Console Draft: Sega Dreamcast

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Guys, I know we've got a pretty cool, at least for me, topic at hand today, but I don't know if any of you guys watched that Mario Kart direct.

Yeah.

Yeah, the Mario Kart world where they're just kind of like telling us all the details.

I don't know.

It's kind of, you know, I'm not the biggest Mario Kart guy.

I'm definitely going to get it, but I was really really encouraged by some of the details we're hearing.

I know we're not like a news podcast, but like it felt like so much news in that, in that direct that I would feel weird not talking about it.

Yeah, you know, I mean, Nintendo will do that sometimes.

They'll just sometimes give this huge news dump, and now all of a sudden we go from knowing nothing to knowing everything about Mario Kart World.

It certainly feels that way.

I know.

You know what?

It's kind of one of those things, too, where I kind of feel like I know too much.

Yeah.

Where I kind of want, I wish they had kind of saved a couple of the little things like as like a surprise for launch day.

Yeah, like I wish I didn't know all the new items, you know, like it felt, it felt like a little gratuitous, but I'm like, okay, I can understand getting excited about a new kind of shell or like,

you know, the banana peel gun.

Like those things are really cool, but like, I'm like, oh, I would have loved to have discovered that sort of as the roulette of the game it played.

Yeah, I mean, like, I would have liked to have organically found out that they include a porno mag that you can find on the road and you can throw a porno mag.

And then another guy reads it and he jacks off in his car and then he can't race.

Like, I would have liked to have found that on my own.

It's so upsetting that they put that in there because I would have liked it.

It would have been so cool to discover that on its own because,

and it's, it's, it's not just like one kind.

It's not just one kind.

It's like specific.

Because you have to know, like, hey, Waluigi is really into like, like,

people being inflated.

You know, I'm like, he's really got an inflation fetish.

So if you find that, then you'll throw it to Waluigi and then he'll spin out because he's too busy cracking it.

Scaling damage on that porno mag is really interesting.

Like, you know, you throw the wrong kind of porno mag at Donkey Kong and it doesn't affect him at all, but you throw that same porno mag at Wario and it makes his car unusable for 15 minutes.

Yeah, it's like, wow, me, Donkey Lose.

Well, it's like, it's so crazy, too.

Like, that was one of the things, but like, some of these new tracks are.

Some of the new tracks are really intense.

Yeah.

like i mean some of them go through a there's like a

like a movie studio where they're shooting a porno

it's really weird that there's like yeah there's a porno like like a shoot yeah like it's the it's a it's a porn specifically a porno parody of austin powers yeah and that's the kind of thing you know it's just like a bridge too far because i sort of like it doesn't make sense but then again if the level's fun enough i'm it's not gonna matter no at a certain point you you're just like hey whatever's go rainbow road i'm not even paying attention to it anymore.

I'm just trying to win the race.

I thought it was really cool that when you look at the entire map of the entire like world,

Mario Kart world, that it uh that it that it looks like two big titties.

I do like that a lot.

Yeah.

And you know what?

I'm really excited because, you know, this is the first, it's the first console that has like a fromsoft game on it.

You know, they were going in an adult direction.

So when I saw this stuff, I was like, finally, a Mario Kart that grew up with us.

Finally, a Mario Kart where there's a porno magazine item, a racetrack that goes through a porno set, and a map that a racetrack that is two tits.

This is kind of what we've always been wanting from Mario Kart.

All right, I need to confess something.

What's that, Nick?

I said we were watching the Mario Kart World

presentation.

We were actually just watching my presentation.

Oh, no.

We guys liked it, right?

I'm kind of bummed that that's not what the game is.

Yeah, sure.

I loved it.

Yeah, what are you going to tell me that it's like a racing game with like Yoshi and no titties?

I mean, you know, yeah, pretty much.

It kind of just sucks that you're a fucking liar.

We dial into SegaNet and get our ass handed to us by Sony as we dream draft our Dreamcast games library this week on Get Played.

Welcome to Get Played, your one-stop show for good games, bad games, and every game in between.

It's time to get played.

I'm your host, Heather Ann Campbell, along with my fellow host, Tiger Weiger.

Hey, that's me, Tiger Weiger, along with our third host, Matt Apodaka.

Hello, everyone.

Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the premiere video game podcast, where this week we are talking about what?

What was that?

What were you doing?

Don't worry about it.

Nick was just holding up his hands like he'd never seen them before.

I got, look, here's the thing.

It was kind of like a, dude, chill.

No, I wasn't gesturing at anybody.

It was just looking at my hands.

We don't need to worry about it.

Yeah, yes, we do.

Did you fucking like freaky Friday with a dog or something?

Here's what happens: so it was very cold in her here earlier.

Like, like the AC was, you know, whatever.

It's every office I've ever worked in.

The temperature is never right.

Nobody's happy.

Maybe it's because we're at work, whatever, whatever the fuck.

Anyway, so it was cold, and I have this thing.

I have this syndrome

that when

my extremities get cold, like they they turn just like white like completely white

and it's the it's happened with like three of my fingers and so i was seeing i think they have blood in them again so oh so you were sort of like i was just inspecting my fingers because it felt like i i could feel sensations from them again and i could see color in them so you were that cold yeah but no i wasn't that cold but just like the way i i actually run pretty warm but the way my body reacts is that my fingers and toes uh sometimes just turn white on their own that's and you lose feeling Yeah, and you lose feeling, yeah.

Holy shit.

Yeah.

That's intense.

Yeah.

So you have the capacity to be whiter.

Okay.

It's called a Raynard syndrome.

Yeah.

I don't know if I feel good about making fun of a guy with a syndrome.

Well, then we're going to have to delete the whole podcast.

This week.

On Get Played, we are discussing one of my favorite machines that has ever been created by man.

it's the Sega Dreamcast.

And I also want to say, I was not the one who said, let's do this episode.

So, boy, what a treat.

It was me.

It was.

Not that we're taking credit.

Also, I got to just point something out.

We can't just be like, Nick, what the fuck were you doing?

Uh-huh.

Heather's wearing a goddamn char helmet.

I'm the only normal one here.

I'm the one doing anything normal.

I thought the plan was not to talk about it.

Yeah, and also, what?

Nothing.

Nothing.

The plan was not to talk about what?

That's exactly what I was going to say.

Exactly.

No, exactly.

Never mind.

Did you guys have a plan?

I don't have any sort of plan.

You discussed a plan.

No, no plan was discussed.

Okay, guys, name the movie.

Do I look like a guy with a plan?

Godfather?

Jack and the Beanstalk, which was just called Jack.

Okay.

It's from both.

I forgot.

You can look it up on your own.

You can figure it out.

By the way, you can't, like, you can't say Nick's not...

You said you were the normal guy because Nick has a syndrome.

That's fair.

That's pretty fucked up.

He's mothering Nick's little fingies.

That's pretty fucked up.

Yeah, you're right.

You're right.

No, he's right.

I'm a freak.

When your fingers get like that, do you try to touch the other one kind of like

a stranger kind of?

What?

What?

Give your other little fingers a stranger?

You would jerk off your own dead fingers.

Who's touching my other fingers?

Some strange.

I do get worried that that's how he discovered that there was no feeling.

I'm not sure if it brings you any sort of pain or discomfort.

No, it's fine.

And I don't use it to facilitate any sort of masturbatory act to answer your disgusting question.

Why do you have these bowls of melted ice?

We're going to talk about the Sega Dreamcast for once on this podcast.

For once in our fucking lives.

We talk about it all the time.

I probably talk about the Dreamcast too much.

Probably like our third most talked about

console.

But it's also not a particularly newsy week.

And I could also say that part of the reason we are limiting the discussion of things in the now right now is because next week we are going to be doing a We Play You Play about Blue Prince.

That's right, the Zeitgeist indie game that everyone is playing, including all three of us.

Ranch, you playing Blue Prince?

I bought it.

Wow.

Wow.

Okay.

Wow.

We're all spending time with Blue Prince.

We will have extensive thoughts.

Maybe we'll hear a few thoughts today, but we're going to have in-depth thoughts, spend it devoting a full episode

to Blueprints next week.

That will be in our main feed this coming Monday.

But right now,

the question for the room is, in reference to video games that we are playing,

Blueprints and otherwise,

the question is.

And I'm going to pose to all of you.

I'm going to ask you

from the bottom of my heart.

Because I genuinely want to know

what video games you have been devoting any of your free time to.

I just have to have the answer to this question.

The question being,

this question right now, what are you playing?

The question

that I am going to ask

from the bottom of my heart

because I genuinely want to know

what it is you've been playing recently.

And the question is, what have you been playing?

Thank you so much, Resident Evil Murder.

There's a lot.

There was a lot to remember.

Yeah, you didn't have to repeat all that.

You just really had to say the words.

I thought you updated the script and I felt terrible.

There's no script.

I'm just riffing here.

What are you looking at?

There's no script.

That was off the dome.

I was reading something.

I do have these are my notes I actually what I wrote down some notes on what I've been playing that I'm going to talk about oh all right then Nick would

you play oh wow

the softball tossed right back at me okay here we go surprise bitch

wait what are the rules of this game

there are no rules is that what they say when they pitch a ball in their baseball game that's often surprised

yeah that's what they do it's like it's typically not a surprise because if you're you're in the batter's box, there is only sort of like one thing that's going to happen.

A ball is going to come forward.

Can you imagine if

you didn't know?

If you just pitched at somebody else.

And they had said, oh, that's interesting.

And then somebody else hit the ball.

Yeah.

I guess it would be like a completely different thing.

Give everybody a bat.

Everybody baseball, but everybody has a bat.

