It’s Been A Year
Can you believe that it’s been about a year since I started having guests all the time? This post is just a reflection on that.Continue Reading
Facebook reminded me this morning that it's been a year since I started with the current guest format of the show, or at least close enough. I can't believe it's been that long since I grabbed Josh Bowman and we put out something on the Silver Surfer game that everyone loves to hate. I can't believe it's been that long already.
I've thought of the show as a Saved By the Bell/Good Morning Miss Bliss thing for a while now. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about, Saved By the Bell was an early 90s show based around showing the shenanigans of some high school friends. What a surprising number of people either don't know or forget is that it started as a show called Good Morning Miss Bliss that was essentially the same thing but more focused on the teachers. But same sets, a lot of the same cast, and a lot of the time is now rolled into the Saved By the Bell history even though it's distinctly it's own thing.
This show started off with just me taking forever to get through an episode because I worried way too much about being perfect without having to edit much. Spoiler alert, that sucked. Then for a few episodes I had Sean but life happened and he had to stop. And don't think I'm trying to hid anything there it's literally what happened and I have no hard feelings about it.
So where do you go when you lose a cohost and you know that you can't do the show by yourself but you also are too afraid to get a new cohost because you don't want to have them need to leave and start over? Well if you're me you just don't put out the show for a while and then use the flash drive to the last episode you recorded with your old cohost to mod an Xbox and have to record it solo and know that it sucks but you put it out anyway. Then record another solo episode and again realize that it sucks.
And then you realize that the only way to do it is to just lean into the cohost worries all the way and find a new cohost for every episode.
Since then I've joined a few groups of people and while I'm no longer with all of them I definitely don't regret joining at all. Pretty much everyone I've run across while doing this has had a least a small hand in shaping what the show has become.
So that's how we got here about a year ago. I've made some great friends doing this and I'm not going to list them all here because I've pretty much already made an episode about that. Plus there's no way to list everyone and with how things are going that list would be out of date with a few days anyway.
I've got big things planned for the future of the show. Some of which I've already made public, some I'll tell you about if you ask but I don't think it's time to just throw it out there yet. And some of the stuff I just can't tell you about yet because if it doesn't happen there's no reason for that information to be out there. Cryptic, I know, and I'm sorry about that but it's how it's going to stay.
Mostly though I'm just excited because this is what I'm going to consider my Pod Birthday. Yeah the show existed before but only as a shell of what it is now and without the change I know for a 100% fact that it would have been one of those many podcasts that did a handful of episodes and then just disappeared.
Here's to another year, and to whatever milestone is going to sneak up on me next.
Can you believe that it’s been about a year since I started having guests all the time? This post is just a reflection on that.Continue Reading
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Batman the Animated Series is apparently a huge part of a ton of childhoods. Except mine, because I somehow kept missing it. But from giving characters much better back stories to creating a few characters that we couldn’t imagine not having today to just being objectively awesome, it’s an important part of today’s Batman culture.So of course it had a game to go with it. You know, besides the Gameboy title that it actually shared a name with the series. Listen in as Chris Sims from War Rocket Ajax, The ISB, and writer of some Marvel things comes to talk about a wonderful pair of Batman games, and a few others that exist.Continue Reading
Here comes Speed Racer racing around the track. But he’s got the the Car Acrobatic Team hot on his tail. Can Speed make it around the curve and onto the finish line without getting caught?
Micah Ulmer joins the show to help find out where exactly Speed got his origins and all kinds of cool things that show this franchise is more than just that anime you saw when you were 6.Continue Reading
Spider-Man is back at it again with some more attempts released by LJN. But can everyone’s favorite wall crawler make a better impression when a new development studio is brought in to bring him to the small screen?
Paul Csomo returns to take another crack at Spider-Man. Do things get better here? Or is it just a continued downward spiral, waiting for that one Spider-Man game we know is coming that will bring us out of the darkness?Continue Reading
The Justice League has some of the most iconic characters that comics have ever known. But what happens when you take a super hero super group and branch off from that?
Paul Combs stops by the show to take a look at the offshoot of the offshoot of a team up. Yeah, that’s nowhere near the most convoluted part.Continue Reading
Remember John Horsley? You know, the guy from y2cl.net? He’s been on the show a few times. But this one is a little bit different because we’re here to look at something that he’s making instead.
