The RFN Drinking Game
Over the past few years, I have listened to the majority of RFN episodes with the “Big 4” (Jonny, Jon, James and Greg), both new and archived. There are so many great in-jokes and recurring touchstones that I immediately thought, borderline alcoholic that I am, of a drinking game. I’ve been meaning to get this started for ages. With Greg leaving the show, now seemed like a good time.
Here is a smattering of “rules” to get us started.
Post your own favourites below and I will try to add them to the list!
Greg talks about a side-scrolling shooter – 1 drink
Greg talks about a vertical shooter – 1 drink
Greg talks about Castlevania – 1 drink
Anyone talks about Zangeki No Reginleiv – 2 drinks
Greg says “to be honest” – 1 drink
Greg pronounces HD as “Haytch Dee” – 2 drinks
Jonny takes James to task over an outrageous statement – 1 drink
James slips in a snarky, funny side comment while someone else is talking – 1 drink
Jonny sings– 1 drink
Jon raps– 1 drink
Jonny and Jon sing together – 2 drinks
Jon does the Donkey Kong rap– 3 drinks
Someone describes a game as “broken” – 1 drink
Someone references Episode 103– 1 drink
Someone references Episode 104: The Corrections – 2 drinks
Jonny compares a game to Metroid – 1 drink
James expresses disdain for Metroid - 1 drink
Unintentional homoeroticism– 1 drink
Intentional homoeroticism– 2 drinks
Someone references Cho Aniki– 2 drinks
Greg discusses a Japanese Virtual Console game for more than 5 minutes– 1 drink
Greg discusses a Japanese Virtual Console game for less than 5 minutes – 38 drinks
James discusses a Tales game – 1 drink
James discusses a Layton game – 1 drink
James takes fewer than 3 days to finish the new Layton game – 1 drink
James takes more than 3 days to finish the new Layton game – 9000 drinks
Jonny talks Magic: The Gathering – 1 drink
Everyone else takes the piss out of Jonny for talking Magic: The Gathering – 2 drinks
The N64 is discussed– 1 drink
James, Greg and Jon go on about how they didn’t get to do the N64 episode – 2 drinks
Someone references The Drunk-Cast – 1 drink
Someone references Karl’s un-broadcast-able story – 2 drinks
Someone mentions Karl’s love for No More Heroes and Killer 7 – 1 drink
Jonny introduces the podcast team with “Here with me, as always...” – 1 drink
During intros, Greg says “Ahoy Hoy” – 1 drink
During Intros, Jon says “Always a pleasure, Jonny” – 1 drink
During intros, James makes a non-committal grunt of some sort – 2 drinks
When anyone says "Its soo good" or "sooo Good" - 1 drink
Greg uses the word "Perfunctory" to describe a game - 1 drink
Jonny compares a game to Milon's Secret Castle - 1 drink
Jon says "lords of ______" or says a game's name with the same voice. - 1 drink
Let's Tap theme starts playing - 1 drink
Jon says "it's the _____, people" - 1 drink
Someone actually reads the "now playing" copy verbatim when there's a pun - 2 drinks
Jonny mentions his conversation about Godzilla versus the giant enemy crab - 3 drinks
James makes a radio drama - 5 drinks
- Jonny references a classic rock band (1 drink)
- James (or Jonny) references his sister (2 drinks)
- Someone references the fact that Greg is universally more well-loved than the rest of the crew, for some bizarre reason. (4 drinks)
- James laughs in THAT way...you know the one. "DAT LAUGH" (1 drink)
- Greg mentions that he's a fan of something that absolutely no one would think that Greg would enjoy. (3 drinks)
- Someone references 2001: A Space Odyssey, or a David Lynch film/tv show. (1 drink)
- Jon talks about a Nintendo game. (10 drinks)
- Jonny's new business takes about five times longer than everyone else's. (4 drinks) [This only happened on a few, notable episodes.]
- Greg references something he watched in his childhood that no sane parent would let their child watch. (3 drinks) [could be tied into the David Lynch thing]
- Guillaume talks about a mod of some sort. (2 drinks)
- Guillaume completely disagrees with someone. (1 drink)
- Sarah from iowa city sends in a letter (3 drinks)
- Guillaume talks about a platformer (half a drink - you'd die otherwise)
- We get a stinger at the end (very rare these days)
- James makes a comment about how "you can really divide the GameBoy library up into pre-Pokemon and post-Pokemon." (2 drinks)
- Gui stumbles 2 or more times reciting Now Playing (1 drink)
- Gui completes Now Playing without stumbling (7422 drinks)