Power Button Podcast
Tip JarPTB Celebrates 3,000 Entries
July 12, 2010
Press The Buttons has passed another milestone and crossed the 3,000 entries mark, so it's time once again to look back and list a few of my favorite articles from the last set of 500. It's hard to believe that it's only been eight months since we last paused to reflect on previous articles. In that time the Power Button podcast launched, we've been through another E3, the PTB YouTube account sprang to life with plenty of Just Cause 2 videos, and two fantastic Super Mario platformer titles rocked our world. Here's a selection of some of the my favorite entries from this arbitrary time period defined by large round numbers:
- Uncharted 2 Voice Casting Nails Genre Connections (Odo was a Nazi?)
- Beyond Beeps: Plok (This soundtrack demands and creates smiles)
- American Link Is Hardcore (Link gets his own "angry eyebrows")
- Fly Me To The Insomniac Moon (More games need archives of explorable deleted material)
- Fans Ponder, Pitch New Back To The Future Game (Maybe now some of this will come to pass)
- Nudity Restored In North American Link's Awakening (The modest hippo explained once and for all)
- Michael Jackson Worked On Sonic 3 Soundtrack (At last, closure!)
- Celebrate OverClocked Remix's Tenth Anniversary With Ten Stellar Tracks (Here's hoping for ten more years and beyond!)
- What's Wrong With This Screenshot? (How well do you know your favorite games?)
- Abolishing The Hyrule Royal Family Tradition (Get moving, princess)
- Mini-Review: Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth (Includes my video commentary)
- 2010 Wish List Includes Rebooted Vampires, Electric Sheep, Hall & Oates, and Flying Cars (Half a year later, some of these are coming true)
- Sing Along With Saints Row 2 (Maybe Saints Row 3 will include a "The Sun Always Shines On TV" singalong)
- Mini-Review: Mega Man: Official Complete Works and Mini-Review: Mega Man X: Official Complete Works (Two fantastic art books that deserve your attention)
- Stephen Totilo's Gaming Decade Challenge (What was I doing with games during the 2000s?)
- Secret Origins: Mario Is Missing! (In which I learn a valuable lesson)
- The Men Who Play Mario (Why do adults play Super Mario games?)
- Beyond Beeps: Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix (I'm still waiting for a sequel)
- OCRemix Wants To Compose Sonic 4 Soundtrack (I take credit for kickstarting this movement in the online media)
- Play That Beepy Music Over At Kombo (Some fantastic gaming tunes for your enjoyment)
- Kombo Breaker Crew Transitions To New Podcast: Introducing Power Button (Joey Davidson, Brad Hilderbrand, and I bring our show to PTB; of course you're encouraged to check out the entire series)
- Is Final Fantasy XIII Out Yet? and One Of These Legends Is Not Like The Others (Some Amazon.com oddness)
- Bionic Commando Strategy Guide Review At Strategy Guide Love (As the world's only fan of 2009's Bionic Commando, it seems, I'm the only person right for this job)
- Power Button - Episode 2: OverClocked Remix Discussion With Larry Oji And David Lloyd (Time for an origin story!)
- Dante's Inferno Review At Kombo (A change in direction for reviews at Kombo starts here with an analysis of theme and structure)
- Exploring The Capcom Turnaround (Once you see it, you can't unsee it)
- Mayhem In Panau With Just Cause 2 (The first in an ongoing video series of explosions and stunts)
- Power Button - Episode 5: April Fooling With Dan "Shoe" Hsu (Don't miss the story of how Electronic Gaming Monthly confused the industry)
- Just Cause 2 Review At Kombo (One of my favorite reviews of the year; I'm still playing this game months later and we did a Power Button episode featuring it)
- Check Out Mega Man's Graphics! and Check Out Sonic The Hedgehog's Graphics! and Check Out Red Dead Redemption's Graphics! (The blue bomber's technical schematics reveal all kinds of hidden functions, while Sonic gains a few new power-ups and Red Dead's protagonist encounters Tim the Bear)
- Introducing The Mega Man Killers (A video history tour of the Robot Masters revived for Mega Man 10)
- Resistance Is Futile Against Star Trek: Borg (Revisit the multimedia Star Trek CD-ROM adventure from the mid-1990s)
- Mystery Of The Nintendo Star Controller Solved (Case closed!)
- Power Button - Episode 9: Fat Princess: Fistful Of Cake Producer Matt Morton Feeds Us Answers (Cake please!)
- The Lost Games Of Lost (I'd still play Candidate Fighter)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review At Kombo and "The Ten Best Super Mario Levels" At Kombo and Super Mario Galaxy 2's Little Ray Of Sunshine and Power Button - Episode 11: In Which Super Mario Galaxy 2 And Red Dead Redemption Consume Our Nights (A collection of Galaxy-related content including fun throwback videos)
- Power Button - Episode 12: Junking The Press Junkets And Beating The Bribes With Dan "Shoe" Hsu (Shoe returns to tell us all about the dark side of the journalism business)
- Exploring The Top Ten Power-Ups (A Kombo feature; yes, the Plok inclusion was mine)
- Princess Peach's Drinking Problem And Other Mario Kart Localization Changes (A lot of people seemed to like drunk Peach)
- E3 2010: Nintendo 3DS Hands-On Impressions At Kombo and E3 2010: Hands-On With Nintendo 3DS (I learned a lot with my time playing the Nintendo 3DS)
- E3 2010: The Return Of Donkey Kong Country Returns Strikes Back (And it's about time!)
- Mainstream Media Calls Fan-Created Image "Worst Video Game Of All-Time" [sic] (This one really grinds my gears)
- Parents Television Council Wants M-Rated Games Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (I caught the Parents Television Council's attention with this one)
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