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Art: S VS N by Zola C.

ROUND 1 · SEGA VS NINTENDO · OCT 5-16 · GAME DEV I + II · ALL PERIODS

The scoreboard

One war across every period and both years. Your faction's score counts the whole program, so the kid in 5th period is on your team whether you have met or not.

Nobody does math by hand this year. Points land here the second a marshal taps them or Sensei approves a claim.

LIVE ERA: 16-BIT · GENESIS VS SNES UPDATED: NEVER · THE WAR HAS NOT STARTED
SEGA LEADING
/ M$ XBOX · IN GD2
ROSTER
0
PER HEAD
0
LAST PLAY
+0
VS
NINTENDO LEADING
GD1 + GD2
ROSTER
0
PER HEAD
0
LAST PLAY
+0
SONY LEADING
ENTERED MON 10/19
ROSTER
0
PER HEAD
0
LAST PLAY
+0
P?

A third seat is bolted to this scoreboard and nobody is sitting in it yet. History says who shows up, and it shows up out of a deal that fell through on a stage in Chicago.

ENTERS THE WAR · MON 10/19 · ROUND 2
CLASSSEGANINTENDOEDGE
ON THE FLOORTUE 10/6 · CABINET DAY · THE KICKOFF
MY FAKE by Jayden L.Y'ALL SEEING THIS? by SerenSEGA! by Kalen D.THE FOOTRACE by Zola C.SONIC, PIXEL BY PIXEL by Max G.
MY FAKE Jayden L.
DROPPING THIS FOR NINTENDO by Arion T.THE INFINITE STAIRCASE by Malena D.GODZILLA AND HIS GAME BOY by Arion T.NOW YOU'RE PLAYING WITH POWER by Logan R.
DROPPING THIS FOR NINTENDO Arion T.

THE SCHEDULE · OCT 5-30 · GD1 + GD2

Four weeks of war

Video days teach the history. Then you play it, for points: everyone, at least three games, three photos. Quizzes land on Fridays, ART OF THE CLASH runs every weekend, and Sony crashes the war at the start of week 3.

Everything streaming gets watched in class, because Netflix and Paramount+ can't be homework. Short videos are watch-it-then-play-it, same period.

MON 10/5 · OPENING DAY · ONE PERIOD

THE PRIMER + THE DRAFT

  1. Company Man, "Sega vs. Nintendo." The first 7:24, through Game Boy vs Game Gear. We stop before the Saturn chapter. The back half spoils the war.
  2. Console Wars, the official trailer. Ninety seconds of what you're about to live through.
  3. THE FACTION DRAFT. Sign in to the Keep, pick a side, wear the role. Once.
  4. High Score, Ep 1: Boom & Bust. In full. Howard Scott Warshaw, E.T., and the hole in the desert.

GD2 opens with the Flashgitz recap instead, then drafts with one switch allowed.

TUE 10/6 · THE KICKOFF · FIRST PLAY DAY

CABINET DAY

  1. The briefing. Rules on the TV. Two minutes. No video today.
  2. Spawn your wifi. Hotspot up before the first game, never at the bell.
  3. START HEATS. Sensei hits it once. The room runs itself from there.
  4. Cabinet Day, the whole period. Six stations, every one under five minutes.
  5. The standup bell, then the Captains' Duel. Last ten minutes. Your faction's average is on the line.

Nobody waits for Sensei to call anything. The announcer does it.

VIDEO DAYCHALLENGE DAYQUIZART OF THE CLASH
WEEK 1 · ROUND 1OCT 5-9
LIL GUY by Max G.
LIL GUY Max G.
MON 10/5
OPENING DAY

Company Man primer, the trailer, THE FACTION DRAFT, then High Score Ep 1 in full.

TUE 10/6
THE KICKOFF: CABINET DAY

Briefing, wifi, START HEATS. Six stations. Standup bell and Captains' Duel at the end.

WED 10/7
SHORT DAY · START EP 2

High Score Ep 2, Comeback Kid, starts. Lore: MARIO: CONSTRAINT, sprite guide p8.

THU 10/8
FINISH EP 2 · 8-BIT

First 15 minutes finish Comeback Kid. Then the 8-bit stations.

FRI 10/9
QUIZ 3

The primer, High Score Eps 1-2, sprite guide pages 6-8. GD2: no quiz this week.

