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00:00:21 ◼   ► january2014 [TS]

00:00:25 ◼   ► welcome back everybody to be [TS]

00:00:27 ◼   ► uncomfortable podcast on your host Jason [TS]

00:00:29 ◼   ► Snell and this is part two of our [TS]

00:00:31 ◼   ► console video game draft in part 1 [TS]

00:00:35 ◼   ► episode 177 we did the first round of [TS]

00:00:38 ◼   ► our console video game draft and got two [TS]

00:00:40 ◼   ► pics into the second round we're gonna [TS]

00:00:42 ◼   ► go four rounds deep so there's a lot [TS]

00:00:45 ◼   ► more left to listen to and so let's join [TS]

00:00:48 ◼   ► our draft and progress my guests are [TS]

00:00:50 ◼   ► Greg moss John siracusa boise st on [TS]

00:00:54 ◼   ► Steve let's and Tony sindelar and i [TS]

00:00:58 ◼   ► believe it's more assesses turn I didn't [TS]

00:01:01 ◼   ► see now now I'm kind of in position [TS]

00:01:03 ◼   ► behind the the Reverend pics being a [TS]

00:01:06 ◼   ► goofball and choosing the equivalent of [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► Miami connection to an extent that we [TS]

00:01:10 ◼   ► never seen the like of that here in here [TS]

00:01:12 ◼   ► there with Monty or or Steve watches [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► their game we're gonna play as Skeletor [TS]

00:01:17 ◼   ► cuz i wanna drink had to be a he-man [TS]

00:01:19 ◼   ► game it's something been probably came [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► with a burger king mail i want a game [TS]

00:01:22 ◼   ► where I play as Skeletor I'm not [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► interested in any man game thank you sir [TS]

00:01:25 ◼   ► my follow-up to what I think was the [TS]

00:01:29 ◼   ► first video game where you can check [TS]

00:01:30 ◼   ► someone bad dudes is another beat him up [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► another side scroller featuring an [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► unmistakable group of mutated [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► green-skinned roided-out martial artists [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► and of course I'm talking about [TS]

00:01:46 ◼   ► battletoads oh I take me out there [TS]

00:01:49 ◼   ► it worked one of the hardest games ever [TS]

00:01:54 ◼   ► by anybody's estimation who's actually [TS]

00:01:57 ◼   ► played the game this was obviously [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► pitched as a a concept ripoff of the [TS]

00:02:03 ◼   ► Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles we had [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► three toads names its pimple and rash [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► real classy names to mimic the classic [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► artists use for the ninja turtles they [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► had this you know big bad that they had [TS]

00:02:16 ◼   ► to fight and they had to punch a lot of [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► stuff along the way and there were [TS]

00:02:19 ◼   ► levels where you're in like a little [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► hovercar kind of a thing [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► this is the Battletoads series as it [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► were had an unfortunately short life as [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► super popular as the the first game was [TS]

00:02:34 ◼   ► I don't know if it was because of the [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► difficulty that the interest kind of way [TS]

00:02:39 ◼   ► down i don't know what the real story is [TS]

00:02:40 ◼   ► but of course battletoads was developed [TS]

00:02:42 ◼   ► by rare who at one time was completely [TS]

00:02:46 ◼   ► under the purview of nintendo and the [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► net drifted elsewhere but the there was [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► at one point a rumored remakes sequels [TS]

00:02:53 ◼   ► sort of a thing for the game boy advance [TS]

00:02:55 ◼   ► then there was talk of it coming to xbox [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► and it's just kind of floating out there [TS]

00:03:01 ◼   ► and it's difficult to impress upon [TS]

00:03:04 ◼   ► people just how hard compared to other [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► nes games this one was where people are [TS]

00:03:10 ◼   ► used to [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► I'll take an example from Super Mario 3d [TS]

00:03:13 ◼   ► World Book you died five times [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► consecutively in a world and you get a [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► magical leaf that makes you invincible [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► and gives you a tunic detail and there [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► are certain achievements that you can't [TS]

00:03:25 ◼   ► get if you finish a level that way but [TS]

00:03:27 ◼   ► it still makes you invincible for the [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► rest of the level and hold your hand [TS]

00:03:30 ◼   ► makes it easy for you battletoads never [TS]

00:03:33 ◼   ► ever held your hand and there would be [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► you could spend not just days but weeks [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► on some parts of this game just not [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► being able to get past it or charging a [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► parent's credit card on the London the [TS]

00:03:47 ◼   ► Nintendo tipline not that I ever did [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► that I just got insanely frustrated with [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► it wanted to throw the controller across [TS]

00:03:54 ◼   ► the room and it was fun [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► oh it's the the reward that came out of [TS]

00:04:00 ◼   ► be of finally solving those you know [TS]

00:04:04 ◼   ► those those tough to get through parts [TS]

00:04:06 ◼   ► or the the singular amount of dr that [TS]

00:04:10 ◼   ► you would get pressuring your friends to [TS]

00:04:12 ◼   ► come on no seriously come over on [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► Saturday I cannot be world 5 it's just [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► impossible i need another person or it [TS]

00:04:18 ◼   ► i'm i'm never going to beat this game is [TS]

00:04:20 ◼   ► going to drive me crazy it that that [TS]

00:04:23 ◼   ► kind of sensation there are those games [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► that are so hard that that that you want [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► to give up on them and that was [TS]

00:04:29 ◼   ► definitely battletoads for a lot of [TS]

00:04:30 ◼   ► people but for me it was something that [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► really took this skin and reskinned [TS]

00:04:36 ◼   ► reskinned beat him up action genre and [TS]

00:04:39 ◼   ► added a like a quantum level of [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► difficulty to it and really played the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► conventions of it too [TS]

00:04:45 ◼   ► to the extent that it [TS]

00:04:47 ◼   ► if you if you manage to just get halfway [TS]

00:04:50 ◼   ► through the game not even beat it you [TS]

00:04:52 ◼   ► would feel a great deal of satisfaction [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► just getting always into it because of [TS]

00:04:56 ◼   ► how difficult the thing was i I have [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► vivid memories of how hard it was it [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► really took kind of nintendo hard and [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► ratchet up several several notches I [TS]

00:05:04 ◼   ► just remember dying over and over again [TS]

00:05:05 ◼   ► on the level for your little hover [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► scooter thing and they're like wrecking [TS]

00:05:09 ◼   ► balls that hit you and those yeah it was [TS]

00:05:11 ◼   ► intended they ever imported or exported [TS]

00:05:13 ◼   ► to Japan and did they have to change the [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► difficulty level it was just right for [TS]

00:05:17 ◼   ► japan in japan when you when you pick up [TS]

00:05:19 ◼   ► the cartridge it just it just inject [TS]

00:05:21 ◼   ► spikes into your hand close your fingers [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► of its well strangely enough they [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► crossed it over with double dragon they [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► took the totally disparate worlds at [TS]

00:05:33 ◼   ► this is this is absolutely real [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► they took the totally disparate worlds [TS]

00:05:36 ◼   ► of Battletoads and Double Dragon and [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► merge them and had the three battle [TS]

00:05:39 ◼   ► toads and and billy and jimmy the the [TS]

00:05:43 ◼   ► Leigh brothers of Double Dragon uniting [TS]

00:05:46 ◼   ► to fight the forces of of the Dark Queen [TS]

00:05:49 ◼   ► and shadow boss the Dark Queen basically [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► the super sultry sexed-up alternative to [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► shredder but otherwise the same kind of [TS]

00:05:59 ◼   ► looming dark presence but except [TS]

00:06:01 ◼   ► shredder I I think everybody should sext [TS]

00:06:04 ◼   ► shredder turns out but yeah I i really i [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► really wish that the Battletoads it had [TS]

00:06:12 ◼   ► more of a life there was a super [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► battletoads game for thus nests and and [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► that was a lot of fun too and and [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► there's an nes version and SNES version [TS]

00:06:20 ◼   ► of Battletoads and Double Dragon and you [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► know I I don't know how rare difficult [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► cartridges are to find I know that [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► everybody i know finds things [TS]

00:06:30 ◼   ► in the place other than the physical [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► realm at this point when it comes to [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► games like this [TS]

00:06:34 ◼   ► well issuu you've done it again but it's [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► at any these nes games because again i [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► have that i have no NES history at all i [TS]

00:06:41 ◼   ► have never even heard of this game so [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► thank thanks for bringing it up music [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► and yes that is a terrific classic well [TS]

00:06:48 ◼   ► left game I don't know how you could [TS]

00:06:49 ◼   ► think that was a jokey pic right and I [TS]

00:06:51 ◼   ► thought to newquay was your theme but [TS]

00:06:53 ◼   ► actually Mario Brothers had the tanuki [TS]

00:06:55 ◼   ► and that was Tony I know the Battletoads [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► cartridge was really rare and there was [TS]

00:06:58 ◼   ► apparently some kind of thing on the [TS]

00:07:00 ◼   ► internet for a while where people were [TS]

00:07:01 ◼   ► calling the pawn shop that's from that [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► reality television show and asking them [TS]

00:07:06 ◼   ► if they had people time it's like every [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► hour for days just I don't really know [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► and they would transcribe their [TS]

00:07:12 ◼   ► conversations and put them online and it [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► turns out that is a quick drive someone [TS]

00:07:16 ◼   ► mad is by asking them for battletoads [TS]

00:07:18 ◼   ► every hour for like four days and our or [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► transcribing conversations asking for [TS]

00:07:22 ◼   ► battletoads but also driving man yeah [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► it's the road to madness is that way we [TS]

00:07:26 ◼   ► are we are so slow here the third round [TS]

00:07:29 ◼   ► is gonna have to be a lightning round [TS]

00:07:30 ◼   ► Greg NOS though we're midway through the [TS]

00:07:32 ◼   ► second round now and it's been a million [TS]

00:07:34 ◼   ► years already [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► Greg nice it's your turn what do you [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► have I am going back to the 2600 of [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► course second love [TS]

00:07:40 ◼   ► after that bastard lots took my first I [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► ate it not yars revenge [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► uh yeah no yes yes yes [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► terrific yeah on one side of the screen [TS]

00:07:53 ◼   ► behind a barrier is some sort of large [TS]

00:07:55 ◼   ► gun you play a small insect i like it [TS]

