Lana del Ney ! - 007 First Light theme reveal

OLL 26 in Norwich hits that rare sweet spot where a retro gaming event feels both exciting and genuinely comfortable. We talk about why the Epic Studios venue gave off a GamesMaster-style studio vibe, how John and the team kept everything running smoothly, and what it’s like when listeners travel in just to hang out, talk games, and share a pint. We also break down the setups that drew the biggest crowds, including a live Challenge Accepted station built around Final Fantasy IX on a PS1 CRT, plus the on-stage Console Wars showdown and where you can watch the filmed version.

Then we get back to what we’re actually playing, bouncing between PS3, PS2, and modern oddities. RGT finishes Infamous 2 and explains why it’s a stronger sequel, then raves about Thank Goodness You’re Here as a sharply written British comedy game with Yorkshire flavor. George confesses to a Game Dev Story relapse, checks in on Clair Expedition 33, and falls hard for Midnight Club 3 Dub Edition after a bargain pickup, before giving a brutally honest update on the chaotic curiosity that is Seven Sins.

The news gets spicy: we unpack Samson’s roadmap and its 2026 console release window, debate the Neo Geo Plus AES and the red flags around preorders and value comparisons, and react to Lana Del Rey releasing the official theme for 007 First Light. If you care about retro gaming, gaming community, PS2 and PS3 recommendations, and consumer skepticism, you’ll feel right at home. Subscribe, share with a friend who loves retro, and leave a review with the strangest game you’ve ever bought.

Transcript

Welcome And Quick Teasers

SPEAKER_05 0:20

Hello and welcome to the unofficial controller podcast, your weekly gaming podcast, episode number three one four with me, George, and this week joined by RGT, OLL mainstager to my decrepit old ager. How's it going, handsome man? We're rhyming now. We're rhyming. Hey, look at me. I am nearly out of primary school. Quick one though to keep the YouTube AI happy. We got some news coming up. If ever you wanted a Neo Geo, now may or may not be the time. Um got some Samsung news and uh a little bit of extra news for you. So keep your eyes peeled. We'll have that uh warmed up and ready. Now the AI is satiated. RGT. We talked about it on flashback. We pretend we talked about it on the last episode. Probably ought not to overstay our welcome, but we had an absolutely banging time at OLL. Let's get into that right now, and then we can talk about all the usual things we talk about, like what we've been playing and the news, and you know, housekeeping and all that good stuff. And what you might be hoping to play this coming gaming week. RGT. You remind me of a novelty pencil topper today. Thank you. Sort of thinking in there somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 1:40

I've been called many things, but never a novelty pencil topper from a cereal box on the days. I'm not sure if it's an insult or not, but I'll take it as a positive.

SPEAKER_05 1:50

We'll let the listeners see what they can come up with in terms of their memories. Wow.

SPEAKER_01 1:54

The AI is going crazy already.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

I'm thinking legit, just get your old school pen drawer out and see what's hanging around in there from here. Yuff. Yuff. Yeah. Brilliant. Tell me about OLL. I was there, but hey, do you know what? You framed it up in a good way. So give us give us the lowdown for uh my good friend.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Um as usual, John and his team done a absolutely banging show. Um, very well organized. Thing I like with John and that, they're always all his team are always mulling about if you need anything, um, you know, anything from internet codes to another table or anything, they're there, bang, jobs done. They always do such a great show, so well organised.

SPEAKER_05 2:40

Um all walking around in their special t-shirts as well, so very easily identified by not only you and me, but everyone else. I think that was a cool move.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

Yeah, yeah, very good move. Um, and they're always spread about the room helping people, getting things done, and there didn't seem to be any hiccups at all. Things were just done. I think the only one John said was they could there was two LED screens, I could only use one, but the one screen was still brilliant anyway, that we used on there when we were on stage. Um, but yeah, it was there was different groups there. So you had the Norwich Amiga group, you had uh Nintendo from Norwich, Norwich Retro Gamers, you had the VR Escape Rooms and the Games Festival was there, and this was all held in Epic Studios in in Norwich, so it had that TV studio setting, which was really good.

SPEAKER_05 3:29

Let's talk about that venue, mate. That felt special in there, didn't it? I like it.

SPEAKER_01 3:33

It certainly did. It almost felt like you were filming uh pilot for a new Games Master show. It had that vibe, it was you know, that studio vibe, felt really good, really good stage. Um, and then obviously with that, you had level up Leroy, who was doing the the the sort of the comparing of the day and the music and the DJing at night. And obviously, you know what you get with Level Up Leroy, it's absolutely fantastic all the time, anyway. So it was just a really good, really good quality show. Um, great to be part of.

Traders Team And Crowd Buzz

SPEAKER_05 4:05

Um, hey, tell me about these traders because I bought games, mate. I bought games.

SPEAKER_01 4:10

No, I bought I bought a couple of bits, yeah. I mean, that is we know it's quite hard when you're actually at the event with a table and doing bits and pieces, it's quite hard to get the time to go and look round these stalls. But we both did find a few minutes, and we both, you know, once it quiet and down a bit later on in the day, early evening, we went and had a look, didn't we, and bought some bits and pieces, which was good. We certainly did. Um, but yeah, it was fantastic. It was a long Tyran day. Um, but we were lucky enough we had we had our great team with us um from Badabinkstar, we had Captain Scarlet, we had Digital Munkery, um and then there was me, there was you, there was um Captain Scarlet's partner also came along as well. Yeah, so we had we had a great team.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

Um Rachel was there, she was on the show, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:58

Mr. MT came later on.

SPEAKER_05 5:00

Yeah, give you some moral support. That looked different to my moral support, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:06

Steady. Um, but it was it was that, and you really knew you had a great thing going because Digital Monkey bought his challenge accepted along for a live event, um, which went down an absolute storm.

SPEAKER_05 5:19

Um Aaron, Mark, and Matt got some absolute usage out of there, and our winners, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 5:24

Mm-hmm. Yeah, so which was I don't know if you've heard on the other show we were talking about, but it was Final Fantasy IX. I mean, original PS1 CRT, and that was the skipping challenge. Whereas you go into the game, you're in a few minutes in, there's a skipping challenge. What me and George were thought this was a bit of an Easter egg that you could only do one. It was a bit of the devs having a bit of a joke on us. No, no, it turns out you could you could do as many as you want if you're good enough, we're just not. But um yeah, and these guys were in there was loads of people took part, but these were the three that started getting the numbers, and then that started by the end. We we we cut it down at five o'clock by the end. The three of them were there trying to get that one last final score each. But yeah, Aaron won, Mark comes second, Matt was third. They got prizes we provided, we done some limited things.

SPEAKER_05 6:10

I don't want to sound ungracious, but those prizes look great, and I need one.

SPEAKER_01 6:18

Yes, I will I will get you one of those.

SPEAKER_05 6:20

There we we everything that was inside it as well.

SPEAKER_01 6:23

Yeah, yeah, I can do that. You worry, but yeah, so basically, um Eren who won uh well, all three of them got a limited edition flashback tote bag. Then within them, they had different grades of prizes, but there was a mixture of retro gaming mugs, Game Boy Coasters, there was a uh Venom controller holder by cable guys. Um, Erin got a limited edition flashback and ol t-shirt.

SPEAKER_05 6:48

Over the shoulder boulder controller holder.

SPEAKER_01 6:51

Uh nope. Um there was also uh there was key ring in there, you know, a bit a few of our flies and bits and pieces, but yeah, so they all got some. Fridge magnets, baby. Fridge fridge magnets? Yeah, was it fridge magnets? I don't know. We had some we had some old stock magnets that we we used up, didn't we? So I don't know who had those, but we um we had we had key rings in there. But it was overall, there was some good prizes, great competition. The table was buzzing all day. Um, then we had like the visitors come to see us, our listeners, you know, there's people traveled from York, and there's people traveled from London. Um, it was fantastic. We had people like Gascom, Firm Returns, Carlos. You hear all these at the end of the show, these guys, along with Badabinkster and Digital Mungery and Captain Scarlet. But you know, having them all come along, and I made sure I got my beer and we had a pint together, had a good chat and a catch-up. It was absolutely fantastic. Um, and makes it all worthwhile when when you have people travelling to see you, and you just sort of think, Well, you know, they are fans of the show. I know we like about on here and we we mess about every week, but we fans are yours. Well, obviously. Um, but when no, they just come to see us all, and it it was brilliant. And you know, me and George were lucky enough to do um stage on Console Wars, which was great fun with the awesome uh middle-aged gamer guy Mags, who was hosting that. We had great fun, banter with the audience, and seeing the guys that come down to see us sit in the audience and take part in the show was just brilliant. Um, and I just think fantastic day all round. Like I say, we saw we saw a few YouTubers that we know that we met up with, like Dan the games man.

SPEAKER_05 8:31

You did. You're your internet famous, they they don't even know who I am. I'm not internet famous at all.

SPEAKER_01 8:36

Yes, you are people don't dare talk to you because you're like the hierarchy of the show.

SPEAKER_05 8:41

You're not the if that if I even thought for a moment that that concept was true, I'd cut my own leg off.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

Get a sore, fella. Um there was people like PS2 Mini Games, two and a half gamers UK were filming their YouTube channel there. Um, so we had a chat with those, and then Badabinkster done great idea, Badabinks and very kind. He done great idea.

SPEAKER_05 9:05

He done a both those ideas RGT lit that stand up, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Um and he done a charity uh uh mystery bin, so you could for a pound you could pick a DVD or a game or a VHS and he'd for charity, mate. It's for charity, mate.

SPEAKER_05 9:21

Um very on point for us, isn't it?

Why OLL Felt More Inviting

SPEAKER_01 9:24

Yeah, it is, and he donated the rest uh all the money that came from that to Sue Ryder, I believe. So it was it was great him to do that. I think he raised nearly£40, which was brilliant. Um, and people people really enjoyed that. I thought it's a nice little thing to have on the side of the of the stall, but people loved it, you know, and people kept coming back and and and trying different to get different DVDs and Blu-rays and bits. So yeah, it was it was a really good day overall. What about you, George? What did you take from the day? Oh um dear, now what have you found funny?

SPEAKER_05 9:58

No, it it was the charity, mate. I probably ought to grow up a little bit, I just charity, mate. No one kid. No, it was C Ryder.

SPEAKER_01 10:08

Oh dear. Come on, come on, serious bit. But look, I'm back, I'm back, I'm back.

SPEAKER_05 10:16

Mate, what I loved about it was the sense of togetherness about it all. We uh forgive me, everyone. Now that we've got lights and stuff, you can see when I start roaring, when I'm like, You now know what I have to put up with every week. Anyway, the whole thing about it was very down to earth. Uh you know, we've done OLL before and we've done countless other ones, but this one felt the most close, didn't it, to people? Um, I think the most inviting, the most open. I think that the way it was organized actually allowed for that. It was designed to be that. And I actually think that the engagement was up because just everything was down a little bit. We've been to them before in arcades and stuff. And hey, do you know what? What a great place to host an event. But at the same token, they are very loud. Now, although this was loud, it was controlled and it was gentle, and I think that allowed a lot of people from all different walks of life to be able to enjoy the show floor for longer. Got to admit, did love getting up on stage with you and Mags and uh Ash Versus to uh do the console wars. That was really fun and uh and a great honour to be able to maybe show a little bit about what the show's about on the main stage as well. Although it was only tiny windows, it was nice to be able to give people that. I was absolutely blown away by the charity box, and like I've never seen such a busy area and the and this and the challenge accepted, which was equally as busy, if not more. It was a real great place, and I think we've seen some from some of the footage that's come out from OLL that people actually found those parts enjoyable. It was nice to get you know a bit of skin-on-skin contact with the people that came to see, and I mean that in the nicest possible way. There was nothing untoward, uh, unless it was asked for, in which case it was delivered 100%. Um glad they didn't flashback. Um 110%. Yeah, you need to cut back a bit because you bring your flashback persona on here, and the old RGT would have been talking about scissoring or something. So um God knows what you've become over time. You've proper brought PG back, baby, and I don't like it. Um so yeah, that was my takeaway.