WEEKEND
ART OF THE CLASH

Live Fri night to Sun night.

WEEK 2 · ROUND 1OCT 12-16
CAN'T SWIM? by Logan R.
CAN'T SWIM? Logan R.
MON 10/12
CONSOLE WARS, PART 1

The 2020 documentary. Genesis does what Nintendon't. GD2: Video Anatomy 1 opens.

TUE 10/13
CHALLENGE: THE 16-BIT WAR

Sonic 2 rings, SMW score, Puyo Puyo, SF2.

WED 10/14
SHORT DAY · CONSOLE WARS, PART 2

Starts Wednesday. Lore: the Sonic gene, named 1993.

THU 10/15
FINISH THE DOC · 16-BIT, ROUND TWO

Top of the period finishes Console Wars. Then MK, Mario Kart, Sonic 1, F-Zero.

FRI 10/16
QUIZ 4

Console Wars plus sprite guide pages 9-12. Round 1 closes. GD2: Quiz 2, Dreamcast & PS2.

WEEKEND
ART OF THE CLASH

Last weekend of Round 1.

WEEK 3 · ROUND 2OCT 19-23
LET IT BE by Kalen D.
LET IT BE Kalen D.
MON 10/19
SONY ENTERS · VIDEO + PLAY

Two minutes of lore, then Flashgitz. The Sony draft window opens. PlayStation & Saturn playlist, then stations.

TUE 10/20
CHALLENGE: SONY ENTERS

Three champions per station now. Tekken 3, Smash, Bomberman, Ridge Racer.

WED 10/21
SHORT DAY · START EP 5

High Score Ep 5, Fight!, starts.

THU 10/22
FINISH EP 5 · KART WARS

Then Mario Kart 64, CTR, Sega Rally.

FRI 10/23
QUIZ 5

PlayStation & Saturn playlist plus Ep 5. WAR PROPAGANDA posts to #waroftheconsoles. GD2: Quiz 3, Xbox & GameCube.

WEEKEND
ART OF THE CLASH

Three factions on the wall.

WEEK 4 · ROUND 2OCT 26-30
PUYO PANIC by Kalen D.
PUYO PANIC Kalen D.
MON 10/26
VIDEO + PLAY

N64 & Game Boy playlist, then stations.

TUE 10/27
CHALLENGE: THE BRACKET

Street Fighter II on the 35th cabinet. Single elimination.

WED 10/28
SHORT DAY · SEGATA + START EP 6

Segata Sanshiro, then High Score Ep 6, Level Up, starts.

THU 10/29
FINISH EP 6 · LAST STAND

Bracket finals, Typing of the Dead, the Puyo rematch. Captains' bracket final pays 128.

FRI 10/30
QUIZ 6 + HALLOWEEN ARCADE

Quiz 6 first thing. Costumes, cookies, the Captains' Final for 256, the final tally. GD2: Quiz 4, 360 vs PS3.

WEEKEND
THE WAR GOES ON

The unit ends. The scoreboard doesn't.

WEDNESDAYS Short day, about 30 minutes. Wednesday starts the video, the first 15 minutes of Thursday finish it, then stations. THE WAY OF THE WEDNESDAY is paused for the four war weeks and comes back Wed 11/4.

MON 10/5Company Man: Sega vs. Nintendo, 0:00 to 7:24 only. YouTubeFREE
MON 10/5Console Wars, official trailer. YouTubeFREE
MON 10/5 · WED 10/7High Score, Ep 1 Boom & Bust, Ep 2 Comeback Kid.NETFLIX · IN CLASS
MON 10/12 · WED 10/14Console Wars (2020), the documentary.PARAMOUNT+ · OR ASK SENSEI
MON 10/19Flashgitz: Console Wars, Nintendo vs Sega. How Sony enters. YouTubeFREE
WED 10/21 · WED 10/28High Score, Ep 5 Fight!, Ep 6 Level Up.NETFLIX · IN CLASS
WED 10/28Segata Sanshiro. The Saturn's mascot, and the missile.FREE

Every video: read the comments after. That's where you find out what people really thought. A good thread shared in the Discord is XC, Sensei's call.

