Chris Johnston

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281: Vita Effect

This week! Dana joins the podcast to chat with Mike about Mass Effect 3, and CJ returns to talk Vita likes and dislikes after a week and a half with the system. Plus: Journey, I Am Alive, Motorstorm RC, Touch My Katamari, Dynasty Warriors Next, and Lumines: Electronic Symphony. All

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280: Chrysler Meconium

This week! CJ's out of the office and Phil just had a baby. Thus, lots of baby talk bookends discussions about CJ buying a PSVita, Hot Shots Golf: World Invitational, Hustle Kings, Vessel, Journey, Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, Assassin's Creed III, Happy Action Theater,

Generation 16

Generation 16 - Episode 003 is live!

It was a long time coming, but now it's here. Generation 16 Episode 003 is finally live. Covered in this episode is the North American launch of the Genesis, as well as the five new games released on the system between July and October of 1989 - World

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279: Bad Signal

This week! Technical difficulties aplenty left this episode in a shambles. The only way to patch it together was to use a low-quality backup file that will assault your eardrums with its badness. But if you can stand it, then you'll hear us talk about Vita, Uncharted: Golden

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Flashback: The Quest for Identity

Publisher: U.S. Gold Developer: Delphine Software Release: 1994 Flashback is one of those games you just never saw coming. An instant classic that seemed to appear out of nowhere across just about every platform you could think of. Sure, the game got a fair amount of hype from the

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278: Vita'd

This week! Last week the Vita launched in North America (well, the First Edition Bundle) and half of the podcast got their hands on one. So we've got impressions of the system, games, etc. for you first off. But we also discuss the game chips we played in

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277: Kickstarted

This week! Double Fine's Adventure Kickstarter project, more Vita, Skylander collecting, SSX, Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword, Mutant Mudds, House of the Dead III (demo), Shank 2, Cards Against Humanity, Uncharted 3 DLC, Metro 2033 and more! Check out Greg's new web series Generation 16

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Final Fight CD

Publisher: Sega Developer: Capcom (original), Sega (port) Release: 1993 Final Fight was one of those games that was at the center of the battle between the SNES and Genesis in the early nineties. I mean to say that, when the SNES launched in North America, one of the main, third-party

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276: Don't Have a Cow, Man

This week! We talk about memories of The Simpsons Arcade Game vs. the realities of a terrible game, the dangers of toy addictions in Skylanders, demos that don't sell you on a game (Twisted Metal), plus: Need For Speed: The Run, To the Moon, Skyward Sword, non-gaming hobbies,

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275: The Wrath of a Stranger

This week! Vita sales, Vita bundles, next-generation Xbox, Skylanders, 2D Marios, physical retail/digital download, Beauty & The Beast and a game club on Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath! It's an action-packed episode that you won't want to miss. Check out Greg's new web

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274: Giraffe Job

This week! A little time zone talk before we launch into the games what we done played in the last seven days. That includes Resident Evil Revelations demo, Mario Kart 7, Gran Turismo 5, Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Hero Academy, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, The Darkness II, Order Up!

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - FIFA International Soccer

Publisher: EA Sports Developer: Extended Play Productions Release: 1994 If you follow this website you probably know about my other series, Generation 16. The episode I'm currently working on there features the first soccer game on the Genesis: World Cup Soccer. By coincidence, FIFA International Soccer is the

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273: Full of demos

This week! It's a bit of a slow time in terms of new releases but not of demos. So we talk about a a few - Choplifter HD, Grand Slam Tennis 2, Asura's Wrath, and Final Fantasy XIII-2. Plus the full games we've been

Generation 16

Game Club #25 - Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath

Listen up, pardners, it's our 25th Game Club, and to celebrate, we're tackling the most recent (although still seven years old) entry in Lorne Lanning's Oddworld series, Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath. It's an (*ahem*) odd hybrid of first- and third-person shooters

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272: Sits Around the House

This week! This is a podcast about games, so we talk about them a lot. Oh, and also, parenting. But back to games - this episodes contains discussions of Swapnote, NFL Blitz, Bionic Commando, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Space Pirates and Zombies, Gemini Rue, and Stranger's

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271: The One With the 2011 Wrap-Up

This week! It's our 2011 wrap-up show where we go down the line and read off our favorites of the year just passed, commentating and discussing as we go along. What won our favor for the year? You will just have to listen and find out, because we

Generation 16

Generation 16 - Episode 2

Here it is! The second episode of Generation 16, the series where I explore the games of Sega's Mega Drive. This episode features the games released in the first part of 1989, leading up to the American release of the Genesis. Games featured in this episode are: -

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270: T-Rux & G-Rubb

This week! After a special Christmas greeting from the hosts, they talk about the following game tapes: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Call of Duty: Black Ops, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Tetris, Pushmo, Swapnote, Mighty Switch Force, Super Mario 3D Land, Sonic Generations, And Yet It Moves, Magicka,

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Fatal Fury Special

Publisher: JVC Developer: SNK (original)/Funcom (port) Release: 1994 You know how publishers fall all over themselves to release first-person shooters nowadays? Well back in the early '90s, the hot genre was one-on-one fighting games. Street Fighter II ruled the world, while everyone else scrambled for Capcom's

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269: Nobunga's Ambition

This week! We talk about the following game tapes: Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Pushmo, Sonic CD, the Humble Indie Bundle, Rage, InFamous 2. Plus! The 3DS gets the GBA Ambassador games, Club Nintendo offering downloadable games, PlayStation Vita, holiday-themed gaming traditions, Pokemon Warriors and

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Fahrenheit

Publisher: Sega Developer: Sega Studios Release: 1995 Full-motion video games were, for the most part, pretty bad. Although I enjoy a few of them, they pretty much sucked. And Fahrenheit is a perfect example of why they sucked. Playing this game now, one of the first things that strikes me

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268: White Christmas Indeed

This week! We talk about the following game tapes: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Pushmo, Trine 2 and Tomb Raider: Underworld. Plus! New updates for the Xbox 360 dashboard and 3DS systems, Miyamoto "retiring," and the Spike VGAs. Check out

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267: Blue Shells and Skyward Swords

This week! We talk about the following game tapes: Super Mario 3D Land, Mario Kart 7, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Infinity Blade 2, Voltron: Defender of the Universe and House of the Dead Overkill Extended Cut. Plus! GamePro closing down, Vita PSN accounts and memory pricing, and Xenoblade

Generation 16

Generation 16 - Episode 1

My WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL series not enough to satisfy your classic Sega cravings, you say? I feel your pain. And so I'm here to introduce a new Sega-based series on the Player One Podcast: Generation 16. Generation 16 is a video series chronicling the rise and fall

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Eye of the Beholder

Publisher: FCI/Pony Canyon Developer: Westwood Associates Release: 1994 Before they became known as the fathers of the real-time strategy genre, Westwood Studios (aka Westwood Associates, back in the day) was probably most well-known for this game. Eye of the Beholder, a dungeon-crawler set in the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons