8-4 Play 1/7/2022: IN MANGOD WE TRUST
8-4 Play
8-4, Ltd.
4.6 • 751 Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 124 minutes
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Summary
Fan favorite Shane Bettenhausen stops by to chat classic games / shoot-them-ups, Steam Deck, and TV Asahi's top 100 game list, with a hat tip to 2021 faves and what we're excited about in 2022.
Time – Topic Discussed:
01:09 - Nicknames
19:51 - G.Darius HD, Cotton 100% + Panorama Cotton, and Nemesis '90 Kai
25:54 - Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow (and general Castlevania talk)
41:04 - Steam Deck impressions
47:34 - Final Fantasy V
56:21 - John's old-school Sega adventures
1:13:05 - Zelda Game & Watch
1:16:41 - ***SPOILERS*** Unpacking
1:24:44 - Untitled Goose Game
1:32:00 - TV Asahi's Top 100 Games
1:48:49- 2021 GOTY thoughts
1:54:11- 2022's most wanted
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| 0:00.0 | There was a small boy by the name of Link, who have the strength of a pure heart. |
| 0:09.0 | To the one of self to save the Princess Zelda. |
| 0:13.0 | But, in order to defeat the evil garment, who is now in possession of the power of the workforce, |
| 0:19.0 | he needs to find the eight parts of the wisdom half. |
| 0:22.6 | It is only to be free wisdom. |
| 0:25.6 | If you can enter, death no time, |
| 0:27.6 | don't even gun. |
| 0:29.6 | Can he find the eight parts? |
| 0:31.6 | He must take the evil gun. |
| 0:34.6 | You can use things only with your help |
| 0:39.0 | And welcome |
| 0:41.8 | And welcome to the first |
| 0:47.7 | 84 play podcast of 2020 |
| 0:50.2 | 2022 |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah |
| 0:52.0 | Yes so welcome to our new Year's holiday special, special meaning that there's not really any news and there's no Gabe. |
| 1:03.7 | It might be a little shorter than usual, but there is a special guest. |
| 1:07.9 | So we are earning the special. |
| 1:10.1 | But first, I am your host, Mark Gagin-Jess McDonald. |
| 1:14.1 | You are here for talk about Japan and games and Japanese games. |
| 1:20.1 | And joining me, no Gabe, yes, sorry, this week. |
| 1:25.9 | Gabe is out watching wrestling, which is something that grown men do, still. To be clear. |
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