00:07:58 ◼   ► because it is representative me in the [TS]

00:08:00 ◼   ► real world and you know way at the [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► barrier while the gun shoots at you you [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► move out of the way and finally once you [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► have a path through you can fire your [TS]

00:08:08 ◼   ► cannon at the gun and blow it up and [TS]

00:08:10 ◼   ► then you start all over again and it [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► goes faster and faster and faster and [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► faster and i played this game endlessly [TS]

00:08:16 ◼   ► to the point where and I'm not proud of [TS]

00:08:18 ◼   ► this i actually wrote a sequel for the [TS]

00:08:20 ◼   ► atari 8-bit computer where there were [TS]

00:08:23 ◼   ► bad guys on both ends and you had to get [TS]

00:08:25 ◼   ► them to shoot each other [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► wow I i wrote videogame fanfic well in [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► in videogame form it all comes out it [TS]

00:08:33 ◼   ► was a it was a great great fun [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► single-player game you could crank [TS]

00:08:36 ◼   ► through a dozen games without spending [TS]

00:08:38 ◼   ► too much time on it was really [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► nerve-wracking there was this was [TS]

00:08:41 ◼   ► I mean you talk about the atmospheric [TS]

00:08:43 ◼   ► sound in in things like shadow of the [TS]

00:08:46 ◼   ► colossus this had a pulse that would it [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► look like space invaders but more [TS]

00:08:51 ◼   ► mechanical and it would grow and grow [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► and grow as as the jeopardy of the game [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► went on until finally you either died or [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► the enemy was destroyed and the screen [TS]

00:09:00 ◼   ► blew up in a huge explosion it was a [TS]

00:09:01 ◼   ► terrific game and I can actually play in [TS]

00:09:04 ◼   ► your browser right now if you google it [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► you can play in your browser they have a [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► version online that runs in the browser [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► because your computer has several [TS]

00:09:11 ◼   ► million times the processing power [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► deputies that's why didn't they have [TS]

00:09:15 ◼   ► JavaScript emulators yars revenge is one [TS]

00:09:18 ◼   ► of that one of the rare atari 2600 games [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► that was really unique I mean it wasn't [TS]

00:09:23 ◼   ► it wasn't a port it wasn't you know at a [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► clone of some other games that have been [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► done 15 other times it was completely [TS]

00:09:30 ◼   ► original and it was really great [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► there's an ended the genius of having [TS]

00:09:35 ◼   ► the neutral zone in the middle where you [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► couldn't shoot you could ride we [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► couldn't be killed either [TS]

00:09:40 ◼   ► yeah but you couldn't but you also can [TS]

00:09:41 ◼   ► shoot so it said interesting little 12 [TS]

00:09:44 ◼   ► you could you could park there and go [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► get it [TS]

00:09:47 ◼   ► juice pack and come back to it leisurely [TS]

00:09:49 ◼   ► and then continue the game made by the [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► same guy who made the easy and raiders [TS]

00:09:53 ◼   ► of the lost ark oh yeah this is what he [TS]

00:09:56 ◼   ► can do when he has enough time okay well [TS]

00:09:59 ◼   ► that the artist revenge my memory of [TS]

00:10:01 ◼   ► that is that it was it like see said it [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► was so different from a lot of the 2600 [TS]

00:10:06 ◼   ► games that it was um I I'm always struck [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► that it was an Atari official and not [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► one of these like Activision games [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► because activision did lots of things to [TS]

00:10:16 ◼   ► kind of like subvert the way you usually [TS]

00:10:19 ◼   ► saw on on on a regular atari game and [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► but yours revenge was so different it [TS]

00:10:24 ◼   ► was it was it it felt very different [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► even though with an official Atari [TS]

00:10:29 ◼   ► cartridge yeah it also came with that [TS]

00:10:32 ◼   ► really cool little comic book to set the [TS]

00:10:34 ◼   ► scene finally about to experience its [TS]

00:10:36 ◼   ► nice rebug the things like adventure and [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► and yours revenge the effort that went [TS]

00:10:41 ◼   ► into them and Atari didn't credit in the [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► authors and that's one of the things [TS]

00:10:43 ◼   ► that caused Warren Robinett to put the [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► easter egg into adventure and then [TS]

00:10:48 ◼   ► eventually activision to break off as [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► they didn't think they were getting the [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► credit or the compensation that they [TS]

00:10:52 ◼   ► were do is the creators of these really [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► really popular works Steve kitchen and [TS]

00:10:57 ◼   ► the other activision guys took their [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► ball and yeah home [TS]

00:11:01 ◼   ► really i believe this developer actually [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► did put his initials in ET is an easter [TS]

00:11:05 ◼   ► egg which might have been not a very [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► good decision [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► yeah i'm glad that he spent his time on [TS]

00:11:09 ◼   ► that the are actually shows up at 1.2 I [TS]

00:11:12 ◼   ► think you can turn one of the flowers in [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► one of the many millions of pits that [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► you fall into at any moment into a yard [TS]

00:11:18 ◼   ► it flies out of the pit something that [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► you could actually do but the are good [TS]

00:11:22 ◼   ► in my version i took the animation of [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► the r and copied it pixel for pixel onto [TS]

00:11:28 ◼   ► the 8-bit but had twice the resolution [TS]

00:11:29 ◼   ► so i could make him smoother [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► oh nice smoother ya know [TS]

00:11:36 ◼   ► oh my god when someone says yars revenge [TS]

00:11:39 ◼   ► i think is that an episode of Star Trek [TS]

00:11:42 ◼   ► The Next Generation I missed I thought [TS]

00:11:45 ◼   ► that was what it was first and they [TS]

00:11:46 ◼   ► interacted answer's no no John syracuse [TS]

00:11:49 ◼   ► it's your turn [TS]

00:11:50 ◼   ► well I just can't believe this is gone [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► this long and no one is pick the obvious [TS]

00:11:53 ◼   ► but I didn't pick up the first pick up [TS]

00:11:55 ◼   ► here we let someone else do it but my [TS]

00:11:57 ◼   ► second pic has to be journey pass to be [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► left it for you [TS]

00:12:01 ◼   ► come on we left it for you are gonna say [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► i was never heard I didn't want you to [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► be angry i can say Matt I mean we did a [TS]

00:12:08 ◼   ► whole episode on it it's episode one [TS]

00:12:10 ◼   ► away to be uncomfortable for people who [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► want to listen way more about this i [TS]

00:12:14 ◼   ► called ocarina of time the best video [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► game of all time but journey has the [TS]

00:12:17 ◼   ► best quality to length ratio of all time [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► a more innuendo firstly they're throwing [TS]

00:12:27 ◼   ► kindling on the fire journey is it is a [TS]

00:12:29 ◼   ► very is a simple game if you look at it [TS]

00:12:30 ◼   ► but i think the game is extremely broad [TS]

00:12:33 ◼   ► and it's more about concepts and [TS]

00:12:35 ◼   ► feelings and it is about a little [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► triangular dude walking through desert [TS]

00:12:39 ◼   ► and I think it's abstract enough like it [TS]

00:12:42 ◼   ► is it's not abstract little square [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► adventure but in some ways it is because [TS]

00:12:45 ◼   ► it's so disconnected for anything we [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► really experienced that you're able to [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► engage with it emotionally in ways that [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► the individual players make concrete for [TS]

00:12:55 ◼   ► themselves you know what I mean and this [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► probably sounds ridiculous to non-gamers [TS]

00:13:00 ◼   ► and maybe it sounds difficult ridiculous [TS]

00:13:02 ◼   ► to some gamers who might be jaded or [TS]

00:13:04 ◼   ► have lost the sense of childlike wonder [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► I don't know you could be referring to [TS]

00:13:07 ◼   ► playing journey was one of the most [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► meaningful gaming experiences of my life [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► and it's its biggest part of the kind of [TS]

00:13:15 ◼   ► persistent prejudice against games that [TS]

00:13:17 ◼   ► if someone makes a similar statement [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► about a great book it will be met with [TS]

00:13:21 ◼   ► admiration [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► I mean you said about games people think [TS]

00:13:23 ◼   ► you're a loser but I stand by it and I [TS]

00:13:26 ◼   ► think that needs to change the idea that [TS]

00:13:27 ◼   ► all this book really meant something to [TS]

00:13:29 ◼   ► me and it's my favorite book Charlotte's [TS]

00:13:30 ◼   ► be clue [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► books are cool either well what people [TS]

00:13:33 ◼   ► say Michael this book is really [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► meaningful to me or whatever and people [TS]

00:13:36 ◼   ► like oh you must be a deep person said [TS]

00:13:38 ◼   ► the better video game you think you all [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► will you don't you know you don't have [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► loser you need a lot of cheetos exactly [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► so I i think that that whole concept is [TS]

00:13:46 ◼   ► to change and I think bernie is a a nice [TS]

00:13:48 ◼   ► maybe not the first but yet another step [TS]

00:13:50 ◼   ► in that direction towards the [TS]

00:13:52 ◼   ► destination of respect for games for [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► what it's worth the tiny sliver of my [TS]

00:13:55 ◼   ► childlike wonder that's left degrees [TS]

00:13:57 ◼   ► 100-percent with you on this one [TS]

00:13:58 ◼   ► there you go i enjoy i enjoyed that game [TS]

00:14:01 ◼   ► a lot i borrowed someone's places and [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► three to play that game because John [TS]

00:14:04 ◼   ► siracusa told me i was listening to the [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► soundtrack just today in fact and it [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► always takes me back and I have played [TS]

00:14:12 ◼   ► that game I don't I I don't finish games [TS]

00:14:15 ◼   ► let alone play the multiple times and [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► I've done that with journey so quality [TS]

00:14:20 ◼   ► to length ratio Jason yep I that's a [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► good one [TS]

00:14:23 ◼   ► alright I am going to pick a and I'm [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► gonna go you know I don't love racing [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► games I don't entirely understand the [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► guy it's almost like a theme here and it [TS]

00:14:37 ◼   ► it's not intentional the super realistic [TS]

00:14:39 ◼   ► racing games like my iPad you can you [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► can play racing games that are you like [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► crazy simulations of cars and and and [TS]

00:14:48 ◼   ► racetracks and all that and you know [TS]