CHALLENGE DAYS · TUESDAYS + THURSDAYS

The challenges

Stations open, champions step up, and the points land on the scoreboard while you're still at the machine. Every challenge is under five minutes, hard cap: it ends at game over or at the buzzer, and the score on screen when the buzzer hits is the score.

Real hardware where Sensei owns it. The emulator covers the rest.

It's going to be chaos.The points aren't.

TUE 10/6 · THE KICKOFF

CABINET DAY

LOCKED
Arcade era. Six stations, one or two games each, every one under five minutes.
  • STATION 1Space Invaders, then Asteroids emulator3:00 eachSELF-RUNScore at the buzzer counts. Both games, back to back.INTELThe whole industry fit in a cabinet once. Then it didn't.invaders 4120
  • STATION 2Pac-Man, then E.T. the real Atari 26003:00 · 1:30MARSHALEDPac-Man 2600 right after the arcade cab, so you feel the port. E.T. scores PIT ESCAPES: float out of a pit without falling straight back in. Marshal counts out loud.INTELNobody beats E.T. That's the point. Sprite guide p6, PUCK MAN.et 3 escapes
  • STATION 3Pong Tele-GamesFIRST TO 5MARSHALEDVersus. Marshal taps the winner.INTELJobs and Wozniak built arcade Breakout for Atari. Pong came first.pong beat jayden 5-3
  • STATION 4Pac-Man Plus cabinet4:00SELF-RUNOne credit. Score at the buzzer.INTELSprite guide p6: PUCK MAN, and why the name changed.pacman 9870
  • STATION 5Donkey Kong multicade4:00SELF-RUNThree lives, score at the buzzer.INTELSprite guide p8: MARIO: CONSTRAINT. The hat exists because hair was too hard.dk 18400
  • STATION 6Shinobi Sega cabinet4:00SELF-RUNOne credit. Score at the buzzer.INTELSprite guide p9: SONIC: ATTITUDE starts here.shinobi 52000
  • CLOSERTHE BARGAIN BIN random 2600 cartOPTIONALMARSHALEDCircus Atari, or whatever comes out of the box. Most Atari games are not good. That's the crash lesson, and it sets up Ep 2.
THU 10/8

8-BIT

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
The NES saves the industry
  • STATION 1Super Mario Bros. NES ClassicTIMESELF-RUNWorld 1-1, fastest flag.
  • STATION 2Duck Hunt real NES + Zapper + CRTSCORESELF-RUNGame C, clay shooting.
  • STATION 3Galaga Pac-Man Plus cabSCORESELF-RUNOne credit, score at the buzzer.
  • STATION 4Zaxxon Zaxxon cabSCORESELF-RUNOne credit, score at the buzzer.
TUE 10/13

THE 16-BIT WAR

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
Genesis vs Super Nintendo
  • STATION 1Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Genesis MiniRINGSSELF-RUNEmerald Hill Act 1. Most rings held at the signpost.
  • STATION 2Super Mario World SNES ClassicSCORESELF-RUNYoshi's Island 2. Score at the goal.
  • STATION 3Puyo Puyo Sega CDVERSUSMARSHALEDFirst to two wins.
  • STATION 4Street Fighter II SNES ClassicVERSUSMARSHALEDBest of three.
THU 10/15

16-BIT, ROUND TWO

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
Last Challenge Day of Round 1
  • STATION 1Mortal Kombat Genesis MiniVERSUSMARSHALEDBest of three.
  • STATION 2Super Mario Kart SNES ClassicTIMESELF-RUNMario Circuit 1, time trial.
  • STATION 3Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis MiniTIMESELF-RUNGreen Hill Act 1, fastest clear.
  • STATION 4F-Zero SNES ClassicTIMESELF-RUNMute City I, time trial.
TUE 10/20

SONY ENTERS

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
Three champions per station now
  • STATION 1Tekken 3 PlayStation ClassicVERSUSMARSHALEDRound robin, best of three.
  • STATION 2Super Smash Bros. N64VERSUSMARSHALEDThree-stock free for all.
  • STATION 3Saturn Bomberman SaturnVERSUSMARSHALEDBattle mode, first to two.
  • STATION 4Ridge Racer Type 4 PlayStation ClassicTIMESELF-RUNFirst track, fastest race.
THU 10/22

