Top ten essential PSP games for new retro players

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Hello, this is episode 35.
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And again, we're doing these top ten games for new retro players, and this time it's the PSP.
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So we'll be picking 10 games we think are must-buys for a new collector.
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I'm RGT and as always I am joined by You can't disagree, the best handheld is a PSP.
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He's always full of glee when watching the film on UMD.
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All of Farmerton could hear him yell.
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When you tried a PSP reshell, that's UCP George.
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How are you doing, George?
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Oh mate, that is that was brilliant because every single one of those things is true.
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I would love to get into this where we do another one where we go through our top 10 UMD movies.
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Um but that's actually a great shape, that is.
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Yeah, well it'll be nice.
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Maybe we could bring the Ray on to help us with that because he's the movie guru.
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So maybe we could bring him up the drive at the start of the episode and we could pick through.
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I mean, I've got a plethora of those things, and I I've always been a fan of them, and I often still to this day will take the PSP away with uh a slew of those movies in my back pocket.
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Uh because what a great device the PSP is.
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Not only was it games, it was music, it was movies, it was it was maybe an iPhone in your pocket before we knew we even needed it, you know, especially with the PSP mini games you could download from the store or if you buy your PS3.
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Great bit of kit.
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Um and I'm I'm really actually quite excited to get into this.
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I mean, my games are probably the most middle of the road Joe average titles that you could ever pick, but uh I think they're great experiences on the little handheld console, and I'm looking to find out what yours are, RGT.
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Yes, I think um, you know, with PSP, like you say, some of them will be quite obvious choices, and we've done this with a few of ours, but we don't want to leave the good ones out, and sometimes that does mean obvious ones, but also there'll probably be people listening here who are thinking about getting a PSP and getting a collection who haven't yet.
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And this is a great little pointer in the way to get yourself a good set of 10 games that will uh keep you busy for quite a while.
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Yeah, and to that point, I know a lot of PSPs can be hacked.
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Uh, and if you've if you're one of those crazy cats that's gone down that road or you've managed to get like a rework one off of uh the internet, then uh these are maybe the first 10 games you should try on there at their minimum and without even going off and purchasing the physical copies.
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We're flashbacks are always going to advocate OG hardware and physical copies, are we not RGT?
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But uh we know there are other ways.
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Yes, and also with you know, as of recording the way things are going with digital and physical copies, um prices have started to skyrocket, and especially on PS3, PSP as well, is been caught up a bit in this crossfire.
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So yeah, yeah because these are 50p games for the longest time.
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Oh, they're not now.
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Um, yeah, this when I was uh writing this script and uh researching some of these, I was like, Yeah, that that's not a two-pound game anymore.
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Um so it's it's gonna be interesting.
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So yeah.
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Um, but yeah, sit back, relax, get yourself a cup of coffee, and just l let us go for our ten games and see if there's any that take your fancy.
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There'll be some that are a bit left field, there'll be some that are obvious, there'll be some that might not be so obvious.
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Um but let's start with you, George, and your first pick.
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Which PSP game do you think new collectors should get first?
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Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.
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Um Hideo Kojima's uh final entry on the PSP and probably one of the greatest um Metal Gear Solid games.
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Like, yeah, I know it can be a bit repetitive.
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I know it's probably not got the strength and conviction as some of the mainline games, but you know, this one carried on the Fulton recovery mechanic.
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Um I personally love this game, it's it's great for pick-up and play.
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Graphically, it looks fantastic as well.
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If you want a game that makes your PSP sweat, this would definitely be it.
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Obviously, you've got the base building challenges that go along with it.
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It's just if Hideo's gonna do something, and obviously, you know, we famously made that Game Boy game, I think, that worked in light and dark or was solar charged, and you could like take it out in the sun.
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When he decides to make something for a console and he goes all in on it, he makes it work with that console in a way that's like nothing else.
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Um yeah, you don't seem to get a lot of port with him, he makes them for the console, doesn't he?
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He 100% does, and this has always been like a marvel to me.
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It feels like um, yeah, maybe more the PS2 versions, but somewhere between PS2 and PS3 because of the mechanics that are in this.
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Um I've loved my absolute I've absolutely loved the wheels off and I've really enjoyed playing it.
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Um, you know, the to to speak of like the box art on the you know the cart on the UMD and the you know the logo here is like a B52 bomber but in the shape of a peace sign, like all the iconography that's in here is just fantastic.
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It is maybe a little bit easier um than your normal Metal Gear Solids, but I think that fits the form factor.
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And compared to the other two Metal Gear Solid games on PSP, which are basically almost like real-time strategy or sort of card battling games, it was a way of like cutting them down and getting them on there.
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I think they're acid and acid too.
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This one is the real deal, the full fat, the one you've been waiting for.
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And if you sat there at home now thinking, oh yeah, I I could do with a little bit of action on the PSP.
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If you only had one game and you had this, I think you'd be stoked about it.
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So uh yeah, please go check that out.
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RGT, have you had any experience with uh Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker friend?
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No, I haven't.
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I've got Acid, um but I haven't played Peace Walker, I keep meaning to pick it up.
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Um but while I was yeah, acid nearly killed my sort of like I don't I don't really I don't want this experience, and I kind of thought they'd all be like that.
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And then many years ago I kind of saw a little article about Peace Walker and I thought, oh hang on a minute.
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Oh, it is the real deal.
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And I'd done a bit of lot say when I was researching this, a few of them I looked up sort of online, had a look at the gameplay.
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You're correct, it looks very good for a PSP game.
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Um I know I always say this, but back in the day, if you had a PSP, you picked this up on launch, popped it in, was playing it on your way home, you'd be blown away.
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I mean, you had a full-on console experience in your pocket of of Metal Gear and a different one as well, you know.
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So it's yeah, it looks very good.
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I haven't played it, it's on my list to pick up.
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I must pick it up for the PSP.
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Um, but yeah, it's it's again that's where I think sometimes these handheld consoles shine because you have got these separate versions.
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If you're a big fan of Metal Gear Solid, you you're more inclined to pick a PSP up to get this version, to play this different game.
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Um, it gives you more options and a different and a different game to play.
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Um, but yeah, I think that's a great choice.
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Uh chronology-wise, as well, it fits into the timeline in a really great way, and that's a significant like a like story-lifting element for the other games.
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Um, especially Metal Gear Solid 4 or 5, even.
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You know, there are threads in here that you will reutilise the full term full term collection balloon.
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You know, you you tag a guard, he gets whipped up in the air, plane comes along, collects him up.
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Next time you see him, he's at your base, and you're employing him on different missions and sending him an out.
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That's brilliant.
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Yeah, it fits around that whole kind of quick go, slap it on, stand by, stick it in my pocket, scan my bus pass, go on, sit down, pull it out again, carry on another 10 minutes, or do this, that, and the other, back in the pocket, get off the bus, walk to work, go in, dinner time, pick it up.
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It's got that vibe to it as well.
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It kind of rewards that kind of playthrough of it.
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So I know it's one of those games where I know we praise the Switch too, but those games are really all now just full fat, no compromise home console versions that you get the perk of taking on the go.
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The PSP and some of the other games that I'm going to talk about still had that sort of engineered factor where they were respectful of the fact that they were a portable game but without any of the downsides that you typically associate with maybe Nintendo's efforts where you know if Metal Gear's on the Game Boy, it's literally a top-down 8-bit version as it was on the MSX back in the day, or whatever it was.
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So it's those moments where you're like, Yeah, okay, this is almost like the perfect hybrid.
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Definitely, and I think like you say about Switch 2 as well, we love our Switch 2s, like we say, we love our switches, but it's not as easy, you know, if you're on the bus to work to pull that out of your inside pocket of your jacket and start playing PSP.
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You could even just have that little sock case on the PSP, pull it out, play a couple of, you know, play a level of Peace Walker back in carry on.
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It had that real form factor you couldn't put in your coat pocket.
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You tend to set a bag if you've got a switch to, so it really did fit in, and you'll find with a lot of these titles they they fit in with that gameplay style quite well.
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But yeah, that's that's a great choice for your first one.
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Thank you.
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What have you brought to the party then?
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Um well, this is a game I've had as a PS2 hidden gem over on Unafficial Controller Podcast.
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Um and you'll see why as well when we get to the end, why I've also picked this as well on the PSP version.
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But this is Jackass the Game.
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This was a game that went under the radar, um didn't score very well, some people didn't even score it at all.
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Not many people are interested in this game.
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Now it's got a little bit of a cult following.
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It is skyrocketing price in 18 months, um and it's quite collectible.
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Now yes, everyone knows what Jackass is.
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Yes, it's silly, yes, it's stupid.
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The basic premise of the game is um the director has hurt himself.
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I won't say how he's hurt himself because it's a family show, but he's hurt himself, um, and you take over directing the show, and you have to control a different participant on each level, and if you max each level out by getting all the um conditions correct, then you open up other stuff and other things you can do later in the game.
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If you play this with friends and taking turns on levels, this is so much fun.
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It is so silly, but it is brilliant, you know.
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And I was thinking we had on our uh challenge accepted on the fish controller podcast, they had one of the uh the challenges.
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I think the last one was Roblox, and you had to get as many injuries by jumping off this.
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This is like the the daddy for that, and one of these is you have to get like£100,000 worth of damage, you know.
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I think your first level, you've got Stevo, and you guide him with L you have your trigger buttons, your bumper buttons, and you have to guide him round the rocks, and there's different things you have to do, and you keep replaying it.
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Oh, you got to drop in that pool, get him in there,£100,000 worth of injuries.
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Can you jump over 20 meters off a rock?
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You know, and you have to find all these out and do it.
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It is stupid fun, but it is so much fun.
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And this actually added on this had more to it than what the PS2 version did.
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Um, it had like so you could do um um, I can't remember what they called it now.
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You could join your you know uh ad hoc ad hoc modes, you could you could play two-player on it.
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Um, and I think it had a different couple of extra different levels.
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They did do a version on the DS, which apparently is terrible.
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Um, but the PS2 to my point earlier of the kind of cutbacks you'd normally experience, but you don't hear.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So this this came out pretty much day in date with the PS2 version.
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So I think this one went under the radar quite a lot on the PSP.
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That was they were both out in September 2007.
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Um and it was it is just silly fun.
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And I say back in the day it was getting five out of tens, six out of tens.
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Um, some of the reviews didn't bother you two, two out of five.
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Wow, and I pick I yeah, I think people missed what the game was about.
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I think they thought that was going to be this high-in-depth game.
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It's not, it's a silly party mini-game game, you know, it's like a sort of really stupid adult version of Mario Party, you know.
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But it really works and it is great fun.
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Now, like I say, you'll see at the end why, especially why I'm pushing for the PSP version now.
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Um but uh you know it it it is good, and and because they knew I don't know why they didn't do it so much on the PS2.
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You we tend to play single player on the PS2 and taking turns on this.
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They added that ad hoc mode.
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So if you had someone else with a PSP, you could play a two-player as well.
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That's great, and it is just great fun.
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Um, and also I think they added in that you could if you had really silly replays, you could save the replays on the PSP, whereas you couldn't on the PS2 one, and you could actually upload them online as well.
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So there's you know, obviously not nowadays, but you could back then, so add them extra features.
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Um I've I've often you know to the ad hoc mode and some of the multiplayer aspects that the PSP exhibits, even to this day, if you can find enough people in a room with one.
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Um I wasn't in the military when the PSP came out, I just left.
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Um, but I tell you what, you know, get two, three lads in the mess, get this, and you know, you're all sat there not even in the same room, maybe one's in his bed, as long as it's close enough for it to work, and then all of a sudden you're kind of there playing online with your mates, but in your within your own mate circle, and and the idea of that I think is genius.
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I think the PSP's always worked in terms of like a portable gaming console, but then you add into that next echelon of like you've got some mates you're working away with, either in the military or on a building site or whatever, and you're staying in digs.
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The PSP would have been, and I'd love for someone to get in contact through the episode to say, Oh yeah, that's what it was like.
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We had like 30 of us all playing it, and we're all connected up, and you know, it's those stories that I kind of missed out on that I'd love to hear.
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Um, where the PSP, a load of people maybe got Monster Hunter and they went off on missions together and they had this great time, they'd go and sit you know, on a bridge somewhere and they'd be sat playing games like that.
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It's it's an element of the PSP that's kind of died and been lost to like lore and legend, but these things definitely happen, like wipe out where you mate on launch day.
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I bet would have been absolutely buzzing.
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Then you go off and watch your little private UMD uh on your own sp in your own time.
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Well, I the silly thing is as well, while researching this, two or three of my games, the actual, if you like, definitive edition isn't the PS2 version if it had one, it was the PSP.
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The PSP had yeah, you know, and this my next game when we get on to that again, the definitive edition is the PSP version.
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It had more it had more added to it, and you just think that's incredible, you know.
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What and I I would imagine they done that because the PS2 version came out first on some of these, uh encourages you to buy this the game again on your handheld to play it again.
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But I mean, unbut like Jackass came out at the same time.
