12/11/06 - Episode 07
Player One Podcast
Chris Johnston
4.5 • 498 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2006
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
This week we take a look back at an old friend called GameCube as he gasps his final breath on Tuesday with the release of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Phil Theobald joins us as we talk about third party support, Nintendo's own lack of great games, farming out of the classics to second-party developers, the lack of a "real" Mario game and more. Also in this segment, CJ reveals one of his greatest gaming shames.
But we start this week (of course) by talking about what we've been playing, with chatter about such games as Kirby Squeak Squad (DS), Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (DS), Phantasy Star Universe (360), Zelda: Twilight Princess (Wii), Sonic the Hedgehog (virtual console), Crash Bandicoot (PS1 on PSP via PS3), Lemmings (PS3), Resistance: FoM (PS3) and Roboblitz (360).
And after the GameCube portion of the program we go into another Topic Of Interest: Series reboots. With Bond's recent successful reset with Casino Royale, we pontificate about which of gaming's great series could use a 'boot. It's not that hard to think of one...we bet you're already thinking of one right now. The conversation also strays into series that've had successful reboots and which legacy hits need to be dusted off for a new generation. So if nothing else, you will want to stick around to listen to Greg bash Kid Icarus.
Our question to you this week is what series you would like to see rebooted and in what way -- what type of game? Drop a comment or send us an audio comment and we'll read some/play some on next week's show. Send us feedback to playeronepodcast@gmail.com or leave a comment on the blog page.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode seven of the Player One podcast for December 11, 2006. |
| 0:20.6 | Fresh from digging myself out from under the first snowstorm of the year, I'm your host, Greg |
| 0:24.6 | Seward. |
| 0:25.5 | Joining me as always is my co-host, the only man I know who considers going to a briss, |
| 0:29.7 | a big night out on the town, Chris Johnston. |
| 0:33.1 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:34.3 | And joining us again all the way from sunny San Francisco, the game journalist that most resembles one of Santa's elves, the lovely Phil Theobald. Hey, how's it going, everyone? See, you didn't have to sound like you're an elf. You're just short and jolly. That's kind of what I am. You confuse me. That's the problem. Say hi, Phil. Hi, Phil. There you go. |
| 0:54.6 | So, yeah, there's some... |
| 0:57.1 | That's everybody's here. |
| 0:58.9 | Yes, thanks for having me back. |
| 1:01.5 | You're welcome. |
| 1:02.4 | Did your ratings go up the first time I was on or something? |
| 1:04.9 | Not at all. |
| 1:06.3 | No. |
| 1:06.9 | It was actually dropped a little. |
| 1:08.6 | It was the biggest disaster in the short history of the Player One podcast I'm glad I can be back to to bring the downfall of yet |
| 1:17.3 | yeah well you know we were just starting to feel good about ourselves so we figured |
| 1:21.1 | it was time to have you back on excellent yeah I made a little I made a little |
| 1:25.0 | game now joke there that was pretty pretty good. Yeah, I'm mean. |
| 1:28.7 | There you go. |
| 1:31.0 | Okay. |
| 1:31.4 | What do you been playing, Phil? |
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