KART WARS

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
Every faction drives everyone's car
  • STATION 1Mario Kart 64 N64TIMESELF-RUNLuigi Raceway, three laps.
  • STATION 2Crash Team Racing PlayStationTIMESELF-RUNCrash Cove, three laps.
  • STATION 3Sega Rally SaturnTIMESELF-RUNDesert stage, fastest run.
TUE 10/27

THE BRACKET

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
Street Fighter II on the 35th Anniversary cab
  • STATION 1Street Fighter II 35th Anniversary cabBRACKETMARSHALEDEach faction sends one champion per round. Lose once, you're out.
THU 10/29

LAST STAND

STATIONS CONFIRMED THE MORNING OF
The last points before Halloween
  • STATION 1Street Fighter II 35th Anniversary cabBRACKETMARSHALEDBracket finals. Captains' bracket final pays 128.
  • STATION 2Typing of the Dead classroom PCsSCORESELF-RUNChapter 2, score at the buzzer.
  • STATION 3Puyo Puyo Sega CDVERSUSMARSHALEDThe rematch. First to three.
FRI 10/30

THE HALLOWEEN ARCADE

The whole room, every machine, the final tally
WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE

Quiz 6 first thing, then the doors open. Come dressed as a character from your faction's side of the war: Sega Kids as Sega characters, Nintendo Kids as Nintendo characters, Sony Kids as PlayStation characters. Every costume that fits your side pays your faction.

Then the Captains' Final for 256, the last points land, END ROUND fires on the scoreboard, and one faction takes the war.

32 per costume from your side · 256 for the Captains' Final · the tally decides it

STATION PROTOCOL · READ IT ONCE, THEN IT'S ON YOU

Seven rules and a bell

1NO PROOF, NO POINTS

If it isn't logged or photographed, it didn't happen. No exceptions, no "but you saw me."

2LOG IT BEFORE YOU LEAVE THE STATION

Marshaled station: the marshal taps it while you watch. Self-run station: photo of the score screen with you in the shot, posted in #waroftheconsoles in the claim format. Tallied later.

3THE BELL IS THE DEADLINE

Claims posted after the bell don't count. DOJO-KUN checks the timestamp, not your story.

4ONE CHAMPION, ONE GAME, THEN ROTATE

Your captain sends you. You play. You log it. You move. Your three games are at three different stations.

5THE MARSHAL'S CALL IS FINAL

Arguing at the station costs your faction 32. Disputes go through your captain, after.

6YOUR PHOTOS ARE YOUR STANDUP

One photo per game. Three games, three photos. Send each one the moment the game ends, as a DM to yourself on Discord, so it's on your PC by the bell.

7THE STANDUP BELL

Five minutes to post. Your faction's average in your period is on the line, and a blank is a zero.

-32THE PENALTY

Playing anything on a PC that isn't a marshaled station. Doomscrolling. Arguing with the marshal. Your whole side pays.

THE HEATS · THE ROOM RUNS ON A 5:30 CYCLE

  • 0:00"3, 2, 1, GO!"Heat number on the TV. Every station starts at once.
  • 4:00ONE MINUTEFinish what you're doing.
  • 4:50TEN SECONDSHands where we can see them.
  • 5:00"GAME!"TIME on the screen. Log your score now, not later.
  • 5:00-5:30"CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER!"Captains send the next champions. Then it loops.
THE ANNOUNCER

The voice is the Smash 64 announcer, through the room speakers, run by the TV. Sensei hits START HEATS once at the top of the period and never calls a heat again.

Station numbers, penalties and lead changes show up as giant text on the TVs, timed to the clip. Blue Team Wins, Red Team Wins, Green Team Wins: factions are Smash team colors, and green is SEGA / M$.

Sensei still triggers three things by hand: the standup bell, the Captains' Duel, and END ROUND.

10:00THE STANDUP BELL

Heats stop. Five minutes to post your three games and three photos. If you spawned your wifi at walk-in, this takes ninety seconds.

5:00THE CAPTAINS' DUEL

At whichever station Sensei calls, never the big TV. Under four minutes. The winning captain's faction takes 64.

0:30THE TALLY

DOJO-KUN closes the window. The faction with the highest standup average in that period takes 128. No post is a zero. Excused absences don't count against you. Fanfares, then the bell.

