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The Cartridge Family 099 - All Aboard the Final Fantasy VII Remake Train to Midgar
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No offense to the new and shiny Resident Evil 3 Remake, but no remaster was more highly anticipated than Final Fantasy 7. The teasers. The delays. The first world agony. Fans endured, and Square Enix finally delivered this gorgeous video game that Joe intends to lose his entire weekend to, certain review scores (from websites we won’t name) be damn…
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The Cartridge Family 098 - Animal Crossing Eggs, Resident Evil 3, John’s Butcher
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The global pandemic continues and John chose to take drastic measures to ensure his family’s survival. He buys fruit and veggies from a local farm, he orders meat from a butcher (at least he’s not hunting…yet), and he even cut his own hair! Joe, meanwhile, finally left his house after two months of isolation. What’s the one thing keeping these two …
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The Cartridge Family 097: Sony Fumbles its PS5 Event, GameStop Descends into Madness
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Oh, Sony! You’re on top of the world with the PlayStation 4. You’ve had years to position the PlayStation 5 as the next evolutionary step in your path to continued dominance. There’s literally no way you could mess this up. Yikes! Find out how everything went wrong during the week’s surprise PS5 tech rundown. We hope you speak Cerny! Then we have G…
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The Cartridge Family 096 – Coronavirus Fears, Animal Crossing, Doom Eternal Cheers
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Episode 096 is by far the strangest episode of The Cartridge Family, but we are living in strange times. The world is gripped with Coronavirus fever. Toilet paper is missing. Large cases of water are difficult to find. Hand sanitizer? That was the first to go. With this in mind, there’s a lot of Coronavirus talk. Joe quarantines himself on a regula…
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The Cartridge Family 095 – FF7 Remake Demo, Half-Life Alyx, and RE3 Gameplay
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We’re little more than two months into 2020 and this year’s been quiet for video games, at least until a few days ago. Despite the anemic start, things are heating up in such a big way that Buffa is actually considering a VR-capable PC. Oh boy! In no particular order, Valve served up a generous helping of gameplay for Half-Life: Alyx, and Capcom un…
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The Cartridge Family 094 - Cathartic Games, Shovel Knight Fever, Coronavirus's Impact
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Buffa's out of town today so it's Joe's turn to type up some nonsense for you to read instead of simply listening to our delightful, weekly gaming podcast. I'm kidding. Buffa's a talented writer and I'm nothing. No one. An ant. A shadow of an ant. Dust. Check out our latest episode. John and I breakdown the latest from Yacht Club Games, Xbox Series…
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The Cartridge Family 093 – Ninja Goes Full Mamba, StarCraft: Ghost Lives
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Is it OK to be cool with losing? Does every loss while playing a competitive video game, some pickup basketball at the local gym, or a pie-eating contest need to fill you with unholy rage? According to video game influencer and streaming superstar, Ninja, abso-damn-lutely! Ninja recently took to Twitter to call out people who are OK with losing at …
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The Cartridge Family 092 – Switch in Airports, Yakuza Can’t Stop Won’t Stop
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It’s Valentine’s Day 2020, and the dads spend part of this episode expressing their love for video games! John downloaded the new Dead Cells Bad Seed DLC, while Buffa is all about The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening. Joe, on the other hand, needed some Rocket League to clear his brain of Kentucky Route Zero, which might be good? He’s not sure yet…
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The Cartridge Family 091 – Animal Crossing Switch FOMO, eBay Chatter, Plutonium
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After weeks of John and Buffa telling Joe that his video game time would plummet with a baby to take care of (and Joe to his credit pushing back on this), it finally happened. His little cherub consumed his life and he barely enjoyed two hours of video games this week. Life comes at you fast, Joe! John and Buffa returned to their respective homes a…
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The Cartridge Family 090 - Boogie Down With These Console Startup Jingles
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We’re one month into 2020 and everyone’s starving for a shred of info on the next generation consoles. Well, how about the boot-up sequence and jingle for the PlayStation 5? Yup! It appears someone shot a quick video of Sony’s new PlayStation firing up, and it’s… not bad? It also might not be real. Who knows what to believe with today’s Internet? L…
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The Cartridge Family 089 – Godfall Footage Leaks, Dying Light 2 Gets the Boot
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John is off in California role-playing Once Upon a Time in Hollywood this week, so Joe and Buffa muscled through the rare two-person show. Thankfully, our lovely personalities made up for John’s absence, and we expect him to return with a vengeance next week! What’s new? How about the WWE Royal Rumble happening this weekend? Buffa’s pumped for that…
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The Cartridge Family 088 – Cyberpunk Gets Delayed and We Save GameStop
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So far, the 2020 release schedule is like driving down the highway when your favorite NFL team is playing. Expect delays! Every game is getting pushed. Square Enix delayed its Final Fantasy 7 Remake and Marvel’s Avengers, while CD Projekt Red shocked the Internet with a fall delay for its highly anticipated Keanu Reeves simulator, Cyberpunk 2077! T…
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The Cartridge Family 087 – John Tackles CES, Sony Unveils the PS5 Logo
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It’s official! Sony unveiled the logo for the PlayStation 5! And the crowd went… ugh! To be fair, we don’t remember Sony hyping up its CES event as THE destination for all things PS5, so this is probably another case of the collective Internet getting excited for nothing. Putting the cart before the horse. Walking before crawling. Chicken before th…
