Episode 44 – 8-bit Music!

The Untitled Geek Podcast

SHOW NOTES:

Drinks of the Show: Mr. Beer Hard Cider

• Brewed in Tev’s Basement
• More alcoholic than it tastes
• Tev: 4 stars
• Adam: 3 stars

Top 5: 8-bit Music

(You can see our list at the bottom – spoilers!)

Television

What we’ve been watching: Black Mirror, American Horror Story

News:

• Office spinoff possibly in the works
• Star Trek The Next Generation Blurays
• Breaking Bad Insider Podcast

Tech

News:

• Steve Jobs Kept Letter from Bill Gates by his death bed
• How Steve Jobs got a Google employee fired
• What not to tweet about when traveling to the US
• TSA finds re-discovers pipes (that they found 6 hours prior) and freaks out
• Kinect on Laptops
• Reconstructing speech from brainwaves
• Facebook files for $5Billion IPO
• MIT’s folding car is goofy

Video Games

What we’re playing: Minecraft, Gitaroo Man

News:

• California to play 950k to ESA
• Possible New Xbox Specs
• THQ gets stock delisting notice
• Ex THQ staff member whines About losing job
• Netflix no longer planning to carry video games
• Minecraft coming as Legos
• Mass Effect: Comparing Voice Actors
• Paul McCartney making music for upcoming game
• Lego Universe goes dark

Movies

What we’ve been watching: The Dark Crystal, The Rocketeer, The Frighteners

News:

• Redbox refuses to delay WB DVDs
• Lockdown Trailer

Netflix Watch Instantly: Boss

Break Music:

• Born to be Bone (Gitaroo Man)

End Music:

• End Theme (Gitaroo Man)

Top 5

Adam

• 5 River City Ransom

• 4 Batman

• Stage 1 Streets of Desolation
• Stage 2 Axis Chemical Factory
• Stage 4 Lab Ruins

• 3 Ducktales

• The Amazon
• The Himalayas
• The Moon

• 2 Castlevania and Castlevania 2

• Vampire Killer
• Bloody Tears

• 1 Mega Man 2

• Flash Man
• Air Man
• Metal Man
• Wood Man
• Wily’s Castle

Tev

• 5 – Tetris (Gameboy)
• 4 – M.U.L.E. (C=64)
• 3 – Crazy Comets (C=64)
• 2 – Super Mario Bros. (NES)
• 1 – Mega Man 2 (NES)