Player One Podcast

This week! Vita sales, Vita bundles, next-generation Xbox, Skylanders, 2D Marios, physical retail/digital download, Beauty & The Beast and a game club on Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath! It’s an action-packed episode that you won’t want to miss.

Check out Greg’s new web series Generation 16 (Episode 2 now available) – click here. And take a trip over to Phil’s YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids.

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Direct download: 01_30_12-Episode275.mp3

Running time: 1:12:00

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Listen up, pardners, it’s our 25th Game Club, and to celebrate, we’re tackling the most recent (although still seven years old) entry in Lorne Lanning’s Oddworld series, Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath. It’s an (*ahem*) odd hybrid of first- and third-person shooters set in a whimsically bizarre version of the old west. You play as the Stranger, a bounty hunter looking to score loads of moolah by bringing in the orneriest outlaws in the land. Of course, there’s much more to the story, but to spoil it (and its twist) would be a disservice.

The game’s biggest gimmick is the literal “live ammo”–living critters that you must first hunt before loading them into your crossbow to use against the enemy. You also have the choice of bringing your quarry in dead or alive. You’ll earn a higher bounty if they’re still kickin’, but it’s usually more difficult to do this than finishing ‘em off first.

Originally released on the Xbox (and sadly not backwards compatible on the Xbox 360), we were lucky enough to get an updated version of the game recently. Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath HD is currently available on the PlayStation Network for $14.99. The regular ol’ version of the game is also available on Steam for $9.99 (with a free HD update coming in a few months).

We’ll be discussing Oddworld: Stranger’s Wrath in episode 275 of the Player One Podcast. So get playing and share your comments and/or memories. You can post them in this thread, in the official thread on our forums, on Twitter (@p1podcast), drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

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This week! Some Frankenstick, some Vita, some Netflix/Qwikster, a failed Ratchet & Clank All 4 One chat, Game Club on Gargoyle’s Quest (Game Boy), plus the most valuable games in our collections, region locking on Vita, remakes, Kirby, Star Wars, fall TV and more!

Own an iPhone/iPod touch? We’ve got an app for that–the Player One Podcast player app is available now. Play shows new and old, read show notes, access the show Twitter, website, email, voicemail line and more! Plus, you’ll be able to access bonus audio and video content (soon, once we figure out what that is). Click here to download.

Got an Android device? You can now download our app on the Android Marketplace. Find out all about it here.

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast.

Thanks for listening! Don’t forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepodcast.com. Don’t forget to join our forums if you haven’t already!

Direct download: 09_19_11-Episode256.mp3

Running time: 1:22:14

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It’s Game Club time again, folks! This session, we’re checking out a 21-year-old portable game–Capcom’s Gargoyle’s Quest. It’s an action/adventure title with a few light RPG elements starring Firebrand (aka Red Arremer; aka the irritating red demon from Ghouls ‘n Ghosts that would always kill you). It is also the first game in what would become a spin-off series to GnG. It continued with Gargoyle’s Quest II on NES and Demon’s Crest on SNES.

There are two ways to play Gargoyle’s Quest. The old fashioned way is to track down an original Game Boy cartridge. Of course, at this point, it’s probably easier (and cheaper) to pick it up through the 3DS Virtual Console. It’s currently available there for a paltry $3.99.

We’ll be discussing Gargoyle’s Quest on episode 256 of the Player One Podcast. So get playing and share your comments and/or memories. You can post them in the comments section of this blog post, in the official thread on our forums, on Twitter (@p1podcast), drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

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This week! We’ve got our Beyond Good & Evil Game Club plus tales of customer service, more dead 360s and more.

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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 MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to join our forums if you haven’t already!

This week’s links:
Beyond Good & Evil 2 leaked gameplay video?
Beyond Good & Evil 2 teaser
Jeremy “Norm” Scott / Spookingtons

Running time: 1:30:00

Direct download: 03_21_11-Episode230.mp3

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It’s that time again! Time for another entry in our increasingly infrequent Game Club! As we discussed on a recent episode, we’ve decided to tackle Michel Ancel’s beloved Beyond Good & Evil. The game is currently available on PS2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC. Ubisoft just released an HD port on Xbox Live Arcade for a measly 800 Allards (that’s only $10 in regular monies). It’s also coming to PSN, well, sometime later.

