Video Games We Love Part II: PlayStation, Saturn, N64

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of course, TfG1Mike, joining me as always, Steve

Megatron. Hello, sir. Hello. And tonight we have,

I believe, outside of the podcast approach series,

we have our second regular guest, because Mike

the Birdman is the other guest on the Star Wars

stuff. On our video games, we love part two.

We are joined by TV's Mr. Neil, the gaming hipster.

299. 299 all god damn it Mike. It's it's PlayStation

pencil understand the joke. Yes. I know look

up look up e3. What is it? 90 94. Yeah, 90. Yeah.

Yeah 299. Yeah Yes, we are going to be covering

the PlayStation, the Sega Saturn, and the N64

in this Video Games We Love Part 2. The reason

why I put them in that order is not because I

feel one is better than the others or whatever,

it's because I'm doing them chronologically.

So PlayStation came first. At least according

to the information I have. What did you guys,

let's go around the room, what did you guys first

think when you saw this back in 94? Steve, you're

the youngest of us. Why don't you go first? I

didn't know anybody that had a PlayStation at

that point. So I'd never even played a PlayStation

until the late 90s. And by then it was like,

I think somebody let me play their their classic

PlayStation. And I had basically I hated the

controller for one, but That's because I played

Nintendo and Sega before that, so. That's going

to come up way later in this discussion, too.

I guess I'm the second oldest of us here. I loved

PlayStation for me because. I was. Done. After

SNES and Genesis, I was done with Nintendo. I

was done with Sega. You can take your stupid

Z button, shove it up your... for all I care.

Because PlayStation's controller was a return

to what Nintendo and Super Nintendo controller

was, and I... was born with a mild case of cerebral

palsy. I learned to play video games one -handed.

And sorry about your luck, you can't hold a Z

button controller one -handed. It's just not

possible. I've tried. So PlayStation for me was

awesome. I loved it. My favorite franchise is

at the time when I first saw it. It was a war.

PlayStation had their own Nintendo Sega war within

themselves between Crash and Spyro because Crash

and Spyro were trying to be the mascots of that

system for the most part. First time I ever got

into the Metal Gear series with Metal Gear Solid.

Love that game. And then the Twisted Metal games.

Oh man, those are just fun. What were your memories,

Neil? Well, I had some growing pains with the

with the Sony PlayStation because I had a Saturn

first I didn't want the PlayStation wasn't really

into into polygon gaming and the Saturn had a

lot of Well, we'll get to Saturn. So I just want

to quickly Saturn had a lot of 2d games So that's

why I stuck with it, but I got to PlayStation

later when Saturn died and when the Bernie Stoller

rule was was relaxed and they started letting

awesome games on the console like Castlevania

Symphony of the Night and Lunar and Albert, no

not Albert Odyssey, god damn it, what's the other

one, Ark Glad. And a whole bunch of these like

2D games, Street Fighter Alpha 3 was really optimized

for the PlayStation. So PlayStation for me, once

it overcame like trying to be Well, it'll always

be like a polygon system But once it overcame

trying to push it super hard and allowed like

sprite based gaming back in that's when I started

to love PlayStation so I was I was into PlayStation

like 97 and through like 2001 whenever the PlayStation

2 came out extra I think was after that this

station to I think came out. Oh When did the

play? Anyway, I think I think Dreamcast was already

dead See that's the thing Sony survives and Sega

dies which kind of sucks because Like I said

for me I Genesis was my my core I had This is

a old story. I've told you guys this before I

Had a last crusade moment at Christmas at one

one year I think it was 86 87 at some point We

went into the toy store and my mom said, OK,

you can pick out your Christmas present this

year, although you're not going to get it until

Christmas or obviously whatever. It might have

been my birthday the next year. I forget. And

she's like, you can pick one or the other Nintendo

or Sega Master System. Well, I chose poorly.

He chose poorly. Right. between Reggie Jackson's

baseball and Alex the Kid and Lost Stars. Oh,

I hated the Master System. We'll get into Sega's

console design theory and I think it's pretty

much consistent from Master System all the way

to Dreamcast. So the PlayStation 2 did release...

