1982 Console Wars

We Got This with Mark and Hal

Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi

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4.8 • 982 Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Hal Lublin.
0:01.4	And I'm Mark Gagliardi.
0:03.7	Since the dawn of humanity, one issue has gone unsettled.
0:07.7	With the fate of the world and the balance, we're here to settle once and for all.
0:13.2	The 1982 console wars.
0:17.3	That's right. Don't worry, everyone.
0:19.9	We got this.
0:20.8	Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcast should not have a theme song. Yes, they should. That's right. Don't worry, everyone. We got this.
0:20.8	Podcasts should have a theme song. Podcasts should not have a theme song. Yes, they should.
0:25.1	No, they shouldn't. They sound good. Yeah, but people are just going to skip past it.
0:30.0	Hmm. You know what? You're right. We got this.
0:37.0	Hal, first of all,
0:38.7	1982 is one of my favorite years of all time as a World Expo World's Fair fan.
0:46.6	Okay.
0:46.9	Because 1982 is the year that we got Epcot in Florida, the permanent World's Fair,
0:52.1	and my hometown of Knoxville, Tennessee, had a World's Fair.
0:56.4	Oh.
0:56.9	My one tattoo is of the 1982 World's Fair.
0:59.5	That said, I have very little recollection of this year because I was between two and three years old.
1:06.9	Is that what that tattoo is?
1:08.8	Yeah.
1:09.3	This is the logo for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. I never once asked you what that tattoo is? Yeah. This is the logo for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville.
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