Player One Podcast: Episode 08 - 12/18/2006

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Episode 08 - Listened on 11/26/2022

Aired 12/18/2006

- Two Words: Dan Dormer. He's no Phil.

- Dan likes to use the word "r*tard" a lot. Full disclosure, I don't like Dan Dormer on the show.

- Gamer points discussion. I forgot when those were a thing. Greg couldn't migrate his US game tag to his Canadian credit card account, and his game score is gone. Playing baby games to rebuild his score.

- The DS is outselling all home consoles in Japan and Dragon Quest 9 is coming to DS. 

- These early episodes don't have names.

- OG XBox in memoriam:

* No one liked the Duke. The S controller came out in the US 6 months post-launch.

* First console with a built in hard drive. The beginning of the end of memory cards.

* They got universal online right with Live.

* Lots of talk about how it did great forward-thinking infrastructure decisions, but not the great love of the games themselves, unlike PS2 & GameCube where they gushed over the games they loved.

* Likes: Abe's Odyssey, Psychonauts, HALO, Tom Clancy games, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, & Forza.

Gaming Shames:

* Dan: Played 200 hours of Star Ocean 2 on the PS2. He also played 2600 ET.

* Greg: Sold off his entire Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and SNES collection to buy a 3DO and Wing Commander. He also never finished Legend of Zelda and he preferred Zelda II. (He still does.)

* CJ: Sold his entire SMS collection for $15 at a yard sale, including the 3D glasses. He also bought the code to Mike Tyson for $1 in 4th Grade.

Mike's thoughts: Dan Dormer. I knew this was coming again. In my first relisten I held back on my opinion of him because I though he was a friend of CJ and Greg and didn't want to be a jerk. He doesn't gel with the other two and I'll be glad when he's gone.