It’s not a historical film but the Vietnam series by Ken Burns is absolutely fantastic as a documentary. You hear all the time about how messed up the Vietnam war was but until I watch that documentary I really didn’t understand the scope and challenge of that war. It was absolutely fascinating.

I feel like you should do a _Pocket_ _Guide_ for the Game Boy. And Ian's handheld input would totally be appreciated if so. And side note, I think the cupped pepperoni is also involved in the Detroit style too. Definitely a solid topping.

Seriously, selling collectible games on eBay is a nightmare. I sold about 5k worth of my collection on ebay late last year and it was a near endless procession of whiners and people trying to get one over on you. I tested/ cleaned absolutely everything, took detailed pics and provided in-depth descriptions on every single item, and packaged them like they were familtly heirlooms. I still had 1 out every 5 buyers bitch about something, ANYTHING, to try to get a partial refund or something for free. One guy initiated a return on a flawless GC game bc he said it didn't work, then backed out after realizing he'd have to actually return the game to me first before getting his money back. He literally messaged me saying "so the game doesn't work, but can I keep it anyway and still get a refund?". Umm, how about NO! I had multiple claim damage in shipping, then mysteriously drop the dispute when I insisted on filing insurance claims through USPS. My personal favorite was the guy that bought a non-functional Gameboy, sold as *nonfunctional* in the listing, and wanted a refund bc it didn't work. Really Timmy? The broken Gameboy you bought was *gasp* broken? If only someone had warned you beforehand. I've sold a ton of comics and other items on ebay without much of a problem, so I know its the game buyers in particular who are in a whole league of their own in terms on nitpicking, scummy, belligerent behavior.

I would love Ultimate Game Boy to be the third book in this fantastic series. As far as a reference text goes, Game Boy is DESPERATE for one with the level of quality and care put into Pat's NES and SNES books.

I had a colonostophy bag opened up at walgreens and shit the whole store up

Hacksaw Ridge (movie) Incredible true story of one person during WW-II

The hard works pays off. These are the definitive guides to beloved systems. Keep it going, Pat and team.

Honestly I was surprised you went with N64 instead of the Genesis for the next book.

An N64 book would be a big seller hint hint. Five years ago i sold off some of my video game doubles and some games that needed repair, since then i haven't sold anything.

The problem is all crt TVs are going to die (and frankly pretty soon). The parts to make and fix those are no longer made. So I guess enjoy crts while you can but I just accepted that if I need a crt to enjoy a system, I’m just not gonna use that system. Plus moving crts I do NOT miss.

I had a similar situation happen to me in pre-school only i was on the play ground when i crapped my pants.

22:41 I stopped selling on ebay and Amazon specifically because of buyers trying to pull a fast one over on me (various scams). No more. Those places are toxic as hell for individual sellers. If anything I'd sell on craigslist, but even then you have to be careful. People suck.

Happy Easter and thanks for the content Mister Contri.

8:29 another historical accurate movie I recommend is called The Conspirator it focuses on Mary Stuarrt who was one of the people convicted of conspiring in the killing Abraham Lincoln. it raises a lot of questions not only about her but of the other conspirators did they deserve death for what they done.

Very insightful overview on authoring!

Speaking of historical films, I recently watched "Kingdom of Heaven" which is one of Ridley Scott's best. I don't know how historically accurate it is but it is an amazing film.

I 100% agree with Ian on open world games. They end up very similar. Liniar game design allows for more creativity and identity. MGS series for example does it much better if the game is liniar

I grew up in Erie, PA and we had the cup pepperoni too. The little pool of grease that collects in the cups was amazing.

It may be a bit niche, but Pat should do a PC Engine/Turbografx-16 book! That would be dope!

This would be a perfect time to do GB and GBA book, considering the hyped interest due to Analogue Pocket.

hey pat, big fan (and of you too, ian). from the oldest times. i think i saw your original videos when you posted them. i've been meaning to do it so it just ordered the NES and SNES books. i agree that other books would be really tough to do. it's up to you.

Pat, eagerly: Yes! I shit myself in first grade!

I’m all on board for a Game Boy book

Caller Brad actually sounds like a person who would be named Brad lol

I’m on my second Walter day trading card book and I’m in the beginning stages of a book dedicated to Smash TV. It’s been an adventure.

SSX 3 is awesome. never knew id enjoy a snowboarding game when I was younger.

