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SuperFamiCompLit

SuperFamiCompLit exists as a video game book club that you are more than welcome to play along with! It’s a show in which we discuss games “in context” ie with respect to their canonical, spiritual and covert predecessors and descendants. While the show is primarily mechanically focused we talk about the in universe world as its relevant or… as we like! For each episode we choose a game to play and research as well as a group of optional “extra credit” games to play for comparison and contrasting. When things are up and running the plan is to release an episode a month
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Nov 27, 2016

Yo dawgs, welcome to another episode of SuperFamiCompLit 1Up 2 Drink Minimum!


Today the gang deep dives roundabout and brooches the complex subject of game mechanics as narrative and comedic devices. Listen and enjoy :O

Nov 21, 2016

Hello and welcome Back to SuperFamiCompLit, my name is Rocky Hardee and you’re listening to a Black Disk Mix, where we delve into the arrangements and interludes of notable games.  Today, we’ll be exploring into the original soundtrack for The World Ends With You.

Nov 14, 2016

Yo all, Joe here. Today's release is another ep of Brian and Gruici's subseries SuperFamiCompLit: 1Up 2 Drink Maximum. Not even gonna lie I haven't had a chance to listen to this but bet its stellar as usual ;)

Anyway its about the FMV murder mystery Contradiction spot the liar so fill up a stein/glass/shot and get in on it :D

Nov 7, 2016

In this edition of Black Disk Mixes, Rocky explores the soundtrack in Square Enix's wildly imaginative, critically accalimed The World Ends With You for the Nintendo DS. Featured artists include: Takeharu Ishimoto, Londell "Taz" Hicks, and Jyongri.


[Editors note: Sorry for the lateness but here's our very delayed Halloween (and now more fallish) episode :O - Joe]

Oct 16, 2016

Hello hello and welcome to the final episode of our October series on D and survival horror! Enjoy your Halloween treats and find out about our mixed feelings on the product of a one-of-a-kind game auteur!

Oct 8, 2016

Welcome back to our October series on Survival Horror with this second part on the man, the myth, the legend behind 1995's D, Keni Eno and his company WARP!

Oct 2, 2016

Hello and welcome to SFCL's Halloween themed series of episodes on Kenji Eno's 1995 Horror classic D AKA D no Shokutaku! On this episode we join our heroes as they discuss their experience with horror, vampire hunting and FMV.

 

Sidenote: The D on the box may stand for dracula...

Sep 20, 2016

Bienenidos a un ironically not-so-quick new episode of SuperFamiCompLit: Quicksave. In this extra long episode we preview the releases of the fall, talk about the delineations and borders of the indie movement and steel ourselves to the desert of enjoyment that was Kenji Eno's D no Shokutaku.

Sep 12, 2016

In this uprecedentedly NC-17 episode of the podcast, Brian and Daniel take advantage of the boss being out of the office to talk about Dating Sims, PUA's, Catgirls and worst of all... MATCH THREE GAMES! Welcome to the horrifying intersection of those topics known as Huniepop!

ENJOY THIS, THE FIRST EP OF OUR NEW SHOW, SUPERFAMICOMPLIT 1UP 2DRINK MINIMUM!

Aug 22, 2016

In this second episode Joe and Scoggin discuss the mechanics, stages and design of Wario Land 2 in-depth. Inevitably it not only gets compared to its prequels and sequels but to its not-so-secret big brother: The Mario Land and Mario Brothers series. Join us in exploring the world of this hybrid exploratory action-puzzle-platformer!

Aug 16, 2016

Ciao e Benvenuto to the new episode of SFCL. In this two-parter Joe, Andrew Scoggin and Brian break down the games in of and around the Wario Land series. Dan Ryckert of GiantBomb.com inevitably comes up in discussion along with the image of italians and jews in the japanese imagination. Needless to say its kind of a crazy ep but I swear to god there's a decent amount of gold to be found in this swamp.

Vieni con noi!

Aug 7, 2016

Welcome to the final Part of our coverage of Firewatch! Things go fully off the rails when we investigate the sight of a tax-evasion explosion from the 1970's vaguely associated with Best Buy.

I swear its more coherent than that so... give it a listen and his us up :D

Jul 31, 2016

Welcome to part 2 of our series on Firewatch, where we go deep into discussions of Body Double and start a long trip off the rails... Enjoy!?

Jul 27, 2016

Hello hello and welcome to the beginning of our series of episodes on Firewatch!

