I always appreciate an early Scoop on Friday being on the east coast. It’s my excuse to turn off the work computer, grab a beer and relax with 4 gaming buds and listen to them talk games. Thanks for all you do each week! Nicely job. 😁

“Cue the space monks,” is a reference to the chanting in the Halo theme music. Like, “Get the musicians ready to start the next game.”

I appreciate them not cutting out the part where Daemon had to leave for a bit

The Xbox Series X can indeed play 4K Blu-Ray's. Sam & Team, the launch PS3 models were 20GB & 60GB in 2006. 80GB did not come until late 2007. The 20GB PS3 was FULLY backward compatible as well making BOTH launch units capable of playing PS2 / PS1 games.

is it weird i enjoy listening to these legends talk about games as much as i do playing games? also can we make Mark a permanent 5th member??

For those interested in the display behind Justin, it appears to be a Divoom 64 pixel art display.

When the Wii released I was almost 10 years old. However, my parents had a baby (my youngest brother) in October and we're not quite "on their game" when it came time to hunt for the Wii. Christmas was ho-hum because that's all we wanted, but when Easter rolled around, we got the Wii (which was crazy because usually our biggest Easter basket gifts were DVDs). It was the most amazing, magical Easter of all time.

The PS3 was a great console, I'm sad that there are games from the console that it appears I'll never be able to replay, the 8 player co-op from Resistance 2 is something I'd love to play again but appears impossible to do now.

I love this show! My favorite on IGN…and really my favorite podcast about gaming. Makes me feel happy to be in gaming! Thanks IGN! 😉

Guardians of the Galaxy is a surprise fun single player game that reminds me of the PS3/Xbox360 era. When devs made good single player experiences that would have plenty of fun times and surprises in store. More of this please.

As if I wouldn't already enjoy this show enough, Justin subliminally playing a Metroid clip in the background made me happy the whole episode. Quite possibly the first background item to rival Sam's pinball machines....Absolutely love this show! I worked at Gamestop during my college days when the Wii was brand new, and let me tell you, working retail at a video game store at that time was both so fun and so miserable to. But it was nice because I was able to lock in my Wii pretty easily because of that. I also got the rare 60GB PS3 used on an incredible sale and during Employee appreciation week when we got a big discount on used stuff. I bought the system and like four used games for like $170. One of those games, SAM, was Resistance, and that is the most underappreciated shooter series in Playstation history ;) But the Wii completely dominated most of my time. Hearing those games you mentioned really brought back some fun memories. And I had Rock Band on a 360. What a great era.

The Wii Shop Theme Song immediately transports me back to waking up on the couch at 3am after a college party and hearing the music loop as I get up and stumble to bed, wary of the hangover to come the following morning.

Have to say I'm enjoying the Wii menu music in the background at the beginning. Really meshes well with the vibe of the show, just chill lol

My launch system story..... I was so pumped for PS3 just in hopes of playing MGS4 one day. I got my ps3 launch day and I was in high school at the time. I skipped school using my grandpas truck and my grandma made me take her cell "just in case". So after buying this almost $700 system I was going home with going up the bridge to get on the highway and wouldn't you know it the truck stopped. So this is not a great part of town and here is like 16 year old me with a ps3 that were being delivered to stores in armored trucks. People literally were shot over this thing and me being a kid wasn't even thinking about my life I only thought about my system being stolen lol Then it hit me grandma saved me with the phone! So I get the phone and wouldn't you know its dead! So now I'm freaking out and I'm standing on the bridge and I see some old factory looking place in the distance. I wrap my ps3 in my jacket and ran my ass to the building which turned out to be a lumbering mill. They let me use a phone and I waited 2 hours but I was picked up by a cousin and made it home! It was a damn adventure lol.

Mark!! Shout out to my fav chair rotation. Also 15 years! That’s wild. I’m only 26

Mark "I don't know what a sequel is" Medina has a nice ring to it.

The space monks? They’re talking about the iconic Gregorian chant like music all over that series. You guys would get that reference as soon as you boot up the menu for Halo CE and 2.

Great episode! 🙌 I have awesome Wii memories

Watching this more than a year later, but seeing Justin's face doing math in his head for about two minutes about Skyrim release was for sure a LMAO moment

I laughed so much during this episode (with you, not at you :p) - thanks all, it was brilliant

Delightful episode. I think the "Space Monks" line refers to HALO's theme song.

Still watching but this is the funniest 20 questions you all should of hid

Thanks for another great episode! I always look forward to seeing these old gaming magazines. Does anyone know what the name of that LED screen thing is that Justin has on his shelf?

