165: The Claw Machine of Dreams
The Jeff Gerstmann Show - A Podcast About Video Games
Jeff Gerstmann
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 177 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hey, what's going on, everyone. |
| 0:34.9 | Welcome to the program. |
| 0:36.5 | The podcast is now. |
| 0:39.6 | It's the Jeff Gersman Show. |
| 0:41.9 | It's a podcast. |
| 0:42.9 | It's about video games. |
| 0:45.5 | I'm Jeff Gersman. |
| 0:46.2 | We're here every Tuesday to talk about all of the things happening in and around this whole video game thing. |
| 0:58.6 | We've come a long way since San Diego Comic-Con. |
| 1:04.8 | But somehow gold cartridges, I almost, I'm not going to, they did some kind of gold the cartridge gold box for this new Atari like it's this it's like a 7800 version of Pac-Man and then like the original version of Pac-Man for the 2600 or whatever that they were selling for their, |
| 1:27.8 | you know, their new Atari hardware stuff that they've put out. |
| 1:32.6 | And they did a thousand cartridges for Comic-Con and then sent out an email this morning saying, |
| 1:37.4 | like, we got some left. |
| 1:41.0 | And I was looking at it. |
| 1:43.8 | I was like, that's 100 bucks. You know, there's only 80 of them left and they only made like a thousand. I'm like, hmm, maybe I should, what if I, what if I bought one of these? And I, like, I had to sit there, like, for about five minutes, before I could finally successfully talk myself down. |
| 2:00.8 | I'm like, dude, |
| 2:01.3 | you don't even fucking have the thing that you would use to play this hooked up |
| 2:05.6 | and you would not hook it up to play the 7,800. |
| 2:09.3 | Like, |
| 2:09.5 | what are you going to do with this? |
| 2:10.6 | You're not enough of a Pac-Man guide to even like put it on a shelf and be like, |
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