CLAIMS · PHOTO OR IT DIDN'T HAPPEN

How a point gets on the board

A claim is one photo and one line in #waroftheconsoles. DOJO-KUN works out who you are, what faction, what period and what station from the post itself. You don't fill out anything.

Spawn your wifi when you walk in, because cell service in the room is bad: make your own PC a Windows hotspot before the first game and join it on your phone. Never at the bell.

THE FORMAT · GAME, THEN SCORE dk 18400 pong beat jayden 5-3 et 3 escapes

Typos are fine. "pacmn" and "dk" both land. Names match on first name, last initial, nickname or display name.

Confident match: DOJO-KUN replies "Got it, waiting on Sensei." Not sure: it gives you buttons. No photo: "Photo or it didn't happen."

Sensei approves or rejects every claim in the console. Approved claims hit the scoreboard with a fanfare.

WHAT THE FEED SHOWS · ON THIS PAGE AND ON THE TVS
+32 SEGA · Jayden L. beat Kai J. at PONG, 5-3 · Station 3 · P2
+8 NINTENDO · Zoey D. stepped up at DONKEY KONG · Station 5 · P2
+32 SEGA · Max G. · SHINOBI 52,000 · Station 6 · P3
+128 NINTENDO · STANDUP AVERAGE · P5

One live message per Challenge Day in Discord, kept up to date by DOJO-KUN, plus one recap per period at the bell: faction totals, top play, the Captains' Duel, and who took the standup average.

Sensei will not help you with photos, wifi or Discord during a Challenge Day. Ask your captain. Ask before the bell.

CAPTAINS + MARSHALS · WHO RUNS THE FLOOR

Captains send. Marshals call.

CAPTAINS

TWO PER FACTION PER PERIOD · ROLES: SEGA / NINTENDO / SONY CAPTAIN

Auto-assigned by DOJO-KUN from the highest standup averages in that faction and period, after the draft locks and again when Sony enters. Sensei can override with one tap.

  • Send champions. Matchups are the fun part. Think Pokemon.
  • Run the rotation. Everyone on your side plays three games at three different stations, and nobody goes twice at a station until everyone has gone once.
  • Chase proof. If a teammate's claim isn't posted, that's on you.
  • Own disputes. You are the only channel to the marshal after a call.
  • Play. Captains fight in the Captains' Duel every Challenge Day.

MARSHALS

内弟子 UCHI-DESHI · MASTER'S APPRENTICE · NEUTRAL BY RULE

Uchi-deshi run the marshaled stations: versus matches and judgment calls. They don't play for a faction during the war, they take the standup photos, and they get a marshal payout.

  • One station each. Their phone shows only that station. Tap the winner: 8 for stepping up, 32 for the win.
  • Everything lands live in Sensei's console with UNDO.
  • Helpers without Discord get a day-only marshal link.
  • Sensei marshals the station nearest his desk.

Self-run stations are score games: proof is the photo of the final screen with you in it.

CP FLEX · THE WAR DOESN'T STOP AT THE BELL

Overtime

CP Flex is a continuation of the war. Every PC in the room is locked: nobody plays games on a PC during Flex. Consoles and cabinets only. Points count, same claim format, photo plus the line.

Photos stay on your phone until PCs unlock with ten minutes left. Then you spawn your hotspot and post your claims. No standup, no captains.

The studio rule still holds: a student with work to do takes precedence over a student playing. Finish your work, then fight.

CHALLENGE DAYS ARE DIFFERENT

PCs stay on during class

On Tuesdays and Thursdays the PCs are on for hotspots and claims. Gaming on one is still minus 32. The lock is a Flex thing.

THE PAYOUTS · EVERY NUMBER IS A POWER OF TWO

What everything pays

FORPOINTS
Step up as your faction's champion at a station+8
Second place at a three-way station+16
Win a station+32
Top score on a cabinet, or a new #1 on the leaderboard+32
Quiz top scorer+32
Costume from your side at the Halloween Arcade+32
Better quiz average, faction vs faction+64
The Captains' Duel, every Challenge Day+64
Highest standup average in your period, every Challenge Day+128
Sweep: your faction wins every station that day+128
Best WAR PROPAGANDA cut of the week+128
ART OF THE CLASH weekend winner+128
Captains' bracket final, Thu 10/29+128
Bracket champion+256
The Captains' Final at the Halloween Arcade+256
Gaming on a PC, doomscrolling, or arguing with a marshal-32
WHEN A ROUND ENDS

250 DKto every member of the faction that wins Round 1, Fri 10/16.

500 DK + XCto every member of the faction that wins the war, Fri 10/30.

Points decide the war. DK is the currency you spend. Sensei can award any power of two for anything that earns it, and he will.

