Nintendo Power 154 - Sonic Adventure 2 Battle [S2E7]

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Hey, Aiden, what does Nintendo do now that Sega don't
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do what Nintendo did?
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I should know this.
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Yeah, I'm not sure I know either, And I'm the
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one who.
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Hey, you've got fun Factor two old gamers reviewing old
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Reviews, except this week not quite so much. I'm still
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Ti Shelter, but she's just Voidberger and we're two professional
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creatives who grew up loving the video games and video
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game magazines in the nineteen eighties, nineteen nineties, and two thousands.
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I am streaming with today is not Aiden Moher. It
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is Jess Foidberger, a producer, creative content creator extraordinaire and
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oh my gosh, a key member of the dearly departed
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skull Tenders actual podcast. Huge skull Tenders fan. But tell you,
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why don't you introduce yourself a little bit more and
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tell us what you are working on right now?
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Bless your heart, but yeah, I'm Jess Foudberger. O'Brien. Hello,
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You've covered a lot of it, honestly, but the thing
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that is currently pluggable right now is today, as of recording.
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I don't know when this is getting posted, but as
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of recording today, on my Patreon, I have a two
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hour long chrit stravaganza about Return to Silent Hill, the
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very bad, most recent Silent Hill movie that is the
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wrongest thing I've seen in my life. Oh my god,
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I can't believe how much is wrong?
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Oh no, if.
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You like, that's sort of a tearing down of a
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bad movie situation from somebody who knows way too much
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about the thing it's based on. I'm Your Girl. That's
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Voidberger Baby from Patreon.
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Awesome, awesome, great sales.
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Then later on YouTube. It might be on YouTube now
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actually I'm not sure.
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Okay, yeah, all right, cool, Yeah, So it'll be Wednesday.
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So it's Fun Factor Foosday as it's been calling it.
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So next Tuesday, we do every other Tuesdays, ash we
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draft regular episodes. So so just we're a little ways
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into our second season, Rise of the Corpos. We're calling
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it from two thousand and two to two thousand five.
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And so at this moment in time where we're at
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the Xbox and Gabe Cube launch libraries are getting a
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little stale, PlayStation's not getting anything but tech and four
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and like all of the lesser EA sports games annual
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releases until summer and Nintendo we'll see in a second
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with Nintendo. But even as Microsoft and Sony are spending
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big bucks to generate like mega million sellers, just trying
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to find one interesting new game review for us to
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cover today was like sifting through a desert. Do you
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ever remember a time when just felt like there just
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weren't any good games coming out?
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Uh? Yeah, But I feel like it's like I feel
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like for me, it was more more of a recent thing,
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Like I feel like there was very few, like you know,
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PS three got no games, PS four got no games
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or whatever. Yes, yes, yes, yes, but like I like
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very specific things. So I've seen a lot of like
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Nintendo Direct and other directs. That's just like, okay, there's
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one game I'm interested in, good for me, one game
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that rules. It's gotten sparse recently.
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It has that it seems like this is kind of
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an echo of what's about to happen where you know,
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the Triple A space has been consolidating, and now we're
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in that same spot and we have indies and single
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as you know, it's like, okay, you know, a few
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weeks ago, Meana of Hollower and a few weeks ago,
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like you know, Mina Hollowere came out and all every
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podcast and oh, Meana the Holloware and like, okay, if
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there weren't Miana the Holloware, what whatevery podcast I listen
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to be talking about right now?
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Yeah, like I mean we make that. The thing is
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is that like a lot of things I like are indies,
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so they're not going to show up on those like, uh,
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you know, direct type advertising phenomenon things. So I'm always
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just like, Okay, there's like one double a game I'm
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interested in that I mentioned here, and then it's like
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I'll just go back to like the very weird like
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Steam Next Festivals sort of things. I have a friend
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who U Haunted PS one demo disc and it's all
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weird indie horror compilation stuff, and it's just like this
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is this is my shit, this is weird.
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I like it awesome. Yeah, And so there's also this
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kind of thing happening in games media too, because we
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have in like four or five years, it went from
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like two dozen magazines all trying to cover the whole
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industry to like two magazines trying to cover the whole industry,
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and then like a bunch of single play too. Maybe
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at this point, well I mean at this point, you know,
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so in like two thousand and two, it's like there's
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EGM and Game Pro and then like that's it. Next
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Generation just bid it. In January two thousand and two.
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When exactly was the quote unquote the pivot to video
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that like killed.
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Oh yeah, that was much everything twenty sixteen was like that.
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That was like, okay, that's when all of the like
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remaining magazines really you know, bit it because you know,
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Game Informer had to kind of pivot there and Nintendo
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Power goes until twenty twelve. I think. So it's that
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really that mid twenty tens is like, Okay, there's just
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not magazines in the same way anymore.
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I say this as a video editor that sucks pivoting
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to video. I'm sorry.
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Yeah, yeah, it was tough. I was writing about the
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NFL full time, and then it was like, oh I'm
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getting let oh okay, let me freelance. You know. I
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was freelancing with Vice. And then Vice also was like, hey,
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so for the first time in our history, we actually
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need people to click on this stuff and we're not
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just setting money on fire to set money on fire.
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And I'm like, oh okay, and.
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Yeah, it kind of feels like just a conga line
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of layoffs. Yeah, for the last many years, my husband
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got laid off twice from the same company, which is strange.
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And then Volitions shut down, so Rip Saints Row and
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all that stuff. And I got laid off the giant bomb.
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It's just like everyone in all sorts of places getting
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laid off. It's nuts, yes, And then it's a bummer podcast.
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It is.
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Bumming the listeners out.
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We do what we do all the time too, because
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you know, we go back through these and it's like, okay, cool,
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We're going to go through the mass ted And this
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is a little unlike others because a lot of times
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we go through the masthet and it's like, oh and
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so and so is now you know, VP of consulting
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for mock Review. You know they do games consulting. Oh,
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this person is now a famous author. This person is
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now you know, running their own studio. This guy you know,
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I'm like, wow, we got into games and media at
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the wrong time. Time, weird time for sure. So I
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think we will get into the mask tat and everything else.
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Welcome back to fun Factor, where too old gamers review
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ones on the air. So, uh, jess, what is your
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history with Nintendo Power?
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Not much. I did not get into many gaming magazines
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at all. I don't know why. I lived in a
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slightly entertainment deprived world. My parents didn't get cable until
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I moved out and all of a sudden they had cable.
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I'm just like, what the fuck? I want to watch
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like cartoon networking jerks, and like same with like magazine.
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I really wanted like Nickelodeon magazine and Nintendo Power and
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it's just like, nah, we don't want like a subscript
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and like constantly thing and now we live in a
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world of only subscriptions. So who cares?
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Yeah? Absolutely? Okay, Well, Nintendo Power. As you can see,
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things are a little bit different with Nintendo these days.
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In March two thousand and two, right, what.
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The thought they did? I thought somebody did something ninten
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don't do. Why is Sonic the Hedgehog on the cover?
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Yeah, Well, it turns out Sega did something that Ninten don't,
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which is fail at making hardware so hard they had
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to stop making hardware forever. This is the Dreamcast a
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little bit, a little bit, although this is not on
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the Dreamcast. As we discussed in our recent launch of
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the Sega Saturn Failure Bonus episode with Stewie Greg Sewart
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of e GM and Nick Pandemonium, the Sega Saturn Video Historian,
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it was a lot more of Sega and America and
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Sega of Japan fighting like kids over the two X,
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et cetera. That kind of put Sega in that spot.
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Here we are, we have Nintendo Power, we have Sonic
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the Hedgehog on the cover, and Nintendo Power. When we
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last looked at it was, you know, a kind of
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shockingly in house production. The masthead was almost entirely just
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Nintendo of America employees with made up titles for the
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magazine aside to them. And that's still pretty much the
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case at this point. But we're going to see some
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signs that things are changing. This is issue number one,
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fifty four, March two thousand and two, one hundred and
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forty four pages, twenty three ish Games Reviewed, which a
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couple of years earlier wouldn't have sounded like many, but
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actually is not not too shabby for this era as
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just the number of games getting released, number of systems releases,
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smaller and smaller. Two systems at this point GameCube and
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Gameploy Advance, and I think we're going to go ahead
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and get into the masthead. I'm going to try and
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do this. We've been experimenting with different digitized formats.
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Yeah, Crash bandicoot ad though go back.
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Oh yeah, yea, yes, Crash is going speaking a huge way.
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Oh this is the fucking Advance one that I never
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played and nobody wanted.
