You’re the GOAT for uploading these. I don’t think an archive exists anywhere else, correct me if I’m wrong. I’m so damn nostalgic for this channel it’s insane. This was truly a good time to be alive. Also, watching G4 always makes me want to play Resident Evil 4. Something about that review stuck with me so hard that I subconsciously attach the two things together now lol.
you're officially back to being the official source for g4, please keep it coming as much as possible. absolutely love your channel. if you could do more of the multiple hour techtv/g4 compilations as well, id love you forever, please keep up the fantastic work!!
The early 2000s was like a high-tech 90s. At the same time it felt like it was the final chance to enjoy the glory of the 90s before it was officially gone
@@Tw0tson and this was the main reason people wanted g4 back. I wish they got a cash injection from a younger company, and they actuallly brought back the REAL xplay formula. We didnt need G4TV to return, just some of our favorite people and formats.
@@stephenthedude4383 They hated how it looked too small, and also how the colors clashed. Special criticism was reserved for the egg chairs. I also remember one person saying, and I quote: "They have a bar, because a bar looks hip, modern, and cool." (i.e. it has the stink of all generic G4 sets).
The black bars are due to "upscaling" the episodes in my video editor. The original application I had used for years was sold to a German company and went the way of the dodo when Apple went fully 64-bit. So what I have to use now to make videos accessible adds the black bars automatically when I export at 720p. It's either less compression with black bars and somewhat clearer video, or lots of compression at lower resolution without black bars.
@@jamesmoss3424 I agree, but most people don't want to watch 20 year old video game reviews by Gen X has beens these days. It would be a waste of a time slot for AS.
I got burned out during the pandemic. I went from uploading videos maybe once or twice a month to uploading at least one video almost every day for like 1/2 a year. In early 2020, my old iMac started slowing and nothing was functioning as I hadn't updated it in 9 years (I didn't want to lose my stuff that was not compatible). And the 90% of my archives on the new computer I got were NOT compatible, as I feared. Plus my interests in general changed, stuff in my personal life happened, and I started moving away from gaming more and more. And when my telecommuting started to end last year, that was 2-3 hours less time a day to do and keep up with things. When G4 announced their return, I didn't know if I would receive a cease and desist request or not. Come to find out, just the opposite happened. A few people at G4 reached out and others were actually rather supportive of the channel and giving me shout-outs. But the impression I had was that, ultimately, G4 was going to start uploading older episodes and content. Reps had on their Discord had said in passing that the master tapes were in a vault, but they couldn't be accessed because of COVID. Well, almost two years later, G4 is now gone again and no one ever went into the vault. We would get some older footage spliced into some modern content, but not the way I think a lot of the longtime fans had hoped for. The odd thing is, I started uploading and publicizing random videos on my channel a few days before. Stuff from FoxKids, old TV clips, comic book stuff. I randomly grabbed a few X-Play episodes to upload and began the conversion process. I started putting them on RUclips and a few hours later, the news that G4 was ceasing all operations hit the web. Just a very strange cosmic abnormality colliding all at once. Now a bunch of people are coming back to watch the older stuff and I have a few episodes converted as all modern G4 content no longer exists.
Sudeki is one the best games in my bad videogame collection. For all its faults it hard lots of charm. Not every game has to be technically good to be entertaining. Sudeki isn't bad, just very mediocre.
She couldn't have been. She started at TechTV, which was known for having people who were personable and relatable. Not saying everyone who originated at G4 were/are phonies.
I grew up with xplay during a time where being a gamer meant you were getting verbal and physically metaphorical tomatoes thrown at you at a daily basis! Hehe I hated school! And i remember that I RAN home to watch xplay cause it felt like a place with friends, where I could belong, even if I was watching it alone! I remember being so utterly excited when I heard they were coming back... only to pay them little to no mind nowadays! Ya see, I don't want sex appeal! And i certainly I don't want games and politics to mix, as they enjoy doing lately! I just want to watch a video about a video game by gamers that love games, and aren't washed out from them or absolute bigots who just don't understand gamers or video games in the first place!