00:14:50 ◼   ► what that maybe it's because I I was [TS]

00:14:52 ◼   ► brought up on night driver on the HR [TS]

00:14:55 ◼   ► 2682 why are they driving at night [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► because they're not enough graphics for [TS]

00:14:59 ◼   ► the daytime we can't do that so black is [TS]

00:15:02 ◼   ► cheaper to render its black and then [TS]

00:15:04 ◼   ► there's a tree there's a sign and the [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► dotted lines and that's all [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► so I realism not that important I [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► sometimes wonder i'm not i'm not sure i [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► may not have played any other console [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► that [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► you game for as many hours as I've [TS]

00:15:22 ◼   ► played mario kart wii so I'm gonna pick [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► mario kart wii it's not realistic in any [TS]

00:15:30 ◼   ► way and i don't care i love the variety [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► of the levels i love the game play with [TS]

00:15:34 ◼   ► the different power-ups i love that i [TS]

00:15:36 ◼   ► can play it with multiple people in the [TS]

00:15:40 ◼   ► house [TS]

00:15:41 ◼   ► uh I I can play with with the computer [TS]

00:15:45 ◼   ► opponents iie you know you're in the [TS]

00:15:49 ◼   ► different vehicles you you know i like [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► i'm doing like the manual with the [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► breaking and the bell on the bullet bike [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► is sort of my favorite and I'm really [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► good at that and i like that there are [TS]

00:15:59 ◼   ► some levels that I find incredibly easy [TS]

00:16:01 ◼   ► and I can win almost every time and [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► other levels that i will like literally [TS]

00:16:06 ◼   ► just die every 20 seconds and i'm [TS]

00:16:09 ◼   ► completely confused by after all this [TS]

00:16:11 ◼   ► time [TS]

00:16:12 ◼   ► rainbow road i'm looking at you and [TS]

00:16:15 ◼   ► they're actually a couple things parts [TS]

00:16:17 ◼   ► of of wreck-it Ralph that are assumed to [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► be direct quotes of level skin in a [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► Mario Kart which kind of blew me away [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► but I just it's replayable I can play [TS]

00:16:28 ◼   ► with my kids and it's a huge amount of [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► fun and I think that a lot of fun about [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► this that it's not it's not realistic in [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► anyway it's just fun and so I you know I [TS]

00:16:42 ◼   ► put mario kart wii that's that's it it [TS]

00:16:46 ◼   ► just fun [TS]

00:16:47 ◼   ► given your limited history of video [TS]

00:16:49 ◼   ► games jason i think you can be forgiven [TS]

00:16:50 ◼   ► for choosing the wrong memory card game [TS]

00:16:53 ◼   ► what is the right mark i would mario [TS]

00:16:55 ◼   ► kart double dash is the right now double [TS]

00:16:56 ◼   ► damages the correct i think it's it's [TS]

00:16:58 ◼   ► yeah I well that's well very [TS]

00:17:01 ◼   ► prescriptive I think you know we have to [TS]

00:17:03 ◼   ► find our own way to the rainbow road [TS]

00:17:04 ◼   ► there's always going to be the SNES [TS]

00:17:06 ◼   ► defenders but i'm going to go double [TS]

00:17:08 ◼   ► dash i would put the mario kart des [TS]

00:17:10 ◼   ► entry ahead of all of those I played a [TS]

00:17:13 ◼   ► lot of that too i think double dash [TS]

00:17:15 ◼   ► would be the the the classic though [TS]

00:17:17 ◼   ► well i have no experience with those [TS]

00:17:19 ◼   ► i've only played the wii version of the [TS]

00:17:20 ◼   ► wii version is delightful so i picked a [TS]

00:17:21 ◼   ► wii version is extremely delightful i [TS]

00:17:23 ◼   ► will agree with you on that [TS]

00:17:25 ◼   ► Jason your feelings are wrong and you're [TS]

00:17:26 ◼   ► wrong in the wii version it has many of [TS]

00:17:28 ◼   ► the best courses from the old ash [TS]

00:17:30 ◼   ► of all the courses from know that you [TS]

00:17:31 ◼   ► might have all of them is just like that [TS]

00:17:33 ◼   ► you know just is more waggling and they [TS]

00:17:35 ◼   ► changed the skidding dynamic and they [TS]

00:17:37 ◼   ► made the rubber banding more brutal and [TS]

00:17:39 ◼   ► Double Dash is the country and double [TS]

00:17:41 ◼   ► dash it gives you a two-player new [TS]

00:17:43 ◼   ► players in one car on the freaking blue [TS]

00:17:44 ◼   ► shell in mario kart wii is dreadful [TS]

00:17:47 ◼   ► it's in all the games yeah but in in [TS]

00:17:50 ◼   ► that one in particular seems like it's [TS]

00:17:51 ◼   ► particularly extra-spicy are we extra [TS]

00:17:54 ◼   ► black extra Shelly I got nothin [TS]

00:17:57 ◼   ► that's that's my that's that's what they [TS]

00:17:59 ◼   ► could pick pick [TS]

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00:19:09 ◼   ► lightning round Steve let's kick us off [TS]

00:19:11 ◼   ► tell us uh letting everyone ok I'll [TS]

00:19:14 ◼   ► speed through this one this is a game by [TS]

00:19:16 ◼   ► the greatest second party studio of all [TS]

00:19:18 ◼   ► time and that is nintendo 64 era [TS]

00:19:21 ◼   ► rareware ah it's conker's bad fur day is [TS]

00:19:26 ◼   ► a game that was announced as Congress [TS]

00:19:28 ◼   ► quest III it was a platformer featuring [TS]

00:19:31 ◼   ► the QT red squirrel conquer who is a [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► playable character on diddy kong racing [TS]

00:19:34 ◼   ► was clearly aimed at kids and then the [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► early screenshots kind of show this [TS]

00:19:38 ◼   ► cutie cartoony art style that looks like [TS]

00:19:40 ◼   ► it came from a TV show and preschoolers [TS]

00:19:43 ◼   ► and then somewhere during the four years [TS]

00:19:45 ◼   ► it was in development apparently the dev [TS]

00:19:47 ◼   ► team went insane and the end they said [TS]

00:19:51 ◼   ► to each others say what if instead of [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► conquer being a cheerful happy-go-lucky [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► kid friendly sap we make him a drunken [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► bastard and then we fill the rest of the [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► game with swearing and poop jokes [TS]

00:20:01 ◼   ► well they did yeah and the result is [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► magnificent it's like they made a game [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► just for me [TS]

00:20:08 ◼   ► yeah it is delightfully filthy it starts [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► off with conquer stumbling into a pub [TS]

00:20:14 ◼   ► called the cock and plucker and then it [TS]

00:20:15 ◼   ► goes steadily downhill from here that is [TS]

00:20:18 ◼   ► that is you in videogame form to there's [TS]

00:20:20 ◼   ► an extended sequence where conquer [TS]

00:20:22 ◼   ► drinks beer from kegs in order to lower [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► himself with ammo so that he can pee on [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► a group of flaming pimps I was gonna I [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► was gonna mention that was the one part [TS]

00:20:30 ◼   ► of the game I remember don't you get to [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► pee on people who are on fire now the [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► mind coming up you have to admit though [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► you you must remember the P physics [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► being a truly wondrous thing the the [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► implementation of the distri- and you're [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► aiming it'sit's kind of hoping you're [TS]

00:20:44 ◼   ► gonna go goldeneye something but now we [TS]

00:20:47 ◼   ► know in a way I did with yeah I know [TS]

00:20:49 ◼   ► where you did you're right this is the [TS]

00:20:51 ◼   ► innuendo show this week and then there's [TS]

00:20:53 ◼   ► the great mighty poo the best boss in [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► the history of video games he's a [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► gigantic opera singing turd with sweet [TS]

00:21:01 ◼   ► corn four teeth who attacks by hurling [TS]

00:21:03 ◼   ► chunks of himself at you [TS]

00:21:05 ◼   ► meanwhile the art style and the music [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► are still just this if it's still is [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► completely over-the-top cute stuff which [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► just makes the film all the more [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► hilarious but it's not entirely scat [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► humor the games also filled with a lot [TS]

00:21:17 ◼   ► of clever parodies of movies and gaming [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► conventions if it was entirely filth i [TS]

00:21:23 ◼   ► probably wouldn't nominate it but it [TS]

00:21:25 ◼   ► also is an incredibly fun game to play [TS]

00:21:28 ◼   ► there's this great variety in the [TS]

00:21:31 ◼   ► gameplay and one minute you're in [TS]

00:21:32 ◼   ► first-person shooter mode blasting dung [TS]

00:21:34 ◼   ► beetles to bits with a slingshot the [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► next you're playing a twisted version of [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► Donkey Kong where you dodge rolling [TS]

00:21:39 ◼   ► balls of poo instead of barrels it has [TS]

00:21:42 ◼   ► challenging bits but it's never horribly [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► frustrating it controls like a dream [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► even on the crappy n64 analog stick has [TS]

00:21:50 ◼   ► some of the best considering it came at [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► the end of the nintendo 64 his life [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► cycle is not surprising that it has some [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► of the best graphics I think that were [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► ever produced on the end [TS]

00:21:57 ◼   ► 264 a wonderful dynamic soundtrack [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► including a great tune in dung beetle [TS]

00:22:02 ◼   ► and where the majestic farm is used as [TS]

00:22:04 ◼   ► an instrument to great effect i start to [TS]

00:22:08 ◼   ► finish I think this is probably the most [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► fun I've ever had playing a console game [TS]

00:22:12 ◼   ► and as such i select conker's bad fur [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► day thank you [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► Wow getting that everybody ocarina of [TS]

00:22:18 ◼   ► time that Congress bad for day two [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► thumbs up all conker's bad fur day is [TS]

00:22:23 ◼   ► great you know the problem with ocarina [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► times they had a guy on that group who [TS]

00:22:27 ◼   ► is like whoa too many poop jokes at [TS]

00:22:30 ◼   ► conkers bad fur day that guy did not [TS]

00:22:32 ◼   ► have a job and that probably would have [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► helped but as I pointed out conquer is [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► all about variety you never doing the [TS]

00:22:38 ◼   ► same thing twice and ocarina is the same [TS]

