Tony Hawk's Pro Skater came out September 29, 1999. Hawk landed the 900 on June 27, 1999 (watched it live). THPS on the PS1 does have the 900 its Right, Down, O. What's crazy about it is soon after Tony Hawk landed the 900 he called Neversoft up and told them what happened and how it needed to be in the game. The game had gone gold or was very near to going gold and Neversoft said "Don't worry about it, we got it." and squeezed it into the game at the last moment.
Great video! In my childhood I was a Nintendo FunClub then Nintendo Power, and eventually an EGM subscriber. I occasionally read GamePro but that was mostly it. I did read Game Informer for a bit too, but mostly because I got them for free when I worked for Funcoland. I really enjoy let's read videos on the mags I did read for the nostalgia, and others like ExpertGamers to see what I missed out on.
RUclipsr "Whang!" did a video on the Ultimate Gaming Rig contest. "Who Won the Ultimate Gaming Rig? - Gaming Mysteries" is the title, pretty good dive into that scam.
23:35 Sega blacklisted their own first party Japanese Dreamcast light gun in House of the Dead 2 so the gun doesn't work in the North American version of the game. The game still supported light guns, you just had to use a third party one because of the blacklisting (and Sega not releasing their first party gun in North America anyway). The "official" light gun for the Dreamcast in North America was from Mad Catz. I believe it was the only third party light gun licensed by Sega, which made it de facto "official" and people confused it for being the same gun as the first party Sega light gun (the same way people keep confusing the Xbox Series Expansion Cards from Seagate and WD to be first party peripherals from Microsoft, when they are really licensed products from third parties and there was never any Microsoft branded Expansion Cards for the Xbox Series).
The look backs are always worth it. Your love for Gran Turismo definitely shows, and it was a good balance of games that ExpertGamer covered. Dreamcast ads were disappointing but I could see what they were trying.
This video is just what I need during a trying time in life, it is good to be reminded of these classic magazines and what they meant to me growing up.
45:25 id like to correct this. GT1 was all on one disc, but came in a double-stacked jewel case to fit the extra manual. GT2 was the only one in the series to come on two discs until the PS4 version of GT7, which comes with an install disc and a play disc. also, that story about winning the contest on Trial Mountain was REALLY cool. do you remember what the car was? obviously they would have had you all driving in the same car to keep things fair, right?
Right, my bad! I honestly don't remember what car it was, sorry. But yeah we all had to use the same car. I wonder if there was a one-lap trial in the game itself that they were using for the contest. I should check that out.
Pretty sure I saw the exact same guide for GT2, including the screenshots, in the Greek version of the official Playstation magazine, although I don't remember which issue number it was, but I do remember it was a special issue featuring only racing game guides.
That's fascinating! I'd love to see a scan of that but not sure where to find that online. I know that Ziff Davis had content deals with sister magazines in other parts of the world. I remember seeing translations of some of our reviews in EGM Brasil (I think that's where it was, anyway), so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some Expert Gamer content may have been reprinted in other countries as well.
You asked if any of those Dukes of Hazzard cast members were still alive. The one who was most recently in the news wasn't actually in the cast liat for the game you read out. Bo Duke's actor apparently didn't have time to be in that game back then, but he recently had time to tweet out a death threat on the US president. He also married Paul Sorvino's widow so is in a weird way (not actually) Mira Sorvino' stepdad.
The trouble with the Roguelike/Roguelike debate is that no one really seems to agree on where the line is. Does it need to be turn-based? Does it need ASCII graphics? Does it need permadeath? Personally, I kinda like the idea of "Roguelike Mechanics" rather than getting bogged down in semantics. Kinda like how tons of games have "RPG Progression Systems" in them without strictly being Role Playing Games.
I wasn't listening closely enough and initially misheard the Todd Zuniga part about pink hair and kissing strange women as being about Todd Howard and thought I was getting some crazy new gossip.
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater came out September 29, 1999. Hawk landed the 900 on June 27, 1999 (watched it live). THPS on the PS1 does have the 900 its Right, Down, O. What's crazy about it is soon after Tony Hawk landed the 900 he called Neversoft up and told them what happened and how it needed to be in the game. The game had gone gold or was very near to going gold and Neversoft said "Don't worry about it, we got it." and squeezed it into the game at the last moment.
