Arcade Castle

In this Unboxening, Arcade Castle takes an initial look at what is probably a bootleg/unlicensed board game based off the 1986 Taito arcade hit Bubble Bobble from South Korea. 

"The game has been in production for a long time, because we've been working really hard to make sure that it is something that Portal fans will enjoy. But it's not Portal. You're not playing the video game in a board game, because why would you want to do that? It's a separate experience, but it's still very much Portal." - Sara Miguel (Cryptozoic Entertainment) Ah...well...I guess we don't need this episode of the podcast then... Grape Cake Ingredients 1 9 inch pan Butter and flour for preparing cake pan 2 eggs 2/3 Cup of sugar 4 Tablespoons (2 oz) unsalted butter, melted 1/4 Cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/3 Cup milk 1/2 Teaspoon vanilla extract 1 1/2 Cups all purpose flour 3/4 Teaspoon of baking powder Pinch of Salt Grated zest of 1 lemon Grated zest of 1 orange 10 ounces of fresh, purple grapes Confectioner's sugar Preparation 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. 2. Generously butter and flour the pan, ...

Crud. That should have said 'Arcade Castle'.... A year has come and gone and a monthly podcast has become a quarterly one?  I told you they'd never make it Sonic. . .  Alas, no excuses other than difficulty nailing down good times to get together to podcast. But with year 2 I have some exciting things in the pipeline. Movie reviews will still be posted as well as the podcast. Along with the random kickstarter/boardgame news (insofar as videogame/boardgame games are concerned anyway). Episode 5 is in the bank and just needs to be edited together and published online. Because I love paying for server storage and upload space that I'm not using.... Libsyn collecting my subscription fees. In honor of our One-Year Anniversary of running the podcast, we will be returning to our roots with the Odyssey II and playing another entry in the Master Strategy Series. Unsure of the title we will be playing and its, well, fun factor...but we were skep...

Ignoring the advice of our guides, Arcade Castle sets out on the Oregon Trail in the middle of winter. Will this poor decision cause their journey to end before it even starts? The Oregon Trail: Card Game sets out to capture the early computing phenomenon that is The Oregon Trail. Created by Pressman and distributed exclusively by Target, The Oregon Trail: Card Game became a mini-phenomenon in its own right as nostalgia fueled gamers clamored for the card game based on the game they spent many an' hour playing in libraries and school computer labs. But does this card game deliver it's players safely to Willamette Valley, or does this game die of dysentery right outside the town gate? In The Oregon Trail: Card Game, players attempt to traverse 50 sections of trail on their way to Oregon. However, players will face a variety of calamities such as disease, broken wagons, and privation. In addition, players will attempt for ford a number of rivers, with failure causing t...

Moderator John here. I'm a sucker for Pac-Man. Always have been, always will be. The game caught my attention as a child when we went to the local Pizza Hut on special occasions. Sometimes for a birthday and sometimes when we got good grades in school. And sometimes on Sunday evenings when my brothers and I had behaved well that week / mom didn't feel like cooking. We could enjoy the pizza, coca-cola, and enjoy the small arcade area in the restaurant. Because back then, Pizza Hut was a restaurant, not a pizza chain. Of course, the one that grabbed my attention, and would be the bane of quarters for years to come, was Pac-Man. But this arcade unit was a cocktail version of Pac-Man, and was a style of arcade cabinet I had never seen before. The fact that you could eat pizza, drink soda, and play Pac-Man blew my tiny little 8 year old brain into pac-pellet sized pieces. It started a life-long love of Pac-Man and the series as a whole. While these days I prefer the...

"Grandpa, tell me about the console wars." "Ah, yes sonny, that was many years ago, when ghosts were in hi-c and pepsi was clear..." "Tell me sonny...what year is it?" "2016." For those of us who grew up in the early 1990s, this was our war. Yes, we had the post-apocalyptic world of Crossfire to look forward to and our attention would later turn to digipets and arguing over which Pokemon version was best, Red, Blue, or Yellow. (Wait...are we sure it isn't the 1990s?) But, until those days arrived, we had the ultimate console war. Sega Genesis vs. Nintendo. You were in one camp or another. You discussed and debated the virtues of zelda, toejam and earl, vectorman, donkey kong, golden axe, and more as you used games, gameplay, graphics, sound, and speed to make your case. Of course, the Sega fans always had 'Blast Processing' as the ace up their sleeve to make the Nintenkids look foolish in the assertions. ...