00:22:42 ◼   ► thing over and over again for the poop [TS]

00:22:43 ◼   ► jokes but the different poop jokes are [TS]

00:22:45 ◼   ► differently I you can go a long ways [TS]

00:22:47 ◼   ► with a poop joke had lasted 41 years [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► yeah there you go all right lightning [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► round we're moving on Tony [TS]

00:22:53 ◼   ► alright i'll actually be a lightning [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► round I'm going to also go for the n64 i [TS]

00:22:57 ◼   ► will draft goldeneye from 1997 this [TS]

00:23:00 ◼   ► could have been a crappy movie tie-in [TS]

00:23:02 ◼   ► game is tied into a crappy movie tied [TS]

00:23:05 ◼   ► into a crappy movie in fact it arrived [TS]

00:23:07 ◼   ► two years late it was came out in 1997 [TS]

00:23:09 ◼   ► move goldeneye the movie was 1995 so [TS]

00:23:12 ◼   ► it's very late for the movie tie-ins but [TS]

00:23:14 ◼   ► it managed to be kind of an amazing game [TS]

00:23:16 ◼   ► that kind of brought the first person [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► shooter experience that you know lots of [TS]

00:23:19 ◼   ► pc gamers that had to the console and [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► you know it has a so-so single-player [TS]

00:23:25 ◼   ► campaign that i played through a bunch [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► of times but probably the key feature of [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► it was the four player split screen [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► multiplayer with a bunch of different [TS]

00:23:33 ◼   ► maps and different game modes and you [TS]

00:23:35 ◼   ► know a lot of this was you know some [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► stuff we already kind of scene four [TS]

00:23:37 ◼   ► people were playing doom and things like [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► that but some of this was completely new [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► and and the really popular mode was on [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► the ability to plant their proximity [TS]

00:23:46 ◼   ► mines and I remotely controlled mines [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► which was kind of a new twist on the you [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► know just running around always shooting [TS]

00:23:51 ◼   ► at people and you know it is pretty [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► simple graphics for the time the [TS]

00:23:55 ◼   ► characters heads kinda look like squares [TS]

00:23:57 ◼   ► with kind of a picture pierce brosnan [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► superimposed on the square but at the [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► time i think it was really exciting and [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► I i played countless countless hours of [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► the the multiplayer experience of gold [TS]

00:24:09 ◼   ► alright that's me people [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► goldeneye that's better game than the [TS]

00:24:13 ◼   ► movie and you don't get to say that very [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► often is it's your turn [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► while rounding out my theme of adjective [TS]

00:24:20 ◼   ► noun titled games that involve pairs of [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► dudes going on on a side-scrolling quest [TS]

00:24:28 ◼   ► of some sort not a beat him up a [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► licensed game which i still own a [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► cartridge of the nintendo entertainment [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► systems may kids McDonald's jokey pic [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► McDonald's and eat it [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► hold on hold on mcdonalds had virgin [TS]

00:24:49 ◼   ► games developed this this side-scrolling [TS]

00:24:51 ◼   ► game where these two kids make and Mac I [TS]

00:24:55 ◼   ► think calling the white kid nick is a [TS]

00:24:57 ◼   ► little ping-pong if you ask me I think I [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► think we should really read examine the [TS]

00:25:02 ◼   ► the racism of early nineties nes games [TS]

00:25:05 ◼   ► who were sent by ronald mcdonald because [TS]

00:25:08 ◼   ► the creepy clown couldn't do this [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► himself to collect I i want to say they [TS]

00:25:13 ◼   ► were they were like like puzzle pieces [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► or something [TS]

00:25:17 ◼   ► the side-scrolling element of it that [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► made it unique at this point was that [TS]

00:25:22 ◼   ► there was this little thing that if you [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► held down the button ran to the end of a [TS]

00:25:26 ◼   ► platform it would flip the kid upside [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► down so it reverse gravity and it is so [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► surprising good platformer for something [TS]

00:25:35 ◼   ► that is a crass Lee fast-food branded [TS]

00:25:38 ◼   ► game released for at the time the [TS]

00:25:41 ◼   ► behemoth of home consoles and reviews [TS]

00:25:45 ◼   ► where you know people were like this is [TS]

00:25:47 ◼   ► this garbage sellout crap and there were [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► others that praised the platforming [TS]

00:25:52 ◼   ► elements of it I rented it when I was a [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► kid and was surprised that it wasn't [TS]

00:25:58 ◼   ► awful and kept it longer than you know [TS]

00:26:03 ◼   ► the regular two or three days or [TS]

00:26:04 ◼   ► whatever they gave you the grocery store [TS]

00:26:06 ◼   ► you know where you used to be able to [TS]

00:26:07 ◼   ► rent video games and then you found [TS]

00:26:10 ◼   ► yourself inexplicably craving the grip [TS]

00:26:12 ◼   ► well the crazy thing was I lived in a [TS]

00:26:15 ◼   ► suburb of dallas where they were [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► test-marketing the McStuffins for does [TS]

00:26:20 ◼   ► anybody know what the McStuffins is it's [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► on disney junior right [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► all right take a baguette hollow it out [TS]

00:26:27 ◼   ► and put meat and cheese and grease into [TS]

00:26:30 ◼   ► it so they would have like a pepperoni [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► pizza mix toughens and so when I found [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► myself going Wow mcdonalds I see it in a [TS]

00:26:39 ◼   ► whole new light [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► let's go to McDonald's mom there's this [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► weird thing that is crazier than the [TS]

00:26:45 ◼   ► mcrib on the menu I was like let's go to [TS]

00:26:48 ◼   ► Burger King mom [TS]

00:26:49 ◼   ► this place creeps me out there but the [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► game it really is surprisingly good and [TS]

00:26:53 ◼   ► it wouldn't seem that way from the way [TS]

00:26:55 ◼   ► that it's described and and believe it [TS]

00:26:58 ◼   ► or not it was reiterated into i want to [TS]

00:27:01 ◼   ► say master master system game called [TS]

00:27:04 ◼   ► global gladiators or something or [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► another with the same two leads but [TS]

00:27:09 ◼   ► completely unrecognizable compared to [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► the nes game the kids y'all I it is [TS]

00:27:16 ◼   ► better than spot the cool adventure [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► it is better than uh face the chuckwagon [TS]

00:27:22 ◼   ► fido dido fight is better than 50 Dido [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► is that game where you play as annoyed [TS]

00:27:27 ◼   ► but you know what I mean [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► yo annoyed yeah it's better than you [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► know it and it was released in europe [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► for our European incomparable listeners [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► as mcdonald land which is probably what [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► they just shouldn't call it i'm still [TS]

00:27:40 ◼   ► trying to get over mix toughens actually [TS]

00:27:43 ◼   ► that was everybody who ate them yeah [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► yeah yeah alright sounds delicious to me [TS]

00:27:51 ◼   ► Greg moss your turn i'm going to jump [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► all the way forward in time to the ps2 [TS]

00:27:56 ◼   ► whoa [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► whiplash yeah i know that i bought it [TS]

00:28:01 ◼   ► from a friend who was dumping it because [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► he was moving for ten dollars and it [TS]

00:28:04 ◼   ► included all of his games including [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► shadow of the classes and all of the [TS]

00:28:09 ◼   ► saved games on his memory cartridges [TS]

00:28:11 ◼   ► which is how my kids stumbled across a [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► savegame for lego star wars named Jake [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► big cock [TS]

00:28:18 ◼   ► wow they got one that's somewhere and [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► I'm going to choose burnout three [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► revenge and the reason i'm choosing it [TS]

00:28:25 ◼   ► is because it was just a hell of a lot [TS]

00:28:27 ◼   ► of fun my kids for five years ago my [TS]

00:28:30 ◼   ► wife and I would sit around the TV [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► taking 45 minute long turns just [TS]

00:28:34 ◼   ► smashing the hell out of cars and in [TS]

00:28:37 ◼   ► when you crashed in that game it would [TS]

00:28:39 ◼   ► go into a slow motion of your car being [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► destroyed or your opponent's car being [TS]

00:28:45 ◼   ► destroyed and it was just tons of fun [TS]

00:28:47 ◼   ► and we spent nights and nights and [TS]

00:28:50 ◼   ► nights playing this game together as a [TS]

00:28:52 ◼   ► family [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► screw you haters destruction it brings [TS]

00:28:55 ◼   ► the whole family together so that's a no [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► we played on the ps1 what's the game [TS]

00:29:01 ◼   ► where all you do is smash of the cars [TS]

00:29:03 ◼   ► and there's a killer clown who tries to [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► kill you first met listed metal oh my [TS]

00:29:07 ◼   ► god I cannot tell you how much time I [TS]

00:29:09 ◼   ► spent playing that game and it's just [TS]

00:29:11 ◼   ► you know it's just ridiculous [TS]

00:29:13 ◼   ► destruction but fun instructions good [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► video game destruction [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► let's pause for one of our sponsors it's [TS]

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00:30:10 ◼   ► publishing platform that they use their [TS]

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00:30:24 ◼   ► and even the customer support team has [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► won awards it's not just design awards [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► that Squarespace is one it's actually [TS]

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00:30:32 ◼   ► going to get good support and here's the [TS]

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00:30:59 ◼   ► you're going to build a website think [TS]

00:31:01 ◼   ► Squarespace everything you need to [TS]

00:31:03 ◼   ► create an exceptional website and thank [TS]

00:31:06 ◼   ► you to squarespace for supporting being [TS]

00:31:08 ◼   ► comfortable John what do you have [TS]

00:31:10 ◼   ► I continue to be disappointed that no [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► one is stealing these things finally [TS]

00:31:14 ◼   ► someone stole shadow of the colossus but [TS]

00:31:15 ◼   ► anyway yes number three it has to be and [TS]

00:31:17 ◼   ► I can't believe it's a testament to the [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► quality of recent games this is pushed [TS]

00:31:20 ◼   ► out number three Super Mario 64 the most [TS]

00:31:24 ◼   ► important game with the Apple I on my [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► list or any of your list for that matter [TS]

00:31:27 ◼   ► I the yeah their biggest take the [TS]

00:31:31 ◼   ► biggest technological change in the [TS]

00:31:33 ◼   ► history of video games incontestably was [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► the change from 2d to 3d and Mary 64 was [TS]

