Stepping outside our 2000s comfort zone, this week we’re sharing our two top 10 lists from 1997 in the first of a new quadrilogy of pods. Expect 1998, 1999 and 2000 episodes in the coming months.
This week’s music is from The Curse of Monkey Island soundtrack by Michael Land.
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Videos referenced in this week’s episode: the German bloke touring E3 in Atlanta, Howard Lincoln talking about Rare, Nintendo’s Space World, Games World’s segment from the Sega booth at E3 1997 and B-roll of the games shown at Space World.
Matthew
- Blood
- Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
- Pilotwings 64
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- Blade Runner (1997)
- Final Fantasy VII
- Mario Kart 64
- The Curse of Monkey Island
- GoldenEye 007
- Super Mario 64
Samuel
- Total Annihilation
- Soul Blade
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert: Counterstrike and Command & Conquer: Red Alert: The Aftermath
- Grand Theft Auto
- Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
- Age of Empires
- Lylat Wars
- GoldenEye 007
- Final Fantasy VII