Get Played - Console Draft: Sega Dreamcast

Episode Date: April 21, 2025

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watched that Mario Kart direct? Yeah. Yeah, the Mario Kart world where they're just kind of like telling us all the details. Like, I don't know, it's kind of, you know, I'm not the biggest Mario Kart guy, I'm definitely gonna get it, but I was really encouraged by some of the details we're hearing. I know we're not it's kind of, you know, I'm not the biggest Mario Kart guy, I'm definitely gonna get it, but I was really encouraged when some of the details were here.

I know we're not like a news podcast, but like it felt like so much news in that direct that I would feel weird not talking about it. Yeah, you know, I mean, Nintendo will do that sometimes. They'll just sometimes give this huge news dump, and now all of a sudden we go from knowing nothing to knowing everything about Mario Kart World. That certainly feels that way.

I know. You know what? It's kind of one of those things too where I kind of feel like I know too much. Yeah. Where I kind of want, I wish they had kind of saved a couple of the little things as like a surprise for launch day. Yeah, like I wish I didn't know all the new items, you know? Like it felt like a little gratuitous, but I'm like okay I can understand getting excited about a new kind of shell or like

You know the the banana peel gun like those things are really cool But like I'm like oh, I would have loved to have discovered that sort of as the roulette of the game at play Yeah I mean like I would have liked to have organically found out that they include a porno mag that you can find in the road And he can throw a porno mag that you can find in the road and he can throw a porno mag and then another guy reads it and he jacks off in his car and then he can't race. Like I would have liked to have found that on my own just playing the game. It's so upsetting that they put that in there because I would have liked it. It would have been so cool to discover that on its own because it's not just like one kind.

It's not just one kind Cuz you have to know like hey while Luigi is really into like like People being inflated you know like he's really got an inflation fetish So if you find that yeah, then you'll throw it to while Luigi, and then he'll spin out because he's too busy Damage on that porno mag is really interesting bit like you know you throw the wrong kind of porno mag at Donkey Kong And it doesn't affect him at all, but you throw that same porno mag at Wario, and it'll it makes his car unusable for 15 minutes Well, it's like it's so crazy to like that was one of the things but like some of these new tracks are

Some of the new tracks are really intense. Yeah, I mean, some of them go through, there's like a movie studio where they're shooting a fucking porno. It's really weird that there's like, yeah, there's a porno, like a shoot. Yeah. It's specifically a porno parody of Austin Powers. Yeah, and that's the kind of thing,

you know, it's like a bridge too far because I'm sort of like, it doesn't make sense. But then again, if the level's fun enough, it's not gonna matter. At a certain point, you're just like, hey, whatever's go rainbow road, I'm not even paying attention to it anymore, I'm just trying to win the race.

I thought it was really cool that when you look at the entire map of the entire world, Mario Kart world, that it looks like two big titties. I do like that a lot. And you know what, I'm really excited because this is the first console that has a FromSoft game on it. You know they're going in an adult direction.

So when I saw this stuff I was like, finally, a Mario Kart that grew up with us. Finally, a Mario Kart where there's a porno magazine item, a racetrack that goes through a porno set, and a map that, a racetrack that is two tits. This is kind of what we've always been wanting from Mario Kart. I need to confess something.

What's that, Nick? I said we were watching the Mario Kart World presentation. We're actually just watching my presentation. Oh no. We just liked it, right? I'm kind of bummed that that's not what the game is. Yeah, sure, I loved it. Yeah, well you're gonna tell me that it's like

a racing game with like Yoshi and no titties? Um, I mean, you know, yeah, pretty much. It kinda just sucks that you're a fuckin' liar. Ha ha ha ha ha! We dial into Seganet and get our ass handed to us by Sony as we dream draft our Dreamcast Games Library this week on Get Played. [♪upbeat music playing. [♪upbeat music playing. Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game

in between. It's time to get played. I'm your host, Heather Anne Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weiger. Hey, that's me, Tiger Weiger, along with our third host, Matt Apodaca. Hello, everyone. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the premiere of Video Game Podcast, where this week we That's me tiger white girl on with our third. Oh, it's mad at padaka. Hello everyone. Hello Everyone and welcome back to the premiere video game podcast for this week. We are talking about what what do you what was that? What are we doing? Don't worry about it. Nick was just holding up his hands like he'd never seen them before I got look

Here's the thing. It was kind of like a dude chill, but I wasn't gesturing at anybody I was just looking at my hands. We don't need to worry about it. Yeah, yes we do. Did you fucking like Freaky Friday with a dog or something? Here's what happens. So it was very cold in our hair earlier. Like the AC was, whatever. It's every office I've ever worked in,

the temperature is never right. Nobody's happy. Maybe it's because we're at work. Whatever. Whatever the fuck. Anyway, so it was cold. And I have this thing. I have this syndrome that when my extremities get cold,

like they turn just like white, like completely white. And it's happened with like three of my fingers. And so I think they have blood in them again. So. Oh, so you were sort of like. I was just inspecting my fingers because it felt like I could feel sensations from them again and I could see color in them.

So you were that cold. Yeah, but no, I wasn't that cold, but just like the way I'm actually run pretty warm, but the way my body reacts is that my fingers and toes sometimes just turn white on their own. That's, and you lose feeling. Yeah, and you lose feeling, yeah. Holy shit. Yeah.

That's intense. Yeah. So you have the capacity to be whiter. Okay. It's called a Reynad syndrome. Yeah, I don't know if I feel good about making fun of a guy with a syndrome. And then we're gonna have to delete the whole podcast. This week on Get Played, we are discussing one of my favorite machines that has ever

been created by man. It's the Sega Dreamcast. And I also want to say, I was not the one who said, let's do this episode. So boy, what a treat. It was me. It was not that we're taking credit also. I gotta just point something out We can't just be like Nick what the fuck were you doing uh-huh? I was wearing a goddamn char helmet I'm the only normal one here. I'm doing anything

Normal the plan was not to talk about it. Yeah, and also what nothing nothing that plan was not to talk about what? That's exactly what I was gonna say exactly Exactly, no, exactly, nevermind. Did you guys have a plan? I don't have any sort of plan. You discussed a plan? No, no plan was discussed, I just thought. Guys, okay, guys, name the movie. Do I look like a guy with a plan?

Godfather? Jack and the Beanstalk, which was just called Jack. It's, okay, it's from both, I forgot. You can look it up on your own. By the way, you can't say Nick's not, you said you're the normal guy because Nick has a syndrome. That's fair. That's pretty fucked.

I'm othering Nick's little fingies. That's pretty fucked up. Yeah, you're right. No, he's right. I'm a freak. When your fingers get like that, do you try to touch the other one? That's pretty fucked up. Yeah, you're right. You're right. No. He's right. I'm a freak When you when your fingers get like that do you try to touch the other one kind of like a stranger kind of What what if your little fingers a stranger?

You jerk off your own Touching my touch of my other fingers some strange I do get worried that that's how he did like discovered that there was no feeling I'm sorry brings you any sort of pain or discomfort. No, it's fine. I don't use to facilitate any sort of masturbatory act to answer your disgusting question We're gonna talk about the Sega Dreamcast for once on this podcast. For once in our fucking lives. We talk about it all the time. I probably talk about the Dreamcast too much.

Probably like our third most talked about console. But it's also not a particularly newsy week and I can also say that part of the reason we are limiting the discussion of things in the now right now is because next week, we are going to be doing a WePlay YouPlay about Blueprints. That's right, the zeitgeist-y indie game that everyone is playing, including all three of us. Ranchi, playing Blueprints? I bought it. Wow.

Wow. Okay. We're all spending time with Blueprints. We will have extensive thoughts. Maybe we'll hear a few thoughts today, but we're gonna have in-depth thoughts, devoteing a full episode to blueprints next week. That will be in our main feed this coming Monday. But right now, the question for the room is,

in reference to video games that we are playing, blueprints and otherwise. The question is, and I'm going to pose to all of you, I'm going to ask you, from the bottom of my heart, because I genuinely want to know what video games you have been devoting any of your free time to?

I just have to have the answer to this question. The question being, this question right now, what are you playing? The question that I'm going to ask from the bottom of my heart. Because I genuinely wanna know what it is you've been playing recently. And my question is what have you been playing? Thank you so much, Resident Evil Mercantile. That was a lot, that was a lot to remember. Yeah, you didn't have to repeat all that,

you just really had to say the word. I thought you'd updated the script and I felt terrible about it. There's no script, I'm just riffing here. What are you looking at? Yeah, can you believe it? That was off the dome. I was reading something. I do have, these are my notes, I actually, I wrote down some notes on what I've been

playing that I'm going to talk about. Oh, alright then Nick Woody, Warrior Brian. Oh wow, the softball tossed right back at me. Okay, here we go. Surprise, bitch. Wait, what are the rules of this game? There are no rules. Is that what they say when they pick the ball

in their baseball game? That's often what they say. Surprise, bitch. Yeah, that's what they do. It's typically not a surprise because if you're in the batter's box, there is only sort of like one thing that's going to happen. A ball is going to come towards you.

Can you imagine if you didn't know, if you just pitched at somebody else? And they had said, oh, that's interesting. And then somebody else hit the ball? Yeah. I guess it'd be like a completely different thing. Give everybody a bat! Everybody baseball thing. Give everybody a bat. Everybody baseball, but everybody has a bat. That would be an incredible game.

