December 3, 2024 • 23 mins
Brady and Dan give their pick for what video game reigned supreme in the 90's. Grab your PS1 or Gameboy, and take a walk down memory lane (or the Toys R Us Video Game Aisle) and enjoy the episode friends!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Number seven. This is hit Me Brady one more time.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'll look back on all things nineties and two thousands,
the movies.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh in this one time at bank Camp, the music
and the Grammy goes to Whitney, Houston, the awkwardness. Here's
your host, Brady Brosky. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back. Another
(00:34):
episode of the hit Me Brady podcast. I'm gonna time
hop to the nineties and two thousands. Each episode it's
like nostalgic porn for millennials and gen zers and some
some gen xers as well, a little bit of everything.
Do you like that? Nostalgic porn? One way to describe it.
I'm Brady radio host for nearly two decades, currently on
(00:55):
multiple formats throughout the country. Dan, name it, name a format,
us quin A pop. Yeah, I'm on the contemporary. No,
well kind of triple A. Okay, No, not not either.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I want to hear three get to work. You're not
enough stations. And there he is joining me, the best
damn family feud host out there. We got to get enough.
That's coming up your a game show episode. We should Yeah, Well,
the family feud game we play at your holiday party
is based from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The podcast. Just do a live podcast from that party.
Should It's the King of Kickball. It is devious, Dan
Ginsberg here to night, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You know from that intro the American Pie clip. You know, uh,
I'm a band camp guy myself. I think I knew that. Yes,
it don't take offense to this. It tracks yeah, the track.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So I mean you you you're very musically inclined human being.
You represent somebody that I could see would want to
get into the band at like your college when you
went to University of tryout for I can see That's
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
My my first so I was a band camp counselor
for my high school for a week every summer. In
college and a few years after my first like real
full time radio job, I was you know, producer and
like sidekick and news and sports reporter for at Z
one O four for Kanye and Fish and the first
week of vacation paid vacation time I ever earned in
(02:31):
my life. I used that week of vacation to go
be a band camp counselor for a week, and Kanye
and Fish found out about it made fun of me
relentlessly on the air. They had me bring my clarinet
into the studio.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And han clarinet huh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They had me play pop songs on my clarinet live
on the air and callers would call into like win
tickets if they could identify what song I was playing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So are you like good legit? I mean I was
pretty solid. I've I've seen you. I've seen you tickle
the ivory. Yes, your Christmas or what was that of
my lobby? It's part of my lobby? But U but yeah, okay,
I did not Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know
specifically it was clarinet or how how amazing you are?
You're gonna where is? Where is said clarinet today? Is
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home somewhere I've got home home, like your home or
like my mom in Chicago? No, no, no, my home in Chicago.
Does your clarinet have a name? Follow up question? No,
but it was my dad's. It's been passed along through
the family. We're not talking about clarinets today. We're gonna
be talking about one of your favorite topics. So this
is going to be one of those podcasts because we
talked about this before. There's gonna be some podcasts that
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you're gonna lean on me heavily because of the topic.
This is one that I know a lot about, but
more so in the early part of the nineties, definitely
the late eighties. But after that my video game knowledge
is just I just stopped playing what happened to you sports?
Like like I went, I went up, I went outside,
(04:03):
I met I started to meet girls. I think that's
kind of it was kind of that era. It took
me a while to be able to meet girls. That's right.
That's right. So we're all because I was spending my
time in bandcam and band camp, clarinet and inside video.
It's okay, it made you who you are today. There
you go. That's you're so devious. So the question I
posed to you coming into this was what is your
(04:23):
favorite We want to stick with the nineties specifically, we'll
probably do another episode about the two thousands video games,
but what was your favorite video game of the nineties?
So if you're listening right now, I want you to
think about what yours is too see if they match
up to ours. First off, what was your first gaming
system ever?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
My well, so my dad had Atari's growing up in
the eighties, So we were like early our family I
guess was early adopters of video games. But I had
major surgery as a seven year old in nineteen eighty nine,
and I got one of the first edition early game
Boy Sis, you know, the handheld, Yeah, as a gift
(05:02):
while I was recovering in the hospital. Wow, would play Tetris.