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The Cartridge Family 086 – Welcoming 2020, Dissecting the Modern Warfare Campaign
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Piss off, 2019! The 2010 decade is officially in the can, and The Family can’t wait for 2020 to heat up! That means we have a variety of gaming resolutions (and even some unrelated ones) for the New Year! We also talk about what we’re most looking forward to, from exciting hardware releases to the promise of new games. Cyberpunk, that means you! As…
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The Cartridge Family 085 - Our Gaming Decade in Review
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It's a miracle we got this epsidoe out... but we did it. And we did it because we love bloviating about games despite our limited time to play them. I guess that's what makes the games on today's show so important, though - we made time for them. Isn't that the highest praise of all? Our most limited resource, time, was dispensed like currency on t…
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The Cartridge Family 084 – 2019 Game Awards, Buffa Seinfeld, a Beatdown that Changes... the Climate
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OK, so Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards came and event, the winners were crowned, and some new games were revealed, but is this show merely a commercial vehicle used to generate hype, or does it actually celebrate the year in games? Or, can it be both? There’s nothing wrong with doing both, right? Right? From Software’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is the…
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The Cartridge Family 083 – Death Stranding Day, John Goes to GameStop, Joe Reflects on Outer Worlds
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It’s Friday! It’s Friday! The family gets down with Friday, and oh, what a Friday it is! Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited cinematic experience, Death Stranding, is available nationwide. Similar to The Outer Worlds, there is much division over Kojima’s latest. Joe, who is somehow completing 40 hour RPGs despite having as newborn, can’t wait to build brid…
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The Cartridge Family 082 - Buffa and John Call Joe “Daddy”, Mixed Opinions on The Outer Worlds
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It finally happened! Joe’s a freakin’ dad! In this week’s episode, John and Buffa welcome Joe to the parents club. Yup… just a bunch of dads talking about video games now. Speaking of which, some ish went down in the show’s absence. The Outer Worlds is available for all major platforms (cough, not for Switch yet, cough) and Joe and John are about a…
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The Cartridge Family 081 - Buffa, Where Art Thou, Buffa? The Ultimate Paradox starring John & Joe
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Hey, here's something to consider: Buffa isn't the father-father he cracked himself up to be. I mean, would you leave your father-brothers or whatever at home all alone while you frolic at some sort of undisclosed but prominent comic-book related conference in New York? No, you wouldn't. Your Mother-sisters or whatever raised you better than that. …
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The Cartridge Family 080 - Playstation State of Blasé, Inside Mehxbox, Long Live Nintendo Direct
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On today's episode, John and I (you read correctly. Buffa's away, today) dive into the dumpster fires that are PlayStation State of Play and Inside Xbox. These two broadcasts did little to ignite our fandom especially when compared to Nintendo's version of these direct-to-consumer video info-dumps. Enjoy as John and I muck around in this topic for …
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The Cartridge Family 079 - Nintendo Switch Lite, “Honey I Shrunk the Genesis”, Apple Disruption
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Of all the weeks in September 2019, this one will likely be our favorite, and not just because of the pumpkin ice coffees, Halloween decorations, and week 3 of NFL football. There were seismic shifts within the gaming universe that will change everything. First up, we have the Sega Genesis Mini Console, a slick piece of hardware that comes with 42 …
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The Cartridge Family 078 - TGS Reactions, Fit Ring Adventure, iPhone 11's Demon (X Machina) Holes
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Welcome to September - a month of new hardware, new games, and the beginning of that beautiful dead tree season: Autumn. We haven't quite hit that Autumn mark yet, but we have hit that Holiday 2019 video game release mark; some of the year's biggest and best are beginning to launch and this week is no exception. As if Gears 5's launch wasn't enough…
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The Cartridge Family 077 - Nintendo Direct, Overwatch, Tetris 99 V2, SNES on Switch
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It's one of those special weeks in gaming where Nintendo decides to bestow upon us their gracious glut of gaming goodness (aliteration). So, the fam is here to talk all about it and make sure you, the loyal listener, are up to date on mostly everything that was announced during this week's Direct. That's pretty much all we talk about this episode b…
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The Cartridge Family 076 - 16-bit Aladdin and Lion King Approach, Shovel Knight Dig, YouTube Fears, Buffa Gets Beat
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Today's show is new territory for the fam: John and myself hold down the fort with little help from our third man, Buffa. To be honest, we really make him atone for his vacationing sins in the form of a reverse beatdown. You can catch all the audio violence your heart desires at the end of the show. Before that, though, it's business as usual. Than…
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The Cartridge Family 075 - Galaxy Unpacked, Game Journaling, Tesla Gaming, Forfeiting
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On today's 75th episode of The Cartridge Family, the fam enjoys ill Buffa's recounting of the Samsung Galaxy Unpacked Conferece which he attended in Brooklyn just a few short weeks ago. We go on to discuss John's new whip and all the gaming he does while driving. We discuss my insufferably dorky pasttime of journaling about each and every game that…
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