I think that's cricket, is it not? I don't know how cricket works, so I don't want to talk you out of school. Look I don't want to speak on it. And you know, listeners from regions that play cricket cover your ears. I think it's fucking fake. I don't even think it's real. I don't for that bet. Yeah, it's like a flat bat and the ball is kind of like, they call it a bowler, right?

You think it's a bowler, not a pitcher. Yeah. And it's a heavier ball. And, but I don't know how any of that shit works. And I also know games can go on forever. Cause you know, one criticism of baseball is like, man, I got to be spending half my day here, but like cricket games can go on for multiple days know one criticism of baseball is like man I got a boy spending half my day here But like cricket games can go on for multiple days depending on what style you're put to that criticism

I say you could spend worse You could spend your days doing something worse than being half a day at a fucking baseball park, baby No, that's that's fair and a have a great time every time I go and catch I was gonna say For for some reason I was gonna call it a four square. That's not what you call it. No, that's what, but let me tell you something. Just real quick. I went to a Dodger game this week. I ate two hot dogs and drank a meat a lot of before the game started. It's a lot of fun.

I was having a blast. It was great. It was Hello Kitty Night. What are they, well we saw your picture from Hello Kitty Night. It a look like a real hoot and you saw got to see Otani Shoot hit a home run. Yeah, the dinger fucking Just straight down the center. There was nothing anybody could do about it. It was amazing home runs are sick They should do it every this is the thing that I think I truly do think yeah, they should hit one every time What's crazy about a guy like Otani is that he's hit so many homers that there's homers he can't remember. Yeah.

And if I hit one homer in my life, I would never forget it. When I hit a homer, I usually hear, D'oh! Why don't they have home run competitions like they have slam dunk competitions? Why you little? They do.

They do? But they have, but it's just the most home runs, the home run derby. But it's not like, here's the most, give us the most spectacular home run, which I think is what you're picturing. Yeah, like, like imagine a guy who, his home run is he runs up to the,

to the base like Happy Gilmore before he hits. Yeah, that's pretty fun. Or like a guy who can spin before he hits a home run. Or like the ball's on fire and then he hits Yeah, an NBA term is the homerun derby is more akin to the three-point shootout Where it's like a three-point contest where you're taking a set of number of shots and trying to see how many go in fucking Imagine you set a trampoline up And you run at the trampoline and jump off the trampoline and as you're coming down you hit a homer

So he does like a flip and then hits a homerun. Yeah, you go up there you jump without a bat and someone throws you the bat you catch the bat Yeah, that's really really cool. Here's here's how they would do it though The pitch would have to be in the exact same place every time so it would be like a machine pitch Because that's like the variable in in slam dunk competitions isn't that the hoop is moving all over the place No, yeah, it's the complexity of the thing. So you would be able to train and practice an insane home run, but you would know exactly where the ball was.

Look, we can talk about video games, but, home run, slam dunk, what's another one? Touchdown? Yeah, touchdowns aren't really equivalent though. Touchdown's not as good Yeah, it's like Hail Mary pass is kind of that Hail Mary or like long field goal, but who gives a shit bulls-eye and darts

Bulls-eye and darts. Okay. I'll give you bull. I'll give you just generally bulls-eye Yeah, that's pretty sick, okay. So bullseye is another one. Archery seems like it shouldn't be cool, but it absolutely is. It rocks. Yeah. I mean, it rocks, but does it hold the candle to one hand in your pocket,

firing a gun at the Olympics? No. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty good. We're just like a couple, we're just like three huge sports heads. What is the, like I guess the soccer equivalent

slash football equivalent is like a bicycle kick maybe? Yeah, that's pretty cool. What are you asking? I don't know, what's the coolest? I think slam dunk. Yeah, slam dunk's the coolest. Slam dunk is unfortunately really, really cool. It's fucking amazing to watch.

But baseball has two, doesn't it? Home run and grand slam. Well, OK, if we're talking grand slam versus slam dunk, that's a conversation. Grand slam is pretty good. Grand slam's amazing. It's contextual. Because the grand slam has such import

in terms of impact on the game, whereas a slam dunk, unless it's a game winning dunk is, which is exceedingly rare, is just one individual basket. But I will say that slam dunks seem angrier. They are, yeah. They're a more aggressive thing, whereas sometimes a home run, you don't know it's a home run until it's farther away.

No, the thing we're talking about with slam dunks, the thing that they talk about is posterizing. Like you dunked on someone else so hard that you made a poster where they are the other guy on the poster. And so that is like, there's a masculating element to your opponent if you dunk on them. Like when Blake Griffin dunked on Timofey Mozgov.

And basically people are like, oh, well, his career's over. He got fucking dunked on Timofey Mozgov. And you know, basically people are like, oh, his career's over, he got fucking dunked on. But in baseball, a pitcher, unless they're giving up a grand slam that loses a playoff series, it's not necessarily going to have the same effect. Not that a pitcher wants to give up a home run. It's not the same impact as just getting fucking dunked on. And then to Heather's point,

so many what look like home run, but it's not the same impact as just getting fucking dunked on. And then to Heather's point, so many, what look like home runs, the defeat, the deflation of when a baseball player in the outfield just catches it and you're like, oh, that's. Yeah, like a dunk, the act of the dunk is the thing. Whereas a home run, it's like you hit the ball and then there's like a seven second delay before joy. Yeah.

Here's a question, talking dunks, one hand or two hand? One is cooler. Yeah. But two is tough. Two is like, you mother fucker. Like that shit home, baby. You know that famous Michael Jordan going in for the dunk is like, you motherfucker. Like, take that shit home, baby. You know that famous Michael Jordan

going in for the dunk and then he switches and turns it into a layup moment? Watching that moment, I feel like he thought I was, I feel like he thought I'm too low for the dunk. Oh. Like, I don't think it was, how cool is this? I think he's coming at the rim and he's like, I'm not gonna, I don't think it was, how cool is this? I think he's coming at the rim, and he's like, I'm not going to, I'm going to miss.

Well, I mean, that's like what the otherworldly athleticism is, is that in that moment, you can make that calculation to have the body control to audible. But if memory serves, I'd have to re-watch that play, a clip of that play. If memory serves, it was to evade a defender who was going to guard with one hand,

and then he switched to his off hand. Even so, it's just like, yeah, the athleticism at play there is really impressive. Yeah, do you like a backwards dunk or a forwards dunk? Dude, fucking backwards, are you kidding me? Yeah, reverse dunks are pretty cool. Forwards, forwards. I like forwards because it's in somebody's face.

Backwards is like, wait, what? I did what? What is happening? I like it. Here's the thing. Yeah. Any kind of cool sports thing is just cool. Tony Hawk doing the 900, kind of on par with some of this stuff. Love sports.

I love it. Yeah. Sports moments rock. And then also sports bloopers, forget it. A lot of fun. So funny. The Great Rewards Hunt is on! The Great Rewards Hunt is on! The Great Rewards Hunt is on! The Great Rewards Hunt is on!

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You know- What is happening? in terms of what I'm playing. You know, my favorite meme of all time has to be K.K. Slider with big muscles up on stage wearing denim shorts and he's got a guitar and he's yelling out to the crowd. Any requests. Oh yeah, he is. And then a villager in the crowd says, yeah, lose the shorts.

Where are we going with this? But definitely in my top five of memes is Bugs Bunny with the guns saying, it's time to go back to the old me. Yeah, that's pretty good. And I've been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. There we go. I'm afraid that some bitch is going back in the womb.

Because Baldur's Gate. Jesus Christ. Because Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 released. The long awaited final major content update from Larian to my favorite game of all time. Now I have 370 hours played in this game. Back in the womb. I reinstalled it.

Couple of upsetting visuals in a row. Is that in your notes? Oh, no. It's just rebirth. I don't know. It seemed like an A to B. I reinstalled it so I could play the new content. The opposite of birth is rebirth, which means back in the womb. Not born again. Back in.

Well, no, because it's not being born again. Because I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going to be born again. I'm not going womb Not born again Back in well no cuz it's not being born again cuz I'm not Abandoning it to play Baldur's Gate 3 so it's like Final Fantasy 7 refucked unfucked. So the major new feature it added, there's a camera mode, which is fun. But also the main content thing is there are 12 new subclasses, one for each existing class. And

they are all very, very, the ones that messed around with their fun, the ones that are just like, ones that I've seen are also fun. They just kind of went for pure fun with these. For instance, there's the barbarian build subclasses, now path of giants, you can embiggen yourself. There's a drunken master for the monk. The ranger has a subclass called swarm keeper,

which can summon bees, moths, and jellyfish. You know, they're just kind of riffing here. I am starting a new character. I started an honor mode, dark urge, shadow magic sorcerer. This is one of the new subclasses. Wow. Honor mode is the hardest difficulty. I finished this on tactician,

which was the old hard difficulty. Honor mode, I started a play through like last year year and then I never really followed through on it. I just kind of abandoned it in Act 1, but this time I'm like, I think I'm gonna actually go all the way through and get the achievement of finishing on Honor Mode. Honor Mode, which has permadeath in addition to the hardest difficulty. So...

And, you know, it's a big meaty game, so it's one where, you know, you got to play it pretty, pretty safe if you're gonna try to survive. I will say, I've had this buzz cut for a few months now, and one nice byproduct of the buzz cut is character creation, because it's very easy to figure out the hair. It's just like, there's always just like, okay, yeah, whatever this is, soldier, whatever the fuck it's called, I'm good to go. That looks like Weiger. Did you have a lot of problems before?