I didn't like how the PS3 looked but I liked it felt like an expensive piece of tech, and honestly, I really liked the UI way more than the PS4 UI. I was all in on xbox and so where my friends. But we all got the three rings of death. I got a replacement from MS after I sent mine. My friends said "fuck this shit" and transitioned over to the PS3. My uncle who fixes electronics had gotten a broken PS3 first gen and the client didn't want it back anymore. My uncle fixed it and gave it to me for my bday. So it all worked and it was for the best as I got the PS3 when all the really good Sony games were coming out later in its life span.

The website save-vegas was related to Rainbow Six, 39:20 confirmed via wayback machine 😁

For the 360, I made the decision that I would get one when I could walk into a store and see it on the shelf. I found one in a Target the spring after launch, caught my breath, and asked the clerk to fetch it for me along with Oblivion. I loved that 360... and its two warranty replacements.

Gran Turismo doesn't surprise me at all. It's really big all over the world, especially Europe and Asia, not just a specific place. It was the best selling PlayStation franchise ever. I imagine that's probably GTA now because of the massive success of GTA5, idk though. Gran Turismo has no equal in racing games as far as physics, features(post launch), online, livery creation and of course, nostalgia. I was 7 when GT1 came out, and it was everything. It still has pretty good physics today.

When I was standing in line to preorder the ps5 at my local game i was the last person get a preorder and line was still absolutely massive behind me

Happy birthday wii! You gave me so many good memories

The three Final Fantasy XIII games were actually Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XIII Agito (which became Type-0), and Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which became Final Fantasy XV)

Can I get some information on that ending song? I really liked it and made me chuckle as I was doing my 2nd job.

I worked at a game store during this time frame and I hated all the calls for Wii availability. Also I remember being sent AO stickers to put on all of our copies of San Andreas that were printed prior to the re-release with hot coffee.

Very funny talking about the GTA hot coffee thing when a week later on 11/13 it was discovered that hot coffee is back inside the Definitive Edition of San Andreas

Omg I share the exact same story with Justin at the exact same time. I kid you not. I drove a Honda and the window got stuck rolled down right around the launch of the Wii. And I lived in Utah at the time so it got pretty freaking cold. I was also the first person to wait outside of Walmart for the Wii launch. It didn’t take too long for people to follow suit. Eventually someone even brought a CRT television and an n64 and plugged them into the side of the Walmart and people were playing smash bros. Dude. It was cold. But man… that was a good time.

Man that nintendo eshop music always gets me pumped

One of my favorite games from the Wii era.. Little King's Story!

Mark is wrong about the 3 Final Fantasy XIII games they were talking about. The ones that became Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Lightning Returns were announced later. Originally, Square Enix announced Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy XIII, which included Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which essentially became Final Fantasy XV), and Final Fantasy Agito XIII (which eventually became Final Fantasy Type-0).

Weren't the three FF13 games they announced back than - Final Fantasy XIII - Final Fantasy Versus XIII (which later became Final Fantasy XV) - Final Fantasy Agito XIII (was that a mobile game or did that become Type-0?) They were all part of this "Fabula Nova Crystallis" and share the same in-universe creation mythos. Although, when FFv13 became FF15, I think it got its own creation mythos.

I’m pretty sure “Space Monks” has more to do with Halo’s iconic music.

I think the game they're talking about at 43:40 is Infinite Undiscovery, published by Square-Enix/developed by Tri-Ace? I actually just pulled this off my shelf last week to attempt to play again, but haven't yet bc my massive backlog of games got in the way.

Love that wii e shop music 🤩

I was in college and snuck into E3 2006. I remember lines out the door to try the Wii and CNN and Good Morning America were on hand to talk about it. It was clear then that the Wii was going to be the it gadget that holiday season.

Mark medina needs to be a regular, such a wild card

Your right Justin, Bev is the monster of Midnight Mass

Don't give up Mark ‼️ I'm in your corner!

A couple of my favorite Wii games were Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure from Capcom AND Trauma Center: New Blood by Atlus

Lol wii music at the end

Great episode! It’s always nice to see Mark here, Scoop! ❤️

I was very confused when Daemon was reading the list of best-selling games and he read "NCAA Football" at 1 and 2 as "Madden"... then he continued reading the list, when he came to the next NCAA football then he mentioned them not making it anymore lol --- Madden isn't even on this list haha

I can't scroll through all the comments to see if someone already said it, but the space monks thing for Halo 3 refers to the Gregorian-style chanting in the Halo theme. Also, haven't finished the episode, maybe they realize later.

They did not came out with an AO rating for GTA San Andreas, what happened is that the copies that were already in stores, they put a AO sticker on top of the plastic wrap of the box. They did eventually re-released San Andreas with a M rating. I remember this cause it was weird.

26:19 A Boy and His Blob was rereleased on Switch literally yesterday lol

Wait, do you guys always do a post ending short!?

Love the show as always! Love Same'

Will Mark and Justin go for Round 2? @33:45 🤣🤣

Sam is mistaken. The 360 was hard to get at launch, I had one pre-ordered but the store didn't even get it until x-mas eve. I worked at gamestop when ps3 and wii launched. Wii's were impossible to get but PS3's were regularly in stock, even at launch we were rarely sold out of them.

