would win between old-school wrestlers and the new generation (spoiler: everyone’s finishing move is magnificently ridiculous), we’ve got you covered.

    Joining us for this muscle-bound mayhem is none other than SerpyMatt, who hasn’t quite gotten around to launching his own podcast yet—but he’s told me the concept and folks, when it finally drops, you’re going to absolutely love it. Assuming he ever stops procrastinating long enough to record episode one, that is.

    So crack your knuckles, practice your most intimidating wrestler growl, and prepare for an episode that’s guaranteed to have more body slams than a physics textbook thrown at a trampoline factory. It’s time to find out if these games captured the magnificent weirdness of their source material or if they just left us feeling like we got hit with the Kinniku Buster of disappointment.

    Learn such things as:

    • What happens when you give character designers unlimited freedom and a fever dream?
    • What’s the exchange rate between friendship power and actual wrestling skill?
    • Should we be concerned that intergalactic peace depends entirely on entertainment wrestling?
    • And so much more!

    You can find SerpyMatt on BlueSky @serpymatt.bsky.social.

    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 Byrds Eye View Comics and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.

    Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, whose wrestling gimmick here would probably be something based around weaponizing VHS tapes.

    #AKICorporation #Bandai #BaronMaximilian #BoneCold #BrockenJr #Buffaloman #Checkmate #Chihuahuaman #Coconutman #CrescentHearts #Dazzle #Dialbolic #DikDikVanDik #ElKaerun #Eskara #Forkolossus #GameBoyAdvance #Gamecube #Hanzo #Hydrazoa #Jeager #JumpComics #KevinMask #KidMuscle #KingMuscle #Pandaman #Pumpinator #Ramenman #RoadRage #RobinMask #SerpyMatt #Shueisha #ShunDa #Skullduggery #Sunshine #TerryKenyon #Terryman #TheNinja #Tyrannoclaw #Ultimanoid #WallyTusket #Warsman #Weaponman #Yeti
  4. 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
  5. Dragonair Pixelation | TF into Dragonair Sprite

    B-but Pixilate is a Fairy-type ability!

    Inspired by furaffinity.net/user/moltingsc series of furaffinity.net/view/55863975/!

    And before anyone says that I've forgotten my glasses again-- yeah, you're right, I forgot them and couldn't be bothered to add them in. >.>

    Image Description:

    A screenshot from a GBA Pokémon game. Calli is centered on the image, partially transformed into a pixelated Dragonair. Text at the bottom reads "What? CALLI ECHO is evolving!"

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    Please fave, comment, and watch -- it's really appreciated!
    Drawn in procreate.com/ on iPad Pro

    #transformation #tftuesday #tfeveryday #tf #pokemon #dragonair #midtransformation #sprite #gameboyadvance #drawover

  6. Retro Game Haul: March 30, 2024

    I have way too many games to ever play, but still I can't help it. Today's haul: Othello (NES), Spinball (Vectrex), Colossal Cave Adventure (PS5), Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars (GBA). Read on for more details

    chasingdings.com/2024/03/30/re

    #Adventure #TextAdventureGame #Vectrex #VideoGame #VideoGameConsole #atari #basic #BrokenSword #ColossalCave #GameboyAdvance #nintendo #othello #pinball #ps5 #spinball

  7. Shantae Advance Forward
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    Art © @CentaurWorks
    Character © Matt Bozon/WayForward

        As soon as Shantae Adbance was announced, I wanted to do fanart of my favorite video game character. I was also making this at a time when I was drained when it came to art and IRL. But drawing this really helped me get my groove back.
    I went with a big pop-py theme, slightly inspired by Dragalia Lost while trying to keep the excitement I felt for this game's announcement. Replicating the style scene on the promo material was a lot of fun too! I did have plans for including sprites of the characters, but I did not have the passion to add it in. But I really enjoyed working on this a lot.
    #MastoArt #Shantae #ShantaeAdvance #Magic #Fire #GameBoyAdvance #IndieGame #art #art2024 #digitalart #digitalartwork #artwork #CentaurWorks #fanart #anime #animestyle #animeartstyle #clipstudiospaint

  8. Review: Kirby – Nightmare in Dreamland (Game Boy Advance)

    In this review, we find ourselves seeking the star rod in the Game Boy Advance. We find out how well this adventure game plays.

    This game was released in 2002.

    Basically, this game is just a port from the NES title Kirby's Adventure. Since

    freezenet.ca/review-kirby-nigh

    #ReviewsGames #adventure #game #GameBoyAdvance #gaming #GBA #KirbyNightmareInDreamland #review