00:31:38 ◼   ► the first great 3d game I cause all the [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► games [TS]

00:31:42 ◼   ► yeah what's the console this is the [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► console game draft it's not [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► yes if these computers you check on to [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► pretend that there are no computer games [TS]

00:31:49 ◼   ► in his grand other all actually even if [TS]

00:31:51 ◼   ► you want to include like first-person [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► shooters and stuff i think mary 64 [TS]

00:31:54 ◼   ► fulfilled the promise of 3d it in a way [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► that first person shooters didn't [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► because it like instead of like looking [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► through a porthole you finally got to [TS]

00:32:02 ◼   ► see like the whole world to give an [TS]

00:32:03 ◼   ► example one of the things you can [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► experience to marry 64 there was much [TS]

00:32:06 ◼   ► more difficult to express in a [TS]

00:32:07 ◼   ► first-person shooter type scenario was [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► the joy of flight or the fun of like [TS]

00:32:11 ◼   ► yeah because if you try to flight in the [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► first person in the game it's something [TS]

00:32:14 ◼   ► you know you're in a flight simulator [TS]

00:32:15 ◼   ► it's not the same thing as being able to [TS]

00:32:17 ◼   ► see the world around you and flying and [TS]

00:32:19 ◼   ► like the with the way they manage to [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► pull that off and mario 64 it felt more [TS]

00:32:24 ◼   ► like your dreams of flying then it felt [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► like I'm playing microsoft flight [TS]

00:32:28 ◼   ► simulator with a gun sticking out of my [TS]

00:32:30 ◼   ► abdomen or something and platform the [TS]

00:32:32 ◼   ► same thing like what's fun about jumping [TS]

00:32:34 ◼   ► with all the 2d games you know its [TS]

00:32:35 ◼   ► funder or in sideways scrolling jump [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► jump [TS]

00:32:37 ◼   ► this was a game that line 3ds like you [TS]

00:32:39 ◼   ► can't do jumping three because how [TS]

00:32:41 ◼   ► people even tell what the hell they're [TS]

00:32:42 ◼   ► landing on it will make no sense and all [TS]

00:32:44 ◼   ► that joy of of super mario brothers in [TS]

00:32:46 ◼   ► super mario world and all these other [TS]

00:32:48 ◼   ► games it will be gone because people [TS]

00:32:50 ◼   ► wouldn't be trying to land on things not [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► being able to control and they pulled it [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► off they figured out jumping in 3d is [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► fun doing back flips onto platforms you [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► know the third dimension all that stuff [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► can actually work and up until that [TS]

00:33:00 ◼   ► point it wasn't clear that that was the [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► case it's like okay well you can do [TS]

00:33:04 ◼   ► first-person shooters [TS]

00:33:05 ◼   ► flight simulators but you're not going [TS]

00:33:07 ◼   ► to make a little guy running around jump [TS]

00:33:08 ◼   ► on platforms gonna be so frustrating but [TS]

00:33:10 ◼   ► they pulled it off and that that's the [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► template for the entire rest of the [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► console 3d third-person video game genre [TS]

00:33:17 ◼   ► from that point on is not part of the [TS]

00:33:19 ◼   ► problem with the third person 3d video [TS]

00:33:23 ◼   ► game consoles genre that wasn't a [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► problem it was very 64 came out did it [TS]

00:33:27 ◼   ► right [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► many other games followed his footsteps [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► and tried to do it took a long time for [TS]

00:33:32 ◼   ► any games even through the basics as [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► well as married remember that they're [TS]

00:33:35 ◼   ► saying back then was the Mary 64 camera [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► sucks but it's still the best camera and [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► you know like in the industry everyone [TS]

00:33:42 ◼   ► complains about it but it's better than [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► all the other cameras and I was true for [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► a long time i was amazed by super mario [TS]

00:33:48 ◼   ► 64 when it came out as as anybody else [TS]

00:33:51 ◼   ► and I thought it was a fantastic game [TS]

00:33:52 ◼   ► and i love it at the time and I just [TS]

00:33:56 ◼   ► tried to play recently and it's it's [TS]

00:33:58 ◼   ► frankly unplayable now least at least [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► with the n64 stick i still think it's [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► great i mean that but sure what shows on [TS]

00:34:06 ◼   ► it is that it you know the things that [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► we have polished up at our camera [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► control and Mario itself did camera [TS]

00:34:10 ◼   ► control better and each subsequent marry [TS]

00:34:12 ◼   ► again for the point where now galaxy the [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► cameras practically invisible you never [TS]

00:34:15 ◼   ► worry about it it's practically perfect [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► but Mike takes a long time to build up [TS]

00:34:18 ◼   ► to that so with the accept but with the [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► exception of character level design and [TS]

00:34:21 ◼   ► the way you get to do all these fun [TS]

00:34:23 ◼   ► things in this game they figured out a [TS]

00:34:25 ◼   ► way to make America game in three it was [TS]

00:34:27 ◼   ► fun we not making it like we just take [TS]

00:34:29 ◼   ► the 2-d game and flip it into 3d because [TS]

00:34:30 ◼   ► that wouldn't work and you know all all [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► the different things that you can do [TS]

00:34:34 ◼   ► they tried to sliding levels the snow [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► levels where it's slippery and of course [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► the typical lava world in the La lava [TS]

00:34:40 ◼   ► world that stuff that they I think they [TS]

00:34:42 ◼   ► did an amazing job of converting game 3d [TS]

00:34:44 ◼   ► without simply taking it the 2d one [TS]

00:34:46 ◼   ► extruding it which would not have worked [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► at all think I'm just getting old but I [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► can't deal with that camera anymore [TS]

00:34:51 ◼   ► make some noise when you reposition I [TS]

00:34:55 ◼   ► started playing again like a couple of [TS]

00:34:58 ◼   ► weeks ago and I've come so close to [TS]

00:35:00 ◼   ► destroying my my one and only n64 [TS]

00:35:02 ◼   ► controller so many times in that two [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► weeks largely because of a lethal lava [TS]

00:35:07 ◼   ► land [TS]

00:35:08 ◼   ► oh my god i have a lot of games in my [TS]

00:35:10 ◼   ► house but they won Game my six-year-old [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► daughter asks to play as she wants [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► supply she doesn't know the name but she [TS]

00:35:15 ◼   ► wants the primary 64 over all the other [TS]

00:35:17 ◼   ► you know I had [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► 2d Mario's 3d on the wii on the Gamecube [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► you know PlayStation games the whole [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► nine yards [TS]

00:35:24 ◼   ► things like Hello Kitty and I'm it's [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► mario 64 that she wants to play mostly [TS]

00:35:27 ◼   ► because she just likes to run around [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► outside the castle and climb the trees [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► and see the butterflies and stuff like [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► that and the graphics are totally not [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► impressive i have to think that even at [TS]

00:35:34 ◼   ► six you can tell this is not look like [TS]

00:35:36 ◼   ► the other amazing HD games that we have [TS]

00:35:38 ◼   ► but it's fine it's just fun i love the [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► game so much i actually tried the d/s [TS]

00:35:43 ◼   ► remake oh god yeah I had the DSP make of [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► it to it something is lost [TS]

00:35:50 ◼   ► I mean it's also I think that's like not [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► a good not a madman Yoshi yeah it's also [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► not a great game to play on a tank top [TS]

00:35:54 ◼   ► of the castle 13 stars on the 1i think [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► the one gaming moment from this thing I [TS]

00:35:59 ◼   ► don't know if I brought up my show [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► before but if I have you want to hear it [TS]

00:36:01 ◼   ► again is since people were so amazed by [TS]

00:36:04 ◼   ► the three dienes of Mary 64-bit this [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► amazing moment is very few of them into [TS]

00:36:09 ◼   ► kind of a perfectly like Mary like [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► you're going to go through each level [TS]

00:36:11 ◼   ► you going to stop people get stars [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► whatever but one of the amazing moments [TS]

00:36:14 ◼   ► is that as you explore the castle and [TS]

00:36:16 ◼   ► gotten a bunch of stars at a certain [TS]

00:36:19 ◼   ► point if you're lucky and I was you will [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► naturally find yourself looking around [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► the castle kind of in awe and once you [TS]

00:36:25 ◼   ► realize how to use the camera control to [TS]

00:36:27 ◼   ► look around and you're like what is like [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► what else is in this room who have gone [TS]

00:36:30 ◼   ► through that door have gone through that [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► door have done those things what else is [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► around here and you look around you look [TS]

00:36:33 ◼   ► up at the top of the other in the foyer [TS]

00:36:35 ◼   ► of the castle the top of the ceiling is [TS]

00:36:37 ◼   ► a little medallion on the ceiling with [TS]

00:36:39 ◼   ► like a starburst on it and when you look [TS]

00:36:41 ◼   ► into the starburst like light comes out [TS]

00:36:43 ◼   ► of it and it fades out and you enter the [TS]

00:36:45 ◼   ► flying level just you know organically [TS]

00:36:47 ◼   ► by you looking around because it's fun [TS]

00:36:49 ◼   ► to look around in a 3d world that [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► probably doesn't work with modern gamers [TS]

00:36:51 ◼   ► who that is going to look around like [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► that because they're not in all of the [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► amazing graphics that are showing their [TS]

00:36:56 ◼   ► butt on the n64 i was in all the amazing [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► graphics and I was looking around [TS]

00:37:00 ◼   ► because it's fun to look around and get [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► the reward for doing that was you get to [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► fly i have fond memories of that game [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► also because it was at a time you know [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► pre wikipedia where you can look up the [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► definitive answers to things there were [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► lots of urban legends around games of [TS]

00:37:13 ◼   ► that time I remember what the big ones [TS]

00:37:14 ◼   ► in that was that there were through some [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► elaborate series of events you could you [TS]

00:37:18 ◼   ► could be Luigi and they would be like [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► slightly doctored screenshots of it and [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► the free photoshop today is we you know [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► that would be like printed in magazines [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► and things like that it's likely clearly [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► cannot be luigi you know I realize have [TS]

00:37:30 ◼   ► not grown up with like i said earlier [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► have not grown up with Nintendo started [TS]