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I mean, there's two missions that still stick in my mind, I love today.
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There's one where you've got a garden catapult and you're firing Stevo over all these rower gardens, and your mission is there'll be one where you have to hit land in someone's pool, you've got one you have to go for a greenhouse.
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It's stupid, but it's actually a really good addictive game, it's so funny.
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And another one you're playing golf with grenades, and you have to hit it into this mansion.
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So there's a you know, one of them blow up the sports car, completely demolish the mansion, hit the garage, go in the bathroom window, all stupid things like that.
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But it's so fun, it's really addictive.
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And and I've come back, I mean, I've hundred percent of the game on PS2, done all the levels, maxed them all out with with friends and family, and we still come back and play it again on a rare occasion.
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We all get together, watch we play.
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Oh, have you got that jackass?
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Let's put that on again because it's just a laugh a minute, it's brilliant.
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So, yeah, definitely recommend that on the PSP.
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Um what you got for your second game, then, George?
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Uh the much trodden but uh still absolutely brilliant Gran Turismo on the PSP.
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Um, I think we talked about this on uh grab 'em before they're gone um Sony exclusive trilogy game that I th uh trilogy series that we did for flashback.
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But uh I mean, what more can be said about this?
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Like we waited a day and an age for this to finally come out on PSP, but when we did, we were very much rewarded with you know a great game.
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Like, yes, it does vibe against maybe the classic PS um Grand Resmo way of playing, i i.e., you know, get your licenses and then go on the little tours.
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On this one, the kind of all the tracks are open.
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I think you'd still do licenses.
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It's been a hot minute since I've played it, but I still think you do your licenses.
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But after that, you just kind of race on circuits again and again and again to build the money up.
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And again, in a bid to its portable routes, what you find yourself um doing is hopping on on a daily basis because the the cars aren't all available all of the time.
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So you need to keep checking as it randomly generates the cars that come up that you want to collect.
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So you're like, oh, has my car come up for sale today?
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I'll better have a look at my PSP.
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Oh no, okay.
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Do a couple of races, get some more money in the bank, okay.
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Done in the pocket.
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Next day, oh yeah, cry can't play my.
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Oh, it's available now.
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Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
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I've got the money saved, like boom.
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It's that sense of ownership, that sense of like rarity.
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And we didn't, I didn't really talk about this element before, but it was that sort of one moment in time where you kind of see your dream motor and it's like, yeah, I've got to get that.
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And much like Peace Walker, where it's is that daily check-in, it's that look, but it's definitely sculpted around that kind of kind of portable uh pick-up and play style.
00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:50.880
In terms of like the Gran Turismo handling, the car models and the graphics, and everything looks sublime, really pushes the PSP again to the max.
00:18:51.119 --> 00:18:57.759
Um this kind of varies graphically across the different models, like PSP 1000 to 3000.
00:18:58.160 --> 00:19:00.079
I think a lot of it's to do with the screen.
00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:06.720
I will still always be a fan of the representation that the PSP 1000 does because I'm just OG like that.
00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:12.960
But I think I'll be the first one to say that the screen and the 3000 literally knocks everything else out of the park.
00:19:13.279 --> 00:19:23.519
But there's something nice about that 1000 screen where it's like the original, it's got the piano black, it's got that sort of Sony launch aesthetic about it.
00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:33.680
But no, Gran Turismo on the PSP is a wonderful game, makes great use of the nubbing, as I call it, or the singular analogue stick that you find on the PSP.
00:19:33.920 --> 00:19:36.400
Um, and does a driving game need more than one input?
00:19:36.559 --> 00:19:37.519
No, of course it doesn't.
00:19:37.680 --> 00:19:40.960
So this works quite well from a steering and driving point of view.
00:19:41.039 --> 00:19:44.240
The ability to vary it in with the analogue stick feels good.
00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:54.559
Um, and again, you know, I'm a bit fearful of RGT doing this classic of telling me this is like 400 quid now, but for the longest time, this is very affordable, it just was hard to find.
00:19:54.799 --> 00:19:55.440
I don't know why.
00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:59.680
I guess everyone who ever got it was kind of kept it because it was you know one of those games.
00:19:59.920 --> 00:20:01.920
But definitely look it out.
00:20:02.079 --> 00:20:07.759
Replays look fantastic, and there's lots to reward here and plenty of game to go at RGT.
00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:09.119
So I'll leave it there.
00:20:09.359 --> 00:20:11.039
What's your experience with it?
00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:16.400
Um again, I got it pretty much soon after I got my PSP.
00:20:16.480 --> 00:20:20.960
Um always been a massive fan, as everyone knows, of Grand Turismo, so definitely pick this up.
00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:22.559
Um was impressed from day one.
00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:25.119
Yes, it is a scale-down Grand Turismo game.
00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:40.319
Um, but what I liked was I always thought what was lacking on handhelds, um, it's always been lacking on handhelds, basically because of the tech, but also because of um I don't know, because of the era, I suppose.
00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:43.440
We always had arcade racers, we never got really anything serious.
00:20:43.599 --> 00:20:43.920
No.
00:20:44.079 --> 00:20:50.160
Um that polyphonic thought, no, we can we we can put a serious racer on this handheld, it's powerful enough, let's do it.
00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:51.200
And you got it, you know.
00:20:51.279 --> 00:20:54.640
And I just think you don't get many of those on on handheld systems.
00:20:54.720 --> 00:21:01.599
There's always a a ridge racer or a an arcade racer, or you know, and it works really well, it plays really well.
00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:06.400
That's a new sort of a new sort of format, like I say, scaled down version of Grand Turismo.
00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:15.119
But it's got if you like racing games and you're and you're gonna collect for a PSP, it's gotta be a must because it is it's such a good game, you know.
00:21:15.200 --> 00:21:17.519
And yeah, it took me a while to track it down.
00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:22.240
Like I said, I don't think it's because it's wasn't it was a limited print run.
00:21:22.319 --> 00:21:27.680
I think it's just one of those games that if you got a PSP, you probably bought it and you just kept it in the drawer, you know.
00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:29.200
Why would you get rid of that?
00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.839
And I think a lot of them, if I remember rightly, were probably pack-ins.
00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:38.000
So a lot of them titles went with the the systems they were bought for.
00:21:38.160 --> 00:21:45.359
Um yeah, I've got I've got like the normal retail PSP version just in a box, and then I've got one with like a cardboard slip as well.
00:21:45.519 --> 00:21:46.160
I mean, no different.
00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:51.279
Um but the cardboard slip's kind of got like a lenticular.
00:21:51.519 --> 00:21:57.519
The writing's not white, it's like in a lenticular, so it's kind of like that shiny diamond colour when you move it around.
00:21:58.880 --> 00:22:05.279
There's versions I It to get, and if you end up being a fan of it, then why not treat yourself to the uh big boy version like I did?
00:22:05.599 --> 00:22:15.519
Yeah, and I think there was always something about the PSP where it felt a very grown-up piece of tech, you know, with the UMDs, the movies, the music.
00:22:15.680 --> 00:22:26.799
It felt like you say, like an iPhone in a game, an iPhone in your pocket that we didn't think we wanted, but we got and realised we needed, and then to get a real grown-up racing game on it as well.
00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:29.200
It felt like a proper bit of tech when you had that in there.
00:22:29.279 --> 00:22:29.920
Grand Turismo.
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You know, really, really good.
00:22:31.920 --> 00:22:33.119
But yeah, that's a great choice.
00:22:33.200 --> 00:22:36.400
Um Grand Turismo PSP is a great game.
00:22:36.880 --> 00:22:45.119
Um my second one, um probably pretty obvious again, but I think this is just a great game.
00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:51.759
I had a choice between the two, but I went with Vice City Stories Grand Fifth Auto.
00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:57.279
Um I went between this and Liberty City Stories, but I think Vice City Stories has got that little bit more.
00:22:57.359 --> 00:23:08.400
I think you can swim in this one where you can't Liberty City Stories as a bit more of a GTA 3 clone, bit more, you know, as this is obviously Vice City when it had affected the engine a bit more.
00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:13.599
Um but yeah, this was done Rockstar Leeds and Rockstar North done this.
00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.160
Um this came out in 2006.
00:23:16.559 --> 00:23:20.640
Um in Europe was November, uh, North America October.
00:23:20.880 --> 00:23:24.000
Um, and it's just that Vice City goodness.
00:23:24.079 --> 00:23:31.279
Um, but this one you play as a prequel to Vice City, um, and you play as Lance Vance's brother.
00:23:31.440 --> 00:23:45.200
Um Vic, uh I believe his name is Vic Vance, and um you leave the army and you have to uh try and work your way up, earning money however you can throughout the criminal underworld to get medication for your for your other brother.
00:23:45.359 --> 00:23:51.440
Um so it's a lovely prequel version to go into that Vice City story, that crossover.
00:23:51.759 --> 00:24:02.640
Um but it is just again, it's a game when you play and you think this does feel as good as a PS2 game, it feels as big, it plays as well.
00:24:02.960 --> 00:24:12.799
Um and also again the PSP version had you know added multiplayer mode with the wireless ad hoc network again.
00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:22.880
Um, and also as one of the best-selling PSP games, um, seven million that sold, um, which is quite incredible for a handheld.
00:24:23.279 --> 00:24:26.160
Have you researched this or have you just come armed with this information out of your head?
00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:27.119
Because this is incredible.
00:24:27.279 --> 00:24:28.079
Yes, no, it's true.
00:24:28.160 --> 00:24:33.680
Yes, multiplayer mode through wireless ad hoc network allows six players to engage in several different game modes.
00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:34.400
Yes.
00:24:34.799 --> 00:24:37.359
Okay, so it's a bit like bloody hello RGT.
00:24:37.759 --> 00:24:40.400
Yeah, no, no, yeah, no, that's that's all correct.
00:24:40.480 --> 00:24:46.319
Yeah, so um, yeah, I just think if you if you're a Grand Theft Auto fan, there's not many people that aren't.
00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:51.440
They love especially that era of Grand Theft Autos, that open world, that mission-based.
00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:56.000
Um, you're not really missing out on anything by having it on a handheld.
00:24:56.160 --> 00:25:03.599
Um, it's just great, and also, I mean, definitely as well, if you enjoy this, pick up Liberty City Stories as well, because they're both worth having.
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:05.599
I mean, they've done the Chinatown Wars.
00:25:05.759 --> 00:25:07.680
Um, I've got that.
00:25:08.079 --> 00:25:22.480
Yeah, which is obviously that more top-down cell-shaded sort of version, which, although graphically superior to the DS version, like George said on the previous episode, it fits better to the P to the DS with those sort of mini games and bits and pieces.
00:25:23.119 --> 00:25:41.039
It feels a bit wild on the PSP, it kind of makes sense, it's got the similar sort of theft mechanic as like a Warriors game, but it well, when you were doing that with the little Wii stylus and whatnot, it just felt more involved, and yeah, you know, that was the system it originated on, it's where it feels at home at.
00:25:41.200 --> 00:25:41.359
Exactly.
00:25:41.759 --> 00:25:45.200
Get it here, don't get me wrong, but it's it's not the same.
00:25:45.519 --> 00:25:52.079
No, um, again, I mean, Metacritic, this outscored the PS2 version.
00:25:52.319 --> 00:25:58.880
Um, PS2 was 75 out of 100, the PSP was 86 out of 100, so quite a significant jump.
00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:07.440
Um, and then it was eight out of tens, four out of fives, nine out of tens, pretty much across the board, um, 90 out of the hundreds.
00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:15.759
Um, it's just again, it's probably an obvious choice for people who have PSPs, I know, but anyone coming into it new who's not really.
00:26:17.519 --> 00:26:18.240
Yeah, exactly.
00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:32.559
And and if you if you know, if the PS2 wasn't your original console as a kid, um, so you're only now getting into these sort of big games and you're thinking of getting a PSP, you can't go far wrong with Grand Theft Auto Advised City stories.
00:26:32.640 --> 00:26:33.599
So, yeah, great game.
00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.799
What's your experience with this, George?
00:26:34.880 --> 00:26:36.240
Did you play at launch or get it later?
00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:36.960
No, no, no.
00:26:37.039 --> 00:26:40.400
I didn't have a PSP at launch, like I say, I was probably in the wrong moment of my life.
00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:43.039
I went back into the home console scene at that point.
00:26:43.200 --> 00:26:53.519
Um, but um both of these games, absolute genius, and absolute kudos to Sony for getting their sort of major IP across to their portable handheld.
00:26:53.680 --> 00:27:09.200
I don't know what jiggery pokey pokery pokey pokery um Rockstar performed to get that those both these games on a singular UmD and then also on the PSP and running in a way that felt decent and coherent.
00:27:09.440 --> 00:27:20.000
If you're talking emulators, this is this is one of the games that the emulators are probably going to struggle with, so playing it native is um a big win on the PSP.
00:27:20.400 --> 00:27:28.000
Um, and I I would say it feels like one of those moments where there is zero compromise.