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I think, Yeah, yeah, the one that nobody played and
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nobody wanted. But hey, handheld crashes just as awesome, according
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to IGN dot com. According to this ad so has there.
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Been a successful handheld crash? But wasn't there also like
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a there's like a collab with Spirro. There was like
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a Spiro slash like later like for the DA I
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don't even know.
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The oh that could be, that could be. I handhelds
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were never my specialty. Uh so yeah, no, it wouldn't
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surprise me. And man, there are some real we're gonna
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get through the Game Boy games here in a minute,
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and there's gonna be like, wow, I cannot believe that existed.
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I cannot believe that existed. I cannot believe that existed.
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So normally we go through the masthead and kind of
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go oh, yeah, I remember this person. They were here,
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they were there, and again this is a lot of
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Nintendo employees here on the right the masthead. Let me
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see that's all right? Cool. So publisher Nintendo of America
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founder and president Minor Arakawa is still credited as publisher
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editor in chief Yoshio Suboiki. There's not a lot of
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information about him other than he worked for Nintendo and
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has special thanks credits on a lot of Nintendo titles
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from this era. Managing editor Scott Pelland was a freelance
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writer before and freelance web editor after. Still is his
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nineteen eighty seven to two thousand and seven run at
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NOA yeahamn yeah, and his for real actual title was
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director of Publications. So these people all have real job
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titles at Nintendo and then they for Nintendo Power. They
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get translated into magazine titles. Most of the your resume, right, yes, yes,
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And so like the staff writers Alan Abril, Jennifer Valerial,
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Stephen Grimm. A lot of these staff writers also went,
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you know, you look up their writing credits, and their
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writing credits are Nintendo Strategy Guides, Nintendo retrospectives published by Nintendo.
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You know, like these people were Nintendo employees. Senior editor
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Jessica Stein, her for real title was Supervising Editor of
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Sales and Marketing, according to her LinkedIn and she said
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that during her two thousand to two thousand and six
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run at Nintendo, she quote rebranded magazine and online presence
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to drive increased engagement among targets and quote increased Nintendo
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Power magazine circulation and ad revenue by twenty five percent.
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Those words bounce off my smooth brain whenever I hear
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those sort of corporated DRIVELI words, I just like, phase
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out of existence, none of it. I'm just like, Okay,
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you did some.
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Bullshit nice, yes, yes, and I think we're gonna see
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again as we go through this. This is a very
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like awkward tween age stage for Nintendo Power, where Nintendo
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Power came out during the n S days and people like,
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oh this rules, oh my gosh, and then you flip
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You're like, hey, wait a minute. You know the reviews
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are not really reviews. There's a ton of PR speaking here.
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You get a little older against advertising advertising, right, and
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then we're savvy about it. Yeah, and then we're going
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to get to an era where you know, Chris Slade
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is going to come in, who's you know, been with
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Ben doing independent media for forever. He comes in and
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kind of revitalizes it. Now we're in this kind of
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middle transition period where it's still kind of this PR
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thing and there's still a lot of old school stuff,
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but we're starting to see some of that rebrand and
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revisioning taking place. And Jessica Stein went on to do
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just straight up corporate branding and PR both full time
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as a consultant, primarily in the healthcare industry. So it's
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she's one of those people that was not really in
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it for the games or games media and went into
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doing the corporate stuff in a big way. But overall,
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like I said, just looking here at this page, this
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we've got not just the huge Sonic, but we've got
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a little bit more you know, clean design, san Sarafance,
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black and white type stuff. This is starting to look
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like what some more magazines of this era look like.
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And then we flipped the page and this is a
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time capsule to nineteen ninety five.
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All the doodles.
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Doodles are great. The kids, you know are yeah, Batman vengence.
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I would have done if I got these magazines, I
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would have been doing this. I would have been sending
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in little art things. I think my husband said he
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got one in once, but I don't.
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Remember what magazine it was.
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Ooh, it was probably Kirby though, do we ca Yeah?
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And I mean, and these are great because these are
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you know, I didn't really understand at the time how
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much editing went into some of these. I did get
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a couple of letters into game players back in the day,
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and I was like fourteen, but I read through these,
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poor Sylvia Roberts of Williamsburg, Ohio. Anything but sports, nothing
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to do with sports. I like games with zeldaer star Falk. No,
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it was sports. I just I wanted you to read
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this one from Bowser Dude via the Internet. This is
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so great. Yeah right, yeah, capitoli Internet love that ap style.
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From the Information super Highway. Here comes Bowser underscore dude
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saying I like any type of game as long as
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it's a good one. I had no idea. I had
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no desire for RPG type games until I play Pokemon.
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There there is one exception. Puzzles really scare me. I
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think that the idea of a puzzle in a video
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game is scary. You may as well just do flash
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cards or a jigsaw puzzle. One of my least favorite
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things to do is think Highland. It's like school in
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the form of a video game.
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Bowser, dude, Oh, I love this. This is fantastic, and.
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He knows himself. I appreciate the.
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Yes and I the response. Oh come on, bowser, dude,
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no one ever learned anything from Pokemon Puzzle League and
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you know it. Oh my gosh. So yeah, lots of
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lots of good stuff here artists gallery, and again they
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really still had a ton of great reader art. This
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is something that again in two thousand and two, we
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were starting to move away from this. Reader letters were
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still published and stuff, but everyone was trying to like
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be a writer for the magazine in the letter section,
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you know, and and stuff. And this is I mean,
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there's there's some really cool stuff going on here.
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Man. I was playing each and every one of these
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at the time, right except fucking Goku of Regada.
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Down there.
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I don't know what he's doing.
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Yeah, yeah, and.
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Is that one I should know this pretty sure.
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That's Goku and Super sayan mode. Yeah, but we're not
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getting I think we're going for the like intimidation stare,
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but instead we're getting a little bit more like pensive
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like hmm, I'm getting constipation out. Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely
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that's definitely the vibe for sure. But I'm trying to
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be kind here to Emily Code from Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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Let's see, nobody could draw when they were twelve, including me. Nobody, right,
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even the people. That's really good for probably a twelve
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year old.
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Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's all over, It's all over
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the map. So I want to go to the news
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section here. They call it game Watch and Nintendo Power,
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like most magazines had their own names for each of
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the sections. So game Watch inside source for Nintendo News
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and previews, and right up here, Oh farewell to mister
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A of the publish.
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Love this picture which they have of him being young,
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where it looks like he's going through he's like going
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into hyper speed or something that he's all blurry like
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coming towards the camera or way from the camera. It's
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so dope.
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Yeah, mister Eric Hall was caught in nineteen eighty four
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beside a radar scope, an early arcade game from Nintendo.
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The following years to the launch of the NES and
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our resurgent game industry. So yeah, he's retiring at this point.
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Minoru Arakawa. There's some great background history on him in
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Aiden's book Fight Magic Items, the Something Something rise of
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RPG's in the West, history of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest,
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and the rise of apgs in the West. So he
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was actually the son in law of legendary Nintendo president
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Hiroshi Yamauchi, and so he was like, okay, son in law,
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go found Nintendo of America. And his wife was like, Dad, No, like,
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you work too hard at Nintendo. Don't make my husband
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work so hard at Nintendo. But he did work so
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hard at Nintendo and did a lot of amazing work.
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And again, as technically the publisher of this very magazine,
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we can see some spotlighted previews here James Bond, Double
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seven Agent under Fire. Of course, Golden Eye was a
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few years earlier. Toxic Grind DHQ presents another extreme adventure
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for Nintendo GameCube. We have a person here holding on
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to a BMX bike the rear wheel of it.
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I think they're being shot out of a cannon with
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the rest of the missiles.
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Yeah, maybe maybe I'm trying to count canons.
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I've not heard of this one. Gotta say, I feel
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like I would remember this one if I've seen it before.
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Missiles and everything.
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Yeah, baseball, baseball, and again, I can't stress enough the baseball.
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Like literally, I looked for the PSM equivalent of this
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month because I want to look back at PSM as well,
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whose editor Chris Late would eventually take over a Nintendo
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Power And literally the reviews were like Tiger Woods two
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thousand and two, NHL two thousand and two, something something
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two thousand and two, like Tennis two thousand to.
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Two, Wrestling maybe yeah, yeah, it.
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Was just like like eleven EA, Sports Games Tech and
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four and like one other thing. And I'm like, oh
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my gosh, and I am a sports guy, but still
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like not a lot of choice at this point. In
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two thousand and two, the Game Boy Advance version of
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The Scorpion King, We really want the licensed side, the
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licensed platformer still alive and kicking on handhelds. If a
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movie's coming out there's still licensed TIS on this. It's
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a format we've kind of forgotten but still huge in
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two thousand and two.