The old commercials are somehow hitting almost as much nostalgia as Xplay itself lmfaoo
You’re the GOAT for uploading these. I don’t think an archive exists anywhere else, correct me if I’m wrong. I’m so damn nostalgic for this channel it’s insane. This was truly a good time to be alive.
Also, watching G4 always makes me want to play Resident Evil 4. Something about that review stuck with me so hard that I subconsciously attach the two things together now lol.
The fact that NFL 2K5 records your online opponent's gameplay so that you can play them again offline is pretty damned cool
you're officially back to being the official source for g4, please keep it coming as much as possible. absolutely love your channel. if you could do more of the multiple hour techtv/g4 compilations as well, id love you forever, please keep up the fantastic work!!
I'm so glad this channel exists
The early 2000s was like a high-tech 90s. At the same time it felt like it was the final chance to enjoy the glory of the 90s before it was officially gone
Thank you for keeping "X-Play" alive, Spooie. I'd imagine you'll be posting all 2004-2012 G4 episodes you have in your collection right now.
I'm sure he will
Lol then will come the 2021-2021½ episodes lolol
@@IrishMcScottish yep
@@IrishMcScottish let's just forget those ever happened.
Watching these give me a feeling I can't explain
This is the Xplay I know simpler times
Well, I'll be here to watch G4 and X-Play now! Thanks for archiving the good times Spooie.
XPlay may have died twice, but at least we'll have the old episodes to remind us of how great it once was.
they never revived it, a 2 hour podcast is not xplay
@@Tw0tson and this was the main reason people wanted g4 back. I wish they got a cash injection from a younger company, and they actuallly brought back the REAL xplay formula. We didnt need G4TV to return, just some of our favorite people and formats.
I don’t know why I was recommended this, but thank God I was. X play was a great show.
Amazing!!!!! Miss these days back in high school!
22:07
What a unlocked memory seeing the Spy Vs Spy Mtn dew commercials 😌
That Shaun of the Dead ad. Classic.
When this episode originally aired, Mallys made a thread on the G4 Forums about feedback on the G4 set. Just about everyone hated it.
can you explain in more detail?
@@stephenthedude4383 They hated how it looked too small, and also how the colors clashed. Special criticism was reserved for the egg chairs. I also remember one person saying, and I quote: "They have a bar, because a bar looks hip, modern, and cool." (i.e. it has the stink of all generic G4 sets).
@@VahanNisanian gamers of 2004 who were notoriously fashion and design conscious LOL
They really streisand’d that one
@@VahanNisanian amazing lol
I wish there was a huge archive or torrent or something of old g4 content. I miss cinematech, xplay, and code monkeys.
I appreciate that the video is in 4:3, instead of 16:9 with black bars on the sides.
The black bars are due to "upscaling" the episodes in my video editor. The original application I had used for years was sold to a German company and went the way of the dodo when Apple went fully 64-bit. So what I have to use now to make videos accessible adds the black bars automatically when I export at 720p. It's either less compression with black bars and somewhat clearer video, or lots of compression at lower resolution without black bars.
I wish they released xplay as a complete series on dvd
The good ol days.
G4 has died (again) but I’m not sad bc we still have this channel!
So weird watching cable on yt… just watching g4 ads rn
I remember watching this as a kid. I sent fan mail to Adam Sessler once. He sent me back a show box filled with feces.
Ah, the good old days...
Oh man i was like 5, loved the show
How far x play has fallen... 😭
G4 died twice LOL
@@Clozof x play should be on adults swim it a good idea 💡. 😀👍🎮
and now it over for good, thnk god
@@Tw0tson you like to see things fail?
@@jamesmoss3424 I agree, but most people don't want to watch 20 year old video game reviews by Gen X has beens these days. It would be a waste of a time slot for AS.
