The best of 1UP Yours (2007); 10 hours of genius
By zanzibarbreeze 14 Comments
This Year is back and packing a huge, huge gift. Our previous gaming podcast recaps – The HotSpot 2005, 2006, and 2007, and 1UP Yours 2006 – have topped well over 2,000 downloads each. The recaps for The Adam Carolla Show – January and February 2006 – haven’t done too shabbily either.
But of all those, our episode for 1UP Yours was far and away the most popular.
It’s hardly a chore to surmise why. The answer, incidentally, rests solely on the shoulders of the men on the microphones: Garnett Lee, John Davison, Shane Bettenhausen, Luke Smith, and Mark MacDonald. Each man entertaining in his own way, some because of their passion, some because of their candidness, and some because 75% of what they said made no sense. But, concurrently, each man was intelligent, some more than others, and each man had an opinion, and each man was interesting. Never before had such an esteemed and respected group gathered together to talk about video games, and, in all probability, never will such a group gather again.
The recap is in two parts. Find out why this show is revered by many as the greatest gaming podcast of all time: download the first part of the recap here, and the second part here.
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Part 1
0:02:00 - Introductions
0:06:00 - What'cha Been Playing?
1:53:00 - Message board threads
3:28:00 - Four Minute Warning
Part 2
0:01:00 - Seanbaby's most hated games
0:21:00 - Multiplatform gaming
0:53:00 - Mitch Gitelman (FASA Studios, Shadowrun) interview
2:18:00 - Jeff Gerstmann's termination from GameSpot
2:46:00 - News
5:05:00 - Goodbyes
5:19:00 - Gag reel
Thanks to Simon Harrison for the music stings featured in the podcast.
Also, if one of you could do me a favor: I’m a member on NeoGAF but have not yet gained the ability to create a new thread. I know the guys over there responded very positively to the first 1UP Yours recap. If somebody would be kind enough to post this recap there in a new thread, I’d be very much obliged.
Finally, soon we’ll have another The Adam Carolla Show recap. I’m also working on a package for Loveline. On the gaming front, I want to hit the final year of 1UP Yours, and then we’ll throw darts to see whether we do the Giant Bombcast or GFW Radio, among others. Thanks to you guys, the Giant Bomb community, for all your support, feedback, and generosity with the previous projects. We really appreciate it. Hope you enjoy this episode.