SPEAKER_01 12:41

I mean, boom, boom, boom, all those things that you mentioned absolute legit, but you know, it was the feeling and the vibe that I also think you can tell John and his team's experience because it was so well laid out with the audience sort of just off, you know, central to the stage, and then you had all the consoles in rows, so you weren't tripping over people. Then you had us, and we had Rowan from MBP manuals, is it MPB or MBP manuals? Sorry, Rowan, I've probably butchered that.

SPEAKER_05 13:10

I don't know, but either which way he's coming back on soon. Yes, he's got some updates and he's always fun to have on. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 13:17

And he does the switch manuals and that absolutely brilliant.

SPEAKER_05 13:19

And he's always our sort of stand neighbor, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 13:21

He's always next to us, yeah. So you know, you had sort of a little oval of us near the bar, and then the other side you had traders, bit of traders at the back. So you were never it was never congested anywhere, it was very well organised.

SPEAKER_05 13:33

We looked in having Rowan with us again because it created that little L-shaped corner for us, didn't it? That was just like that attraction on the other side of the room. So and Rowan stands always busy, always busy because of how phenomenal it is. So then we get the overspill of that. So whatever.

Console Wars Video And Discord

SPEAKER_01 13:50

You know, and he's his manuals is well known. You know, he's featured on Spawn Wave and shows like this on YouTube, some big channels, and deservedly so, deservedly so. So he always draws a crowd. Everyone knows you know Rose knows Rowan and his manuals, and we've we've done some human. He is, he's an amazing guy, and we always love being having our stand next to his because we get on so well and have such a good time with him. So, yeah, it was absolutely fantastic. If you went to um OLL and you come and said hi, or you were there, or you enjoyed it, let us know. Um, usual places, you know you can contact us at.

SPEAKER_05 14:24

Let me just round out by saying thank you again to Badabinkster, Digital Munkery, and Captain and Associated Partners for their hard work and dedication.

SPEAKER_01 14:34

Oh, without a doubt, we couldn't have done it without them, couldn't have done it.

SPEAKER_05 14:37

Big carry going on. Everyone who came down to see us, Carlos, Firm Returns, Gazcom, Tingle Tuna. You know you are, you came down, you made it special. We love you for it. Um, and mate, let's not forget one last shout out for the winner, Eren. A worthy second place in Mark, and a more than worthy third place in Matt. A podium of winners. But unfortunately, like Highlander, RGT, there can only be one. Um, but Erin's now in the fold in the Discord, possibly even maybe listening to this, because the Discord's not a presumptive listen. Let's not forget that. No, not only is the Discord a place for people to hang out and talk about the show, it's also a place for people to hang out and talk about video games completely independent of what me and RGT waffle on about. So great community going on there. Further developments in that direction as well, mate. I'm super stoked and absolutely charmed and kind of a little bit humbled, if I'm honest with you.

SPEAKER_01 15:36

And if anyone wants to check out the console wars show, um Captain Filmed it really good quality filming as well. That is edited, that is on our YouTube channel. If you want to go and watch that, um, you can see the fun we had with that. Um brilliant. And if you want to know what console wars was, we basically had a World Cup table, and that went, they were all drawn out against each other, all the consoles in the past, that went all the way down to a final and a winner. I won't say no more than that. In case you haven't been to RL or know the winner, go and watch it on our YouTube channel, give us a like, comment, subscribe, all the rest of the YouTube things that hit the algorithm through that, and uh, I hope you like it. If you were there, like I say, contact us questions at unofficial controllerpodcast.com or um X or Instagram, anything like that, or if you want to join the Discord, there's plenty of ways to you can jump on there with link trees and stuff. Come and come and join us in there and um yeah, join in the party. But yeah, OLL26 was absolutely brilliant success, um, and we loved it and can't wait to do the next one.

SPEAKER_05 16:36

All that said and done, park it because guess what?

SPEAKER_01 16:40

What sorry that was a bit aggressive?

SPEAKER_05 16:43

What yeah, I didn't know. Some people stand in the darkness, RGT, afraid to step into the light. I heard this before, somewhere.

SPEAKER_01 16:51

Some people need to have somebody. Some what? Some poop. This is payback every time you pull me up. I am listening.

SPEAKER_05 17:02

I want it and deserve it. I need it to keep me grounded, especially after OLL. Keep me humble. Don't trip me up on that one. That was a simple kind of tongue twister. Um but more importantly, mate, the people came here, they've probably fast-forwarded to this bit because we've got listeners all over the world who didn't get for who weren't fortunate enough to be able to get to Norfolk. So I'm gonna ask you.

RGT Plays Infamous 2

SPEAKER_01 17:39

What have you been playing? Jeez, that took a while. Everyone's gonna re-doll in the Spotify at the moment. What's going on with this? Something's going on. George's got stuck.

SPEAKER_05 17:51

He made run version 2.0, but I think I'm a couple of updates behind, so I've got absolutely no idea what's going on.

SPEAKER_01 17:59

Um Infamous 2, I spoke about last week. Throat.

SPEAKER_05 18:05

I was gonna say it's short, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 18:07

It's yeah, it's a bit it's not as short as a forward one. It's still shorter than the first one.

SPEAKER_05 18:13

Um I felt like I by the time I just got going with it, up came the credits.

SPEAKER_01 18:19

I was like, oh yeah, and I think as well, I think it's one of them, I think there's like 30 odd missions, and I thought, oh, this is 35 missions, something like that. I thought this is gonna tack a while. And after my first stint, I was like 12 missions in. I thought, oof, I reckon another good stint on this, I can clean this up, which I did. I'd done it on the um Sunday after RL. Had a sort out, got all our gear and all that sorted out, bits and pieces, all that put away, and I thought, right, here we go. Let's get this finished up. I was off work on Monday, so a few little hazy Janes. Bitch, done. Yeah. Proper sesh. I meant on the game, I didn't mean I got leathered. How many hazy Janes did you have? Uh 19 and a half. No, I didn't know. No, just four pack. We know that's not true. Yeah, yeah. No, uh, four pack, I just had a few of those. I did finish with a couple of gin and tonics as well, just to just to savour the win. But um that's not actually quite a lot. Yeah, make me laugh. If you say more than two B's, you're like, whoa, animal. That's not no, it's only four little tins, that's fine.

SPEAKER_05 19:28

Four or 330 mils of at least 5.6 ABV and two G and Ts heavily poured by a beautiful donus, and no doubt, probably quadruples. Um tell me that's not quite a good chunk of booze. No, they were George, don't overag it, mate. It was Slimline tonic, you know. We're trying to watch our waist.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

It was slimline tonic. That's because she's diabetic. Probably because of all the booze you've fed her. Yeah, exactly. Uh get on the slimline, you put more gin in. Um but yeah, so I finished the game. Uh I thought it was a fantastic game, really.

SPEAKER_05 20:09

Um it's better than the first one, and that's what hurts when it pops. It's like, damn it!

SPEAKER_01 20:15

It is, it's it's even they've kept that sort of essence with the menus a bit, they've still got that sort of early PC game menu, but I it works and I quite like it. But I do I think the graphics are are very much improved, even though they're not bad in the first game, but these are really good. Um and I've said it before, plays really well, enjoyed the story. Um yeah, and I thought it was good. I thought the challenge level had gone down a bit. I thought it was a bit of a bit of a there was there was I got stuck quite a lot in the first one where I was having to replay battles. This one, I really hardly died at all. I was pretty much a breeze-through, really. It wasn't too bad at all.

SPEAKER_05 20:59

It felt very Spider-Man y, didn't it?

SPEAKER_01 21:02

Yeah, and I think once you get the um where you can get the uh where you upgrade like your grenades and stuff, once you get the level three then, they can destroy anything, you know. They are powerful things.

SPEAKER_05 21:15

The only ones I think looking at it through that lens, you're right, they kind of framed up the kind of combat that made it more exciting, but that actually overped you the like so much. And do you think it's because you had a familiarity from the first game, or do you think anyone's gonna rock up and just blitz two like this? I think they are, aren't they?

SPEAKER_01 21:35

Um I think the f um definitely familiarity helped with controls and bits and knowing where you're you know what you can do with your different powers from your jumping to your um and this one you could do, which I this really made me think of Spider Man games, where you could do the the grip, electric grip, where you could you could aim and fire it and pull yourself along a lot of web.

SPEAKER_05 21:56

Yeah, I got as when you start to get those powers that are. Universal really starts to become like a game, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01 22:03

Yeah, and once once you start using those and you start thinking there's you can see why a Spider-Man fan would enjoy this game. Um, but yeah, I just think it's it's a second uh second diff, you know, that second difficult album that we always say, but I think they nailed it.

SPEAKER_05 22:21

Yeah, it's a good album in that through that lens, mate. It's a banger.

SPEAKER_01 22:24

It's improved in every way. Um, like you say, a little bit shorter, but other than that, I think for the price you can get this game for nowadays, I think jump in, play it, enjoy it, because I think there's a lot of games.

SPEAKER_05 22:34

What price is that now?

SPEAKER_01 22:36

Um, I think two is about£10 now in CEX in the UK. Um, not sure what it is, you know, of our friends across the pond in the States, but it's similar, won't it?

SPEAKER_05 22:47

I can't imagine. I wouldn't have thought it's much different.

SPEAKER_01 22:49

Yeah, it's probably 12-15 bucks, I suspect. But if you're PS, you know, if you're starting a PS3 collection, get infamous one and two, without a doubt, because great, great games. And I've loved playing them. And that's and me and George always say this, you know, when you've got a good game, when them credits roll, and I was and Donna looked at me, Mrs. RGT, I should say, looked at me and went, You're sad that's finished, aren't you? And I was like, Yeah, I was really enjoying that. Oh, can you find another one similar? Is there a third one on here? I was like, No, there's not a third one on here.

SPEAKER_05 23:17

Even the boss battle goes down a bit too easy, though, doesn't it? I remember thinking is it it wasn't hard.