I just can't get this right. Fucking planet. Alright default default default default default here we go So the shadow magic subclass gives you superior dark vision Plus an ability that restores you to one hit point if you take fatal damage, which again, because we got permadeath I'm like that feels like a safe play. The other thing is it's got all sorts of skills that mess around with the darkness spell and you know being within darkness and using that to to hide yourself But you can also see it because of your abilities and the class abilities also Dark urge which is the I guess I should explain that a little bit for anyone who hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3. Dark Urge is its own sort of unique player character path

where you are given kind of, you know, urges. You are given like a voice basically that speaks to you, that is telling you to do things and you can choose to follow it, you can choose to oppose it, and more of your history of this character, this tortured character, with a mysterious past, is starting to be, you know, doled out with you as you progress through the game normally.

Is that the thing with Gael, that he had a dark urge that was to eat swords? So, no, Gael has, I don't think dark urge is what's going on with Gael. That's just his unique pathology because of his... Gael has, I don't think Darkurge is what's going on with Gael. That's just his unique pathology because of his... Gael's sick. Gael's sick because of his, you know, his...

I forget exactly what arcane pact it was, but he needs the magic items to stay alive. But that's not because of the Darkurge. However, Darkurge does intercept with Gael because when you first meet Gael, he's reaching his arm out of that portal and the Dark Urge basically commands you to cut it off. And so that's one path you can go with that will mean that Gael, who is a character who can follow you throughout the entire game, is just eliminated at that point from your party pool. Yeah, and wouldn't know. Because you, before the mode was patched in you your run was a dark

I Did make my player character by tab a human because I like the class inherently has superior dark vision And I was like, you know what a human with superior dark vision Like basically can see like a drow or drag are seemed fun to me So that's that's what I'm rolling something to role play. It is very Riddick. Yeah, 100% although Riddick's also like a Cyborg sort of yeah, that's something else going on with it. You can see in the dark right again. Yeah Yeah, Riddick can see in the dark. No, I knew he could see in the dark

I didn't know he was a cyborg. The other thing is that kind of he's got like some sort of cybernetic element, right? What the fuck's going on with really? I don't remember it being a cyborg. He's got something going on. He's got like some sort of cybernetic element, right? What the fuck's going on with Riddick? I don't remember him being a cyborg. He's got something going on. He's got something going on. Anyway, I'm also respecking, or in some cases, because I haven't got these party members yet, planning to respec my party members to just mess around with all the new subclasses.

I am also adding, I have had Will in my main squad because I didn't really have him much in my parties for the two playthroughs outside of his story mode quests. And there's a new warlock subclass called Hexblade that is rad. It's akin to a necromancer. It's honestly very solo leveling the way that character works. Anyway, I just think it's so cool that they are continuing to, you know, whatever. I love this game.

I think it's so cool that they've, they've continued to export, support it so extensively over the years with all these free content updates. None of it is DLC. And you know, this is the last big boy. And I was just like, fuck it. I just want to play this game again. Obviously when you're choosing to spend time doing something you're choosing to not do other things.

So there's some new games that are going to go unplayed as I delve into this one yet again. But I kind of just couldn't resist it. And I'm really, really impressed with everything so far. I'm really, really impressed that you continue to replay that game. I understand because I've been addicted to games before and played them and played them and played them. But it's really, I don't know, it makes me feel warm that you're like, I like this game

so much that a new update came out. I'm going to replay it again. That makes me feel warm that you're like, I like this game so much that a new update came out, I'm gonna replay it again. That makes me happy for you. Thank you, Heather, that makes me happy too. I will say that I'm just like, I'm old, and so I have old brain. And so despite, again, having spent more than 300 hours in this game and having finished it twice,

I was trying to pull the name Lae'zel the other day, but I couldn't remember what it was, so I called her Ghislaine. And I realized it was because... It was because Githyanki, her race, and then Lae'zel kind of got muddled in my brain. But who did you say it to? I was saying it to... I was just like...

Saying it in court. Yeah. I... I do also love... I was just like, uh, saying it in court. I, I do also love, I mean, look, you said it's your favorite game of all time. Yeah. I do think there's a strong case to be made that it is perhaps the greatest game of all time. Like, interesting. I don't know if I'd even argue that as someone who's has, has, has his personal favorite game, but I like you, I like you saying this.

Cause like, there's. Go for it. There's just something about it, like the support, I think you could fold in the way the community of players has responded to the game, because I feel like it's like that, like I don't know, I see so much like fun fan art and like cosplay and stuff, and just like the way the people love these characters, the way the people love this game I think is unique to any It's unique to this game only I feel like I feel like I don't see people loving this game Or I don't feel like I see people loving other games the way that they love this game Well what I can say about in terms of my personal connection

And I think other people's connections to this game is it really is the thing that we have been connections to this game is it really is the thing that we have been promised from so many games, which is the idea of, hey, what if I just try something and I can actually do it? And this game seems to be, like I have not reached a point at any time I've been playing this game where I've been like, hmm, can I try this?

And the answer is no. Like it's unlikely, like they basically accounted for every possible contingency. I kind of don't know how these flow charts can possibly work where you can go down so many possible options and so many different avenues and play through this game so many different ways. And again, just completely play through the entire quest

without ever meeting a major NPC. You know, it's kind of amazing that it all works and that it keeps getting continually, as it has gotten continually refined since release. I might have to dust it back off. I started a second run. Yeah. Got about halfway through with a bard,

and you know, started playing probably rebirth or something and never finished that fucker up. I think you should put rebirth back in the womb. I might have to re-rebirth it, get it back out, so that I can... Try birth? Try birth by sleep? I'm gonna have to birth by sleep this guy.

I feel like one of the best things about the Baldur's Gate fandom is that it doesn't seem very toxic. I'm sure that there are elements of that, but like the Fortnite fandom is, you know, you play that game and you got some toxic players that you run into and that's just kind of the name of the game, but with Baldur's Gate 3,

it feels like everybody responds to it with affection, so it's, I don't know, that makes the game feel even better. Yeah, I love it. I think it's a good it's it Baldur's Gate 3 existing is a net good. Yeah humanity. I fully agree I think also to the fan base is too horny to be toxic. Yeah They can't get to that stuff. Yeah, they're like they want they want to do that They want to be toxic, but they're just so horny. Yeah It's also weird that the fan base when you look at the ratio of how much people are horny,

there's one individual who is 99% horny, which also makes for the rest of the, like it offsets the ratio. There's no room for them to be toxic. That's great, Nick. Yeah. Matt, what are you playing? Okay. Okay. So I are you playing? Okay?

Okay, so I'm still playing Celeste. Oh, and I really really love it. It's a great. It's a great game potentially an all-timer I know Nick all-timer for me all-timer for Nick It's still really it's I I love that. It's a hard game. I love that. It's hard. It's I love that it's a hard game. I love that it's hard. It's very frustrating at times, but not in a bad way. In just a like, you know, you do something enough times where you think you got it and then you just fail. And you can get a little demoralized because you think you're almost doing it.

But the reward is is sweeter than How frustrating it is do you know it's like good when you do pull something off that you've been trying I'm you know fucking million times right and then you clear a level it tells you how many times you died and you're like Jesus God that was that many times because in your memory it wasn't that many because you kept going and then you know some of these Ones I'm like oh, I died like 200 times like that's a lot of times Because in your memory it wasn't that many because you kept going and then you know some of these ones I'm like oh, I died like 200 times like that's a lot of times I'm bad at it. I'm not good at this game, but I am really really enjoying it

but the thing that I've been playing is our replay you play which I spent a lot of time with and I've been like texting like a friend of mine. Who's like And I've been texting a friend of mine who's going on it with it too. There's not a great way, and we'll talk about it next week of course, at length. But if you're talking about this game with someone and you're not, there's no way to know where you're at with somebody. Yes. You have to be very cagey. I've run into this myself in my conversations

outside of our group text with other people who are playing blueprints. And yeah, you kind of have to be like, it's almost like a spy craft sort of discussion. I'm just like, I don't know how to tell you what I know with that, because I don't know what you know. And you don't know what I know. You know what I mean?

So like, but you don't want to ruin anything for either party. I'm in a fucking black bag situation. It's a bit of a black bag. And, but I, you know, all that to say, I'm loving it. And like, I'm hoping to have it quote unquote wrapped up by next week. So I have more things to say.

Yeah. My plan is we'll'll see I always love to try to Finish especially game of this size to have it finished by our we play you play that's my goal I'm not gonna make a promise because I get other shit going on, but I'm very much like pursuing that I I Feel like I have to talk about the run that I had today very lightly I've had some very productive runs in the last couple of days that When I'm texting my friend about this I Was like the stuff I've seen would just Shatter your thoughts about any of it

It's a it's just great because like so many and then I could be talking about the most tiniest smallest thing It doesn't even have to be like a huge thing But like I've see I feel like I've seen things that I was like, wow. And then somebody who's finished it would be like, that's nothing. You know what I mean? It's such a- Yeah, I haven't seen shit.

Yeah, I haven't seen fucking shit. Yeah. And I've gotten to a place where I can see the end, kind of. Where I can, quote, what the perceived end of it is without saying too much I have I've gotten to a place some other guy be like what you think is the end Yeah, some guy might say that But that's basically like you know, yeah, I feel like you've played you've probably played the most of it

maybe I Yeah, I feel like you've played you've probably played the most of it Maybe I heard your hour count. I think you might be you might have put a little bit more time Okay, than me at this point So I've gotten to a place where but I could I could see the end yeah, and I have the tools necessary and the the the language within the game and like I Know what I need to do. Yeah, but I don't know if I have the strength to do it. Like I'm sort of like at like a like. Fuck that was a fucking Kylo Ren line. Yeah.