THE FACTION DRAFT · MON 10/5

Pick your faction. Once.

Sign in with Discord in the Keep, tap your faction, done. DOJO-KUN hands you the role and your handle wears it from here on. No switching in GD1. GD2 gets one switch during draft week, and the faction you finish on is the badge you keep.

When Sony enters on Mon 10/19 a capped defection window opens for one period, and DOJO-KUN fills the rest of Sony's ranks from the bigger side.

Group photo of Sega characters: Sonic, Beat, Ryo, Ulala, AiAi, Ristar, Billy Hatcher and more, by Zola C.
GROUP PHOTO OF SEGA CHARACTERS Zola C.

SEGA

ROLE: SEGA KID
THE CASE FOR

Sega started in 1940 as Standard Games in Honolulu, putting coin-op machines on military bases, then moved to Tokyo as Service Games: SE-GA. They were arcade pioneers before "arcade" was a word anyone used. Periscope, 1966, is the machine that made a quarter the price of a play. Then Yu Suzuki's cabinets: Hang-On, Out Run, After Burner, Space Harrier, Shinobi, machines that moved under you while the rest of the industry stood still.

Marketing geniuses too. "Genesis does what Nintendon't." A 16-bit console two years before Nintendo's, a hedgehog with attitude, and ads that told kids the other guys were for babies. They were the first company to ever beat Nintendo.

And in 1996, when a broke graphics startup needed money, Sega wrote the $5 million check. Its name was NVIDIA. Its first card shipped with Sega's 3D arcade games on it, Sega's 3D work is part of why PC graphics acceleration exists, and that stake would be worth around a trillion dollars today. Then the Dreamcast shipped with a modem in the box and put console players online before anyone else got there.

THE CASE AGAINST

Wears its edge so hard it cuts itself. The 32X. A surprise $399 Saturn launch. Sega of Japan and Sega of America fighting each other harder than either one fought Nintendo.

0 Sega Kids
DRAFT OPENS MON 10/5
ENLIST WITH SEGA
DROPPING THIS FOR NINTENDO: Donkey Kong, Mario, Link and the Nintendo crew, by Arion T.
DROPPING THIS FOR NINTENDO Arion T.

NINTENDO

ROLE: NINTENDO KID
THE CASE FOR

Nintendo started in 1889 in Kyoto, hand-painting hanafuda playing cards. For seventy years that was the whole company. Then it tried taxis, instant rice, a love hotel chain, and finally toys: Gunpei Yokoi's Ultra Hand, the Love Tester, light guns in a converted bowling alley. The toy company learned how to make a thing you couldn't put down, and Game & Watch put that thing in your pocket.

The industry died in 1983 and the NES brought it back, with a Seal of Quality on the box and a rule that nobody got to flood the shelves with junk again. Then it kept inventing genres: Super Mario Bros. set the rules for the side-scroller, Metroid is half of the word Metroidvania, Mario Kart made the kart racer, Smash made the platform fighter.

Forty years later it is still the only one of the three that has never left the hardware business, and the Switch is one of the best-selling consoles ever made. Everyone else chases specs. Nintendo chases the feeling of the Ultra Hand.

Nintendo means quality. A first-party Nintendo game ships finished, polished, and playable by your little cousin and your grandma on the same couch. That is the whole brand, and it has held for forty years.

THE CASE AGAINST

Sues fast and sues often: emulators, fan games, the makers of Palworld. Some call that protecting the brand. Some call it monopolistic and anti-consumer.

And "quality" cuts both ways: copy-paste money grabs. The same Mario Kart sold on three consoles in a row, decade-old games re-released at full price, Pokemon shipping on a yearly clock whether it is finished or not. Nintendo never discounts, because it knows you will pay.