Tetris came with it, right, Tetris came with it. Yeah,
I never had a Game Boy. I never had well,
I was poor. It was very poor. That no, But
that's that's the reason why.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Really, I mean, because video games growing up and in
my household, they work. It was suspensive because they would work.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
They're like fifty bucks, which back then, back then, right,
they're sixty or seventy now. Ye, money as a whole,
it's gone up a lot more than the cost of
video It's interesting, and I feel like the I feel
like we'd have to look up how much like a
Nintendo an nes was in the eighties, but I feel
like it was one fifty two hundred bucks, which again,
(05:43):
I mean, that's what you pay for a brand new
Nintendo switch in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, that's crazy. The price of the inflation hasn't hit
the video game right system world yet, so.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know, like with a lot of technolog I mean
the same thing with like TVs. Back then we're like
fifteen hundred dollars and now they're a hundred box just
when technology.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Has gotten be done. Yeah yeah, Do you still play today?
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Did a Nintendo switch, Big Zelda guy and a lot
of sports games.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I love Fifa, Madden, Yeah, Madden Madden's my jam. We'll
get into that in a little bit. Did you get
the Nintendo magazine? Did you have a subscription? I did
have a subscription.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I once got my name in there for what for
having the second fastest time on Mario Raceway for I
think it was the Super Nintendo version of Mario Kart.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
How do they know back then? This trust?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is a great nineties topic because this just reminds
us how old we are. You had to take a
photo with a camera because there was no you weren't
photoshopping in those days. You took a photo with a
camera so you get the high score or in this case,
it's a time on a race. It displays on the screen.
You take a photo of your TV screen with the
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time on it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
On a camera.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You go get that film developed and you mail it
into the magazine the actual developed photo along with.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Like a form with like your name and stuff. Wow. Yeah,
that's a lot of work. That's a lot of steps
to get your name. Yeah. Did you win anything? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I got a golden Oh you know what it must
have been the n sixty four version of Mario Kark
because I got a golden Nintendo sixty four controller.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Not real as old. I don't think. Do you still
have that? No, those are that I don't know where
it is. It might be in my storage. I should
I gotta go through that. We have old I think
we have old Nintendo. That's where I started. I started
with regular ney s yep, late eighties. The great thing
about that was it was one of the first just
universally loved systems. Yeah. So me as a little kid
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playing if say, my aunt and uncle who were older,
came over. Like my uncle knew how to play because
he played too. It wasn't like a kit just a
kid thing, right. I mean the games were geared towards kids,
but I remember some really weren't. Mike Tyson's punch Out
and I was just I was amazed at how good
he was at that, and I was I want to
I want to continue to play video games. So that
(08:10):
was my first system. Stuck on that for a while.
Yeah yeah, because again back to the pricing of video
game systems back then, they they weren't so cost efficient
as they were now. So finally jump into Super Nintendo
got stuck there for a while. I don't know how.
It was probably a hand me down, but we had
(08:30):
a Sega Genesis for a second then yes, then after
eight system then after that, I'm basically in college with
what I think changed the game really is PlayStation one. Yep,
ye first CD, I think, yeah, the first CD. That
sounds right, yep, video game, not like there was the
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well Sega Saturn with CDs I think, which is the same.
I think that was right around the same time. Yeah,
those were both ninety five. Okay, so I do not
play anymore. I have an Xbox One. I just wow,
it just it just fell in my lap and I said, yes, okay,
since that sounds shady, but I did not steal it.
(09:13):
But I but I tried to play Madden every year.
That was the one game like even to this day.
But what I found myself doing I'm so damn busy
that I would buy the game and just never play. Yeah,
just collects dust. So so really, I I haven't played
Madden or any video games for that matter. For we're
probably talking like a couple of years since the pandemic.
I think that's time for us. We brushed it off
the old NBA NBA jams, so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh yeah, god, that was a classic. I mean, we
could do a whole separate episode on arcade games from
that decade.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Arcade games were I mean that's where I believe Street
Fighter came from.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, right there, and I mean that NBA.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I would buy that. The arcade My my, my
super hot wife would be like, get that out of here?
Where are we putting that? I'd say, get rid of
some of your shoes. So I'm gonna well, first lot
to choose from. So for my favorite nineties game ever,
I went with the route of the game I played
the most, the most time spent on a game. So
(10:12):
and I think, similar to our conversation about music, you
couldn't get more different as far as quality between nineteen
ninety and nineteen ninety nine. Right, the bits were just right.