I love that. I love Kylo Ren. Like cause like, and not because I don't think I can do it and I don't want it to end. I want to be fucking done with this. Because when I come, I feel crazy when I'm playing this game, this video game, crazy in, I will say,

I think a bad way. It's affected my mental chemistry negatively. Wow. Where I, because I can't stop thinking about it. Any free second I have, I'm playing this game to a point where my wife has said, "'Not the rooms game.'" And then when you describe it like that, yeah.

I probably could be doing something else. Right. But it's fascinating. And luck is weirdly such a big part of it, though, too. Yeah. You can get a little unlucky. Our old pal RNG absolutely enters the equation. Yeah. But I'm enjoying myself.

There's something of a backlash to this game. I haven't seen this exactly, but the discourse about this game has shifted a little bit, is that correct? I feel like I've heard about this. People maybe specifically deriding the RNG and maybe a couple other elements. I haven't dug into it too much.

Yeah, me neither. But I have, I've fallen victim to it. I had a run where I almost did it today. Wow. And just drafted the wrong rooms. Right. And like that's nothing, there's nothing I can do about that. There's, I mean, there are a couple of things you you can do but I didn't have anything that could I could Use to affect the outcome of the rooms that had drafted

and It's just what is going on Richelle Jenner producer ranch is laughing what is happening I just look up and I was just staring at me. You can't see where she's looking. Yeah. This is the happiest I've ever been. I'm so comfortable. I think I've just maybe known Heather the longest or this is nothing unusual.

I also, they're just like, we as human beings have the capacity to normalize anything. And so I'm just like this is like the Not even the craziest thing I've experienced today. No, not at all. Yeah All that to say I'll have more to say about it next week and we'll probably be a little more Spoilery we'll get into spoiler country. So hold on to your hats and glasses We'll very much be doing that next week. But that's that's what I've been playing I know that Heather's been playing a little bit as well.

Yeah, the truth is, so I have been spending a lot of time in a location that I don't have any of my video games set up. And so I brought my portal because I was like, oh, I can maybe use my portal. Maybe I'll stream Assassin's Creed over here or whatever. For those of you that don't know what the portal is, it's the PlayStation portal. Oh, right. That is a Wi-Fi and cloud-based system that sounds stupid but is actually really good.

Yeah. It is really good, because if you have no other way to play... You can play Switch anywhere, sure, fine. Yeah, with no problems whatsoever. But if you want to play a high-end play Switch anywhere, sure, fine. Yeah, with no problems whatsoever. But if you wanna play like a high-end game like Assassin's Creed, then what better way to do it than a Portal unless you wanna drop for a Steam Deck, right? So-

And even then you might not get the best performance out of the game on the Steam Deck without tweaking some settings. Yeah, and if you have a PS5 Pro, the portal's even better. We need to be getting money from Sony at this point. I think the portal is good. I like the portal. There's been a lot of updates to the portal.

Honestly, I kind of was thinking about this the other day. Maybe we should do an episode about the portal. I'm not getting a fucking portal, all right? You don't have to. You're not gonna talk me into buying a PlayStation portal. There's no way on earth I'm gonna do this. Happy birthday. No, no, no, I'm gonna do this. Happy birthday. No, no, no, no, no.

No, I will not go in on a portal for Nick because this type of talk, he doesn't deserve it. Oh. He doesn't. Wow, you're a birthday punisher? Yeah, I'm a rebirthday punisher. You're going back in, buddy. So anyway I brought my portal to this location where I don't have any video games and I was

like oh I can stream from my PS5 and then I was like I wonder what's on because now a new feature is you don't even have to have the game, you can, if it's in PS Plus, you can stream it like from, you don't have to have it downloaded. So I was like, I wonder what's going on in PS Plus. Open it up and there was blueprints. And I was like, oh, I already have blueprints? Yeah, it's just on PlayStation Plus and Game Pass.

I guess we should, we should make that disclosure for anyone who's interested in messing around with this game in advance of our episode. Yeah, like I, so I was like, oh, I didn't even know that I had this game. So I booted it up, cause I was like, you guys, this was, you know, in the interim of, since you guys had been talking about it last week.

And I was pleasantly surprised. Wow. It is not a kind of game that I would normally play and boy, oh fucking boy, when I had to do math, I was like, this is the, let me tell you something. That particular math puzzle, scales, it becomes, I got a fucking pen and paper out the other day.

I'm so, like it's- You kinda need a physical journal to be playing this game at a certain point. Ugh. Ha ha ha ha ha. Us, Heather, giving an inch, being like, I actually was kind of enjoying it, and then us immediately talking her out of it.

Yeah, anyway, it's homework, so keep that in mind. Well, in the game, it tells you to maybe keep a journal while you're playing, and I was like, nope. Well, I saw that and was like, I'm not doing that. And then, god damn it, what the fuck, three times six or whatever, 18. I like keeping a journal when I'm playing a game. I think it's fun.

I mean, the idea of a video games journal is kind of a fun idea. And boy, oh boy, I might just do that now. That's a really fun idea, except it's gonna be a lot of just like played Fortnite, played Fortnite. It takes me back to my very early gaming days, which was playing, you know,

on me and my brother playing PC RPGs on my dad's computer and like playing like the Bard's Tale and that game doesn't have any sort of automap it was a lot it was it was like it was seven wizardries it wasn't a wizardry seven till any of those games had any sort of in-game map feature so you had fucking graph paper and you were like you would go into a dungeon and you'd be making a map physically on your own just to keep in mind where you were going. Well, that was the most pleasant part about playing the game

was it reminded me of playing like Sierra games where you have to like map out what you're doing or Zork where it's like, okay, I've turned left, I've turned right. But also what's wild about Zork is because I went back and played it with my wife and we had to map it out, and when we were mapping it out, realizing that the map doesn't make sense, not entirely,

was like a horror. Like it felt like the moment when in Silent Hill 2, the rooms change and you realize you're still in the same room, but it's fucked up now. Awful feeling. But anyway, yeah, so I played a little Blueprints. I went through like, I don't know, five days or whatever on my first little dabble of it. And I was like, when I found myself thinking about it

when I wasn't playing it, I was like, oh, so this is a good enough game that gave me enough dopamine that my brain is craving it again. Which is what is, I think, what everybody is responding to, is it's like a different kind of game, but also gives you enough of that sugar in your brain to make you keep coming back.

So, um. Talk to me in 50 more days. Jesus Christ. What, are we sure we wanna, we play this? You seem upset. Talk to me in 50 more days. Jesus Christ. Are we sure we wanna, we play this? You seem upset. I love it. It's like cigarettes. It's...

All this is to be, all this aside, if anybody wants to give me like four to $6 million a year and I can just play video games, I wanna to put that on the podcast that I will quit. Oh, wait. No, I want to do that too. Because like my biggest problem with blueprints is I was like, man, I really I do want to spend some time playing this. I don't have enough time in my life to play it.

And I also want to play Assassin's Creed. And I also want to play Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth. And I also want to play Person and I also wanna play Assassin's Creed and I also wanna play Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and I also wanna play Persona 5. And I like, there's no way as an adult to play all these fucking games that I wanna play unless somebody out there wants to just give me four to $6 million a year. Well, look, I think we could do this

and listeners, if you're listening and you are some sort of wealthy benefactor, all we're asking as a collective whole is for 16 to $20 million, so we could split it evenly between the four of us. Right, because we're looping ranching, of course. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that'd be nice.

That'd be great. I'd even widen it a little bit. Like if we're getting like three to $7 million per person, that's still probably worth our time. That's crazy. And hey, on the high end, that's pretty good. Hey, that's, I'm kind of maybe thinking about the high end. I think the high end would be really,

I'm not gonna say no to the low end. I would just be a little bit disappointed if it wasn't the high end. Yeah, sure. Just a little bit. It would be really interesting to suddenly be that rich and be like, wow, I can do anything in the world, but if I don't play video games, the money is gonna go away?

Yeah, it's like, that money's immediately gone because it's like, but if I don't play video games, the money is going to go away. Yeah, it's like that money's immediately gone, because it's like, OK, I'm going to buy one house. What? Money's gone. I got $3 million from this wealthy benefactor. But you're getting $3 million the next year. Yeah, no, I'm saying. Oh, yearly.

It's not a one-time payment. Oh, that's forever? Yeah, it's like an annual stipend. That's why I said per year. OK, never mind. I'm back in, I'm in. But I was just thinking that it would be a funny sort of like, I don't know, catch 22 if it's like, yeah, I'll give you the money, you cannot go travel, you cannot do anything

else. They're gonna make rules for us. You only get to play video games if you're serious about it, you play video games and that's how you keep getting the money. I'd probably get pretty sad pretty fast. It depends on how onerous the requirement is. If it's like, hey, I got to play, I'm effectively like, hey, you're basically going to have a streamer's life.

You have to just, you have to play a set number of hours every single day and we're going to be monitoring it. Yeah, that would start to feel a little bit like, all right, I'm gonna be doing it, but. Yeah, it'd feel like a Japanese game show. Yeah, sure. Yeah. But if it becomes a, it was just like, hey, you just gotta play games, you know, whatever.

If it's not every day or if it's not like a set number, an hour requirement or the hour requirement is reasonable, yeah. I think I'd do that. Yeah, I guess if I'm thinking about it, I'd probably do it. I think I'd do it. I'd do it. Three or $7 million a year, yeah, sure. Yeah, I guess if I'm thinking about it, I'd probably do it. I think I'd do it. I'd do it.

