POP Ep.30: Power Down (Voicemail line 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Games, Video Games

4.5 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2007

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Last week the rumor hit the Internet that Nintendo was planning to shutter their Nintendo Power magazine. Sad news for those of us in the "Nintendo generation" that grew up reading it religiously. So we invited Kevin Gifford of magweasel.com and GameSetWatch's weekly Game Mag Weaseling column to talk about it. We not only discuss the rumored shutdown of Nintendo Power but also about the current state of video game magazines in the US and UK and the changing nature of print publishing.

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This week's links:
Magweasel.com
Game Mag Weaseling
IGN: Rumor: Nintendo Power Shutting Down
Youtube: Nintendo Power commercial
The (Unofficial) Ace Ebb Fan Club
Edge Presents File
Crackdown
Halo 3 Beta
Ristar
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl
Catan
Ouendan 2
Odin Sphere
Lunar Knights

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 30 of the Player One podcast from Monday, May 21st, 2007.
0:21.1	I'm your host, Chris Johnston, and not joining us this week.
0:24.5	Because they suck.
0:25.6	We're down two people, actually.
0:27.9	Greg and Dan are not with us this week.
0:29.9	Greg's off doing play-by-play for lacrosse or curling or pillow fighting or whatever they do up there.
0:36.1	Actually, CJ, this is the annual running of the moose in Canada right now.
0:41.7	Oh, I see.
0:42.4	I was not aware of that.
0:44.0	Yes.
0:45.2	Okay.
0:45.5	Well, and Dan's having troubles with Skype, so that's why he's not here.
0:49.5	Supposedly.
0:50.2	But I think it's because he found a better podcast to be on, which is Even Avatar Radio.
0:55.5	Oh, nice.
0:56.0	He's guesting on that this week.
0:58.5	I see.
1:00.3	Obviously, joining us from his living room in California this week, Phil Theobald, you've moved to your computer.
1:07.6	Yes, the computer has been moved out of the bedroom into the living room, so it's a whole new studio for me. And, you know what, now, now it is the beginning of a fantastic story. And if you don't mind me to chime me in here, I'm going to tell you why it's a fantastic story because we're going to make it journey into the cave of monsters. Really? Oh, thank you.
1:27.7	Is that from Bubble Bobble, perhaps?
1:30.0	Wow, CJ, good identifying job there.
1:34.6	It's almost not at all.
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