It’s been a busy week for the Default Prime family, but we won’t ignore the needs of our Primecast audience! Alex Carlson fills in for the famed host John Callahan, but Alex is joined by Primecast mainstay Raymond Mak and joining the crew this week is associate author Mike Patuleia. This week the Primecasters dive into the Kickstarter campaigns of the Ouya console and the Penny Arcade site, while also discussing the pros and cons of created characters or default characters.
OVERRIDER is a new sci-fi roguelite about hoverboarding and smashing robots, and there's a Kickstarter campaign to help get it funded.
From systems that could keep your beer cool, to oddities trying to get in on the popularity of VHS and laserdisc, you’ve got some very, very weird video game consoles out there.
I had the LaserActive... it was a nice collectors piece but not very practical. Especially when it came to needing recapping. I think i paid all of about $50 for the floor model from an incredible Universe back in the day. I ended up selling it many years later for $300 at the time due to it needing a new laser and the aforementioned recapping.
An honorable mention not on the list would be the VM Labs Nuon. It basically looked like any regular DVD player but it had ports on it for controllers to play specific games. one of which is still exclusive to it with Tempest 3000. It also offered nuon enhanced DVD movies with extra content not accessible by regular players.
Cinnabunny and Time is Honey are currently up to be crowdfunded on Kickstarter right now. They're both adorable.