$3 or $7 million a year, yeah, sure. Yeah, why not? And then actually it'd be good because then we'd be the only good rich people. That's sort of, I think, what the counterbalance is. People that are that rich are typically not good. If you let us do it, we'd be the good ones. And so then everybody would kind of then be like,

actually, maybe we should be good instead. Yeah, I guess if I had that much money, I'd probably start posting a lot more. That'd be the good ones. And so then everybody would kind of then be like, actually, maybe we should be good instead. Yeah, I guess if I had that much money, I'd probably start posting a lot more. That'd be the first thing I'd start posting. Well, my first order of business. I'd say my opinions online a lot. I'm gonna go straight on the news. Yeah, I'll go on the news.

That's what I would definitely do. Tell everyone what I think. Ranch, you saw the Minecraft movie. I did. Let's fucking go! What was your verdict? I liked it. Yeah, you had fun? I had a good time.

Yeah. Did you make a big mess in the movie theater? No, the ushers were very clear about us not making messes. We were probably, we were a big party. Yeah. And we were getting the stink eye. What was the house like? Like, you know, we're a couple weeks into the run at this point, two or three weeks.

It was quite a few kids and their parents. And then there was one lone guy sitting in our row. Got it. Who had two giant buckets of popcorn with him, who I think he was hoping for a rowdy screening. He came loaded up with a whole bunch of popcorn to throw? Yeah, he didn't throw it though because no one was doing anything. Going to like a protest with a gun, he's like, just in case! That makes me a little sad for that guy.

I know, I kinda felt that too. I gotta eat all this stupid popcorn, this fucking sucks, I gotta eat all this now. It's my dinner now. He did stand up right before Jockey chicken chicken jockey. Yeah, and No one reacted So I would this this I I'm starting to feel like this guy has been to the Minecraft movie a few times at this point And he's kind of like I know my spot. I know I like I know when people are gonna do that big like meme reaction

Yeah, I'll have the popcorn. I'll be ready to go and then today He just was had kind of a kind of a weird house. He's like well. He's like I spent $34. Yeah, I know Gonna dump this popcorn into a garbage bag and take it home Your popcorn skeptic that's too much popcorn for you. I wouldn't take I wouldn't have two large popcorns. I take a couple hot dogs over that. What did you what concessions you get the movie? It's my birthday month. So I got a free popcorn and drink. And so did you have any? Did you have a reaction to the part that we said was very funny? I was going to ask you which part that was

because I don't remember. Wow. I remember you guys saying that you all laughed for several scenes about it, but I couldn't tell. Was it the monologue of the teacher? Yes. Okay. That was the best part.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The performance of the year. Yeah. Yeah. Now best supporting actor goes to. The performance of the year. Now best supporting actor goes to.

This guy from the Minecraft movie. Just gets up to something or does the exact same speech. This is great. Things have been really tough for me. I'm surprised from what all we've seen. That's the thing that's like not the meme, like obviously harder to meme, it's a longer sequence. I also think because it's not an overt reference to the game. I guess so. Yeah.

Flintons, the year. Boy, those guys must be so happy, the makers of Minecraft after all of these fucking years of like developing and developing and developing and setbacks That they have made a cult hit that's also making money in the present. That's wild I know it was a little tough on the movie when we talked about it Yeah, I will say in the coming in the intervening weeks. I Don't think the movies I didn't like the movie, but I like that people are enjoying themselves. Yeah, me too.

It's extremely fun. There's no part of me that's like bitter. Like I don't, I have never had the feeling of like, what's wrong with people? No. Like every time I read that it's doing well, I'm like, hey, go little guy. I'm happy for everybody involved.

Like this is, it's great. Movies are back. Movies are back. I, you know, I love it. Love things that are good. Love something that's getting young people into the movie theaters. I don't really like the mess element.

No, I don't like the mess. Because there's workers that have to then deal with that. And I think there are no workers I respect more than people who work at movie theaters. Yeah. I'm being honest. Thank you for your service. All right, let's get into it. Our console draft for the Sega Dreamcast.

Now, Heather and I both own Sega Dreamcast. I bought one. I pre-ordered. I got picked it up on September 9, 1999, 9999. Matt, of course, you had a cool uncle who had a Dreamcast. That's right. I have a cool uncle who had a Dreamcast at the time. Yes. And Ranch, were you a GameCube family?

I'm trying to remember what your situation was. We had a PS2. You had a PS2, that's what you were playing, Mary-Kate and Ashley, a Sweet 16 license to drive on. Got it. So Dreamcast, was that ever anything you messed around with? I don't know. I think my brothers, when I was really little, had a... Some sort of Sega.

...an NES. Okay, there was an NES and an SNES, so they might have had either or both. Yeah, I'm sure. Yeah. But yeah, this is the Sega console that was... Hey, their great white hope that unfortunately was smothered in its crib by the emergence of the Sony PlayStation 2. Smothered in the crib, getting put back in the womb. What's with this guy?

He's a weirdo. That's what's with him. By the way, this is like my new thing. I'm gonna start doing more jokes like this. What's with this guy? And I'm gonna keep being weird. Matt, which previous console drafts have we done? We've done the PlayStation 1, the PlayStation 2, I believe we did the Nintendo 64, did

the GameCube, we did the Nintendo DS, and perhaps the Game Boy Advance. We haven't gone into Sega country yet. No, this is our first foray. This is our first Sega console. Oh, I love it. I love that we're doing this. Fucking bullshit. So I think we'll go snake style and we'll pick how...

Like, what the fuck? What's with this guy? Years and years of the podcast. And this is the first time we've covered a Sega console. I just want to look at you two. Don't blame me. What? Don't blame me. Blame Matt.

Why Matt? It's Matt's fault. Hang on. Nothing is ever my fault. Ever. One of the three of us, one third of the hosts of the show is a Sega kid. Yeah. And this is the first.

Well, it's interesting. I shame on you. I cherish the Sega Dreamcast. I owned a Sega Dreamcast. I loved the Sega Dreamcast. I had a lot of games for it. I was rooting for that stuff. I'm grumpy about it.

Okay, well look, look, look, look. It's just interesting, the Sega kid. You agree, that's what, we agree that Heather's sick. Yeah, it's interesting, yeah. Interesting that you've never pitched this yourself. And we could have done it anytime you said it was a good idea to do it. Oh, it's our fault.

I've never, I've, what are you saying? I think Heather could have said- What are you saying? Heather, you could have said- What are you saying? Heather, you could have said. What are you saying? You could have said that we should do the console draft. Hold on, let me look at these receipts. Let me just search how many times-

If you can find the specifics text that says we should do console draft Sega Dreamcast. I don't think I knew the name of this kind of episode. Well, there we go, is it? It's console draft Sega Dreamcast. We will each pick, how many games do we settle on? We settled on four four games We're gonna pick four games from the Dreamcast library. We will go snake style who wants to go first? I guess Heather hold on you wanted the first thing hold on one second. I am looking

Heather and Campbell on the clock I am fucking looking hold on not no I'm looking at my text history with you, too. Okay? A lot of bullshit you got a way through None of memes I gotta say yeah, I'll check I guess I'll check my text too. Let's just do that on this podcast, okay? Well, what's with this guy? I don't I don't fucking know I'll do the episode instead of looking through text messages I'll go first Heather will go first. And you know what? It's not a good spot to be. Yeah.

I'll go second. Wow, OK, so we'll have two picks in a row on the back end. OK, we'll see how that works out for him. Snake Style, my first pick for the Sega Dreamcast was the first time that I had ever played a truly arcade perfect port of a video game that was in arcades in my home. And I put so many hours into the game

when it was in my living room. It's Marvel versus Capcom 2. Wow. Want to take you for a ride. Want to take you for a ride. I got to be honest, with that preamble, I thought you were headed somewhere else, but Marvel Capcom 2, a very, very good game.

It's been a long time. I know where you thought I was going, but the truth is that in my living room with my friends across the hall who were into playing video games, they really liked Marvel Capcom 2 more than the say other high profile fighter that meant so much to me. And so that was the game that I played with them.

They wanted to play Marvel Capcom 2. It had Street Fighter characters in it. Everybody was happy. So Marvel- That is a fucking incredible fucking video game. Incredible game. It's so fun. It has some of my favorite 2D animation ever.

Yeah. And I just like the, it's the more is more philosophy that we would certainly see with later party fighters, like platform fighters, like obviously the Smash Brothers series, but just like so many characters. Yes. Like that's a fucking rag. It's so many characters, it's on a circle.

Your character selection screen is a circle. I've been playing it a little bit on the new port that is out. It's like on modern consoles. I kind of think we could do an episode about it. It's a really good game. Hey, man, I'd love to talk Marvel Capcoms. Or we could kind of talk about that whole era of, you know, because X-Men vs. Street Fighter was the first one

or was it Marvel Super Heroes? I'm trying to remember the chronology of it, but like there was that whole issue, their whole era of Capcom fighters that all use Marvel properties. And then yeah, kind of Marvel Capcom 2 was, I know they made another one, but Marvel Capcom 2 was kind of the apex of that.

What I, one thing I loved about that game is that it's so many characters that, not that I'm the biggest Marvel guy, but I am a pretty, I have a pretty extensive knowledge of Capcom properties, but still there's so many characters in that you're like, who's this guy? Who the fuck is this?