Thank Goodness You’re Here Review

SPEAKER_01 23:22

Is it yeah, it wasn't hard at all. You know, I thought that was gonna be a lot of a comeback, this sort of a comeback he does, but then once you've got them bombs and you're just throwing them in in him, that is just brilliant. That that destroys she'd been playing. Um one other game um I got stuck into a bit this week. This is a game that um Ginge suggested this probably a year or two ago, maybe over a year. Let us know, Ginge, in Discord. I'm sure it was about a year ago. I've probably missed misremembered that, but anyway. Um, and then DM's been playing it, and we were talking about it at OLL. So because I was off work um Monday as well, that was my long weekend. I thought I think I might have a go at this and play it and play it. And I tell you what, it it is it's short. I've done it in the day. I think I'm gonna go back and try and platinum it, but it was so much fun, and the only thing I the way I can think to describe this game as like Monty Python crossed with a look inside George's brain. Um and this is a game called Thank Goodness You're Here. That's it, yeah. Um if you haven't heard of Thank Goodness You're Here, it's it's an award-winning game by a couple of developers, uh British developers. Um and it's it's like a 1980s cartoon set in a Yorkshire town, um, but with that very funny, almost slapstick comedy, silly comedy, but it just works. It's almost like a comedy show, it's almost like a UK animated comedy show, it's so good, so brilliantly written, and I just laughed from start to finish. And I remember when Gij Ginj said about this, and I sort of looked it up and thought, Oh, that's different, that's weird. But then once I actually started playing it, it's just from the accents to the things they do to the YS animated, it's his own thing. I don't know if you can describe it, is you're sort of in this town, you're waiting for the mayor to have a visit to the mayor because your your boss wants you to go and see him to you know get the town more advertised and that sort of thing. But while you're waiting for him, you wander off around the town and you do all these random things helping people, and it's almost like Mr. Men. Some people have got really long arms, you always go really small and stuff, like you'll go in the pub, and when you walk through the door, when you go in the pub, you're walking on the bar, then you fall down the sink, you fall into the the um cellar where the beer is, and then you get sucked up the point, you come out into a pint, and all random things is but it's so funny, and you're just helping people out, and it just has these silly little comedy things. I mean, things from like these real simple things always make me laugh. So, for instance, I was walking around the park and I saw a sign on the post on the park and that said polite notice. And when I looked underneath, it said hello. Notice things like that just tickle me. That was just brilliant. Um, definitely recommend it. If you are if you're a PlayStation Plus subscriber, that's on there, so you can just download it.

SPEAKER_05 26:31

Oh, right, okay.

SPEAKER_01 26:32

Well, then yeah, download it. I think I don't know if we had it as a I think we might have had it as a monthly game or it's just on plus.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

I'm not sure, but it's definitely like that's a possibility, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:42

Yeah, so I'm uh definitely go back and try and platinum it, I think, because I just I just really enjoyed it and I just thought that was a breath of fresh air, really. It's a game that not really anyone else has done. That's almost like a cross between a point and click and a sort of almost like a broken sword game, but a lot more silly. So you're walking around the screen, but you've got them point and click elements, so you'll someone will need something, and then you'll go to someone else, and you need to do something else to come back to them to do that, and but uh it doesn't make it too difficult. You will find places to go, and that will open up to what you have to do. Um, and the start of it is like a 1970s stroke eighties show. I saw actual real footage of a 70s um Yorkshire and the bus and the music is like George Formby, and it's just brilliant, brilliantly made, but yeah, definitely recommend it. Um, other than playing um and writing up a couple of hidden gems, that is pretty much all I've been playing this week, young George. So, what about you?

George’s Mobile Gaming Confession

SPEAKER_05 27:43

Well, buckle up because I've got some interesting stories to tell. So last week I've been insanely busy Monday to Friday, I have to admit. So I found myself adopting some peculiar gaming habits. One of them has been um what can only just be described as a class A addiction to game dev story. Now I've been in re-amp for this before. Obviously, I've relapsed, I've come out, uh downloaded it on my phone. I don't know why. I I really don't I really don't know why. Anyway, I've been playing that. If anyone doesn't know what it is, it's like a very light game development simulator. Yeah, you can get it on a proper console, but no, I'm playing it on a mobile because we're real gamers too. Uh I'm also going to talk about Candy Crusher, hold it down. Um key on Sadooku on my phone. Um anyway, game dev story. Look, we're going places now.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

Please stay. Anyone listening, do not turn off. Don't get your finger away. I've said that to George a few times. Right, carry on.

SPEAKER_05 29:00

Equally, I believe I've also said it to you.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Recently, actually.

SPEAKER_05 29:08

Let that be a story.

SPEAKER_01 29:10

There's actually video evidence of that as well.

Clair Expedition 33 Update

Midnight Club 3 Is A Steal

SPEAKER_05 29:14

Yes. What I can own what I can only call as the unsullying. Sorry, carry on. Um, yes, a game dev story. Insanely simple, insanely fun, hard to master, but when you do, oof, so rewarding. Uh great to be able to build a game company uh from the ground up in the early days of gaming and take it all the way through. Highly recommend checking it out. I think it's on Switch as well. So if you want to feel like a real gamer. Yeah, if you want to feel like a real gamer, go get it on there. Um, it's probably on PS as well if it's on Switch, but you know, mileage may vary. I'll play on my phone. I'm not really going to talk about Candy Crush or Sudoku. Don't panic. I'm going to talk about Claire Expedition 33. Okay. Alright. I am starting to enjoy this game. Slowly, a little bit at a time. It's making sense to me more. I'm picking up the rhythms a bit better for the defense dodge and the newly incorporated jump mechanic. So yeah. Um and obviously the uh what's it called? Reposta, whatever. I can't even remember now. Um but anyway, it's it's all going on incredibly well. I'm enjoying the stories and the characters. Um, I've been getting stuck in a few places, but then kind of getting through it. The game does allow you just to retry the combat section quite easily. So maybe this weekend I'm looking forward to diving into that a little bit more. But I have a report for Gazcom about the two games he brought me. He was doing a prowl at OLL, clocked a previously mentioned game on flashback. If you don't know what flashback is, it's another show we do, part of the UCP family. It's free, don't panic, it costs you nothing. Don't worry. Okay, it's available everywhere, just like this is. Get it on YouTube. It's what makes me feel so happiest at the moment. And you want to make me happy. I think you do. Don't worry about it, just do what you can. Anyway, um we talked about these these two games in particular. Now, the first one was the one that you came to tap me on the shoulder about. Came over, give me a polite nudge, you went, ew fella, if you're into a bit of seven sins, I've got yourself a little bit over there. I looked at him, I said, take me to it now. I saw it, picked it up, I saw the price label, 20 quid. I thought, now's not the time to quibble this. As I picked up seven tins, I noticed something from exactly the same flashback episode. Midnight Club 3 dub edition. Whoo! Two pounds. Now that's a price I can get into. First of all, let's talk about the good news. Hmm. Midnight Club then. Midnight Club 3 dub edition. Yep, you got it, fella. First, top of the class. Um, Midnight Club 3 dub edition is exactly what I said it would be in the episode of Flashback. It's a real deal. Forget your need for speeds, you juiced, your max power, whatever RGT told you to buy, park it, is drivel, right? Get into what matters. PS2, Midnight Club 3 dub edition. This thing's legit. It's got its hooks into me like mmm. Spice into a track.

SPEAKER_01 32:54

Two pounds, sorry, you played.

SPEAKER_05 32:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 32:56

Yeah, that's so it's cheaper than spice. Yeah, eight pounds in CX. Wow. So you've done yeah, great deal. Sorry, guys.

SPEAKER_05 33:04

This is where I go through scratch labor and realise it was 12. Anyway, money is money, is whatever. Um Midnight Put 3 dub edition. It's the real deal. Yeah, it's a PS2 game, but you know what? With that wet floor in the rain, it's right on the border of looking early PS3, if I'm honest with you. Now you might be saying, calm down, George. I know I'm getting a bit of myself. But in the world when this game launched, this was an absolute looker. I don't know why I passed it by. I'm not into the modding or whatnot, but I've chucked some mods on me, Jetta, which was my starting car, and I've ragged it up the road, mate, and I'm having an absolute blast in that game. Can't say enough good things about it.

SPEAKER_01 33:49

It's open world. Huh? Is it open world game?

SPEAKER_05 33:52

Yeah, it is. You kind of drive around this city and you see rivals and you kind of bump into them, and then they drive to the race and you follow them. Cue a quick cut scene, which kind of loads pretty quickly or seamlessly, if I'm honest with you, which then drops you into the race equally seamlessly, and you go. Um AI is a bit heavy-handed at times. It's a bargy bargey game, this is mate. I tell you that. It's not a precise break uh accelerator throttle at the apex uh sort of tail breaking kind of game.

SPEAKER_01 34:26

No, smash him into the phone and it's mash X.

SPEAKER_05 34:30

Although I re-mapped it to R2 on the here's your weekly plug retro fighters defender PS2 controller. Boom, boom, check in the post. Cheers, retrofighters.

SPEAKER_02 34:41

Recommend.

SPEAKER_05 34:43

Um we don't have a deal. We don't have a deal, but you never know. No, like the Sandman, you say their stuff's good three times, they might turn up and at least say thanks, mate.

SPEAKER_01 34:53

But I know I never thought I'd ever hear you say that about a retrofighters controller. Soon got you turned on to them. Not turned on, but you know what I mean.

SPEAKER_05 35:02

By no, I think literally, mate, because the vibrate function on the retrofit is defender is second to none. It's actually very good. Let me put it this way, mate. If you're plugging a controller, you plugged the one with the best vibrate on it.

SPEAKER_01 35:16

That when I had that final boss fight in Infamous 2, I mean, there was some uh there was some uh there was some vibration action going on with that controller.

SPEAKER_05 35:28

Did you have it plugged?

SPEAKER_01 35:31

Um I had it wireless but plugged.

SPEAKER_05 35:35

Good boy. Oh yeah. So anyway, I I mapped it to R2 and basically mashed that into the retrofighter's plastic casing, sturdy ABS plastic casing, like an absolute son of a gun. Um and you don't need to you don't need to lift off. That's what the buildings are for, they steer you around the corner. Uh but you know what? A real challenging, a real fun challenge, and it's one of those arcade kind of games where like if you come second, it's by half a gnat or because you span off being an idiot. Um but the it's rubber banded, but the field is super tight, so lots of fun to be had there. We move on to the aforementioned bad news. Listener, viewer, you got the viewer. By the way, yeah, I cheaped out. I moved the lamp down. You wanted to see my face, you got it. Um I moved the mic out of the way. Hopefully, you can hear me, audio listeners driving down the B1188 like that. You are I hate these guys. I can't hear a word they're saying. It's all about the video, and I can't even lip read. Son of a nip. I used to like these guys. Um I love you, audio listener. You're the real deal. The OG. You were there from the start. This is all this is a fad. YouTube will be dead in a couple of weeks. Don't worry about it. We'll back on the audio feeds, right where we belong. Faces for radio.

SPEAKER_01 37:07

Without a date.

Seven Sins Is A Trainwreck

SPEAKER_05 37:08

Um the aforementioned bad news, seven sins. Yeah, baby. Wow. Um, decided to rope in Rachel, thought it'd be a good idea. Been sold the concept that it was a Sims game. It's not a Sims game, it's not a Sims game, it's not it's not a Sims game at all. It's a random selection of crudely put together Java mini-games. Held together with some no, I don't really care about any of this, but uh rather chauvinistic uh headwear. Sextist blazer and uh a little bit rapey shoes. Um now, this character walked into my life, Mr. Seven Sins, with the aforementioned shoes, trousers, top, and hat. And I thought to myself, wow, okay, let's see what you're all about. Well, it's about getting to the top of this certain city, and you're not going to do it by clever means, fair or foul. You can do it by working in a woman's clothing retailer, trying to sell perfume women's clothes, and the occasional brasier, if you can get them to a certain like status. Um, all while being watched by your boss. Uh, I've been sacked four times on the first day. Guess what? You just click back on working, you turn up, and everyone's cool. Although I did get called out while at work and ran off crying. And when I went back to work, one of the clerks that works with me, female, came up and was like, that was embarrassing, what you did back then, crying and running off the way you did. Don't know how you show your face here going forward. Hmm. Thanks for that, Maureen. You stick to the braziers, Dookie, and I'll do the floating thingy on the shoes and perfume. Off you go. Anyway, got very in character, can't do it. You did.

SPEAKER_01 38:56

Yeah, someone enjoyed it a bit, I think, and was actually living this role out.

