EP Classic #6 - RACING GAMES with DAVID PERRY & GREG MOORE + NAMCO ARCADE - S1E6 (1997)
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Seatbelts are mandatory for this episode featuring EP’s first ever Racing Video Game Extravaganza!
First up Tommy Tallarico visits with Shiny Entertainment’s David Perry and the pair discuss their favourite video racing games before things get heated and the guys take their challenge to the streets.
At the same time Kelly Benson catches up with pro racer, Greg Moore (Rest in Peace) and finds out his history in racing and his thoughts on racing video games.
We also hear from Nintendo’s Alan Belardinelli, Midway’s Michael Gottlieb, Ubisoft’s Jason Cohen, pro demolition derby racer, Steve Thomson and Gabe Garcia from Boss Game Studio and we ask them all about their favorite racing games.
Also a variety of people answer our question: Will racing games make you a better driver?
After the break EP’s John Shaw heads to Calgary to meet the team at H20 Entertainment that made the Nintendo 64 game, Tetrisphere. John interviews Chris Bailey, Gord Novak, Roland Longpré, John McBane,
Then Tommy heads to Namco’s Arcade Division and speaks with Jason Mimosa about the company’s fantastic forays into building arcade experiences. We’re also introduced to Craig Ward, a technical support engineer at the company.
Then Heat.Net’s “The Reverend” about the code names at the company and how “The Reverend” handle came to be.
After that, acclaimed visual effects artist, Steve “Spaz” Williams, who worked on Jurassic Park offers advice for budding computer graphic artists.
And in Reviews on the Run, we look at
Test Drive 4 for PlayStation
Top Gear Rally for Nintendo 64
Dark Reign for PC
Saturn Bomberman for SEGA Saturn
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RIP Greg Moore
The namco arcade factory segment is pretty cool and unique
This was a cool one. And Tommy giving Bomberman a 6!
The arcade segment was awesome
ATV Off Road Fury 2 & 3 for the PS2 + F Zero X and San Francisco Rush on the N64 are racing games that still hold up for me.
Nice work Vic, I dig seeing these vintage episodes of Electric Playground again. 🏆
Oh my the video production style of the 1990s.
Video games are truly the best man, I hope that tech from Namco had a great career he was a natural on camera!
Thankyu for the years of entertainment victor
And the original Vic shirt option A ❤
I really appreciate these uploads! Retro gaming rocks!
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Great episode
Dam that's crazy what Steve Williams said lol because it's true he knew in the 90s computers wouldn't be the best thing for our health or well being
I love the channel more action please
Yikes at Tommy whacking that mother board lol
Very cool
Play Forever
In 2024 Shiny's MDK 1 is a hidden gem ❤
Test Drive 4 is an awesome. Still have a copy I bought brand new.
Nice Lambo Tommy
Killer episode! Anyone meet Vic at Fan Expo???
Oh neat to see the Dark Reign review. Most of the time EP didn't seem to review strategy games and such, or even PC games in general as much.
I was blown away by dark Reigns graphics and pioneering features and cool units and was one of my first big box in store new release purchases. It turned out to be a flop though. Both for me and for the public. It was just missing something. For one thing the story was bad, but a lot of people played RTS without caring about the story. It might have been due to a weak multiplayer platform? Or maybe the balance was off, because I do think the balance was off despite never playing multiplayer.
Like the game was not at all _bad,_ it just felt lacking compared to the info you hear about it and how good it seemed without playing it.
It launched before Starcraft so it's not like it was even a direct victim to it either. Although Starcraft did come out soon after which would have snuffed out any flame it still had at that point.
I found it odd how they talked about it as if it was just a copycat game where if someone has played one they've played them all. That's like saying if you've played a racing game you've played them all, or a hockey game, or an FPS, or a platformer, etc. Yes gamers like innovative gameplay, but 95% of what players _choose_ to play (and what gets made) is the same stuff that they've played before. Dark Reign definitely innovated on RTS, just not in good enough ways, and/or in sacrifice to other important elements.
Dark Reign looked incredible to me back in those days. The smooth lighting and shading, the 3D overview compared to 2D RTS, just so cool for its time.
Actually I must be thinking of a sequel because the one they reviewed looked 2D.
Yeah there was a sequel that was 3D. I don't even know if it was by the same developers though (I just checked, it was not. Auran Made the original while Pandemic made the sequel), but it wasn't particularly innovative at all. I think it was a mediocre game from what I recall, even worse than the original. I just checked a bit of info on it and it sold _terribly;_ apparently only sold 10k copies s in the first two months.
What game is on the screen at 14:03?
please upload these full episodes to x Vic
….or, Vic could avoid Twit-X like the plague it is. 👎👎🏻👎🏼👎🏽👎🏾👎🏿