That would be an incredible game.

I think that's cricket, is it not?

I don't know how cricket works, but I wouldn't want to talk out of school.

Look, I don't want to speak on it.

Yeah.

And, you know,

listeners from regions that play cricket cover your ears.

I think it's fucking fake.

I don't even think it's real.

It's a flat bat.

Yeah, it's like a flat bat, and the ball is kind of like they call it a bowler, right?

I think it's a bowler, not a pitcher.

Yeah.

And it's a heavier ball, but I don't know how any of that shit works.

And I also know games can go on forever.

Because, you know, one criticism of baseball is like, man, I got a way of spending half my day here But like cricket games can go on for multiple days depending on what style you're playing to that criticism I say you could spend worse you could spend your days doing something worse than being half a day at a fucking baseball park baby.

No, that's that's fair and hey I have a great time every time I I go and catch a

I was gonna say For some reason, I was gonna call it a four square.

That's not what you call it.

But let me tell you something.

Just real quick.

I went to a Dodger game this week.

I ate two hot dogs and drink a mutilata before the game started.

It's a lot of fun.

I was having a blast.

It was great.

It was Hello Kitty Night.

What are they?

Well, we saw your picks from Hello Kitty Night.

It looked like a real Hoot.

And you saw a guy to see Otani hit a home run with a dinger.

Fucking

just straight down the center.

There was nothing anybody could do about it.

It was amazing.

Home runs are sick.

They should do it every.

This is the thing that I think I truly do think.

Yeah.

They should hit one every time.

What's crazy about a guy like Otani is that he's hit so many homers that there's homers he can't remember.

Yeah.

And if I hit one homer in my life, I would never forget it.

When I hit a homer, I usually hear, don't.

Why don't they have home run competitions like they have slam dunk competitions?

They do.

They do?

But it's just most home runs, the home run derby.

But it's not like, here's the most, give us the most spectacular home run, which I think is what you're picturing.

Yeah, like imagine a guy who, his home run is he runs up to the to the base like Happy Gilmore before he hits.

Yeah, that's pretty fun.

Or like a guy who can spin before he hits a home run.

Or like the ball's on fire and then he hits.

Yeah.

In NBA terms, the home run derby is more akin to the three-point shootout where it's like a three-point contest where you're taking a set number of shots and trying to see how many go in.

Fucking imagine you set a trampoline up

and you run at the trampoline and jump off the trampoline.

And as you're coming down, you hit a homer.

Somebody does like a flip and then hits a home run.

Fuck yeah.

You go up there, you jump without a bat, and someone throws you the bat.

You catch the bat.

Oh, boy.

Yeah, that's really, really cool.

Here's how they would do it, though.

The pitch would have to be at the exact same place every time.

So it would be like a machine pitch because that's like the variable in slam dunk competitions isn't that the hoop is moving all over the place.

No, yeah.

It's the complexity of the thing.

Yeah.

So you would be able to train and practice an insane home run,

but

you would know exactly where the ball was.

Look, we get out of video games, but

home run,

slam dunk.

What's another one?

Touchdown.

Yeah, touchdowns aren't really.

Touchdown's not as good.

Yeah, I think it's good.

I guess like Hail Mary pass is kind of that.

Hail Mary, or like long field goal, but who gives a shit?

Bullseye and darts?

Bullseye and darts.

Okay, I'll give you, I'll give you just generally bullseye.

Or like shooting a gun, bullseye.

Sort of bullseye or streaking an arrow.

Yeah, that's pretty sick.

Okay.

So bullseye is another another one.

Archery seems like it shouldn't be cool, but it absolutely is.

It rocks.

I mean, it rocks, but does it hold the candle to one hand in your pocket firing a gun at the Olympics?

No, that's pretty cool.

Yeah.

Pretty good.

We're just like a couple.

We're just like three huge

sports heads.

What is the, like, I guess the soccer equivalent slash football equivalent is like

a bicycle kick, maybe?

Yeah, that's pretty cool.

What are you asking?

I don't know.

What's the coolest?

I think Slam Dunk.

Yeah, Slam Dunk's the coolest.

Slam dunk is unfortunately really, really cool.

It's fucking amazing to watch.

But baseball has two, doesn't it?

Home run and Grand Slam.

Well, okay.

If we're talking Grand Slam versus Slam Dunk, that's a conversation.

Grand Slam is pretty good.

Grand Slam is amazing.

It's contextual there, like because the Grand Slam has such import in terms of impact on the game, whereas a Slam Dunk, unless it's a game-winning dunk, is which is exceedingly rare, is just one individual basket.

But I will say that slam dunks seem angrier.

They are.

They're a more aggressive thing, whereas like sometimes a home run, you don't know it's a home run until it's farther away.

No, the thing we're talking about with slam dunks, the thing that they, the, you know, they talk about is posterizing.

Like, you dunked on someone else so hard that you made a poster where they are the other guy on the poster.

Yeah.

And so that is like, there's an emasculating element to your opponent if you dunk on them.

Like when Blake Griffin dunked on Timothy Mozgov, and you know, basically people are like, oh, well, his career's over.

He got fucking dunked on.

But

in baseball, a pitcher, unless they're giving up like a grand slam that like loses a playoff series, it's not necessarily going to have the same effect.

No, not that, not that a pitcher wants to give up a home run, but it's not the same impact as just getting fucking dunked on.

And then to Heather's point, so many what look like home runs,

the defeat, the deflation of when

a baseball player in the outfield just catches it.

Yeah, like a dunk, the act of the dunk is immediate.

Is the thing.

Whereas a home run, it's like you hit the ball and then there's like a seven-second delay before joy.

Yeah.

Here's a question: talking dunks: one hand or two-hand

one is

cooler.

Yeah.

But two, two is tough.

Two is like, you motherfucker.

Yeah.

That shit home, baby.

You know that famous Michael Jordan going in for the dunk and then he switches and turns it into a layup moment?

Watching that moment, I feel like he thought I was, I feel like he thought I'm too low for the dunk.

Oh.

Like, I don't think it was, how cool is this?

I think he's coming at the rim and he's like, I'm not going to, I'm going to miss.

Well, I mean, that's like what the otherworldly athleticism is, is that in that moment, you can make that calculation and have the body control to audible.

But

if memory serves, I'd have to re-watch that play, a clip of that play.

If memory serves, it was to evade a defender who was going to guard with one hand and then he switched to his offhand.

Even so, it was a basketball.

Yeah, the...

The athleticism at play there is really impressive.

Yeah.

Do you like a backwards dunk or a forwards dunk?

Dude, fucking backwards, yeah.

Reverse dunks are pretty cool, forwards, forwards.

I like forwards because it's it's in somebody's face.

Backwards is like, wait, what?

I did what?

What is happening?

I like, here's the thing: yeah, any kind of cool sports thing is just cool.

It's it's uh, it's Tony Hawk doing the 900, kind of on par with some of this stuff.

Love sports, I love it, yeah.

Sports moments rock, and then also sports bloopers, forget it.

A lot of fun, so funny

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I eventually got off that roof when the sun rose.

Resident Evil Merchant, to answer your question in terms of what I'm playing.

You know, what is happening?

My favorite meme of all time

has to be

KK Slider with big muscles up on stage wearing denim shorts and he's got a guitar and he's yelling out to the crowd.

Any requests.

Oh, yeah, he is.

And then a villager in the crowd says, yeah, lose the shorts.

Where are we going with this?

But definitely in my top five of memes is Bugs Bunny with the Guns saying it's time to go back to the old me.

Yeah, that's pretty good.

And I've been playing Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

There we go.

I'm afraid that some bitch is going back in the womb

because Baldur's Gate is crying.

Because Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 8 released the long-awaited final major content update from Larian to my favorite game of all time.

Now, I have 370 hours played in this game.

Back in the womb.

I reinstalled it.

Just like a couple of upsetting visuals in a row.

Is that in your notes?

Oh, no.

Just rebirth.

I don't know.

It seemed like an A to B.

I reinstalled it so I could play the new content.

Rebirth is rebirth, which means back in the womb.

Not born again.

Back in.

Well, no, because it's not being born again.

Because

I'm abandoning it to play Baldur's Gate 3.

So it's like Final Fantasy 7 refucked?

Yeah.

Unfucked.

I find unfucked.

Google's unfucked.

So the major new feature it added.

There's a camera mode, which is fun, but also the main content thing is there are 12 new subclasses, one for each existing class.

And they are all very, very,

the ones that messed around with they're fun.

The ones that are just like ones that I've seen are also fun.

They just kind of went for pure fun with these.

For instance, there's the barbarian build subclass is now Path of Giants.

You can embigon yourself.

There's a drunken master for the monk.

There's the Ranger has a subclass called Swarm Keeper, which can summon bees, moths, and jellyfish.

You know, they're just kind of riffing here.

I am starting a new character.

I started an honor mode, dark urge, shadow magic, sorcerer.

This is one of the new subclasses.

Wow.

Honor mode is the hardest difficulty.

I finished this on tactician, which was the old hard difficulty.

Honor mode, I started a playthrough like last year, and then I never really followed through on it.

I just kind of abandoned it in act one.

But this time, I'm like, I think I'm going to actually go all the way through and get the achievement of finishing it on honor mode, honor mode, which has permadeath in addition to the hardest difficulty.

So,

and you know, it's a big meaty game, so it's one where, you know, you got to play it pretty, pretty safe if you're going to try to survive.

I will say, you know,

I've had this buzz cut for a few months now.

And one nice byproduct of the buzz cut is character creation because it's very easy to figure out the hair.

Yeah.