They kept multiplying by like by two, right. I mean
that's a defining thing of the nineties.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean the technological advancements over the course of those
ten years. When you look at what we were doing
in nineteen ninety with a you know these I remember
player an Oregon Trail in elementary school and you have
to put in a floppy disc to where we were
at the end of the decade, when you had high
speed internet was coming on, Wi Fi was coming on.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It was crazy. So early nineties. I'm hard into the
original Nintendo entertainment system. So the Mega Man's the Super
Mario Brother three contra is in my opinion, that's got
to be. That's got to be on the Mount Rush.
What's the code down down left, right, left right, baba
if you're playing two people, select start, Yeah, yeah, just
one start. What did I have for breakfast today? I
don't know. Yeah, I know the contract code right. Almost
(11:09):
forty years later, So, like I said, Sega Genesis we
had for a little bit, so Sonic was kind of
kind of the move mid nineties. I get Super Nintendo,
which came with this is a Christmas present. Christmas Morning
came with Major League Baseball Presents Ken Griffy. Wow, Okay,
did you ever play that one? I did? I do
(11:30):
remember that game. What was remarkable about this game is
it was in association with Major League Baseball, but not
the players Association, So the team's were not the player team,
but you had Ken Griffy obviously he was the only player,
but the players had the stats from the year before
and looked just like the actual players. It's different names.
So I always played with the Mariners because it's Ken
(11:51):
Griffy junior. He was every kid's favorite baseball player in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's a that's a big part of the nil mess
in college sports right now because the college games did
the same thing, and now now you've got lawsuits because
those players justifiably, in my opinion, field they ought to
have a cut of all the money those games made
with their likeness decades ago.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
People are making millions off them. Yeah, so I love
that game. Like I said, PlayStation one kind of changed everything.
The sports games became more realistic, yep, more, more and
more stats were current. The ballparks were like the actual ballparks.
Love that about that. So there's a triple play was
a baseball game on PlayStation? Yeah? Play, especially, and I
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spent a lot of time with And when you're that
age and you are into video games or one video game,
Baseball's it's time consuming because it's one hundred and sixty
two games and you want to play every single game.
So spent a lot of time with that Crash bandicoot.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wait, let me ask you when you played Triple Play,
were you more managing the team or actually playing the
game both? Okay, because I know a lot of people
who were more interested in like doing the management stuff,
you know, start in a dynasty and signing players, and
they just simulate the actual games.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, I played the games. Yeah, yeah, and I would
be with you. I would start like zero to eleven, yeah,
because and then I I would change the level, like
I go down to the media to the medium, and
then I go on a winning streak. Then I go
back up and then I change it again. I just
wanted to make the playoffs, don't we all? Resident Evil
first game to actually scare the crap out of me. Yeah,
(13:25):
when that came out, that was Next Level. Metal Gear
Solid was another one, But the one game of the
entire decade that I played the most. We're going back
to the early nineties, and it was next level as well,
because it was a character that I think when you
think of video games, I think of this character. It
was for Super Nintendo and it was Super Mario World. Yeah,
(13:46):
that was the one I spent the most time with.
That was so such a classic game. I mean it's
the influences from that are still in like Mario games today,
they're just a little bit more high tech. But that
game was so good, just like a Mario in general. Yeah, yeah,
I mean with a brand.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The layout, with the with the map leading you into
each level, with hidden exits, secret exits to.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Different levels to get the different parts of the map. Yep, Yoshi.
I think we debut Yoshi.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yes, yeah, because then the sequel was Mario two, Mario
World two, Yoshi's Island.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I believe he got his own, he got his own spotlight. Yeah,
not as good a game, but but he blew up
pretty quickly. Oh yeah, that Yoshi. Yeah, he's still around today.
Game of the Year nineteen ninety one Nintendo Power Magazine.
Maybe you're in that. Maybe you're in that read that
is highest selling Super Nintendo game ever. That makes sense.
So that is that is my my favorite nineties game.
(14:38):
I based it solely on which game did I spend
the most time playing. That's fair, Yeah, that's I mean,
that's a hell of a game. Yeah, you're up.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I have a few, like quintessential gaming memories, but
maybe my most vivid one is when the Nintendo sixty
four came out. You know, I couldn't drive yet. It
was nineteen ninety six. I would have been probably fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't remember the circumstances other than that there was
a release date, and then somehow word got out that
Toys r Us was allowed to release them a couple days.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Before the release date.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So I had pre ordered it, and I get word
about this, and my mom drives me and my friend Joe,
we convince her to take us to Toys r Us.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Before you go any further, for the younger audience listening,
can you explain what Toys r Us is.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It is a toy star from the nineties. They also
sold video games. They had Kids are Us Adjacent, which
was what closed right clothes for kids.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And they had babies us accidentally made a mistake and
the well we already established that wasn't at risk for me.