24:51 Ian is mistaken. I am a big Bust-a-Move fan. The SNES, N64, Saturn, and Dreamcast versions all work great on a modern TV. However, set ups may vary,

Turbografx 16 Book! I've had mine since '89. I can write some of the reviews.

11:27 *Ian:* _I generally have to pee very bad at the end of every episode._ - Ballast Point can be a harsh mistress.

Enjoyed the CRT love...

Be to excited ian!

The thing about Open Worlds in games is that it has to be done right, with proper care & attention to detail. It adds a significant layer of complexity to a game and thus there are a whole bunch of factors that have to be taken into account and implemented for it to work properly and still be fun. It can be done amazingly, such as with games like Breath of the Wild. Not every area in the game is supposed to be dense with stuff to do, as like in reality there are going to be bleak and barren areas of the world. The game is good at giving a true sense of being a single entity in a giant unforgiving landscape. The music, weather and ambiance of the environment do a great job selling this feeling to the player. Of course, not every game pulls this off well if proper attention & care isn't given to it. An open world game must have plenty of content to discover and interact with within that open world.

Love the NES book..

Major Winters died like 10 years ago, but 2011 doesn't seem that long ago.

playstation book man that would be long as hell

thumbs up for pat, your a boss!

if he does another book I think a Sega Genesis book would be pretty cool. I've had the cup pepperoni before and it's pretty good. One of the pizza places near me has old world pepperoni and that is the cup pepperoni. As far as historical movies go I have always loved The Pianist. Such a great movie about one man's will to survive.

Ian would love the yakuza series... plenty to do, in my opinion the best example of how to do open world games right....especially the kiwami remakes

Mountain Mike’s pizza uses cup and char pepperoni.

So, what is Pat's camera setup for FMM?

I’m from Buffalo like Ian is and that pepperoni is so good

What’s with pepperoni in Buffalo? Well it’s cause Buffalo knows good food.

didn't know that the rhythm games were so different on the ps1 when not played on a crt tv good to know

Agreed on the cartridges for the Switch. They're too small to the point where I have no attachment to them like I do with classic Nintendo or Sega games. The same goes for Vita carts. They just feel like cheap memory cards.

Still waiting to find pats books at goodwill because they are expensive

I live in the Detroit area of Michigan and we call cup and char pepperoni “Old World Pepperoni” lol It’s the best on pizza.

Pat, you could do a miniature sized book about the Game Boy!

I would buy a Gameboy book before a N64 book.

Too bad round table got rid of that reign of fire sauce. I absolutely loved that.

BOTW is a good example of the of what Ian said. Pool a inch deep and miles long. I wish the world had more. Fallout has more activity and it's apolocypse world.

I want both these Nintendo books ... I'm in 🇦🇺 .....you deliver to our region?

Richard Winters actually passed away in 2011.

Hell, you could do a book that covers both Gameboy and Gameboy Color. I'll be damned if that wouldn't sell! I realize that would be one daunting task to do both systems in a single book due to the sheer amount of games, but that would be something that would sell without question. Do you have any idea just how popular and influential the Gameboy has been & how well it sold? You'd be crazy to think such a book wouldn't sell! Hell, I'd say that it would have more appeal than the craptastic N64. I think the N64 gets FAR more love than it deserves & that most of it is based on Nostalgia Goggles and nothing else. It was not a very good system and did not have a very good library of games, specially when compared to it's closest competitor, the PS1. The PS1's game library absolutely blows the N64 out of the water.

Find a film called Michael Collins, Liam Neeson. Covers a lot about the Irish struggle for independence and the roots of their own civil war.

The Pacific was a really good one that showed how brutal the gift against the Japanese was.

It's time for controversy. Top 50 games of all time - Ian vs Pat. Round 1... fight!

I would love a complete gameboy book or game boy advance. I love love love the handheld games.

Oh that's a big one right there, ppl criticizing games simply because it's not their cup o tea. I see this happen ALL the freaking time, especially in older magazine reviews. Loads of reviewers never take such a thing into account, more than you might think, and it absolutely causes skewed review scores across the board. It's one of the biggest reasons that you can't always trust "professional" review scores. Anyone who is guilty of doing this has no business being considered a professional reviewer in my opinion.

Ian should get an Evercade. The carts are almost Game Boy sized.