Beyond Good & Evil may not have set the sales charts on fire when it was originally released in 2003, but it received tons of praise from professional reviewers and fans alike. Why do you love this game so much? Let us know! Maybe–just maybe–this Game Club will convince Ubisoft to finish up Beyond Good & Evil 2.

We’ll be discussing Beyond Good & Evil on episode 230 of the Player One Podcast, so get playing and share your comments and/or memories. You can post them in the comments section of this blog post, in the official thread on our forums, drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

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This week! On this eve of the release of Metroid Other M we talk mostly about Super Metroid. But mixed in there there’s also Ufouria: The Saga, Shank, Mafia II and more!

Own an iPhone/iPod touch? We’ve got an app for that–the Player One Podcast player app is available now. Play shows new and old, read show notes, access the show Twitter, website, email, voicemail line and more! Plus, you’ll be able to access bonus audio and video content (soon, once we figure out what that is). Click here to download.

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast.

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 MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to join our forums if you haven’t already!

This week’s links:
Super Metroid Ending Run
Press Your Luck documentary
Ufouria The Saga

Running time: 1:38:13

Direct download: 08_30_10-Episode201.mp3

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The last Metroid is in captivity.
The galaxy is at peace…

Holy cow! We’re finally doing another Game Club!

In celebration of our 200th episode of the Player One Podcast and the upcoming release of Metroid: Other M for Wii, we are taking a look back at one of the most acclaimed titles for the Super NES, Super Metroid.

Despite all of the praise that Super Metroid has gotten over the years, the game is over 15 years old now. Does it still hold up after all this time?^* Let’s find out by playing it together! Bust out your old cartridge or pick up the game for 800 Nintendo Points from the Wii’s Virtual Console.

We’ll be discussing Super Metroid on episode 201 of the Player One Podcast, so get playing and share your comments and/or memories. You can post them in the comments section of this blog post, in the official thread on our forums, drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

* Don’t be a fool. Of course it holds up! Still, maybe you have…odd…taste in games and you’re not a fan of Super Metroid. In that case, we really wanna hear from you.

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This week! A packed show! We’ve got Modern Warfare 2 leaked footage (if you’re trying to remain a MW2 virgin it’s between 12:45-29:35), Nintendo’s DSi LL/XL announcement, a Game Club segment on Luigi’s Mansion for GameCube, then we launch into the games of the week before playing through the finalists in our theme song contest. Games discussed in this episode include Tekken 6, Loco Roco Midnight Carnival, Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4, Uncharted 2, Ratchet & Clank A Crack in Time, DJ Hero, GTA IV: Lost and Damned and Ballad of Gay Tony and more!

As mentioned we played the finalists in our theme song contest. You have until Friday, November 6 to get your vote in on songs 1, 2, 3 or 4. Email your selection to playeronepodcast@gmail.com.

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast.

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 MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to join our forums if you haven’t already!

This week’s links:

Red Eye Blog: Original DJ Heroes

Super Mario 128 demo video

DJ Hero educational video

Direct download: 11_02_09-Episode158.mp3

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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 in there as well is some InFamous, Uncharted, Blaz Blue, Xbox Live woes, Tomb Raider, some iPhone stuff and a whole lot more. It’s a long show this week, over 2 hours.

We normally don’t do this but since this episode is so long, here’s an approximate rundown of what we talk about:

0:00-3:00: Intro
3:00-19:15: Transformers 2
19:16-54:41: Game Club: Moonwalker
54:42-1:36:49: CJ and Phil WBP (LucasArts PC/Telltale talk)
1:36:50-1:59:04: Gregs Ford and Sewart WBP
1:59:05-2:05:44: Talk about next Game Club and Ending

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 MP3 to our email address, playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Don’t forget to join our forums if you haven’t already!

Running time: 2:05:44

Direct download: 07_13_09-Episode142.mp3

This week’s links:
Moonwalker (Arcade)
Moonwalker commercial
Tales of Monkey Island trailer
Megatron vs. Starscream
Bebot
Galaxyquest

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