For a while after that. So you're driving to Toys
r US with mom, and.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You might remember when you bought video games to Toys
r US. They didn't, I don't. I assume it was
maybe a theft thing or just the way they You'd
pick a little like piece of paper with the video game.
You'd pay with the piece of paper at the cashier,
and then you'd go back to some like warehouse looking
thing behind the cash registers where you'd exchange the piece
of paper that was just stamped that you paid for
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it for the game itself.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, so it didn't trust anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, No, probably, I mean again, we just established how
much those costs in the in that day.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So I guess it makes sense they set the standard
for Walgreens and CBS is now where they now lock
up the deodor Yeah yeah, yeah, started to toystur hustle. Okay,
So what was the game I had played? So?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I you know, so I played a lot of Mario,
played a lot of Zelda. The Nintendo sixty four came
with Super Mario sixty four.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Okay. It was the.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
First real mainstream three dimensional game. And I remember my
friend and I just sitting there like I can picture
it till this day in my parents' basement holding these controllers.
Everything up until that point that we had played was
two dimensional. It was scrolling or going up, down, left, right.
All of a sudden, you jump into the well. You're
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planted right away outside of Peach's castle and like the grass,
and you can control the camera with a stick and
you can move in any direction.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It was ground up breaking at the time. It was.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I mean, it was really the foundation for like so
many of the video game advancements we've had from ninety
six through now. So that was my quintessential memory. But
if you're but it's actually not my pick for the game.
The game is going to be what came next from that,
which is the legend of Zelda Okarina of Time. I
would say, up until some of the newer Zeldas that
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came out over the past few years, it was pretty
widely regarded the best video game of all time. Some
still might call it that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Of any system, of any game.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Ever, because it was did you ever play the original
Zelda for the old Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Original Zelda followed by Zelda two? The Adventures of Yes
that was not.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The Zelda two was a flop in my opinion the
original one. But it was amazing, But I would it
was everything reimagined from those old games in three dimensions
where you could roam this world. It kind of laid
the foundation for like true open world games that came
much later, where you could really just go anywhere and
(18:19):
do anything. But it was like there was a storyline,
There were cinematic cut scenes again, things.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We take for granted now.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
In twenty twenty four that Nintendo came up without a
thin air that we had never seen before.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I mean I just that game mesmerized me.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I mean I must have thrown over one hundred hours
into it over the course of a year or two
and was.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Just I'd keep going up, five hundred here, six.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Seven it no, But I just remember again that both
of those games Rile sixty four and Zelda Okreina.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Of Time ok Arena of Time, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Okreina being this little like flute like instrument that he
played to like you could to use it to travel time,
to change the weather. That was like the fundamental instrument.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Did you beat the game? I did beat the game.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I me having a little bit of o CD, I
want one hundred percent every game before I beat it,
so I didn't just beat it like, I needed to
find every and were these creatures called Skultolas that were
hidden and I needed to find everyone before I would
actually go and play the final boss. That's where are
hundreds of hours came from. If you were describe what
a what a scrotum, cola, what scola, scotola, sculltulla?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
What those look like?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Like a spider like with long legs that could like
spin in any direction. Now, in Zelda prior years, Zelda
was not the character. It would be Link, Yes, trying
to rescue Zelda. Yes, same same, same deal. And I
think the first real mainstream Zelda game where you could
(20:00):
play a Zelda just came out like a few months ago,
so it was always Link. Finally they finally gave Zelda.
Finally she gets her her moment after all this time.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah about damn time. Yeah, yeah, you were Link, you
were trying to fight Gannon and save Zelda. Did you
ever beat Mike Tyson? I think I did. I never did.
Did you ever have the power you remember the power pad?
I have the power pad. Hell no, we didn't have
any accessories. We're lucky to have the gun that you
that it came with duck Hunt g Yeah, well mine
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came up.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I feel like the original Nintendo, the one I got,
came with the duck Hunt gun and the power pad
for whatever, the track and field game.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Let me let me tell you something that takes away everything.
Video games are about the exercise.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No, no, although shout out wi yeah that was fine,
all the tennis and everything. Yeah, and remember they remember
the Fit we Fit Adventure during COVID. That's how everyone
was getting their exercise.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Which is that that's a horrible thing for people to
get their exercise playing Wei. Yeah, here we are. It
makes you really have to question in your life when
that's exercise. All right, I want to look up a
couple of things when we're done here. Does Nintendo Power
Magazine have now inn online version you can subscribe to?
