Friday, February 03, 2006

Episode 8, 02/02/2006: "She Just Turned 21"

Bobby and J are back for an extra special Groundhog's Day edition of the show. We've got plenty of the best news from the past week, random game talk, a new induction into the Ultimate Library, and a brief wrap-up of our "Design a Video Game" feature from this week's meeting. All this and (not much) more on this week's edition.

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Blogger ajnrules said...

Heh heh...J's chicken impersonation reminds me of this song: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~lc7v/OST/Kokekokko.mp3

Interesting thing about John Romero's wife...I like all of the Spirited Away fanart she posted on her blog...XD...

Your stories about hard drive self-destruction reminds me of my own experiences. A lot of the things I've lost had backups, but I lost two things that I wasn't able to backup: my Japanese Spirited Away transcript for about half the movie...and a 10,000-word story I wrote about the 2002 Sims Survivor. :(

The Sims rocked. You can do stuff like this: http://forums.nintendo.com/nintendo/board/message?board.id=np_po&message.id=14134700

Anyways...if you want a clarification of the single-player mode of the Brain Training game...there are two parts: training and testing.

For testing, you are faced with three activities that are supposed to test your brain age. There are two types of activities, ones that utilize the microphone and ones that don't. The ones that do would have you say the color of a colored word instead of the word itself, or it would have you count to 120 as fast as possible.

The ones that don't would have you connect A -> ア -> B -> イ, although I don't know what the American version would do. You are also expected to count numbers based on color, number, or what the numbers are doing. A third is to remember about 30 simple English word in 2 minutes, and to write as many as possible in 3 minutes.

Training events include more math problems (20 problems or 100 problems,) counting syllables in a series sentence as fast and accuractely as possible, reading a passage as quickly as possible, counting people, counting time, and some more weird math things. Yeah...that's essentially it...

Anyways, great podcast. Will be waiting for next week's.

3:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Another great podcast, guys, but I have to wonder: why do you always just post and comment on random top tens posted on digg? Normally, I wouldn't mind you doing this, but the bit-tech top ten that you guys covered was ... pretty lame and not very well-written. "Shadows" of the Colossus?

I feel that it would be way better if you guys made your own top ten lists, or top ten lists made by other gamers' club members. Hell, the final ten from Leon's ranking of all of the N64 games would be a quick and easy top ten that is easily better than many others that you can find online. Maybe something to consider for episode 9?

~Mike Sollosi

11:19 AM  

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