Player One Podcast: Episode 11 - 01/07/2007

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Episode 11 - Listened on 11/28/2022

Aired 01/07/2007

Hosts: Greg, CJ, Phil, Dan

- CJ said he wasn't going to buy a PS3 any time soon. He got a PS3.

- Dan says that people who throw their Wiimotes into the TV screen are "r-word idiots who should not be allowed to procreate."

- Phil is playing PSO2 to build up his achievement points.

- William Hung jokes.

- The guys are going to buy Crackdown to get into the HALO 3 beta. (Phil will end up loving Crackdown.) CJ calls it "Crapdown".

- E for All will replace E3. (It won't last). Dan hates it, Greg supports it, CJ says it won't happen, Phil doesn't care.

- Dead Pool Segment: Predictions of games that won't come out in 2007. I added the year they did come out:

* CJ: Halo Wars (2009), Gran Turismo 5 (2010), Warhawk (2007)

* Dan: Alan Wake (2010), Fable II (2008), Huxley (PC Beta in 2010, then canceled; 360 canceled)

* Phil: Super Paper Mario (2007), Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (2007), Final Fantasy 13 (2009), Banjo-Kazooie 3(2008)

* Greg: Metroid Prime 3 (2007), Duke Nukem Forever (2011), Too Human (2008)

- Guys talk about moving from games journalism to games development. Phil & Greg sound like it wasn't something they really enjoyed. CJ isn't at Adult Swim yet, so no comments.

Mike's thoughts: The opening up continues, as does the more relaxed feel. Dan doesn't gel, but I knew that already.

Player One Podcast: Episode 10 - 12/31/2006

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Episode 10 - Listened on 11/27/2022

Aired 12/31/2006

- First show of 2007. Phil and Dan are there, and Phil asks if he is still called a special guest. He is. He'll be written out in Episode 15.

- 500 MG games took 4-5 hours to download in Christmas 2006.

- Dan said he's a World of Warcraft God and is plowing through the beta.

- 2007: A look ahead:

* Dan: Wants Metal Gear Solid 4 on the 360. (It won't.)

* Greg: Wants Third parties to build games ground-up for the Wii (They won't.) He wants a Six-Axis controller with rumble. (It will happen.)

* Phil: Wants XBox Live Arcade to get better (It won't) and more games to come to the Wii Virtual Console (They will for 2007, at least.) 

He wants Saturn support on the Wii though he knows he won't. Greg of the Past says Saturn games don't hold up (again). Greg of the future should slap him on the back of his head.

Phil wants a Mega Man 9. (He'll get it in 2008.)

* CJ: Wants Nintendo to get away from friend codes. Keep waiting.

- Phil jokes about Saddam Hussein's execution and he's choked up about it. I think this is first non sequitur joke of the show.

How did we get into video gamin, oldest to youngest:

* Phil: Played games in 1980 with the Atari VCS. Phil (like me) didn't know about the '83 video game crash because games were plentiful and cheap at Zayre. He then got a Commodore 64 in 1985. It took 2 years of whining to 

then get an NES.

* Greg: Also started on the VCS, but didn't get into games until he and brother begged their Dad for an NES. He called every store in the province to find one for sale and drove through a blizzard to pick it up.

* CJ: Started with a Magnavox Odyssey 2 with the voice module but was friends with Andy to play an NES and stopped playing with him when he got his own NES in 1988. He did buy a Genesis before an SNES.

* Dan: Started with a hand-me-down Atari 2600. Didn't get into video games until he played Chrono Trigger.

- CJ tells the story of Bubsy climbing to the top of the yarn ball.

Mike's thoughts: First episode where the guys open up a bit about themselves, which makes for a more fun listen.

Player One Podcast: Episode 09 - 12/25/2006

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Episode 09 - Listened on 11/26/2022

Aired 12/25/2006

- First game of the year show.

- No Christmas song. We'll have to wait for Mike Phillips.

- Two special guests - Phil Theobald and Dan Dormer. Dan lives in Florida. That explains a lot.

- Phil is playing the three Burger King games. They have gone double platinum.

- Long episode with recap of each month's news.

- E3 is dying. Will it ever recover? (No)

- No Spanish-language countdown to games of the year. Mike Phillips isn't here yet. They do games by system, instead of top ten lists.

- Phil says he doesn't like military shooty-shooty games. (The others will follow suit as the years go on.)

- Game of the Year: 

* CJ: Zelda: The Twilight Princess

* Greg: Gears of War

* Phil: Zelda: The Twilight Princess

* Dan: Viva Pinata

- System of the Year:

* CJ: XBox 360

* Greg: XBox 360

* Phil: Nintendo DS

* Dan: XBox 360 

Mike's thoughts: Pretty low-key game of the year episode. The love of military shooters amused me, knowing that you never hear of them anymore on the show.