MAME – The Paunch Stevenson Show

Episode 225

In this episode:

Nintendo sends a cease and desist letter to AtariAge for Princess Rescue,
methods for physically producing homebrew video games,
is Nintendo in dire straights?,
the Nintendo 2DS,
our review of the Ouya game console,
using Ouya to play arcade games via MAME,
the good and bad of Netflix streaming,
lousy indie films,
our review of Your Sister’s Sister (2012) starring Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt,
our review of Price Check (2012) starring indie queen Parker Posey,
our review of The Vicious Kind (2009) starring Adam Scott,
our review of Oblivion (2013) starring Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman,
Did Mr. Wizard debunk that sea level rises due to global warming? (video),
Dr. Kiki of This Week in Science explains that no he did NOT! (video),
our review of Riddick (2013), starring Vin Diesel and Katee Sackhoff,
upcoming Robocop (2014) film, featuring Michael Keaton,
Ben Affleck hired as Batman for the foreseeable future,
celebrity death (boxer Tommy Morrison),
and a corny news report about Nintendo from the early 1990s.

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In this episode:

pictures of the So You Want To Be A Dancer guy from our British fan @spacemandavid,
the “Ringo Remembers” skits on the BBC’s The Peter Serafinowicz Show,
long-time fan Esteban reminds us of the Robotix (1985) cartoon featuring the voices of Peter Cullen, Michael Bell, Frank Welker, Corey Burton, and Arthur Burghardt,
What Ever Happened To? (“Lord of the Dance” Michael Flatley),
Marky Mark Wahlberg claiming he would’ve single-handedly stopped 9/11,
Betty White’s 90th birthday,
celebrity deaths (Ben Gazzara, Don Cornelius, “Mr. Pitt” Ian Abercrombie, Robert Hegyes, and Joe Paterno),
Marvel Comics cologne,
Frank Nora (onsug.com) following the development of the video game Pinball Arcade (pinballarcade.com),
where’s the MAME pinball cabinet?,
What Ever Happened To? (Dan Cortese),
career pitfalls for past MTV VJs,
the Megaupload fury,
starting the day with chocolate and sugar-infested cereals,
and our long-awaited review of The People vs. George Lucas (2010) documentary.

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We talk with special guest Frank Edward Nora from The Overnightscape podcast (www.theovernightscape.com)!

In this episode:

the end of analog broadcast TV on February 17, 2009,
2008 U.S. Presidential candidate Ron Paul,
the Republican Party’s obsession with terrorism,
$100 per barrel of oil,
24 minute podcast episodes,
old 74 minute CD-R discs,
transferring old VHS video tapes to DVDs,
the ridiculous Beanie Babies fad in the late 1990s,
storing photos,
history in the future,
albums being released on USB flash drives in England,
iTunes digital release cards at Starbucks,
the loudness war and horrible audio CD mastering,
a get-rich-quick scheme for record companies,
the Fun N Games arcade in Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, NJ, shutting down,
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) computer software,
the video game Red Earth (known as Warzard in Japan) by Capcom,
reading bad novels in high school (The Good Earth, The Chocolate War, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, etc.),
David Copperfield’s current FBI investigation,
Frank’s review of Bee Movie (2007) starring Jerry Seinfeld,
the Writers Guild of America strike,
Late Show with David Letterman,
TV interviews via satellite,
Heroes season 2,
the online video revolution,
podcasting and online audio,
Frank’s attempt at a premium podcast (Anything But Monday),
and Frank’s upcoming secret project.

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