It's just like, there's always just like, okay, yeah, whatever this is, soldier or whatever the fuck it's called, I'm good to go.

That looks like Weiger.

Did you have a lot of problems before?

I just can't get this right.

Fucking plan.

All right, default, default, default, default, default.

Here we go.

So the Shadow Magic subclass gives you superior dark vision, plus an ability that restores you to one hit point if you take fatal damage, which again, because we got Permadeath, I'm like, that feels like a safe play.

The other thing is it's got all sorts of skills that mess around with the darkness

spell and being within darkness and using that to hide yourself, but you can also see it because of your abilities and the class abilities.

Also,

Dark Urge, which is the, I guess I should explain that a little bit for anyone who hasn't played Baldur's Gate 3.

Dark Urge is its own sort of unique player character path where you are given kind of, you know, urges.

You are given

like a voice basically that speaks to you, that is telling you to do things, and you can choose to follow it, you can choose to oppose it, and more of your history of this character, this tortured character with a mysterious past is starting to be, you know, doled out to with you as you progress through the game normally.

Is that the thing with Gale that he had a Dark Urge that was to eat swords?

So, no, Gale has, I don't think Dark Urge is what's going on with Gale.

That's just his unique pathology because of his...

Gail's sick.

Gail's sick because

of his, you know, his...

I forget exactly what arcane pact it was, but he needs the magic items to stay alive.

But that's not because of the Dark Urge.

However, the Dark Urge does intercept with Gale because when you first meet Gale, he's reaching his arm out of that portal, and the Dark Urge basically commands you to cut it off.

And so that's one path you can go with.

That will mean that Gale, who is a character who can follow you throughout the entire game, is just eliminated at that point from your party pool.

Yeah, and wouldn't know.

Because you, before the mode was patched in,

your run was a Dark Urge.

Don't you want?

Yeah.

I did make my player character by Tav a human because I liked that the class inherently has superior dark vision.

And I was like, you know what?

A human with superior dark vision

basically can see like a Drow or Dragar seemed fun to me.

So that's what I'm

excited to roleplay.

It is very Riddick, yeah, 100%.

Although Riddick's also like a cyborg sort of.

Yeah, there's something else going on with it.

He can see in the dark, right?

Yeah, he can, yeah, yeah.

What the fuck?

Riddick can see in the dark.

No, I knew he could see in the dark.

I didn't know he was a cyborg.

The other thing is that kind of like he's got like some sort of cybernetic element, right?

What the fuck's going going on with Ray?

I don't remember it being a cyborg.

He's got something going on.

He's got something going on.

Anyway, I'm also respeccing, or in some cases, because I haven't gotten these party members yet, planning to respec my party members to just mess around with all the new subclasses.

I am also adding, I have had Will in my main squad because I didn't really have him much in my parties for the two playthroughs outside of his story mode quests.

And there's a new Warlock subclass called Hexblade that is rad.

It's akin to a Necromancer.

It's honestly very solo leveling the way that character works.

Anyway, I just think it's so cool that they are continuing to, you know, whatever.

I love this game.

I think it's so cool that they've continued to support it so extensively over the years with all these free content updates.

None of it is DLC.

And, you know, this is the last big boy.

And I was just like, fuck it.

I just want to play this game again.

Obviously, when you're choosing to spend time doing something, you're choosing to not do other things.

So there's some new games that are going to go unplayed as I delve into this one yet again.

But

I kind of just couldn't resist it.

And I'm really, really impressed with everything so far.

I'm really, really impressed that you continue to replay that game.

I

understand because I've been addicted to games before and played them and played them and played them.

But it's really, I don't know, it's, it makes me feel warm that you're like, I like this game so much that a new update came out.

I'm going to replay it again.

That makes me happy for you.

I say, thank you, Heather.

That makes me happy too.

I will say that I'm just like, I'm old and so I have an old brain.

And so, despite, again, having spent more than 300 hours in this game and having finished it twice, I was trying to pull the name Layzell the other day, but I couldn't remember what it was.

So, I called her Ghillain.

And I realized it was because

it was because Geth Yankee, her race, and then Laiselle kind of got muddled in my brain.

Who did you say it to?

I was saying it to, I was just like, saying it in court.

I, I do also love it.

I, I mean, look, you said it's your favorite game of all time.

Yeah.

I do think there's a strong case to be made that it is perhaps the greatest game of all time.

Like, interesting.

I don't know if I'd even argue that as someone who has it as his personal favorite game, but I like you.

I like you saying this.

Because, like, there's just something about it, like, in the support.

I think you could fold in the way the community of players has responded to the game because I feel like it's like that, like the, I don't know, I see people, I see so much like fun, like fan art and like cosplay and stuff.

And just like the way the people love these characters, the way the people love this game, I think is unique to any,

it's unique to this game.

only I feel like I feel like I don't see people loving this game or I don't feel like I see people loving other games the way that they love this game well what I can say about in terms of my personal connection and I think other people's connections to this game is it really is the thing that we have been promised from so many games, which is the idea of, hey, what if I just try something and I can actually do it?

Yeah.

And this game seems to be...

Like I have not reached, I have not reached a point at any time I've been playing this game where I've been like, hmm, can I try this?

And the answer is no.

Like it's like

they basically accounted for every possible contingency.

I kind of don't know how these flowcharts can possibly work where you can go down so many possible options and so many different avenues and play through this game so many different ways.

And again, just completely play through the entire quest without ever meeting a major NPC.

You know,

it's kind of amazing that it all works and that it keeps getting continually refined, it has gotten continually refined since release.

I might have to dust it back off.

I started a second run, got about halfway through with a bard, and you know, started playing probably rebirth or something and never finished that fucker up.

I think you should put rebirth back in the womb.

I might have to rebirth it, get it back out so that I can.

Try birth.

Try birth by sleep.

I might have to birth by sleep this guy.

I feel like one of the best things about the Baldur's Gate fandom is that it doesn't seem very toxic.

I'm sure that there are elements of that, but like the Fortnite fandom is, you know, you play that game and you got some toxic players that you run into, and that's just kind of the the name of the game but with balder's gate 3 it feels like everybody responds to it with with affection so it's I don't know that makes the game feel even better.

Yeah, I love it.

I think it's a good it's a it's but Baldur's Gate 3 existing is a net good for humanity.

I fully agree.

I think also too the fan base is too horny to be toxic.

Yeah.

They can't get to that stuff yet.

They want to do that.

They want to be toxic, but they're just so horny.

Yeah.

It's also weird that the fan base, when you look at the ratio of how much people are horny, there's one individual who is 99% horny, which also makes for the rest of the, like it, it offsets the

ratio.

There's no room for them to be toxic.

Yeah.

That's great, Nick.

Yeah.

Matt, what are you playing?

Okay.

Okay.

So I'm still playing Celeste.

Oh.

And I really, really love it.

It's a great, it's a great game, potentially an all-timer.

I know Nick...

All-timer for me.

All-timer for Nick.

It's still riv.

I love that it's a hard game.

I love that it's hard.

It's

very frustrating at times, but not in a bad way.

And just to like, you know,

you do something enough times where you think you got it and then you just fail.

And then it's it you can get a little you can get a little demoralized because like you think you're almost doing it.

But the reward is

sweeter than how frustrating it is.

Do you know?

It's like, because when you do pull something off that you've been trying

a fucking million times or whatever, and then you clear a level, it tells you how many times you died, and you're like, Jesus, God, that was that many times.

Because in your memory, it wasn't that many because you just kept going.

And then, you know, some of these ones, I'm like, oh, I died like 200 times.

Like, that's a lot of times.

I'm bad at it.

I'm not good at this game, but I am really, really enjoying it.

But the thing that I've been playing is our We Play You Play, which I spent a lot of time with.

And

I've been like texting

a friend of mine who's like

kind of going on it with it too.

There's like not a great way, and we'll talk about it next week, of course, at length.

But if you're talking about this game with someone and you're not...

There's no way to know where you're at with somebody.

Yes.

You have to be very cagey.

I've run into this myself and my conversations outside of our group text with other people who are playing blueprints.

And yeah, you kind of have to be like,

it's almost like a spycraft sort of discussion.

I'm just like, I don't know how to tell you what I know without, because I, because I don't know what you know.

Yes.

And you don't know what I know.

You know what I mean?

So like, like, but you don't want to ruin anything for either party.

I'm in a fucking black bag situation.

It's a bit of a black bag.

And,

but I, I, you know, all that to say, I'm loving it.

And, like,

I'm hoping to have it, quote unquote, wrapped up by next week.

So I have more things to say.

Yeah, my plan is we'll see.

I always love to try to finish, especially a game of this size, to have it finished by our replay you played.

That's my goal.

I'm not going to make a promise because I got other shit going on, but I'm very much pursuing that.

I feel like I have to talk about the run that I had today very lightly.

I've I've had some very productive runs in the last couple of days that

when I'm texting my friend about this,

I was like, the stuff I've seen would just

shatter your thoughts about any of it.

It's just great.

Because so many, and then I could be talking about the most tiniest, smallest thing.

It doesn't even have to be like a huge thing.

But

I feel like I've seen things that I was like, wow.

And then somebody, you know, who's finished it would be like, that's nothing.

Like, you know what I mean?

It's like

you haven't seen fucking fucking shit.

And I've gotten to a place where

I can see

the end, kind of, where I can

what the perceived end of it is without saying too much.

I've gotten to a place.

Some other guy would be like, what you think is the end?

Yeah, some guy might say that.

But that's basically like, you know.

Yeah.

I feel like you've probably played the the most of it.

Maybe

I heard your hour count.

I think you might be, you might have put a little bit more time into it than me at this point.