But if it does, let me know because I would
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like to subscribe. Okay, we're going to look up that.
And also, what's the modern I guess the version of
Game Boy is it the it's a DS it's the Yeah,
that was the hottest gift probably like five years ago
because I remember my nephew being obsessed.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's still it's still the number two selling console of
all time. Really, yeah, behind the PlayStation two Nintendo Switches
quickly coming up on those, it may overtake them, but
that's your top three.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
How do you have time to do all these video
game things in twenty twenty four, Dan, that's a great question,
He's like, I don't sleep, certainly, Yeah, it's work sleep
video games. I love it. So you gotta chime in.
Let us know your favorite nineties video game. How did
we do or we way off? I feel like we
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both went in a different direction between between early nineties
versus late because when when did the Zelda ukulele come out?
Ninety six? Ninety six? Yeah, all right, that's it for
this episode of the hit Me Brady Podcast. If you're
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and we'll talk next time. You know what we forgot
to talk about today?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No fashion? Fashion? You know we're going to talk about
next time something other than fashion. No fashion? Okay, great fashion,
definitely like one hundred.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's the only reason I agreed to join you for
this was the fashion episode. So I hope we get
to it someday.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But we learned a lot about you and your band
camp in Zelda Days, Dan Ginsburg, thank you for hanging
on Instagram. Thanks for having me. Yeah, Dan G zero
four eight two and I'm at Brady Radio. We'll chat
next time.
Number seven. This is hit Me Brady one more time.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
I'll look back on all things nineties and two thousands,
the movies.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Oh in this one time at bank Camp, the music
and the Grammy goes to Whitney, Houston, the awkwardness. Here's
your host, Brady Brosky. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Welcome back. Another
(00:34):
episode of the hit Me Brady podcast. I'm gonna time
hop to the nineties and two thousands. Each episode it's
like nostalgic porn for millennials and gen zers and some
some gen xers as well, a little bit of everything.
Do you like that? Nostalgic porn? One way to describe it.
I'm Brady radio host for nearly two decades, currently on
(00:55):
multiple formats throughout the country. Dan, name it, name a format,
us quin A pop. Yeah, I'm on the contemporary. No,
well kind of triple A. Okay, No, not not either.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
I want to hear three get to work. You're not
enough stations. And there he is joining me, the best
damn family feud host out there. We got to get enough.
That's coming up your a game show episode. We should Yeah, Well,
the family feud game we play at your holiday party
is based from the nineties.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It is.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
The podcast. Just do a live podcast from that party.
Should It's the King of Kickball. It is devious, Dan
Ginsberg here to night, Welcome, Welcome.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
You know from that intro the American Pie clip. You know, uh,
I'm a band camp guy myself. I think I knew that. Yes,
it don't take offense to this. It tracks yeah, the track.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
So I mean you you you're very musically inclined human being.
You represent somebody that I could see would want to
get into the band at like your college when you
went to University of tryout for I can see That's
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
My my first so I was a band camp counselor
for my high school for a week every summer. In
college and a few years after my first like real
full time radio job, I was you know, producer and
like sidekick and news and sports reporter for at Z
one O four for Kanye and Fish and the first
week of vacation paid vacation time I ever earned in
(02:31):
my life. I used that week of vacation to go
be a band camp counselor for a week, and Kanye
and Fish found out about it made fun of me
relentlessly on the air. They had me bring my clarinet
into the studio.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
And han clarinet huh yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
They had me play pop songs on my clarinet live
on the air and callers would call into like win
tickets if they could identify what song I was playing.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
So are you like good legit? I mean I was
pretty solid. I've I've seen you. I've seen you tickle
the ivory. Yes, your Christmas or what was that of
my lobby? It's part of my lobby? But U but yeah, okay,
I did not Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know
specifically it was clarinet or how how amazing you are?
You're gonna where is? Where is said clarinet today? Is
(03:17):
home somewhere I've got home home, like your home or
like my mom in Chicago? No, no, no, my home in Chicago.
Does your clarinet have a name? Follow up question? No,
but it was my dad's. It's been passed along through
the family. We're not talking about clarinets today. We're gonna
be talking about one of your favorite topics. So this
is going to be one of those podcasts because we
talked about this before. There's gonna be some podcasts that
(03:39):
you're gonna lean on me heavily because of the topic.
