Joystiq Podcast Holiday Funanza 2009

by Justin McElroy on Dec 23rd 2009 12:30PM

Finally, the Holiday Funanza has arrived! We've got some wonderful music and a ton of your holiday memories to help put us into the giving spirit, all accompanied by Raymond Ocdol's humbug of a photoshop.

Get a warm drink and some warmer slippers, gather the family around and get ready to have your ass wassailed clean off.

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Hosts: Christopher Grant (@chrisgrant), Justin McElroy (@justinmcelroy) and Ludwig Kietzmann (@LudwigK)

Music: "Mothership Christmas" by Justin McElroy, Assorted Holiday Hits

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Reader Comments (50)

The A Santa's Creed II game is my new GOTY.

I'm loving this episode so far, I haven't been really in the Christmas mood until now. Thanks Joystiq for reigniting my holiday spirit! And happy holidays to all!

May you all by blessed with a game under the tree this season.

Merry Christmas.

So long as it doesn't include the words "carnival", "imagine", random Zs, "baby", "party", or anything similar in the title... and no licensed movie games either.

So I shouldn't even bother sending my gifts then sonicspkie? Now what the hell am I supposed to do with these 15 copies of Imagine Babiez: Carnival Party?! I spent hours wrapping them in leftover pre-order game comics too.

That's easy. Send them to the kids and relatives who have been somewhat naughty this year. Make sure you don't give them to the really bad people. Save them for those extra copies of Barbie Horse Adventures you have lying around.

I wonder if anyone else spotted DSG in that picture.

It's a Christmas miracle!

No, it's a Festivus miracle! Festivus is the 23rd, Christmas is the 25th. Difference!

Yes, the robots will come up with any excuse to drink. "It's Festivus!" "It's my Botzmitza!" "I need it to fuel my power cells!"

Oh those robots and their artificial imaginations.

For giving the world the term "botzmitza", I give you a +1.

of course we did. I LOVE DSG!

JOY TO THE WOOOORLD!!!!!!!!

Thanks for all the great podcasts this year!

I cant seem to find it on itunes. I'm just going to download the mp3 file thanks guys for doing this holiday special.

lol at Dead Space Girl!

Agreed. She looks so natural singing carols.

ok - I have to repost - The Intro Song is the BEST thing I have heard this holiday season!

Could have done better with 'shopping your faces.

Audio cuts off too early again (in the middle of a voicemail) at 80:54

Nevermind, redownloaded and it appears to be full length.

Happy holidays Joystiq Staff!

Also, I don't think DSG understands that carolling is supposed to be quiet, subtle and festive, not blood-curdling yelling.

Maybe someone shoved a lump of coal in her stocking.

Or down her throat.

Joystiq has the best pics for their podcasts and articles ever, they never fail in the laugh factor. Downloading on my Zune now.

I was born in September, and I rarely got video games for my birthday, so Christmas was pretty much it for me. I remember when I got my NES, the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt cart was the only thing I had for it for 2 years.

I think I might have gotten a Game Boy before I got a new NES game.

I wouldn't be too disappointed with Super Mario Bros. & Duck Hunt. Both great games... except for that fucking dog taunting you for 2 years.

Ok, that suxed.

I had game rentals to tide me over. Played lots of Megaman, Duck Tales, Battletoads, etc. Just didn't own anything else. ;)

Coincidentally, I also used to spend a lot of my free time outside.

Gettin' my PJ's and my hot chocolate now!

This is Ian from Nashville, my son's first game is ... Lego Indiana Jones on the PS3. It's by his request from a short list (Lego Batman, Mini Ninjas). I'm also going to download Revenge of the Wounded Dragons (he loves delivering the beat down and does way better with 2D games) and Chris is right downloads make kind of lousy gifts.
I have in fact introduced him to older games, by which I mean Dreamcast and PS2 games, but he's five and half so complexity of controls is the main issue after content for what I can show him.

Happy holidays everyone.

Get a DS or Wii and introduce him to 2D Mario. Or get the Wii and introduce old Sonic as well. Either way, the kid needs educated in gaming, and Mario will not have a complex control scheme (doesn't mean it'll be easy) so it'll have a good learning curve for him.

I'd say Mr. Mobius is right recommending the old Genesis Sonic games and some of the old 2D Mario games. Sonic only required the D-pad and one button to play, and Mario needed 2 (3 for Super Mario World). That would probably be a great way to teach him increasingly complex controls.

We're not buying another console, and bear in mind that I'm too old to care about Nintendo. By the time the NES came around I was already into PC gaming and the Nintendo looked really lame by comparison.
As for an education in gaming, i would introduce him to Infocom text adventures before Genesis or SNES games.

Hats off to Chris, Ludwig, and Justin for a fantastic year of shows. This holiday episode totally has me in the Christmas spirit :)

Also, Dead Space girl caroling is the best thing ever. That image (what are those called, anyhow?) is definitely one of my top 5 ever.

yay my photoshop was used!
Merry Christmas Everyone and ty for all the podcasts this year

i was so happy to see this podcast today. i was so excited and then when i heard the fine autotuned song in the beginning, i knew today was gonna be a great day. thanks hosts for giving me so much fun this year. you have changed my life.

Hey guys,

Have any of you ever seen Santa's Slay?

Check out the intro:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKrsAFWPnl4

loving the music playing throughout the 'cast

also, you played Barenaked Ladies, one of my favourite bands ever!

Merry xmas to all!

Thanks for the festive podcast! I really enjoyed the comments from Zack's call @ 1:12:10. My sentiments exactly Justin, I couldn't have said it better myself.

Thanks again for another great year of totally free podcasts.

Okay, I'll admit that regardless of the bad photoshops Joystiq usually puts up, ASanta's Creed 2 is a good one

Thanks a bunch! I originally made it for the JPAG, when I decided that I must share it with the 'cast.

It came to me with the realization that there's no good holiday-based games anymore. There are classic holiday movies and music that people take in every year at different seasons, why not games?

so the left ghost is ludwig, the middle is chris, and the right one is justin?
trying to figure out who is who here

The right one is Dumbledore..

LOL the beat at the beginning is sick.

nice job justin. love the autotune.

I loved this episode. I'm listening to it a second time, that's how good it is!

I love you guys to. Merry Christmas. :)

I pictured Justin sitting in front of a piano lightly tinkling the ivories the entire time I was listening.

Ahahaha. The Dead Spacee :Extraction joke.

Anyway, the chance of you both being born on the same day is actually (365 x 365) 1 in 133,225.

That intro was absolutely fantastic. Justin McElroy, you're my fucking hero.

"Not the JC who knows a lot about import games - although Jesus Christ probably knows his games."

LOLOL

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