VideoDestruct Podcast

Crash Bandicoot for the Playstation, NiGHTS for the Sega Saturn and good ol' Mario for the N64. The Playstation generation was a race to find and hold onto the new hot platforming mascot for each companies respective new console. The market was open to new franchises to take over or fall from grace. 

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Lots of gaming announcements this past week from Sony's PS5 Reveal event announcing a new Ratchet and Clank game, EA seems to have Star Wars back on track with Squadrons announced at EA Play Live and Pokemon SNAP making a triumphant return at Nintendo's Pokemon Presents event. Let's talk about all this stuff this week our deep dives into all the gaming news.

It's our first week with Hoss in his new house but not to worry our remote recording allows for zero delay in content. Our weekly video game podcast marches on as we talk about what we've been playing in the last week! These games include: Game Gear Micro, Later Alligator, Jurassic Park Evolution, Sayonara Wild Hearts, Mafia II and III Remastered, Command and conquer Remastered. And more!

This week Hoss and Brandon relive the launch and lifespan of the Xbox 360. A very interesting time in the console wars as Microsoft took their first real step into full on competition with Playstation and Nintendo. An amount of good will was built up during this time between Microsoft and the consumer because of the quick response to the dreaded Red Ring of Death overheating problem but was ultimately squandered with their subsequent console release, the Xbox One. 

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The Splinter Cell series is a classic but recently absent franchise in the Ubisoft library and wasn't necessarily a revolution in stealth game play but did help to incorporate elements of many stealth games and over time become a staple in the realm of stealth games in general. Gus joins us again this week as this is one of his favorite series and we all predict it's inevitable return.

This week we have a long time listener, guest and all around friend of the show, GUS returning for our 150th episode of the VideoDrestruct Podcast! And this week we are talking about Video Game Remakes! There's a large number of them coming out recently with the newly update Resident Evil games so let's take a look back at the good, bad and ugly remakes in the industry!

This week we talk about the start of an old favorite crime sandbox franchise Saints Row. Riding the coat tails of GTA: San Andreas the first Saints Row was a much more humble tail of a crime and gang warfare before it escalated into outrageous humor and alien domination plots. Let's talk about his week on the VD Podcast!

An atrocious movie even for the early 90's! Super Mario Bros was a crude, ugly, mean spirited mess of a film with nothing but bad vibes surrounding it's entire production. So let's talk about it today on the VideoDestruct Podcast. 

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Resident Evil 4 is a prolific game not only in the Resident Evil franchise but in the timeline of video games entirely. The format where game play and camera positioning commingled almost flawlessly gave way to a slew of third-person action adventure style games spanning across multiple franchises. Let's talk about Resident Evil 4!

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