Monthly Archives: July 2009

Episode 144 (7/27/09) – LARPing our ARG

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (43.8MB) This week! Tweets, Wii Sports Resort, Starfy, Monkeys on Islands, kids and games, game movies, and plenty more. Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. You can leave us a voicemail by calling 713-893-8069 or you can send a comment via [...]

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OMG Kitties!

When Dana and I lost our beloved cat, Mia, a few weeks ago, we were understandably heartbroken. Of course, since we love cats, we also knew that it was a matter of time before our hearts had healed enough to allow us to bring another cat into our lives. Apparently that time was today (well, [...]

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Episode 143 (7/20/09) – Only Squares Use the G, Man

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (35.1MB) This week we talk about some game-related stuff, including the CoD MW2 Collector’s Edition, video game t-shirts, introducing your kids to games, controllers and a bunch of other topics. Then we go into the game tapes we’ve been playing this week, which includes Monkey Island (Special Edition [...]

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Episode 142 (7/13/09) – Walk Like They Do On The Moon

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (57.7MB) This week! We talk all about our Game Club game, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker for the Sega Genesis. Plus a whole lot about Transformers 2 (the movie) and some PC game talk including the recent LucasArts rereleases on Steam and Telltale Games’ latest, Tales of Monkey Island. Interspersed [...]

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Mia

This is Mia. Mia was, until earlier today, our cat. My wife, Dana, and I were forced to put the little girl to sleep after she became tremendously ill last night. Back in February, Mia clearly wasn’t feeling well—she was lethargic and refused to eat. A trip to the vet revealed that she had hepatitis, [...]

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Game Club #20 – Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson’s death caused this fairly common Genesis game to skyrocket in value. A game that could previously be found for a couple bucks was now selling for hundreds of dollars. Even so, it was pretty clear that this would have to be our next Game Club title. As of now, [...]

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Episode 141 (7/6/09) – Johnny Sega and the Turbo Touches

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (49.1MB) This week! We talk about games and movies and Turbo Touch control pads and everything in between. Topics of discussion include movie games, game movies, Saturday morning cartoons, Ghostbusters, InFamous, Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, The Bigs 2, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood [...]

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DELETED!

As I’ve mentioned on the show before, I rather enjoy Telltale Games’ adventure games. The ol’ point ‘n’ click was my genre of choice back when I first started getting into PC games (in the early ’90s), and it’s great to see this once dead gameplay style revived. The first episode of Telltale’s Tales of [...]

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