Open world, rpg mechanics. Filler content, very few get it right. I don't have the attention span for them anymore or the time. That's why retro gaming has come back in a big way for me.

36 season...respect Ian

Pat is turning into Carrot Top 🥕

NJ where the cool kids still live! 😉

"HE SMELLS LIKE POOOO.." lmfao

you skipped the flea market madness question

Are the books still available somewhere? I cannot find them on Amazon.

Pat, you said you quit your previous job; what industry was it in? Sales, retail, food, education, etc.? 🤔

Wow Ian got really loud and animated when talking about uncured pepperoni.

Those were just more advanced trails to snowboard on

well, technically Burnout Paradise used assets from Burnout Revenge to build the map, BUT NOOOOOOOO! That game define what open world should be when GTAIV was released that year. And also former Jersey native living in California.

PAT WILL YOU MAKE A PLAYSTATION 1 , SEGA GENESIS, AND N64 BOOK?😀😀😀😀

Sounds like Ian may be having some lag issues with his display. If set up properly, there is no reason why a modern HDTV should have so much lag that it would make a game like Parappa the Rapper unplayable, unless the particular display you're using has insanely bad lag, or you somehow don't know about setting your TV to Game Mode. Just about every modern TV has a Game Mode setting that drastically reduces input lag by turning off any extra image processing. Maybe Ian somehow doesn't know about this? That or his display may just have really bad inherent lag in general, in which case there isn't anything that can be done aside for getting a different TV. Many modern displays have lag in the 15-20ms range, which is absolutely miniscule and equal to about a single frame, not anywhere close to enough to make Parappa the Rapper unplayable. This tells me that something else MUST be going on in his setup that he is unaware of. The RetroTINK itself does not add any lag per se. It's added lag is in the microseconds, small enough to where it can be considered zero for all intents & purposes. However since it linedoubles to 480p, it's possible that his display is just extremely bad at upscaling 480p, as all displays have differing amounts of added lag for each resolution it upscales. It's very possible that his particular display handles 480p very poorly. It may simply be time to get yourself a better scaler that can scale to higher resolutions such as the OSSC, which honestly barely costs more than the RetroTINK 2x these days. That would save you the trouble of needing to get a different display. There's also the RetroTINK 5x which is coming out very soon, although it will likely be more expensive than the OSSC. It should be easier to set up and use though for those who don't want to bother using profiles or setting phase and such for each system on an OSSC. Hope this post helps even a little.

9:52 - Hate to break it to you, Pat. Richard Winters died 10 years ago.

The new God of War had a good balance of freedom and focus

New Jersey! :D

Double dragon 2 is VERY hard to play well with out a crt.

I'm near Chicago and yes, we had the pepperoni shortage too

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Pat, please do a Gameboy Book!!! It would look so great next to my NES and SNES books from you. Plus, those are my three favorite systems.

Wouldn't genre go both ways. Like people who like the genre shouldn't review it either because they'll give it a positive review; as people who don't like the genre would give it a negative.

I sure love being a Patron and watching the full version in a THC coma and then getting like bits of my memory back throughout the week The Christopher Nolan of Retro Gaming right here

The original Gameboy library...don't expand beyond that

I choose All Bum Covers for 400

Richard Winters died 10 years ago unfortunately.

I think the issue is space because people no live portable life's .

N64 emulation? Just use a flash cart like an Everdrive.

The best type of open world game is the 'God of War' reboot since it is a "closed" open world.

I can assure you Patrick, Wallace was indeed a guy and, he did do "all that stuff". As in he rallied the troops against the oppression of the English and was hunted down and ripped apart for it becoming a martyr to the nationalist cause, even now, when Barcelona gets its independence and we get shafted out of ours by the corrupt "vote no" campaign. Scotland is the only oil producing nation on earth with no oil fund. We have produced substantially more than Abu Dhabi and Dubai, combined. Yet we have fuel poverty to pay for Kings landing/London, etc. We cottoned on though so, in time. But nah don't buy into the whole William Wallace didn't do that stuff, he did.

Surprised you guys never talked about Anthem.

The organization and interface to your book was so disorganized and the layout was abhorrent. So poorly put together. Good idea, but that's as far as it went.

Just gonna say - listing off only war movies as historical movies is the most american thing you can do. Most of history had nothing to do with war.

How War WAS? It's how War STILL IS.😑

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