Yeah. All right. Like, Roll? Yeah, well, hey, I knew Roll, but it's like, there are characters like that. Yeah. Yeah. So that's my first draft. Wow,'s my first draft for the Dreamcast. I can't imagine having a Dreamcast without that game in my house, so that's why it was

my first pick. No, it's a good pick. All right, Matt, you're up. One pick. Well, as established, I didn't grow up with the Sega Dreamcast in my home, but I had access to one via my uncle, who would mostly play games that I would just watch I wasn't always playing along But I got some I got some hands-on experience. So the draft is kind of being sort of an interesting assignment for me Because there's like games that I've never played before

That I think would be fun to have and to play on a Sega Dreamcast for the first time ever And this one is no exception Certainly the sequel to I think a good game that people seem to like but people I think seem to think that the sequel is A little bit better has a little bit more Going on in it and maybe has some cool new interesting characters in it. I'm talking Sonic Adventure 2 Wow has some cool new interesting characters in it. I'm talking Sonic Adventure 2. Wow. Wow. I'm taking Sonic Adventure 2 for my draft,

my first pick for the Sega Dreamcast draft, Sonic Adventure 2. Shadow, Shadow's in there. Yeah, certainly. That's crazy, the Shadow's from that game. Isn't it nuts? Ha ha ha ha ha. The Sonic Adventure franchises were really

where Sonic and his shitty friends kind of became a meme. I mean, there were so many characters and some of those ancillary characters were a little bit less fun. But I do think that Sonic Adventure 2 was a step up from the original Sonic Adventure, which I do also like quite a bit. I think that's a very savvy pick in the number two slot. Heavily inspired Sonic 3, the movie. Yep. A lot of that stuff is just in there.

Imagine the Dreamcast is sinking like the Titanic into the sea. Yeah. And as it sinks, somebody says, "'But Sonic 2, we will remember you more than you could ever know.'" Wow. Wow.

Well it- And then they gave Keanu Reeves a gun. It falls to me. I love it again, the movie. It falls to me. And here I am sitting like king shit with the number three pick. What the fuck? Because I cannot believe my good fortune

that this one is still on the board. I'm pissed. I don't know what to do with myself. I'm sitting here with the number three pick. I'm trying to think of historical number three picks in the NBA draft. Jason Tatum, I guess. And it's still available. Luka Doncic, I think, went number three overall.

Where are we going? Are you doing Soul Calibur? What's happening? The Soul Stillburns, Soul Calibur. What do you think would be the consensus number one overall pick amongst Sega Dreamcast games Another arcade perfect port and just such a fun fucking rad fighting game Even in a style 3d fighter that it's not necessarily and we're not necessarily the biggest fan of but it's such a refined version Of it and such a a you know such a gorgeous game at the time,

but I think the art design, heart direction holds up enough where it's still like a very, very good looking game. And I just had so much fun with that game back in the day. And when I think of the Sega Dreamcast, that one, that game is inextricable from it. A launch title that remained probably the best game on the console throughout its entire run. The second pick, which I get two in a row here because we're going snake style. This is where things get a little tricky and I'm trying not to metagame it.

I'm trying to just to pick what I want. The problem is there's a couple of different ones that I want. Sonic Adventure 2 would have been on that list but that one's no longer an option. So I think where I'm gonna go is a game like Marvel versus Capcom 2 that has an awesome soundtrack, but it also has a completely unique style of art,

really uses these cell shaded character designs a great way, and has a gameplay formula that is so different from so many other games. I think I'm going to go with a game that I know is Jet Grind Radio, but internationally was released as Jet Set Radio. Jet Grind Radio is my second pick. Is that what you wanted? I wanted it. I don't want to do it. I quit.

I don't want to do it anymore. You could have taken away your second pick. No, I couldn't have. These are all such good games that like, if the Dreamcast hadn't failed and had continued to churn out hits like this, it would have been like legendary system. I think it still is. It's a good, like the hits of the Dreamcast are such hits.

I feel like that some consoles don't got hits like that. They just don don't got it like the dreamcast certainly has more hits than the Wii U. Well. Yeah, that's like unfair What? It's like I mean, it's I guess it's comparable right cuz it's like it's at least Nintendo got to succeed past it I wonder which one sold more the dreamcast I don't think that actually have no idea. I the Wii U sold that's a very very poor. That's a thing. We can look up for sure in fact I will look that up while more pics are being made But right now. I'm right now. I'm too busy looking at screenshots from jet-set radio fuck that game was so cool It's really cool. Yeah, really cool game

I think I guess we should talk through this game because I'm realizing enough time has passed Where there are people who maybe didn't grow up with a dream cast and, or maybe just too young for it. Jet Set Radio is basically like, you know, akin to a, I guess akin to a Tony Hawk, not exactly, but you are sort of, you're basically, you're an inline skates, you're going around a play space, and part of the mechanic is tagging things.

And it sounds pretty straightforward, but it is just, it's just so fun and fluid to play, and so gorgeous to look at, and again, has just such a great soundtrack. I don't know, it was just a very, it was a unique design for any time, but certainly for the time it was released and felt like the kind of thing that like,

hey, they're doing shit on Dreamcast that they're not doing on any other console, which is part of why I so strongly associate it with that system. All right, Matt, what are you thinking? My second pick, I have to make a really serious pick if I'm gonna have a draft that's worth a damn.

Really? I think so. Okay. So I'd like to, preface my second pick with just a little reading here, a quote, if you will, if you will indulge me. Okay.

Second. We're just a little reading here a quote if you will if you will indulge me, okay? Hey, hey, hey, it's time to make some crazy money. Are you ready here? We go? picking crazy tax Tim Walls his favorite video that was an incredible read Thank you so much. Holy shit. Hey, you heard that folks? Put me in a fucking crazy taxi Honestly, they'd be my dream come true Be the crazy taxi guy The guy just shouting that yeah or to be a guy in a car in our regular world Honestly, I think I'd like to be in the game. Yeah, I like to be in the game more

Crazy taxi we did an episode about it in the past with our pal Bridger Weininger. Oh, yeah all time. I think great video game like fun to still play like you like in whatever condition you can play it in like I think it's Like I think I played it on the Xbox When we did the episode but it's not like it's like super updated or like remastered or anything, it's just the crazy taxi you're thinking about currently. And it rips, it's just a good game,

it's just really fun design. I spent a lot of time with that one, but also the Simpsons knockoff, Simpsons Road Rage, which is just the same thing, but with Simpsons charactersoff, Simpsons road rage, which is just the same thing, but with Simpsons characters. And it's great. I think it's just a fun formula for a video game and happy to have it on my draft.

That's a great pick. I have the sales figures for the Sega Dreamcast and Nintendo Wii U. Anyway, do we officially want to guess which one sold more? I'm gonna guess the Dreamcast. You're gonna guess Dreamcast. I'm guessing Wii U.

Ranch, you wanna guess? Wii U. Wow. Matt, you are wrong. Wow. The Sega Dreamcast sold nine million units worldwide, the Nintendo Wii U sold 13 and a half million units worldwide. I guess it's-

Pollaxed by the fucking Wii U, Nintendo's least successful console. After the Virtual boy. Yeah You know I guess we want to count the virtual boy as a as a proper console it makes sense because at least like Nintendo Nintendo had like that's the third console after the dreamcast So he's had a little more. Yeah, you know runway a little more runway. There were more people on planet Earth Just being off of the success of the Wii so I'm sure that probably and the Wii the Wii sold like gangbusters. Yeah Yeah. All right, Heather you get two picks in a row now

You know the Dreamcast is the kind of console where I don't really have to worry about you guys picking my picks because I'm pretty Sure that I want to celebrate the weirdness of Machine. So as my second pick, I am picking a game that we covered here on this podcast. Wow. It's Seaman. God. And the reason I'm picking Seaman is because

when I told Seaman I was gay, he was totally fine with it. Yes. Yes. For a ha ha ha ha. For a game from the year 2000 for Leonard Nimoy's voice to come out of a human-faced fish in response to me speaking to my console, that he was like, yeah, that's totally great. What is your wife's name? Or whatever it was, girlfriend's name at the time.

I don't know, I really appreciated the, I really love it when systems and developers take huge swings, and that was a enormously weird and super fun swing. For the folks that might not know what it is? The sexual gameplay of Sea Man, like Ranch, I'm guessing. Okay.

It is a game where there was a microphone that you plugged into the controller to speak to a fish in a fish tank that had a human man's face, and it would talk to you. Yes. Fucked up. It would respond to you, but you had to raise it kind of like a virtual pet. So the first thing you have to do

is you have to make sure the water has enough oxygen, but not too much. And then eventually it develops into a, like a weird looking fish. And then eventually it gets a face and it has a bit of a personality when you're raising it with your phrases, it remembers sort of things

that you've never seen before. It's like, oh, I'm gonna raise a fish. and it has a bit of a personality when you're raising it with your phrases, it remembers sort of things about you. It also knows what day it is of the week. I don't know, it was a really interesting precursor to say like voice mode on ChatGPT. Yes. Yes. Like. And doesn't it, did you ever finish the game?

I don't remember if I did. I believe it finishes or I believe the game is done and you release the seaman, the fully grown seaman, which becomes like a frog man basically. Yeah. Into the wild. Great. You free him.

Great. And he deserves it. Yeah, he does. The. You free him. Great. And he deserves it. Yeah, he does. The game was a nightmare. This, the sea man fish looks like my brother. I, but I love the pic and I love that it exists. And yes, another game that I strongly associate

with the Sega dream. I have footage of Nick playing Seaman at my house. Wow. Because I was filming him while he was playing it on my CRT. That's so funny. And it came up in one of my Apple memories recently. I loved it.

