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My guest today is David McCarthy who you'll probably recognise from the radio. He has worn many hats in the video game industry, from staff writer at Edge, to Rockstar Games and ultimtely to Japan, where he's worked for a number of video game companies over the past 6 or 7 years. There's a bunch of serious video game chat including the allure of Sonic, why Halo was so important, the majesty of Bangai O, the underappreciated brilliance of Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball and how the latest iteration of Fire Emblem stamps on the glory of the original titles. We also hit on the magic of pen and paper role playing, his unlikely switch from investment banking to video game journalist, dealing with the Hot Coffee incident while working at Rockstar, the burgeoning Japanese Indie Game scene and that time he was blown up on the tube. "May the way of the Hero lead to the Triforce." PATREON - patreon.com/checkpoints iTunes HERE - SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEW Games discussed: Gauntlet, Sonic the Hedgehog, Magic the Gathering, Puyo Puyo, Goldeneye, Bangai O, Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball, Halo, Mortal Kombat, Fire Emblem, Mutant League Football, Hearthstone, Shadowverse, Snooker, John Madden, Super Monkey Ball, AKB48 - the game. RSS HERE Twitter - twitter.com/CheckpointsShow Cover design: Craig Stevenson - http://onedinosaurandhisballoon.blogspot.co.uk Music: Samuel Baker - http://soundcloud.com/furoshiki
Disney Plus- 1:12 Jedi Fallen Order- 24:00 I'd Play that goes Shark Tank- 46:03 Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball and Booty Physics- 1:42:30
Killer 7, The Flat Earth, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Fallout 76, competitive Smash, CRTs, LAN adapters, wave-dashing, Pokemon championships, the Way of the Closed Fist, smash AI, Incineroar, Itchy and Scratchy, Simon Belmont, US Gymnastics, Gamecube controllers, Wavebird, The Passion of Sakurai, Chrom, Kirby, NO WALUIGI, King K. Rool, Metroid Fusion, Mother 3, Infinite Jest, Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball, Team Ninja, Tekken, Sigmund Freud, Virtua Fighter, trampolines, amateur skate ramps, Battle Barrel on Ice, Ultimate Combat Frisbee 2, Hopelessly Pointlessly Obscure Film Quotes, The Walking Dead, Resident Evil 4, Ashley Sakurai, Joker, David Hayter, small pink round video games, Kirby All-Stars, Kirby Air Ride, Meteos, The Epic Megastore, Day Z 1.0, The VGAs, SonicFox, Geoff Keighly, SKY, Dead Cells, Red Dead Redemption 2, Spider-Man, Sonic the Movie, Detective Pikachu, Sonic dark money, The Angry Birds Drink P*ss in the Angry Birds Movie, Street Fighter: The Movie.
This week on Extraordinary League: Mordin goes bird-catching, Stitch destroys a kitchen, Dante learns Prince Adam's favorite recipe for Lunchables, and Miles lives out his 19-year-old Dead or Alive: Extreme Beach Volleyball fantasies through Sterling Archer...and that's BEFORE they get to Jurassic Park. Also, somebody uses a Triceratops as a surfboard.
Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross celebrate WOFF!’s anniversary by talking about bad old NES games, retraux games, and transient game experiences. LINKS OF NOTE: Dead or Alive Extreme Beach Volleyball: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006…=stunthdottran-20 Sonic R: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s3dP8GUFSw Inception Sound: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4a3y7xetJY Bad Street Brawler: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BadStreetBrawler Power Glove: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AacoxHFYvZw WOFF! Youtube Channel: www.youtube.com/watchoutforfireballs Time Lord: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TimeLord(video_game) Sonic 3D Dash: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_3D Nintendo Seal of Approval: www.somethingawful.com/d/video-game-…l-quality.php Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrGWooNDPiE The Cable Guy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTF-5EvjHJQ Milon’s Secret Castle: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milon%27sSecretCastle Backlogkiller: www.backlogkiller.com/ Retro Game Challenge: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001FE…=stunthdottran-20 Zeboyd Games: zeboyd.com/ Game Center CX 2: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameCenterCX_2#Sequel The Artist: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK7pfLlsUQM Brick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cVzHeJ0Z3I Telltale’s The Walking Dead: store.steampowered.com/agecheck/app/207610/ Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP: store.steampowered.com/app/204060/?s…7suggest_13 Superbrothers: superbrothers.ca/ Jim Guthrie: www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encod…earch-alias%3Daps Mixed-Up Mother Goose: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZV-6y-ecjY Robert Ashley: www.robertashley.org/ Grant Morrison: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_morrison Steambot Chronicles: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EG…=stunthdottran-20 Dear Esther: store.steampowered.com/app/203810/ “A Hush” by Shearwater: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADn4zlVduDw “Dark Flute” by Jim Guthrie: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8y_6o8UvR4 EverQuest: www.everquest.com/ Team Fortress Classic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeamFortressClassic Radiolab: www.radiolab.org/ Ninjas vs. Podcast: www.facebook.com/ninjasvspodcast Video Games Hotdog: videogameshotdog.com/ Dork Night Podcast: dorknight.libsyn.com/