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The Hello hello and welcome to this latest episode of the Midlife Gamer podcast.

Today is Sunday, the 4th of March 2012.

My name is Darren. I've got the beautiful bearded Matthew in the room with me as always. Nice to have you here, brother.

Thank you. And what are we doing? Talking about games and other geeky, geeky business.

You know the score boys and girls. Is that time in the month? This is how it happens. So without further do, kick back, relax and enjoy episode 170 of the Midlife Gremlin podcast. Yay. What you're not to, mate? Car trouble. Car trouble? Just talk about that briefly. I don't know. Why don't know? I broke in another car. Okay, so you saw a tweet from you earlier in the week about... Rage tweet. Rage tweet. Rage tweet. So, come on, give us the lowdown. What happened? Oh, the car stopped. It lost complete power and everything. It was still... If anyone knows Bristol Zoo, right? Oh, yeah, I'll go there all the time. If you pass Bristol Zoo on the right, there's a right turn just after, but it's on an incline, and it's going down towards the, uh, the, uh, the Clifton Church. And that's exactly where I broke down. Now, already my windows don't work, neither of my front window. So I'm kind of trying to wave cars past out to the door. and then it turns in my hazard lights don't work either as I'm fucking sat there it's like half past four

rush hours just at try to wave cars past out to the door. And then it turns out my hazard lights don't work either. As I'm fucking sat there, it's like half past four. Rush hour is just about to start. I had to get the guy behind me to help me push it. Yeah. Is it second and clown car by any chance? Yes, it is. And all the doors fell up as well and all these clowns came rolling out of the side. I'll tell you a bit more late. It was quite an experience of getting rid of that. Getting rid of something is hard work. The council won't take it, do you know what I mean? Oh, never mind. Never mind. Anyway, games. Games. Come on. Okay. We've been playing. Okay. I've been snowboarding.

Oh.

So hard, so hard.

So the SSX demo became available to me.

Not long after we recorded, actually, on the last show.

And it was very, well, it was a good demo.

It was a good demo. It had a trick course and it had a raised course, but it was completely using the rider net experience and showing you the scores of your friends.

And that was just driving so much competition on Twitter and on our forums, for example, people were just, yeah, yeah, done your score now, it's your turn.

And just that alone on just two courses kept me going back to that game for a good week and a half.

And on its way up to release.

Now, there was something, a few things this demo did that I really appreciated.

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