SPEAKER_05 39:00

Well, to be honest, it's all balanced off in seven sins by um if you do something good, you have to do something bad as your character gets a bit too freaked out. Now bad things. Good things involve talking to people in a polite way, not being overly sexual, not being too overly sexually aggressive.

SPEAKER_01 39:20

I think I know where this is heading.

SPEAKER_05 39:22

When you do nice things like hello madam, how may I help you? Oh, yes, I'm looking at perfume. No matter how they talk to you, you just take it, right? And I mean the verbal dressing down, whatever they give you, fine. Okay, that's your good thing. You can't really move that on there at that point, so you have to go do something bad. The bad things consist of urinating on flies to scare them off the plants. Can't imagine that would work in a retail environment, but you know what? 10 out of 10 for giving it a try. I think one of the other activities you could get involved in, which brought up brought down your happy meter by bringing up your sin meter, was to offer to help a lady put on a shoe, which opens up a mini game where you have to keep a slewing target camera locked on a crotch. No, Rachel was particularly good at that. Um snipes there, just like locked on. Don't play at time crisis, you're gonna get avoided. Mate, I had I had like I was like that with my eyes like a chameleon. Like, oh my god, I didn't know where to be. So, anyway, um, all that frames up with you getting sacked on a regular occasion being sent to your house. You're trying to build up enough machismo to go work in the big city. Right now, I don't know whether I can tolerate much more of it because it controls, even with the aforementioned sturdy retrofast defender controller. RGT U owe me some big books this week. Um it still controls like an absolute sack of dog do. So, yeah, there's your update.

SPEAKER_01 40:56

Uh part any more of this or gonna go for 100% completion? Probably. Yeah. Game of the year. Yes.

SPEAKER_05 41:11

Number one game, don't you put it at least number four on the charts, which is worth doing. So, RGT, with all that said and done, do you want to talk any more about our video game and history? Or would you rather bury that under a carpet or the patio like your last six victims? Which one is it?

SPEAKER_01 41:28

Um, it was seven, but yeah, bury them under the patio.

News Desk Opens

SPEAKER_05 41:31

I can't keep up with the uh ravenous blood-fuelled pig. Okay, moving on. It's time for the news. We scoured the very darkest regions of the internet, or at least the three top websites where you can get game. We're gonna use some of the uh for the big consoles and a bit of retro, uh, including the aforementioned teaser news, which is about Lana Del Rey. George, why do you bring in legit stars to reduce them to ashes on your news section? I don't know, but we're gonna have fun finding out. First out the Gates RGT, it's pure Xbox, no Fraser Gilbert. He's had a bad week. He's had a terrible week. He's been subconning for the VW Audi Group and rewriting their ECUs. It was only late Wednesday afternoon he realised he'd uploaded a Killbot program to the VW Golf model year 24. All it takes to initiate the Killbot program, Fraser mistakenly initiated into the car, is to select Radio 2, within two seconds, select radio four, within two seconds from that, turning your radio off. I imagine it's probably not going to affect many people, but we're just sort of hoping quietly that we get away with it. Fraser's been in touch with Lionel's lawyers, uh, and obviously Lionel has very strict uh what I would call client confidentiality, so he called me straight away and told me everything. Um in the meantime, he's peddling his sort of part-time job. It's Fraser Gilbert over at Pure Xbox. He's got some of that Samsung news, but don't worry, it's not just Xbox, it may apply to everybody. Samsung Dev announces council council. Hmm. So the Samsung Dev announces Council House upgrade windows for 2026, likely including Xbox. Or is he announcing the counts counting? Hell god, you've helped me, you've killed it. If we paid for an editor, that would all be taken out, and they're now hearing this. Samsung dev announces for console release window for 2026, likely including Xbox. But what I like to think to myself, RGT, is that what keeps people connected to us? Because I know we're real.

SPEAKER_01 43:47

Maybe.

Samson Console Roadmap For 2026

SPEAKER_05 43:48

I hope so. Hmm. Anyway, let's get into this Samson news, you uh you little rogue. There's been a lot of talk about Samson recently, the Steam game that racked up a ton of attention prior. To its release, but then struggled to live up to the hype with mixed reviews when it launched a week ago. Nevertheless, the developer hasn't waited to push out a significant 2026 roadmap, promising lots of improvements over the coming weeks in particular. They've announced a full 2026 release window for the console version, so we're guessing that's got to mean Xbox Series X and S, probably PS5. Dare we say switch two? I daren't. Not right now, I daren't, because this game's one hell of a looker. Anyway, just give you a heads up on the update. Uh the roadmap looks a bit like this. Update three is coming in April the 22nd. Uh that's going to be combat improvements, new cars, some keyboard turning up tuning updates, damage taken update for players, NPCs and vehicles, some other drivel. Moving on to update four, Wednesday, April 29th. There's some community reported feedback. Uh polish, stability, update five, more information to come. Update six, TBA, content update one, mid-May, and that's the combat focus update. More details soon. Mid-June, you're going to get content update two, which is a vehicle focused content update. And on your just this fall, we're going to get a console launch. Despite the difficult difficulties that Samsung ran into at launch, we mentioned previously how we felt it could be an ideal scenario for Xbox fans. Wait until it's been more polished a bit more, and then get hopefully a great version on console. Whatever happens, we anticipate there's going to be some significant interest in Samsung when it arrives on console. And I want you to sound off below whether you want to see this on console or not. Or comment below whether I need to get my jewelry wired, or comment below if you think RGT's background's a bit special, or comment on the fact that mine looks like I um have turned up for a podcast about cleaning or whatever it is you're into, really. RGT, let's focus on you for this moment, though, because god damn it, I can see you're literally brimming to talk to me about Samson. What do you know? What do you want, and when do you want it?

SPEAKER_01 46:15

No. Sorry, I thought we'd done a chant. Um I was on a protest merchant. You can be if you want. No, you're fine. Um I've I've sort of been looking at this Samson game, but then I didn't it does, but then I did see it's a similar sort of game to Mind's Eye, and I suddenly thought, oh, that game absolutely bombed. But I think that's maybe why it's taken a bit longer to come to console because they're thinking, right, we don't want to do go down that route, let's get this correct. And I think it from what I've seen of it, it feels a very sort of console game. No, not saying it isn't a PC game, but you could see this coming out on a console. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_05 47:03

As soon as the way I saw it, as soon as I saw that third person view and the way the cars were and the characters were, I was like, oh, this like begs for a bit of console.

SPEAKER_01 47:14

Did you want me to download it off Steam this week and have a little go and let you know next week what I think of the game?

SPEAKER_05 47:20

Well, you think Lenovo can run that, do you?

SPEAKER_01 47:23

Yeah, I mean that look like a spectrum and it'd be one frame per second, but I'll give it a go.

SPEAKER_05 47:28

Mate, if you want to uh run to the expense of grabbing yourself a new game for your Lenovo, yeah. I'll just for the listener. Why not?

SPEAKER_01 47:37

I can't, I've maxed it. So I'll get us another one.

SPEAKER_05 47:40

I actually took that one, took that out in your name.

SPEAKER_01 47:44

Ah, that would yeah, the bailiffs. That's why. Okay, that's why I'm carless. Okay, anyway, no worries.

SPEAKER_05 47:51

Um I said you wanted a company credit card, I couldn't really find a way of doing it without defrauding you. So that's exactly what I did.

SPEAKER_01 47:57

Well, it won't be the first time you've done it, so and then Reed ran the card up.

SPEAKER_05 48:01

So, you know, I'll be honest, RGT.

SPEAKER_01 48:04

We're equally pricks.

SPEAKER_05 48:08

Mm-hmm. I was thinking more you give enough, you give a man enough rope he'll hang himself, but yeah, I think you're framing me up as a bad guy for defrauding you when I was just trying to teach you a lesson about fiscal responsibility.

SPEAKER_01 48:21

How dare me? Um back to Samson. Um, yeah, I'll I'll try and give it a go if the Lenovo will uh pump out enough steam out of reserve um air vents. I'll see you.

SPEAKER_05 48:33

I'll send you some anthracite, that'll get going.

SPEAKER_01 48:35

Yeah, that'll get that'll get it good. Um but yeah, I do like the look of the game. I think it's interesting, and it's as many games do nowadays that are multi-format, they seem to put that steam as a test bed, put it out there, correct as they go, see what the feedback is, then release it on console. You know, steam's quite an open area for that sort of thing, almost sort of an open beta, like uh, you know, an early access game. So, yeah, it's interesting. Like you say, I do like a look of it. Um I'd be interested to see where it goes and if it does launch. We like I say we don't want another mind's eye, so let's just hope this is uh this this release is a decent state when it does come to console. Do you know what I miss? Do they still make Chew It? Uh yes, I believe so. I mean I I feel I've just blanked out and just come woke up about an hour later in the show. But you have. Oh wow. Yeah, okay, yeah. Let's get on the subs list.

SPEAKER_05 49:33

So, first up, we asked No, we're not out of the news because you've been asleep. I've been patiently waiting for you to answer my question about Chewets.

SPEAKER_01 49:41

Oh, we'll have to edit that middle bit out then. Um yes, I think they do make Chewets, yes.

SPEAKER_05 49:45

I'm gonna get some this weekend. I'll bloody I don't know why, I just I got the ghost of one in my mouth and I was like, I bloody love Chewets.

SPEAKER_01 49:53

Yeah, um I used to fight the advert with the uh dinosaur lot of ripping the pack open like that. I always used to worry when I was a kid used to think, now don't eat the paper. Just d just peel 'em. Don't eat the paper. Think how caring you are.

SPEAKER_05 50:08

Anyhow, sorry. How do you think a 20-foot 20-story-high dinosaur with claws unwraps a human-sized chew it? Well, uh do you think he could just tolerate the paper in his digestive tract?

SPEAKER_01 50:23

Maybe, yeah. He's used to eating people and building, so I'm sure he can manage a bit of paper. Good. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 50:29

One of the other questions I want you to solve me, yes, uh, RGT, is many years ago, we all dreamed about owning a Neo Geo.

SPEAKER_01 50:38

Oh my god, did we?

SPEAKER_05 50:41

I would have given I think I'd have probably given up my parents to slavery. I think I would have regretted it immediately, but maybe. Uh yeah, and the electric turned off.

SPEAKER_01 50:55

Yeah. So you couldn't play in a Neo G. Ironic, wasn't it?

SPEAKER_05 51:00

Yeah, and once you've traded your parents and realised you ended up with a console of mainly fighters and you're more of a sim guy, I think I think the reality for mumsy and dadsy would be quite real. Um, but anyway, RGT to those that are probably slightly less attached to their parents, tell me about how in the modern era there might be a bit of good news or maybe bad news about the Neo Geo generally. What you got going on here, friend?

SPEAKER_01 51:27

Um this is over on Time Extension by Damien McFerrin.

SPEAKER_05 51:32

What's he been up to? What recently? Yeah, the last 24 hours. Give me a status update from waking to going to sleep.

SPEAKER_01 51:40

Um he woke up, realised he was out of milk, um, and he just got one of them electric new e-bikes.

SPEAKER_05 51:46

At a milk or out of milk? Out of milk. Yes, that makes more sense.

SPEAKER_01 51:50

So he went to get the shop on his new electric e-bike. Um, the throttle got jammed, so he had to jump off over near the co-op. It went through the window, destroyed the display they had in there, so he's now doing these time extension jobs to try and pay back the co-op for the window.