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I love pixel art. Dwayne the Rock Johnson, Yes, I
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believe was move.
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Yes, that's correct, cute, that's correct. More you're still going
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by the Rock Rock Yes, more orcs the second time
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it as many months of major publishers announced an upcoming
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Lord of the Rings project.
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Sick of all these orcs. Oh, I can't handle all
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these orcs.
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Who's making games this month? We'd like to welcome the
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following development studios to the world of Nintendo. So this
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is really cool, not almost GameCube, game Boy developer, absolute quality,
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Barking Lizards Technologies, Digital Concepts, Dopey Dinky Studio.
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So all of these, and then fucking out of nowhere, Gearbox,
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what are you doing here? Jump Scare Gearboxes here?
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Wow, holy wild Yeah yeah, the PSM issue. I was
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looking at this Save equivalent. They're like, oh, Squaresoft registered
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Chrono Break, like so then the Chrono Cross sequel is coming,
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and like, uh is it the is it? The th
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HQ on a roll? Uh? Something?
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Sports? Sports, sports, sports sports.
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Yeah, and Scooby Doo and Scooby do amazing time for
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games at this point. Game Watch Forecast and here again
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we have a we visit with an innovative developer in
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Great Britain that's new to game Boy fans, so they
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interview a developer here.
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Oh wow.
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Revolution Software is mainly dedicated to making adventure games Broken
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sworded Steel Sky in Cold Blood. We currently have a
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step of twenty two people split between our game Boy
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Advance PlayStation two developments. So again, this is just something
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that you don't see. I mean, obviously there are interviews
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with developers in other magazines, but Nintendo taking time to
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talk to developers directly I something that was This was
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not happening even a couple of years earlier in Nintendo
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Power and even today. Nintendo likes to pretend that nobody
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makes their games.
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And come fully formed out of the.
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Ether exactly exactly. So I was kind of fascinated to
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see that here we go. This is this is great.
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This is great because we're getting there's multiple ads for
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the game that we are going to be looking at today.
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Spoiler alert.
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I know this one, thank god, this one. Yes, I
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was worried I was getting concerned.
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Yeah, like I said, I was, I was looking of like, okay,
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there's got to be something Nintendo Online again. We've got
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the lovely crossover here. The magazines are desperately trying to
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connect the online audience to the magazine and vice versa.
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You know, so you can join the Mario jet set
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by going to gameboy dot com slash Super Mario World
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at place Super Mario World Online features, and here we go.
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This is something that we have have struggled with a
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little bit with uh game Pro, Diehard game Fan back
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in the day. When a magazine relies on official art,
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Like it's really cool because it's good art a lot
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of times, but it's also kind of indistinguishable from the ads.
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You know, I'm like this and I'm like, wait, okay,
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so like that's editorial. I get that, but then like, okay,
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that's an AD. That's wait. One of this is an
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AD and one of this is editorial ad. Oh no, wait,
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this is a strategy guide. So so we have this
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huge strategy guide Personic Adventure to Battle because I'll talking
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about the upgrades and you know, items and pickups to
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look out for. Making the Chow connection we've got the.
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Chows, the Chow Garden.
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Baby on the Chow's getting a huge upgrade from the
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VMU to the Game Boy Advance. I love love the
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Dreamcast VMU, the little the little memory card and the controller,
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but going to the Game Boy Advance is just a
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gigantic upgrade.
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That's what that thing was in the Chow Garden, the
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Game Boy Advance interactable object.
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Yes it is. It's wild how much interactivity was it,
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you know, because we had obviously game you know, Private
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Princess had the Win Waker, uh interactively, a bunch of
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GameCube games had game Boys exactly exactly. So yeah, NB Street, Yeah,
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I was like, we're in this this lovely three D
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era where people are still trying to figure out how
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to make people with polygonraphics. Design is my passion, extremely,
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extremely the case NBA Street, Now this is kind of
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cool because it's like like this font, like this is
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the NBA Street font, right, So but then they've actually
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got this and this is what.
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Yeah, they had that that typeface, that's they gave them
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that type.
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Face they must have because we're not seeing anything like that.
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And I was actually gonna call out in in this game,
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watch here where like this is like the next gen
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slash Ziff Davis spont here like this one page looks
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like every other magazine and then we flip over to
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this page and we go back to Sarah's all over
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the place. This is like Nintendo Power from three four,
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five years before, you know, And so.
485
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It's kind of like it's like a newspaper or some.
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Cute exactly tons of crash band uh, little tons of
487
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crash bandicoot. Uh. And this is a huge you know,
488
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it's in one way, it's a huge get for crash
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band cut. Why am I seeing cute? Good Lord?
490
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Because he is cute. He's great, Yeah.
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Adorable crash Bandicoot, the Huge Adventure and it's scrolling this
492
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way thanks to the people who digitize.
493
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I heard of this game. Yeah that's the title, the subtitle,
494
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the Huge Event. I've literally never heard of that one.
495
00:27:31.839 --> 00:27:35.599
Yeah, a lot of World War One biplanes while he's
496
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got a rocket pack.
497
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I hated that fucking level and warped so difficult to
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get the fucking gem.
499
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Oh man. So yeah, not classified information codes. This is
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something that we're starting to see also at this time
501
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period is codes and strategy is starting to connect more
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with I think younger readers. And we were talking about
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this a little bit last Here's the joke, Jess, is
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that because we cover one issue of a magazine per
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episode aiden and I always say episode when we mean issue,
506
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an issue when we mean episode. Last episode we covered
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00:28:16.400 --> 00:28:20.039
an issue of Game Now, which was an evolution of
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EGM two, and it was it seemed like we were like,
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was this focused on younger readers, right, and Greg Sewer
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of EGM was like, yeah, it was kind of focused
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on younger readers. Part of it was just a whole
512
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month was like on the shelves getting stale, right, Like,
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at this point, news is coming out faster, people want
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more info faster, so we wanted to publish it off cycle.
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So we've got another EGM type thing out there and
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we can kind of stagger news across more closer to
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like every other week than every month. But also games
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magazines were skewing more towards either like thoughtful literary or
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like lad Man, and like there were a lot of
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kids who wanted to know how to play the games,
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and so these big, huge strategy guides like go here,
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pick up this stuff. This is what you're supposed to do.
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These are the things I was on. What the hell
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was the It was just like game walkthroughs dot com
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or something like that. I was on that website like
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every day, yes, yes, kicking my mom off the phone
527
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because it was the old Internet. I would write down
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on like loose leaf paper the things to do in
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the cheeks and something that because we didn't have a printer.
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Oh yeah yeah classic amazing. Yeah. I eventually got a
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second phone line. I talked my mom into a second
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phone line for me because I was a Yeah, see.
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Your parents loved you. Mine didn't get cable until I
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was gone.
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00:29:50.799 --> 00:29:52.799
Yeah. My well, because my mom we talked about this
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couple episodes ago. Uh my mom, my dad left my
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mom and I was one, and so my mom was
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like single mom, like cable, yes, I need entertainment please.
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So uh there was there was some of that, but
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then the but I started using the phone and then
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I started using the Internet, and then it was like, okay,
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have your own phone, kid, and quit bothering me. So
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oh boy, eighteen wheeler American Pro Trucker.
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Look at that guy. Play that guy.
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Texas Chrome Glasses, Baby Texas Hawks, Texas Hawk fallse cl
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Club I'm not sure A claims.
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Got tats on him. Oh my god, it's too.
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Oh wow, wow, outstanding him. Uh squirt parking mode before
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time runs out. Maneuver your truck.
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Yeah, let's fucking go parking mode. Gave her the fucking.
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Year, bitch. Unbelievable love this, wonderful this. Oh they've got
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the whole parking mode strategy stuff here. Oh wow?
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Can you need a strategy for a three point turn
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like K turn?
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Like?
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00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:10.960
Oh yeah, yeah, you could also use this for the
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driving test. Kids.
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Start by pulling as far right as possible to clear
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the first bed with a wide turn. At the second turn,
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Ve're right that pull out wide to the left so
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you can clean the corner.
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Who that must have been annoying to right?
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Oh yeah?
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Like oh yeah yeah, to describe how you are moving
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this truck.
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Yeah, I also like, we've got a try using the
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recommended truck picture to the right. So I'm wondering if
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the person who did the like guide work for this
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actually wrote it up or they were like, you know,
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they don't say use the Texas Hawk or use the
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big purple one. All of these things say try using
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the pictured one. And then they put the picture. Interesting. Wow,
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they really have this is like one, two, three, four
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or five six pages.