So I've gotten to a place where

I could see the end, kind of.

And I have the tools necessary and the

language within the game.

And like, I know what I need to do.

Yeah.

But I don't know if I have the strength to do it.

Wow.

Like, I'm sort of like at like a like.

Fuck, that was a fucking Kylo Ren line.

Yeah.

I love Kylo Ren.

Like, cause like, and not because I don't think I can do it and I don't want it to end.

I want to be fucking done with this.

Because when I come,

I feel crazy when I'm playing this game, this video game, crazy in a, and I will say, I think a bad way.

Like, it's affected my mental

chemistry negatively.

Wow.

Where I, because I can't stop thinking about it.

Any free second I have, I'm playing this game to a point where my wife has said, not the rooms game.

And then when you describe it like that, yeah, I probably could be doing something else.

Right.

But

it's fascinating, and luck is weirdly such a big part of it, though, too.

Yeah,

you can get a little unlucky.

Our old pal RNG absolutely enters the equation.

Yeah, but

I'm enjoying myself.

There's something of a backlash to this game.

I haven't seen this exactly, but the discourse about this game has shifted a little bit.

Is that correct?

I feel like I've heard about this.

People maybe specifically deriding the RNG and maybe a couple of other elements.

I haven't dug into it too much.

Yeah, me neither.

But

I've fallen victim to.

I had a run where I almost did it today.

Wow.

And just drafted the wrong rooms.

Right.

And like, that's nothing I, there's nothing I can do about that.

I mean, there are a couple of things you can do, but I didn't have anything that I could use to affect the outcome of the rooms I had drafted.

And

it's just

what is going on, Rochelle Chennai, our producer ranch is laughing.

What is happening?

I look up and I'm like, oh, yeah.

I did sort of have that similar moment because I looked over at Heather and she was just staring at me.

You can't see where she's looking.

Yeah.

This is the happiest I've ever been.

I'm so comfortable.

I think I've just maybe known Heather the longest where this is nothing unusual.

I also, they're just like, we as human beings have the capacity to normalize anything.

And so I'm just like, this is like the not even the craziest thing I've experienced today.

No, not at all.

Yeah.

All that to say, I'll have more to say about it next week, and we'll probably be a little more

spoiler.

We'll get into spoiler country.

So hold on to your hats and glasses.

Hold on to your hats and glasses.

We'll very much be doing that next week.

But that's what I've been playing.

And I know that Heather's been playing a little bit as well.

Yeah.

The truth is,

so

I

have been spending a lot of time in a location that I don't have any of my video games set up.

And so I brought my portal because I was like, oh,

I can maybe use my portal.

Maybe I'll stream Assassin's Creed over here or whatever.

For those of you that don't know what the portal is, it's the PlayStation Portal that is a Wi-Fi and cloud-based system that sounds stupid, but is actually really good.

Yeah.

It is really good because if you have no other way to play, like you can play Switch anywhere, sure, fine.

Yeah, with no problems whatsoever.

But if you want to play

a high-end game like Assassin's Creed, then what better way to do it than a portal, unless you want to drop for a Steam Deck, right?

Even then, you might not get the best performance out of the game on the Steam Deck without tweaking some settings.

Yeah, and if you have a PS5 Pro, the portal is even better.

We need to be getting money from Sony at this point.

I think the portal is good.

I like the portal.

There's been a lot of updates to the portal.

Honestly, I kind of was thinking about this the other day.

We maybe should do an episode about the portal.

I'm not getting a fucking portal, all right?

You don't have to.

I will just, you're not going to talk me into buying a PlayStation portal.

There's no way on earth I'm going to do that.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

No, I will not go in on a portal for Nick because this type of talk, he doesn't deserve it.

Wow, you're a birthday punisher?

Yeah, I'm a rebirthday punisher.

You're going back in, buddy.

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So, anyway, I brought my portal to this location where I don't have any video games.

And

I was like, oh, wait, I can stream from my PS5.

And then I was like, I wonder what's on, because now a new feature is you don't even have to have the game.

You can, if it's in PS Plus, you can stream it like from you don't you don't have to have it downloaded.

So, I was like, I wonder what's going on in PS Plus, opened it up, and there was blueprints.

And I was like, oh,

I already have blueprints.

Yeah, it's just on PlayStation Plus and Game Pass.

I guess we should, we should have made that disclosure for anyone who's interested in messing around with this game in advance of our episode.

Yeah, like, I, so I was like, oh, I didn't even know that I had this game.

So, I booted it up because I was like, you guys, this was in the interim of since you guys had been talking about it last week.

And I was

pleasantly surprised.

Wow.

It is not a kind of game that I would normally play.

And boy, oh, fucking boy, when I had to do math, I was like, this is the dumbest shit I have ever seen.

Because also, it's not even that.

Like, it's like, anyway.

Well, let me tell you something.

That particular math puzzle

scales.

It becomes.

I got a fucking pen and paper out the other day.

I'm so like, you kind of need a physical journal to be playing this game at a certain point.

Ugh.

Us, Heather giving an inch, being like, I actually was kind of enjoying it, and then us immediately talking her out of it.

Yeah, anyway, it's homework, so keep that in mind.

Well, in the game, it tells you to maybe, maybe keep a journal while you're playing.

And I was like, nope.

Well, I saw that and was like, I'm not doing that.

And then like, god damn, what the fuck?

It's three times six or whatever.

18.

I like keeping a journal when I'm playing a game.

I think it's fun.

I mean, the idea of a video games journal is kind of a fun idea.

And boy, oh boy, I might just do that now.

That's a really fun idea, except it's going to be a lot of just like played Fortnite, played Fortnite.

It takes me back to my

very early gaming days, which was playing, you know, on me and my brother playing PC RPGs on my dad's computer and like playing like the Bard's Tale.

And that game doesn't have have any sort of auto map.

It was a long, it was, it was like, I think it was seven Wizardries.

It wasn't until Wizardry 7 until any of those games had any sort of in-game map feature.

So you had fucking graph paper and you were like, you would go into a dungeon and you'd be making a map physically on your own just to keep in mind where you were going.

Well, that was the most pleasant part about playing the game was it reminded me of playing like Sierra games

where you have to like map out what you're doing or Zork where it's like, okay, I've turned left, I've turned right.

But also what's wild about Zork is because I went back and played it with my wife

and we had to map it out.

And when we were mapping it out, realizing that the map doesn't make sense, not entirely.

Right.

Was like a horror.

Like it felt, it felt like the moment when in Silent Hill 2, the rooms change and you realize you're still in the same room, but it's fucked up now.

Right.

Awful feeling.

But anyway, yeah.

So

I played a little blueprints.

I went through like, I don't know, five days or whatever on

my first little dabble of it.

And I was like,

when I found myself thinking about it when I wasn't playing it, I was like, oh, so this is a good enough game that gave me enough dopamine that my brain is craving it again.

Right.

Which is what is,

I think, what everybody is responding to is it's like a different kind of game, but also gives you enough of that sugar in your brain to make you keep coming back.

So um, talk to me in 50 more days.

Jesus Christ.

What?

Are we sure we want to replay this?

You seem upset.

I love it.

It's like cigarettes.

Um,

uh, all this is to be, all this aside, uh, if anybody wants to give me like four to six million dollars a year and I can just play video games, um, I want to put that on the podcast that I would quit.

Oh, wait, no, I'm,

I want to do that too, Alex.

Because like my biggest problem with Blueprints is I was like, man, I really, I do want to spend some time playing this.

I don't have enough time in my life to play it.

And I also want to play Assassin's Creed.

And I also want to play Final Fantasy VII Rebirth.

And I also want to play Persona 5.

And I like,

there's no way as an adult to play all these fucking games that I want to play unless somebody out there wants to just

give me $4 to $6 million a year.

Well, look, I think we could do this.

And listeners, if you're listening and you are some sort of wealthy benefactor, all we're asking as a collective whole is for $16 to $20 million.

So we could split it evenly between the four of us.

Right, because we're looping ranching, of course.

Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, that'd be nice.

That'd be great.

Or even widen it a little bit.

Like, if, like, if I, if we were getting like $3 to $7 million per person, that's still probably worth our time.

That's not probably.

That's pretty much.

And hey, on the high end, that's pretty good.

Hey, that's...

I'm kind of maybe thinking about the high end.

Yeah.

I think the high end would be really...

I'm not going to say no to the low end.

I would just be a little bit disappointed if it wasn't the high end.

Yeah, sure.

Just a little bit.

It would be really interesting to suddenly be that rich and be like, wow, I can do anything in the world, but if I don't play video games, the money is going to go away.

Yeah.

And it's like that money is immediately gone because it's like, okay, I'm going to buy one house.

What?

Money's gone.

I got $3 million from this wealthy benefactor.

Well, you're getting $3 million the next year.

Yeah, no, I'm saying...

Oh, a year?

It's not a one-time payment.

oh, yeah, it's forever, yeah, it's like an annual stipend.

That's why I said per year, okay.

Never mind, I'm back in, I am in,

but I was just thinking that, like, it would be a funny sort of like, I don't know, catch 22.

If it's like, yeah, I'll give you the money, you cannot go travel, you cannot do anything else.

They're gonna make rules.

You only get to play video games if you're serious about it.

You play video games, and that's how you keep getting the money.

I get, I'd probably get pretty sad pretty fast.

Yeah, this depends on how onerous the requirement is.

If it's, if it's like, hey, I got to play, I'm effectively like, hey, you're, you're basically going to have a streamer's life.

You have to just, you have to play a set number of hours every single day, and we're going to be monitoring it.