SPEAKER_05 52:07

Oh, mate, do you know what? I'm glad he's doing better. He's had a not a great week, but certainly better than last week. He tripped and fell and swallowed his disposable e-cigarette and then spoke in clouds for 48 hours.

SPEAKER_01 52:22

He's having a bad week. He is having a bad week. I told I told him, I said, Damien, I said, Damien, do not buy them cheap bikes off Timu. What you just don't listen.

SPEAKER_05 52:35

In between insurance claims, though, what did he find for us?

SPEAKER_01 52:39

Um, well, the title of the article goes The Neo Geo Plus AES saves you over$92,000 on the real deal. The value proposition is absolutely unreal. Um, yesterday, play on the and SNK announced the Neo Geo Plus AES, a revival of the original 1990 home console that cost an absolute fortune back in the day. In fact, many existing AES games have ballooned in value since the system launched in the 90s, with prices off often hitting thousands of dollars. Many AES games were produced in small quantities and have become incredibly collectible as a result. As part of the Neo Geo Plus project, Playon is re-releasing 10 Neo Geo games in physical form, with each um cart costing$89.99. Um, while this doesn't instantly seem like good value when you consider that you could pick up digital versions of these games for under$10 on most modern systems, not to mention as part of the excellent Evercade collections, when compared to the cost of the original AES carts, it's something of a bargain. Exactly how much of a bargain um it has been is roughly worked out by Reddit user RGB2C02N. Very catchy name. Um an enemy of yours, is he? Yeah, the RGTs and the RGBs, we're at it every weekend. Um for instance, is listed the old RGB enemy has listed some games here. Um big golf tournament is obviously not all these are 90 bucks. So big golf tournament um new is$40,000,$20,000 CIB, Metal Slug$20,000 and$20,000 um CIB. Oh, sorry, when it was new was$20,000,$20,000 CIB. Samurai 5 Special,$16,000 new,$8,000 um CIB, and the list goes on, and they just show this massive gulf in what um they were new to what they are now. Um, and he's sort of made this total savings, which is yeah, it if you go by the figures, yes, but depends how you look at it, really. Um they've estimated if you buy all 10 games at$90 each, you're saving over$92,000 US dollars compared to uh what brand new copies of these games would cost in 2026. I took the prices from Price Chart and for AES US games other than Twinkle Star Sprites, since it is Japan only release, says the Redditor. Uh the two values for the Metal Slug and Guru are the CIB prices since the new price was uh NA. Um not applicable. The value proposition for today's announcement is absolutely unreal. If even if you're only looking to compare them to complete inbox secondhand copies, the Neo Geo Plus AES Ultimate Bundle represents a saving of over 50,000 US dollars. It's worth noting that this figure is solely based on the value of 10 games purchased on their own and doesn't factor uh doesn't factor in the fact that you get all 10 games, the Neo Geo Plus AES console and a bunch of accessories in a$999.99 cost of the Ultimate Edition bundle. Of course, all this assumes that you have no issue with your cash partially benefiting from one of the most controversial regimes of the modern era, something that a great many SNK fans aren't particularly happy about, and for good reason. Um me personally, I went to purchase this week.

SPEAKER_05 56:33

Are you kidding me? What, 999 for all that gear?

SPEAKER_01 56:36

No, no, no, no. I went to purchase just a system uh 179.99. Um and then it dawned on me a bit. I've been me and Carlos have been going backwards and forwards on this on Discord. Um then it dawned on me, hang on, I've got my SNK games on my avocade. Right. And this still isn't. This is just a replica of an AES, just a modern way of playing it, which my Evocade is, so do I really need it? And I thought, well, I'll try anyway. I said pre-order, so I went to pre-order. You have to pay the full amount up front, even though it's not out until November. And I thought, I do not trust that, because one, there was no rumours of this, no one knew anything about this, it was just suddenly dropped out and came out. I haven't seen any gameplay footage of this, I haven't seen any footage of this working, yet they're asking for all the money up front. I was like, I'm not sure about this. This almost seems like I know SNK are involved, I don't know, play on have a decent record, but it whiffs of something that hasn't been perfected yet, but they're getting the money up front to fund the system.

SPEAKER_05 57:50

I'll be honest, RGT. After you tried to kill me with your RGT RGB comment earlier, um, I've now managed to resuscitate myself 10 cc's of adrenaline to the chest, couple of heart massages. I'm back here. Um I find this fascinating. Now, 180 bucks ain't a lot, seems odd. Um, this whole thing seems odd. You're either remaking it or you're not. You're either emulating it.

SPEAKER_01 58:17

Something not right here, or you're not.

SPEAKER_05 58:20

I see all the price comparisons, and that's great. That's like me comparing a real Rolex to a replica. Oh, yeah, it might be made by Rolex, but it's it's not the same as if Issue one. We've got slightly cheaper parts in it. Oh guess what? Price bombs on that fake Rolex or semi-fake endorsed Rolex. That's exactly what this is. It's another half-ass crack. Uh, what seems to be the kind of hidden bigger boys console? I think if you're in the market for one of these, you might be better off saving your money and trying to get the real thing. Now I know George, that's 92 grand. Is it is it really? There's compromises, there's work rounds, there's weights, there's eBay tries, there's this, there's that, the other, there's the other, there's a non-box version, there's the loose. Is a 92 grand really applicable? I think there was one game in there, RGT, that I saw that was the big spiker in the prices. Um which one was it particularly?

SPEAKER_01 59:17

Big golf tournament.

SPEAKER_05 59:18

Big golf tournament. I mean, CIB 20 grand when it was new, 40 grand. I mean, yeah, great work on the savings versus new at the time, which is insane. Um CIB prices now brings it in at a more realistic 58, and then you've got this all racked up at 900, and and then whatever for the system. Absolute drivel. Um, I would say Carlos, as my one man George fan club, just hold on. I'm not getting good vibes here, mate. I'm not. And I if this is still around in November, why not just get it then? Oh, we talk in limited numbers, but I didn't see any mention of limited run on this RGT. Is there mention of it?

SPEAKER_01 59:59

No, um, but also every picture we've got is pre-rendered Photoshop. There's no pictures of the Red Right.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:06

Like, one thing I will say, the picture grabbed me and I was like, wow, that looks amazing. Is it real?

SPEAKER_01 1:00:14

That's not that's not a real image.

SPEAKER_05 1:00:16

There's nothing's a shame because if they sent it like that, I would immediately I would throw down a grand on that.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:22

But with Evocade, at least with Evocade, they will push a product, they'll if they do a pre-order like they're doing with the Nexus, it's you don't pay for it up front, you wait for the system to come out, they they promote it, they'll promote what they got, and you go for it, you'll see footage, you'll see the work and prototypes, you'll see things. We know they're good, and then you'll put your money down on it. But this, why would this just suddenly come out of the ether from nowhere? And then people are just chucking their money down on a system that you you don't even know if it's FPGA or anything, you don't know how these cartridges work, they reckon us a one-for-one size, but there's no pictures of the actual system. I said, What is this? And do you know what this whiffs off of me? This absolutely reeks of the Neo Geo Gold edition, and that's stank that stanked the place out, if you remember rightly. And if you don't know what the Neo Geo Gold edition was, that was like, oh, we're re make remaking the the AES. But basically, what it was was a half-assed handheld Neo Geo that looked nice, but emulated didn't very didn't emulate very well, and then that slotted into a case that looked like an AES that then just hardwired it into your TV. Didn't do very well. People still try and collect these and the price has gone up, but it it bombed a bit, and this has a bit of whiff of that.

SPEAKER_05 1:01:35

It I nearly got one, you know. I wasn't really in the collect, I was in the sort of retro collecting scene at the time, but I've never been a big Neo Geo marker, I have to admit. But this thing came out and it was like, oh my god, I need it, because for God's sake, of course I do. It's it's a handheld that goes in this thing and then it goes on the telly and it looks like this. But I started to see some sort of hit.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:00

Once you researched it and you thought, oh, actually, they're just using that name to get people to spend the money and and don't forget, at initial price point, that was not a generous price. No.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:15

I think now, as you say, it's probably half reasonable, but people have started to cotton onto it a bit because it's got the name, so it it's ratcheting up undeservedly so, but it is what it is.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:26

Um and I think there was something weird because I think SNK was sold, so someone bought the name and then made this Neo Geo Gold edition that wasn't.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:34

One thing I'll say if that if they start to produce some unboxing videos where that render and that big box with the console and the fight stick and everything in it ends up being legit, and I see this thing opened up and it looks and smells. I'll pay a grand for card for it. You know I will, I'm crazy. I will. RGG, don't don't sim it down.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:54

No, I'll do it.

SPEAKER_05 1:02:55

That's in I'm doing it.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:57

You're correct. That's in that's in Get me the website. That's in the um best world scenarios, but at the moment, people are putting down their money on something they haven't seen, they haven't seen what it's made out of, they had don't know if it's FPGA, they don't know what the game cases, how big they'll be, or what they look like, all you're seeing is renders, and you have to pay the full amount up front. Sorry, this feels like a kickstart scam. I know it isn't.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:22

Do you reckon if all the games are actually on the system and there's just this little magnetic chip or NFC thing inside that just goes, all right, yeah, he's paid for that car. You can play it, pal.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:32

Well, it reminds me a bit also of the polymega when they were all FPGA, modular, you put everything together, and and people were putting all their money down on the polymega, and then they sort of that they took the money on what they were gonna do before they could do it. And this seems a similar thing because then then they come out and release the little statement on Facebook, oh sorry, that's not FPGA now, and everyone went, Well, hold on, what do you mean? You said that that was your main selling point.

SPEAKER_05 1:03:57

Now, what would be the point of it if not?

SPEAKER_01 1:04:00

You're now all you're doing is dumping the ROMs, so you're not really necessarily, you know, and then that all started. Yes, Polymega's still done okay, people still use them, people like them for the discs because you could put your library on and play them like that, but actually for cartridges and the FPGA side, that was their selling point that was suddenly taken away because they took the money first before they developed the product, and this feels a bit like that. Is this actually made yet? Is this made yet, or are they funding it by selling it before they've done it? Because you could end up with quite a plastic y crappy product. I hope I'm wrong.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:34

I think the latter, I think the latter, I think they're collecting the money and then they'll start making it.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:40

Yeah, exactly what I'm saying. Yeah, that's what I think. I think it is so I don't necessarily think what you're seeing on here is what you're gonna end up with, if I'm honest.

SPEAKER_05 1:04:50

Let's move into the next bit of news. Um let's just say be bloody careful. Um seventy nine quid away and wait till November, fair play to you. If you can't, stick well away. I know I'm getting a bit hot-headed and say, Oh, that cardboard looks good, it does look good in the render, but don't get seduced.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:10

Yeah, and I know I always say about Evercade, but for a fraction of the price, the Neo Geo collections on Evocade are brilliant. Um, and they cover these and they're there to play on a very cheap. If you just wanted the handheld, the little Neo Geo handheld or the little uh uh what are they uh I can't remember what they're called now, super pockets, get little handheld super pockets, they're about 50 quid. You can pick the you can pick the cart of the games up with the multi-carts with Neo Geo on for 20 bucks each. Brilliant, and they play brilliant. That's a great way of playing it if you don't want to risk nearly 200 pounds of postage on this, so yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:05:50

Yes, you want the last bit of news.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:53

Oh god, do I?

SPEAKER_05 1:05:55

Okay, well William Doolan's been busy because he's changing his name. Back to Liam Doolan because he changed his name to Lana Dell uh early this week, but then obviously because it matched the LD, but then forgot that he had the Ray on the end, so he was just walking around. People were shouting, you know, Mr. Dell, hello, Dell. And obviously you realised it was a bit of a mistake. Should I have your boy on Lana Dell boy?