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00:32:03.400 --> 00:32:06.519
Oh, I gotta know how to drive trucks. Yeah, I
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00:32:06.640 --> 00:32:09.240
can't drive these trucks without being told how to drive them.
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Yeah, that's uh uh oh man. And I'm sorry chat.
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00:32:13.240 --> 00:32:16.839
I have been on the studio chat uh through the
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nick Oh my gosh, hey everybody, I'm sorry. I have
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00:32:20.200 --> 00:32:22.240
not been seeing any of the chat because I had
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it on. I just the link in the chat.
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00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:27.880
On the studio being about it.
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I don't know, no, no, no, oh my gosh, I'm sorry.
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Drew Bee, I don't know the format.
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00:32:33.079 --> 00:32:34.759
I'm like, Okay, they're here, but we're ignoring them.
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00:32:35.559 --> 00:32:39.599
No, no, no, no, I'm I'm just bad at hosting today.
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00:32:40.079 --> 00:32:42.880
And Drew by, Yes, I see Aiden skip TOWNDS so
588
00:32:42.880 --> 00:32:45.519
he wouldn't have to dignify Sonic. This is another running thing.
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00:32:46.440 --> 00:32:50.920
We are both Sonic like naysayers to an extent, but
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00:32:50.960 --> 00:32:52.759
Aiden has made it a full on bit to be
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like every Sonic game is horrible and just troll people.
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00:32:55.680 --> 00:32:58.359
If I hate every Sonic game is bad, I hate
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00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:01.880
Sonic it's so bad, just just waiting for people to
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freak out and so they do, and so they do
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one thing. I'm I'm guessing this is actual art provided
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by publishers.
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Hideous. Yes, the most hideous character decides.
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This is it's two thousand and one half yes, the
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three genders, half pint. Yeah, like and again the like
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extreme sports. I get why people like these as how
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what why are.
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You standing like that lady standing like she looks like
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a human version of Kazui.
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00:33:41.400 --> 00:33:43.799
Oh yeah, and they're all doing this is the This
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00:33:43.880 --> 00:33:47.079
is like the trump stance, right, this is the like, yeah,
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way forward?
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Something like?
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What is way back? How are your calves the farthest
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back point on your body?
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00:33:55.440 --> 00:33:59.599
How someone did not learn how to draw someone contraposto?
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No, not at all.
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00:34:03.799 --> 00:34:08.159
That guy looks racist. Cool. Yeah, that's a human version
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00:34:08.199 --> 00:34:10.360
of fucking Akuaku from Chrish Bandicoot.
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00:34:10.519 --> 00:34:16.519
Yes, I also misread like gin going forward to but
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I was like, Digi, mom, digimon, No, that's it's probably
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not meant to be Digi. Oh boy. And then hey,
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the the Epic Center. This is our special portioned off
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point for our rpgkers. Did you do you? Are you
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familiar with magical vocation?
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Not at all?
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Look at this, I know join epic centers.
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We do you specious moments anime guys.
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Yeah, oh wow, yeah that is that is absolutely the
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vibe Battle of the sexes. I'm sure that's you just
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get to pick.
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Sure, yeah, everything had to be like this in that
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day and age.
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00:34:58.239 --> 00:35:01.840
Yeah, because that's that's what's happening here. It's definitely these
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these kids.
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Are bad girl here. We need to fight for supremacy.
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Sure they know.
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Oh my lord, a spirited adventure. Great, but yeah no
633
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this actually is this actually looks really cool?
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Uh pretty, yeah, it's pretty.
635
00:35:20.920 --> 00:35:25.559
Yeah, it's magical Vacation. Okay, I thought vacation.
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00:35:26.159 --> 00:35:28.239
Yeah, that's a difficult font.
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00:35:28.280 --> 00:35:31.159
Actually, yeah, who is Brownie Brown?
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Who the people are asking?
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Yes?
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Who is question?
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On all of our on all of our minds. Yeah,
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run around. The developer of Magical Vacation is a recently
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formed Japanese beltant house. Okay, oh former secrets. Oh yes,
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so these are secret amount of developers that form their
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own studio.
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Yeah, is there logo prus fonts or am?
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I just know that's probably true? Oh Brownie Brown, it's close,
648
00:35:57.880 --> 00:36:02.800
it's like enhanced. Yes, we're gonna get in here. Yeah,
649
00:36:02.880 --> 00:36:04.840
it's like, yeah, I did it.
650
00:36:06.199 --> 00:36:08.559
I recognize you have no small how the idea you
651
00:36:08.559 --> 00:36:10.000
have no idea how small that was on my screen?
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00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:15.719
I'm sure, i'mus, Wow, that's Brownie. Is in like the
653
00:36:15.800 --> 00:36:19.119
Fay Folk Brownie, I think is what that's supposed to convey.
654
00:36:19.880 --> 00:36:22.880
Oh my goodness, Just a little bit more before we
655
00:36:22.920 --> 00:36:26.400
get to our review zone of the Enders. I really
656
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:28.480
liked someone of the enders. This is I didn't know
657
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:30.639
there was a Game Boy Advance zone of the Enders.
658
00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:35.480
I'm learning so much about all this, and again we
659
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:39.280
have a little bit more. You know, they're using some
660
00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:43.480
fonts and stuff and graphic design that kind of communicate
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00:36:43.559 --> 00:36:45.039
what game it is. You know, this looked a lot
662
00:36:45.039 --> 00:36:46.920
different than NBA Street. This looks a lot different than
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Magical Vacation.
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00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:52.000
I think like layout wise and color wise, this looks
665
00:36:52.039 --> 00:36:56.880
like Sonic Adventure, too fair. This looks exactly it's all
666
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the same, damn college a Sonic Adventure too true. You
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got that bright yellow, that bright red, that like deep
668
00:37:02.480 --> 00:37:06.480
blake us blue. That's like Oceany blue.
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00:37:06.920 --> 00:37:11.400
Yeah, and it's uh, it's something that Nintendo Power you
670
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know before was like cover to cover Nintendo Power, right,
671
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you know, And now they're giving more of the mag
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over to highlighting the kind of game that it is
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and having that kind of vibe. Broken Swords, Shadow of
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the Templars. I know Aiden remembered this one from a
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different magazines for IF.
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For talking fonts, I got a shout out that that
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looks a lot like that. You wouldn't You wouldn't download
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a car font like underneath the title of a thing
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00:37:37.400 --> 00:37:38.920
on page Yeah.
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Hold on, oh now I'm in zoom mode.
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Yes, uh huh y that is you wouldn't download a
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Shadow of the Templars. No, you wouldn't shadow some templars.
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Ireland Lockmart. We are fonting very hard in this, so
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I want to get ahead and get through because we
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can do this just forever and ever and ever. The
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game that we are here to review, Sonic Adventure to
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Battle for the Nintendo GameCube. Folks, if you want to
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sit tight through the break, if you're not already a
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fun Factor Ultra member, you're not joining Jess and I
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as we record and mixing it up in the chat,
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and just sit tight through the break. When we come back,
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we will review Nintendo Powers review of Sonic Adventure to Battle.
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All right, we are having five stars out of five stars.
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Worth of fun today, folks. If you are to make
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sure to leave a rating and review on Apple Podcasts
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or Spotify or pocketcasts or YouTube. Comment on YouTube, we
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will comment back and we will read the best, funniest, kindest,
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and most entertaining ones on the air. But now it's
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time let's review. Nintendo Powers review of Sonic Adventure to
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Battle now just now playing. This is their review section,
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and their review system is very simple. It's it's always
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been very simple. Sometimes it was harder. The last Nintendo Power,
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actually the first Nintendo Power we did, they had star ratings,
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but they were so pr they were all in the back,
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so you had to like go flip to the back
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and then there was like this big table and each
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individual reviewers star rating would be coded and it was
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what kind of star. You had to then look at
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the rubric to be like, what does a black hollow
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star with a square in the middle mean? Because they
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just didn't want to connect this is what our reviewers
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actually thought to the you know, because they just this
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was advertising and not really reviews. We've got a little
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bit more this time, but this is probably the biggest
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review in the magazine. It's a half page. We have
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five reviewers giving scores, but no byline for whoever wrote
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this main text here, and it's short enough we could
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almost read the whole thing if you felt the need
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for super sonic speed. But I've always been faithful. Nintendo.
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Buckle up because the original Sonic Adventure Too for Dreamcast
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is blazing onto GCN game Cube Nintendo. I guess that's
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the official three letter action.