This is one that I know a lot about, but
more so in the early part of the nineties, definitely
the late eighties. But after that my video game knowledge
is just I just stopped playing what happened to you sports?
Like like I went, I went up, I went outside,
(04:03):
I met I started to meet girls. I think that's
kind of it was kind of that era. It took
me a while to be able to meet girls. That's right.
That's right. So we're all because I was spending my
time in bandcam and band camp, clarinet and inside video.
It's okay, it made you who you are today. There
you go. That's you're so devious. So the question I
posed to you coming into this was what is your
(04:23):
favorite We want to stick with the nineties specifically, we'll
probably do another episode about the two thousands video games,
but what was your favorite video game of the nineties?
So if you're listening right now, I want you to
think about what yours is too see if they match
up to ours. First off, what was your first gaming
system ever?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
My well, so my dad had Atari's growing up in
the eighties, So we were like early our family I
guess was early adopters of video games. But I had
major surgery as a seven year old in nineteen eighty nine,
and I got one of the first edition early game
Boy Sis, you know, the handheld, Yeah, as a gift
(05:02):
while I was recovering in the hospital. Wow, would play Tetris.
Tetris came with it, right, Tetris came with it. Yeah,
I never had a Game Boy. I never had well,
I was poor. It was very poor. That no, But
that's that's the reason why.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Really, I mean, because video games growing up and in
my household, they work. It was suspensive because they would work.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
They're like fifty bucks, which back then, back then, right,
they're sixty or seventy now. Ye, money as a whole,
it's gone up a lot more than the cost of
video It's interesting, and I feel like the I feel
like we'd have to look up how much like a
Nintendo an nes was in the eighties, but I feel
like it was one fifty two hundred bucks, which again,
(05:43):
I mean, that's what you pay for a brand new
Nintendo switch in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
Yeah, that's crazy. The price of the inflation hasn't hit
the video game right system world yet, so.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
You know, like with a lot of technolog I mean
the same thing with like TVs. Back then we're like
fifteen hundred dollars and now they're a hundred box just
when technology.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Has gotten be done. Yeah yeah, Do you still play today?
Oh yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Did a Nintendo switch, Big Zelda guy and a lot
of sports games.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
I love Fifa, Madden, Yeah, Madden Madden's my jam. We'll
get into that in a little bit. Did you get
the Nintendo magazine? Did you have a subscription? I did
have a subscription.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
I once got my name in there for what for
having the second fastest time on Mario Raceway for I
think it was the Super Nintendo version of Mario Kart.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
How do they know back then? This trust?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
This is a great nineties topic because this just reminds
us how old we are. You had to take a
photo with a camera because there was no you weren't
photoshopping in those days. You took a photo with a
camera so you get the high score or in this case,
it's a time on a race. It displays on the screen.
You take a photo of your TV screen with the
(06:58):
time on it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
On a camera.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
You go get that film developed and you mail it
into the magazine the actual developed photo along with.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Like a form with like your name and stuff. Wow. Yeah,
that's a lot of work. That's a lot of steps
to get your name. Yeah. Did you win anything? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
I got a golden Oh you know what it must
have been the n sixty four version of Mario Kark
because I got a golden Nintendo sixty four controller.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Not real as old. I don't think. Do you still
have that? No, those are that I don't know where
it is. It might be in my storage. I should
I gotta go through that. We have old I think
we have old Nintendo. That's where I started. I started
with regular ney s yep, late eighties. The great thing
about that was it was one of the first just
universally loved systems. Yeah. So me as a little kid
(07:49):
playing if say, my aunt and uncle who were older,
came over. Like my uncle knew how to play because
he played too. It wasn't like a kit just a
kid thing, right. I mean the games were geared towards kids,
but I remember some really weren't. Mike Tyson's punch Out
and I was just I was amazed at how good
he was at that, and I was I want to
I want to continue to play video games. So that
(08:10):
was my first system. Stuck on that for a while.
Yeah yeah, because again back to the pricing of video
game systems back then, they they weren't so cost efficient
as they were now. So finally jump into Super Nintendo
got stuck there for a while. I don't know how.
It was probably a hand me down, but we had
(08:30):
a Sega Genesis for a second then yes, then after
eight system then after that, I'm basically in college with
what I think changed the game really is PlayStation one. Yep,
ye first CD, I think, yeah, the first CD. That
sounds right, yep, video game, not like there was the
(08:52):
well Sega Saturn with CDs I think, which is the same.
