Bonus Show - End Of Year Review 2024 & Hopes for 2025

Intro - 0:00:33

Fan-Games/Projects - 0:04:02 - 0:37:45 Reclaiming the Path Teaser trailer 4th March 2024. A full trailer came on April 22nd showing off story elements, great cut-scenes and showed off the main characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4oyw5Yjt58

Virtua Pet Chobu Chan – released April 4th by Sayuhhm – Tamagotchi style game with Chobu Chan. - 0:09:00

https://shenmuedojo.com/virtua-pet-chobu-chan-releases-right-now/

Shenmue World Issue 3 - 0:11:35

October 4th 2024 – Richard Payne released a mod where you can now play the 70 man battle as Guizhang. - 0:19:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-Hug0X8dAA

October 4th 2024 – Shenmue Park (Brian Park) discovered an unused Zhang cutscene in the GameJam Beta of Shenmue 2. - 0:20:49

https://youtu.be/UZ0N_bqlqYw?si=DPddtZl2S2caAffd

October 17th – Eric Kelso Collage and Prints Project. - 0:26:50

https://www.erickelso.com/fightermania.html

December 22nd 2024 DOS2.0 was released to great fanfare. 0:29:08

https://shenmuedojo.com/media/dreams-of-saturn/#:~:text=Dreams%20of%20Saturn%202.0%20%E2%80%93%20The,if%20you%20have%20older%20ones.

December 24th Shenmue Quiz by Nai-San. 0:33:28

https://www.shenmuedojo.com/forum/index.php?threads/shenmue-challenge-on-the-sega-saturn-see-the-progress.5689/

Additionally - Shenmue Saturn - You Arcade by Frogbull - 0:35:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5e5bkRXSmw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=036YePjTh4c

Shenmue in LAD Infinite Wealth – 29th January - 0:37:48 Shenmue makes an appearance in Infinite Wealth as the first podcast episode.

Yu Suzuki YSNET Interview with PRS – Published May 10th - 0:48:16 James from the Dojo and Switch from PRS conducted an in-depth interview with Yu Suzuki at YSNET.

Tweetathon/Times Square - 0:52:08 Discussion around the Tweetathon, Times Square impact and more!

ININ Games come on board as Shenmue 3 Publisher -19th November - 1:00:30 Discussion around the news ININ Games are now the publisher for Shenmue 3 and the future!

Shenmue Turns 25 – December 29th 2024 - 1:12:15 - 1:26:01 All the celebrations for the 25th birthday of the Shenmue series!

Shenmue has a PS2 version! - 1:17:00 https://www.famitsu.com/article/202412/29221

Shenmue 1 Beta - June 2000 Released - 1:23:20 https://www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/shenmue-dreamcast-qa-history-prototype-debug

GameJam Beta Article: https://www.sega-dreamcast-info-games-preservation.com/en/shenmue-2-game-jam-japanese-prototype-release

Polls Performance - 1:26:08 - 1:33:38

24th Jan – Retrogamer asked people for their top 100 retro games up to PS2 era Results published on March 14th had Shenmue 1 at #9 and Shenmue 2 at #19. - 1:27:22

Sept 10th 2024 – Ryo Hazuki voted 6th most Iconic SEGA Character of all time on CBR.com. Ryo Hazuki ranked #6 https://www.cbr.com/iconic-sega-characters-ever/ - 1:31:26

September 22nd 2024 – Shenmue 2 entered ‘The Video Game Hall of Fame’. - 1:32:31

Merchandise Summary 1:33:40 - 1:46:00 Announced on April 3rd 2024 Insert Coin showcased a new Shenmue Merch. All Items are still available now. - 1:34:04 http://www.insertcoinclothing.com/shenmue/

September 9th – LRG confirmed a DC line of trading cards. 1:35:23

December 13th 2024 – LRG Reveal the Shenmue Merch – still able to be ordered until Jan 13th you can get: Kitten plushie complete with box and tuna, t-short, hoodie, tomato store pin, hat, skate deck, trading cards and holders + DC Coin and poster. - 1:36:10 https://limitedrungames.com/collections/shenmue-merch?_pos=1&_psq=Shenmue&_ss=e&_v=1.0

Shenmue Merch Discussion from EGX. 1:40:12

Steel Paws - 1:47:54 New Game from YSNET announced at The Game Awards – Dec 13th 2024

YS End of Year message - 1:55:59 Taken from Famitsu 28th Dec 2024 - Translated by Phantom Rover Stone https://www.phantomriverstone.com/2024/12/yu-suzukis-2025-new-years-resolution.html

Final Thoughts - 1:58:57 James and Matt summarise their final thoughts for 2024 and hopes for the Shenmue series in 2025.