723
00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.320
I never I never really like thought about that, but yeah,
724
00:40:39.320 --> 00:40:42.119
that's that's kind of a weird acronym I think about it. Yeah, yeah,
725
00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:43.079
that's game Cube.
726
00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:46.159
So this is basically it's like one super long paragraph
727
00:40:46.199 --> 00:40:48.760
and one kind of shorter one that's just talking about Okay,
728
00:40:48.840 --> 00:40:50.840
you'll you can be a Sonic Tails and Knuckles as
729
00:40:50.840 --> 00:40:54.239
the hero team, or Shadow Eggman and Rouge as the
730
00:40:54.320 --> 00:40:56.960
Dark Adventures. You'll go through loopy loop sixty frames for
731
00:40:56.960 --> 00:41:00.440
a second. No no, no h. So there's almost there's
732
00:41:00.440 --> 00:41:05.199
basically nothing evaluative in any of this text before we
733
00:41:05.280 --> 00:41:08.920
get to the actual evaluations though, jess what you played
734
00:41:08.920 --> 00:41:11.000
this one, What did you think of this? What's your
735
00:41:11.039 --> 00:41:11.840
history with this game?
736
00:41:13.000 --> 00:41:15.320
I would probably give it a four out of five
737
00:41:15.480 --> 00:41:20.480
stars with a hollow star with a square at the end.
738
00:41:21.920 --> 00:41:25.480
But I this was one of the I want to say,
739
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:29.519
like eight or twelve games I had on the game cube.
740
00:41:31.119 --> 00:41:33.159
I thought for a while that I had also played
741
00:41:33.199 --> 00:41:37.480
Sonic Adventure one. I super recently like figured out, like,
742
00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:40.079
that's bullshit. No, I haven't, Like, I don't recognize this kid.
743
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:41.800
Uh.
744
00:41:42.199 --> 00:41:44.519
Because I was watching my husband play it and seeing
745
00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:47.639
their mouths animate disturbingly, I was like, no, I haven't
746
00:41:47.639 --> 00:41:52.280
played this. I remember this. Yeah, I remember being confused
747
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:54.760
by the chow Garden a lot of the time, and
748
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.599
I remember the soundtrack the most. Actually, I think because
749
00:41:58.639 --> 00:42:00.599
the soundtrack fucking slashed this thing.
750
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:02.480
Yes it's funny because this.
751
00:42:02.480 --> 00:42:03.760
Is the one that has Pumpkin Hill in it.
752
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:07.159
I think, right, it could be because I'm actually the
753
00:42:07.199 --> 00:42:12.760
other way. I went on launch day for Sega Dreamcast.
754
00:42:12.920 --> 00:42:16.239
I was actually age time in college. It was my
755
00:42:16.320 --> 00:42:19.719
freshman year in college, and I biked from the campus
756
00:42:19.719 --> 00:42:23.920
of Michigan State University to the mall where I paid
757
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:28.960
with a check for my segond dream So I stuffed
758
00:42:29.000 --> 00:42:31.840
at the backpack with the straps that like strap and
759
00:42:31.920 --> 00:42:35.960
so Sonic Adventure two, I'm sorry. Son Adventure one launch
760
00:42:36.039 --> 00:42:40.519
title very cool, definitely a little odd, but like a
761
00:42:40.519 --> 00:42:44.480
lot of fun. Had a criticized for being two on
762
00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:47.199
the rails opening level, but like had a really cool
763
00:42:47.199 --> 00:42:49.760
big moment with the Orca. You're like bang bang bang,
764
00:42:49.800 --> 00:42:53.519
and then like Orca jumps over your complue and you're like, whoa,
765
00:42:53.880 --> 00:42:58.840
Like this is amazing, super cool games, video games, It's
766
00:42:58.840 --> 00:43:02.079
the future. It's Sonic, Sonic looks good, it's fast, it's fun.
767
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.280
Things cannot get better looking than this right now. I
768
00:43:05.280 --> 00:43:06.119
can't imagine it.
769
00:43:06.199 --> 00:43:09.320
Oh and then I was I was.
770
00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:11.559
Going to say that in two thousand and two when
771
00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:14.199
this magazine came out, and also son Adventure two, I
772
00:43:14.280 --> 00:43:17.519
was fourteen. Oh okay for people who want to do
773
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.519
the math on Yeah, this like context for how old
774
00:43:20.519 --> 00:43:20.800
I was.
775
00:43:20.840 --> 00:43:22.840
I was fourteen cool Yeah, but no, I mean it
776
00:43:22.880 --> 00:43:25.760
was still blowing everybody's minds with the Dreamcast stuff. And
777
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.679
then you know, PlayStation two came out and that was
778
00:43:28.719 --> 00:43:31.480
kind of that. But also Sonic Adventure had this you know,
779
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:35.280
open World had like a hub world and NPCs and
780
00:43:35.320 --> 00:43:37.440
you're kind of like, what what is this? And it
781
00:43:37.519 --> 00:43:40.599
was you know, a weird dialogue, weird voice acting. Tales
782
00:43:40.719 --> 00:43:44.239
was voiced by like an actual child like actual child.
783
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.280
My mind was blown. I was like, that's a that's
784
00:43:47.360 --> 00:43:49.679
like a ten twelve year old kid. They got a
785
00:43:49.719 --> 00:43:53.079
real kid. He was okay. I thought he was good.
786
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:55.599
Yeah, no, I thought he did fine. You know, it's
787
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:59.280
it's as a as a child voice actor myself. My
788
00:43:59.320 --> 00:44:02.760
mom worked in in local media advertising and stuff, so
789
00:44:02.800 --> 00:44:05.599
she would have me do ad reads for radio and stuff,
790
00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:10.119
and like, hey, it's it's not easy as a kid
791
00:44:10.199 --> 00:44:13.880
to be handed lines and be like try having inflection, kid,
792
00:44:14.280 --> 00:44:17.000
you know, it's tough to do.
793
00:44:17.159 --> 00:44:20.320
And so I know, I know the tragedy of trying
794
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:21.480
to direct voice acting.
795
00:44:21.760 --> 00:44:27.119
Mm hmmm. So Sonic Mancher too, I don't. I don't
796
00:44:27.119 --> 00:44:29.079
actually think I know. I didn't own it, and I
797
00:44:29.159 --> 00:44:32.199
don't think I played it either, So we have kind
798
00:44:32.199 --> 00:44:36.079
of opposite experiences on this, I know. And again here's
799
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:38.440
another ongoing thing. We either we find a way to
800
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:43.559
mention either Retrograde Amnesia, the JPG Retrospective podcast or My
801
00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:47.800
Perfect Console with Simon parkin just about every episode, and
802
00:44:48.119 --> 00:44:52.920
they're doing Eric from Retrograde Amnesia is doing his Infinite
803
00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:56.360
Perfect like solo retrospectives on the Sonic Adventure games right now,
804
00:44:56.360 --> 00:44:59.119
where it's like it sounds like stream of consciousness, but
805
00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:04.039
it's actually very, very heavily prepared, just like remembrances, like
806
00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.840
deep dives into these games, and so I always recommend
807
00:45:06.840 --> 00:45:08.840
people go back and listen to those. And right now
808
00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:10.800
he's in the middle of a Sonic Adventure one and like,
809
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:15.119
didn't you know, I'm sorry Sega translating Sonic into three
810
00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:18.559
D and giving us open world and giving us these characters,
811
00:45:19.159 --> 00:45:22.480
and you know, getting deeper into the world of Sonic.
812
00:45:22.559 --> 00:45:24.719
You know, you've got Rouge, You've got Knuckles, We've got
813
00:45:24.760 --> 00:45:29.400
like some of these secondary characters that are becoming bigger deals.
814
00:45:29.440 --> 00:45:31.760
The comics I think are gonna be if they're not
815
00:45:31.840 --> 00:45:34.000
already out at this point, they're starting to come out
816
00:45:34.119 --> 00:45:35.000
or about to come.
817
00:45:34.800 --> 00:45:36.000
Out Archie comics.
818
00:45:36.119 --> 00:45:40.719
Yes, yes, so yeah, like people, you should have had.
819
00:45:40.599 --> 00:45:43.039
My damn spouse on this. He's the fucking Sonic there,
820
00:45:43.960 --> 00:45:47.400
those comics, like he was the big door for this ship.
821
00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:50.280
Damn it, you missed out combo thing here.