00:37:34 ◼   ► 22 yeah so I'm i missed me ya missed [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► this whole i missed this whole lot [TS]

00:37:39 ◼   ► shorter but my kids my kids first video [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► game consoles the wii and so they know [TS]

00:37:46 ◼   ► all of the Mario and all the Nintendo [TS]

00:37:51 ◼   ► characters and I I'm fascinated by that [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► because and this is one of things and [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► intelligence that that's great is that [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► they have this because it's like a band [TS]

00:38:01 ◼   ► of respiratory players wreck they're [TS]

00:38:03 ◼   ► willing to be in a side-scroller they're [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► willing to play tennis they're playing [TS]

00:38:06 ◼   ► right and drive guards will play soccer [TS]

00:38:08 ◼   ► if you want their they're ready [TS]

00:38:10 ◼   ► the place to play baseball mario mario [TS]

00:38:12 ◼   ► super sluggers man we put they are you [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► know it's amazing and so they end and [TS]

00:38:18 ◼   ► yeah it's up [TS]

00:38:20 ◼   ► yeah my kids know all those characters [TS]

00:38:23 ◼   ► so well done nintendo i guess for from [TS]

00:38:25 ◼   ► brainwashing my children good job [TS]

00:38:27 ◼   ► all right I'm gonna go and I i have a [TS]

00:38:33 ◼   ► couple of atari 2600 uh things on my [TS]

00:38:37 ◼   ► list and i'm not going to pick them [TS]

00:38:38 ◼   ► greatness was a very nice fellow and [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► sent me in the mail a couple years ago [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► an original superman cartridge for Atari [TS]

00:38:46 ◼   ► and I could play that I dad that is [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► maybe the game I mastered the most my [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► entire life as sad as that is to say I [TS]

00:38:54 ◼   ► could beat Superman like a minute it was [TS]

00:38:56 ◼   ► amazing but I'm not gonna pick it i'm [TS]

00:38:58 ◼   ► going to pick the reason the game that's [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► the reason that i bought next box which [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► is halo I was on my list i love the halo [TS]

00:39:04 ◼   ► I like the setting i like the it was the [TS]

00:39:08 ◼   ► first shooter that I had played that had [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► the fun vehicle interaction there was an [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► unfortunate trend after that were like [TS]

00:39:17 ◼   ► everything had to have vehicles grafted [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► onto in horrible ways even 3rd person [TS]

00:39:23 ◼   ► games like massive aqui ya half-life [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► half-life 2 has a horrible section we [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► have to drive a dune buggy right it's [TS]

00:39:29 ◼   ► clear that i love the dune buggy and [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► elegant we talking about your mistake [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► love it the dune buggy is awful it is [TS]

00:39:34 ◼   ► clearly about somebody saw like oh man [TS]

00:39:37 ◼   ► you get to drive a warthog [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► running low get-get on a dune buggy or [TS]

00:39:40 ◼   ► something because we need we need what [TS]

00:39:41 ◼   ► we need one hour required of carbon no [TS]

00:39:44 ◼   ► driving vehicle thing or kids will buy [TS]

00:39:46 ◼   ► this it's totally grafted on doesn't fit [TS]

00:39:49 ◼   ► so I i love the vehicles and i love that [TS]

00:39:53 ◼   ► they're the ground-based vehicles and [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► the air vehicles and I in in multiplayer [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► I mean it just changes it's like you're [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► playing it adds that other dimension in [TS]

00:40:03 ◼   ► the multiplayer where you've got the [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► ability to the the amount of multiplayer [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► time I spent with halo 2 that you know [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► you you're in the air or on the ground [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► uh on a ground vehicle or you are moving [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► around by foot and the fact that those [TS]

00:40:17 ◼   ► have all all different advantages and [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► disadvantages a lot of fun and even in [TS]

00:40:21 ◼   ► the single-player campaign having those [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► moments where you get into it was just [TS]

00:40:26 ◼   ► for me it was it was it was a revelation [TS]

00:40:28 ◼   ► was like oh wait you mean I can drive [TS]

00:40:32 ◼   ► the car now or I can get in the back and [TS]

00:40:33 ◼   ► just kind of fire with the term while [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► someone else is driving just added a [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► whole other layer 2 I different food [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► first person shooters and i like i like [TS]

00:40:41 ◼   ► to sci-fi story line to of course the [TS]

00:40:44 ◼   ► Ringworld that they're on and and and [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► they did killer aliens that you're [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► fighting and as somebody who is a [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► marathon fan from way back and played [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► all the marathon and marathon to [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► marathon infinity [TS]

00:40:55 ◼   ► I like that too that it was you know it [TS]

00:40:58 ◼   ► was familiar in that way to and since [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► the bunch of guys were were only going [TS]

00:41:03 ◼   ► to be they got bought by microsoft [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► they're only the xbox i bought next box [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► so I can play it and it's a it's a fun [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► game i had i had halo 1 on the mac to [TS]

00:41:14 ◼   ► and then obviously after that it was all [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► all xbox and you know when i bought my [TS]

00:41:18 ◼   ► xbox 360 first thing about was a the [TS]

00:41:21 ◼   ► latest ale ale game so you know i love [TS]

00:41:25 ◼   ► it but the vehicles thing is the thing [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► that really put it over the top for me [TS]

00:41:28 ◼   ► that was really cool and yeah it's kind [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► of been done now but at the time that [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► was uh that was a really awesome [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► addition so i really like the fact that [TS]

00:41:34 ◼   ► you can either drive or you could take [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► the turret yeah that was a nice when I [TS]

00:41:39 ◼   ► also like when you're driving the the [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► enemy vehicles that may have that the [TS]

00:41:44 ◼   ► little uh like one person for the [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► skimmer like landspeeder kind of thing [TS]

00:41:48 ◼   ► that you're driving around that was that [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► was kind of a fun vehicle to and then [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► when you're [TS]

00:41:51 ◼   ► when you're flying that was also a lot [TS]

00:41:53 ◼   ► of fun to fly around but I remember that [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► is being one of the first games that i [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► was like waiting for that there was [TS]

00:42:00 ◼   ► actually liked video of the gameplay [TS]

00:42:01 ◼   ► that you would see on the internet as [TS]

00:42:03 ◼   ► opposed to like before that you would be [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► like reading like pc gamer and it would [TS]

00:42:06 ◼   ► be like the screenshots of games you'd [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► have to go to prevent what it would be [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► like to play them but unfortunately i [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► remember the video like even from one of [TS]

00:42:13 ◼   ► the steve jobs keynote swear he was [TS]

00:42:15 ◼   ► talking about how awesome [TS]

00:42:16 ◼   ► halo would be and then you know yeah [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► that's what that's why I wanted to play [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► it on the mac yeah you're purest no not [TS]

00:42:23 ◼   ► appear is because the mac part was [TS]

00:42:24 ◼   ► terrible but i really was so I was so [TS]

00:42:27 ◼   ► angry that they took that with Microsoft [TS]

00:42:29 ◼   ► took that away from us yep it was like [TS]

00:42:30 ◼   ► there it was like the final act of an [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► evil giant this is why we can't think [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► it's true it's true i'm looking forward [TS]

00:42:35 ◼   ► to destiny now that now that those guys [TS]

00:42:37 ◼   ► have bought their freedom from microsoft [TS]

00:42:39 ◼   ► and destiny is going to be released on [TS]

00:42:40 ◼   ► PlayStation and Xbox so did you play a [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► halo 4 i have played some of it i have I [TS]

00:42:47 ◼   ► i have it on my 360 yeah I played it all [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► the way it's a little I feel like that [TS]

00:42:52 ◼   ► doesn't like a metroid prime for I don't [TS]

00:42:56 ◼   ► know I don't know but it's kinda there's [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► not a lot more of the same but i never [TS]

00:43:00 ◼   ► played a lot more I think I never played [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► ODST halo yeah I never played ODST i [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► played all of them and yeah i mean [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► they're great they're enjoyable but [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► they're they're recycling a lot now that [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► the amount of new stuff for the amount [TS]

00:43:14 ◼   ► that you're just experiencing it over is [TS]

00:43:16 ◼   ► it's a diminishing returns as they go [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► deeper in the pile I guess what [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► seriously who plays first person games [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► on a consolation I jump I jump from Halo [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► 2 halo 4 and so for me it was like I had [TS]

00:43:25 ◼   ► a lot of catching up to do [TS]

00:43:26 ◼   ► so yes it looks exciting i'm hoping they [TS]

00:43:28 ◼   ► do you mean here's some cool stuff and I [TS]

00:43:29 ◼   ► get to be fair a halo 4 is not actually [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► was with that bungee or was that that [TS]

00:43:34 ◼   ► was no Lee know that's that's their own [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► 343 out of you [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► yeah yeah that was the deal [TS]

00:43:42 ◼   ► that's how about their freedom is that [TS]

00:43:43 ◼   ► the intellectual property 4x4 for halo [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► stays with Microsoft but they can run [TS]

00:43:48 ◼   ► away with bungie studios make their own [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► camp so anyway so that's the that's the [TS]

00:43:54 ◼   ► end of the draft [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► oh my god around this is a travesty you [TS]

00:43:57 ◼   ► have at least Justine a six they would [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► what is that we should let us at least [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► Neymar titles of all right all right [TS]

00:44:04 ◼   ► we'll do one more round but first a word [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► from our returning sponsor i love it [TS]

00:44:09 ◼   ► when they come back its mail route mail [TS]

00:44:11 ◼   ► route is still out there it's still [TS]

00:44:12 ◼   ► filtering my mail and it's filtering out [TS]

00:44:15 ◼   ► all the spam and all the viruses which I [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► appreciate greatly mail route is the [TS]

00:44:19 ◼   ► leading hosted service that cleans your [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► email and protects your mail servers you [TS]

00:44:24 ◼   ► don't need to install any hardware or [TS]

00:44:26 ◼   ► software they do that they're up in the [TS]

00:44:28 ◼   ► clouds they're easy to use reliable and [TS]

00:44:31 ◼   ► trusted their clients include [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► universities governments and [TS]

00:44:33 ◼   ► corporations as well as single people [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► like me and there are no user minimum so [TS]

00:44:38 ◼   ► the little guy is fine at mail route [TS]

