Idle Thumbs 191: Not the Greatest, but the Best

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🗓️ 1 January 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We ring out the old, and ring in the new, with what may be the oldest conversation in the existence of our medium: What is the best video game of all time? Not the greatest, mind you, but the best. See you in 2015! (Thanks to Matter magazine for sending us on this quest as part of their video game week, earlier this month.)

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0:00.0	The It's December 31st, 2014.
0:17.0	It's December 31st, 2014.
0:20.0	Happy New Year.
0:22.0	This is Idle Thums 191, and I'm Jake Rodkin,
0:27.0	alone in this room.
0:29.0	As we said last week, and as evidenced by my being alone in this room everyone's out for the New
0:35.3	years they're on break so what we're going to do this week is play you guys a
0:39.2	special episode of Idle Thums that we did for an online magazine called Matter.
0:45.5	You can find it at medium.com slash Matter.
0:48.8	Go check it out.
0:49.4	It's a great site.
0:50.5	They asked us to do a special episode of Idle Thums that talks about what is the best game of all time.
0:55.6	Not the greatest game, but the best game.
0:58.0	And spoiler alert, we don't really, we don't actually get into like lists of top games and argue their merits and stuff which obviously is moot because we all know that the best game of all time is Christmas lemmings
1:09.3	But we thought that the discussion was pretty good so we put it together for you guys for our New Year's episode as well.
1:15.5	So check it out and stick around until the end.
1:18.0	Thanks, happy New Year, see you guys next week and next year. Thanks.
1:23.4	I'm
1:25.0	I'm Chris Raim.
1:26.4	I'm Chris Raimo. I'm Chris Ramo. I'm Sean Vanaman and I'm Jake Rodkin and this is a one-off
1:38.7	episode of Idle Thums a weekly video game podcast you can find at idle thumbs.net.
1:44.0	We do it every week. We talk about all kinds of video games and other things that have nothing to do with video games.
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