0 Nintendo Kids
DRAFT OPENS MON 10/5
ENLIST WITH NINTENDO

The draft balances across the whole program, not by class. When one faction gets 4 ahead its ranks close until the other catches up, and the smaller faction pays a signing bonus in DK. Your class can be lopsided. The war can't.

INTEL · THE SPRITE GUIDE IS NOW A WAR DOCUMENT

Know your enemy's pixels

The station cards cite pages. The quizzes pull from them. Pages 6 to 8 are on Quiz 3, pages 9 to 12 are on Quiz 4.

Read it before the Challenge Day, not during.

PAGE 6PUCK MANPac-Man, the name, and the arcade that ate quarters. Stations 2 and 4. PAGE 8MARIO: CONSTRAINTThe hat, the mustache, the overalls: every one is a workaround. Station 5. PAGE 9SONIC: ATTITUDEShinobi to Sonic. Why Sega drew a face that tapped its foot at you. Station 6. PAGE 11MEGA MANBlue because the NES had more blues than anything else.
OPEN THE SPRITE GUIDEBACK TO THE DOJO

HOW POINTS LAND

Every win feeds your faction

QUIZZES
The Friday quizTop scorer pays their faction. The faction with the better average takes the round.
HIGH SCORE
The cabinetsA new #1 on the leaderboard scores for your faction. Post the screenshot in XC, DOJO-KUN checks it.
CHALLENGE
Challenge Days, Tue + ThuStations, heats, claims, the standup bell, the Captains' Duel. Points land while you're still playing.
ART
ART OF THE CLASHThe art battle, live every weekend. Draw for your faction, post it in #waroftheconsoles, and the best piece takes the points.
PROPAGANDA
War PropagandaYour Project 4 cut posted to #waroftheconsoles. A cut nobody sees scores zero.
Typing of the Dead, Chapter 2: 5,719 points, ranked 1st.
Typing of the Dead, Chapter 2: 5,719 points, ranked 1st. Eloise C.
Super Punch-Out!! on the SNES, logged for points.
Super Punch-Out!! on the SNES, logged for points. Connor S.

The board counts totals. Roster size and per-head sit underneath it, so nobody wins on headcount alone.

Round 1 is Sega vs Nintendo, Oct 5-16. Round 2 opens Mon 10/19 when Sony enters, and the final tally lands at the Halloween Arcade on Fri 10/30.

Sonic and Mario running on an orange track under a START banner, Mario still near the line
THE FOOTRACE by Zola C. Mario is still at the line. Nintendo Kids, this is a rumor, not a forecast.

THE ARCHIVE · FROM #WAROFTHECONSOLES

Two wars down

Every scoreboard below was posted to the channel the night it happened. Nintendo took 2024. 2025 ended dead even, which nobody planned for and everybody still argues about.

War of the Consoles scoreboard, NOV 8, 2024
NOV 8, 2024Opening day. Sega draws first blood, 1 to 0.
War of the Consoles scoreboard, NOV 18, 2024
NOV 18, 2024Sony joins the war, and GD2's Sega fights as SEGA / M$ XBOX.
War of the Consoles scoreboard, NOV 22, 2024
NOV 22, 2024Final: Nintendo 32, Sega 27, Sony 24. Nintendo takes the first war.
War of the Consoles scoreboard, DEC 8, 2025
DEC 8, 2025Final: 88 to 88. The first tie in war history.

ART OF THE CLASH · LIVE EVERY WEEKEND

Art of the Clash

Draw for your faction, post it in #waroftheconsoles, and the best piece of the weekend takes 128 points. Finished color work wins weekends. This one set the bar.

Pool Lobby, Cam 12, by Eloise C.
POOL LOBBY, CAM 12That one guy who popped the inflatables got caught in 4k.Eloise C. · Art of the Clash 2025
A desk of game cookies: Sonic rings, Pokeballs, Triforces, and Mario and Sonic figures behind them
Somebody baked Sonic rings, Pokeballs and Triforces. Nobody asked them to.

FIELD OPS · YOU PROPOSE IT

Bring something

The best stuff in the last war came from students. Cookies. A new challenge. A trivia round. A costume squad. Pitch it to Sensei in #waroftheconsoles: what it is, when, and how it scores. If he greenlights it, it pays.

Proposals pay 16 to 128, Sensei's call.
Showing up with cookies is a strong opening argument.