00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:34.079
You put it in, you've got the soundtracks, you've got the radio, you've got the free drive, you can do what you want.
00:27:34.160 --> 00:27:35.839
There's an engaging mission structure.
00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:41.200
It is kind of slightly complicated by um the PSP's control inputs.
00:27:41.359 --> 00:27:46.000
I would say it doesn't feel as maybe sublime as it would do on the PS2.
00:27:46.079 --> 00:27:48.880
There are going to be some frustration moments here for players.
00:27:49.359 --> 00:27:51.759
There is, and I hate to say it, but it's true.
00:27:51.920 --> 00:28:03.279
But compared to the predecessor Liberty City stories, this game just ups the ante again for all the various reasons RG talked about, RGT talked about, and and and many more.
00:28:03.440 --> 00:28:10.240
Um, the scale and breadth of the story feels bolder, the depths and sort of storytelling missions feel more interesting.
00:28:10.400 --> 00:28:14.880
I think Vice City lends itself more to this kind of play.
00:28:14.960 --> 00:28:23.759
I've always been a fan of Liberty City and the GTE A3 continuum, you know, the first 3D game because of nostalgia, probably.
00:28:23.920 --> 00:28:27.759
I don't carry as much nostalgia for Vice City, it just passed me by.
00:28:28.079 --> 00:28:41.039
Um, but playing being able to drive the streets of Vice City on a PSP with all the graphical fidelity that goes with it, there is a slight cutback RGT.
00:28:41.119 --> 00:28:42.160
I hate to sort of pull you back on the case.
00:28:42.319 --> 00:28:42.799
Oh, there is.
00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:43.519
Oh, there is.
00:28:43.599 --> 00:29:01.039
Um you can get this game and its predecessor as full-fat PS2 releases, but because it's then kind of not built for that system and it's a little bit compromised on its way in the door, um, you know, it's it's it's garbage on PS2.
00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:04.400
So the PSP is really the definitive place to play it.
00:29:04.480 --> 00:29:11.680
So if you're thinking, oh no, no, I want to get this on PS2, like stop, hold up, think about it, because it doesn't work as well.
00:29:11.920 --> 00:29:22.079
So if you want to get the definitive Vice City Stories, Liberty City Story experience, you've really got to go grab yourself a PSP uh and experience it there in that moment.
00:29:22.559 --> 00:29:35.279
I mean, the first time I turned it on, and you're driving down the road and on a motorbike, I think it was a crosser, and the music's there, and you've got all the different radio stations to choose from, and it's set in that iconic era as well.
00:29:35.359 --> 00:29:50.720
It's just a really rewarding fun time, and I think it just captures that moment, that sort of hubris of the time, not only the time the game's set, but also the hubris of the time, the gaming industry when they were making these games.
00:29:50.880 --> 00:30:01.839
Uh, and again, the fact that this is crammed onto a UMD is literal genius from Sony's point of view in terms of marketing.
00:30:02.079 --> 00:30:14.319
It's literal coding genius by Rockstar, the ever-present geniuses to get that running on there and make it look really concurrent with you know the PS2 bigger brother.
00:30:14.559 --> 00:30:16.640
So, yeah, lots of props.
00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:23.839
Again, these games are all ones that we think you should pick up and you know, within reason, budget allowing, go grab them now.
00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:32.559
And I mean, this again, they done the trick where at the time for six months, this was an exclusive to the PSP.
00:30:32.720 --> 00:30:34.640
So the only place you could play it was PSP.
00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:37.200
It didn't come out for another six months until the PS2 version.
00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:39.920
Again, so that was like, oh, do you love Vice City?
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:44.240
There's Vice City stories, but you need to buy one of these PSPs if you want to play them, you know.
00:30:44.319 --> 00:30:47.519
It's that was their sort of marketing at the time, and yeah, you are right.
00:30:47.599 --> 00:30:54.160
You do I have played both versions, PS2 and PSP, but PSP for me, and I will just say one more thing on the game.
00:30:54.240 --> 00:30:56.319
It was the first game I played on my PSP.
00:30:56.480 --> 00:31:02.559
You know, I'd played other things like Motorstorms and various other games, which I would jump in and out of.
00:31:02.640 --> 00:31:06.400
This is the first game that I felt for a handheld game that immersed me.
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:14.480
I got them little Sony earbuds in, popped it in, sat there playing it, and I was just in that world or zoned out like I would on a console game on the big TV.
00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:15.039
100%.
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:22.960
It really zoned, yeah, and it it really zoned me into that whole world and on a tiny screen.
00:31:23.119 --> 00:31:23.519
Brilliant.
00:31:23.839 --> 00:31:38.640
That's a really good idea that because if you get a good set of modern headphones wired, you plug them in, you get that PSP, a game like this, and you lock in because of the soundtrack and the yeah, ambient sounds and the sounds of the civilians.
00:31:39.039 --> 00:31:55.039
We've talked before about no compromise on things like the Switch, but this was really the open door of that no compromise that they probably didn't fully explore with a Vita, but on the PSP, the library is so big, and there's so many games where you can have that locked-in experience.
00:31:55.200 --> 00:32:05.920
I think let's use that as the term where you can just lock in and do two, three, four, five-hour stints on a game and get that reward and not feel like you're playing Angry Birds on your mobile.
00:32:06.079 --> 00:32:16.400
There's always another thing, there's always another story thread, there's always another collectible, there's always another vehicle you've not seen, there's always another job or mission or business to sort of operate or sort.
00:32:16.480 --> 00:32:21.200
I mean, it yeah, absolutely RGT, absolutely perfect choice.
00:32:21.440 --> 00:32:24.000
I was you know, Voice City is one of my favourite games of all time.
00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:29.359
So when I got this and went on a PSP, I was like, oh, you know, is this gonna look like Vice City?
00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:30.880
Is it gonna you know be the same?
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:37.839
Or you get back in, drive up the road, and you're like, no way, I'm back in Voice City, and you know, the shops are all there and the people are there.
00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:42.240
Yes, if you put them side by side with the PS2 version, it is gonna look less.
00:32:42.400 --> 00:32:49.920
But while you're playing it just on there, it's the same, it's the same city, it's the same vibe, it's the same people and the same, you know, it's really good.
00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:56.319
Um and a well, because it's a prequel, there's slightly different sort of buildings around, and things are slightly different.
00:32:56.400 --> 00:33:11.599
So they've even done a nod to their own chronology about things that either have happened or will happen in the other games, Liberty City Stories included, that kind of reframes it a little bit and it feels you like you've got this exclusive little window into that universe you just dipped in and it's yours.
00:33:11.920 --> 00:33:14.640
Very, very special, very, very special set of games.
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:15.519
Yep, brilliant.
00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:18.799
Yeah, so that's uh Fo City Stories, Grand Theft Order for the PSP.
00:33:18.880 --> 00:33:21.200
So, what's your third choice then, Judge?
00:33:21.359 --> 00:33:27.039
Well, we're on a bit of a rockstar bandwagon, but uh and we're talking about games with no compromise.
00:33:27.279 --> 00:33:33.759
Let me present to you another rockstar legendary game, it's the Warriors on PSP.
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:38.640
Now, this game defies my understanding.
00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:44.160
Now, I know everybody who listens to this and the main show, the unofficial controller podcast, know that I'm a little bit of a dum-dum.
00:33:44.400 --> 00:34:01.680
Um, but you know, when this game starts up with the Wonder Wheel swinging in the foreground on the menu, in the background, sorry, on the menu, and you get the intro movie and you see the character models and you walk around, and it's literally the PS2 game on the PSP.
00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:14.079
Like I found zero compromise between this and its bigger brother, and it just speaks to the strengths of them, you know, taking a movie license if we separate the PSP element for a moment.
00:34:14.320 --> 00:34:23.039
Rockstar could have gone and got any movie license they wanted, any, and they went and chose one from I don't know, getting on damn near 50 years ago.
00:34:23.360 --> 00:34:28.559
Uh, I think this came out in what 1979 originally, so like 47, 50 years ago.
00:34:28.880 --> 00:34:34.559
And The Warriors just in itself is an interesting movie for people to explore.
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:49.280
It was one of those things that would be on like video drome on um BBC 2 at midnight in in the 90s, you know, like oh Warriors, like Warriors, uh, all the iconography from the film, you know, the baseball furies and all those sort of guys.
00:34:49.440 --> 00:34:52.000
That's that's all in the game.
00:34:52.239 --> 00:35:17.760
But more importantly, that then found its way squeezed through the amazing rockstar lemon squeezer to this sort of fine syrup juice that they poured into the PSP's UMD drive, and you are sat there, as RGT said earlier, good set of headphones, you're locked in on your PSP, no matter what version, and you're having a blast, you were having a full-screen TV experience in your pocket.
00:35:18.000 --> 00:35:20.239
Um, I can't rave about this enough.
00:35:20.320 --> 00:35:27.519
I don't want to labour the point because you know we're just waxed lyrical for hours about Rockstar, and they're probably not everybody's favourite cup of tea right now.
00:35:27.679 --> 00:35:37.840
But you know, I think that at this point in time, and even to this day, really, from a gameplay point of view and game development point of view, they can do no wrong.
00:35:38.000 --> 00:35:40.639
Um, and the Warriors is really just that next step.
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:47.440
I to in in many ways the Warriors on PS2, you know, laid the foundations for games like Bully and beyond.
00:35:47.599 --> 00:35:52.320
Um, but we're talking explicitly this PSP version, you're gonna have a blast with this.
00:35:52.719 --> 00:36:00.880
Little bit of frustration with the little bit of frustration with the spray paint mechanic and the PSP nubbing.
00:36:01.039 --> 00:36:02.239
Just take a breath.
00:36:03.199 --> 00:36:04.400
Take a breath.
00:36:04.880 --> 00:36:08.239
You can get through this, you just might need some more paint cans.
00:36:08.320 --> 00:36:17.840
So there are some elements I feel where it is the full fat game, but maybe the control inputs hold you back just a little bit, you know.
00:36:18.000 --> 00:36:23.360
But I can't get that nubbing working on an 8-bit um what have I got?
00:36:23.519 --> 00:36:26.800
Ret uh, what's that game pad you told me to get?
00:36:27.679 --> 00:36:31.760
Um, what the um uh retro defender or something.
00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:33.280
Retrofighters defender, yeah.
00:36:33.519 --> 00:36:35.199
Retro fighters defender, yeah.
00:36:35.280 --> 00:36:40.559
Even that with the new sticks that it's got in it, I'm still going over the lines on the bigger boys PS2.
00:36:40.719 --> 00:36:43.280
So I think it's probably down to user error, if I'm honest with you.
00:36:43.360 --> 00:36:46.639
But yeah, the nubbing definitely makes some of the mini games a little harder.
00:36:46.800 --> 00:36:53.440
But you know, unscrewing the radios and you're swinging the nubbing round, you know, like you would on the PS2 to get the screws out.
00:36:53.920 --> 00:36:55.440
It's it's all good, mate.
00:36:55.519 --> 00:36:59.440
And I'll be honest with you, it's absolutely rip-roaring time on either console.
00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:02.719
Um, can't say enough enough good stuff about it.
00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:05.599
Have you played it on PSP RGT or just PST?
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.119
No, I've played on both.
00:37:07.199 --> 00:37:10.800
Um, never actually completed the game for some reason, but yes, played on both.
00:37:10.880 --> 00:37:11.679
Um, you're correct.
00:37:12.559 --> 00:37:18.000
You get a bit crazy at the spray painting competition because it's all about the nubbin spinning.
00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:19.199
God does it, yeah.
00:37:19.360 --> 00:37:30.639
Uh and yeah, when you've got a big guy up for paint, and then some other guys are just spraying unmolested, and you're having to fight people, grab tins, climb up, and then not go out the lines.
00:37:30.719 --> 00:37:33.360
It's like I didn't like this mechanic before Rockstar.
00:37:33.840 --> 00:37:36.239
And now you're making me do it under stress.
00:37:36.480 --> 00:37:42.000
With a nubbin, with a nubbin, you and I are gonna fall out big time.
00:37:42.159 --> 00:37:44.639
Um, they probably didn't put any more game behind that.
00:37:44.719 --> 00:37:47.119
They're just like, that's how we fit on the PSP, by the way.
00:37:47.199 --> 00:37:49.119
We just made that insanely difficult.
00:37:49.199 --> 00:37:54.880
Uh, but no, you can progress through there, and yeah, it's a great prequel to the movie as well, if people don't know.
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:56.000
It is as well.
00:37:56.079 --> 00:38:02.960
And um, like I say, it's one of them where if you had a friend, if you were playing a PS2 version and your friend had the PSP and they'd say to you, Oh, what are you playing?
00:38:03.039 --> 00:38:04.159
I'm playing the Warriors, what you playing?
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:05.199
Oh, I'm playing the Warriors.
00:38:05.360 --> 00:38:09.119
It you aren't going to turn around and say, Oh, you need to play the PS2 version, that's a better port.
00:38:09.280 --> 00:38:10.079
No, there isn't.