I think that was right around the same time. Yeah,
those were both ninety five. Okay, so I do not
play anymore. I have an Xbox One. I just wow,
it just it just fell in my lap and I said, yes, okay,
since that sounds shady, but I did not steal it.
(09:13):
But I but I tried to play Madden every year.
That was the one game like even to this day.
But what I found myself doing I'm so damn busy
that I would buy the game and just never play. Yeah,
just collects dust. So so really, I I haven't played
Madden or any video games for that matter. For we're
probably talking like a couple of years since the pandemic.
I think that's time for us. We brushed it off
the old NBA NBA jams, so.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh yeah, god, that was a classic. I mean, we
could do a whole separate episode on arcade games from
that decade.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Arcade games were I mean that's where I believe Street
Fighter came from.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, right there, and I mean that NBA.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Yeah, I would buy that. The arcade My my, my
super hot wife would be like, get that out of here?
Where are we putting that? I'd say, get rid of
some of your shoes. So I'm gonna well, first lot
to choose from. So for my favorite nineties game ever,
I went with the route of the game I played
the most, the most time spent on a game. So
(10:12):
and I think, similar to our conversation about music, you
couldn't get more different as far as quality between nineteen
ninety and nineteen ninety nine. Right, the bits were just right.
They kept multiplying by like by two, right. I mean
that's a defining thing of the nineties.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I mean the technological advancements over the course of those
ten years. When you look at what we were doing
in nineteen ninety with a you know these I remember
player an Oregon Trail in elementary school and you have
to put in a floppy disc to where we were
at the end of the decade, when you had high
speed internet was coming on, Wi Fi was coming on.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
It was crazy. So early nineties. I'm hard into the
original Nintendo entertainment system. So the Mega Man's the Super
Mario Brother three contra is in my opinion, that's got
to be. That's got to be on the Mount Rush.
What's the code down down left, right, left right, baba
if you're playing two people, select start, Yeah, yeah, just
one start. What did I have for breakfast today? I
don't know. Yeah, I know the contract code right. Almost
(11:09):
forty years later, So, like I said, Sega Genesis we
had for a little bit, so Sonic was kind of
kind of the move mid nineties. I get Super Nintendo,
which came with this is a Christmas present. Christmas Morning
came with Major League Baseball Presents Ken Griffy. Wow, Okay,
did you ever play that one? I did? I do
(11:30):
remember that game. What was remarkable about this game is
it was in association with Major League Baseball, but not
the players Association, So the team's were not the player team,
but you had Ken Griffy obviously he was the only player,
but the players had the stats from the year before
and looked just like the actual players. It's different names.
So I always played with the Mariners because it's Ken
(11:51):
Griffy junior. He was every kid's favorite baseball player in
the nineties.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
That's a that's a big part of the nil mess
in college sports right now because the college games did
the same thing, and now now you've got lawsuits because
those players justifiably, in my opinion, field they ought to
have a cut of all the money those games made
with their likeness decades ago.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
People are making millions off them. Yeah, so I love
that game. Like I said, PlayStation one kind of changed everything.
The sports games became more realistic, yep, more, more and
more stats were current. The ballparks were like the actual ballparks.
Love that about that. So there's a triple play was
a baseball game on PlayStation? Yeah? Play, especially, and I
(12:32):
spent a lot of time with And when you're that
age and you are into video games or one video game,
Baseball's it's time consuming because it's one hundred and sixty
two games and you want to play every single game.
So spent a lot of time with that Crash bandicoot.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Wait, let me ask you when you played Triple Play,
were you more managing the team or actually playing the
game both? Okay, because I know a lot of people
who were more interested in like doing the management stuff,
you know, start in a dynasty and signing players, and
they just simulate the actual games.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
No, I played the games. Yeah, yeah, and I would
be with you. I would start like zero to eleven, yeah,
because and then I I would change the level, like
I go down to the media to the medium, and
then I go on a winning streak. Then I go
back up and then I change it again. I just
wanted to make the playoffs, don't we all? Resident Evil
first game to actually scare the crap out of me. Yeah,
(13:25):
when that came out, that was Next Level. Metal Gear
Solid was another one, But the one game of the
entire decade that I played the most. We're going back
to the early nineties, and it was next level as well,
because it was a character that I think when you
think of video games, I think of this character. It
was for Super Nintendo and it was Super Mario World. Yeah,
(13:46):
that was the one I spent the most time with.
