Ready Press Play: A Video Game Podcast

Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the recent news that PlayStation will cease producing physical discs starting in January 2028. They discuss how the overall games industry is going especially with how Xbox and Nintendo compare. Luis contemplates becoming a retro gamer and not buy any new consoles going forward (except Nintendo if they keep including physical media).

No timestamps, this is all one giant topic of the show.

Luis and Dan meet to discuss all the games they played in 2025 and come to a consensus as to what Ready Press Play's Game of the Year for 2025 will be.

The nominees for Ready Press Play's Game of the Year 2025 are:

Clair Obscur Expedition 33

Donkey Kong Bananza

Ghost of Yotei

Metroid Prime 4

Who will win?

Timestamps:

(Coming Soon)

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Dan and Luis met live on Twitch immediately following The Game Awards to discuss all the announcements, the awards, and the show overall.

Timecodes:

00:00 Intro / Revealing the prediction winner

09:33 Recapping the announcements

53:46 Thoughts on the award winners

1:18:22 Thoughts on Game of the Year

1:23:30 Thoughts on the show overall

1:26:20 Outro/RPP Theme

For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the One Game at a Time podcast feed

If you like our intro and would like to support the artist, go check out Waz on Spotify and Bandcamp. Thank you!

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This episode was recorded live on November 19th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play ⁠Twitch channel⁠.

This episode was recorded live on June 5th, 2025, on the Ready Press Play Twitch channel.

Luis calls for a meeting with Dan to discuss the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct and all the news that came after, the good, the bad, and the ugly. All this and not much more!
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Time Stamps:
00:00 - Intro / Housekeeping

22:39 - Switch 2 Topic Begins

1:54:30 - Outro/RPP Theme

If you like our intro and would like to support the artist, go check out Waz on Spotify and Bandcamp. Thank you!

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Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88)

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Dan and Luis meet one more time in 2024 to talk about their PlayStation stats for the year and talk about all things The Game Awards, from the announcements, the controversies, and the winners. All this and more!

02:11 - Luis' mini life update/secret stash

06:47 - PlayStations 2024 Wrap Up Stats

24:05 - The Game Awards Reactions/Announcements

1:04:41 - The Game Awards Winners

1:22:23 - Outro/RPP Theme

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Dan and Luis meet for the first time in 2024 to talk life updates, gaming stories, predictions of who's winning The Game Awards, and what new announcements they're expecting for next week.

TIME CODES PENDING

Dan and Luis meet up to talk about the death of E3, their video game stats recap on all platforms, and reveal who won The Game Awards predictions game as well as give their overall thoughts on the show in general.

04:45 - RIP E3

30:29 - Xbox, PlayStation, Twitch Wrapped

51:48 - The Game Awards 2023 Recap

1:44:30 - Outro

Dan and Luis meet for the first time on camera in 9 months! They are so out of practice that they had technical difficulties with the audio (a rookie mistake)! They catch up and predict the winners of The Game Awards.   For more Dan and Luis in the future subscribe to the One Game at a Time podcast feed

00:00 - Intro

01:12 - Luis talks about why he is not at LV1 Gaming

02:12 - Talking about Ep 150

04:08 - What’s up with the OGAT Feed

06:02 - What games did Luis play?

06:57 - Luis the Pro Smash Player?!

09:02 - Luis switched to the dark side (Android -> iPhone) & Dan can’t take pics

10:50 - What did Dan Play

11:40 - Dan’s Conflict of Interest / Disclosure

13:15 - How much did Dan play Mario Wonder and Tears of the Kingdom

14:38 - Luis folds on Fortnite

17:22 - Twitter is now X

19:27 - Luis announces his Street Fighter 2 Tournament happening in Jan 2024

20:54 - GTA 6 Trailer Reaction

23:42 - Predicting the Winners of The Game Awards (starts with GOTY)

1:37:11 - Predicting Announcements

1:44:15 - Closing Thoughts / How we are watching TGAs

1:47:05 - Wrap up & Ready Press Play Full Theme by Joel “WAZ” Perez

Every other Friday, Dan Lima (@PowerUpDan) and Luis Menchaca (@Chacalaca88) will catch you up on everything that’s new and exciting in the world of video games.

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