Author: Vincent Goodwin

That Was a Game 017 – Disney Extreme Skate Adventure (Gamecube)

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Have you ever felt like Toy Story is good and all, but what I really want to do is skateboard around Andy’s Room? Or that the perfect Lion King game would feature The Lion King’s Rafiki doing lip tricks on a dried up lakebed to the sweet dulcet tones of Ted Leo music?

Join us as we look at the most logical of skateboarding games – Disney Extreme Skate Adventure!

Here’s a game that puts three completely unrelated Disney properties into one game — Tarzan, Lion King, and Toy Story — and embeds them in a skateboarding game using the Tony Hawk 4 engine and developed by the creators of Skylanders (Toys for Bob)!

Some of My Friends Read Comics 033 – Past Eisner Award Winners

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It’s our 2016 Eisner Pre-Show Spectacular! As we gear up for the awards, we take a look at three past winners of the “Best Single Issue” award. Astro City #4 from 1996, Tom Strong #1 from 2000, and Hawkeye #11 from 2014.

We also read one of this year’s nominees, Silver Surfer #11, and we would have read them all but indie comics can be hard to find sometimes!

We talk about all four of these very different stories and decide if they were indeed worthy of the coveted Eisner award. And we don’t agree!

MP3: http://bit.ly/29XeY7B

 

All My Friends Have Left Here 003 – Star Fox 64: The Independence Day Level

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20 years ago, Independence Day rocked the US box office and moviegoers everywhere with a tale about giant city-sized spaceships with single lasers that could level an entire building. A year later, Star Fox 64 shamelessly ripped Independence Day off for its Katina level, known better as “the Independence Day level.”

On ALL MY FRIENDS HAVE LEFT HERE, Vince plays through Star Fox 64 to get to the Independence Day level, taking you on a tour of Corneria and Sector Y before arriving at Katina. Does the Independence Day level hold up?

Yes, Independence Day: Resurgence came out almost a month ago, so I’m a little late on this one, but don’t worry about it!

All My Friends Are Right Here 067 – Music Decade: The 1980s

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Radical! Tubular! Voodoo Economics! This week, we’re going back to one of our favorite games: Music Decade!

The guys will judge the merits of three given songs from each year in the 1980s, and ultimately determine the 10 songs that perfectly define the decade.

Along the way they’ll answer important questions like: Was John Mellencamp an icon of gay fashion? What’s the real difference between The Replacements and The New Radicals? And do music notes mysteriously get higher in a karaoke room than they do in your car?

MP3: http://bit.ly/29P5Yly

Spotify Playlist: http://spoti.fi/29q65mQ

Some of My Friends Read Comics 032 – Beasts of Burden

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Dogs and cats! Cats and dogs! Ghosts and zombies and witches and frogs!

Instead of our typical superhero fare, today we stray away from the pack (get it?) and read the first volume of Beasts of Burden, a collection of eight short stories about pets encountering the supernatural.

Evan Dorkin’s scary and sentimental writing combined with Jill Thompson’s beautiful artwork makes this a series that’s not to be missed!

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That Was a Game 015 – Disney’s Tarzan Untamed

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In honor of the new LEGEND OF TARZAN movie starring Eric Northman, we take a look at Disney’s Tarzan Untamed for the Nintendo Gamecube!

When you think of Tarzan videogames, do you think of surfing down rivers and water-skiing behind vultures?  Well, you should!

All My Friends Are Right Here 066 – The Pitch Room: Day of the Invasion

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Fifteen years ago, Dylan and Scott wrote & directed the award-winning short film “DAY OF THE INVASION”, a loving homage to the alien invasion B-movies of the 1950s.

DAY OF THE INVASION had everything – love, drama, comedy, the best movie president ever (played by Vince) and DESTRUCTOBOT 5000!

Now, Dylan and Scott have booked a meeting with Hollywood’s movers & shakers to pitch a feature length version of DAY OF THE INVASION for a new generation. This is their planning session before they meet with the fabled “Pitch Room.”

MP3: http://bit.ly/28ZBCf0

Saturday Night Love Special – Best of Season 41 Spectacular

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We’ve reached the end of this season of SATURDAY NIGHT LOVE!!  And Saturday Night Live, I guess.

All season, we’ve been picking the best skit of every night in hopes of finding the best skit of Season 41.  Along the way, we’ve compiled a great list of 21 skits that showcase how good SNL still is.

So please go to our YouTube page (All My Friends Are Right Here) and listen along as we pick our favorites!

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Some of My Friends Read Comics 031 – Doom Patrol by Grant Morrison

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Doom Patrol! A name some of us have heard far too often, but do we really know what it means?

To find out, we travel back to the late ‘80s to read the start of one of Grant Morrison’s first runs with DC comics in Doom Patrol 19-22.

We’ve got Surrealism, Dadaism, and the straight up bizarre in spades as we deal with a humans trapped in a robot body, multiple personality (and multiple super-power!) disorder, and a wheelchair bound asshole.

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