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.440
You're playing the same game, you are playing the same game.
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:24.960
Um, but also I remember when this came out, um, me and my friends were all over Rockstar at the time for you know, Grand Theft Autos and Bits and Pieces, and you know, they were the company we really enjoyed, and then they came up with this game War.
00:38:25.119 --> 00:38:26.320
I thought, What the hell is the Warriors?
00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:30.480
Well, they lost the plot, and then I found out it was a film from the 70s.
00:38:30.559 --> 00:38:32.320
I was like, Why are they making a game?
00:38:32.559 --> 00:38:35.760
The film I thought, oh, they're done, they've ruined themselves, they're done.
00:38:36.000 --> 00:38:39.280
Then you play the game and you think, no, that's brilliant.
00:38:39.360 --> 00:38:51.599
That's almost like they had that engine, that brilliant engine they'd used for Run for 403, Vice City, San Andras, and then I had a version of it for PSP, and they were obviously looking what what film would fit well in this engine?
00:38:51.679 --> 00:39:01.840
Well, a fight, a fighting sort of film would work well in with this, and the two came together, and you get the Warriors of a film that no one had really heard of, but now everyone has it.
00:39:01.920 --> 00:39:03.360
It's fantastic on this.
00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:09.039
Off the back of this game coming out, more than you'd ever sold before and since.
00:39:09.280 --> 00:39:15.519
And I bet I bet they got the license for Dirt Cheap because it was a an old film that no one had even spoken about for years.
00:39:15.679 --> 00:39:19.920
Probably a bit of a cult film, but I reckon that the the licence was pretty cheap.
00:39:20.000 --> 00:39:26.880
And yeah, I would imagine the people who owned the rights to that movie probably uh were over the moon when that game went went live.
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:40.960
I'll be honest with you though, they've paid full respect not only to the the movie's um visual style, but they've paid full respect by getting the uh actors from the original movie back to re retread their parts.
00:39:41.119 --> 00:39:41.360
Yeah.
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:43.840
So yeah, I've always enjoyed it.
00:39:43.920 --> 00:39:46.000
Like I say, it's a prequel to the movie itself.
00:39:46.159 --> 00:39:50.719
It's a good law builder for the Warriors universe and the gangs that inhabit it.
00:39:50.960 --> 00:39:56.800
Um some of the characters you get to know and speak to in in more um deeper ways within the games.
00:39:56.960 --> 00:40:11.280
I think just it's one of those games, these movie licenses that came on and actually elevated the film more than the game elevated uh the movie elevated the game, which is rare if not impossible for a movie license uh in history.
00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:12.960
So congratulations, Rock Slow.
00:40:13.199 --> 00:40:13.760
Smashed it.
00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:16.000
What's next on the Docket for you, RGT?
00:40:16.639 --> 00:40:29.599
Um, my next one um is another game which I thought I don't think there's a lot of a compromise with this, and that is uh Tony Hawke's Underground 2 remix.
00:40:29.760 --> 00:40:43.119
Um I call it remix, it's basically again it's the PS2 Tony Hawke's Underground 2 game with added things on, so it's that's almost probably the version to play.
00:40:43.360 --> 00:40:54.400
Um I loved the Tony Hawks games, I think we all did from Pro Skater 1, 2, 3, and I went on to four and bits and pieces, but that era of one and two, and especially three, was really good.
00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:57.199
Now, some people didn't like the underground series.
00:40:57.360 --> 00:41:02.880
I always thought that that arcade skate style of one, two, and three.
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:05.199
Wouldn't that be good if you had a story to it?
00:41:05.360 --> 00:41:11.039
If you almost had like a skateboard RPG, um, and they done it with underground.
00:41:11.119 --> 00:41:12.320
I loved Underground.
00:41:12.400 --> 00:41:16.719
I played hours on that from it's that rag to riches story.
00:41:16.800 --> 00:41:30.719
You you know, the skateboarders come in town, hold a little local competition, you live in a rough area, you win the competition, then you you end up going on tour, and you've got a a friend who's not a friend, and spoilers for an old game, Eric Sparrow.
00:41:30.880 --> 00:41:31.760
Hate you, Eric.
00:41:31.920 --> 00:41:43.199
Um, and then you know, and then they've done Underground 2, which is more of um, if I remember right, I think it was like Bam Majère and that pull up in a van and grab you and you go off on this on this tour.
00:41:43.360 --> 00:41:45.199
Um, and it's great fun.
00:41:45.360 --> 00:41:49.039
Again, it plays so well on a on a PSP.
00:41:49.280 --> 00:41:59.360
Um it's you you don't it is literally a straight port from the PS2 version again with those added bits and pieces put in.
00:41:59.679 --> 00:42:05.360
Um, I think the only thing you had missing was like creator park, I think was missing off it.
00:42:05.519 --> 00:42:17.840
Um but this came out in 2005, um, and it is just a great game, it shows what the PSP can do, um, you know, skateboarding quite fast, you're pulling off tricks, you know.
00:42:17.920 --> 00:42:21.280
You but I never noticed too much trouble with the frame rate.
00:42:21.440 --> 00:42:22.960
I just think it's a brilliant game.
00:42:23.039 --> 00:42:30.000
And again, if you had a friend who's playing Underground 2 on his PS2, you're not playing an inferior port.
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:31.760
If anything, you're playing a better port.
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.199
You know, it's just it's amazing how they got it on there.
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:43.440
I I can only imagine that the PSP was quite friendly to devs for getting these games on because so many different studios managed it.
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:49.920
Um, and like I say, Activision published it and Neversoft again got it on there, running so well.
00:42:50.239 --> 00:42:52.800
Um, and I just think it's a great game.
00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.440
It's again, it's that you know, we've we've got different games here.
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:04.239
We've got you know, from RPGs to racing games, and again, this is that more sort of extreme sports skateboarding.
00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:09.760
But Tony Hawke's on the go on a PSP really works, and I'd definitely give it a go.
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:18.079
I mean it got Metacritic, it got 83 out of 100, and I think mostly that was 80s, 85s out of 100, so quite a well-rate rated game.
00:43:18.159 --> 00:43:19.920
I know it's sold really well as well.
00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.199
Um, and I'll definitely give it a look.
00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:26.719
I think it had as well multiplayer added in as well, again.
00:43:26.880 --> 00:43:30.960
So that had that, they really utilised that that ad hoc mode.
00:43:31.039 --> 00:43:33.280
Um, have you played this on PSP, George?
00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:34.559
Can't say I have.
00:43:34.719 --> 00:43:42.880
I mean, my experience with Tony Hawke's kind of peaked at um I had one of them on the Dreamcast back in the day, which I really enjoyed.
00:43:43.119 --> 00:43:47.199
It was a it was a pirate copy for anyone who who wants to give me some abuse about that.
00:43:47.280 --> 00:43:56.159
I know I'm not a big fan of those, but just towards the end of my relationship with the Dreamcast, someone just lobbed a like a burnt CD at me and it was like, what's this?
00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:59.039
And I took it home and thought, well, this isn't gonna work, stuck it in my dreamcast.
00:43:59.119 --> 00:43:59.840
I was like, bloody hell it.
00:44:00.159 --> 00:44:02.239
Doesn't look amazing as well.
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:06.320
Um, so I had a soft spot for Tony Hawks as a result of that.
00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:20.639
Um, later on, I had a PS1 with a screen on it and the the PlayStation versions obviously didn't compare to the to the Dreamcast, but a lot like you RGT had a lot of fun with three, your TNT, your dynamite with the intro song from ACDC, it always stick in my mind.
00:44:20.719 --> 00:44:22.239
I played the wheels off of that.
00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:32.320
Um, but no, I've never I think maybe my son might have picked up one of the undergrounds one day for the PS2 when we're having a bit of a retro day.
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:40.400
I might have it kicking around, but and sort of that talk of it being an RPG rings a bell to me, sort of looking up and seeing him playing it.
00:44:40.480 --> 00:44:44.719
I think he had a good time with it, but I've never had anything to do with this on PSP.
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:57.119
But I'd imagine again, we've talked about these sort of no compromise ports of the era, or or very slight compromise ports of the era, or maybe exploring a different take on the universe to allow them to get away with it.
00:44:57.280 --> 00:45:04.320
Uh, I should imagine this is great, and it you know, it lines up pretty well next to your jackass uh selection at the front, so yeah, full policy.
00:45:04.480 --> 00:45:15.119
Yeah, and they done I think they've done their sort of uh sort of sales pitch, whereas it's primarily the game of PS2, but the progression is slightly different.
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:22.559
So you play the same game, but what they've added in is four exclusive levels um and a few new characters and different cutscenes.
00:45:23.440 --> 00:45:38.960
So if you've played the PS2 underground, there's that's that's not you know, and you've got a PSP, that's that's not you thinking, oh, there's no point me getting it, I've already played this on the PS2, that's worth you getting it because you get all these different oh, it's a different route through us, different scenes, different characters.
00:45:39.199 --> 00:45:43.599
Um, so that's a clever way of doing it to sell you technically the same game twice.
00:45:43.679 --> 00:45:50.960
But I'd definitely pick it up, especially if you liked Tony Hawks and you're new to PSP, you're not missing out on anything by having it on a handheld.
00:45:51.039 --> 00:45:52.159
It's a great little game.
00:45:52.480 --> 00:45:54.960
What's the uh number four then, George?
00:45:55.199 --> 00:45:59.519
Uh number four, it's uh it's a game that made its way over from the PlayStation 3.
00:45:59.599 --> 00:46:03.199
It's Little Big Planet PSP, uh, or just known as Little Big Planet.
00:46:03.360 --> 00:46:41.519
Um, again, we the first time I put this in, obviously the PSP wasn't new, probably about 10 plus years ago when I I played this, but it's one of those moments where Little Big Planet has always had really nice ways to bring you into the game where you're walking along and the credits pop up in front of you and you're getting a voiceover and um you're learning how to do the grab mechanics so you can like influence the physics and swing and do different bits, and it was during my load up of this that I was like hang on a minute, you know, this feels really special.
00:46:41.679 --> 00:46:46.800
This actually feels like they've managed to get a PS3 game running on here now.
00:46:46.880 --> 00:46:53.440
Yeah, zoom it in, there's some compromises going on, but it's one of those moments of just reeks of class for me.
00:46:53.519 --> 00:47:02.079
Little Big Planet, and we've talked about this on various shows, but Little Big Planet with the stickers and the vibe and the look and the artwork and Sackboy himself.
00:47:02.400 --> 00:47:08.239
Um, it's always felt quite special, quite you know, only Sony could do this.
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:10.480
This was like their Astrobot of the time.
00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:14.559
I do feel sorry for sort of Sackboy now with Astrobot taking all the glory.
00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:18.800
Sackboy was dressing up as different PlayStation characters 20 years ago.
00:47:19.119 --> 00:47:19.840
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:20.079 --> 00:47:25.519
So for them to sort of rock up with Astrobot and everyone suddenly be a revisionist, like, oh look at this, it's great.
00:47:25.599 --> 00:47:29.440
Just see a little Astrobot Aloy, and it's great, just see a little Astrobot Sackboy.
00:47:29.519 --> 00:47:30.800
Like, hang on a minute.
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:32.800
What about poor old Sackboy?
00:47:33.199 --> 00:48:09.599
Um, but as I say, you you start playing this on there from the minute you hear the music to the minute you hear hear the voiceover, you're immediately sort of just swept away with this absolutely fantastic platforming experience that's that's challenging, that rewards creativity, that's just damn fun to play, and really is halfway along the kind of smoke in mirrors of making you believe you've got something more than a PS1 or two in your pocket, or 1.5 in your pocket, you felt like you had a PS3 in your pocket.
00:48:09.840 --> 00:48:22.159
And Sackboy is just a wonderful experience from the box art inside to the the artwork on the UMD to the to the god forbid that when they did manuals RGT.
00:48:22.639 --> 00:48:28.960
It's just such a colourful, fun, innovative little game that I can't speak highly enough of.
00:48:29.119 --> 00:48:42.000
Obviously, we got a revisit of um Sackboy on the Vita, but for me personally, this is the one when I did my reshell that RGT did in his kind of preamble at the beginning.
00:48:42.159 --> 00:48:46.159
The very first game I put in to try was this.
00:48:47.199 --> 00:48:50.079
I wanted to see what it looked like through a non-scratch screen.
00:48:50.159 --> 00:48:55.440
I wanted to see what it looked like, you know, in a reshell, held together nice, looking sexy.
00:48:55.519 --> 00:49:01.119
Let's give it the almost official christening of what a PSP should receive.
00:49:01.280 --> 00:49:03.039
And to me, that's this game.
00:49:03.199 --> 00:49:10.079
If you're a man and you're on the fence, or you've just picked one of these up, or you've grabbed an emulator or whatever it is you're doing, you've really got to try this out.
00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:11.679
You're gonna have a great time.
00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:18.079
Um obviously, you played Sackboy in other locations, RGT, but have you ever played it on PSP?
