POP Ep.68: They Call Him Ecco, Ecco the Dolphin (Voicemail line: 713-893-8069)

Player One Podcast

Chris Johnston

Leisure, Video Games, Games

4.5 • 498 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2008

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Dolphins may be warm-blooded, but Sega's Genesis hit Ecco the Dolphin...cold-blooded. One of the company's most experimental and renowned releases from the 16-bit era is P1P Game Club game #3, so we spend the second half of the show discussing it. A breakthrough game at the time, its age exposes the cracks of its control and gameplay mechanics.

But if fish talk isn't your speed we spend the first half of the show shootin' the bull with Patrick Klepek of MTV Multiplayer and talk about the games we've been playin' over the week -- Rock Band, Kingdom Hearts II, Kim Possible: What's the Switch, Chessmaster Live, Poker Smash, Twisted Metal Head-On, Puzzle Quest and Burnout Paradise.

Thanks for listening! You can leave us a voicemail comment by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don't forget to join our forums if you haven't already!

This week's links:
MTV Multiplayer
Void Star Creations
YouTube: Poker Smash
YouTube: Zanthue is Coming!
YouTube: Ecco the Dolphin
YouTube: Ecco the Dolphin: Enter the Machine

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 68 of the Player One podcast for February 11th, 2008.
0:21.5	I'm your host, Greg Seward.
0:22.9	With me as always is the chim-chim to my speed racer, Chris Johnston.
0:28.3	Hello.
0:30.1	It was a long pause.
0:31.6	I was hoping that's some kind of monkey sound.
0:33.5	I thought about it, but I don't think I can make monkey sounds.
0:39.8	Should I try?
0:40.9	Yeah.
0:41.4	Yes.
0:42.7	No, that was more of it.
0:44.5	That was more of a, I don't know, a raven with throat cancer.
0:49.5	Something was definitely dying.
0:51.2	There you go.
0:51.9	Joining us from the West Coast is a man who's already shorter than my eight-month-old
0:55.9	daughter, Phil Theobald.
0:57.6	Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.
1:01.9	I thought I was going to get a spritle reference.
1:04.3	I know.
1:05.1	You know, I just wasn't sure how to say it right.
1:08.6	And finally, making a second guest appearance on our show, it's the return of the hair. Patrick Kleppik.
1:15.2	Oh, la. Talking on a rock band microphone.
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