by Nick - 11.14.05
The hour of power! This week we broke the 1 hour mark. That’s because we have some great stuff. We, of course, have the news and the roundtable, which focuses on advertising in games. Dsgamer21 treats us to a lovely piano piece from Majora’s Mask and I speak on the issue of female and minority gamers. We also have special treat…
Since today is the release of Mario Kart DS, Octorok got an exclusive interview with Gregor Fran, the number one ranked Mario Kart Double Dash player in the nation! Gregor tells us how he got into Mario Kart and how he came to be the best. You can bet he is looking forward to playing the DS game!
I’d also like to thank leeds_guy for being the first listener to actually respond to what we talked about in previous podcast. It’s great to hear what you guys think about the topics we talk about.
And that brings me to something new that we have started this week; 4cr voicemailbag. We take a question asked on the voicemail and answer it roundtable style. Send in your questions for future podcasts and we will pick the best one and try to sound intelligent while responding!
Producer Nick Luckett
Director Octorok
Contributors Vinnk, Coffeeman, Mitch, DSgamer21, Gregor Fran
File Host Boon
Running Time 61:17
Podcast Timeline
00:00 Intro
01:18 News
03:58 Spotlight: Gregor Fran - Mario Kart DD National Champion
16:51 Targeting Girl Gamers?
20:49 Roundtable: Advertising In Gaming
51:03 Music: Majoras Mask: Clock Tower Town
52:29 Voicemailbag: Generation NEX
57:12 Voicemail
60:02 Outro
4cr Voicemail
Send 4cr a voicemail that could appear in future podcasts. Leave us feedback, a rant or just a sweet love song. Grab the latest version of Skype and place a call to shout4cr
You can learn all about the new Voicemail and how to add the 4cr podcast to your iTunes at the podcast sidebar menu: [ 4crPodcast ]
Good luck on that intelligence thing.
Matt - 11.14.05 11:25 am
Dur….
Nick - 11.14.05 11:28 am
This is the ford racing game I was talking about
http://www.fordvehicles.com/supercarchallenge
You’ll notice that they are advertising their new models on the billboard thoughout the game
CoffeeMan - 11.14.05 12:10 pm
but it wasn’t what i thought it was
CoffeeMan - 11.14.05 12:13 pm
i really liked the segment about how companies should go about “targeting female/minority gamers.” very nice.
ds news dump - 11.14.05 12:18 pm
This week was great, just finished listening to it
CoffeeMan - 11.14.05 12:27 pm
No Rebel in Japan? Ah man, that’s my favourite part!
duncan - 11.14.05 12:40 pm
I could beat Gregor. After all, he’s missing a letter from my full name, so he can’t be as good. : )
Seriously though, I’d like to see what he’s made of..
Greg - 11.14.05 12:47 pm
Duncan - YEah, RiJ is my favorite bit too. Good though!
Jonathan - 11.14.05 1:03 pm
Good point about preferring to own NES games rather than the emulation on the REV - since it’s boxed and physically avaliable, you feel more proud to own it. It’s like owning a good CD collection is nicer than having 1000s of MP3s.
Kickarse podcast guys, still the best there is, although i missed RiJ. Is it coming back?
duncan - 11.14.05 1:37 pm
I suggest watching Gregors video of his DK mountain time trial, really impressive. The discussion about advertising is quite and interesting subject. I don’t think they will lower costs because advertising in games is on the rise. Just like in movie theaters, theres adveritsing from the moment you walk into a movie theater until you walk out. In the lobby, while you’re waiting for a movie they show commercials, between previews theres ads, in the movie theres ads, it’s everywhere. Yet ticket prices here are like 10 bucks now and still going up. The publisher/developer is just going to pocket the extra revenue and not pass it on to consumers (I’m curious if theres stats how much they can make on that). Anyway, great podcast once again.
robotplague - 11.14.05 3:33 pm
that mitch sounds sexy
mitch - 11.14.05 3:46 pm
^^^ Yea.. I totally agree, makes me wonder why he calls himself “Gigantor!?!?!”…
*swoon*
octorok - 11.14.05 3:58 pm
Yeah, fantastic podcast. Great production value as usual too. Keep up the awesome work!
Greg - 11.14.05 4:42 pm
The roundtable is always fun to listen to and…
The Nintendo Cereal Commercial!
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/tv_game_commercial.asp?ID=10 96
Hamblasto - 11.14.05 5:13 pm
Yeah, Rij will return soon. This week’s the Podcast was just too long. In the meantime please visit the forums and give me some suggestions on what you whould be interested in for a future RiJ segment.
Vinnk - 11.14.05 7:36 pm
http://4colorrebellion.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=598
Vinnk - 11.14.05 9:21 pm
great podcast, keep it up!
bwntcake - 11.14.05 10:43 pm
Um, your podcast’s still broken. Still got the same have-to-fast-forward-to-hear-it-all thing going on. Otherwise it’s cutting off at the beginning of DSGamer’s thing.
Tetsuo - 11.15.05 11:24 am
Tetsuo - Stop using Real Player. It cuts out early for whatever reason. I had no trouble with Windows Media Player.
Poo_bob - 11.15.05 3:30 pm
another great podcast guys.. once again I nearly crashed my car hearing my dulcet Yorkshire accent blaring out of my stereo..
I really need to make my voicemail ramblings a little more punchy & coherent but I’ll try and leave another one for you tonight.
Dom (9 days to Mario Kart DS in the UK.. and counting)!
Leeds_Guy - 11.16.05 9:08 am
Poo_Bob - I would stop using Real Player, if I hadn’t given that piece of crap up years ago. I’m using AN IPOD and it’s still busted. There’s something inherently screwed up when a PODcast doesn’t work on an iPOD properly.
Tetsuo - 11.16.05 10:47 am
Tetsuo…we will look into it. Octorok has had to do some fancy twealink in order to get the podcast to play in iTunes, yet still remain small enough to be reasonable.
We will look into it and maybe go back and re-encode some of them.
Nick - 11.16.05 11:09 am
Thanks Nick. I can’t figure out for myself what’s up - the first few podcasts were fine, and I think the one before this was fine too, so I have no idea….
Tetsuo - 11.18.05 11:36 am
@Leeds_Guy The intro tune used for the ‘mailbag’ section was originally from Thames Television and not ATV.
Regmundio - 11.21.05 5:47 pm