This game prompted a lot of discussion among the hosts and may or may not have been a much better game to discuss than to play. Play it, listen to the eps and help us decide :D

Jul 20, 2016

Hello Hello and welcome to a very strange episode of Superfamicomplit and by superfamicomplit I really mean a somewhat unrelated failed pilot for a sister podcast dissecting bad hong kong movies. Welcome to our cast on Fantasy Mission force, a movie nominally starring Jackie chan that was released in 1984 and is free and available all over youtube. This is a movie commentary track so its encouraged to be listened to while watching the movie so... queue up youtube , sync it with the show as best you can and... enjoy this trainwreck of a movie and of a podcast!

Jul 4, 2016

The title says it all ;)

Jun 27, 2016

Hello Hello and welcome back to the world of SuperFamiCompLit!

It's been awhile but we're glad you've returned! For new fans SFCL (as we like to call it) is a sort of hobbyist video game book club where we get together to play and discuss (in great depth) the history, production and experience of games. These "Quicksave" episodes serve as the rare exception where we instead talk about what going on in the world of games and our own lives. Come, stay awhile and enjoy :D

Mar 6, 2016

Hey all, sorry to tell you but you've reached the end of the road... The podcast is over for now. Long story short I'm currently working full time and in grad school part time and thus till graduation (May) I'll be too busy to run the show. Thus for now we gotta say Sayonara ;~;

But rejoice we leave you with one last episode for now. Please enjoy this card to you reading "Till we meet again."

Mar 1, 2016

Hello hello and welcome to what may be one of the last episodes of the show before we have to go on hiatus.

I'll go into the details of that on another post but just know that we'll probably be back in may, older, stronger and more well rested?

Anyway, today's episode is the beginning of our coverage on Street Fighter II. With SFV coming out this past month we thought it'd be a great time to go over the long and storied history of the series and the genre it gave birth to!

Without further ado, STREET FIGHTER II!

Feb 22, 2016

Hello Hello,

Welcome once again to SuperFamiCompLit: Black Disk Mix. This week I solo Final Fantasy Legend II a game near and dear to my heart. The game is plausibly to blame for a number of obcessions in my life: JRPG's, Mythology and Proto Indo European linguistics.

Hope you not only enjoy the music but are inspired to check out such an awesome game!

- Joe


(PS. We recorded the Street Fighter II episode this past Saturday and it will be up next weekend! - Joe)

Feb 15, 2016

Bonjour and welcome to the final episode of our pokemon extravaganza!

This week we discuss the Hoenn Elite 4 (initial matches and Level 70+ rematches) and the ORAS exclusive Delta Chapter!

Join us as we ride the mega evolution of one of the members of the Wu-Tang clan into space to fight genetics!?

Next Week: Street Fighter 2
Week After: Quicksave

Feb 8, 2016

Hola hola!

On this second part of SFCL's pokemon extravaganza, we talk about the main chunk of the game, wherein a 12 year old child beats all his gym challenges and defeats a major criminal organization while saving the world from primal force in the mold of babylonian myths!

Enjoy!

Next Week: Pokemon Part 3
Week After the above: Street Fighter 2
Week After SF2: Quicksave

Feb 2, 2016

Hello Hello and welcome to the long delayed SFCL Pokemon Extravaganza!

On this weeks episode myself and my abnormally large crew (in quantity rather than corpulence) go through each pokemon generation with new eyes.

Some spoilers:
- Turns out gen 1 was kind of broken from a design and programming standpoint.
- NO ONE likes gen 4.

 

Anyway next week we'll be covering Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald and ORAS themselves so stay tuned and Enjoy!

 

[Tentative Upcoming Schedule:]
Next Week: Pokemon Part 2
Week After That: Pokemon Part 3
Week After the above: Street Fighter 2
Week After SF2: Quicksave

Jan 25, 2016

Hello Hello dear listeners!

This week we're coming at y'all with a new edition of our music side-cast Black Disk Mix, this time looking over the history and music of Xenogears... one of the most ambitious and contentious JRPG's of all time!

This is the first Austin solo episode so hope y'all enjoy :D

Note: Next week we'll begin our long series on Pokemon (Specifically Ruby and Sapphire) which we recorded this past weekend. Enjoy!

Jan 17, 2016

On today's episode Rocky and Austin take the wheel in Joe's absence and give us a trippy analysis of the psychedelic fever dream that is Hotline Miami!

Hotline Miami is a topdown, action/shooter with combat puzzle elements. It's hard as hell but addictive. "Turn on, tune in, drop out".

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