Awesomeness video please do more thanks ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I thought it was gunna be forever 😢
Ah once upon a time, when they actually cared about gaming. Glad this exists, to show how badly they destroyed it currently.
I can’t watch. The nostalgia is just too painful. What id give to go back to 2005 for just a weekend.
Spy v spy is top tier ad
Need someone to remaster all these old episodes to make them look better?
Was the network being active slowing down your uploads or are these just in memoriam?
Either way thank you so much
I got burned out during the pandemic.
I went from uploading videos maybe once or twice a month to uploading at least one video almost every day for like 1/2 a year. In early 2020, my old iMac started slowing and nothing was functioning as I hadn't updated it in 9 years (I didn't want to lose my stuff that was not compatible). And the 90% of my archives on the new computer I got were NOT compatible, as I feared. Plus my interests in general changed, stuff in my personal life happened, and I started moving away from gaming more and more. And when my telecommuting started to end last year, that was 2-3 hours less time a day to do and keep up with things.
When G4 announced their return, I didn't know if I would receive a cease and desist request or not. Come to find out, just the opposite happened. A few people at G4 reached out and others were actually rather supportive of the channel and giving me shout-outs. But the impression I had was that, ultimately, G4 was going to start uploading older episodes and content. Reps had on their Discord had said in passing that the master tapes were in a vault, but they couldn't be accessed because of COVID. Well, almost two years later, G4 is now gone again and no one ever went into the vault. We would get some older footage spliced into some modern content, but not the way I think a lot of the longtime fans had hoped for.
The odd thing is, I started uploading and publicizing random videos on my channel a few days before. Stuff from FoxKids, old TV clips, comic book stuff. I randomly grabbed a few X-Play episodes to upload and began the conversion process. I started putting them on RUclips and a few hours later, the news that G4 was ceasing all operations hit the web. Just a very strange cosmic abnormality colliding all at once. Now a bunch of people are coming back to watch the older stuff and I have a few episodes converted as all modern G4 content no longer exists.
What is it about old G4 that makes us so nostalgic? Why couldn't the reboot have done things right?
All hail Spooie
The good ol days :(
Yeah before we realized that Morgan was well....a total b**ch
It was cringe back then too lol. Love Dororo was on this tho haha great anime
One NFL 2K5 destroys several modern Maddens.
Blood will tell for the ps2 is an fantastic game. 😀👍🎮
I miss my wife
Those low-to-the-ground chairs didn't last long. Looked really uncomfterbal.
I have nfl 2k5
Adam dork
Sudeki is one the best games in my bad videogame collection. For all its faults it hard lots of charm.
Not every game has to be technically good to be entertaining. Sudeki isn't bad, just very mediocre.
I used to work here as an editing intern. Morgan was phony as fudge.
She couldn't have been. She started at TechTV, which was known for having people who were personable and relatable. Not saying everyone who originated at G4 were/are phonies.
Any good behind the scenes stories?
Ah... back when G4 was worth a damn..
I grew up with xplay during a time where being a gamer meant you were getting verbal and physically metaphorical tomatoes thrown at you at a daily basis! Hehe I hated school! And i remember that I RAN home to watch xplay cause it felt like a place with friends, where I could belong, even if I was watching it alone! I remember being so utterly excited when I heard they were coming back... only to pay them little to no mind nowadays! Ya see, I don't want sex appeal! And i certainly I don't want games and politics to mix, as they enjoy doing lately! I just want to watch a video about a video game by gamers that love games, and aren't washed out from them or absolute bigots who just don't understand gamers or video games in the first place!
Back before I knew sessler was a left wing snowflake.
Ok
There’s many things right wings would get offended about that I could call them “snowflake”. Just call him a left wing lunatic.
@@Moonscentedhunter nah he's a snowflake.
@Roy Conestoga By your logic you are whining now. Typical snowflake mentality. Fallacious clown show.
@Roy Conestoga lmao. Welp go to the Whitehouse and have your pick.