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Gaming Steve Episode 24 - 10.24.2005
This week I got a chance to speak with Xbox Live's Major Nelson where we chat about the new Xbox Live, cool new Xbox 360 features, Major's gaming history, German booth babes, and much more. Check it out.
Gaming Steve Episode 24 Program
- 00:04:22 Game News:
- GameTap unleashes classic games to the masses.
- California game restriction law disputed.
- Big Mac, fries, and Wi-Fi.
- Xbox 360 controller for sale in stores ... really.
- Wal-Mart demoing the 360.
- GameStop receiving 360 kiosks.
- San Andreas hits retail yet again.
- 10 million PSPs in 10 months.
- Dead or Alive 4 ... now with more Spartan.
- Satin Sliver PS2 buggy?
- Gizmondo? Bless you.
- The Main Event: Penny Arcade vs. Thompson.
- 00:31:10 GameTalk: Interview with Xbox Live's Major Nelson, Larry Hryb.
- 00:59:46 SporeTalk: I break open some emergency rations.
- 01:00:40 Game Review: The Warriors for the Xbox and PS2.
- 01:11:15 RetroReview: Swordquest for the Atari 2600.
- 01:24:19 “Name That Game!” contest winner from last week, a new clip, and the cool prize!
- 01:29:24 Final Thoughts on upcoming interviews, sending me audio questions, Civilization IV and more.
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Sweet!
Shorter but still long!
Emergency rations are good Steve!
Posted by PatMan33 at October 24, 2005 06:16 PManything good about Spore :) too bad I'm hard of hearing and I don't have Itunes or whatever to download it to anyway
Posted by smjjames at October 24, 2005 06:27 PMIm listening to it now! Great show Steve! Im really loving the new intros. Im really looking foreward to listening to your emergency Spore info. Thanks for a great show again. :-)
Posted by Pilot4Life at October 24, 2005 07:26 PMSo true about the PSP movies. They just accidentally filled that need for a smaller portable movie player. I don't know about the Video iPod though, it's so small... might not be cool to watch that long, that's what I heard anyway. I can't wait for roll-up displays. Im just getting a plain ol' portable dvd player for now! good show man.
Posted by Deep Lee at October 24, 2005 07:39 PMCan you teach me to get publicity? I promise I won't do anything bad with your attention whoring skills. :P
Posted by Jeremy at October 24, 2005 10:17 PMAlways a pleasure to listen to your podcasts, Steve.
Posted by Kagan at October 25, 2005 03:38 AMLove the podcast. I've been listening to it from the beginning. I appreciate your highly detailed comments and inside info.
Posted by greg at October 25, 2005 05:38 PMhey why don't they Jack Thompson on the war on terrorism. may be fun. ahhhhhhhhhh n00bs.
keep up the good work!
I'm a big fan of the retro reviews! I have the 3 Swordquests. With Earthworld, I did what you did, but never sent it in. I also didn't belong to the "club" because I couldn't afford it. I didn't ask my parents, either. I guess I didn't like to ask for stuff like that.
I personally liked Earthworld. Fireworld and Waterworld gave up their clues so easily. Earthworld, however, never gave up more than 3 clues no matter how many combinations of items I tried. I have since looked up the solution and yes, it works.
The reason DC comics did Atari games comics was because Warner owned both of them. The Swordquest was pretty good. I loved the 80's perms the hero's sported.
Here are the many things I liked about Earthworld:
1) Very colorful!
2) Great theme of the Zodiac. The game stuck to the theme.
3) A familiar look-n-feel to Adventure and Haunted House players.
4) The diagram of the zodiac in the comic showed how the rooms were connected.
What disappointed me:
1) There was no thematic, logical, or procedural way to find the clues. It was all running around and guesswork. I honestly don't know how anyone solved it given the thousands of permutations.
2) The clues didn't hint about anything in the game.
3) The pendant that warped you to random rooms didn't have any purpose.
His name is Cyrus, not Syphrus.
Posted by Sworn 42 Enemy at October 26, 2005 09:08 PMAnother awesome show Steve, hope to hear from Major Nelson again sometime :)
Posted by Jonny5 at October 27, 2005 09:58 AMVery nice podcast. This is now one of my regulars.
An idea for an upcoming podcast or article:
Now that the sun is setting on the orginal Xbox, how about a little piece on the best, but most under-rated and least played, titles for that platform? Kind of an Xbox finale, saying goodbye to an old friend...
On recent podcasts you've mentioned "Beyond Good and Evil" and "Voodoo Vince" as great, but overlooked, titles. There must be more...
Posted by pablo at October 28, 2005 08:42 PM