822
00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:52.880
I know, Well, this is why I thought I had
823
00:45:52.920 --> 00:45:55.679
an opportunity, because again, Aidan would just be talking about
824
00:45:55.719 --> 00:45:58.440
how terrible this all is, and you know, to an extent,
825
00:45:58.519 --> 00:46:03.119
it's a bit, but it's it's still obviously these games
826
00:46:03.159 --> 00:46:06.039
had some rough edges, and translating into three D was
827
00:46:06.119 --> 00:46:08.400
like both what people kind of wanted, but then also
828
00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:11.840
I think kind of exposed some of the holes and
829
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:15.239
Sonic in terms of like, yeah, everybody loves the go
830
00:46:15.400 --> 00:46:18.440
fast stuff, but the go fast be too fast. It
831
00:46:18.440 --> 00:46:21.039
can be too fast. To get it that fast, you
832
00:46:21.079 --> 00:46:22.960
have to take away the interactivity sometimes.
833
00:46:23.039 --> 00:46:25.559
Yeah. So in Sonic since I'm not very familiar with
834
00:46:25.679 --> 00:46:29.199
Sonic Adventure one, you only play as Sonic in matter
835
00:46:29.320 --> 00:46:31.079
do they have different characters in that too.
836
00:46:31.480 --> 00:46:37.079
There's a Tails bit and I think there's a Knuckles
837
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:39.440
bit too. There's like levels, so I think you can
838
00:46:39.519 --> 00:46:43.239
play you play as Sonic and then you replay as Tails.
839
00:46:43.400 --> 00:46:46.239
I think that's right, And I know Chat is gonna
840
00:46:46.239 --> 00:46:50.119
explode immediately being like, no, you're wrong, you remember correctly.
841
00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:54.760
Yeah, you're I mean, like pretty impressed that. Like Sonic
842
00:46:54.800 --> 00:46:59.159
Adventure two, like every character controlled very differently, and like
843
00:46:59.320 --> 00:47:03.320
Knuckles and Rouge were like entirely an entirely different gameplay style,
844
00:47:03.360 --> 00:47:06.199
and you were searching for all the crystals and gems
845
00:47:06.199 --> 00:47:08.039
in the walls and stuff like that, which is really cool.
846
00:47:08.039 --> 00:47:09.639
I like the treasure hunt aspect of it.
847
00:47:10.280 --> 00:47:12.880
Yeah, and they got better and better at that. I
848
00:47:12.920 --> 00:47:16.760
know a lot of people disliked the was that the
849
00:47:16.760 --> 00:47:22.760
Wii one we turned into like a were wolf, oh, unleashed, unleashed. Yeah,
850
00:47:22.960 --> 00:47:24.960
people really did not like unleashed.
851
00:47:24.960 --> 00:47:27.920
People hated that. But I actually I know almost nothing
852
00:47:27.960 --> 00:47:30.320
about it except that everyone hated it. I think I
853
00:47:30.360 --> 00:47:32.800
heard that the soundtrack is oddly kind of good. That's
854
00:47:32.800 --> 00:47:33.719
the only thing I know about it.
855
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:36.960
Yeah, the soundtrack. The soundtrack is good. But the ability
856
00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.920
to turn so you're basically now doing this character switch gameplay,
857
00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:42.360
but you're not switching characters, right, It's like, okay, cool,
858
00:47:42.400 --> 00:47:45.639
we can like here's Sonic doing this level. Now Sonic
859
00:47:45.719 --> 00:47:50.840
turns into a ware hedge hedgewar hedge.
860
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:54.239
This out one like I played Sonic two thousand and six.
861
00:47:54.320 --> 00:47:55.599
I gotta find this one employ.
862
00:47:55.960 --> 00:47:58.960
Yeah, And and I actually thought the slower because he's slow.
863
00:47:59.000 --> 00:48:01.920
That's the thing. He's like a big, hue, tulking werewolf guy.
864
00:48:02.639 --> 00:48:04.880
Oh Many's slow and powerful, right, so now he's like
865
00:48:04.920 --> 00:48:08.760
breaking boxes and like trudging along instead of going fast.
866
00:48:08.840 --> 00:48:11.320
But I liked that. I like the diversity and gameplay.
867
00:48:11.360 --> 00:48:15.119
I thought it was cool exploring and it it felt better,
868
00:48:15.960 --> 00:48:20.639
like better exploration then go fast on rails exploration, which
869
00:48:20.679 --> 00:48:20.920
is not.
870
00:48:21.159 --> 00:48:23.039
A lot of It feels like the game is playing
871
00:48:23.039 --> 00:48:26.320
itself sometimes. Yes, the levels are very like they don't
872
00:48:26.360 --> 00:48:28.440
want you to be constantly dying, but they want you
873
00:48:28.519 --> 00:48:32.039
to go fast. So it's like the solution is just
874
00:48:32.079 --> 00:48:34.239
to have it be a little difficult to die, and
875
00:48:34.320 --> 00:48:36.679
therefore that means the game is basically playing itself. As
876
00:48:36.679 --> 00:48:37.800
long as you're pressing forward.
877
00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:42.559
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, Just keep holding forward and hitting
878
00:48:42.599 --> 00:48:44.840
the pads, hitting the springs, and you're gonna be good.
879
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:48.159
Basically the only evaluative stuff we have here. Of comments,
880
00:48:48.559 --> 00:48:54.280
each reviewer gets one sentence. Andy says, I'll zoom in
881
00:48:54.360 --> 00:48:54.880
on this here.
882
00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:57.760
I almost feel like each reviewer got x amount of characters,
883
00:48:57.840 --> 00:48:59.920
even like they're so they have to be so concise.
884
00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:03.320
Yeah, and he gets the game is jam packed with
885
00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:08.039
extra features and bonuses. Scott says the replay value is huge.
886
00:49:08.719 --> 00:49:09.039
True.
887
00:49:09.639 --> 00:49:11.760
Jason goes, this is a hard game to be bored
888
00:49:11.760 --> 00:49:17.199
with the variety and diverse action is never ending. Sure, Yeah,
889
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:21.440
And Jenny says, a sprawling, complicated adventure complicated.
890
00:49:21.440 --> 00:49:22.039
What does that mean?
891
00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:27.639
We're trying to convey so much in so little complicated,
892
00:49:27.960 --> 00:49:30.360
maybe maybe deep, maybe complex.
893
00:49:31.280 --> 00:49:34.360
I couldn't follow the plot of Sonic Adventures. It's too
894
00:49:34.440 --> 00:49:35.639
much for me, too dense.
895
00:49:35.719 --> 00:49:39.199
What were the motivations? I kept losing?
896
00:49:39.599 --> 00:49:40.440
Chaos and rules?
897
00:49:40.440 --> 00:49:45.599
But why it's so chaotic? And then we get our
898
00:49:45.679 --> 00:49:50.039
rubric here one to five very clear. Five stars is excellent,
899
00:49:50.119 --> 00:49:52.920
four stars is great, three stars is good, two stars
900
00:49:52.960 --> 00:49:57.519
is so so, one star is poor. And I've I've
901
00:49:57.559 --> 00:50:00.800
loved I've talked about many times. Next Generation had a
902
00:50:00.920 --> 00:50:04.559
very similar thing where they actually talked about like, this
903
00:50:04.760 --> 00:50:06.400
is what a good game is, this is what a
904
00:50:06.400 --> 00:50:10.320
great game is, this is what an excellent five star revolutionary, right,
905
00:50:10.639 --> 00:50:13.719
you know. But this gets it across very very clearly.
906
00:50:14.400 --> 00:50:17.480
I think even though it's it's it's really it's really
907
00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:20.360
good slice, it's really simple. And then yeah, we've got
908
00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:23.679
four and a half stars from Andy, four stars from Chris,
909
00:50:23.840 --> 00:50:26.639
four and a half from Jason, four stars from Jenny,
910
00:50:26.639 --> 00:50:31.320
and four stars from Scott. Rated e for everyone due
911
00:50:31.360 --> 00:50:34.880
to mild lyrics and violence.
912
00:50:35.519 --> 00:50:37.760
I think they say hell or damn in one of
913
00:50:37.800 --> 00:50:41.719
the songs by Knuckles. I'm not sure, but yeah, pretty
914
00:50:41.719 --> 00:50:45.639
positive on these then nobody under a four. It's pretty good.
915
00:50:46.079 --> 00:50:48.800
Yeah, and I like that, you know, the different game
916
00:50:48.800 --> 00:50:52.719
modes they seem to and again they don't evaluate it right.
917
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:54.960
They say on the battle side one or two players
918
00:50:54.960 --> 00:50:56.880
can go at it in action, race, shooting, and.