00:49:18.400 --> 00:49:22.400
Yeah, I've I've played briefly on the P on the PSP, I have the PSP version.
00:49:22.480 --> 00:49:27.760
Um, it's another one of them games, like you say, uh Sony with Little Big Planet.
00:49:27.920 --> 00:49:32.480
Um the devs just made this their own world.
00:49:32.639 --> 00:49:47.039
You hear the music, and when you hear Stephen Fry and the introduction, there's something about that where it's almost like feels like a very well done children's TV show.
00:49:47.199 --> 00:49:49.280
It draws you in, and it does.
00:49:49.760 --> 00:49:52.159
I think we do miss Little Big Planet.
00:49:52.239 --> 00:49:54.559
I know we got these sort of PS5 version bits and pieces.
00:49:55.039 --> 00:50:00.559
Nobody does photo realistic corrugated card quite as well as these boys.
00:50:00.880 --> 00:50:16.000
They do, and again, it's one of those games where whether you're playing the PS5, PS3, Vita, or even this PSP version, it will always look really good, play stunning, sound great on whatever system you're playing on.
00:50:16.239 --> 00:50:22.159
And again, this PSP port, when you look at it, you think, I don't know if this should look this good on here.
00:50:22.480 --> 00:50:23.199
That's what I'm saying.
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:24.719
It's literal devil work, isn't it?
00:50:24.880 --> 00:50:26.159
Yeah, watchcraft.
00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:30.480
You know, I would, you know, you'd you could fire that up on a Vita and wouldn't be disappointed.
00:50:30.559 --> 00:50:32.079
You'd just no, you would not 100%.
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.440
It looks really good, plays really well.
00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:41.679
Again, I love the sounds and and the the effects they do in these games.
00:50:41.920 --> 00:50:47.679
Stick a set of earbuds in or a set of headphones and play this game because it really absorbs you in in that world.
00:50:48.239 --> 00:50:49.920
You're locked in with this, yeah.
00:50:50.079 --> 00:50:51.039
It's so good.
00:50:51.280 --> 00:50:53.760
Um, and it was so unique.
00:50:53.840 --> 00:50:56.800
It's a shame we don't get these sorts of games now.
00:50:56.880 --> 00:51:03.440
We've gone so generic with our titles, and this was a time where when you had a handheld, you weren't missing out.
00:51:03.519 --> 00:51:06.880
They were releasing these big games on the handhelds, and this was just one of them.
00:51:06.960 --> 00:51:08.079
Yeah, and that's a great choice.
00:51:08.239 --> 00:51:18.480
Little Big Planet, even if you're not really into platformers or 3D platformers, I think Little Big Planet is unique enough for you to give it a go because it is its own thing.
00:51:18.800 --> 00:51:21.199
Um yeah, great choice.
00:51:21.280 --> 00:51:23.119
That absolutely brilliant game.
00:51:23.440 --> 00:51:29.039
Um my number four, again, I've gone a bit left field with this.
00:51:29.119 --> 00:51:32.719
Um this is a game I played from start to finish, absolutely loved it.
00:51:33.039 --> 00:51:34.960
Funnily enough, released by Konami.
00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:37.039
Um, but no one ever talks about this game.
00:51:37.599 --> 00:51:39.199
That is Puzzle Chronicles.
00:51:40.880 --> 00:51:50.159
Now, this game came out, I think you could get it digitally on like 360 PS3 PC, but predominantly this was a DS and a PSP port.
00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:53.360
I don't think there's a lot of difference between the two ports.
00:51:53.440 --> 00:51:54.880
I think they are RS.
00:51:55.280 --> 00:52:06.320
Um I bought this game because one, it was dirt cheap, and two, from reading the back, it doesn't give you a lot on the back, but the back is basically begin an heroic puzzle RPG adventure.
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:07.440
And I thought, oh, that's weird.
00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:31.119
So it's almost like it looks like columns, a bit more of a sophisticated columns game on half the screen, and the top half of the screen is your character and whoever you're fighting, so you puzzle off, but when you're not in fighting mode, you're in an isometric, sort of cell-shaded map, open world map, where you can go around and do different things, but whenever you come into combat, you do it for a puzzle.
00:52:31.519 --> 00:52:33.840
You can upgrade your characters and do bits and pieces.
00:52:34.000 --> 00:52:45.119
And this for me was such a great game to have on the go because you feel like you're playing an RPG, but you're getting that little hit, you're getting that little don't mean hit of puzzle games, you know, where you haven't a quick go.
00:52:45.760 --> 00:52:56.559
Um, and it's great for just pulling out, like you say, on the bus, going to work, get a couple more battles done, win them battles, move on to the next area, go and investigate this area.
00:52:56.719 --> 00:53:01.760
Um, and I know when you look at the front of it, it looks like a mobile phone game.
00:53:01.920 --> 00:53:03.599
I mean, it looks worse than that.
00:53:03.840 --> 00:53:10.400
It looks like a 50p spinner PS PC game that you'd find in like Morrison's in like 2003.
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:15.599
Yeah, and that even on the back, there's so limited information on the back, three screenshots and three lines.
00:53:15.679 --> 00:53:25.280
You know, it just says explore the wilds of um Ashurin Empire, um, challenge five challenging mini games, Battle Fierce Monsters in Fast Paced Puzzle Combat, that's all it says.
00:53:25.360 --> 00:53:28.639
But actually, when you get into it, it's a great fun little RPG.
00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:33.519
And I think people just dismiss this game because it does look like shovelware.
00:53:33.599 --> 00:53:37.360
And the only thing that made me buy it because it wasn't shovelware is because Konami done it.
00:53:37.440 --> 00:53:40.960
So I thought, well, there must be something in it if Konami are releasing this.
00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:42.880
Um, and I'd loved it.
00:53:42.960 --> 00:53:45.360
I played it right for and completed the game, not very long.
00:53:45.440 --> 00:53:47.280
You'll probably do it in six or seven hours.
00:53:47.440 --> 00:53:59.599
Um, but you know, if I think this is the sort of game where if you're on if you're travelling on a trip or you're going on holiday and you and you need something to take the time up while you're travelling, this is a great little game to get stuck into.
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:02.159
Um, have you ever played this George Puzzle Chronicles?
00:54:02.480 --> 00:54:03.920
Never seen it before, RGT.
00:54:04.000 --> 00:54:05.760
So a great selection, a great choice.
00:54:05.840 --> 00:54:07.119
It's nice to have some variety.
00:54:07.199 --> 00:54:10.880
I mean, I've rocked up with basically Sony's greatest hits for PSP.
00:54:11.119 --> 00:54:14.800
Um, but it's so it's nice to inject that in.
00:54:14.960 --> 00:54:22.719
I mean, we've we've done the PSP in these PlayStation exclusive episodes that we did.
00:54:22.880 --> 00:54:25.679
I think we've probably covered a couple of these, so I don't want to over talk them.
00:54:25.760 --> 00:54:37.599
So to see another another fighter has entered the arena is always good, and uh, yeah, I'll probably look that one out myself as long as we get to the end and it's not ridiculous monies, but you never know.
00:54:37.840 --> 00:54:53.199
It's that um, I think it's got that very basic RPG element where you feel like you're exploring and doing levels and and getting better, but you're also getting that little hit of a of a puzzle game, which also is a fight, and it all works so well.
00:54:53.280 --> 00:54:54.960
I think it's a great little game, you know.
00:54:55.119 --> 00:54:56.480
So I'd definitely give it a look.
00:54:56.719 --> 00:55:08.719
I think it was it was mixed reviews when it came out, sort of I think Metacritic was like 65 out of 100, most people were like six out of ten, seven out of ten, six out of ten, and it went under the radar a lot.
00:55:08.800 --> 00:55:19.440
I think it was a time when um I think the initial release date was like 2010, so it's obviously quite a late game in the PSP cycle, so probably a lot of people slept on it.
00:55:19.599 --> 00:55:26.480
It probably sat in the shelves, and not to say, with this cover and side bit looking like a bit of shovelware, I think a lot of people probably missed it.
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:34.800
And lot I say, there's even there's even a DS version as well, which is as far as I can make out, is pretty similar to the PSP, but I'd definitely give it a look.
00:55:34.880 --> 00:55:39.280
Um, that is Boikanami, and that is Puzzle Chronicles.
00:55:39.440 --> 00:55:43.440
Um, what's your fifth and final game then, George?
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.519
My fifth and final game is Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
00:55:50.079 --> 00:55:52.320
Um what a lovely cover that is.
00:55:52.639 --> 00:55:53.679
Oh, it's beautiful.
00:55:53.840 --> 00:55:55.440
I have got another version of this.
00:55:55.599 --> 00:56:01.760
Again, the PSP did bring out some, I don't think they're even special editions, but they brought them out with like a card slip.
00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:08.800
So I've got this with a card slip as well, maybe a little art book alongside it, which is what justified the card to hold it all together.
00:56:09.039 --> 00:56:17.840
But even the just the vanilla version of this with the silver background with the characters on the front of it, Mickey, it's slightly different characters to the main game.
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:21.119
Um, you play as three alternate characters, I forget their name now.
00:56:21.199 --> 00:56:25.440
It's been a hot minute since I played it, but um I really love this.
00:56:25.519 --> 00:56:29.199
I mean, me and my daughter were playing a lot of Kingdom Hearts on PS uh two.
00:56:29.519 --> 00:56:33.360
We played the first and second game and you know, really thoroughly enjoyed them.
00:56:33.599 --> 00:56:36.639
Um, but this one will live with me for nostalgia.
00:56:36.960 --> 00:56:43.599
I used to take my kids swimming at to a local swimming baths, as they're as the adults would call it, not swimming pool, to swim baths.
00:56:43.840 --> 00:56:52.239
And um I would sit and I'd take a Vita or all the PSP with me, and I'd just sit and watch them while having a bit of a play.
00:56:52.480 --> 00:56:56.239
And I I started playing this on PSP, so I took it with me.
00:56:56.639 --> 00:57:06.639
And um while I was watching the kids swim, I think some young kid who couldn't swim, his mum's the mums were talking, you know how they are and talking about how bad the husband is and blah blah blah.
00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:33.039
And this kid was kind of wandering around and he sort of walked past and saw the Disney characters, whatever it was, and he kind of stopped and came back, and the next minute he was like sat next to me on this bench, and then like I don't know, two minutes later I pass him a headphone and he would sit there and watch and I would play, and then next week I would sit down, he'd be straight over, and I'd be like, you know, one day I um I took both the Vita and uh PSP and I pulled it out.
00:57:33.119 --> 00:57:43.440
I was gonna play Drake's, and he was sat there and I was like, Yeah, I don't really want to get in trouble with his mum for playing an MDK game in front of him.
00:57:43.599 --> 00:57:51.519
So uh we'll pull out the and his little face lit up as soon as it started up, and you saw the logo and all the little characters running around.
00:57:51.679 --> 00:58:03.360
And yeah, I think it's it's you know, it it's you could argue it's pivotal to the very bizarre and very hard to understand Kingdom Hearts storyline.
00:58:03.679 --> 00:58:10.800
Um some of the things that take place in this game certainly have a big impinging factor on what happens later.
00:58:10.960 --> 00:58:13.840
Um, but you take all that away and you view it in isolation.
00:58:13.920 --> 00:58:32.320
There's a lot of the Disney princesses in it at the start that kind of makes the grow man feel a little bit silly, but ultimately, underneath all that, you've got your standard Kingdom Hearts gameplay, you've got some really nice sort of Disney lore in there, you've got the wonderful Kingdom Hearts and ever-expanding story of that.
00:58:32.639 --> 00:58:48.960
Can be a little bit hard to follow, like story-wise, but whoever really plays Kingdom Hearts of the Stories, you you play it to kind of get to the section where you're you're doing an adventure with your um cartoon sort of comic book idol from the Disney universe.
00:58:49.119 --> 00:58:55.599
And yeah, to me, this is a like I say, a quite nostalgic game in that regard.
00:58:55.760 --> 00:59:11.840
Um, it's included on some of the later reissues, the PS3 pack, and I think what later came on PS4 and Xbox of the of the later packed in sort of Kingdom Hearts trilogies, like 2.5D, I think, or something like that.
00:59:11.920 --> 00:59:14.239
You'll find Birth by Sleep on there.
00:59:14.400 --> 00:59:29.039
But if you've got a PSP and you're looking for another one of those full fat experiences, and you're a a big fan of the Kingdom Hearts franchise, you you need this so much.
00:59:29.199 --> 00:59:38.960
And we've talked before about A, the console experience in your pocket, B the super large library of games on PSP.
00:59:39.360 --> 00:59:53.039
And this is just one of those games that I I think maybe I don't know, it probably didn't go unnoticed at the time, it being an exclusive, it probably shifted some systems, but not really talked about in the zeitgeist, probably because it's been rolled into later packages.
00:59:53.199 --> 00:59:59.280
But for me, the true place to play this is on PSP, it's where it was designed to be.
