Insanely fun video. These E3 announcement recap videos kinda feel like a highlight trailer for your future work. It also puts me back there and it reminds me why 2002 felt so exciting for video games. I love your comparison of the "Emperor showing up naked" about Nintendo being there without much to offer with online. The info and the conjecture you produce is great stuff. (I speak from experience as an off and on game journalist)
I've been binging your stuff all week after PandaMonium recommended your videos on his Patreon (and my friend mentioned wishing someone did what he does for Saturn games, but for GameCube games). Your work is quite excellent. I feel extra-attached as this was around the time I was checking the videogame websites every day and kept up with the news. Especially with the older E3s, it's fun to see games in earlier states and see what they became, or what could've been. I remember that price drop too. $200 was when little kid me was "OK" with saving up for a PS2, so when that news dropped, it was ON. Lo and behold, I got a GameCube that same year too. I'm excited to see more of your work! Keep it up! P.S. I added that song to my Spotify playlist. Way too catchy!
Thank you so much! Love to hear word of mouth came from someone I hold in as high regard as Pandamonium! And also glad to hear a new Sub-Radio fan has been made!
Great summary of where we were at that year! I was mainly playing PC games or enjoying my Dreamcast backlog (games were going cheap) so it would be another year before I fell all in on the gamecube - but I was watching and suddenly the console went from a novelty some of my friends had to something very exciting
21:08 And then almost a decade later he tried that again with Skyward Sword and it went horrendously, lol. Also $35 for a “more expensive” controller… I miss those low prices, lol.
Insanely fun video. These E3 announcement recap videos kinda feel like a highlight trailer for your future work. It also puts me back there and it reminds me why 2002 felt so exciting for video games. I love your comparison of the "Emperor showing up naked" about Nintendo being there without much to offer with online. The info and the conjecture you produce is great stuff. (I speak from experience as an off and on game journalist)
I've been binging your stuff all week after PandaMonium recommended your videos on his Patreon (and my friend mentioned wishing someone did what he does for Saturn games, but for GameCube games). Your work is quite excellent.
I feel extra-attached as this was around the time I was checking the videogame websites every day and kept up with the news. Especially with the older E3s, it's fun to see games in earlier states and see what they became, or what could've been.
I remember that price drop too. $200 was when little kid me was "OK" with saving up for a PS2, so when that news dropped, it was ON. Lo and behold, I got a GameCube that same year too.
I'm excited to see more of your work! Keep it up!
P.S. I added that song to my Spotify playlist. Way too catchy!
Thank you so much! Love to hear word of mouth came from someone I hold in as high regard as Pandamonium! And also glad to hear a new Sub-Radio fan has been made!
Fun episode! I remember reports from that E3 in magazines!
Great summary of where we were at that year!
I was mainly playing PC games or enjoying my Dreamcast backlog (games were going cheap) so it would be another year before I fell all in on the gamecube - but I was watching and suddenly the console went from a novelty some of my friends had to something very exciting
I was also still enjoying the glut of Dreamcast clearance for most of 2002. My GameCube wouldn’t arrive until Xmas that year!
25:20 The PS2 going nuts, haha.
21:08 And then almost a decade later he tried that again with Skyward Sword and it went horrendously, lol.
Also $35 for a “more expensive” controller… I miss those low prices, lol.
I'm going to wait for SpongeBob or Pokemon