Round 43 - An Improbable Feat

Date aired: 

17 Mar 2017

Show Length: 

02:47:07

Around the World:  00:09:17

  • SteamVR slowly making inroads to Linux, w/ many caveats for usage
  • Xbox Game Pass - $10/month subscription games for Xbox One / Windows
  • TMR completes every NES game, ever, in three years - 679 NA titles, 35 PAL exclusives
  • Xbox Live Creators Program - spiritual successor to XBLIG, publishing w/o a publisher
  • GDC 2017
  • PAX East 2017
  • Candy Crush to get a TV game show in Jul
  • Nintendo Switch released; much hype, many purchases (wow)
  • Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - huge (initial) commercial success, and a veritable system-seller
  • Monopoly replacing piece mainstays thimble, wheelbarrow, and boot with penguin, rubber duck, and T-rex
  • AMD's Ryzen processors released; benchmarks show processing parity w/ previous-gen Intel, some current-gen
  • Night in the Woods released (it's awesome)
  • Rogue Process greenlit - cross between command-line hacking and Sierra Adventure games

Bonus Level 1:  00:45:47

  • Darangen - Find Your Way - Final Fantasy (OC ReMix)
  • WASD - Monumental Subterranean eXploration - La Mulana (OC ReMix)
  • Scandal Joy Kneel, Laarx - Re-Act - Command and Conquer (OC ReMix)

Personal Gaming:  00:58:49

Bonus Level 2:  01:44:55

  • Sentient Pulse - The Climb Above - Pokemon Red and Blue (OC ReMix)
  • Cyril the Wolf - Seeing Red - Pokemon Silver and Gold (OC ReMix)
  • DaMonz - Floor is Lava - Super Mario RPG (OC ReMix)

Ad-hoc Design: 01:56:50

  • Endless Frogger
  • Multi-branch, multi-genre adventure
  • Tetris Worlds remake (arcade and balance-focused)

Full date: 

Fri, 17 Mar 2017 19:00:00 CDT