My work just put a Wii with Wii sports in our cafeteria area lol get the people back in the office!

Hooked my PS3 back up today because you cannot play any PS3 PSN games on PS4. I wanted to play Final Fantasy 6. Which I own on PS3 and is completely unavailable on PS4 or PS5. Many other games as well. Indies too.

I feel like I’ve heard this story about home dudes window before lol

I really wish they would always say which games the songs come from

PS3 came out a few days before Wii. I remember because people were like getting run over and shot over the PS3 and so sitting outside and waiting for the Wii was a bit tense, but i was in a very rural place so wasn't a big deal. Also the PS3 in the city near me, you had to sit out for days but Wii I was only there from 6am to midnight so it wasnt as big of a deal. Not sure if that's only anecdotal or not. Also i was third in line and someone had brought a TV and plugged in to the walmart outlet and we played previous zelda games all day! it was great!

*sees Mark* .. Uh oh..

Boy I had the answer pretty quickly.

Where I can find the square that is behind Justin? (The one with the Metroid images in this episode)

Vice City Stories on PS2 > Vice City. Adds many improvements from San Andreas like swimming that the original VC lacked

Had a metal gear 4 bundle ps3 that was 80G that was backward compatible with ps1 and ps2

21:47 I guess we aren't counting Elder Scrolls Online as an Elder Scrolls game? It's fine if we aren't, I'm just clarifying :P

33:12 Still no voice chat on the Switch.

FF12 was underrated.

whats that super Metroid thing behind Justin?

My 2nd favorite show next to NVC. Don't hate me 😭

Justin “None of this will be in the episode”

My God I love Wii OS music lol

My Ps3 online game was R6V2 👍

What is that beginning music? its so familiar

Why can Medina not process the answers in 20 questions without reasking it again? "Wait, do you use guns?" "Wait, was it an indie?" Listen, man!

Scooop!!!

Scoop!!

Is it me or does Justin look like he just doesn't want to be in scoop for like a bit now. He just looks done/tired.

Scoop!

They did release a version of San Andreas with hot coffee removed with a M rating. So you were both right guys. Also chromehounds was a mech game with pretty cool online. There was a giant map and multiple factions all trying to capture it. The PS3 and 360 era both had weird things going on with them. The 360 not having a hard drive was such a stupid thing and my god the red ring of death was insane. I went thru 4 360s. Working at gamestop at the time I saw so many red ring xbox systems. I had one customer who went thru freaking 12 of them! I loved ps3 but the online was a bitch. My friends and I would either have to call each other to talk or usually we would get in a Xbox party chat while playing uncharted 2 multiplayer lol

SCOOP!

IF i buy a new tv on black friday, is my TV a sequel?

They need to remaster LittleBigPlanet 1 & 2 for the PS5 🥺

Justin not giving that kid his ticket taught the child a valuable lesson: Life is full of disappointments. We don't always get what we want.

FF 6 is the best FF of all time; I can't wait for a remake. Now, this is just my opinion, but I must agree FF7 is the most overrated FF, but I've never played the remake, and before ppl cancel me, I did play the original

Didn’t have money to fix window but had money to buy a console 😂😂😂😂😂

One thing I thought worth mentioning about the PS3 what’s the black out. Also FF12 was not a good game. The entire battle system could be automated and the story you could tell once you played it that the MC was not the original intended MC. They actually added two characters to the story. A young man and a young woman. I thought the young man would be more appealing to the target market and if you played the game I’m sorry you just didn’t like him as a character. No the world of FF12 is phenomenal lots of legend lots of lore and a Final Fantasy enthusiast would love to go back to it in a different setting

Put a Console… but didn’t have the money to fix his window.

What!?! FF12 is leagues better than FF10. Mark and Tina are complete opposite Final Fantasy fans than me. Hilarious!!!

8Mbps is megabits, Daemon. Which equates to 1MB/sec. (8 bits = 1 byte)

I'm not old

Did we do this for 360 last year? Don't remember.

My greatest mistake in life was buying an Xbox 360 instead of a ps3

Daemon, I love you guys, but Mark Medina seems to be the ONLY one who knows what a sequel is XD (except maybe Sam - he doesn't want to be part of the debate, so I don't know his stance on what a sequel is).

Can we please get some timestamps? it would be very helpful 🙏🙏

Scoop AF

scoopnation 4tw!

What do u mean the they’re 15….

i feel like the ps4 was the begining of the sony first party domination, not ps3. uncharted 3 and tlou but thats one studio, it wasn't till ps4 we got infamous second son, horizon, gow 2018, spiderman, tlou2, ghost tsushima. ps3 had nothing like the amount of studios producing that sort of first party super high quality games, with the exception of naughty dog.