00:44:41 ◼   ► mail routes whole focus is delivering [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► clean email the stuff you want to see [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► and saving you from the stuff you don't [TS]

00:44:48 ◼   ► and it's got a super simple interface [TS]

00:44:50 ◼   ► they've built the interface and tools [TS]

00:44:52 ◼   ► with admins in mind and if you want to [TS]

00:44:54 ◼   ► do account management a larger [TS]

00:44:56 ◼   ► organization they even gotten API now [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► right supports ldap Active Directory TLS [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► male bagging outbound relay everything [TS]

00:45:02 ◼   ► you'd want from the people who handle [TS]

00:45:04 ◼   ► your email and here's the best part for [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► a free trial one-step sign up go to mail [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► route dotnet / incomparable how about [TS]

00:45:14 ◼   ► that huh [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► and you'll get ten percent off for the [TS]

00:45:17 ◼   ► lifetime of your account there's a free [TS]

00:45:19 ◼   ► trial you can try out mail route see how [TS]

00:45:21 ◼   ► it works [TS]

00:45:22 ◼   ► you don't have to believe your mail [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► provider at all it passes the mail [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► through filters out the junk so you only [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► see the good stuff and one of my [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► favorite features is they have the [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► configurable alerts that tell you what [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► they filtered out and their little [TS]

00:45:34 ◼   ► hyperlinks in there you click on them to [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► deliver the message if it turns out it [TS]

00:45:37 ◼   ► wasn't spam and you do want to see it [TS]

00:45:39 ◼   ► you can even click and one-click trains [TS]

00:45:42 ◼   ► mail route to send that message through [TS]

00:45:44 ◼   ► the next time it gets it very cool it [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► took me one minute to explain that to my [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► mom and she's never asked again she's [TS]

00:45:49 ◼   ► using it and works great for her too and [TS]

00:45:51 ◼   ► so check out mail route and mail route [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► dotnet selection comfortable and thank [TS]

00:45:54 ◼   ► you so much to mail route for once again [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► sponsoring the incomparable okay I'll [TS]

00:45:58 ◼   ► tell you what let's do it let's do a [TS]

00:45:59 ◼   ► fourth-round but you just have to do [TS]

00:46:01 ◼   ► just get you another 30 seconds just got [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► 30 seconds yeah alright Steve go ahead [TS]

00:46:05 ◼   ► say it's okay my 32nd pic is silent hill [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► their horror games before silent hill [TS]

00:46:10 ◼   ► but silent hill was the first to really [TS]

00:46:11 ◼   ► do it right [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► I you know the resident evil games are [TS]

00:46:15 ◼   ► more of a visceral dogs jumping through [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► the windows sort of horror and Silent [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► Hill is really more of a psychological [TS]

00:46:19 ◼   ► horror about an ever mounting sense of [TS]

00:46:21 ◼   ► dread that just endlessly ratchets up as [TS]

00:46:23 ◼   ► the game goes on [TS]

00:46:24 ◼   ► yes technically clunky but i think it [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► actually turns all of its weaknesses [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► into strengths and you know I strongly [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► consider picking silent hill 2 because [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► that also is fantastic but it's never [TS]

00:46:36 ◼   ► really scary and this one genuinely is a [TS]

00:46:39 ◼   ► frightening game also have to throw out [TS]

00:46:41 ◼   ► a shout out to a Carioca whose music is [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► the best music I've ever heard in the [TS]

00:46:47 ◼   ► video game barn on period [TS]

00:46:50 ◼   ► alright Tony and won game 4 30 seconds [TS]

00:46:52 ◼   ► as many games like one game [TS]

00:46:54 ◼   ► ok i will go to 2 rocket for for the [TS]

00:46:57 ◼   ► dreamcast from the year 2000 the [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► dreamcast would be my favorite console [TS]

00:47:02 ◼   ► of all time um I remember buying a [TS]

00:47:04 ◼   ► dreamcast with my college roommate when [TS]

00:47:06 ◼   ► the dreamcast was like being [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► discontinued and it was you get it for [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► like incredibly cheap i think it was [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► like 75 bucks and we bought pretty much [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► the entire dreamcast library of games [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► also because there weren't very many 22 [TS]

00:47:17 ◼   ► rocket is that a kind of bizarre awesome [TS]

00:47:19 ◼   ► japanese puzzle game where the [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► single-player you can replace arrows and [TS]

00:47:22 ◼   ► you have to leave mice into space ships [TS]

00:47:24 ◼   ► so that they can go to the moon but you [TS]

00:47:25 ◼   ► have to keep the cats that are following [TS]

00:47:27 ◼   ► the mice out of the spaceships because [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► they eat the mice but then it has this [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► incredibly frenetic multiplayer mode [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► with us you know you play with up to [TS]

00:47:34 ◼   ► four players and for spaceships and [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► replacing arrows to try and bring my [TS]

00:47:37 ◼   ► stew your spaceship and bring cats to [TS]

00:47:40 ◼   ► your other people and this game turns [TS]

00:47:42 ◼   ► people into animals in ways that I've [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► never seen I've never heard as violent [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► and Falmouth's wearing as I've heard [TS]

00:47:49 ◼   ► from people playing 22 rocket even [TS]

00:47:51 ◼   ► people who should know better [TS]

00:47:53 ◼   ► sochi rocket is a great game and the [TS]

00:47:56 ◼   ► dreamcast was a great system and that's [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► what I'm going with [TS]

00:47:59 ◼   ► all right track of time voice s number [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► what's your Quick Pick teenage mutant [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► ninja turtles to the arcade game for the [TS]

00:48:05 ◼   ► nes because it was a weird attempt to [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► crunch the ninja turtles arcade game [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► into an nes size package and it still [TS]

00:48:14 ◼   ► actually worked pretty well I own that [TS]

00:48:16 ◼   ► game and when when you combine the price [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► of that cartridge with the amount of [TS]

00:48:19 ◼   ► quarters i spent in the arcade the small [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► fortune that game separated me from is [TS]

00:48:24 ◼   ► incalculable Greg what do you have [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► i am going to choose a game that is also [TS]

00:48:29 ◼   ► a console in itself Atari super pong was [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► the home version of the arcade palm i [TS]

00:48:35 ◼   ► found one in a goodwill for five bucks [TS]

00:48:38 ◼   ► at about 15 years ago when I bought it [TS]

00:48:40 ◼   ► and the D batteries to make it run cost [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► more than the consulate yeah but I set [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► it up at a party that night and of the [TS]

00:48:48 ◼   ► four different pong variations we played [TS]

00:48:51 ◼   ► it for hours [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► great fun from a simpler time [TS]

00:48:56 ◼   ► nice John what about you are my last pic [TS]

00:48:59 ◼   ► is predictably eco I and very mention of [TS]

00:49:03 ◼   ► the classes from the same makers this is [TS]

00:49:05 ◼   ► a sign for maybe another world also [TS]

00:49:07 ◼   ► known as out-of-this-world i think in [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► the US this was the first party game [TS]

00:49:10 ◼   ► that I played and it grabbed me in ways [TS]

00:49:12 ◼   ► that games with much fancier pedigree [TS]

00:49:14 ◼   ► didn't from like well-known makers I i [TS]

00:49:17 ◼   ► wrote an article about our technical [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► couple years ago and the best part of [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► their masterpiece video series if you [TS]

00:49:21 ◼   ► want to hear me talk about this more you [TS]

00:49:23 ◼   ► can read that maybe Jason put in the [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► shots I i think it stands out because [TS]

00:49:27 ◼   ► the developers had such different [TS]

00:49:29 ◼   ► priorities than their peers did they [TS]

00:49:31 ◼   ► focused all their energy on one or two [TS]

00:49:33 ◼   ► things a animation lighting atmosphere [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► and all that they did extremely well and [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► in particular the sort of consistent non [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► chip-based level design it was an actual [TS]

00:49:45 ◼   ► castle instead of a bunch of World box [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► pens connected by magic portals and it [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► really stands out as a place that I can [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► remember being despite just having seen [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► on TV screen [TS]

00:49:56 ◼   ► Jason still hasn't finished this game [TS]

00:49:57 ◼   ► although he has it so I don't want to [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► ruin the ending but suffice it to say [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► that ego was my journey before journey [TS]

00:50:02 ◼   ► existed [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► alright like that you mention out of [TS]

00:50:04 ◼   ► this world that is one of my favorite pc [TS]

00:50:06 ◼   ► games and since i already mentioned [TS]

00:50:11 ◼   ► Superman i'm not going to pick it [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► instead i'm going to pick the 20 atari [TS]

00:50:15 ◼   ► 2600 game i played the most which is the [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► entire e26 a report of space invaders I [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► cannot tell you how many god I mean you [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► talk about wasting your life as such [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► hold space invaders space invaders at [TS]

00:50:31 ◼   ► the first port that was actually better [TS]

00:50:33 ◼   ► than the arcade game [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► yeah i mean i had the pacman cartridge [TS]

00:50:37 ◼   ► and that was so much worse although [TS]

00:50:40 ◼   ► except for one thing which was it once [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► you had it knocked you did not pay my [TS]

00:50:46 ◼   ► doctor just not creating enough it was [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► really more yeah but uh space invaders [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► misc was a great re 2600 game it wasn't [TS]

00:50:55 ◼   ► just a popular arcade game as an a 2600 [TS]

00:50:58 ◼   ► game it was great and I played it for [TS]

00:51:01 ◼   ► efforts and Leslie played that game and [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► you know and damn damage the pace that [TS]

00:51:07 ◼   ► don't did did did did did did as that [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► it's been up and the space invaders came [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► to lower and did you ever do the double [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► shot hack no yeah if you hold the couple [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► of the difficulty buttons down on the [TS]

00:51:22 ◼   ► 2600 and turn the power on you can fire [TS]

00:51:24 ◼   ► two bullets the same time sweet baby i [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► did do that actually that does sound [TS]

00:51:27 ◼   ► familiar [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► it's based on the strength of the space [TS]

00:51:30 ◼   ► invaders asteroid was my favorite arcade [TS]

00:51:32 ◼   ► game at the time and so I actually [TS]

00:51:34 ◼   ► bought a black-market VCS 2600 asteroids [TS]

00:51:39 ◼   ► before it came out it was the sears [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► edition and the serial number had been [TS]

