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President Cat thinks you should listen to this weeks episode of OLR. Yes, during the reading of Japanese release dates, the strange phenomenon known as "President Cat" begins. There is plenty of other gaming news though, including a lawsuit against sellers of the R4 device, and a new pokemon game from Nintendo. Motion Control for the PS3 might be out sooner than you think, but not in the exact way you were thinking. Also, a racing classic revival gives former arcade employees nightmares. Prepare for the return of DO DO DO DO DOOO DOOOOO In part B tonight, we get majorly distracted by our twitter, but we still manage to cram in plenty of discussion on a Wii Exercise bike, XBOX 360 locking out unauthorized memory units and some details on the "Demo Play" mode in New Super Mario Bros. Wii. All this and MORE including your chatroom antics, phone calls, e-mails, tweets (and plenty of them) on what is one of our craziest shows of the year. Its the show where EVERY gamer has a voice, Orange Lounge Radio! Meow!
DJ Hero is in the house tonight, and DJ Loki takes us thru a spin of the demo unit. You will never guess where he got it from. Also we touch on the gaming news, such as more information on the Epic Mickey game that is Wii bound. Could XBOX 360 Avatars soon play games at a retrocade? Could the Wii balance board soon be used in Airport security? We tackle the questions that this weeks gaming news makes. In Part B tonight, there are some new developments with Facebook and Twitter support on the 360. Now we have an idea of when to expect them. Also that was expected was an inevitable port of Rock Band to the iPhone, and the details are discussed on our show. All this and MORE including your e-mails, chatroom antics, phone calls, twitter topics and so much more on the show where EVERY gamer has a voice- Orange Lounge Radio!
Episode 341 of our show was happening like any other show usually does. "How was your gaming week?", some housekeeping... a funny in-joke developing over the Daytona USA song, and so forth. Then, when going over the release dates for Japan, we came across a title called Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii. We clicked over to some more info on the game to find it was a game all about CATS. However this was not just simply nintentcats or some other type of typical Wii shovelware. The screenshots of this game showed EXTREME CUTENESS. Cats wearing cat ears. Cats dancing. CATS PLAYING THE PIANO. To hell with Uncharted 2, this was our new obsession.
Let's face it, America has an obsession with LOLcats. Who reading this site hasn't ever heard of the site icanhascheezburger? And how many views does keyboard cat have at this point? Heck, Keyboard Cat made it's way into the game scribblenauts. In trying to figure out what this game was all about, we loosely translated the title to mean "President". A-HA "President Cat" must be the english name of the game! What a catchy name for an absolutley adorable game. Of course, we have no idea what you DO in the game. Or what the controls are. Or what the object is. However, it doesn't matter. It's CATS. Playing the PIANO. And ADORABLE. Thus, a twitter topic was soon born.
Our calls to tweet the publisher about localizing this game for the US we figured would fall upon deaf ears. After all, we're just some indepent podcast on the internet. Most people don't care we've been on for seven years or that we've won some awards from our peers. We have no TV network or magazine to back us up, so it makes it tough for us to land exclusives and interviews.
But they HEARD US... and they RESPONDED while we were on break that night. Our listeners couldn't get enough of "Rena", also known a little more literally translated as "Boss Cat" or "Queen Cat". Rena couldn't understand why she suddenly had all these new english speakers and followers. They were truly humbled, and we were impressed with the power of social networking.
Amongst all the wii garbage and shovelware we read about in release days week after week, there has to be room for a little bit of cute, a little bit of LOLZ... a whole lot of cat.
Help support our cause to get "President Cat" in the US. If we can show the executives that enough people outside of Japan would "get it", it just might work. Post to twitter, follow the developers at @renawii and send your fan art and love to
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Togther, we can get this game released. YES WE CAN.
Episode 341 will be on the feed Monday night.
More information: http://rena-wii.jp/ http://www.twitter.com/renawii
This was a special mini episode of Orange Lounge Radio taped for our absence/vacation from allgames.com for October 4th. Rob and Jamie got together to talk about a few of the early news stories from the week (Including Super Street Fighter 4 news) and then got into answering random questions from twitter which spawned some surprisingly in-depth discussions. PLEASE NOTE: This is a MINI episode of Orange Lounge Radio, was not taped live, and is therefore not a typical episode or given a number.
Episode 341 of our show was happening like any other show usually does. "How was your gaming week?", some housekeeping... a funny in-joke developing over the Daytona USA song, and so forth. Then, when going over the release dates for Japan, we came across a title called Sukeban Shachou Rena Wii. We clicked over to some more info on the game to find it was a game all about CATS. However this was not just simply nintentcats or some other type of typical Wii shovelware. The screenshots of this game showed EXTREME CUTENESS. Cats wearing cat ears. Cats dancing. CATS PLAYING THE PIANO. To hell with Uncharted 2, this was our new obsession.