I'm looking right at this and I can't even see

it. Good lord, I'm so blind God really it came

out in the year 2000 15 months after the dream

cast cast. Yeah, that's what I thought But yeah

for me PlayStation was like I said It was an

interesting thing. It was this new thing. It

was me coming from cartridge based gaming to

going to CD based gaming. What the hell kind

of crap was that? Not that it's a bad thing,

but it's it's it was jarring for me to go from

carts to CDs. How did you guys feel about it,

Neil? I was like, oh, these games are so much

cheaper than these expensive cartridges. Take

this any day. I mean, it was I understood that

not only. It wasn't just a cost thing. It was

like, wow, these games can be so much bigger

now because now you're not limited to like whatever

the size of the ROM is on the cartridge. Now,

you know, the whole disk can hold can hold data,

although it usually didn't, you know, because

you can only program so much. Yeah. And the sad

thing is the PlayStation classic almost looks

better than the PS1 version. Well, that's always

how it is. They get their innovation period.

I mean, for me, when when the PlayStation initially

came out, I won. I didn't know too many people

that had it. I mean, I knew more people that

had the N64 and the the Saturn at this point,

although I didn't I couldn't barely name any

of the games for the Saturn. The N64 was definitely

like the most popular of the. the ones that I

was aware of, but I also was a PC gamer, too.

And I had no consoles until the era of the GameCube.

And so at this point in time, any time I played

a console, it was when I either was hanging out

with my cousin or with friends that had all the

game systems. Yeah, it's so sad. And I know we're

going to get into Saturn in a second, but. The

games for the PlayStation for me, like I already

said, Twisted Metal, Metal Gear Solid, Crash

Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, that actually is

where, and of course I would eventually switch

over to the PC for the rest of the franchise,

but PlayStation was where I learned and learned

to love Need for Speed. That's how I got into

Need for Speed, was Need for Speed 3 Hot Pursuit.

Oh God, looking at that game today. Looking at

a lot of games today is well, I know but Especially

need for speed 3 hot pursuit you have to really

appreciate it for the time that that was made

in because I don't I'm just gonna say this now

and I need to probably cut this out for every

other podcast that I do at some point I Don't

think anybody should ask the question. Does it

hold up because it's not supposed to hold up

At least in my mind with certain things. I agree.

Well, it's not supposed to it's supposed to be

looked at in the time that it was I guess you

could you could reframe it and say did you enjoy

it? Yeah, I guess you could do that. I don't

know. I I think it's a very it's a very reasonable

question because Certain games don't hold up

or I should say certain games do hold up better

than others Like for example, I don't think I

don't think the original Tomb Raider holds up

at all. However Some games on the PlayStation

absolutely do like you mentioned Spyro Spyro

is still great to play the original the original

Tomb Raider is not and that's what that's what

people mean when they say this game hasn't aged

Well, it's because some games like like I alluded

to earlier 3D gaming was not quite ready for

prime time. There was a lot of growing pains

to go through before they before they knew how

to do it right. And in fact, there's a funny

story about the guys who are working on Bubsy

3D. They went to E3 that year. I guess it would

have been 96 and they saw Super Mario. Yes, Super

Mario 64. And the guy immediately called up his

partner. He's like, we're in trouble. Super Mario

64 still a good game. Bubsy was not. No, it was

not. All right. So I've kind of mentioned my

favorite games. The last one I will mention.

That's only because this was my teenage years.

And I only ever played the. Don't know what it

is with me in sequels But I always find the sequels

before the original game sometimes like in the

case of some of the movies that I like like catty

check 2 and that kind of stuff and For me, I

played bloody roar 2 before the original game

and I fell in love with Jenny the batted as a

14 year old guy anyway Neil what are some of

your favorite games on the PlayStation? Um I

go with Final Fantasy tech. I already mentioned

a bunch of them Final Fantasy tactics Final Fantasy

7 was okay I think it was like the first one

that I got just because it was like the new RPG

when I was finally ready to graduate from Saturn

Grandia was a really good one that I like Grandia

was Grandia started life as a Saturn game and

I was like, oh my god We're never gonna get this

game now and then you know, thank God somebody

put it on the PlayStation Um, let's see, uh,

yeah, I pretty much named like all my favorites,

uh, street fighter alpha three. It's fantastic.