919
00:50:57.159 --> 00:51:00.679
Just listing features. Yeah, back of the box features, that's right, right?
920
00:51:00.920 --> 00:51:02.039
Is it good things you do?
921
00:51:02.679 --> 00:51:06.039
Is it fun to do those things? We don't know.
922
00:51:06.840 --> 00:51:10.320
But I also want to contrast this with you know,
923
00:51:10.360 --> 00:51:13.760
we have a few other NBA street for GameCube again
924
00:51:13.960 --> 00:51:18.360
mostly quite positive. Eighteen wheeler American Pro Trucker uh with
925
00:51:18.519 --> 00:51:21.880
limited tracks for trucking eighteen wheelers semi sweet. We see
926
00:51:21.880 --> 00:51:24.519
two and a half, three, three and a half, two
927
00:51:24.519 --> 00:51:26.960
and a half, two and a half, And that's about
928
00:51:27.000 --> 00:51:29.000
as scathing as you're going to get from a Nintendo
929
00:51:29.079 --> 00:51:29.840
Power review.
930
00:51:30.480 --> 00:51:32.559
I was wondering. I was going to ask, like, have
931
00:51:32.639 --> 00:51:36.760
you seen anybody give something a one star? And what
932
00:51:36.800 --> 00:51:41.679
would that be? Yeah, we're trying to sell video games here.
933
00:51:41.719 --> 00:51:44.360
You can't just do that. No, No, it's not conflict
934
00:51:44.400 --> 00:51:45.199
of interest here.
935
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:53.199
Yes, uh okay. Johnny Mosey Mad Tricks for GBA gets
936
00:51:53.199 --> 00:51:54.760
a two to one and a half two and a
937
00:51:54.800 --> 00:51:59.639
half two three. That's that's rough flow. Well, this is
938
00:51:59.679 --> 00:52:01.880
the big spread I think I've ever seen a Nintendo
939
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:04.920
Power Rid above that Disney's Peter Pan Returned to Neverland.
940
00:52:05.559 --> 00:52:05.880
We have.
941
00:52:07.760 --> 00:52:09.719
Vans here and one guy that hit and a half.
942
00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:12.199
Yes, yes, everybody else is three and a half, three
943
00:52:12.239 --> 00:52:14.559
and half three three, one and a half. Dang wow.
944
00:52:14.760 --> 00:52:16.800
Love to know more there. Yeah, Alan, I think it
945
00:52:16.880 --> 00:52:19.960
probably just is cranky. But like almost all of these
946
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:23.519
are Game Boy Advance reviews, right and again, if you
947
00:52:23.559 --> 00:52:27.480
go through the titles Eminem's Blast, Tony Hawk pro Skater three,
948
00:52:27.639 --> 00:52:31.079
Tom Clancy's Rainbow six, road Spear, and American Tail Files,
949
00:52:31.199 --> 00:52:31.440
by the.
950
00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:36.000
Way, has five stars. It's better than Sonic Adventure two
951
00:52:36.440 --> 00:52:37.119
all around it.
952
00:52:37.239 --> 00:52:40.000
Oh yeah, that's right. Look at that Tony Hawk pro
953
00:52:40.039 --> 00:52:40.760
Skater three.
954
00:52:40.920 --> 00:52:43.000
They're right. But for the Game Boy Advance though, I
955
00:52:43.039 --> 00:52:45.280
would pump the brakes on that a little bit.
956
00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:47.800
Well, and that's it's gonna be in the context of
957
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:50.039
a Game Boy Advance game. But like I suppose, so
958
00:52:50.199 --> 00:52:54.039
many of these are licensed Tony Hawk, Tom Clancy An
959
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:59.719
American Tale, Fible's Gold Rush, Disney's Peter Pan X Versus Severn,
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the game that we the movie that we definitely needed
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a game Boy Advanced licensed tie in first person shooter.
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Apparently it's great.
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Yes, racking up the stars.
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As good as Sonica Ventre Do.
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Apparently. X Versus Sever Oh wow, Okay, I gotta see
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one to four players simultaneously multi pack game link. If
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anybody out there hooked up or game Boys.
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Advance and friends also knew what the hell X Versus
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Sever was and bought the video game.
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If there were ever copies of X Versus Sever in
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one place at a four way multi tap for four
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way deathmatch, I have to know. I have to know
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his history. Deserves to know again, Mike Tyson boxing Okay,
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Puyo pop is Eminem's Blast the night Club Streep, Planet
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of the Apes. I think I talked about this before
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the Marky Mark Planet of the Apes side scroll and
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then this is wild to be casting call. Write a
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brief review and include your rating in Stars four current game,
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then email it to us at now Playing at Nintendo
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dot com. Please please please include your name and hometown.
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Can also rate games online. So these are reader reviews.
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So when I put twenty three ish that includes these
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four reader reviews.
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This is slave labor this is child slave labor. They're
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not paying these kids to review. Oh, they're doing work.
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This is and this is exactly why I think like
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the duality of as a reader out of thought, this
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is the greatest thing in the world. Yeah, as a
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professional exploit please explain it, product, your intellectual property, demand
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your rate. Come on? Uh so, yeah, Jeff, that says
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include your Oh there it is Jeff Bono from Lyle,
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Illinois l I s.
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L e U.
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Yeah, gives Crazy Taxi four and a half stars. I
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think Crazy Taxi is a heck of a better game
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than your reviewers say, even if it is not as
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good as the Simpsons Road Rage. I mean, come on,
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it's a classic. It's a classic. Crazy Taxi was what
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ninety nine, two thousand. Yeah, this is early two thousand.
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And two, stretching the terminology of classic.
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Here Jess like eighteen months later report to GameCube. I mean, hey,
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when you're twelve, that's a very long time it is
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it is.
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That's classic.
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Yeah, Luigi's Mansion. Nintendo decides not for Lance, star Power
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for Mario and gives Luigi aka Mister Second Fiddle his
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own game first out. I was doubtful that Luigi could
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carry a game by himself. Geez, Joey, So this is Joey,
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Joshua and Molly.
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Joey number one, Luigi hater.
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Yeah from three different places. Molly Binyon from Richard, Virginia,
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Joshua Lunquist from Dallas, Texas, Joey McQueen from Nova Scotia.
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But Joey McQueen, you got a cool name, joe the Queen.
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Yeah, very cool.
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Get a motorcycle right now.
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And Molly. I like Molly's wordsmanship here everyone will be
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blown away by the outstanding graphics and lighting effects. Luigi
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wanders around his newly won mansion. He carries a flashlight
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which creates shadows and lights objects with eye popping results.
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Like you can tell that women had to do way
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more work than even here there, Like we had to
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try so much harder. We had to write so much better,
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so much more.
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Professional and in the house style right like this reads
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yeah and copy we were.
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Just Compare this to Jeff saying the fucking crazy Taxi
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is a classic.
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Man is a heck of a better game than your
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reviewers say.
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He says, I mean, come on, that's not the style guide.
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No, No, that's that's also not to that's that's not
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an argue, that's not critique. I mean, come on, like,
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there's not you're so professionally, I.
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Hope you're doing well. You wrote very good review.
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Yes, so, I guess. So now it's time to do
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the thing we do. We review the review Sonic Adventure
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to Battle. So what ad and I usually do is
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we do one to ten or even I guess zero
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to ten. We try to use the whole scale, and
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then we usually make up a fun you know, like
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X out of ten chows or whatever, you know, something
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related to the game, and kind of give it your
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own score. But what do you think of this review?
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And again, I we're talking about contemporarily, right we did
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an EGM issue a couple episodes ago where Metal Gear
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Solid two had like a five page layout and they
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flew out two reviewers to do the review and then
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made them sign NDA's so, like, the bar for reviews
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right now is very very high. But what do you
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think of this review?
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I don't know if I would even call it a
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review since it's just the back of the box restated
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and then four sentences of people saying it good. Uh
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so I'm gonna give that like a one. Man, I
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don't know if this scouts. It's just another ad. It's
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an ad basically.
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Yeah, I'm right there with you. I was looking at
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one or two maybe tops. We get half a page.
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We get two tiny screenshots, both of knuckles.
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Why is there?
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Like?
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Why is half the page the review? They could have
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made that huge header, like at least half the size.
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Yeah, and we could have had maybe a review.
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On the page.
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Yeah, and it's yeah, it's all ad copy. It's all
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back of the box stuff, just explaining what the game is.
