Player One Podcast

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 646: Stays Fresh Forever Aftershow Patrons set your wayback machine to 1984. Video games were a thing back then. And Electronic Games put out a software encyclopedia describing them. In this game from hacker alias MisterMrNelson we attempt to guess which titles are being described on these classic systems. Join us on this trip through time, space, and matter of fact video game descriptions. If you have a game you think we’d enjoy playing send it to playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Thank you for your support!

This week! The Last of US TV casting, an all-digital E3, new NES/SNES games for NSO, a release date for Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, Sackboy: A Big Adventure, more Balan Wonderworld talk, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Rankin-Bass Frosty The Snowman Last of Us TV show casting news E3 all-digital event New SNES/NES games for NSO (Fire N Ice, Prehistorik Man, Psycho Dream, Doomsday Warrior Ratchet & Clank launches on PS5 June 11 Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury Sackboy: A Big Adventure Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Undermine Balan Wonderworld Shovel Knight Cyber Shadow Hotshot Racing Play Nation Podcast (w/CJ as guest) Max Headroom TV hijacking SecondPlayer.net Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Astro City Mini - Generation 16 Special Episode Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 645: Vicariously in the HypeZone Aftershow Patrons, here it is! The last entry in the review game from the February 1999 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. There’s some Nintendo 64 games, some PS1 games and even a Game Boy Color game in here. Can you do better at this game than Greg and Phil? Test your mettle!

This week! Bad ‘80s/90s arcade movies, Neo Geo Pocket Color rereleases on Switch, Switch selling crazy numbers, Ys IX, Destruction Allstars, gaming setups and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Joysticks trailer Arcade trailer Wayne’s World Uber Eats commercial Arcade 1UP giant joystick Pac-Man Porky’s trailer Revenge of the Nerds trailer Match of the Millennium out on Switch 2/17 Card Fighers Clash NGPC to Dreamcast link cable Cool Cool Toon Card Fighters DS Goldeneye 007 XBLA game leaks Digital Foundry Goldeneye stream The Show coming to Xbox, features crossplay and progression Sonic Adventure 2 Battle Nintendo Power cover Switch overtakes the 3DS in lifetime sales Edward Scissorhands Big Game commercial Google closes Stadia studios, to focus on tech instead Ys IX: Monstrum Nox Lemon of Troy Gran Turismo Sport Destruction Allstars Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Hitman 3 SecondPlayer.net Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast m

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 644: Paging Dr. Kintobor Aftershow The time circuits are a-sputterin’ and we are still parked inside the February 1999 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly for this Aftershow and its review game. Patrons, you may have to really rack that brain of yours to determine which games are being described here. Yet! There was a winner this week in the long-standing rivalry of Greg Vs. Phil. Can you best these gaming gurus with your brain knowledge? Tell us how you fared! And then if you have a game you think would be fun to have us play email it to playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Thank you for your support of our show, and please continue enjoying these special episodes made just for you!

This week! GameStop in the news, Balan Wonderworld isn’t the good kind of throwback platformer, CJ and Phil recount their wacky San Dimas and Tokyo adventures, Cyber Shadow is difficult but really fun, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Replicade arcade carpet Phil’s Bill & Ted dolls Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro Ken Crane’s Goes Dark Grave of the Fireflies Gamestop stock still in the news Balan Wonderworld Sonic the Hedgehog GDC postmortem Cyber Shadow VVVVVV Road Blaster Road Avenger ported to SNES Turrican Flashback Strictly Limited Turrican collection Hitman 3 Sea of Thieves SecondPlayer.net Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Astro City Mini - Generation 16 Special Episode Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 643: Just Call It Ape Escape Aftershow Dear Patrons we are back with another review quiz. This time it’s the February 1999 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. Can you guess the names of the games being described in these reviews? Cuz our memories are kinda hazy!