Um, that was the one where you see there are

certain memory limitations on, on the, on the

PlayStation and like street fighter games were

kind of janky up until a point. And then they

decided, Hey, instead of like, uh, you know,

doing like sprite based hitboxes, why don't we

do like polygon ones and that. That was that's

what freed up a lot of memory. And that's why

that game is great. Right. I'm sure there are

more. I'm just not thinking of them. What about

you, Steve? Well, I again, I didn't own one of

these. I owned a PlayStation two used. But out

of the games that I remember playing Spyro, I

remember playing the Namco museum. Played some

Mortal Kombat with some people I worked with

a couple years later on I remember playing the

the spider -man game I think the need for speed

and I'm trying to I'm trying to remember I think

I played some of the WCW games Yeah, I remember

those advertisements. Oh man were those advertisements

over the top? Even for the time and those games

are horrible They were difficult to play and

they were just that the the graphics were just

garbage I the original Beast Wars game came out

for PC and the PlayStation and I had the PC version

and it still sucks Yeah I don't think we need

to bring Beast Wars into this too much because

anyway, I love it. Two out of the three of us

love it. So there's that. The final thing I'll

say about PlayStation before we move on to Sega

Saturn is that it lived, even though it was only

around for five, six, seven years, it had a good

lifespan. Like Neil said, some games absolutely

do still. Metal Gear Solid, that game is still

solid after all these years. And that game, oh

man, everybody was freaking out with Psycho Mantis.

Oh, you got to put the memory card in the other

slot so he doesn't see how you do your moves

and what. That was weird. Don't ever play the

Psycho Mantis stage of Metal Gear Solid in the

middle of the night. It's like watching Unsolved

Mysteries in the middle of the night. Don't do

that. I honestly hated having the the memory

card Like for not not for that game specifically

just in general for the disk based systems Yeah,

and it's so funny that Neil mentioned how bad

the original Tomb Raider was I think it was when

the second was it the first or the second game

at one point or another Yeah at one point or

another Eevee games or Babbage's or whatever

game that was in is in its past life. They had

a Full -on big boob Lara Croft memory card for

the PlayStation and I had it and I never even

played the Tomb Raider game Wow Yeah Yeah, absolutely

All right, let's get into The fastest declining

Sega system ever No, I would say there was one

after that was the fastest decline mm -hmm Okay,

yeah it the dreams of that one progressing kind

of died Yeah Yeah, it was a nightmare this section

is pretty much gonna be you guys I'll kind of

narrate it because I did not have one of these

systems This was 1995 when the Sega Saturn came

out And I was still stuck on everything we just

talked about with PlayStation. So, Neil, take

it away. Okay, really quick. Steve, what battery

did you have to constantly buy for this system?

Name the model. Okay, that joke didn't work.

It's a cr -232. That's the stupid coin battery

that you have to like constantly put the back

of the system Yeah, because it would like drain

that thing dry constantly So it's almost like

the game gear where you you could get 30 minutes

of play and then have to recharge your replace

like eight double -a batteries Well, not that

fast, but I mean like Because it had an internal

clock and like the battery would also like keep

the game saves that thing would just like It

would be like a matter of months and you'd have

to like constantly go back to like radio check

I just stocked up on them after a while and then

eventually I learned to solder in like a like

a military -grade battery So I have this big

like honking battery just like hot glued to the

top of my system and like wires running to the

back That thing's been going for like five years

hasn't run out of juice yet But that is like

the Achilles heel of the Saturn is like the battery

draining. But I love that controller and I love

the library. I was a huge Street Fighter fan

at the time. And if you wanted to play Street

Fighter at home, the Saturn was the thing to

have. Also, I believe Night Warriors, Capcom

supported the hell out of that thing. Just every

fighter that they produced was immediately on

the Saturn. you know x -men uh x -men versus

street fighter marvel superheroes it was all

on the saturn um konami would occasionally throw

something on there and then like would go right

back to playstation and that was uh that's basically

how it went and that's that was like the beginning

of the woes for saturn actually the woes for

saturn started right at launch you know when

they like went out on on the e3 floor and they're

like well we've we're You know, we said we were

going to launch it later in the year, but actually

we were launching it today and you can go out

right now and get yourself a brand new Saturn

for $3 .99. And then, you know, the, the Sony

guy goes up there and just totally wrecks them.

And that was the beginning of the end right at

the start. Um, and Saturn was, uh, it was a heartbreaking

console because it was so awesome, but it was

so badly supported. Even, even in terms of first

party support, there was no Sonic the Hedgehog

other than like a game collection, a bad port

and some, and the awful racing game. I don't

care what people say. I do not like Sonic R.