00:51:42 ◼   ► scratched off and i paid like 75 bucks [TS]

00:51:46 ◼   ► which was like all i had from my [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► newspaper route and I was so bitterly [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► bitterly disappointed not not not the [TS]

00:51:56 ◼   ► first time and not the last video games [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► video games i should say so damn boring [TS]

00:52:01 ◼   ► or video k and more and couldn't be here [TS]

00:52:03 ◼   ► and so let's let's walk through what he [TS]

00:52:05 ◼   ► would have selected over done with the [TS]

00:52:07 ◼   ► abused elders and onto the abused and [TS]

00:52:10 ◼   ► yeah we should we should we get to say I [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► remain helpless titles only for you let [TS]

00:52:13 ◼   ► me know i'm going to talk about Dan and [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► then and then and then you guys can [TS]

00:52:16 ◼   ► throw your you're letting dance picture [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► off the tape out there so so mario kart [TS]

00:52:20 ◼   ► 64 was his first pick and 64 version of [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► mario kart which would have driven me to [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► not pick mario kart wii he then shoot [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► would have chosen red red dead [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► redemption on the xbox 360 that's kind [TS]

00:52:33 ◼   ► of a pc game [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► yeah then he would have been really [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► angry that Tony picked goldeneye because [TS]

00:52:39 ◼   ► he would have picked go by so he would [TS]

00:52:41 ◼   ► have gone to his next election but sadly [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► Tony already picked Super Mario Brothers [TS]

00:52:45 ◼   ► 3 so he would have had to move onto [TS]

00:52:48 ◼   ► bushido blade for the poet's one [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► that's a classic fighter game very [TS]

00:52:52 ◼   ► different if you could hit people with [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► one foot if you did it right its kind of [TS]

00:52:56 ◼   ► sitting stylized samurai fighting game [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► was that was classic and his 32nd pic [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► would have been baseball stars on the [TS]

00:53:02 ◼   ► nes oh boy on the NES not the Neo Geo [TS]

00:53:06 ◼   ► well their baseball stars for the nest [TS]

00:53:08 ◼   ► what Dan says in his email baseball [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► starts to cousin Eugene because he's you [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► know at Disneyland [TS]

00:53:14 ◼   ► okay who has a let's let's do the clear [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► out whatever else is on your list [TS]

00:53:18 ◼   ► Steve do you have anything else that you [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► didn't mention that you want to just [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► mention now in past I had a crapload of [TS]

00:53:23 ◼   ► stuff i will just speed through it first [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► Super Mario Brothers I grand theft auto [TS]

00:53:28 ◼   ► 3 ghouls and ghosts but a contra River [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► eight megalomania pitfall Raiders etc [TS]

00:53:37 ◼   ► etc and finally animal crossing city [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► fulco its left off and morrowind oh my [TS]

00:53:44 ◼   ► god more wind and psychonauts NHL never [TS]

00:53:48 ◼   ► mind he thought that was going to be a [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► three-parter Tony what's your what's [TS]

00:53:51 ◼   ► your leftovers [TS]

00:53:52 ◼   ► alright star wars knights of the old [TS]

00:53:54 ◼   ► republic for the xbox Pikmin for [TS]

00:53:57 ◼   ► gamecube jet set radio also known as jet [TS]

00:53:59 ◼   ► grind radio for the dreamcast final [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► fantasy 7 for the PlayStation GTA 3 4 [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► playstation 2 it's Steve mentioned gears [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► of war resident evil 4 for the gamecube [TS]

00:54:09 ◼   ► metal gear solid for the PlayStation [TS]

00:54:11 ◼   ► castlevania symphony of the night for [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► the PlayStation megaman 2 for the nest [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► psychonauts for the xbox I think Steve [TS]

00:54:17 ◼   ► mentioned that and then orange box / [TS]

00:54:19 ◼   ► portal for the xbox 360 which probably [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► would have been my next pic but I wasn't [TS]

00:54:24 ◼   ► sure how that it is it's like multiple [TS]

00:54:26 ◼   ► games in one pc games that's better PCX [TS]

00:54:28 ◼   ► in the pc land [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► I mean it was available for xbox at the [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► same time it was it was for certain [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► games that are really pc games and [TS]

00:54:34 ◼   ► half-life is one of us have a portal was [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► you know was available for PC yeah yeah [TS]

00:54:39 ◼   ► I guess I mean you guys pick things that [TS]

00:54:41 ◼   ► were also available as arcade cabinets [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► truth is any leftovers i had to backup [TS]

00:54:47 ◼   ► list one of them was adjective location [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► air fortress developed by how labs for [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► the nes startropics i think i'm not sure [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► if it was also done by how but it was [TS]

00:54:57 ◼   ► also a nintendo own property [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► today do you have to spend space dollars [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► in the stardrop no startropics is an [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► over-the-top legend of zelda type [TS]

00:55:06 ◼   ► adventure game which is really super [TS]

00:55:08 ◼   ► awesome and then start tropics to zodos [TS]

00:55:10 ◼   ► revenge and then my other one was was my [TS]

00:55:13 ◼   ► final fantasy fanboy list of final [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► fantasy 12 and three us numbering Greg [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► at anything I've got I've got donkey [TS]

00:55:22 ◼   ► kong on the colecovision just because it [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► was the first home game that could rival [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► the arcade game that i had played it was [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► incredibly faithful even if it didn't do [TS]

00:55:30 ◼   ► all the levels and pitfall for the 2608 [TS]

00:55:34 ◼   ► fault that's a good one that's a great [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► one [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► pretty much anything activision did in [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► the beginning freeway megalomania river [TS]

00:55:41 ◼   ► aid kaboom with you know you get to [TS]

00:55:45 ◼   ► 10,000 points on kaboom his expression [TS]

00:55:47 ◼   ► changes that's just idea what I did [TS]

00:55:52 ◼   ► instead of having a childhood you're not [TS]

00:55:54 ◼   ► wrong [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► ah John I didn't have many more pics [TS]

00:56:00 ◼   ► just for nintendo good stuff I've got [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► the legend of zelda twilight princess [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► which is a as I've said many shows [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► rising in my esteem as time passes [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► metroid prime which is one of the rare [TS]

00:56:11 ◼   ► first-person shooter style games that I [TS]

00:56:13 ◼   ► think fits in well on a console resident [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► evil but the gamecube remake not the [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► eight original PlayStation 1 it's a [TS]

00:56:20 ◼   ► fantastic game also a strange case we're [TS]

00:56:23 ◼   ► like the remake is actually better than [TS]

00:56:24 ◼   ► the original because it is totally the [TS]

00:56:26 ◼   ► original just nicer kinda like shadow [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► the class on the ps3 and rounding out [TS]

00:56:31 ◼   ► the legend of zelda the windwaker HD [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► remake or the regular either one works [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► they're both great right and and my 2 [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► left overs were at our superb and he's [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► like Superman except he has the symbol [TS]

00:56:44 ◼   ► of Atari on his shirt know the 2600 [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► version of superman which I have a [TS]

00:56:48 ◼   ► cartridge now thanks Greg [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► he blinks when he's in the room with two [TS]

00:56:52 ◼   ► bad guys out and the other 1i had down [TS]

00:56:55 ◼   ► is since i had that PS one i spent a lot [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► of time playing crash bandicoot which [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► was a very nice 3d platformer why has [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► that not been remastered why like those [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► three games are so good [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► yeah yeah I enjoyed having a little [TS]

00:57:12 ◼   ► sci-fi mad side [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► this kind of thing happening and it's a [TS]

00:57:14 ◼   ► very bad naughty dog to isn't very yeah [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► yeah very nice and get around to be [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► doing nicely rendered 3d problems that [TS]

00:57:22 ◼   ► PlayStation games are so low poly and [TS]

00:57:25 ◼   ► Syria low-res texture that I mean I'd [TS]

00:57:28 ◼   ► love to see silent hill right one [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► remastered but definitely keep in mind [TS]

00:57:31 ◼   ► that I was coming from the 2600 so it [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► was very impressed [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► okay no that's one because we're very [TS]

00:57:37 ◼   ► impressive back in the day it's just [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► that to remaster them now would be a [TS]

00:57:41 ◼   ► non-trivial you know just remembered [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► yeah and that pretty much close the book [TS]

00:57:46 ◼   ► on this draft I think oh yeah I know as [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► a draft man somebody close the door [TS]

00:57:52 ◼   ► because I sure do like craft let a match [TS]

00:57:56 ◼   ► yeah I so this was great lots of games [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► and if you have no they are in position [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► of old consoles you play these games or [TS]

00:58:05 ◼   ► emulators but this was a lot of fun [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► little little walk down memory lane for [TS]

00:58:10 ◼   ► some people lots of lots of games of the [TS]

00:58:14 ◼   ► more recent vintage and then for people [TS]

00:58:16 ◼   ► like me and Greg lots of things from the [TS]

00:58:18 ◼   ► old times or tired when life was good [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► yeah back in the day disappointed [TS]

00:58:23 ◼   ► there's never been a prospector based [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► game to speak of [TS]

00:58:26 ◼   ► oh I'm sure there has your lucky come on [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► dig dug that's good [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► minor 2014 einer just a straight-up [TS]

00:58:34 ◼   ► minor to their minor cursor to load [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► writer [TS]

00:58:36 ◼   ► yep I not talking about loadrunner that [TS]

00:58:40 ◼   ► until we get to the computer game draft [TS]

00:58:42 ◼   ► sorry I'm getting ahead of myself [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► alright i'd like to thank my guests for [TS]

00:58:45 ◼   ► picking many video games this is a lot [TS]

00:58:47 ◼   ► of fun [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► Steve lots as always thank you so much [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► for coming and boy you play a lot of [TS]

00:58:52 ◼   ► video games damn a lot of old video [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► games [TS]

00:58:55 ◼   ► my pleasure sir and yes I have wasted my [TS]

00:58:58 ◼   ► life all right so long as you can [TS]

00:59:00 ◼   ► consider that little all those video [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► games a flash for before your eyes as [TS]

00:59:04 ◼   ► you're on your deathbed and you'll say [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► somebody had me a joystick I would play [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► a few ballgames [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► I actually think it's a positive yeah I [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► think it's good i would get me off the [TS]