00:59:59.440 --> 01:00:09.440
It kind of res it is a cut-down version in terms of it respects your time for the need if you want to stick it on standby, put it in your pocket and get on the bus, pull it out of your pocket, carry on.
01:00:09.599 --> 01:00:14.159
It's a slightly more um flexible version of Kingdom Hearts that lets you do that.
01:00:14.320 --> 01:00:24.400
And if you've got like a younger person in your life, a kid or a cousin or a brother or whatever that you spend time with, um, this is some really wholesome fun.
01:00:25.039 --> 01:00:30.400
Um, graphically and sound wise, I mean, I can't tell the difference again.
01:00:30.480 --> 01:00:36.159
I guess if you've got the running side by side on the screen, you'd be like, oh well, it's not quite all that in the bins.
01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:37.599
Get a grip of yourself.
01:00:37.760 --> 01:00:40.719
This is a wonderful game, and I think you can have a great experience.
01:00:40.800 --> 01:00:44.559
It looks good on no matter what PSP version you play it on.
01:00:44.800 --> 01:00:53.599
I mean, for me, it'll always be the 1000, but I know obviously in the later versions they kind of cut the OS around to make it so it was slightly more powerful, regardless.
01:00:53.840 --> 01:00:59.440
So, yeah, grab yourself a copy of that and uh have yourself an absolute rip roaring time.
01:00:59.599 --> 01:01:04.320
Great one to take on a flight, great one to take on a sunshine holiday.
01:01:04.480 --> 01:01:06.239
Uh, just enjoy yourself.
01:01:06.559 --> 01:01:09.920
Have you played this or your Kingdom Hearts Spanarch GT or no?
01:01:10.159 --> 01:01:11.360
No, I've got a few of the games.
01:01:11.519 --> 01:01:22.239
I think I might have all the games, I believe, but I've never um played them basically because I'm one of them that if there's a series of games, I like to start at the beginning and work my way through.
01:01:22.480 --> 01:01:25.920
But I've always been so confused into what order to play them in.
01:01:26.079 --> 01:01:29.920
Whenever I've Googled, everyone says a different order, and I get so muddled up as to what to play.
01:01:30.000 --> 01:01:31.440
But they've always just play them.
01:01:31.599 --> 01:01:36.000
I would say to that answer, I'll just say just play them in the release order because you can't do wrong at that, can you?
01:01:36.159 --> 01:01:36.400
Exactly.
01:01:36.559 --> 01:01:41.280
I know some people that have played them all are probably screaming, oh, you've got to play that one first, because it's kind of like a prequel.
01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:42.320
Forget that, mate.
01:01:42.480 --> 01:01:55.519
I'm gonna start with one, I'm gonna play two, then I'm probably gonna play Birth by Sleep and those other rechained melody ones that you get on the whatever it is, or or I find them on the package for the PS4 or Xbox or whatever it is.
01:01:55.760 --> 01:01:57.760
But just play how you feel.
01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:00.320
But following the numbers is not a bad move, is it?
01:02:00.400 --> 01:02:01.039
It can't be.
01:02:01.519 --> 01:02:09.440
And I always find it fascinating when I first heard that you know Square Enix with Disney and you know, you've got cloud, but you also got Disney characters.
01:02:09.599 --> 01:02:14.639
I've always thought that sounds really odd, but then they're so well rated, everyone seems to love Kingdom Hearts.
01:02:14.719 --> 01:02:19.280
It just seems to be something that's really worked, and it's a series I do need to play us on the list.
01:02:19.360 --> 01:02:29.679
I mean, as the future gaming's going as it is, I think I'll be diving quite a lot into these uh previous systems to your point of the Final Fantasy characters, they're there but they're not obtuse.
01:02:29.920 --> 01:02:41.280
They they don't I sometimes wonder why they are there because no one's playing it for that majoritively, you're playing it more for the Disney characters, but because that's is it action RPG in it?
01:02:41.360 --> 01:02:41.679
Is it action?
01:02:42.079 --> 01:02:43.280
It is an action RPG.
01:02:43.519 --> 01:02:52.159
I would say some of the younger players, when my daughter played it, you know, she just tore into it, and you know, you try and get through the game with without thinking of it.
01:02:52.239 --> 01:03:04.559
But when you get into the menus, not only on Birth by Sleep, but one and two, the key blades are really important, your bolt-ons are important, you kind of healing spells, and who you give them to in your team is important.
01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:08.960
Um, so it feels very simple, like whack, whack, whack.
01:03:09.039 --> 01:03:15.039
But when you start getting later in the game, you face some of the bigger bads or the bosses, it's not whack, whack, whack.
01:03:15.119 --> 01:03:16.719
It's very, very tactical.
01:03:16.880 --> 01:03:33.440
You've you've got to be some of the sweatiest moments I've ever had are progressing my daughter through the story of Kingdom Hearts because you've got the pressure on, you've also got maybe an underpowered key blade, you don't quite know what's happening.
01:03:33.599 --> 01:03:37.840
Um, but to be honest with you, really fun to play.
01:03:38.000 --> 01:03:48.000
The action RPG element of it probably is that makes it a little bit more easy to play compared to maybe the traditional route of a JRPG turn-based battle that they could have gone down.
01:03:48.159 --> 01:03:59.519
Uh, but no, can't speak Harley enough about this game, and and maybe the series and uh Guilty Secret, as much as I've enjoyed one, two and birth by sleep.
01:03:59.840 --> 01:04:02.559
Um, I still haven't dusted off and played three.
01:04:02.719 --> 01:04:20.880
I would quite like to, but I've got some sort of unfinished business with two uh and maybe 2.5 and then chain melodies where me and my daughter kind of stopped, and out of respect, I've not really pushed it further, but I would love to because I've really enjoyed every time I've spent in the Kingdom Hearts universe.
01:04:20.960 --> 01:04:21.679
It's wonderful.
01:04:21.920 --> 01:04:30.000
Yeah, yeah, it's definitely unique, and there's plenty of games to play there, and again, PSP screen's knew how to get the PSP working, so it's correct, you know.
01:04:30.079 --> 01:04:33.679
Again, it's got its own special game from that series.
01:04:34.159 --> 01:04:46.480
Because of that cell-shaded almost animation style as well, you get away with so many sins where it it feels like again with this has been the theme of the show, another sort of no compromise version of your favourite game.
01:04:47.199 --> 01:04:48.079
Yeah, definitely.
01:04:48.239 --> 01:05:01.039
And I always felt again, this is another one of those games that made you feel that if your TV broke or you had your consoles tatting away and you only had a PSP left, you're not necessarily missing out.
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:01.360
No.
01:05:01.599 --> 01:05:04.960
If you had these as your library, I think you're doing alright, game-wise.
01:05:05.039 --> 01:05:08.719
You're not playing, you know, little phone games sitting on your couch.
01:05:08.800 --> 01:05:12.800
You are playing big adventures and RPGs, and Kingdom Hearts, you know, proves that.
01:05:12.880 --> 01:05:15.519
But yeah, great choice there for your final one, George.
01:05:15.599 --> 01:05:17.280
Um what you got here then?
01:05:17.519 --> 01:05:25.440
My number five, I've gone for just pure arcade action, a bit of vehicle vehicular combat, a bit of third-person shooter.
01:05:26.159 --> 01:05:27.760
I've gone with pursuit force.
01:05:27.920 --> 01:05:29.840
Oh, Metal Jesus just turned up.
01:05:29.920 --> 01:05:30.480
Look at you.
01:05:31.119 --> 01:05:34.880
Uh Metal Militia.
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.480
Um yeah, Pursuit Force.
01:05:38.639 --> 01:05:43.760
Um, if you haven't heard of this game, I mean there is a story, you don't really need to know about the story.
01:05:43.840 --> 01:05:46.079
It's basically you're a you're a copper.
01:05:46.159 --> 01:05:47.360
I think it's set in the future.
01:05:47.440 --> 01:05:49.119
There's like five gangs at Ruler City.
01:05:49.440 --> 01:05:51.519
It's got to be set in the future, on it, to be fair.
01:05:51.840 --> 01:05:52.400
It's crazy.
01:05:52.719 --> 01:05:55.199
It is a crazy game, but it's it's great fun.
01:05:55.360 --> 01:05:57.280
It's it's made quite well for what it is.
01:05:57.360 --> 01:05:59.519
It looks pretty good on the on the PSP.
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:05.039
Um And it's a lot I say, it's a combination of a lot of third-person shooter and then a lot of vehicular combat.
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:11.519
And you can stand on your car and shoot the other cars and then go from car to car to take these cars down, take the gang members down.
01:06:11.599 --> 01:06:14.559
I think there's about 30 missions on this game.
01:06:15.119 --> 01:06:20.800
And you can even see these motorbikes and bits as well, and these big chasers take these gangs down on the highways.
01:06:21.360 --> 01:06:24.639
And it's just good destructive fun.
01:06:24.719 --> 01:06:30.880
You know, it's it's a game which is you know uh exclusive for the PSP.
01:06:31.039 --> 01:06:37.440
Um they done a follow-up one, a second one as well, um, which I think was called Extreme Justice, I believe.
01:06:37.599 --> 01:06:40.400
Um, yeah, I think you might be right, Pursuit Force 2.
01:06:40.480 --> 01:06:42.719
It did have a sub sub moniker, yeah.
01:06:42.960 --> 01:06:48.320
Yeah, um, and it came out in um 2005, November 2005.
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:51.280
Um, and I think the second one came out in 2007.
01:06:52.320 --> 01:07:00.000
Um I think you can play this as part of the classic catalogues on PS4 and PS5, but for me, it's a PSP game.
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:05.840
Um, that small screen, how quick the action is, how things are going on, and all these guns and that.
01:07:05.920 --> 01:07:09.199
It's just again, it's just great destructive fun.
01:07:09.440 --> 01:07:16.320
Um and I just again it just shoe the wide variety of games you could have on a PSP.
01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:23.119
You know, we were just talking about Kingdom Hearts, you know, an action JRPG with Disney and Square Enix characters.
01:07:23.199 --> 01:07:27.920
We're now talking about an arcade game where you jump from car to car and and shooting the bad guys, you know.
01:07:28.320 --> 01:07:33.599
I was gonna say machine good people at point blank range in the face, yeah, you know, and who doesn't like doing that?
01:07:33.760 --> 01:07:42.000
You know, so um but yeah, I mean when it came out it had mixed reviews again.
01:07:42.079 --> 01:07:43.599
I think this is a bit like jackass.
01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:50.239
People have recognised now that actually this is quite a good game for the system, exclusive to the system.
01:07:50.559 --> 01:07:55.039
Um, I mean there was eight out of ten, three out of five's eighty percent.
01:07:55.440 --> 01:08:05.679
Um, there was other six out of tens, you know, there was even a four out of ten by you know, electronic game a monthly only gave it four out of ten, but your Metacritic scores are 75 out of 100.
01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:14.719
I think over the years, as people have bought it and played it are going back, it's becoming that sort of bit more of a as a collector's game for the system.
01:08:14.880 --> 01:08:16.560
Um, have you played this, George?
01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:17.600
I suspect you'll play this, haven't you?
01:08:17.760 --> 01:08:18.800
Pursuit Force.
01:08:19.600 --> 01:08:21.039
Yeah, like on and off.
01:08:21.119 --> 01:08:29.199
Like, I've not really spent a load of time on it, but it like you know, it it screams that portable play, it's very quick play sessions.
01:08:29.279 --> 01:08:35.439
It's I suppose it's easy to that classic saying, it's easy to play, it's hard to master.
01:08:35.680 --> 01:08:40.479
It's that definite arcade style of like you know, you've got to have your wits about you.
01:08:40.720 --> 01:09:00.720
Um, initially it feels like quite quite a sort of heady, almost intense um situation of a game, but then once you kind of work out what you're doing, you can feel quite cool and and and slick with the way that you play it, you know, the transfer of yourself and the way you take the bads down.
01:09:00.800 --> 01:09:02.800
It you know, the there's a lot to be said about this.
01:09:02.960 --> 01:09:10.800
It's been on a million hidden gem videos for PSPs from the dawn of time, but um a very, very welcome edition.
01:09:10.960 --> 01:09:14.560
We've not talked about it on the show before in one of our top tens, I don't think.
01:09:14.640 --> 01:09:20.239
So I think we've we've talked about pursuit force, but not in a lot of top ten or anything like that.
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:38.560
No, I mean if if you're if you're not clear at the game, this is how I described it to a friend years ago when he asked me what was playing looking over my shoulder on a holiday, and I said it was like if Ridge Racer and GTA had a baby, it's got that almost over-the-top car racing with the combat as well.
01:09:38.720 --> 01:09:44.319
And it's and it is just like I say, it's just you know, it's just that arcade good fun.
01:09:44.399 --> 01:09:46.479
It almost plays like an arcade game.
01:09:46.560 --> 01:09:52.159
You can almost imagine playing this in an arcade, you know, it's like taking spy hunter to the next level.