I know it's got its, it's got its defenders.

Um. I didn't even know Mega Man X3 and X4 were

supposed to be on this thing. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

I'm not sure. PlayStation got them though. Yeah.

Yeah. If you wanted like, like special, you know,

special sequences or special features in your

games, like sometimes, for example, Mega Man

8 you could have like two additional boss fights.

You didn't get any you didn't get their weapons

Of course, but you could fight wood man and cut

man in Mega Man 8 on the Saturn which you couldn't

do on the PlayStation so they would throw you

a bone every now and then but you know, it was

just such a It was it sucked because the Saturn

even though it was like this super powerful system

it falls into the trap of being Sega's it falls

into the trap of Sega's like design philosophy,

which is we're gonna make a system that is just

like pure horsepower We're gonna like put as

much things on in here to make it just put all

the memory we can in this thing We're gonna make

this thing fly and then like, you know the PlayStation

with like half the power would still kick its

ass Because it's kind of like comparing a Ferrari

to a all -terrain vehicle. It's like sure the

the The Saturn's going to beat you right out

of the gate, but once you start hitting the rough

terrain, then the PlayStation's just going to

blow right by you. Because it's like, oh, look

at these particle effects we could do on PlayStation.

Look at the source lighting we can do with polygons.

And the Saturn could do none of that. It was

just like, oh. It was everything that was wrong

with the. It was everything that was wrong with

the Genesis except their little tricks didn't

work this time. They couldn't be like, oh, we've

got blast processing. Yeah, but you can't do

half the shit that like Nintendo and Sony was

doing. But I still loved the console, had a great

controller. Well, once they decided to bring

the Japanese version of the controller over,

because I don't know if you ever saw the... the

original U S pad. It was awful. Yeah. It looks

like your cups on the, uh, on the, on the D pad.

I don't know what they were thinking, redesigning

that thing. Yeah. That thing looks, Oh God, that's

horrible. Yeah. It's a, it was a bad controller.

Uh, I had a friend who had it. I'm like, what

the hell? What happened? What happened to your

Saturn controller? Did you, did it get too close

to a fire or something? What is this? Yeah, that's

bad, and I am sorry. I am not a fan of six buttons.

Again, it's because I play video games one -handed

and four buttons is the minimum that I can do,

kind of thing, but I don't know what it is about

six -button controllers. This Sega Saturn controller,

regardless of how horrible the D -pad is, those

six buttons just don't look right. It's a Street

Fighter thing. That was totally what sold me

on it, was Street Fighter. Because if you have

shoulder buttons, Street Fighter's not nearly

as fun. Any other Sega Saturn memories? Anything

you want to say about Sega Saturn, Steve? Not

really. I wasn't really a huge fan of it. See,

that's why my that's why my battery setup didn't

work. I thought he yeah Mike kind of implied

that that that Steve had the Saturn. Um, I thought

he did Yeah, I played that one. I I I had the

the other one. Oh Yes Wow, that's really funny

folks all three of us each had well Neil probably

has them all now cuz Neil has everything but

All three of us we each had one of these systems

and not the others No, I this was the first generation

in which I had all three systems. Oh, okay. Yeah

There you go a little just looking at the games

list and the two games that stick out to me and

one is only because I remember the first the

original original game and its sequel and then

the other was like Oh really they put that on

the Saturn So the original game I was talking

about is Golden Axe and they had a Golden Axe

the duel on the Saturn. Yeah, I love the original

two Golden Axe games. One and two. And then the

other one I noticed going through the games list

was they put the video game adaptation of Space

Jam on the Saturn. Wow. Yeah, according to Wikipedia.

I mean, I'll take Wikipedia with a grain of salt,

but... See, that was still the era in which we

knew to stay away from licensed games. So if

I saw Looney Tunes characters on a Saturn or

a PlayStation disc, I just passed it right by.

I'm like, nope. Hey, there ain't nothing better

than Bugs Bunny and Crazy Castle on Game Boy.

Except everything. Hey, now. Stop it. But yeah,

anyway on to nintendont Nintendu nintendont Only

on Nintendo 64 as I mentioned earlier, I'll get

this out of the way now Playing video games one

-handed There's no way in hell like if it was

just a shooter and all I had to use was the Not

the deep the joystick and the Z button trigger,

fine, sure. But if I had to use anything else,

helm, I couldn't even play Smash Brothers. I

just watched people play Smash Brothers. I was

a freaking pro with that. Of course you were.