SPEAKER_01 1:06:25

Hi, image, please.

SPEAKER_05 1:06:29

Play your video game. Well, Liam Doolan, all joking aside, he works for Nintendo Life and he's uh got this story. Lana Del Rey releases 007 First Light official theme song. Um give that a listen if you uh feel mildly uh interested in probably her floor sweepings of songs she couldn't find anything better to do with. But the talented singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey has today released her theme song for 007 First Light, as highlighted by Rolling Stone. First Light is a grand orchestral affair embellished with motifs from James Bond theme song. The track's been composed and written by David Arnold, who previously scored 007 movies such as Casino Royale and Tomorrow Never Dies. David Arnold, having been part of that musical lineage, I understand how important it is to honour its heritage while allowing is David Arnold, do you think, American?

SPEAKER_01 1:07:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:28

Arnold. I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 1:07:30

Having been part of that musical lineage, I understand how important it is to honor its heritage while allowing it to evolve.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:38

So she's still hey man, Lana brought in elegant atmosphere and a song that felt perfectly suited to continuing that tradition while introducing something fresh for a new era.

SPEAKER_05 1:07:52

Cheers, Dave. Uh Lana Del Rey apparently wrote a song intended for Spectre, but it was British singer Sam Smith, whoo woo, who went on to perform writings on the wall for this movie. The theme song announcement out how follows news earlier this month that 007 First Light had been delayed for Switch 2. Instead of launching on 27th of May 2026, alongside other platforms, the Nintendo version is now scheduled for later this summer. Earlier this week, spoilers related to First Light also reportedly surfaced in the classification board leak. Apart from Lana's involvement in the theme song, the singer and musician Lenny Kravitz, Are You Gonna Go My Way? Will appear in 007 First Light as a black market dealer named Bormer. I don't know, RGT. What do you make of all this? More importantly, listener, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer. Viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:53

Jeez. Too much coffee. Far too much coffee.

SPEAKER_05 1:08:57

Viewer, what did you make of all that? I mean, it's been a while since we've seen a pop starlet lower themselves down to the very rattlesnake belly-like level of writing a Bond song for a Bond video game. Park yourself, and are you gonna come out swinging for Bond? Come on, baby. Hang on, hang on. Jesus. The previous person was Joss Stone, I think. Would you agree?

SPEAKER_01 1:09:28

On the idea on that religion, you've got me on that one. Was that PS2, Joss Stone?

SPEAKER_05 1:09:34

I think so, wasn't it? She did the song on that. Because we haven't had any standalone kind of non-movie related Bond titles per se, have we? Other than those ones and Russian Love, but that obviously already had a tune for it by who's that, Dame Shirley Bassey or someone. Anyway, moving on. What do you think about Lana Del Rey getting lower than um yeah, a snake scrotum?

SPEAKER_01 1:10:02

Well, I think, first of all, with the money that video games make, she's probably been paid better for doing this than she would do a film. Um, that'll probably be make a lot more money than a bronze film. But um I think that's quite genius, really. I think that's bringing the level of the game up because they're treating it like a movie. You're gonna have someone famous doing the theme tune, but you're doing it for the game, not for a movie, and that's that's bringing it up into the ether of the bond, the whole bond, you know, fiction, which I think's brilliant.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:30

Um, I'm the last time you ever listened to I don't know, the song off the 007 game on PS2, though. The last time I played it 2005. It all feels a bit 2005 to me. I think they had to do it with a bit of gravitas. I think it's brilliant. Make it feel bond package. I think it's good. I think it'll add that sort of nicess to it. I will smile about this conversation, they want to play it, and I am playing it because I'm hyped for it. I'm probably calling it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:58

I still think it's gonna be my game of the year. It's gonna be my game of the year. Hmm. I've already had grief for this of young Sebastian, but then when he did see the trailer, he was like, Oh, actually, this does look quite good.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:13

No, it was me who said that.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:15

And well, Seb did as well. He laughed at me for saying that as my going be my.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:26

Let me out and let me out. I want to get back on the show. I want to literally rip RGT asunder, wear him as a suit. Wow. One entrance. Imagine me exploding out of you with a load of PlayStation noise.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:44

Yeah, like an alien movie. Me wretching round on the table and Bobby's head pop out. Wish we had money sometimes. I really wish we had money. Well, stop keep raiding the petty cash for all your little fetish, and then we would be alright.

SPEAKER_05 1:11:59

Why do you put your guilt on me? I don't put my guilt on me. I have zero feta cheese, and I zero I raid I never raid the feta cheese. You have zero feta cheeses? Yeah, I don't have any I'm allergic to feta cheese. That's why I don't have it. Yeah, I'm not into feta cheese.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:14

Why are you allergic to it?

SPEAKER_05 1:12:16

It kind of it's quite claggy. And I tend to gorge on it if I'm honest with you. I'm not mucking about. And uh I'm just burying my head in a big pile of it. A bit like Scarface, but cheese, the cheese equivalent.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:32

My god, that was like you just opened up then and just admitted it. It's it's a little claggy and I go to down on it a bit.

SPEAKER_05 1:12:42

So we don't let that in. We don't let that.

SPEAKER_01 1:12:44

Sorry, anyway, double seven. Yes, I think it's I think it's brilliant. I think it's a great idea, Lana Del Rey. It'd be awesome. I'm still imagining you were feta cheese, but anyway. What about you? Do you think it's a good idea for the to have this song on a on a game? Please speak.

SPEAKER_05 1:13:02

I'm just feta cheese, feta cheese, feta cheese, feta cheese. Yeah, that needs that needs work on a t-shirt. Yeah, somehow work to drop that. Oh my goodie and um all seriousness, yes, it does raise the it does raise the calibre. He definitely raised the calibre of the PS2 game, so I remember this getting similar noise. I think we might even have talked about it in flashback actually. Um about her doing it, or may have talked about it within the last six months, I think, just generally on a show. Um message back to people, listen to every second of what you've said, George. You've never mentioned Justin before. Fair play to you. Um I've definitely thought it because I played it not that long. Okay. Um, but yeah, I think this raises the level. I like the fact they put it as a single, though, especially ahead of the game's release, just to just curry a little bit of maybe a slight action right down at the bottom of the Spotify jumps.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:02

Office, yeah, probably, but I mean it'll do it, you know, at the very least, it's gonna boost the game, I think. You know, 100%.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:09

I take the what I see it doing is you install it on your console, you play it, and immediately the package is elevated. The naked girls, the flames, the music, you know, it's got it all, and then boom, it slaps you up in the face with some pretty good looking visuals, to be fair. I think by the time we're not talking, you know, PS2 anymore, we're talking pretty damn good visuals, bam, which was which is if I hope they play it right, they do a cold open, like a Bond movie, except there's no settings controls or any of that drivel. It just lets the default of the console get you to the point where that thing plays.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:48

Yeah, they will, they will, I bet you.

SPEAKER_05 1:14:50

So it's like straight into it. Yeah, and you're like, oh, crikey, bit of a tutorial, mini, cold open, bam, larna's music into some sort of hub world back at MI5 where you can then set ins, fine-tune it, surround sound, all that good stuff, and you're into the game. Seamless experience, gone, away. Um I wish I knew what I was doing, because then you know, but I'm sure everyone's thinking this. RGT, I would say that's the news one and done. Feel like we've done well. Pat each other on the back, do an elbow drop. Hmm, probably RGT's looking at me and wants to pray on volivon. So we'll you do a bit of housekeeping quick, I'll do a bit of housekeeping quick, and then we'll jump on the subs list.

Housekeeping And Where To Follow

SPEAKER_01 1:15:39

Yes, um usual stuff, really, guys. Um, website unified controllerpodcast.com, check that out. Um, there's plenty going on on there. Um, you're now seeing a lovely zoomed-in image of George's face. Um if I especially if I stop talking.

SPEAKER_05 1:15:56

They can't. Oh well, now I've talked, they can see it now on the building. Gotcha.

SPEAKER_01 1:15:59

Uh so um, yeah, so check out the website. Um, hopefully, we'll get some bits and pieces up of OLL on there soon. So we'll have our little events and bits and pieces on there, which is good, interesting to see if you weren't able to go. Check out the YouTube channel so you can like say, watch OLL on there. You can watch this show if you're watching now. Thank you very much. Hello, comment, subscribe, like, all the rest of it.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:23

All this up here, down there, whatever it is. Press all of it.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:27

Yeah, if you're not one for videos, we have the audio edits on there as well. We have the audio of flashback on there as well, so there's plenty for you to to watch and like and all the rest of the bits and pieces. We've got X, you can check out on X, and I think there's Linktrees in there for Discord.

SPEAKER_05 1:16:41

It's dangerous on there, mate. It's edgy. It's me, it's raw, it's unfiltered. It's not really, it's me posting generic updates off of Buzz Sprout. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:50

Um, and then there's Instagram as well. Check that out, and again, you'll see the the link trees and bits on there. Check me out at Retro Game of Thomas on there, link trees again if you need to join the Discord. But overall, we'd love you to come join the Discord. Erin joined as champion of the Final Fantasy. She can you can exactly and um and guess what? Erin Kane did it in person, you know, takes guts.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:15

You just sit there and press subscribe on a thing, right?

SPEAKER_01 1:17:17

Exactly. Yeah, but it's a great place to be with plenty going on, um, loads of little challenges and quizzes and hidden gems and just general chat. And the thing is, rewarding thing, I know it's not for everyone. We're not saying everyone should be in there. If you if it's not your thing, it's not your thing. But when we saw people meeting up to come and see us, you only knew each other through the show and through Discord. You you'll make new friends, and it's a great place, and you know, people have made really good friendships out of this.

SPEAKER_05 1:17:46

So uh this show went into its death spiral right now. The very fact that that came out of it is enough for it to be a bit. Very proud moment, yeah. Yeah, very proud moment. Absolutely, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:00

So, yeah, check all those out. Is there anything you want to add for housekeeping, George?

SPEAKER_05 1:18:05

Hmm, more action on the YouTube. I know audio guys, I know you're like, oh, this is garbage, George video business. I don't even want to look at him anyway. And RG Tig looks like a pencil topper, bloody idiot selling himself out of the video. I do.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:18

I do apologize for that.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:19

Um but you know, just subscribe, sign up with your grand subscriber as well. Let's boost it, let's fake boost it. Get that place in China where they've got a million phones or portal on the wall, pay a bit of money to them for us, get this thing through the roof. Um, then RGT can retire while I clip his toenails and uh no doubt massage his ego. Um that might be a euphemism for something.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:42

Um, but I do love a good old ego massage.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:46

That's what you call it. It seems to be one of those jobs that always seems to sort of get out of hand, sort of grows out of all proportions.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:54

No, gets in the hand. Hmm.

SPEAKER_05 1:18:58

Yeah. You're a big guy, so proportion wise, it kind of starts to unravel on a smaller gentleman like me. Um and you're looking down perspective-wise, you might see a cocktail sausage, but uh when you stood under it, um yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:24

Oh yeah, RGT, what a little bit of that.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:29

Anyway, if you still listen, thanks very much. Do apologize, George took it a smile in.

SPEAKER_05 1:19:35

I don't think necessarily you could say that. I think I left it open to interpretation.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:43

Yeah, yeah, definitely. Definitely. But yes, anything else before we get into substance?