01:09:52.319 --> 01:09:54.399
Um, but definitely give it a go.
01:09:54.479 --> 01:09:55.600
It is just great fun.
01:09:55.680 --> 01:10:03.199
If you're just looking for something you ain't gotta think too much about, chuck in, have a good blast every you know, half an hour here and there, have a look at pursuit force.
01:10:03.439 --> 01:10:08.159
Um and that is our 10 games.
01:10:08.319 --> 01:10:10.319
Um, I will run back over them.
01:10:10.720 --> 01:10:23.840
Um my five games was Jackass, GTA Vice City Stories, Tony Hawke's Underground Remix, Puzzle Chronicles, and Pursuit Force.
01:10:24.159 --> 01:10:36.319
George's games were uh Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, Gran Turismo, The Warriors, Little Big Planet, Kingdom Hearts, Birth by Sleep.
01:10:36.479 --> 01:10:39.840
Now we get to the bit everyone waits for at the end, George.
01:10:40.800 --> 01:10:44.000
The cost, the prices, your little guess and game.
01:10:44.159 --> 01:10:45.279
Let's have a look here.
01:10:45.520 --> 01:10:46.800
I'm nervous of this.
01:10:47.039 --> 01:10:49.520
So have you any idea on any of these?
01:10:49.600 --> 01:10:51.359
Or no, no clue.
01:10:51.520 --> 01:11:01.199
I kind of maybe I'm not a full series collector, don't get me wrong, but I have got quite an extensive PSP collection just because I love it, and there's so many bangers on there.
01:11:01.359 --> 01:11:04.079
I was trying to curate the collection to make sure it's not crazy.
01:11:04.159 --> 01:11:07.840
And I finished my collection when these were 50p to a pound.
01:11:08.079 --> 01:11:12.800
So I'm a little bit nervous that I'm about to walk into this with an absolute car crash.
01:11:12.960 --> 01:11:14.720
But you know, it's all part of the fun.
01:11:14.800 --> 01:11:16.079
So play along at home.
01:11:16.159 --> 01:11:18.399
Um, don't use the internet to cheat, you know.
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:19.520
You're not RGT.
01:11:19.600 --> 01:11:21.920
Come bring your knowledge and your guts and your balls.
01:11:22.079 --> 01:11:23.520
Uh RGT.
01:11:24.800 --> 01:11:25.279
Yeah.
01:11:25.920 --> 01:11:27.439
Don't know how I got dragged in that.
01:11:27.520 --> 01:11:32.560
Anyway, we'll start off with your first pick, and that is Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:34.000
What are you reckoning, George?
01:11:34.720 --> 01:11:58.159
Um something tells me you're probably gonna be paying a good I will just say these prices are based off CX, and the reason I use CX is one, it's the on you know, it's the the the shop high street store, and two, they tend to be cheaper than eBay.
01:11:58.399 --> 01:12:01.119
eBay tends to be a lot more expensive, so I've always used CX.
01:12:01.199 --> 01:12:02.319
So let's go 12.
01:12:02.720 --> 01:12:05.119
Let's go 12 quid on Peace Walker.
01:12:06.560 --> 01:12:07.760
Oh dear dear.
01:12:07.840 --> 01:12:11.760
Uh yeah, no, Peace Walker retails um in CX for£35.
01:12:14.159 --> 01:12:14.800
Yeah.
01:12:16.000 --> 01:12:16.640
Wow.
01:12:17.199 --> 01:12:23.039
Like I say, there's been a quite an increase over the last few weeks because of obvious news stories that we won't talk about in here.
01:12:23.279 --> 01:12:27.119
Um, yes, so Peace Walker,£35 if you want to buy that in CX.
01:12:27.279 --> 01:12:28.640
I would love to see a price tracker.
01:12:28.800 --> 01:12:30.720
Was that£12 before this explosion?
01:12:30.800 --> 01:12:35.439
It's ramped up to that price in that time, or that just seems insane.
01:12:36.079 --> 01:12:40.079
Yeah, there's some prices here which have jumped very recently.
01:12:40.479 --> 01:12:41.439
Very recently.
01:12:41.760 --> 01:12:43.279
Um Wow, okay.
01:12:43.439 --> 01:12:44.239
Uh next.
01:12:44.560 --> 01:12:46.239
Next is Jackass.
01:12:49.920 --> 01:12:50.800
On PSP.
01:12:51.439 --> 01:12:51.840
PSP.
01:12:52.319 --> 01:12:53.039
Eight pounds?
01:12:53.680 --> 01:12:54.319
Not far off.
01:12:54.479 --> 01:12:55.760
Six pounds for Jackass.
01:12:56.079 --> 01:13:02.640
Now the reason I've brought this in here because uh that was a 50p PS2 game for the longest time.
01:13:02.800 --> 01:13:06.560
It is now£22 on PS2, yeah.
01:13:06.880 --> 01:13:15.119
Which is crazy for that game that people didn't like, but now everyone wants, so yes, get the PSP version because it is actually a better version.
01:13:15.199 --> 01:13:17.039
So Jackass, six pounds.
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:17.520
Right.
01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:21.119
Your second game, George, was a grand turismo.
01:13:21.359 --> 01:13:22.479
It was, yeah.
01:13:22.720 --> 01:13:33.359
Okay, so let's say that's let's say that's let's say that's£12.
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:36.479
Not far off,£10, if you want to pick that up.
01:13:36.800 --> 01:13:37.359
Very reasonable.
01:13:37.680 --> 01:13:38.239
That's a great game.
01:13:38.319 --> 01:13:40.239
For£10, that's a bargain, that game.
01:13:40.399 --> 01:13:41.279
Absolutely brilliant game.
01:13:41.600 --> 01:13:44.800
Like I said, I think I paid four and felt like it was a lot.
01:13:45.119 --> 01:13:47.920
Yeah, I think I was around about fiver for that, I think.
01:13:48.000 --> 01:13:59.680
I can't really remember, but um yes, so next up we had my second pick, which was Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories.
01:14:01.279 --> 01:14:09.199
I don't want to go overboard on this only because I know that it's probably one of the most prolific titles on the system, like it's everywhere.
01:14:09.359 --> 01:14:11.600
So I'm gonna say, I'm gonna lowball it.
01:14:11.680 --> 01:14:13.119
I'm gonna say eight quid.
01:14:13.600 --> 01:14:14.159
£15.
01:14:15.199 --> 01:14:16.079
Jesus.
01:14:16.479 --> 01:14:20.640
Um and the Vice City Stories on PS2 is now£25.
01:14:21.760 --> 01:14:25.920
Um, which again, that was that was a four or five pound game for the longest time.
01:14:26.079 --> 01:14:28.159
I even like Liberty City Stories.
01:14:28.239 --> 01:14:29.760
I remember telling you this story, George.
01:14:29.920 --> 01:14:35.119
I've got a sealed copy of that which I picked up in CX years ago because they had a whole row of sealed ones.
01:14:35.199 --> 01:14:38.640
I don't know where they got them from, and I think I paid I paid up three pounds for it.
01:14:38.880 --> 01:14:41.840
Yeah, yeah, it's probably£100 now, it's ridiculous.
01:14:41.920 --> 01:14:44.640
But yeah, so£15 on the PSP.
01:14:44.720 --> 01:14:45.920
Um your third game.
01:14:46.159 --> 01:14:50.000
It'll go down as that absolute crushing defeat for me this week, unfortunately.
01:14:50.159 --> 01:14:50.720
So what's next?
01:14:50.880 --> 01:14:51.439
Warriors?
01:14:51.680 --> 01:14:55.439
Yes, your third game is the Warriors by Rockstar on the PSP.
01:14:57.359 --> 01:14:58.640
What are you thinking?
01:14:59.119 --> 01:15:00.239
A 15.
01:15:01.680 --> 01:15:04.399
That's a 30 pound game now in CS.
01:15:05.279 --> 01:15:05.840
Yeah.
01:15:06.159 --> 01:15:10.000
I remember seeing it at 15 for the longest time, thinking that's quite expensive for that.
01:15:10.159 --> 01:15:13.600
Um I didn't think it could pass that past that threshold.
01:15:13.840 --> 01:15:15.279
I just didn't think it possible.
01:15:15.520 --> 01:15:19.600
Yeah, yeah, it's it's they're shooting up at the moment.
01:15:19.760 --> 01:15:22.079
Uh yeah, so£30 for the Warriors.
01:15:22.239 --> 01:15:28.960
Um my third choice was Tony Hawk's underground remix for the PSP.
01:15:29.760 --> 01:15:35.039
I feel that might maybe slip under the radar a little bit on PSP, so I think that might be£8.
01:15:36.399 --> 01:15:37.600
This surprised me.
01:15:37.680 --> 01:15:39.600
This is£15 now.
01:15:40.880 --> 01:15:43.039
I actually make it make sense to me.
01:15:43.279 --> 01:15:45.840
I actually took the label off this while I was doing these.
01:15:45.920 --> 01:15:49.760
I'd left the label on from CX when I got it, and that was£3 a label on it.
01:15:51.039 --> 01:15:52.399
Yeah, it's gone up to£15.
01:15:52.479 --> 01:15:53.520
Yeah, I could not believe it.
01:15:53.600 --> 01:15:56.479
But that was my third game, Tony Walks Underground remix.
01:15:56.720 --> 01:16:00.720
Your fourth game, George, was Little Big Planet for the PSP.
01:16:01.119 --> 01:16:07.760
Oh, again, you used to see this everywhere, like really dogged copies, one that's been kicked down the road.
01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:10.479
It took me a few copies to get one that's as nice as this.
01:16:10.560 --> 01:16:11.760
So I'm gonna say£10.
01:16:12.800 --> 01:16:14.720
Six pounds for Little Big Planet.
01:16:16.159 --> 01:16:17.520
You can't make logic of it, can you?
01:16:17.680 --> 01:16:22.479
Okay, no, and a group for six pounds that's nothing, you know, that's the price of a point of beer nowadays.
01:16:22.640 --> 01:16:25.119
You get great game, one of the best games on the PSP.
01:16:25.279 --> 01:16:32.159
So um, yes, then my fourth game was Puzzle Chronicles on the PSP.
01:16:32.560 --> 01:16:36.560
Well, this is either gonna want to go, this is gonna go one of two ways.
01:16:37.600 --> 01:16:46.640
Uh, and I'm going to chance my arm because I'm all out of luck right now, and say this is a a four pound game.
01:16:47.279 --> 01:16:55.920
If you order it now on CEX, on the DS, it's five pounds, on the PSP, it's one pound fifty.
01:16:56.319 --> 01:16:57.520
I thought as much, yeah.
01:16:57.600 --> 01:16:58.159
It's a shame.
01:16:58.479 --> 01:16:59.920
It's a£1.50 game.
01:17:00.000 --> 01:17:01.119
So, I mean, give it a go.
01:17:02.479 --> 01:17:03.359
Yeah, still out there.
01:17:03.520 --> 01:17:04.159
Give it a go.
01:17:04.239 --> 01:17:07.119
Because I I think it's a great little game for£1.50.
01:17:07.279 --> 01:17:14.479
I mean, I'd if you bought a mobile game, which is a puzzle game like that, these puzzle RPGs are all popular, you'd pay more for that on your mobile.
01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:17.439
You would, you would as a download, you definitely would.
01:17:17.680 --> 01:17:22.640
Um, your fifth and final game was Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.
01:17:22.960 --> 01:17:30.560
I don't know where to be on this, but that can't be any less than 15.
01:17:31.439 --> 01:17:33.199
You are bang on, it is£15.
01:17:33.680 --> 01:17:34.880
Um Redemption.
01:17:35.119 --> 01:17:40.960
They did do a special edition um with the cardboard slip and bits and pieces, which which now retails for£32.
01:17:41.600 --> 01:17:42.640
Mumsy.
01:17:42.960 --> 01:17:43.920
Get the credit card.
01:17:44.159 --> 01:17:46.720
We're going to the Chinese restaurant tonight, darling.
01:17:47.600 --> 01:17:53.359
Um, and my final game uh was Pursuit Force for the PSP.
01:17:53.760 --> 01:18:07.600
Again, I think uh the aforementioned uh I and Jesus has probably had an upward effect of this, so I'm gonna I'm gonna chance my arm and say, although this is everywhere, so it has no right to be anymore.
01:18:07.760 --> 01:18:13.520
I'm gonna say maximum 12 quid, 12 dollars, 12 bucks.
01:18:13.840 --> 01:18:15.039
Two pounds.
01:18:16.640 --> 01:18:18.560
This is a two pound make sense of it.
01:18:18.800 --> 01:18:21.199
That just shows you how much people listen to Metal Jesus.
01:18:21.359 --> 01:18:24.399
Yeah, yeah, that's a two pound game.
01:18:24.640 --> 01:18:28.159
So, yes, there is some which have shot up in price there at the moment.
01:18:28.239 --> 01:18:29.760
Um, it is just the market.
01:18:29.920 --> 01:18:32.239
Whether they stay there or keep going up, I don't know.
