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The MinnMax Show

Akira Toriyama’s Impact, Unicorn Overlord, Star Wars: Dark Forces

The MinnMax Show

MinnMax

Video Games, Leisure, Games

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode of The MinnMax Show, Ben Hanson is joined by Kelsey Lewin, Jeff Marchiafava, and Kyle Hilliard to talk about Unicorn Overlord from Vanillaware, get JeffM's take on Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, dust off our Playdates for Mars After Midnight, go back in time and celebrate another interactive documentary with Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, and then we talk about the impact of Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama's impact on the game industry. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and leaving a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:48 - Unicorn Overlord

00:15:53 - Final Fantasy VII Remake vs. Rebirth

00:35:03 - Mars After Midnight

00:43:23 - Miyamoto's small projects

00:49:21 - Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story

01:04:19 - Remembering Akira Toriyama

01:18:03 - Star Wars: Dark Forces

01:25:59 - Contra: Operation Galuga

01:31:55 - Thanking MinnMax's biggest supporters

01:38:00 - Community questions

02:13:42 - Get A Load Of This

JeffM’s GALOT - https://www.pcgamer.com/games/life-sim/stardew-valley-players-finally-learn-the-truth-eric-barone-confirms-that-for-the-past-8-years-left-to-right-harvesting-has-been-100ms-faster-than-right-to-left-harvesting/

Kelsey's GALOT - https://x.com/captpan6/status/1766194533698568634?s=46&t=wlHcJFH6Wov4aCAEAJX5Qw

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDKHFT_ltRQ

Kyle's GALOT - https://bsky.app/profile/johntv.bsky.social/post/3kl5msnmtev27

Community GALOT - https://youtu.be/SmcsediT3hs?si=OeElaK9KgWfANzEn

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0:00.0

And the Hello everybody welcome to a new episode of the MinMax Show,

0:23.2

place about games, friends, getting better. My name is Ben Hanson,

0:25.6

joined by Jeff Markey ofava on a very special day.

0:28.6

That's me.

0:30.1

Hello and welcome. We're joined by Kyle Hilliard.

0:32.3

Hello. We're joined by Kieliard. Hello.

0:33.0

We're joined by Kelsey Lewin.

0:35.0

Hi.

0:37.0

Welcome.

0:38.0

Welcome, one and all. Welcome everybody watching,

0:40.0

welcome everybody listening.

0:41.0

This is a packed episode of the MinMagg show. Actually compared to the last couple weeks it's not that back, but it's good, I swear.

0:47.0

We're going to be talking about...

0:48.0

It's a cozy episode. That's the words I was looking for.

0:51.0

So we're going to be talking about unicorn overlord, the strategy RPG. We're going to be talking about Mars

0:58.4

after midnight, the new game from the creator of Papers Please and Oprah

1:01.1

Din that you probably haven't played and realistically will never play but we're going to talk about it.

1:05.9

Then we're going to be talking about Lamasoft, the Jeff Minter story, the next documentary video game, talking about Star Wars Dark Forces that remaster,

1:14.9

a bunch of other odds and ends. And then we're going to be talking about Acura's impact on the game industry.

1:20.6

Sadly, he passed away last week, and so we're going to be unpacking the Creative Dragonball's impact on games and talking a little bit about just him as a creator overall here.

1:30.0

But and then of course back after the show community questions people submit over there on

1:34.0

Patreon we got way too many to count but if I had to count I'd say it's like 130 great

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