Yeah, that would start to feel a little bit like, all right, I'm going to be a little bit more.

You'd feel like a Japanese game show.

Yeah, sure.

But if it becomes a

if it's just like, hey, you just got to play games, you know, whatever.

If it's not every day or if it's not like a set number, an hour requirement or the hour requirement is reasonable, yeah, I think I'd do that.

Yeah, I guess if I'm thinking about it, I'd probably do it.

I think I'd do it.

I'd do it.

Three or seven million dollars a year.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah, why not?

And then actually, it'd be good

because then we'd be the only good, rich people.

And that's sort of, I think, what the counterbalance is.

People that are that rich are typically not good.

If you let us do it, we'd be the good ones.

And so then everybody would kind of then be like, actually, maybe we should be good instead.

Yeah, I guess if I had that much money, I'd probably start posting a lot more.

That'd be the first thing I'd started.

Well, my first

online a lot.

I'm going to go straight on the news.

Yeah, I'll go on the news.

That's what I would definitely do.

Tell everyone what I think.

Ranch, you saw the Minecraft movie.

I did.

Let's fucking go.

What was your verdict?

I liked it.

Yeah, you had fun?

I had a good time.

Yeah.

Did you make a big mess in the movie theater?

No, the ushers were very clear.

about us not making messes.

We were probably, we were a big party.

Yeah.

And we were getting this dink guy.

What was the, what was the, the house like?

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It was

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And then there was one lone guy sitting in our row.

Got it.

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He came loaded up with a whole bunch of popcorn to throw?

Yeah.

He didn't throw it, though, because no one was just doing anything.

Going to like a protest with a gun.

He's like, just in case.

That makes me a little sad for that guy.

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This fucking sucks.

I got to eat all this now.

It's my dinner now.

He did stand up right before jockey chicken, chicken, jockey.

Yeah.

And no one reacted.

So

I'm starting to feel like this guy has been to the Minecraft movie a few times at this point.

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you gotta dump this popcorn into a garbage bag and take it home

You're a popcorn skeptic.

That's too much popcorn for you.

I wouldn't take, I wouldn't have two large popcorns.

I'd take a couple of hot dogs over that anyway.

What did you, what concessions did you get in the movie?

It's my birthday month, so I got a free popcorn and drink.

Wow.

And so did you have any

Did you have a reaction to the part that we said was very funny?

I was going to ask you which part that was because

I don't remember.

Wow.

I don't remember.

I remember you guys saying that you all laughed for several scenes about it, but I couldn't tell.

Was it the monologue of the teacher?

Yeah.

Okay.

That was the mess part.

The performance of the year.

Now, best supporting actor goes to

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the Minecraft movie.

Just gets up to accept the award and does the exact same speech.

This is great.

Things have been really tough for me.

I'm not surprised from what all we've seen.

That's the thing that's like not the meme.

Like, I mean, obviously, harder to meme.

It's a longer i also think sequence i also think because it's not an overt reference to the game i guess so yeah

flintons boy those guys those guys must be so happy the makers of minecraft after all of these fucking years

of like developing and developing and developing and setbacks that they have made a cult hit that's also making money in the present that's wild i know i was a little tough on the movie when we talked about it yeah i will say in the coming in the intervening weeks

I don't think the movie's, I didn't like the movie, but I like that people are enjoying it.

Yeah, me too.

It's extremely fun.

There's no part of me that's like, that's like, that's like bitter.

Like, I don't, I have never had the feeling of like, what's wrong with people?

No.

Like, I've, every time I read that it's doing well, I'm like, hey, go, little guy.

I'm happy for everybody involved.

Like, this is, it's, it's great.

Yeah.

Movies are back.

Movies are back.

I, you know, I, I, I love it.

Love things that are getting, love something that's getting young people into the, to, to movie theaters.

I don't really like the mess element.

No, I don't like, I don't like, I don't like the mess.

There's workers

that have to then deal with that.

And I think there are no workers I respect more than people who work at movie theaters.

Thank you for your service.

Yeah.

All right.

Let's get into it.

Our console draft for the Sega Dreamcast.

Now, Heather and I both owned Sega Dreamcast.

I bought one.

I had mine pre-ordered.

I got, picked it up on September 9th, 1999, 99.99.

Matt, of course, you had a cool uncle who had a Dreamcast.

That's right.

I have a cool uncle who had a Dreamcast at the time.

And

Ranch,

were you a GameCube family?

I'm trying to remember what your situation was.

We had a PS2.

You had a PS2.

That's what you're playing, Mary Kate Nashley.

Yeah.

The Sweet 16 license to drive on.

Got it.

So Dreamcast, was that ever anything you messed around with?

I don't know.

I think my brothers, when I was really little, had a

an NES.

Okay,

there was an NES and an S NES.

So they might have had either or both.

Yeah, I'm sure.

Yeah.

But yeah, this is the Sega console that was,

hey, their great white hope that unfortunately was

smothered in its crib by the emergence of the Sony PlayStation 2.

Smothered in the crib, getting put back in the womb.

What's with this guy?

He's a weirdo.

That's what's with him.

By the way, this is like my new thing.

I'm going to start doing more jokes like this.

What's with this guy?

And I'm going to keep being weird.

Matt, which previous console drafts have we done?

We've done the PlayStation 1, the PlayStation 2.

I believe we did the Nintendo 64, did the GameCube.

We did the Nintendo DS, and

perhaps the Game Boy Advance.

We haven't gotten into Sega Country yet.

No, this is our first one.

Our first Sega console.

I love it.

I love that we're doing this.

Fucking bullshit.

So I think we'll go snake style and we'll pick up.

What the fuck?

But with this guy.

Years and years of the podcast, and this is the first time we've covered a Sega console.

I just want to look at you two.

I just want to.

Don't blame me.

What?

Don't blame me.

Blame Matt.

Why Matt?

Hang on.

Nothing is ever my fault.

Ever.

One of the three of us.

One-third of the hosts of the show is a Sega kid.

Yeah.

And this is the first.

Well, it's interesting.

Shame on you.

I cherished the sega dreamcast i owned a sega dreamcast i love the sega dreamcast i had a lot of games for it i was rooting grumpy about okay well look look look

it's just interesting the sega kid you agree that's an interesting that's what we agree that heather's interesting yeah interesting that what you've never pitched this yourself and we could have done it anytime you said it was a good idea to do it oh it's but i've never

i've never i've what are you saying i think heather could what are you saying you could have said what are you saying you could have said that we should hold on let me let me let me look at these receipts.

Let me just search

for specific text that says we should do console draft Sega Dreamcast.

I don't think I knew the name of this kind of episode.

Well, there we go.

It's console draft Sega Dreamcast.

We will each pick.

How many games do we settle on?

We settled on four.

Four games.

We're going to pick four games from the Dreamcast library.

We will go snake style.

Who wants to go first?

I guess Heather.

Hold on.

Heather, do you want to have the first pick?

Hold on one second.

I am looking.

Heather Ann Campbell on the clock.

I am fucking looking.

Hold on.

Not on.

No, I'm looking at my text history with you too.

Okay.

A lot of bullshit you got to wade through.

Not enough memes, I got to say.

I guess I'll check my text too.

Let's just do that on this podcast.

Okay.

Well, what's with this guy?

I don't, I don't fucking know.

I'll do the episode instead of looking through text messages.

I'll go first.

Heather will go first.

And you know what?

It's not a good spot to be.

Yeah.

I'll go second.

Wow.

Okay.

So I'll have two picks in a row on the back end.

Okay.

We'll see how that works out for him.

Snake style.

My first pick for the Sega Dreamcast was the first time that I had ever played a truly arcade-perfect port of a video game that was in arcades in my home.

And I put so many hours into the game when it was in my living room.

It's Marvel versus Capcom 2.

Wow.

Want to take you for a ride.

Want to take you for a ride.

I got to be honest, with that preamble, I thought you were at it somewhere else.

But Marvel Capcom 2, a very, very good, very good game.

I spent a lot of time with.

I know where you thought I was going, but the truth is that in my living room with my friends across the hall who were into playing video games.

They really liked Marvel Capcom 2 more than the, say, other high-profile fighter that meant so much to me.

And so that was the game that I played with them.

They wanted to play Marvel Capcom 2.

It had Street Fighter characters in it.

Everybody was happy.

So Marvel Cap 2 is a fucking incredible fucking video game.

Incredible game.

So fun.

It has some of my favorite

2D animation ever.

Yeah.

And I just like the, it's, it's the more is more philosophy that we would certainly see with later party fighters like

platform fighters like

obviously the Smash Brothers series, but just like so many characters.

Yes.

Like i i it's that's a fucking rag i had so many characters it's on a circle your character selection screen is a circle i've been playing it a little bit on the new port that is out yeah like it's like on modern consoles i kind of think we could do an episode about it it's a really good hey man i mean i'd love to talk marvel capcoms or we could kind of talk about that whole era of

you know because the x-men versus street fighter was the first one or was it marvel superheroes i'm trying to remember the chronology of it but like there was that whole issue the whole era of Capcom fighters that all use Marvel properties.

Yeah.

And then, yeah, kind of Marvel Capcom 2 was, I know they made another one, but Marvel Capcom 2 was kind of the apex of that.

What one thing I loved about that game is that it had so many characters that,

not that I'm the biggest Marvel guy, but I am a pretty, I have a pretty extensive knowledge of Capcom properties, but still, there's so many characters in that you're like, who's this guy?

What the fuck is this?

Yeah.

All right.

Like Roll.

Yeah, I know.

Well, hey, I knew Roll, but it's like, it's like, there are characters like that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So

that's my first draft

for the Dreamcast.