Always good to have a camera rolling when Nick's around just in case. Okay. The next game I'm gonna pick is another weird one. Again, because if, when I, if I'm booting up my fucking Dreamcast for anybody, it's to show them the weird stuff. Yes.

And I'm picking the typing of the dead. Fuck. Wow. A game we also played here for the podcast. It is House of the Dead, which is a light gun game where you're fighting against zombies in a haunted house and also like vampires and bat creatures and shit. Except instead of a light gun,

you are armed only with your keyboard and you have to type out phrases that appear on screen fast enough to take out the zombies and the sentences and phrases don't make any fucking sense. So it's not like you can type like, you know, in the way that you would maybe by memory be able to type my name is Matt or my name is Nick. Instead it'll be like blanket potato

and you're like, oh fuck! Really, really fun game. Love that I still have that keyboard in my house. Love typing of the dead. Matt, it's to you. I own typing, just real quick, I owned typing of the dead on Dreamcast with the keyboard peripheral.

And yeah, that game was a blast. And it's so, I mean, it's just like one of the funnier games to exist. It's just played completely straight. It's just a reskin basically of House of the Dead 2, right? Is that the one it's based off of? Yeah, it was House of the Dead 1. Might be House of the Dead 1.

But it's just a reskin of that, but then instead of guns, they've got keyboards that they're using. And the characters, the onscreen representations of the player character are, and it's just so fun. Yeah, to be clear, in the game proper, they're holding guns. Yes.

In typing of the dead, they have keyboards strapped to their chest. It's the kind of thing of, what I think what we all love about the Dreamcast is that there is no, like they made so many decisions that were awesome creatively and were so poor commercially. Like the idea of releasing like

a keyboard specific shooting game, that is gonna be such a niche product. There is no way you're gonna compete with Sony having the biggest third party IP. Like there's just no way you can compete with them when you're doing weird shit like that, but they're fucking Sega, so they were going to release Typing of the Dead. Great pick. All right, Matt.

My third pick. Because here's the thing about the Sega Dreamcast library. Everybody who knows anything about the Sega Dreamcast knows the big games. Yep. Didn't have that much of a... There aren't that many of them, really. Yep, yep, yep. You know what I mean?

It has a lot of games for it that were then easily pirated, just in full. Yep. But there are not that many hits. But the hits are hits. Yes, and this game was recently Voted the most influential video game of all time It's gotta be on somebody's list and might as well be on mine Shenmue. I'm taking Shenmue I love this pick. I think again a game that makes me think of the dream cast

my own hesitation in I love this pick. I think, again, a game that makes me think of the Dreamcast. My own hesitation in selecting Shenmue, had I had the option, would have come from... I don't remember that game being very fun to play back then. I think it would probably be so clunky to play in a modern era. What do you remember about that day? But it is just like a game of pure ambition, and it is emblematic of what the Dreamcast represented. My memories of Shenmue are just like watching, and I was like, I mean, I was like 9, 10 years old when this game was out,

so I have full memories from this time. I can't piece together what I thought the game was It was just I was just like watching my uncle be a guy walking around yeah, that mostly is what the game is yeah But I wasn't really like you know I'd see parts of the story here and there because like some I wouldn't be there the whole time He was playing it or he'd move on to something else but I remember just For some reason not being able to take my eyes off of it. Just being fascinated by it well, it it's it's one of those games that is

Transparently it was transparently a lot of work. Yes, you know Like there were such there was such a density of detail in it at the time You know, like there was such a density of detail in it at the time that you look at it and it's compelling to just visually look at it because you're like, wow, this is a whole street in a small town and each of these houses is different than the next house, which on its own was already weird.

Like when you think about how in a Super Nintendo game that there are houses next to each other in a village and they kind of look identical. Yeah. To suddenly be in a 3D generation, just two generations after that, like Super Nintendo, then you go N64, and you're at the Dreamcast,

and that each house is like fully realized was weird. Also, it's weird that you have to get a job inside that game. We drive a fucking forklift I remember a lot of the the the gacha machines. Yeah being part of it I always and I still think this I think his jacket is extremely cool good jacket a great jacket good jacket good video game character look yeah Shenmue. Wow. Good pick. I get two in a row now to fill out my roster of four.

And look, as far as having some sort of bigger single player game goes, Shenmue was certainly under consideration, but the game I actually wanted, and I'm glad it's still on the board, is a JRPG that I have for the Dreamcast that I really enjoyed. Like a lot of Dreamcast games was critically acclaimed

and performed poorly commercially. But is a banger of a JRPG, that game, Skies of Arcadia. Nice. Wow. Skies of Arcadia goes into my next slot. You know, Sky Pirates, how fun is that? That's pretty good. Yeah. The next game, I guess the final game for my roster.

Can I say? Yeah, please. I have Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast and it's still sealed. Wow. Because I never got a round to playing it. Wow. And so it's just waiting for me, ready to go. That's, I'm just, I'm honestly wondering.

Really? Yeah. Oh, I don't think it's worth that much. Well, yeah, because you can be pirated, but a sealed copy is, yeah, maybe, yeah, who cares? They're like, they're actually, you owe me money? Yeah. I don't think it's gonna be worth that much, dude Boy, I don't know complete in box pre-owned

It's still going for over a hundred dollars. So I think if you yeah see the new sealed This is buy it now for $4.99. I'm not sure you necessarily get that much But I think a sealed version of this you could sell for a pretty penny if you want to flip it I don't yeah, you should play it then I do want to get that much, but I think a sealed version of this you could sell for a pretty penny if you wanted to flip it. I don't. Yeah. You should play it then. I do want to. But it's one of those games it's like, if I haven't had a fucking opportunity to play Assassin's Creed,

am I really gonna like play Skies of Arcadia? Is there another way to play it? Like- I don't think so. Oh no, there was a remaster of Skies of Arcadia. I want to say it's switch era But I'm not sure they had a sequel that came out I think for Gamecube But I'm trying to remember the chronology of it or no, they just poured it to Gamecube. That's what it was Yeah, yeah, it was it came out on Gamecube in

Okay, released in in 2000 on Dreamcast in 2003. There was a port For the game, but wasn't there a rerelease? I don't know if when there was a remaster. Oh, maybe not All right, Nick skies of Arcadia was your first pick. What was your second pick? All right, here's the thing. Oh What? Mmm. Hey, there were was a, let's see, in 2012 Sega brand manager Ben Harbarn stated that a Skies of Arcadia HD was a likely next release. They renewed the trademark that same year, though a re-release did not materialize. So yeah, I don't know if it might have been

one of those things that was promised but never actually delivered. Right. All right, my gimmick game pick, because I think that's again, such a big part of the Dreamcast as to of Heather's Sega picks. Here, Reflect was going to be typing of the dead,

typing of the dead off the table. But I'm picking another gimmick game involving a peripheral that is very unique to the Dreamcast that I really liked. And, hey, you know, people are going crazy for guitar hero. People were going crazy for rock band. We know those games missed. You know what they didn't have? Maracas. I am picking quixotic maraca peripheral game Samba de Amigo he just said maracas with such gusto and also I'm like picturing like I'm just like picturing you kind of like fucking it up on some maracas and it's kind of funny if we should I wish I still have I saw a day big or maracas

we I should just fucking buy some and we should have we should do an episode on it because it's So fun. Yeah, just shake the shit out some Iraq. It's the most. It's I mean it's a Baby's toy like that's what the appeal of a rattle I mean the thing is looks like it's like if I'm, if I'm thinking about those sorts of gimmick music games, probably, yeah, I like Donkey Konga and Donkey Jungle Beat more with the little drops. I probably, but I don't know, somebody make a maracas? Just that they fucking did it.

Again, just like the audacity to put your company behind such a surefire commercial failure that is also so awesome that it exists a fucking maracas game I just like the idea of you very earnestly Just like going like nuts with some maracas is very funny fucking it up getting mad just like fuck But also you very earnestly like playing the bongos is also a very funny visual to me. Yeah, it's very very funny Both of them imply Push zoos like push in yeah something else happened before yeah, yeah like he didn't just start. Yeah doing eyes completely dead Like it that's a great pick a game. I've never played yeah, you're like, he's got a little fancy with it. I like it. That's a great pick.

A game I've never played. Yeah, you gotta pose too. It's part of the fun. We gotta do it. I love to do it. They made a Switch version of that, I think, right? They did, there was a recent Samba Day Amigo, and I think it's just because it didn't have the peripheral. I mean, it's just less fun.

All right, Matt, back to you. Okay, so as established earlier, I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast. Yep. I'm at my grandparents' house, my uncle's here. What's for me? Shenmue's not for me. Typing of the Dead, House of the Dead,

Resident Evil, Code Veronica, you know. Not for you? All these games aren't for me at this time. Yep. Gotta have a game for the nephews. You know not for you all these games aren't for me at this time. Yeah Gotta have a game for the nephews, but I'm specifically nostalgic for exactly one Sega Dreamcast game okay, and I knew it was safe, and I knew I could save it for last all right Looney Tunes space race Fucking Looney Tunes Space Race. Fucking rules. It is so good. It's a, you know, it's a kart racer with all your favorite Looney Tunes characters.

They all have character specific karts. There are items, not unlike a Mario Kart, that can affect the field of play for your other players. You know, my brothers yeah I might be I might be you know driving around a fucking big stick of dynamite as Wile E. Coyote that's already that's already funny that's good yeah and then I get an item and it's a hole like a black hole right throw it that down on the ground Tasmanian Devils behind me he falls in the hole yep sounds like a black hole, right? Throw it down on the ground. Tasmanian Devil's behind me. He falls in the hole.