01:18:32.319 --> 01:18:33.439
It's a very unstable place.
01:18:35.920 --> 01:18:40.560
Where if you wanted to cash out on PSP, this is probably the highest water market you'll ever see.
01:18:40.720 --> 01:18:51.279
If you're a collector for the sake of it, you know, grab the games that you want or or keep your powder dry, but then equally so, who's to say that this isn't the beginning of the the retro rise?
01:18:51.439 --> 01:19:01.359
Because although PSP might feel new and recent and relevant to a few of us who have been around on planet Earth a little while, um, does someone join in the hobby tomorrow?
01:19:01.680 --> 01:19:05.760
Um, this is a retro device, yeah.
01:19:05.920 --> 01:19:11.039
It is, and also I know you when you look at games like Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker, you're thinking£35.
01:19:11.359 --> 01:19:12.720
What for an old PSP game?
01:19:12.800 --> 01:19:25.039
I know, but you're it's not you're not paying it because it's an old PSP game, you're paying it because it's a very good game, you're getting a full-blown experience, you've got hours of gameplay and fun to have.
01:19:25.199 --> 01:19:30.800
Don't think it was an old PSP game, think it was£35, which is half the price of a new release game that comes out nowadays.
01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:35.760
You're getting you're getting a great game, which is getting collectible and you're having fun at the same time.
01:19:35.920 --> 01:19:44.560
Plus, on the other hand of it, don't be put off by the£35 because there's still games that are£2,£1.50,£6 that were shown on here, which are uh so worth buying.
01:19:44.800 --> 01:19:51.760
You've all you know, you've also got the option of getting an empty Pringles can, washing it out, and just going to get these UMD only.
01:19:51.920 --> 01:19:56.239
Because if it's gonna be a lot of lads are picking these up now.
01:19:56.479 --> 01:20:08.640
Um like for it's not Lux Maxing, but it's like LARPing or LARP maxing, where you kind of emulate a scene of an era, so you walk around with your PSP, you have your little strap on it, you have it in your pocket for the look, you know.
01:20:09.039 --> 01:20:29.840
Um, but then you could have, I mean, I've got a myriad while I've been collecting, I've picked up loads of little like four-stat UMD carrying cases, official ones, little um zip-up ones that you can slap a couple of movies in, a couple of these in, have it on a little carabiner on your pocket, on your on your belt loop, like a true 2000s emo kid.
01:20:30.319 --> 01:20:36.800
Um, I think you know, if you're getting it for playing's sake, get rough and ready.
01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:44.079
Get your PSP, throw it in your pocket with a couple of UMDs in the bottom of your coat pocket or in one of those carriers and throw them in a bag on a plane or whatnot.
01:20:44.159 --> 01:20:51.600
And it's kind of that in a way, it's that low, you know, low-cost way of taking a little bit of gaming on the go.
01:20:51.920 --> 01:20:54.239
And you're not buying PSPs, you know.
01:20:54.319 --> 01:21:13.039
Me and RGT are probably the outsider, you're not normally buying PSP games to like stack your collection up, although, you know, much like the Switch with their smaller form factor, you can get quite a few on a shelf, but once you sort of coax the UMD out of the case, they are small and small for a reason.
01:21:13.359 --> 01:21:18.960
So just throw a few in a Pringles case and off you go on holiday, job done.
01:21:19.039 --> 01:21:23.760
And I'd imagine without boxes, a lot of these prices tumble big time.
01:21:23.920 --> 01:21:28.000
Yeah, I mean, I bought back in the day when I was really collecting, when I was building my collection up.
01:21:28.239 --> 01:21:33.119
Um, there was a guy who had a couple of them little handheld cases with like five in at a time.
01:21:33.439 --> 01:21:35.199
He had I think no, he actually had three of them.
01:21:35.279 --> 01:21:37.600
There was 15 games, just loose UMDs.
01:21:37.760 --> 01:21:39.920
I gave him not a tenner for all three.
01:21:40.079 --> 01:21:49.279
I went through there was Pursuit Force in there, there was Tiger Woods, there was other games all in there, and then the ones I really liked, I got the I got the complete editions for the ones I really like.
01:21:49.359 --> 01:22:00.000
The others I just have a good way of doing it, and the others I just have a little case on the shelf um with all these spare ones in that are all right games, but probably you know, I'm not gonna go out and get the CIB version of them.
01:22:00.319 --> 01:22:03.920
Um, but you can pick them up if you keep an arm vintage and places like that.
01:22:04.079 --> 01:22:14.239
You know, there's people always selling loose UMDs you can pick up a little, you know, just chance your arm sometimes, maybe spend 25 quid on 15 UMD games and see what you get, you know.
01:22:14.319 --> 01:22:15.119
So you don't know.
01:22:16.479 --> 01:22:36.720
Yeah, I think PSP is probably having a renaissance, or it's had a renaissance, or it's in the middle of its renaissance in terms of either that LARPing scene, as in you, you know, not that you're going around a wood dressed as an elf, but more that you're um emulating a look or a style or a uh a character per se out in the wild.
01:22:36.880 --> 01:22:50.079
Um, but beyond that, I think they're getting a little bit of appreciation because it's a great way to get a retro console and a slew of games that doesn't take up any space at home, that you can take with you anywhere that you want to.
01:22:50.319 --> 01:23:15.600
You can you can mod it if you want to, so you can put an absolutely ginagorous um SD card in with an adapter if you want to, and you can have some games downloaded, or rather than that, you can have your games loose and a load of music downloaded, and then you use your UND movies to literally live like a king in 2026 as timer recording, uh, and have you know a great.
01:23:15.680 --> 01:23:25.760
I've uh a listener sent me a PSP that is my you know my main my daily driver for want of a better word, and it's got this really great case on it, tingle tune.
01:23:26.159 --> 01:23:27.600
If you're listening, I love you.
01:23:27.840 --> 01:23:35.279
Uh little um fold-out sort of leg on the back of it, uh you know, a desk stand pop down.
01:23:35.520 --> 01:23:46.720
So if you're camping or something like that, you can pop it between your pillows or bounce it on your chest, you can watch a full movie, and then when that's done, you just flick that thing up, pop a game in, and you're away.
01:23:46.960 --> 01:23:58.239
And I think more than anything now, I think the PSP's probably only now seeing the strength of what it I'm obviously at the time when the lads were playing it ad hoc and they had it brand new, that was the time.
01:23:58.399 --> 01:24:08.479
But this second renaissance, this sort of second wind it's having as a retro console, I think showing shining more light onto it now than it ever ever had back in the day.
01:24:08.720 --> 01:24:21.439
So I think with these ever rising prices, RGT, now would be the time to get like a beta console or get one of those modded ones off the net, go look these games out, uh, and just have the time of your life.
01:24:21.680 --> 01:24:25.600
Yeah, I mean, I bought there's still plenty of accessories you can buy.
01:24:25.760 --> 01:24:30.960
I've got a a grip for mine that makes it look like a big PS3 controller, very comfortable to play.
01:24:31.119 --> 01:24:51.520
I also had used always taking the Mickey out of me because I had my uh the Um D movie player holder where it was like uh look like a walk and stick with a sucker on the end, you put the PSP in, you put it on the car winds on the car side window, you got your PSP in front of your face, you sit down and watch your movies, plug your headphones in.
01:24:51.600 --> 01:24:54.000
I've done that many a times travelling, it was brilliant.
01:24:54.079 --> 01:24:59.359
If you're on a bus, pop it on the window on a train, stick it on, and you can watch your movies, haven't you got to hold it?
01:24:59.439 --> 01:25:01.680
There's brilliant little accessories you can get for it.
01:25:01.760 --> 01:25:10.159
Um, and like you say, if if you don't want to get right into it with the CIBs, bits and pieces, you can get modded ones, they're everywhere now.
01:25:10.239 --> 01:25:16.720
There's companies that are selling these really nice, you know, modified PSPs brought up to the modern.
01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:21.199
Yeah, because he really yeah, and I said to him, I cry, have they written the UMD out?
01:25:21.279 --> 01:25:29.600
Like, no, they've put a new screen in it, they've modded it, or they've hacked it so it comes loaded with the full library, and he's still got the UMD on the back.
01:25:29.680 --> 01:25:30.880
I was like, mate, that's banging for you.
01:25:30.960 --> 01:25:33.119
You'd be able to take that anywhere, watch your movies.
01:25:33.199 --> 01:25:37.199
You can start collecting umd movies like your daddy's like, yeah, yeah, this is awesome.
01:25:37.359 --> 01:25:38.079
Bless his art, yeah.
01:25:38.319 --> 01:25:41.199
So it's on its way over, and I think a translucent red.
01:25:41.359 --> 01:25:42.399
He sent me the link.
01:25:42.479 --> 01:25:47.039
I think come come payday, I'll be grabbing myself another PSP.
01:25:47.199 --> 01:25:49.119
Seems a bit ridiculous, but why not?
01:25:49.600 --> 01:26:00.399
I'm very tempted because it's just that you know it's brought up to spec and a good way of travelling, and it's yeah, it feels a bit more personal when you've had it modded like that and picked your colour and bits and pieces you've done.
01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:01.600
And there's a great company.
01:26:01.680 --> 01:26:03.840
I've I've I've bought a couple of loose bits of them before.
01:26:03.920 --> 01:26:07.840
They do all accessories, they do Vitas, they do modded uh PSPs.
01:26:07.920 --> 01:26:08.800
I think they're American.
01:26:08.880 --> 01:26:12.960
Um, that is they're they're very good, highly rated.
01:26:13.039 --> 01:26:15.119
Um, I'm tempted to get one as well myself.
01:26:15.199 --> 01:26:16.960
But I hope you like that episode.
01:26:17.039 --> 01:26:18.079
Um I love this.
01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:22.239
Our 10 what we think PSP games for new retro collectors.
01:26:22.319 --> 01:26:34.000
Um, it's a great selection in there, like I say, from action JRPGs to you know arcade games to racing games to you know a bit of GTA to a bit of a party game.
01:26:34.159 --> 01:26:35.359
So I hope you enjoyed that.
01:26:35.439 --> 01:26:36.239
I hope you like that.
01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:38.720
Um, we'll do a little bit of housekeeping before we go.
01:26:38.880 --> 01:26:41.279
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01:26:59.439 --> 01:27:00.079
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That's what we ought to do.
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01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:20.079
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01:27:43.760 --> 01:27:46.479
Um, is there anything you want to add to that, George?
01:27:46.560 --> 01:27:47.600
Or are we about there?
01:27:47.680 --> 01:27:48.479
Or no?
01:27:48.560 --> 01:27:53.199
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01:27:55.039 --> 01:27:56.720
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01:28:00.319 --> 01:28:13.359
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01:28:23.439 --> 01:28:26.239
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01:28:26.640 --> 01:28:29.680
And also, um I've had a few people ask me about the flashback merch.
01:28:30.079 --> 01:28:32.479
We do t-shirts and we do like tote bags and big.
01:28:33.119 --> 01:28:33.920
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Just email us questions at an aviscontrollerpodcast.com, we'll get back to you on that and and talk about it.
01:28:39.840 --> 01:28:41.119
Why don't I have a tote bag?
01:28:43.920 --> 01:28:44.560
You're right.
01:28:44.880 --> 01:28:45.760
You're absolutely right.
01:28:46.000 --> 01:28:50.000
I've just done a couple more tote bags that have gone out, so if you want a tote bag, Georgia will order you one.
01:28:50.079 --> 01:28:52.560
They've been the tote bags are very good.
01:28:52.640 --> 01:28:58.239
I think the people like them when we when we done OLL this year, the f the flashback bags were quite quite popular, the tote bags.
01:28:58.640 --> 01:29:01.359
Yeah, mate, they were like they're fire.
01:29:01.920 --> 01:29:02.960
They are good, they look good.
01:29:03.199 --> 01:29:08.159
So, um so yeah, so thanks for joining me on this adventure into the PSP nostalgia trip, Georgia.
01:29:08.479 --> 01:29:09.039
My pleasure.
01:29:09.279 --> 01:29:13.760
Um I think we're both gonna be ending that bar on a modern one from over the pond, I think.
01:29:14.399 --> 01:29:16.159
This has kind of cemented it if I'm honest with you.
01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:18.479
Yeah, like what am I thinking?
01:29:18.560 --> 01:29:19.920
Like, why haven't I pushed the button?
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Like, well, you're gonna have to wait a few days, but my son will be getting harangued for that web address, and I'll be going on there and ordering.
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I'd quite like a see-through orange one that gives me like the pedestrian vibes.
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Yeah, that's cool.
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That's cool.
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I don't know if it's an option, but that's that would be my dream.
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Yeah, brilliant.
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So I hope you enjoyed the show, everyone.
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Lotta say, thanks for downloading, thanks for listening.
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Um, thanks for sharing.
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Share all your gaming friends, and um just remember flashback, the games you loved, the stories you forgot.
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Thanks everyone.
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See you next week, and I'll see you next week, George.
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See you guys.
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Thank you.