Wow.

I can't imagine having a Dreamcast without that game in my house.

So that's why it was my first pick.

No, it's a good pick.

All right, Matt, you're up.

One pick.

As established,

I didn't grow up with a Sega Dreamcast in my home, but I had access to one

via my uncle, who would mostly play games that I would just watch.

I wasn't always playing along, along, but I got some hands-on experience.

So the draft is going to be sort of an interesting assignment for me because there's like games that I've never played before that I think would be fun to have and to play on a Second Dreamcast for the first time ever.

And this one is no exception, certainly.

The sequel to I think a good game that people seem to like, but people, I think, seem to think that the sequel is a little bit better.

It has a little bit more going on in it and maybe maybe has some cool, new, interesting characters in it.

I'm talking Sonic Adventure 2.

Wow!

I'm taking Sonic Adventure 2 for my draft, my first pick for the Sega Dreamcast draft, Sonic Adventure 2.

Shadow, Shadow's in there.

Yeah, certainly.

That's crazy.

That Shadow is from that game.

Isn't it nuts?

The Sonic Adventure franchises were really where Sonic and his shitty friends kind of became a meme.

I mean, there were so many characters, and some of those ancillary characters were a little bit less fun.

But I do think that Sonic Adventure 2 was a step up from the original Sonic Adventure, which I do also like quite a bit.

I think that's a very savvy pick in the number two slot.

Heavily inspired Sonic 3, the movie.

Yep.

A lot of that stuff is just in there.

Imagine the Dreamcast is sinking like the Titanic into the sea.

Yeah.

And as it sinks, somebody says, but Sonic 2, we will remember you more than you could ever know.

Wow.

Wow.

Well,

gave Keanu Reeves a gun.

It falls to me.

I got, I love India to gun the movie.

It falls to me.

And here I am sitting like king shit with the number three pick.

What's up, that's awesome.

Because I cannot believe my good fortune that this one is still on the board.

I'm pissed.

I don't know what to do with myself.

I'm sitting here with the number three pick.

I'm trying to think of historical number three three picks in the NBA draft.

Jason Tatum, I guess.

And it's still available.

Luka Doncic, I think, went number three overall.

Where are we going?

Are you doing Soul Calibur?

What's happening?

The Soul Stilver, Soul Calibur, which you think would be the consensus number one overall pick among Sega Dreamcast games.

Another Arcade Perfect port, and just such a fun

fucking rad fighting game.

Even in a style 3D fighter that it's not necessarily

the biggest fan of, but it's such a refined version of it and such a,

you know, such a gorgeous game at the time.

But I think the art design

heart direction holds up enough where it's still like a very, very good looking game.

And I don't know, I just had so much fun with that game back in the day.

And when I think of the Sega Dreamcast, that game is inextricable from it.

A launch title that remained probably the best game on the console throughout its entire run.

The second pick, which I get two in a row here because we're going snake style,

this is where things get a little tricky.

And I'm trying not to metagame it.

I'm trying to just depict what I want.

The problem is, there's a couple of different ones that I want.

Sonic Adventure 2 would have been on that list, but that one's no longer an option.

So I think where I'm going to go is a game like Marvel vs.

Capcom 2 that has an awesome soundtrack, but it also has

a completely

unique style of art, really uses these self-shaded character designs a great way, and has a gameplay,

you know, a formula that is so different

from so many other games.

I think I'm going to go with a game

that I know is Jet Grind Radio, but internationally was released as Jet Set Radio.

Jet Grind Radio is my second pick.

Is that what you wanted?

I wanted wanted it.

I don't want to do it.

I quit.

I don't want to do it anymore.

You could have taken away your second pick.

These are all.

No, I couldn't have.

These are all such good games.

Yeah.

That, like, if the Dreamcast hadn't failed and had continued to churn out hits like this, it would have been like legendary system.

I think it still is.

The hits of the Dreamcast are

such hits.

Yep.

I feel like that some consoles don't got hits like that.

They just don't got it.

Like, the Dreamcast certainly has more hits than the Wii U.

Well, yeah, that's, like, unfair.

What?

It's like, I mean, it's, I guess it's comparable, right?

Because it's, like, it's at least Nintendo got to succeed past it.

I wonder which one sold more?

The Dreamcast or the Wii U.

I don't think that the...

Actually, I have no idea.

I think the Wii U sold

a very, very poor thing.

That's a thing we can look up for sure.

In fact, I will look that up up while more pics are being made.

But right now, right now, I'm too busy looking at screenshots from Jet Said Radio.

Fuck, that game was so cool.

It's really cool.

Yeah.

Really cool game.

I think I.

I guess we should talk through this game because I'm realizing enough time has passed where there are people who maybe didn't grow up with a Dreamcast and/or maybe just too young for it.

Jet Said Radio is basically like,

you know, akin to akin to

a Tony Hawk.

Not exactly, but you are sort of, you're basically,

you're on inline skates, you're going around a play space, and part of the mechanic is tagging things.

And, you know, it sounds pretty straightforward, but it is just, it's just so fun and fluid to play and so gorgeous to look at.

And again, has just such a

great soundtrack.

I don't know.

It was just a very.

It was a unique design for any time, but certainly for the time it was released, and felt like the kind of thing that, like, hey, they're doing shit on Dreamcast that they're not doing on any other console, which is part of why I so strongly associate it with

that system.

Um, all right, Matt, what are you thinking?

My second pick,

I have to make a really serious

pick if I'm going to have a draft that's worth a damn.

Really?

I think so.

Okay.

So I'd like to

preface my second pick with just a little reading here, a quote, if you will, if you will indulge me.

Okay.

Hey, hey, hey, it's time to make some crazy money.

Are you ready?

Here we go.

I'm picking crazy taxi.

Wow.

Tim Walls' favorite video game.

That was an incredible read.

Thank you so much, Julia.

Holy shit.

Hey, you heard that, folks?

Put me in a fucking crazy taxi.

Honestly, that'd be my dream come true.

To be the crazy taxi guy?

The guy just shouting that?

Yeah.

Or to be a guy in a car in our regular world.

I think I'd like to be in the game.

Yeah.

I like to be in the game more.

Crazy Taxi.

We did an episode about it in the past with our pal, Bridger Weiniger.

It was just an all-time, I think, great video game.

Like,

fun to still play.

Like,

in whatever condition you can play it in.

Like, I think it's,

like, I think I played it on the Xbox

when we did the episode, but it's not like it's like super updated or like remastered or anything.

It's just the crazy taxi you're thinking about currently.

Yeah.

And it rips.

It's just a good game.

It's just really fun design.

I spent a lot of time with that one, but also the Simpsons knockoff, Simpsons Road Rage, which is just the same thing, but with Simpsons characters.

And it's great.

I think it's just a fun formula for a video game and uh happy to have it on my on my draft that's a great pick

I have the sales figures for the Sega Dreamcast and the Nintendo Wii U anyway do we officially want to guess which one sold more I'm gonna I'm gonna guess the dreamcast you guess dreamcast I'm guessing we you ran you want to guess we you wow

Matt

You are wrong.

Wow.

The Sega Dreamcast sold 9 million units worldwide.

The Nintendo Wii U sold 13.5 million units worldwide.

I guess it's holaxed by the fucking wii u that's nintendo's least successful console after the virtual boy yeah

you know i guess if you want to count the virtual boy as a as a proper console it makes sense because at least like nintendo nintendo had like that's the third console after the dreamcast

so they just had a little more yeah you know runway yeah a little more runway there were more people on planet earth also just tasting off of the success of the wii so i'm sure that probably and the wii

the wii sold like gangbusters.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right, Heather, you get two picks in a row now.

You know, the Dreamcast is the kind of console where I don't really have to worry about you guys picking my picks because I'm pretty sure that I want to celebrate the weirdness of machine.

So as my second pick, I am picking a game that we covered here on this podcast.

Wow.

It's C-Man.

God.

And the reason I'm picking C-Man is because when I told C-Man I was gay, he was totally fine with it.

For a game from the year 2000, for Leonard Nimoy's voice to come out of a human-faced fish

in response to me speaking to my console,

that he was like, yeah, that's that's you know, totally great.

What is your wife's name or whatever it was, a girlfriend's name at the time.

I don't know.

I really appreciated the,

I really love it when

systems and developers take huge swings.

And that was an enormously weird and super fun swing.

For the folks that might not know

the central gameplay of C-Man, like Ranch, I'm guessing.

Okay.

It is a game where there was a microphone that you plugged into the controller to speak to a fish in a fish tank that had a human man's face, and it would talk to you.

It would respond to you, but you had to raise it kind of like a virtual pet.

So the first thing you have to do is you have to make sure the water has enough oxygen, but not too much.

And then eventually it develops into

a weird-looking fish.

And then eventually it gets a face.

And it has a bit of a personality when

you're raising it with its, with your, with your phrases.

It remembers sort of things things about you

um

it also uh

knows what day it is of the week it i i i don't know it was it was a a really interesting precursor to say like voice mode on chat gpt yes like and doesn't it did you ever finish the game i don't remember if i did i believe it it finishes or i believe the game is done and you release the seaman the fully grown seaman which becomes like a frog man basically Yeah.

Into the wild.

Great.

You free him.

Great.

And he deserves it.

Yeah, he does.

That game was a nightmare.

The seaman fish looks like my brother.

But I love the pick and I love that it exists.

And yes, another game that I strongly associate with the Sega Dream.

I have footage of Nick playing seaman at my house.

Wow.

Because I was filming him while he was playing it on my CRT.

That's so funny.

And it came up in one of my Apple memories recently.

