Oops, an unannounced Gintendo
Yesterday afternoon we recorded the first episode of Retronauts East, which I desperately hope turns out well — there's a lot of fine-tuning that needs to happen with our recording setup, so the sound quality could turn out to be kind of awful. I guess we'll find out! Once we wrapped the recording session, I decided to celebrate the show's eastward expansion by launching an impromptu and unannounced Gintendo live stream of Castlevania:
Incredibly enough, it went remarkably well. Shockingly well, actually. I aced the two big sticking-point battles on my first go (skip ahead to 16:30 if you want to see the most impressive showing I've ever put up versus Frankenstein's Monster and Igor). Then... the second half of the stream consists of my nerve breaking and me failing abysmally against Dracula's stage and the final battle, over and over again. It was a pretty solid first half, though! I guess you could blame the gin (Reisetbauer Blue, if you're curious).
Anyway, it's here if you'd like to watch it.
I head out of town for a week on Sunday, so I won't be able to host a normal Gintendo while I'm abroad. Although... I guess there's technically nothing stopping me from taking along, say, the Retro USB AVS? And an Elgato device? And maybe picking up some random retro Famicom games and playing them? Hmm. If nothing else, I might try and stream a stroll through Akihabara or something, assuming it won't devastate my international data plan. And I definitely will be posting all throughout next week on my game-shopping and developer-interviewing exploits in Tokyo, so you can at least look forward to that.
(Promo art by Rusty Shackles)