You see John, along with a ton of other people way more talented than me, are making a comic called The Eynes Anthology. And I was lucky enough to get John to come on the show and tell us about it. But he can describe it a lot better than I can.Continue Reading
Did you know The Mask was a comic? Us either. But somehow Dark Horse got a movie made about a comic that totally slipped past my young knowledge.
But how well did the Jim Carey movie stick to the comics? Listen in as Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast comes back to take a look at this movie tie in game that takes full advantage of Carey’s insanity.Continue Reading
Patreon post with some behind the scenes audio. If you want to be able to hear it head on over to Patreon and follow Ninja Penguin Pods and join any tier.Continue Reading
Remember back in the 1990s when Wolverine was everywhere and you couldn’t get away from him? When if there was ever going to be a game focusing on just a single member of the X-Men that it would unquestionably be him? And how we already got that once? Well guess what, it’s time for round two!
Listen in as Chris Baker from SuperHero.vg and author of WRONG! Retro Games, You Messed Up Our Comic Book Heroes! comes by to look at the 16 bit entry. Or is it entries? Just listen, I’m sure we’ll figure it out along the way.Continue Reading
The X-Men Return in the sequel to the classic Genesis game. This time around they actually get to leave the mansion and head out into the world. But can they defeat the Phalanx when they come to destroy all mutants?
Listen in as Brandon Cruz from Apathetic Enthusiasm, or is it Intergalactic RSS, or maybe it’s Submitted For Your Approval, aww crap I think we might have a clone problem…Continue Reading
Just a quick note about what’s been going on with Play Comics, Meddling Kids, and Ninja Penguin as a whole. Spoiler alert: I think you should be excited about what’s coming up in every facet.Continue Reading
Things stay off the normal path this week as Derek Graziano (The Sometimes Geek and Rolling Misadventures), Karrington Martin (Real Dudes Podcast) and Just Reed (Game N’ Watch) come by to talk emulation. Our personal histories, how our views have changed, and the inevitable discussion on PlayStation Classic.Continue Reading
Sorry, if you’re looking for a regular episode then this just isn’t the week for you. Instead of your regularly scheduled comic and video game comparison I’m taking this week to highlight just some of the many people that have made this show what it is today. Running the spectrum from purely podcast inspiration to full on friendship there’s no way I can talk about everyone that needs to be here.Continue Reading
Imagine a world where Venom is cool enough to get his own comic, but when they make the game they go and name it after a Spider-Man run instead. That just sounds horrible doesn’t it?
You don’t have to, because Tyler Kirby from Better than Static returns to the show to talk Venom/Spider-Man: Separation Anxiety. Continue Reading
In the 1990s Batman was everything. A comic movie franchise, cartoons, you name it. And then things started to fall off the rails. Tim Burton gets pushed out the door and we get this. But will the game be worth it despite the movie? Or will we get yet another example of a weak game that exists only because of a movie tie in?
Listen as Alex Whiteley from Thors-Kin joins the show to talk Batman Forever.Continue Reading
Spider-Man makes another appearance and this time time it’s based on the 1994 animated series. So with such an iconic part of my childhood as the basis, this game has to be good? Right?
Listen in as Matt Gardner from Floating Hands Studios and writer of the comic Alabaster Shadows comes on the show to take a look at this SNES and Genesis take on our favorite wall crawler.Continue Reading
BONUS EPISODE TIME! Take a listen as Mikey from The Young Ones and Devin from Exiled come on the show to talk about what comic properties should have a game (but don’t) and what makes some games and other general talk of what makes a good comic based game.Continue Reading
The Avengers make their return here, this time taking on Thanos in a very loose retelling of the Infinity War story. You know, nowhere near the time the movie was released in theaters or on DVD or anything.
Listen in as Scott Thrower from Fairy Tales for Unwanted Children joins the show to talk Marvel Super Heroes in War of the Gems!Continue Reading
It’s election day on Tuesday, and that means a lot of people are going to get pissed because their candidate or issue doesn’t win. But that’s not what this is about. Our system is set up so that we have a voice in what goes on. Sure, the system isn’tContinue Reading
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