177: Six-Pixel Sword

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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It’s time for us to select some of the very best console video games of all time. From Mario to Zelda, from sports to music, from Atari to Intellivision, we’ve got the entire history of the video-game industry covered. Are you a bad enough dude to listen? (Part 1 of 2)

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0:16.9	The incomparable number one hundred seventy seven. The Incomparable, number 177, January 2014.
0:27.7	Welcome back to The Incomparable.
0:29.3	I'm your host Jason Snell, and tonight we're going to do another one of our ridiculous drafts.
0:33.5	In this case, we're going to talk about video games.
0:35.5	And upon reflection, we decided to break up the video game drafts in two.
0:40.2	So we will, at a later date, do a computer-based video game draft.
0:44.7	This is a console-based video game draft.
0:47.3	So we're going to be drafting not consoles, but the games on the consoles.
0:51.7	And for me, that's going to mean I've got a list really heavy in Atari 2,600, but I imagine
0:59.0	that some of our other competitors are going to have a much broader selection of games
1:03.0	to talk about.
1:03.6	So basically, this is an excuse for us to talk about some of the great video games on consoles
1:08.4	in history.
1:09.4	And joining me to talk about it, I'm going to start with the guy
1:11.9	who will be vying with me for Atari 2,600 games. It's Greg Noss. Hi, Greg. Hello, very old
1:18.8	person. Yes, welcome. Hello. In my day, there were paddles and joysticks, and you could choose.
1:25.5	Good to have you, Greg. Thank you. Tony Sindelar also here. He's
1:29.7	much more well-versed and plays games that were made post-1978. Hi, Tony. Hi, Jason. I myself was made
1:36.8	post-1978. Ouch. Probably not by people who are playing video games. Not at the time. Breakout. I'm
1:43.1	telling you. Breakout breakout was much it was a
1:45.1	mood setter steve a mood setter steve lutz is here you heard him hi steve you uh you've got a long
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