Supporters Shoutouts And Community

SPEAKER_05 1:19:48

Um no, just that one resounding. Please, just if you stumbled across this and you've got this far. Hey, you've got some staying power. No one can call you a quitter. Um click like. Um, I think we'd appreciate it. We've been around a while. Um must be must be doing something right. Obviously, you're not very good at this video, Malaki. But we're getting there. I thought a light. Well, like yeah, let's get to the subs list. Let's not expose my uh would you like to go first or second? Well, it's all to play for now because we've got a new supporter. Did you want to do a quick tears run through? Nah.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:35

They'll be on there. If you want to know the tears, they're on every uh episode description. So look at the bottom of the episode. Even on the tube, even on the tube. So have a look. But they're all on there, so so I we are you going first?

SPEAKER_05 1:20:51

I'm just trying to find the email. I've got it.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:54

So um don't try and work it out in your head.

SPEAKER_05 1:20:58

I'm not you are I'm gonna go first because I want to personally thank Gazcom. He's such a great guy. I've been very good but he he has been uh he's joined the show, he's messaged. I probably need to check, see if I've got an outstanding message. Hopefully I haven't. Um he was asked for some gaming advice as well, but then also stealthily dropped that he he's subbed. So I'll be honest.

SPEAKER_01 1:21:18

He's got two t-shirts on the way because he got the Georgie Boy offer, plus he went in at top tier, so he's got one. So he's got two t-shirts.

SPEAKER_05 1:21:26

Okay, well, the sun shines handsome. Just what I say if you're watching this on video and if you're listening, and I think you do listen, so unfortunately, if you want to come home and see this heartfelt thank you from even my face on it, uh, you're gonna have to lower yourself to get in on YouTube. But uh Gazcom, mate, seriously, thank you so much for joining the family. Um, we already were in the family, but coming in to support the family, that's I'll be honest with you, that's a big step, mate, and we appreciate it. Everybody who comes in and does this, I know we muck about and it might be time for a little bit of Georgia seriousness for a while, but damn hell, guys, you you're moving the needle for us, you're making us feel like real people. So um thank you, and thank you, Gazcom. Thank you for coming to OLL. Um great to spend some time here, looking forward to getting to know you even more as the years roll on. Who's next, friend?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:18

Next up, we have the awesome Captain Scarlet, the what we like to call the editor, the graphics, the video editor. What more can I add? Stylist.

SPEAKER_05 1:22:32

I I'm starting to see him. He's in the background controlling. I think he's controlling both of us. He started this video thing, like we're both sort of in some sort of puppet, yeah. Yeah, we don't want to. I'm like fighting it like audio, audio, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer, viewer. I don't know what's going on. I've been reprogrammed, RGT. You saw me have a viewer breakdown earlier.

SPEAKER_01 1:22:55

Yeah, yeah. So uh he's doing great things behind the scenes from graphics to thumbnails to the website to um some of the thumbnails he comes up with that don't even get published. The guy's churning these over all the time, and some of them are absolutely brilliant, and some of them are just hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:11

He sent me one this week, which was no if the you in a wig has broke the meniscus of the community, but I really do think it needs to RGT. I don't know what the hell is going. I don't even know why I got sent that image, but I tell you what, I banked it. And I tell you where I banked it in that bank. That's all I'm saying.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:31

Wow, that's worrying because I thought that looked like my mum, but we won't go there. So, who we got next?

SPEAKER_05 1:23:36

She is a beautiful woman because she's my mum.

SPEAKER_01 1:23:39

Maybe that's why I like even worrying, even more worrying if you got that in the back. Who we got next? We've got to get off this subject.

SPEAKER_05 1:23:49

Love you, Mrs. RGT. Um seeing you. Um up next, we well, not that I don't love Mrs. RGT. Sorry, I just want to keep it straight. Um thanks for listening. Uh up next, I get the pleasure of welcoming in the freshly rebranded, the freshly repumped, reprimed, and redecorated fur case style. It's retroid.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:17

Thanks, Retroid, as always. Um next up, we have the wonderful gentleman who we had the pleasure to meet, and that is the one man George Fan Club. It is Carlos. I mean, what a stylish gentleman he is. Sat and had a couple of beers with him, absolutely brilliant.

SPEAKER_05 1:24:34

I'll tell you what he does, he rocks up and immediately he installs in me he's a vertical bloke, he's up tall, he's a well put together chap, and I mean that in a very endearing way, and he has this way about him, and you kind of sit down talking to him, and he just kind of just gives you it, and you're like, Yeah, I'm into this dude. He just kind of taps into this vein of something, and he just speaks sense. It's almost like I've tapped into another part of my brain that I didn't actually know I can access, and all of a sudden I'm saying things out of Carlos's mouth, and he's things saying things out of my mouth, and we're both saying things to each other's mouths. It was uh it was a great experience, and one I look to uh do again very soon.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:25

Yes, so yeah, thank you, Carlos. Who got next to George?

SPEAKER_05 1:25:30

Fern returns, another man who rocked up on the day looking, he just he's calm, he's stylish, he's debonair, and he kind of just sloughs around, he just appears, he's like you almost think he's on a hoverboard because he just drifts past.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:46

You're absolutely right. Yeah, he didn't walk, he floats. I wonder if he had heelys on.

SPEAKER_05 1:25:55

He caught me on the edge. You sit me down right now. Um, we didn't have Heelys on, although let's go down that road. Yeah, he did.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:07

Oh no, sorry, firm return, so I might have just started something here. I'll apologise before his statement.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:14

Shh, just that's how he did it. No, that's it, that's it. Spark it there. But absolutely great to speak to him. He's again another wonderful guy. A calm listener, you think the way I carry on on here, everyone would be nuts, but it's my biggest fear, but everyone's actually really decent and kind, and I'm gonna say it, loving RGT. So firm returns, absolutely great, bloke. Great to meet you, thank you.

SPEAKER_00 1:26:39

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:40

Um, next up we have the wonderful trestles of New York. Unfortunately, they couldn't make it over because they had a restaurant to run in New York, but long-term supporters supporters. Yeah, Matt the effort. Um long time supporters of the show. So uh thank you as always.

SPEAKER_05 1:26:55

Up next, the man who didn't make it down, and uh that should make me frown. But I know he's listening and I know he loves us, and I can't wait to see him again. It's the fantastic roast space monk.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:08

Yes, I got him a little present because he weren't there, so I'm sending it up to you for space monk.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:12

So who says we don't care? Well, you anyway.

SPEAKER_01 1:27:17

Yeah, he said he couldn't. It's a long way for him to go, he lives a long way away, and I it was always gonna be a struggle for him to come down, so I thought, well, I'm gonna get him a little present and we can send up to him to say that we missed you, but we'll we will meet up again soon. So uh yeah, thank you, Road Space Monk. Um, next up we have the wonderful guy that he's bad a binkster. He was there behind the scenes with his lovely, sort of stylised moustache, his cool glasses. I mean, the guy just oozes sex appeal. Tell you what, uh we rocked up.

SPEAKER_05 1:27:46

Here comes Bader. He's got his hat on, he's got his hair out the back, he's got his tash, as you say, his glasses, his white big tee. The guy is just frickin' cool. Is channeling that Italian McKismo right down from his inner DNA and he's wearing things that you and I would be like, oh god. And he he he just looked absolutely million dollars. The guy, you could tip him in to a bin and pull him out wearing nothing but a bag of prawn cocktail crisps over his privates, and he would be this most stylish man in the street.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:23

Yeah, without a doubt. Rocks up round the corner, oh and l CRT, bosh, there you go, boys. Put the PlayStation on that bad boy. Not just any CRT, though. No. No. A gorgeous gorgeous CRT. Sony, I believe.

SPEAKER_05 1:28:38

Who's next? Is it me? That's you next, yeah. Well, another man who came down, he's always coming down, and I love to see him. Although I'm insanely intimidated by him because he's so freaking handsome. I said I nudge Carls and went, That's hey, that's Tingle Tuner, and he bloody hell. He was a bit intimidated because he's just so handsome, he's so kind, he's insanely funny. I don't know why he ain't got his own podcast, to be fair. Um, but you know, he comes along so kind, so loving, so funny. I love spending time with him. Um what a great guy.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:17

Um thing I liked as well, he's he's a clever guy because he he done uh had a few pickups there, and one of the pickups for his 3DS collection, which is very curated and awesome.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:27

Don't don't don't don't I knew you were gonna do this, was quite cheap, so he done really well.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:34

There was no I'm into you.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:36

I like what you do.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:39

So he got a bargain on a game that's normally quite expensive. Don't know how he done it, but he did.

SPEAKER_05 1:29:45

Well, I heard that the other pickups that he had, word got around that he had arrived because everyone was so kind. 90% of people just gave him it for free, and the other 10% did him at least 50% off, if not more.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:01

I did hear that, yeah. I heard that as well. And also, you don't if you get in Tingle Tuna's collection, it it's an honour if you've sold him that game. I'll be honest, yes, it is. So they were like, We need to know that RJRPG just slipped into his shelf.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:18

I want him to know, hopefully, I showed him in some way uh on the show, but I want him to know that I bloody love him.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:26

Yeah, he's awesome. Absolutely brilliant. So, yes, thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:30

And I probably showed him my my rather sort of weird way, it's probably totally inappropriate.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:36

You're not weird, really anyway. Uh next up we have Thanks to the support. No problem, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:43

Paranoia 100% in check.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:46

You're not weird, I promise. What film's that from? Um next up we have comment below, viewer. Yeah, viewer view, viewer. Yeah, if you if you if you um next up we have Digital Monkery, another one of our supporters on the day, and who ran the challenge accepted for us. Um just perfectly did miss a beat. Actually, blew all my expectations out of the water. I knew it would be popular, but the setup, the CRT, the PlayStation, the game, it looked period, it looked fantastic, and it was an absolute show stealer, absolutely brilliant. Um, yeah, guys are legends. So thank you for watching.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:21

I've got a message for him.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:24

Oh no. Get ready on the edit button.

SPEAKER_05 1:31:28

You believe in you because you are the real freaking deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:38

Right, who we got next? From the bottom of my heart. Who we got next?

SPEAKER_05 1:31:46

A man who appeared in person, and it was made particularly awkward because within the last calendar week I'd seen the slice of scrotum. Um he owned it up front and raw. Rainbow towel the lot, squeezed either side like a very expensive wafer thin ham sandwich, not from Tesco, but from like a high-end garden centre. They went all out, probably a full pack of full pack of what? 50 pack. Easy, easy. Um, but after which way, um, I was glad to see him. It's always good to see him, and he's a beautiful good lady. So um, yeah, another great show at the show.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:33

Ball border, by the way.

SPEAKER_05 1:32:35

Um I thought everyone would know from the Scrotum story.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:39

Yeah, well, I think not everyone knows about the um the floss 360 uh trick, which he actually we spoke about in the show as a joke. The guy busted the trick out. Um so if you can imagine if you could someone imagine someone flossing with a towel on the skateboard, he done it and sent us the evidence. So it's like it's like Tony Hawk's if you Tony Hawke's game if you crossed it with seven sins.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:01

See, I didn't need no I suppose if you just got out of the shower and you're using the towel to floss undry your nether regions, yeah, it makes sense to pop a 360 on your skateboard.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:12

I just don't know why those things combined. He loved skateboarding, it was a challenge. Thought, right, I'm gonna nail this. And he nailed it. Um next up we have the wonderful Boba who unfortunately couldn't make it this time to earlier.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:27

No, I got a picture of him there. Did you? Yeah, he came as a rear headlight of a car from Forza.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:34

Oh, nice. Oh, nice.