Very cool bit of info. Thanks!
Great video! In my childhood I was a Nintendo FunClub then Nintendo Power, and eventually an EGM subscriber. I occasionally read GamePro but that was mostly it. I did read Game Informer for a bit too, but mostly because I got them for free when I worked for Funcoland. I really enjoy let's read videos on the mags I did read for the nostalgia, and others like ExpertGamers to see what I missed out on.
Thanks!
RUclipsr "Whang!" did a video on the Ultimate Gaming Rig contest. "Who Won the Ultimate Gaming Rig? - Gaming Mysteries" is the title, pretty good dive into that scam.
23:35 Sega blacklisted their own first party Japanese Dreamcast light gun in House of the Dead 2 so the gun doesn't work in the North American version of the game. The game still supported light guns, you just had to use a third party one because of the blacklisting (and Sega not releasing their first party gun in North America anyway). The "official" light gun for the Dreamcast in North America was from Mad Catz. I believe it was the only third party light gun licensed by Sega, which made it de facto "official" and people confused it for being the same gun as the first party Sega light gun (the same way people keep confusing the Xbox Series Expansion Cards from Seagate and WD to be first party peripherals from Microsoft, when they are really licensed products from third parties and there was never any Microsoft branded Expansion Cards for the Xbox Series).
This person light guns. Thank you for this explanation!
The look backs are always worth it. Your love for Gran Turismo definitely shows, and it was a good balance of games that ExpertGamer covered. Dreamcast ads were disappointing but I could see what they were trying.
There is such a wealth of info in this series, thanks for this.
Glad you're enjoying it!
good old days, 90 and 00 is really the video game golden age
Definitely where most of my nostalgia lies!
This video is just what I need during a trying time in life, it is good to be reminded of these classic magazines and what they meant to me growing up.
Sorry to hear that, but glad this video could give you a bit of joy. I'm hard at work on Expert Gamer 69!
@@sewart I'm very excited for that video, and thank you.
45:25 id like to correct this. GT1 was all on one disc, but came in a double-stacked jewel case to fit the extra manual. GT2 was the only one in the series to come on two discs until the PS4 version of GT7, which comes with an install disc and a play disc.
also, that story about winning the contest on Trial Mountain was REALLY cool. do you remember what the car was? obviously they would have had you all driving in the same car to keep things fair, right?
Right, my bad!
I honestly don't remember what car it was, sorry. But yeah we all had to use the same car. I wonder if there was a one-lap trial in the game itself that they were using for the contest. I should check that out.
Pretty sure I saw the exact same guide for GT2, including the screenshots, in the Greek version of the official Playstation magazine, although I don't remember which issue number it was, but I do remember it was a special issue featuring only racing game guides.
That's fascinating! I'd love to see a scan of that but not sure where to find that online. I know that Ziff Davis had content deals with sister magazines in other parts of the world. I remember seeing translations of some of our reviews in EGM Brasil (I think that's where it was, anyway), so it wouldn't surprise me to learn that some Expert Gamer content may have been reprinted in other countries as well.
You asked if any of those Dukes of Hazzard cast members were still alive. The one who was most recently in the news wasn't actually in the cast liat for the game you read out. Bo Duke's actor apparently didn't have time to be in that game back then, but he recently had time to tweet out a death threat on the US president. He also married Paul Sorvino's widow so is in a weird way (not actually) Mira Sorvino' stepdad.
The trouble with the Roguelike/Roguelike debate is that no one really seems to agree on where the line is. Does it need to be turn-based? Does it need ASCII graphics? Does it need permadeath?
Personally, I kinda like the idea of "Roguelike Mechanics" rather than getting bogged down in semantics. Kinda like how tons of games have "RPG Progression Systems" in them without strictly being Role Playing Games.
I wasn't listening closely enough and initially misheard the Todd Zuniga part about pink hair and kissing strange women as being about Todd Howard and thought I was getting some crazy new gossip.
Seems like very few people have anything resembling a proper stereo now. It's all bluetooth speakers that are ok but badly overpriced