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.

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Direct download: 01_30_12-Episode275.mp3

Running time: 1:12:00

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).

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).

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).

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

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

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, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker is only available on the Sega Genesis, Master System, or Game Gear. For our Game Club, we will be talking about the Genesis version, but if you want to comment on the other ports, please do. If you don’t have access to the Genesis cartridge, we’re sure that you will find some way to play it.

The game will be discussed in episode #142, so get playing and leave us your comments and memories of the game. As always, you can post them on this blog, in the forums, drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

YouTube Links:

Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – Full Game (Part 1 of 3)
Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker – The Movie (Part 1)

It looks like CJ never got around to whipping up a proper Sly Cooper Game Club blog post, so I’m gonna take care of it.

First a quick announcement: This Game Club was originally scheduled for episode #136, but we have pushed it back until episode #138. We rambled a little long when we recorded #136, and we didn’t want to do a half-hearted Game Club discussion by cramming our Sly Cooper discussion in afterward. So what does this mean for you? Well, if you’ve not done so already, there’s still time to get some playtime in and leave us your comments!

With the recent release of Sucker Punch’s Infamous, we wanted to turn back the clock and revisit one of the developer’s earlier titles, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus for PS2. This was the company’s second game, and its first one developed for a Sony system (its first was Rocket: Robot on Wheels for N64).

Can this (slightly) older game stand up to today’s best platformers? Give it a try and let us know! You should be able to find used copies of the game at just about any GameStop for the low, low price of $5.

Be sure to leave us your comments here, in our Game Club forum, via e-mail, or on our voicemail line (713-893-8069).

YouTube Links:
Tutorial
Tides of Terror – Part 1

This week! Games, tangents, and a game club on Ys Book I & II. Plus, we have a special guest–8-4′s John Ricciardi. Games we talk about this week include Outrun Online Arcade, Final Fantasy XIII, Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, Monster Hunter 3, Dynasty Warriors Gundam and PlayStation Home.

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: 2:15:27

This week’s links:
John Ricciardi’s Twitter
www.8-4.jp
CJ’s Twitter
Sewart’s Twitter

Direct download: 04_27_09-Episode131.mp3

Ys, the ideal utopia. Once a country so peaceful and prosperous, a country where children were as free as the wind. A country where harmony blew through the hearts of all men.

Ys, a kingdom ruled by the wisdom and charity of its six powerful priests. An empire watched over and blessed by the enchanting aura of its two beautiful goddesses.

Ys, the seemingly tranquil paradise, suddenly pulled from the height of its civilization to the empty abyss of infinite isolation.

How could such a land of promise simply vanish from the face of the planet? How could such prosperity be forgotten?

The legend has been silenced for over seven hundred years. And now the mystery unfolds.

After our Beyond Oasis Game Club, we’ve decided to keep the action-RPG train going with Ys: Book I & II (for the record, it’s pronounced “ease,” not “whys”). This was one of the very first console games to be released on CD in the U.S. back when it came out for the TurboGrafx-16. The series has earned a lot of fans over the years, but will newcomers to the series enjoy the simplistic “run into enemies to damage them” combat system? That’s what we wanna find out.

Since most of you probably don’t have a TurboGrafx to play the original on, your best best is to get the game through the Wii’s Virtual Console (only 800 Wii Points, and you can now play it straight off an SD card!). Atlus also recently released a graphically updated version of the game(s) for the Nintendo DS under the title Legacy of Ys: Book I & II. You won’t get the true old school Ys experience playing this version, but if that’s all you got, then go for it.

We’ll be discussing this game in episode 131. In the meantime, get playing and get us your comments and/or memories. As always, you can post them on this blog, in the forums, drop us an email, or leave a voicemail (713-893-8069).

Ye Olde YouTube Links:
Intro Sequence
Gameplay Footage