Well, it kind of it was funny story with that.

I'd never even I technically didn't even own

like any of these, but I had friends that had

all of them. And then I ended up owning all this

stuff later. But I became a pro with GoldenEye

and with Smash Brothers because we went to this

all night thing, a group of friends and I did,

and then we went back to the one guy's house

and crashed and we played multiple rounds of

all of them. And then I was the last man standing

because I played. I ended up playing against

the computer because I was so entirely bad at

it by the morning. I was a pro and these guys

were sleeping and my eyes were so bloodshot.

I could barely see. Wow. Neil, what are your

memories of 64? A lot of games featuring Mario

and WCW wrestlers. Mm hmm. I. I gotta say that

I'm not the biggest fan of the Nintendo 64. I

certainly had it and there are games on it that

I love but I don't know it was just such a If

you were like the ultimate Nintendo fan it was

a great system, but like if you wanted other

games it was like I guess there's this Silly

British company making games for it. If I want

to collect puzzle pieces I can do that Otherwise,

if you want RPGs, if you want actual big -name

fighting games, if you want actual genres that

you fell in love with during the Super Nintendo

era, then you also had to have a PlayStation.

It just seemed like this was the beginning of

Nintendo's philosophy of, we'll let the players

basically have our system and pick one or the

other two. To have as like a companion because

there's I don't see how like a gamer Can be satisfied

with an n64 alone. I mean like I said if you

if you just really love mario and zelda and mario

kart and Star fox and I guess she'll be okay,

but if you want other stuff, um Well, you do

have to kind of look at look at it this way nintendo

for all their their faults of doing that They're

the only victors of the old guard Yeah, that's

true. So they went with what they're good at

and ran with it and Sega was like, we're going

to be the best at everything. And then they bombed.

Yeah. Nintendo was like, look at these idiots,

like trying to make a system to run their stupid

super scalar games. We're going to have actual

polygons screw you. And we're going to make a

profit because Nintendo always sets it up so

that, so that they never, they never sell at

a loss. Unless they just really shit the bed

with something like like the virtual boy But

otherwise they never lose money even if they're

like way behind if they're like third in a generation

They'll still come out ahead on profits. So that's

Nintendo's little secret. Yeah, they stay afloat

simply by You know not having not having their

console as a loss leader, which is what the other

systems constantly do Understand is why was pilot

wings 64 thing but paperboy is just paperboy.

There's no 64 behind the paperboy name. I Don't

know. I don't know either What is funny to me

is that you know between movies and all of that

and all the sport There's so many sports games

that were out on this series between NASCAR NBA

MLB NFL And I didn't realize that any NFL Blitz

2000 was put on this system. I'm like, really?

That's Nintendo. Why would they? No. Anyway,

well, that was kind of the beginning of PlayStation

getting all that stuff anyway. But true. Yeah.

Because pretty much whatever Nintendo didn't

have, PlayStation had and Sega was just, you

know, thinking they were going to stay afloat

on their own boat, doing whatever they wanted

and nobody. really bought into it as much. So

what's your fighter? But no, like now out of

the out of the three controllers, which one was

the most painful to use after like an hour or

two of play and 64? Yeah, easily. Yeah, easily.

I was down that I that was the one thing that

I did not like about it until and I'll cover

this when we get to the GameCube stuff. But I

loved that controller. But I hated the N64 controller.

What I didn't understand is nobody could make

a peripheral that was even close to what you

could get on the Sony PlayStation. And I didn't

understand why. It's like, just put the analog

stick next to the D -pad. That's all I want.

I don't want this trident. Stop making me play

this. Well, at least they learned from it. Yeah.

It's supposed to be a tri -force, not a tri -dent.

And also the rumble pack that you had to put

batteries in. Meanwhile, over on PlayStation,

they introduced the DualShock halfway through

the generation. The system wasn't even made for

rumble and they somehow made it so that the system

itself would power the rumble motors. You had

to buy AA batteries. The rumble back on N64,

what the hell? Never understood that. Because

PlayStation had the functionality ready if they

needed it. I guess. Or they just knew how to

innovate stuff better. And obviously, as Steve

mentioned, Game Boy or GameCube is, you know,

the next generation, but I'm just looking at

this GameCube controller. It's a little better

than... Oh, it was so much more comfortable.