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We get one short sentence from each reviewer. And then
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these scores, I mean, scores seem fine to me. Like
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I said, I didn't I didn't play this one very much,
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if at all. But I think it's it's remembered well,
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and I it jives of my experience a Sonic Adventure one,
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and I know Sonic Adventure two. I think there were
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big budget cuts. Obviously, Sega, you know, had to slash
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a bunch of their business after the lost hardware. They
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to slash a bunch of developers. They moved some of
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their development studios, so they kind of had to make
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a sequel to a game with like a fifth of
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the staff, right, But they had a game to work
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you know, they had a framework to work with and
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had an engine to work with, and so made a
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pretty good sequel. So I think it's there. But like
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I said, this is just basically not even a review.
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And I but I still picked it for us to
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cover because I thought it would at least give us
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something to talk about and have a game that we
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could have some fun with versus you know, the latest
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Tiger Woods or the latest you know whatever. Yeah, okay,
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James and chat goes. I want to see a kid's
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review of a game they hate, Grandma got the wrong
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game for Christmas, and they write into Nintendo Power to
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tell the world.
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But then, of course I want a whole magazine that's
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just all kids bitching about stuff.
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Yes, that would rule, Yes, all.
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Sorts of stuff, not just video games, just like I
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want kids bitching in magazines, little pictures.
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01:00:00.079 --> 01:00:02.400
OK. That's that's something that you know, we get very
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little of, is the humanity of kids these days, and like,
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what do kids think about stuff that's for kids. We
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hear all the time every day about what adults think
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01:00:11.159 --> 01:00:14.159
about kids media, but like, what do kids think about
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01:00:14.280 --> 01:00:17.360
kids media as someone who's dabbled a little bit in
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01:00:17.480 --> 01:00:20.960
like young adult fiction and kid lit and that world
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01:00:21.000 --> 01:00:29.679
I three No four traditionally published kids nonfiction books, and yeah,
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01:00:29.880 --> 01:00:34.039
please go get asked the Constitution can certain religions be outlawed?
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01:00:34.360 --> 01:00:37.079
And that was immediately ripped up into little tiny bits
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01:00:37.079 --> 01:00:42.320
of confetti by the Roberts Court because apparently the Constitution
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01:00:42.480 --> 01:00:46.480
doesn't say what it says in plain text. So hey,
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you know, yeah, vibes, it's vibes. But like, what what
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01:00:50.400 --> 01:00:52.159
do kids want to read? What do kids want to play?
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01:00:52.159 --> 01:00:53.800
What do kids like? What are they not like? Where
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01:00:53.800 --> 01:00:57.519
their friction points and and and what excites them something that.
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01:00:57.400 --> 01:00:59.239
We can I think, I think like putting kids in
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01:00:59.280 --> 01:01:01.599
a focus group is not the way to actually determine that,
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01:01:01.639 --> 01:01:03.440
which is the only way we determined that we put
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kids in a white room and make them watch something
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01:01:06.280 --> 01:01:08.280
and then ask them if they liked it, And then
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01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:10.880
some soulist corporate person says like, we should change this
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01:01:10.960 --> 01:01:12.920
to be this instead, and the yeah the hell they're doing?
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01:01:13.039 --> 01:01:17.719
Yeah no, or go see what give kids an opportunity
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01:01:17.760 --> 01:01:21.480
to express themselves and see what they do? Yeah, all right,
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01:01:21.599 --> 01:01:25.719
well that is our review of Nintendo Powers, review of
1124
01:01:26.000 --> 01:01:28.880
Sonic Adventure two Battle did we get it right? Leave
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01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:32.199
a review and rating on Apple Podcast, Leave a comment
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01:01:32.280 --> 01:01:34.840
on YouTube. We will reply. We will respond because we
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01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:37.079
love doing this for you, folks. We love doing it
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01:01:37.119 --> 01:01:39.400
for us. It's a lot of fun. Jess, thank you
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01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:41.360
again so much for taking time to fill in for
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01:01:41.440 --> 01:01:44.000
Aiden today. And why don't go ahead tell people where
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01:01:44.039 --> 01:01:46.280
they can find you.
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01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:47.880
No prop, thanks for having me. You can find me
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01:01:48.000 --> 01:01:51.360
on Blue Sky. I am at void Burger dot com.
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01:01:51.400 --> 01:01:53.199
And if you go to void Burger dot com that's
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01:01:53.239 --> 01:01:55.199
a link tree to all the other places I'm at,
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01:01:55.199 --> 01:02:00.920
which is like YouTube, Twitch, second YouTube, Patreon, Coffee, all
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01:02:00.960 --> 01:02:04.239
those damn things. I'm Voidburger everywhere. I'm having a bit.
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01:02:04.280 --> 01:02:05.639
It's very funny, though. I'm having a bit of an
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01:02:05.679 --> 01:02:11.480
SEO problem lately, because there is a roadblocks ship that
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people hate, apparently that all the kids hate does a
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01:02:14.079 --> 01:02:17.639
roadblock ship called Voidberger, and it's ruining my SEO. I
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01:02:17.679 --> 01:02:19.880
have to get more popular and than this really niche
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01:02:19.880 --> 01:02:21.199
ship from a children's thing.
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01:02:21.400 --> 01:02:24.960
Ah oh oh my gosh, that's that's terrible. As I
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01:02:24.960 --> 01:02:28.679
always say, I am luckily blessed to be the only
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01:02:28.760 --> 01:02:31.880
Tie Shelter on the planet. I have really rare last
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01:02:31.960 --> 01:02:34.000
name and a rarer for his name. Last name Combo.
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01:02:34.159 --> 01:02:36.280
So if it's Tie Shelter, it's me. And if you
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01:02:36.320 --> 01:02:39.000
ever see every time anyone ever in the world has
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01:02:39.000 --> 01:02:43.800
been like, are you related to Yes, yes, yep. If
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01:02:43.880 --> 01:02:47.039
the answer is X, question is X shelter, then yes
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01:02:47.159 --> 01:02:49.079
I have related to them. But if I don't know how.
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01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:53.039
Giv me me O'Brien's a very popular last.
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01:02:52.920 --> 01:02:57.159
H yeah, yeah, okay, all right, well that is a
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01:02:57.199 --> 01:02:59.400
show once again. Thank you everybody for joining, Thank you
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01:02:59.519 --> 01:03:01.920
Jess for joining. Make sure to go to fun factor
1157
01:03:01.960 --> 01:03:04.360
pod dot com consider becoming a member. You can get
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01:03:04.639 --> 01:03:06.920
all of our stuff there and we will see you
1159
01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:09.320
in a couple of weeks. And Aiden will be back
1160
01:03:09.360 --> 01:03:12.159
after spending a couple of weeks coorting with the cariboo
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01:03:12.559 --> 01:03:16.119
out in the wilds of Alberta and as he said,
1162
01:03:16.199 --> 01:03:19.920
driving through the Windows XP desktop for hours and hours.
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01:03:20.960 --> 01:03:22.039
So great stuff.
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01:03:22.239 --> 01:03:23.360
Do you see you next week.
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01:03:23.679 --> 01:03:26.000
Make sure to leave rating review if you do, you
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01:03:26.159 --> 01:03:54.239
and we will get a maximum score in fun Factory play. Okay,
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01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:56.360
I do I want to see if this is the
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01:03:58.639 --> 01:04:02.880
uh what contest? This is? Who wins. Okay, it's a
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01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.079
Nintendo Power contest. Okay, I don't.
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Do anything for it.
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Game selections, that's what I'm trying to figure out. Uh
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01:04:10.639 --> 01:04:14.159
five Grand Prize Winners thirt two thousand and one. I don't.
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01:04:14.519 --> 01:04:17.880
I don't see what you do to enter. That's so weird.
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I stuffed my second recast in my oversized you know
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01:04:22.599 --> 01:04:26.039
what was it? Jans Sport backpack with the like strap.
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01:04:29.239 --> 01:04:36.360
Well what happened? I got excited about that backpack. Hi chat,
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01:04:36.480 --> 01:04:38.519
just you and me. I guess how's it going?
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01:04:40.920 --> 01:04:47.079
Uh yeah, so it's kind of interesting. Then again, if
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you go through the go through the titles, sorry hold.
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On, Eminem's Blast.
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Yeah. So yeah, Superbusted Move, so super Busted Move plus
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pu Yoh Pop wasn't super super bust to move pu
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Yo pu Yo to begin with, I can't, I can't.
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I don't. Actually I thought that Puyo Pop was more
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Doctor Mario e.
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Okay, yeah yeah, mixing them up maybe I don't know.
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And then for extra I mixed these.
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I also mix these up with Bubble Bobble because it's
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the same characters that are in Busted Move.