SPEAKER_05 1:33:36

So there was a tall guy rocking around with like a black helmet on with a red dot in the middle of it. Looked like a kind of maybe like a modded car rear light lens or something off of a off a car from Forza. I know that tickled DM, so I left that. I'll leave that there as a little Easter egg. And if anyone wants photographic evidence, someone better find someone who can take pictures better than me because uh um yeah, I've just got a picture of a black mess with a red dot on it. So who's next? That's you next. Of course it is. My beloved son, Ginge. Now, when's your birthday boy? I know I should know, but you're not really, you know, although you're my son, you're actually the um you're actually the child of a woman I used to date. So we've got no genetic connection at all, but I love you like a son anyway. Um, but I I need to know when your birthday is, because you get a special perk of getting a video call on your birthday at least. Um so um holler at me and I'll put it in my personal diary so it flashes up and I'll just ring you. Hopefully, you got the day off. If not, it'll be at the job site. Uh yeah, I don't perform well in front of crowds, but I'll give it a go. Um, anyway, um, insert usual strongman comment here. Um, he raised an eyebrow, a swan died in Canada. Thanks for your support, son.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:56

Yeah, thanks, did next up we have the awesome Harvey Retro who this week has made a perfect announcement of the podcast he's doing. Yes, and you know I do love his um YouTube channel when he does his catalogues. He's now turning that into a podcast with different guests. People pick the years of the catalogues, and they're gonna go through and pick what they're doing, and I just think what a wonder has got stratosphere written all over it.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:31

That's what we should have done with flashback. That's an idea, but good.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:35

Yes, wow. That's an idea, but good.

SPEAKER_05 1:35:41

Top of the class, global podcasting superstar. Don't forget us on your climb up the greasy pole, friend. Um, we love you. And that is keep an eye for that. That is big numbers. That's gonna do insane.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:54

Yeah, my retro catalogue journey, that's called. Um, check Harvey Retro out on Instagram, give him a follow and a like, and then you'll get news of when this podcast is coming out. That's a great idea.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:05

Strap in on the launch pad now for something that's gonna make Artemis 2 look like a wet fart. This dude's gonna hit the switch in that thing. Boom. Every man, woman, and dog gives a rat's ass about what was in that catalogue. You've got the lingerie section, you've got other camping section, you've got all that stuff in between. Then you've got toys, video games, and bikes, and you're out the door with goodly toys. It's like an episode of the generation game.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:30

Not only that, you vote on what the next episode is, you get to vote on audience interaction.

SPEAKER_05 1:36:36

I tell you what, the boy's turned up, he's listened, he knows about podcasting. That's why he's a guru. If you want to get involved and make your podcast look um probably a million times better than ours, um get on to him because he's got a studio retro catalogue journey.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:51

So, but Harvey Retro, Instagram, go follow him, and then you'll get all the info as it drops on the new show. So, well done, Harvey. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Um, I am.

SPEAKER_05 1:37:02

Do you know what, Harvey? Please, please, please, at some point in time, whenever you get round to it. I know I'm no one, but I would love the chance to be on that. Ho ho ho. That's it. I'll never and I'll never ever, ever, I'll never ever mention it again. Um next, he rolled the dice. Ever shot? Gotta say thank you to her. She's currently uh in Marmorus, Turkey. She's gone on a world tour. She's seen a spike of uh tourist uh figures there on the podcasting stats, so she's gone to hand out flyers up the strip. Um, I'll be honest with you, apparently they're going down like gangbus uh busters. So uh hold up, I pulled it back. Suitable, universal for everyone. They're going down like gang busters.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:06

Oof. Um, yeah, she's done well to get out of that quick, so I'll speak to her today. But yes, thank you, Emma, on your ever-increasing world tour. Thank you.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:15

I tell you what, she sees a spike, she goes, Bam, I'm on it.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:21

Next up, we have the wonderful Greg. Awesome Greg, thank you as always. Nowhere near Berlin, as we know him as. Yeah, and also obviously involved with the development studio at Does Forever Skies. So I hope it's going well for you, Greg. And we I know we say this all the time, we must get you back on. We know you're a busy guy, but we must get you back on at some point. So um, yes, thank you again for your very long support you've had for this show. So cheers, Greg. Thank you to everyone. Thank you to everyone.

SPEAKER_05 1:38:48

Up next, Mumzi. There she is. Um, I tell you what, she also recognised a spike and she went and got on it. Because I tell you what, this week she's been in Iceland. China. She's there because apparently there's been a spike in English speakers. Uh, I don't know whether that's some sort of conspiracy thing, but over at the show here, we're in the no. Um, we get to see all sorts of things all over the world by we see spikes of downloads. So apparently, English-speaking downloads in Iceland mainly contributed to American English. So you've got to imagine uh an extra 100,000 downloads, sneaky invasion plan going on. Tap tap, one's the word. So, anyway, she's all down there, up and down, uh, all over Iceland. Check it all about. I'm sure she'll find 100,000 men uh pretty quick. So, we'll get a report back on that. Maybe we'll get a real journalism um scoop.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:48

Anywho, next up we've got the RGT fan club. Thank you as always again for your long-term support. Very much appreciated.

SPEAKER_05 1:39:56

Um hey, I just had a brainwave. Better hurt. Prepare for it because it's a logic gate user. It's not gonna hurt me. Oh, it will. I'm gonna watch you wake up in the fourth dimension. It's a two-dimensional mind. The RGT fan club consists of mum and dad. Whatever gave you that idea. Because you've said it numerous times, we have evidence recorded. Or I've hinted at it, I've never this is the part that's gonna move your conception of what's real completely off the scale. Mm-hmm. Mumsy donates twice for that reason, then.

SPEAKER_00 1:40:32

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 1:40:34

She does, but she donates twice. One extra for me.

SPEAKER_05 1:40:38

So anyway, who we got next to Judge? Yeah, when was the last time you met Pete Brocklehurst in the street? Because last time I did, insanely strong as he is, he looks like Mumsy in a wig, which also looks like the picture I've seen scattering around on my WhatsApp. So it's bizarre that you and him also look like our mum. So um just saying, although he's a lot stronger, because I can force yours and her grip away when I want to, but if Pete Brocklehurst wants a little bit of some in, he takes a little bit of summon. Know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_01 1:41:12

Yes, I do, unfortunately. Oh yes, I do.

SPEAKER_02 1:41:21

Bad play to you, all day.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:23

But yes, so was that your Pete Brocklehurst thanks then?

SPEAKER_05 1:41:27

Or yeah, thank you, Peter.

SPEAKER_01 1:41:28

Yeah, thank thank you, Peter. Um Billy Marmite, another elusive one. He's not in the Discord. You don't see him at conventions, but he's always there and he's always paid every week. So thank you, Billy. We really appreciate it.

SPEAKER_05 1:41:42

Yeah, the silent of violence. We look, hey, you know, you you're in at a good level, and you're probably not getting half the treats. So anytime you want to hit that up, you let us know, and you're straight in there. VIP members, um, let us know. Which leaves me firmly in the grip of a Zangef. And as we are doing at the moment, I will Zangeef.

SPEAKER_01 1:42:07

I think I already know what it is. I already know what it is. Okay. Performance this is gonna be. Um is uh sipping water for the audio audio listeners and gargling. I don't know if we needed to hear that. Come on then, get this performance done. Come on. That was it. Oh well I would imagine then that was when we're on stage at OL and every time every time Mags went from one side of the audience to the other, he done a little slide to which then you started commenting on the slide in the background on the microphone, and I think that was your little excited moment because you loved his little slide.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:02

My my Zangif gurgle.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:06

It was actually you drowning under the weight of realisation of Mumsy twice. It was performative art, darling, if nothing else.

SPEAKER_01 1:43:22

It was very good. I think it was probably one of the best geese we've had.

SPEAKER_05 1:43:28

Excellent. Um that brings us to the end of the show. Thank you to everyone who supports. We're looking forward. If you want to get on board, you know how. You can have a funny readout if you want, or if you want it dead straight, you let me know. Um, in the meantime, I can't really finish this show, RGT, until I ask you um probably something along the lines of would it be what you're hoping to play?

Next Week’s Gaming Plans

SPEAKER_01 1:43:59

I don't think that'll do. Um play some more, uh thank god you're thank your goodness you're here and to try and get the platinum. Um just such a great little game, so funny, so relaxed, really good.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:11

What would that involve? Why would that not pop on initial completion though?

SPEAKER_01 1:44:16

It's just some things you have to do, but I mean the game's like two, three hours through, so you just have to like collect a certain amount of things or um hit a certain um kick all the post boxes, things like that, which you can go through on a second playthrough and just collect those up. Um you can actually, I'm I'm not gonna say too much, you can one of the trophies is um to meet the mayor. You can actually like complete the game in like 15 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 1:44:45

What by meeting the mayor?

SPEAKER_01 1:44:47

Yeah, but that's uh yeah, there's a way of doing it. So it's quite funny. That's one of the trophies, so you have to start again and do that. So there's some good little things in that. It's good fun to play, it's quick, but it's just I just think about it. It's almost like it that's that good, it reminds me of a lot of childhood memory of a of a cartoon. That's what I keep thinking of it like. And it's like Mr. Man or something like that. Yeah, it's it's really good. Um I need to play, I need to get back in the PS3. Um, I need to purchase. I'm very sorry, Zan Geef. I still haven't purchased the Gen 7 game this month, which is the 50 cent, two in the bag, three in the hand, two in the sand. The 50 cent bits, right? I think it's blood on the sand, in the sand, on the sand, I think. Bag of grand. Yeah, I know we've had mixed reviews of so far, but I want to honour it and purchase it and play it, so I will be doing that. But also want to play another PS3 game.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:38

If you get it and it's garbage, what are you gonna do with it? Are you gonna like smash it up live stream?

SPEAKER_01 1:45:44

No, just put it on the shelf. Um, and then um I wait till it gets double as price and then trade in. Um that's why people don't like you, you know. People don't like me anyway, it doesn't matter if I trade a game in.

SPEAKER_05 1:45:56

Um, and then if I can like you because you just do what you want to do. That's how I so I roll.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:02

Yeah, I know. Um and if I can run it on the Lenovo, I will get Samson, give it a go this week.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:10

Your face has softened, you don't look like a pencil topper now. Thank you. I think your shoulders are very tense on the way in.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:18

Might have been, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:19

I think you've relaxed.

SPEAKER_01 1:46:20

I think so, yeah. How are you feeling? I'm fine. Um, still one with what I'm hoping to play. Um I think that's probably much it because I've completely lost my chain of thought. What are you hoping to play, George? And I know what you're doing, it you're a sod. Why? You know why.

SPEAKER_05 1:46:41

Oh god, I'll tell you what I'm hoping to play. I'm hoping to play probably a little bit more sevenths. I'm probably gonna scratch out some M Club Midnight 3 double edition. I'm probably gonna uh I'm gonna get onto that game that you talked about, the Yorkshire Fart Pants joke. Yeah, I want in on that. That's you do. Um I may even play that tonight. Um, other than that, I've got a very busy week ahead of me, so maybe a bit more game dev story, hate to admit. And I think you can go on new game plus with all your stats unlocked, so that'll be quite cool. Uh and I'd say, RGT, if you're done and I'm done, that's all we have time for this week, listeners. As always, thank you for your time. I look forward to the pleasure of speaking to you again next week. Until then, happy gaming. And remember, there's nothing wrong with being given the unofficial controller, it's what you do with it that counts. See you, RGT. See you later.