This week! Xbox Live Gold ups and downs, Resident Evil Village Maiden demo, Hitman 3, the Insert Coin documentary, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: The Orange Box Les Poisson Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Benson René Auberjonois Benson opening Mr. Belvedere Batman The Animated Series Making Of Documentary Apple’s gonna make a VR thing Microsoft increased the price of XBL, then reversed it Resident Evil showcase news Activision buys vicarious visions Insert Coin documentary Hitman 3 NBA Jam book documentary Resident Evil Village Maiden demo Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game: Complete Edition Cyber Shadow Picross S5 SecondPlayer.net Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Phantasy Star II Text Adventure: Kinds no Boken - Generation 16 Episode #123 Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a t

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 642: Anything Could Happen Aftershow Were you alive in 1982? We barely were, and so this review quiz from hacker alias mrmisternelson broke our collective brains. Hear! The lovely prose Electronic Games editors laid down describing video games of the early 1980s. Marvel! At not knowing what games they are possibly talking about. Learn! Just how bad we are at detecting subtle hints in the text to guess these (though maybe that’s just CJ). We had a huge amount of fun with this quiz, thanks to mrmisternelson for sending it in.

This week! Lucasfilm Games, new Star Wars and Indy stuff, Bower’s Fury looks awesome, Scott Pilgrim is back, Greg plays D&D, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Wandavision The Office Superfan episodes Obi-Wan series with Hayden Christensen Lucasfilm games Bethesda/Machine Games doing Indiana Jones game Ubisoft’s The Division studio to make Star Wars game LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga Bowser’s Fury explanation trailer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Subcon New Mario red and blue switch Mario Red & Blue Switch New Mario pin set Arcade 1up announced new stuff at CES Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game: Complete Edition All the Limited Run Scott Pilgrim stuff Red Dead Online Sea of Thieves Mr. Heavyfoot Zelda hat kid Vacation beard Mazes & Monsters with Tom Hanks Dungeons & Dragons Car Commercial D&D cartoon final episode (fan-made) Tim Schafer Breaks Down 20 Years of Double Fine Games Back to the Future NES Gazelle is stopping its trade-in service

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 641: Not In It For The Likes Aftershow Hello there once again, patrons! Thank you for supporting our show. Here is yet another aftershow, this time an amazing Snowpocalypse Jeopardy-style quiz from hacker alias Happy Canard. Phil has been on a bit of a hot streak with these Aftershow games lately—will that trend continue? The only way to find out is to listen. Thank you and if you have a game for us please email it to playeronepodcast@gmail.com.

This week! Phil’s ear, Epic goes to the mall, Next Level goes to Nintendo, Scott Pilgrim Goes Limited Run, and much, much more. Join us in the Suncoast conference room, won’t you? Links of interest: Gaming For Guru Epic buys a mall Suncoast Video Montgomery Ward, “Monkey Wards” Electric Avenue Nightswimming We Built This City Starship Nintendo buys Next Level Games Limited Run Scott Pilgrim Set Limited Run: Scott Pilgrim Games My Mom Found podcast Robotech Battlecry Tetris 99 Phil’s Taiko no Tatsujin model Wilmot’s Warehouse Monster Hunter Rise Sea of Thieves SecondPlayer.net Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Phantasy Star II Text Adventure: Kinds no Boken - Generation 16 Episode #123 Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids. Follow us on

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 640: The Story of Two Guys Who Fell Out of a Plane Aftershow Hey Patreo-trons! We have guests Kevin Larrabee and Logun Keller in our Aftershow this week as we turn back time to November 1991 and continue trying to guess games being described in EGM’s review crew reviews! Test your might, your knowledge, and your mettle with this always-tough mind-twister! As always, thank you for supporting this podcast. You can send us a game, just email it to playeronepodcast@gmail.com. Thanks so much!

This week! It’s just CJ and Greg, and they talk about Star Wars, email habits, Ubisoft games coming to Game Pass(?), live service games as GOTY contenders, Among Us, Wilmot’s Warehouse, the Astro City Mini, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Sanebox Ubi games to be added to Game Pass? The Back Page Among Us Sea Of Thieves - Seasons Wilmot’s Warehouse Astro City Mini Alien Syndrome No Clip Final Fantasy XIV documentary Hockey Night Megan Follows Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch Phantasy Star II Text Adventure: Kinds no Boken - Generation 16 Episode #123 Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast. Thanks for listening! Don't forget to visit our new web site at www.playeronepo

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 639: The One With The Sunglasses Aftershow This past weekend was the super bowl and as such we have an excellent superb bowl Jeopardy quiz from hacker alias Happy Canard! As we always say, our memories are absolute dog feces, so you’ll probably have much better luck in answering these questions than we did. But a good time was had by all as you’re about to hear! And we learn a dirty secret about Greg’s internet browsing habits. Got a game for the Aftershow? Send it into us at playeronepodcast@gmail.com. We love you forever, never change. Thanks!