Oh, yeah. I preferred that for the longest time.

That was my favorite go -to controller until

the Xbox 360 controller. Oh, boy. It's going

to be fun when we talk about that part of...

Video games, but if you if you could only pick

one today based on game library and controller

Preferences, which system would you pick? Mmm

I'll go with the PlayStation which oh my god,

it hurts to say that because I love the Saturn

so much But you can buy you can buy peripherals

for the PlayStation. You could buy like normal

controllers that don't have the segmented D -pad.

You can buy a one -handed controller called the

ASCII Grip, which is amazing. It's the best controller

ever for like puzzle games and RPGs. And you

can play with like you can conceivably play with

all sorts of genres. It's awesome. You can you

can plug almost anything you want into that thing.

You can even buy adapters from other. Consoles

plug it into your PlayStation. I mean I gotta

say that like PlayStation although I hate to

say it Really came out on top In terms of like

what eventually wound up on that console. It

was like the every person's console even for

like some old sprite junkie like me What about

you Steve what would you pick If I had to choose

between these three, you know having later in

life exposure to them I would definitely go PlayStation

because just the the game library and the Innovativeness

that they had And just remembering like I mean

heck a lot of these got ported over the ps2.

Yep And so that's where I got a lot of my real

exposure to a lot of it was on the second hand

with Slightly better graphics. Yep I'm the same

way. I am definitely picking PlayStation as much

as I love Super Smash Brothers That's that's

still my favorite game like out of all of them.

Yeah, and how cool that game was that you could

basically just Blast people off the platform

that that was I was oh man That game is so fun,

but PlayStation has like you guys have already

said it has the library it has So much like I

could sit here and play Metal Gear Solid for

hours Snake is the new Mario for me personally

No, I'm saying I said new hello new I didn't

say he's replacing him what I'm saying is is

that between Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario

Bros. 3 and Super Mario World and all that. It's

like, all the time I put into those games, I

can also put into playing Metal Gear over and

over and over again. You have anything you'd

like to pimp out, Mr. Neil? Oh, well, I've got

the Gaming Hipster podcast, which is right here

on Geekcast Radio. It's also on Spotify. You

can also get deluxe versions of it on my patreon

which is patreon .com slash mr. Neal two dollars

a month you can get all sorts of wacky podcasts

you can also Go to my patreon to get like a link

to my youtube channel because my youtube channel

has a goofy URL. It's not even recitable I'm

also on twitch these days twitch .tv slash TVs

mr. Neal doing all sorts of Gaming fun. I've

got I've got a playthrough of Final Fantasy 6

going right now I've got on weekends. I'm doing

ace attorney and you know, just random stuff

on Saturdays That's about it. I don't think I

really have any other projects going at the moment.

Oh Yeah, what were you playing that? It was oh

It was lost levels. Oh God. Oh, yeah, I did I

did all five Super Mario games on the Super Nintendo

that were part of that special, uh, that special

version of All -Stars. Yeah, that had Mario World

on it and that nearly broke me. Uh, that will

be back on YouTube eventually. Uh, the Twitch

version expired. Oh, yeah. Twitch is, uh, I need

to have a larger audience for Twitch will start

archiving my stuff more regularly. That sucks.

Yeah. I understand it. Yeah, no, that's true.

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and more, be it nostalgic or current. Whether

you're a seasoned collector or a casual robot

enthusiast, all are welcome. Triple Takeover

Toycast. What was that universal greeting again?

Never mind, I remember. Ba -weep -grana -weep

-nitty -bong. Hey guys, it's Rodimus Primal and

be sure to check out my YouTube channel. Join

me as I have Transformers discussions, retrospectives,

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and roll out and be sure to check out my content

till all are one. Let's go out with a bang! Twelve

years in the making, after six Top 100 Countdowns,

the Geekcast Radio Network, along with 33 participants,

are launching our Top 100 Transformers Characters

Countdown, August 8th, 2021. 35 years after Transformers

The Movie was released. Don't be the only con

left out of this one, folks. Because, really,

whether you're a Predacon or a Decepticon, you

want to be at the top, right, Megatron? Yes.

Tune in to Geekcast Radio Network's Top 100 Transformers

Characters Countdown from August 8th through

September 17th, 2021. Six parts, six constructicons.

Learn who will fall and where they will fall

because... One always falls. Transform and transcend

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