I loved it.

It's always good to have a camera rolling when Nick's around just in case.

Okay.

The next game I'm going to pick is another weird one.

Again, because

if I'm booting up my fucking Dreamcast for anybody, it's to show them the weird stuff.

Yes.

And I'm picking the typing of the dead.

Fuck.

Wow.

A game we also played here for the podcast.

It is House of the Dead, which is a light gun game where you're fighting against zombies in a haunted house and also like vampires and bat creatures and shit.

Except instead of a light gun, you are armed only with your keyboard

and you have to type out phrases that appear on screen fast enough to take out the zombies.

And the sentences and phrases don't make any fucking sense.

So it's not like you can type like,

you know, in the way that you would maybe by memory be able to type my name is Matt or my name is Nick.

Yeah.

Instead, it'll be like blanket potato and you're like, oh, fuck.

Really, really fun game.

Love that I still have that keyboard in my house.

Love Typing of the Dead.

Matt, it's to you.

I own typing, just real quick.

I owned Typing of the Dead on Dreamcast with the keyboard peripheral.

And yeah, that game was a blast.

And it's so,

I mean, it's just like one of the funnier games to exist.

It's just played completely straight.

It's just a, it's just a reskin, basically, of type of House of the Dead 2, right?

Is that the one it's based off of?

I thought it was House of the Dead 1.

Might be House of the Dead 1, but it's just a reskin of that.

But then instead of guns, they've got keyboards that they're using.

And

the character, the on-screen representations of the player character are, and it's,

it's, it's just so fun.

Yeah, to be clear, in the game proper they're holding guns yes in typing of the dead they have keyboards strapped to their chests it's the kind of thing of

what i what we love well i think what we all love about the dreamcast is that

there is no like they they made so many decisions that were awesome creatively and were so poor commercially like the idea of releasing like a keyboard specific shooting game that is going to be such a niche product there is no way you're going to compete with Sony having the biggest third-party IP.

There's just no way you can compete with them when you're doing weird shit like that.

But they're fucking Sega, so that's what they were going to release Typing in the Dead.

Great pick.

All right, Matt.

My third pick.

Because here's the thing about the Sega Dreamcast library.

Everybody who knows anything about the Sega Dreamcast knows the big games.

Yep.

Didn't have that much of a.

There aren't that many of them, really.

You know what I mean?

It has a lot of games for it that were then easily

pirated,

just in full.

Yep.

But there are not that many hits.

But the hits are hits.

Yes.

And this game was recently

voted the most influential video game of all time.

It's got to be on somebody's list.

It might as well be on mine.

Shen Mu.

I'm taking Shen Mu.

I love this pick.

I think, again, a game that makes me think of the Dreamcast.

My own hesitation in selecting Shen Mu had I had the option would have come from

I don't remember that game being very fun to play back then.

I think it would probably be so clunky to play in a modern era.

What do you remember about

that day?

But it is, it is just like a game of pure ambition, and it is like emblematic of what the Dreamcast represented.

I I my memories of Shen Mu

are just like watching and I was like I mean, I was like nine ten years old when this game was out.

So I have full memories from this time.

Yeah.

I can't piece together what I thought the game was because it was just I was just like watching my uncle be a guy walking around.

And that mostly is what the game is.

Yeah.

But I wasn't really like, you know, I'd see parts of the story here and there because like some I wouldn't be there the whole time he was playing it or he'd move on to something else.

But I remember just for some reason, not being able to take my eyes off of it, just being fascinated by it.

Well,

it's one of those games that

is transparently,

it was transparently a lot of work.

Yes.

You know, like there were such, there was such a density of detail in it at the time that you look at it and you're, it's compelling to just visually look at it because you're like, wow, this is a whole street in a small town and each of these houses is different than the next house, which on its own was already weird.

Like when you think about how in a Super Nintendo game that there are houses next to each other in a village and they kind of look identical.

Yeah.

To suddenly be in a 3D generation

just two generations after that, like Super Nintendo, then you go N64 and you're at the Dreamcast Dreamcast, and that each house is like fully realized was weird.

Also, it's weird that you have to get a job inside that game where you drive a fucking forklift.

I remember a lot of the gacha machines being part of it.

I always, and I still think this, I think his jacket is extremely cool.

Good jacket.

It's a great jacket.

Good jacket.

Good video game character look.

Yeah.

Shen Mu.

Wow.

Shen Mu.

Good pick.

I get two in a row now to fill out my roster of four.

And

look,

as far as having some sort of bigger single-player game goes, Shenmue was certainly under consideration.

But the game I actually wanted, and I'm glad is still on the board, is a JRPG that I have for the Dreamcast that I really enjoyed, like a lot of Dreamcast games.

was critically acclaimed and performed poorly commercially,

but is a banger of a JRPG.

That game, Skies of Arcadia.

Nice.

Wow.

Skies of Arcadia goes into

my next slot.

You know, Sky Pirates.

How fun is that?

That's pretty good.

Yeah.

The next game, I guess the final game for my roster.

Can I say?

Yeah, please.

I have Skies of Arcadia for Dreamcast, and it's still sealed.

Wow.

Because I never got around to playing it.

Wow.

And so it's just waiting for me.

Ready to go.

That's, I'm just, I'm honestly wondering.

Really?

Yeah.

Oh, I don't think it's worth that much.

Well, yeah, because you can be pirated.

But

a sealed copy is the idea.

Yeah.

Maybe, yeah, who cares?

They're like, they're actually, you owe me money.

Yeah.

I don't think it's going to be worth that much, dude.

Boy, I don't know.

Complete in box pre-owned.

It's still going for over $100.

So I think if you, yeah, the new sealed, this is buy it now for $4.99.

I'm not sure you'd necessarily get that much, but I think a sealed version of this you could sell for a pretty penny if you wanted to flip it.

I don't.

Yeah.

You should play it then.

I do want to.

But it's one of those games that's like,

if I haven't had a fucking opportunity to play Assassin's Creed, am I really going to play Skies of Arcadia?

And is there another way to play it?

I don't think so.

Oh, no.

There was a...

There was a remaster of Skies of Arcadia.

I want to say it's Switch era.

but I'm not sure.

They had a sequel that came out, I think, for GameCube.

But I'm trying to remember the chronology of it.

Or, no, they just ported it to GameCube.

That's what it was.

Yeah, yeah,

it came out on GameCube in, okay, it released it in 2000 on Dreamcast, and in 2003, there was a port for the GameCube.

Wasn't there a re-release?

I don't know when there was a remaster.

Oh, maybe not.

All right, Nick, Skies of Arcadia was your first pick.

What was your second pick?

All right, here's the thing.

Uh-oh.

What?

There was a, let's see.

In 2012, Sega brand manager Ben Harbarnes stated that a Skies of Arcadia HD was a likely next release.

They renewed the trademark that same year, though a re-release did not materialize.

So, yeah, I don't know if it might have been one of those things that was promised, but never actually delivered.

All right, my gimmick game pick, because I think that's again such a big part of the Dreamcast, as

two of Heather's Sega picks here.

Reflect was going to be Typing of the Dead, Typing of the Dead off the table.

But I'm going to pick another gimmick game involving a peripheral that is very unique to the Dreamcast that I really liked.

And

hey, you know, people were going crazy for Guitar Hero.

People were going crazy for Rock Band.

But you know what those games missed?

You know what they wouldn't have maracas

i am picking

quixotic

maraca peripheral game samba de amigo

what

he just said maracas with such gusto

and also i'm like picturing like

I'm just like picturing you kind of like fucking it up on some Maracas and it's kind of funny.

We should I wish I still had my Sambada Amigo Maracas.

I should just fucking buy some and we should have we should do an episode on it because it's so fun yeah to shake the shit out of some miracles it's the most it's i mean it's a baby's toy it's a rattle like that's what the appeal of a rattle is i mean the thing is let's like it's it's like if i'm look if i'm thinking about those sorts of gimmick like music games probably yeah i like donkey conga and donkey jungle beat more with the you know i like like the little drums like i i probably but i don't know the miracle salad amigo miracles just that they fucking did it again just like the commer the audacity to to to to like put your uh your company behind such a surefire commercial failure that is also so awesome that it exists a fucking maracas game i just like the idea of you very earnestly just like going like nuts with some maracas is very funny fucking it up getting mad just like

but also you very earnestly like playing the bongos is also a very funny visual to me.

Yeah.

Very, very funny.

Both of them imply push zoom, like push-ins.

Yeah, something else happened before.

Like, he didn't just start

doing this.

I's completely dead.

Moving your gifts a little bit, too.

He's like, he's got a little fancy with it.

I like it.

That's a great pick.

A game I've never played.

Yeah, you got to pose, too.

It's part of the fun.

We got to do it.

I would love to do it.

They made a Switch version of that, I think, right?

They did a, there was a recent Sambade Amigo, and I think it's just because it didn't have the peripheral, I mean, it's just less fun.

All right, Matt, back to you.

Okay, so as established earlier, I didn't grow up with the Dreamcast.

Yep.

I'm at my grandparents' house, my uncle's here.

What's for me?

Shen Mu's not for me.

Typing of the Dead, House of the Dead,

Resident Evil, Code Veronica,

you know, not for you.

All these games aren't for me at this time.

Yep.

Gotta have a game for the nephews.

So

I'm specifically nostalgic for exactly one

Sega Dreamcast game.

Okay.

And I knew it was safe, and I knew I could save it for last.

All right.

Looney Tunes Space Race

Fucking

Rules.

It is so good.

It's a, you know, it's a kart racer with all your favorite Looney Tunes characters.

Yeah.