Yep. Sounds like a blast. It's fucking great. It's really, really good. And I do think that the Looney Tunes IP has perhaps been mismanaged in recent years. Going back as far as I think maybe the last like, end years, like it's just been bungled left and right.

And like, I have this suspicion that like my generation of kids, 34 year old adults, were the last kids to grow up with like old Looney Tunes kind of on at all times. Thanks Zazlov. Thanks Zazlov. But it is like kind of a bummer because I just grew up watching a bunch of old TV and like I had like frames of reference that like I shouldn't have had.

Right. Because it was referencing stuff that was too old for my fucking parents. Yeah. So like I always had just like this, I felt very, I don't know, felt very lucky to be watching the Looney Tunes. Now, of course, I feel lucky. Didn't feel lucky then, it was just what was on.

But I loved Looney Tunes Space Race. I do think it's a legitimately very good kart racer and would do anything for a port, would do anything. Wow. I love it. Would do anything. Wow. I love it. That's beautiful. Yeah. All right, Heather, your final pick.

Boy oh boy, boy oh boy oh boy. I gotta look. So many good games left on the board. I gotta look at my menu. Yeah. Hmm, hmm, hmm. If Sega Gaga had been localized, I think that would be my final pick.

But. What's that? It is an RPG, which is known as a Sega simulator, which Sega brought out as they were made more and more aware that this was going to be their final ever hardware. It is an adventure where you are trying to save the company and you are going up against the evil, all but copyright infringement by name Sony. And it is very straightforward,

like Sega is in deep financial trouble and the president of Sega is like, you gotta help us. That is so crazy, I love that. But it was never released locally and so I don't feel comfortable choosing it as my final pick. Instead I'm gonna pick a shooting game that I absolutely fucking loved on the Dreamcast

and that's a game that I have also drafted, I think for other consoles, because I've enjoyed it so much. And that's Ikaruga, which is a fucking shooting flying game where you can flip polarities to avoid different bullets of different colors. And it's a bullet hell game.

And up until that point in my life, I know that Bang I.O. came out on the Dreamcast and I didn up until that point in my life, I know that Bang I.O. came out on the Dreamcast and I didn't play that. I wasn't a huge like, actor-raiser fan. Like I was never into shooters, like shmups. And then I played Icaruga and I was like, I've beat this game many times because it is so fucking enjoyable.

What are you looking at, Nick? No, you said actor-raiser. I was starting looking at, Nick? No, you said Actraiser. I was starting to think of what, like it's not Actraiser. Yeah, Actraiser's the one with the sword. Yeah, that's a. But starts with an A. Yeah, what are you thinking of?

I don't know. Starts with an A. Let's say R-type. Yeah, R-type. Starts with an A. A-R-R-T-Y-P-E. So yeah, Ikurugai is my final pick, A-R-R-T-Y-P-E. So yeah, Ikurugai is my final pick.

Again, leaving so many other games. Street Fighter III, fucking, there's like so many other bass fishing, even bass fishing. Oh yeah, talking about games with a big dumb peripheral. Yeah. Accessory. So those are my four.

To review, for my Sega Dreamcast draft, I chose Marvel versus Capcom 2, I chose Seaman, I chose The Typing of the Dead, and finally I chose Ikaruga. Matt. My picks were Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi, Shenmue, and Looney Tunes Space Race. Ha ha ha ha.

I went with Soul Calibur, Jet Grind Radio, Skies of Arcadia, and Samba Day Amigo. A lot of great games left on the board. Obviously there's the 2K franchise, both on NFL and NBA, which were both birthed on the Dreamcast. Power Stone. Power, yeah, Power Stone and Power Stone 2. Virtua Tennis was one that was on my short list

that I didn't have room for in my Final Four. You know, a lot of people like the Quake 3 Arena port, which I never messed around with. Fantasy Star Online. I did mess around with Power, and I never got into Fantasy Star Online, but I did mess around with... The Phantasy Star Online. I did mess around with, and I never got into Phantasy Star Online, but I did get into Power Stone 2, Dead or Alive 2, and you know, there were a lot of really, really great games

for the Sega Dreamcast, Rest in Power. And a great Tony Hawk's Pro Skater port as well. A great one, I remember playing that one and unlocking Spider-Man and being very happy with that. What the fuck was that shmup you were thinking of? Starts with an A. But I don't know what the name of it was. Gradius R-Type, 1942, Xevious Darius... Axolay? Was it maybe Axolay? That's it.

["Dreamcast Theme Song"] It's time for a segment. Oh! It's our video game sales chart segment, Pixel Chart. All right, so the Dreamcast infamously launches in America on 9,999. But in Japan, it launched almost a full year earlier, November 27, 1998.

I think we've talked about the podcast before, but unthinkable in modern terms. The idea that there would be a year-long gap between the Japanese release and the North American release of really anything. Yeah, truly wild times. Also, an extraordinarily short generation for the Sega Saturn. They basically completely abandoned the Saturn. Like, you know, they thought it was going to be a commercial failure.

Like, well, fuck it, let's try to be the first to the next generation after this. And unfortunately it backfired for them. Anyway, the category is top ten best selling video games of 1998 worldwide. So biggest games in 1998, but globally. So first one, this is a huge franchise. This is one that's certainly Matt, you know quite well. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater. No, it's not Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, which is actually not in the top 10. Fucking bullshit.

This is a, I mean come on, this is a Matt game. I'm having a hard time with the year for some reason. Yeah, well okay, so here's what I'll say, this is coming out, this is a portable game. Oh, Pokemon Gold and Silver? Not yet, we're not at Gold and Silver yet. 98 is red and blue. That's right, Pokemon Red Blue, number one, by quite a large margin, 8.6 million.

Number two is a PlayStation 1 exclusive game. This becomes a huge franchise for Sony, but is not a game that necessarily is for any of us. Eh, maybe for Heather. The fuck? First-party franchise. Oh, Gunman. Not Gunman. Not Gunman.

It's a guy made of guns. Gunman! This was made into a movie in recent years. What the fuck? This franchise. A PlayStation exclusive that was made into a movie? recent years. What the fuck? This franchise. A PlayStation exclusive that was made into a movie? Made into a movie, yeah. The first words that were about to leave my mouth Uh-huh.

Is incorrect. I was going to say Monster Hunter, but it's not Monster Hunter. It's a PlayStation exclusive. How about this? Here's a hint. Grrrrrr, grrrrrr. Gran Turismo!

Gran Turismo, number two, 6.8 million for the PlayStation one. Good hint. Good hint, I like that. Number three. But also I thought something was wrong with you for like just a hint of a second. Number three is another game in the franchise that's also occupying the number one slot.

Oh, Pokemon Yellow. It is Pokemon Yellow with 5.4 million. Think about that for a second. You're effectively selling, you know, what are we, 15 million units between Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow. That in of itself is like basically selling almost the cumulative total of the rest of the top 10. That's how, that's how much of a fucking juggernaut Pokemon

is back in its heyday. It's crazy. Yeah. Uh, number four. This is a Nintendo 64 exclusive that is generally regarded as one of the best games ever made. Ocarina of Time. It is Ocarina of Time, The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. 5.2 million.

Despite only releasing late that year in November or December just for the holidays. It just sold like gangbusters right out of the gate. It's also wild to think that in the year 1998, the Gran Turismo outsold Ocarina of Time. I know that it's because it was out for longer in the year, but still, it's kind of funny. Well, and also just the install base. And also, I think just like the audience for things

like sports games and racing games is so fucking huge Right now that's that's the there are people who only play those games Alright, that's one two three four number five is a another PlayStation one game. This is a third-party game This is in a franchise that is still going to this day I'm gonna go ahead and guess Final Fantasy, I guess seven. There's not a Final Fantasy in this one, but this is that kind of completely different type

of game, but the kind of franchise that's still going and they're still releasing new ones of. I'll give you another hint. It's a fighting game franchise. Tekken. that's still going and they're still releasing new ones of. I'll give you another hint. It's a fighting game franchise. Tekken. Do you have a number for me? Tekken 2.

It's not Tekken 2. Tekken 3? It is Tekken 3, which I think is still the only Tekken game I actually bought. I actually own Tekken 3 for PlayStation 1. Rest of the top 10, Crash Bandicoot Warped for PlayStation 1, Resident Evil 2 for PlayStation, Banjo-Kazooie for Nintendo 64,

Madden NFL 99 for PlayStation, N64 and PC, Cumulative, and then WCW NWO Revenge for Nintendo 64. Oh, wow. Wow, worldwide. Hey, that was Pixel Chart. Oh, wow. Wow. Worldwide. Hey, that was Pixel Chart. That's this week's Get Played. Our producers are Jel Chen. Ranch yard underscore underscore sard. Ranch, you streaming anything these days?

Still working on Resident Evil 7. Awesome. You're getting very scared playing this game. It's really fucking scary. I saw a clip of you screaming after opening a door. I saw a clip of you screaming after opening a door. Yard underscore underscore sard on Twitch to watch Rochelle stream. Our music is by Ben Prunty, benpruntymusic.com. Our art is by Duck Brigade Design, duckbrigade.com. And all our merch is at kinshipgoods.com.

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Two of the three of us have purchased the Blu-ray. That's right. It's a fucking banger. It's just so good. And one of the three of us has pirated the Blu-ray. That's right. It's a fucking banger. It's just so good. And one of the three of us has pirated the Blu-ray. Oh. Parody. Parody, of course. Yeah.

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