No, not the episode 300 you were promised. For a (hopefully) obvious reason. Instead we fire up The Back Page time machine once again, setting the dial for 1998. Many call it gaming’s greatest ever year. Ocarina! MGS! Half-Life! Gran Turismo! StarCraft! There’s no arguing with that lot. Or is there? Find out as two contrarian chrononauts break down the main events of the year, recap the highs and lows of E3 and reveal their top ten lists.
This week’s music is from the Star Wars: Rogue Squadron soundtrack by Chris Huelsbeck, and the Baldur’s Gate soundtrack by Michael Hoenig.
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Videos referenced in this week’s episode: 20 minutes of a man walking around E3 in Atlanta, Nintendo planting the seeds of Pokémania, an early look at Perfect Dark and that very shiny footage of Duke Nukem Forever.
Oh, and here’s footage of Pierce Brosnan screaming in a plane because somewhat cut out the strangling from Tomorrow Never Dies.
Matthew
- 1080° Snowboarding
- Banjo-Kazooie
- Baldur’s Gate
- Xenogears
- F-Zero X
- Thief: The Dark Project
- Half-Life
- Resident Evil 2
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
- Grim Fandango
Samuel
- Banjo-Kazooie
- World Cup 98
- James Bond 007 (1998)
- Einhänder
- F-Zero X
- Star Wars Trilogy Arcade
- Time Crisis II
- Resident Evil 2
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
- Half-Life