Showing posts with label Pokemon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pokemon. Show all posts

Monday, November 21, 2016

YPB: Episode 082 – Pokemon Red and Blue (1998)




This week in Your Parents Basement, we are desperately trying to catch them all! From 1998, we’re playing Pokemon Red and Pokemon Blue by Game Freak and Nintendo for the Game Boy. And, the sweet baby boys are joined by special guests Ryan Gibbs and Mel Turnquist!

You can manually download this week’s deep, story-driven podcast here or subscribe to the show via the iTunes store. To manually subscribe, use this link in the device / podcast player of choice. You can also follow us on Twitter, or ‘like’ us on Facebook.

As always, if you like the show, support us by buying from Amazon! You can use this link to go to Amazon, and any purchase you make will kick a couple bucks to the show, with no extra cost to you. It’s a win-win!

Want to have an email or comment read on the air? Send us a message on the ole Twitter or Facebook, or, shoot that mail to parentsbasementpodcast@gmail.com.

TIMESTAMPS

  • 0:00 – Intro, which is the theme song from the Pokemon TV show, which has a shocking amount of episodes.
  • 39:15 – We address your Comments, Concerns and Questions.
  • 51:00 – Emails! More from John Q. Tetris, and some other guys.
  • 1:03:45 – The show is going long, but we NEED to help some people, so it’s… Ask the Sweet Boys.
  • 1:12:00 – Snifferoo. Next week, we click click click click click click click click.

SHOW NOTES
- According to Price Charting, pretty much all of the Pokemon games have retained their value to a certain degree. Blue and Red go for about $19 for the cart only, and $60 to $85 for the game, box and manual.

- There have been 122 releases of Pokemon, which is disgusting and impressive at the same time. Polygon has a timeline here.

- Ryan’s site is The Young Folks, which you can find here.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Buy My Crap - Bakugan for the Wii and The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

In an effort to shill more of the crap on eBay that I don't really need any more, I offer two things to you today: Bakugan for the Wii and The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons.

- Let's start with the video game. Bakugan is a kind of Pokemon-like game that relies on you collecting and powering up cards. These cards allow you to throw a ball on to a playing area, with the goal to land two balls on an area to win that card, or to battle an opposing player for the card.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but if you have kids, they'll probably enjoy it. It is definitely aimed at kids from ages 8 to 15, as it has a very "Saturday morning anime cartoon" feel to it. You can find my eBay auction for it here. I'm also doing a review of it for Blast, and I'll link to that when it's done.

- On the contrary, I imagine quite a few people reading this are familiar with The Book of Basketball, the latest book from Bill Simmons. Some people love him and others hate him, but this entire book is basically about Simmons obsession with basketball, and especially NBA basketball. Given his encyclopedic knowledge on the subject, I think it reads a bit better than his day-to-day column work.

All that being said, I imagine I'll have a full review at some point in the future on this blog. You can find the eBay link here.

And as usual, if any of you buy my crap, let me know and I'll package some free crap in there for you. Crap, crap and crap, fun times!

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