They all have character-specific carts.

Okay.

There are items, not unlike a Mario Kart, where that can affect the field of play for your other players.

You know, my brothers.

Yep.

I might be, you know, driving around a fucking big stick of dynamite as Wiley Coyote.

That's already funny.

That's good.

Yep.

And then I get an item, and

it's a hole.

It's like a black hole.

Right.

Throw it down on the ground.

Tasmanian Devil's.

behind me.

He falls in the hole.

Yep.

Sounds like a blast.

It's fucking great.

It's really, really good.

And

I, you know, I do think

that

the

Looney Tunes IP has perhaps been mismanaged in recent years.

Going back as far as I think maybe the last like

10 years, like it's been bungled left and right.

And like,

I have, I have this suspicion that

Like my generation of kids, 34-year-old adults

were the last kids to grow up with like old looney tunes kind of on at all times

and thanks zaslav thanks zaslav uh but it is like kind of a bummer because like i just grew up watching a bunch of old tv and like i had like frames of reference that like i shouldn't have had right because it was referencing stuff that was too old for my parents.

Yeah.

So like I so I always had just like this very, like I felt very, I don't know, felt very lucky to be watching the Looney Tunes.

Uh, now, of course, uh, I feel lucky, didn't feel lucky then, it was just what was on, but uh, I loved, I loved Lunatoons Space Race.

I do think it's a legitimately very good kart racer and would do anything for a port, would do anything.

Wow, I love it.

That's beautiful.

Yeah, all right, Heather, your final pick.

Boy, oh boy, boy, oh boy, oh boy.

So many good games left on the board.

I gotta look at my menu.

Yeah.

If Segagaga had been localized, I think think that would be my final pick.

But what was that?

It is an RPG, which is known as a Sega simulator, which Sega brought out as they were made more and more aware that this was going to be their final ever hardware.

It is an adventure where you are trying to save the company

and you are going up against the evil,

all

but copyright infringement by name Sony.

Yeah.

And it is very straightforward.

Like, Sega is in deep financial trouble.

And the president of Sega is like, you got to help us.

That is so crazy.

I love that.

But it was never released locally.

And so I don't feel comfortable

choosing it as

my final pick.

Instead, I'm going to pick

a shooting game that I absolutely fucking loved on the Dreamcast.

And that's a game that I have also drafted, I think, for other consoles because I've enjoyed it so much.

And that's Ikaruga, which is a fucking shooting-flying game where you can flip polarities to avoid different bullets of different colors.

And

it's a bullet hell game.

And I, at...

Up until that point in my life, you know, I know that Ben Gaio came out on the Dreamcast, and I didn't play that.

I wasn't a huge like Actorazer fan.

Like, I was never into shooters or schmupps.

Um,

and then I played at Karuga, and I was like, I've beat this game many times because it is so fucking enjoyable.

What are you looking at, Nick?

No, you said Actorisor.

I was trying to think of what, like, that's it's not actually,

yeah, Actorisor is the one with a sword, yeah.

That's a that's a

uh, but it starts with an A.

Yeah, what are you thinking of?

I don't know,

I

starts with an A.

Let's say R-type, yeah, R-type starts with an A.

A-R-R-T-Y-P-E.

So, yeah, Ikaruga is my final pick.

Again, leaving so many other games.

Street Fighter 3, fucking,

there's so many other bass fishing, even bass fishing.

Oh, yeah.

Talking about games with a big dumb peripheral.

Yeah.

Accessory.

So those are my four.

To review

for my Sega Dreamcast

draft, I chose Marvel vs.

Capcom 2.

I chose C-Man.

I chose the typing of the dead.

And finally, I chose Ikaruga.

Matt.

My picks were Sonic Adventure 2, Crazy Taxi, Shen Mu, and Looney Tunes Space Race.

I went with Soul Calibur, Jet Grind Radio, Skies of Arcadia, and Samade Amigo.

A lot of great games left on the board.

Obviously, there's the 2K franchise, both on NFL and NBA, which were both birthed on the Dreamcast.

Powerstone.

Power, yeah, Powerstone and Powerstone 2.

Virtua Tennis was one that was on my short list that I didn't have room for in my final four.

You know, a lot of people like the Quake 3 Arena port, which I never messed around with.

Phantasy Star Online.

I did mess around with Power Star.

And I never got into Phantasy Star Online, but I did get into, you know, Powerstone 2, Dead or Alive 2,

and

there were a lot of really, really great games for the Sega Dreamcast.

Rest in Power.

And a great Tony Hawk's Pro Skater port as well.

A great one.

I remember playing that one in Unlocking Spider-Man and being very happy with that.

What the fuck was that?

Was that schmuck you were thinking of?

Starts with an A.

But I don't know what the name of it was.

Gradius R-Type, 1942, Xevius Darius.

Axelae?

Was it maybe Axelae?

That's it.

It's time for a segment.

It's our video game sales chart segment, Pixel Chart.

All right, so the Dreamcast infamously launches in America on $99.99, but in Japan, it launched almost a full year earlier, November 27th, 1998.

I think we've talked about it on the podcast before, but you know, unthinkable in modern terms.

The idea that there would be a year-long gap between

the Japanese release and the North American release of really anything.

Yeah, truly wild, wild times.

Also, an extraordinarily short generation for the Sega Saturn.

They basically completely abandoned the Saturn.

Like, you know, they saw it was going to be a commercial failure.

Like, well, fuck it.

Let's try to be the first to the next generation after this.

And unfortunately, it backfired for them.

Anyway, the category is top 10 best-selling video games of 1998 worldwide.

So biggest games of 1998, but globally.

So

first one, this is a huge franchise.

This is one that certainly, Matt, you know quite well.

Tony Hawks Pro Skater.

No, it's not Tony Hawks Pro Skater, which is actually not in the top 10.

Fucking bullshit.

This is a, I mean, come on.

This is this is a this is a matte game.

I'm trying to I'm having a hard time with the year for some reason.

Yeah, well, okay, so here's what I'll say.

This is coming out.

This is a portable game.

Oh,

Pokemon Gold and Silver?

Not yet.

We're not at Gold and Silver yet.

98 is red and blue.

That's right.

Pokemon Red Blue, number one by quite a large margin, 8.6 million.

Number two is a PlayStation, PlayStation 1 exclusive game.

This becomes a huge franchise

for

Sony, but is not a game that necessarily is for any of us.

Maybe for Heather.

The fuck?

First party franchise.

Oh, Gunman.

Not Gunman.

Not Gunman.

It's a guy made of guns.

Gunman.

This was made into a.

This was made into a movie in recent years.

What the fuck?

This franchise.

A PlayStation exclusive that was made into a movie?

Made into a movie, yeah.

The first words that were about to leave my mouth

is incorrect.

I was going to say Monster Hunter, but it's not Monster Hunter.

Yeah, it's a PlayStation exclusive.

How about this?

Here's a hint.

Grand Turismo.

Grand Turismo, number two, 6.8 million for the

hint.

Good hint.

I like that.

Number three.

But also, I thought something was wrong with you for like just a hint of a second.

Number three is

another game in the franchise that's also occupying the number one slot.

Oh, Pokemon Yellow.

It is Pokemon Yellow with 5.4 million.

Think about that for a second.

You're effectively selling, you know, what are it, 15 million units between Pokemon Red, Blue, and Yellow.

That in and of itself is basically selling almost the cumulative total of the rest of the top 10.

That's how much of a fucking juggernaut Pokemon is back in its heyday.

It's crazy.

Yeah.

Number four, this is a Nintendo 64 exclusive that is generally regarded as one of the best games ever made.

Ocarina of Time.

It is Ocarina of Time, the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, 5.2 million, despite only releasing late that year in November or December, just for the holidays.

It just sold like gangbusters right out of the gate.

It's also wild to think that

in the year 1998, that Gran Turismo sold, outsold Ocarina of Time.

I know that it's because it was out for longer in the year, but still, it's kind of funny.

Well, and also just the install base.

And also, I think just like the audience for things like sports games and racing games is so fucking huge.

You know, that's that's the there are people who only play those games.

All right, uh, that's one, two, three, four.

Number five is another PlayStation 1 game.

Uh, this is a third-party game.

This is in a franchise that is still going to this day.

I'm going to go ahead and guess

Final Fantasy.

I guess seven.

There's not a Final Fantasy in this one,

but this is that kind,

a completely different type of game, but the kind of franchise that's still going and they're still releasing new ones of.

I'll give you another hint.

It's a fighting game franchise.

Tekken.

Do you have a number for me?

Tekken

2.

It's not Tekken 2.

Is it Tekken 3?

It is Tekken 3,

which I think is is still the only Tekken game I actually bought.

I actually owned Tekken 3 for PlayStation 1.

Rest of the Top 10, Crash Bandicoot Warped for PlayStation 1, Resident Evil 2 for PlayStation, Banjo-Kazooie for Nintendo 64, Madden NFL 99 for PlayStation and 64 and PC, Cumulative, and then WCW NWO Revenge for Nintendo 60.

Oh, wow.

Wow.

Worldwide.

Hey, that was Pixel Chart.

That's this week's Get Played.

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We're watching Gur and Lagan, baby.

And let me tell you something.

We love it.

That's what.

I mean,

two of the three of us

have purchased the Blu-ray.

That's right.

It's a fucking banger.

It's just so good.

And one of the three of us has pirated the Blu-ray.

Parody.

Parody, of course.

Yeah.

Kind of like we're not going to be able to do that.

I wouldn't even know how to do that.

Where would I begin?

No, but are you going to go on some like kind of

bay for pirates or something?

I'm talking over my head.

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