This week! We go down the list of our top five favorite games of 2020, and also discuss biggest surprises/disappointments, fave game not from 2020 we played this year, most anticipated of 2021, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Q101 Chicago B96 Chicago Z95 / 94.7 Chicago Oldies 104.3 WJMK Chicago John Records Landecker WGN Radio in Chicago Dr Demento Dead Puppies Barnes & Barnes “Fish Heads” Smokescreen Transformers Masterpiece Top Gun Transformer crossover The Office Little People Fisher-Price Little People Eddie Izzard - Learning French Greg Sewart’s Extra Life Page The Player One Podcast t-shirt The Player One Podcast mug ResetEra Player One Podcast Topic Player One Podcast Discord Greg Streams on Twitch The Pioneer LaserActive - Generation 16 Episode #121 Add us in Apple Podcasts Check out Greg's web series Generation 16 - click here. And take a trip over to Phil's YouTube Channel to see some awesome retro game vids. Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/p1podcast. T

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 638: Gotta Work On Your Ball Control Aftershow Hop on in and set your time circuits to November 1991 and play along in this little review game using games reviewed in that month’s issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly. And we even have guest Mike Phillips along for the ride. Can you beat the sharp minds of this podcast? Answer: Probably. 

This week! A holiday song, EA buys Codemasters, CD Projekt Red’s continuing Cyberpunk problems, Super Nintendo World, Grindstone, Among Us, the Astro City Mini, CJ’s new website thing, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer EA to buy Codemasters Among Us on Switch Nintendo Indie World Showcase New NES/SNES Games on NSO Valis (video game series) Syd of Valis Telenet Japan Earnest Evans El Viento Voodoo Vince Super Nintendo World Direct Cyberpunk 2077 pulled from PSN, refunds given Microsoft puts warning on CP2077 in store, also offers refunds Cyberpunk refunds maybe not so easy to get Cyberpunk glitch videos Rami Ismail Cyberpunk thread Grindstone Bit.Trip series Bit.Trip.Runner on Switch Space Invaders Forever Apple Arcade Astro City Mini Generation 16: Flicky Sega Dark Edge Dark Edge (video) Ichidant-R Arabian Fight Immortals: Fenyx Rising Adventure Time DLC for Immortals SecondPlayer.net Sackboy: A Big Adventure Nightshade The Metro Th

If you support us on Patreon you may know that we have been doing Aftershows each week for ~2 years. During this time of working from home and social distancing, we are releasing Aftershows from the past on Fridays for everyone’s enjoyment. 637: Play As The Arrivals Aftershow Patrons! You are our favorite people. We even produce these aftershows for you. This week’s is a continuation from the last one. We’re venturing into the January 1999 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly and reading out reviews, blanking out the names, and then trying to guess them. Let’s see if YOU, dear listener, can get any of these. Let us know how you score. Or if you have a game you think we should play on-air, send it to playeronepodcast@gmail.com.

This week! We talk about The Game Awards (both the show and the trailers shown during it), Switch still selling well, NHL 94 Rewind, Monster Sanctuary, Immortals Fenyx Rising, Snake Pass, and much, much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: Sea of Thieves Scott Pilgrim coming on 1/14 (Happy birthday Phil) Gérard Depardieu Asterix and Obelix Halo Infinite is a fall 2021 game Switch outsold everything (unit-wise) in November PS5 most successful console launch in history Jeff Grubb finds Christmas lights Telltale moving away from episodic releases “New” Telltale Wallace & Gromit New Sonic series on Netflix in 2022 Super Mario Bros. Super Show Phil’s friend Jim Superstore “Taylor” in Superstore The Game Awards Complete List of Winners Ghosts n Goblins Resurrection Edward Gorey’s “Mystery!” intro Capcom Arcade Stadium announced The Initiative’s first game is… Perfect Dark! Perfect Dark - Official Announce Trailer - The Game Awards 2020 The Initiative - Perfect Dark Developer Interview - Th