200 episodes, eh?

My, my, my, how time does fly.

Why, it seems like only yesterday that a troop of fresh-faced youngsters burst onto the internet radio scene with a raucous sense of humor and a bold new take on the electronic TV game industry.

Of course, the world has seen many changes since those days, from the invention of Lycra to the topple of a pair of mighty towers in the financial hub of a nation.

I mean, my goodness, we've even put a man on the moon.

But along every step of that rocky path, the Player One podcast has been there to punctuate these events

and provide added perspective and a sense of calm reassurance that everything is going to be okay.

Why, who can forget the early days when Phil, Greg, CJ, and the other fucking guy who was replaced by a robot and then later Greg Ford?

Yeah.

Would wax and lyrical about their Halcyon Days

as revered magazine editors

breaking Woodward and Bernstein caliber stories

of hidden characters and boss strategies.

And who among us hasn't dried a tear

at the retelling of such classic EGM Days tales

as the time Greg Seward nursed a dying ferret back to

help using nothing more than the cord of a Saturn controller, spit, and a little Canadian

TLC. We were even there to share surreptitiously in the loss of Phil Theobald's virginity

to a Randy and very, very busty games PR executive.

Sure, there have been bumpy patches here and there.

CJ's involuntary manslaughter charge in the death of a legless vagrant

and Greg Ford's expulsion from no fewer than three religious universities

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