That was so such a classic game. I mean it's
the influences from that are still in like Mario games today,
they're just a little bit more high tech. But that
game was so good, just like a Mario in general. Yeah, yeah,
I mean with a brand.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
The layout, with the with the map leading you into
each level, with hidden exits, secret exits to.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Different levels to get the different parts of the map. Yep, Yoshi.
I think we debut Yoshi.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yes, yeah, because then the sequel was Mario two, Mario
World two, Yoshi's Island.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
I believe he got his own, he got his own spotlight. Yeah,
not as good a game, but but he blew up
pretty quickly. Oh yeah, that Yoshi. Yeah, he's still around today.
Game of the Year nineteen ninety one Nintendo Power Magazine.
Maybe you're in that. Maybe you're in that read that
is highest selling Super Nintendo game ever. That makes sense.
So that is that is my my favorite nineties game.
(14:38):
I based it solely on which game did I spend
the most time playing. That's fair, Yeah, that's I mean,
that's a hell of a game. Yeah, you're up.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
So I have a few, like quintessential gaming memories, but
maybe my most vivid one is when the Nintendo sixty
four came out. You know, I couldn't drive yet. It
was nineteen ninety six. I would have been probably fourteen.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
I don't remember the circumstances other than that there was
a release date, and then somehow word got out that
Toys r Us was allowed to release them a couple days.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
Before the release date.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So I had pre ordered it, and I get word
about this, and my mom drives me and my friend Joe,
we convince her to take us to Toys r Us.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
Before you go any further, for the younger audience listening,
can you explain what Toys r Us is.
Speaker 2 (15:29):
It is a toy star from the nineties. They also
sold video games. They had Kids are Us Adjacent, which
was what closed right clothes for kids.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And they had babies us accidentally made a mistake and
the well we already established that wasn't at risk for me.
For a while after that. So you're driving to Toys
r US with mom, and.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You might remember when you bought video games to Toys
r US. They didn't, I don't. I assume it was
maybe a theft thing or just the way they You'd
pick a little like piece of paper with the video game.
You'd pay with the piece of paper at the cashier,
and then you'd go back to some like warehouse looking
thing behind the cash registers where you'd exchange the piece
of paper that was just stamped that you paid for
(16:11):
it for the game itself.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
Yes, so it didn't trust anybody.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
No, No, probably, I mean again, we just established how
much those costs in the in that day.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
So I guess it makes sense they set the standard
for Walgreens and CBS is now where they now lock
up the deodor Yeah yeah, yeah, started to toystur hustle. Okay,
So what was the game I had played? So?
Speaker 2 (16:31):
I you know, so I played a lot of Mario,
played a lot of Zelda. The Nintendo sixty four came
with Super Mario sixty four.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
Okay. It was the.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
First real mainstream three dimensional game. And I remember my
friend and I just sitting there like I can picture
it till this day in my parents' basement holding these controllers.
Everything up until that point that we had played was
two dimensional. It was scrolling or going up, down, left, right.
All of a sudden, you jump into the well. You're
(17:00):
planted right away outside of Peach's castle and like the grass,
and you can control the camera with a stick and
you can move in any direction.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
It was ground up breaking at the time. It was.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
I mean, it was really the foundation for like so
many of the video game advancements we've had from ninety
six through now. So that was my quintessential memory. But
if you're but it's actually not my pick for the game.
The game is going to be what came next from that,
which is the legend of Zelda Okarina of Time. I
would say, up until some of the newer Zeldas that
(17:37):
came out over the past few years, it was pretty
widely regarded the best video game of all time. Some
still might call it that.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Of any system, of any game.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Ever, because it was did you ever play the original
Zelda for the old Nintendo.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Original Zelda followed by Zelda two? The Adventures of Yes
that was not.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
The Zelda two was a flop in my opinion the
original one. But it was amazing, But I would it
was everything reimagined from those old games in three dimensions
where you could roam this world. It kind of laid
the foundation for like true open world games that came
much later, where you could really just go anywhere and
(18:19):
do anything. But it was like there was a storyline,
There were cinematic cut scenes again, things.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
We take for granted now.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
In twenty twenty four that Nintendo came up without a
thin air that we had never seen before.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
And I mean I just that game mesmerized me.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
I mean I must have thrown over one hundred hours
into it over the course of a year or two
and was.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Just I'd keep going up, five hundred here, six.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
Seven it no, But I just remember again that both
of those games Rile sixty four and Zelda Okreina.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
Of Time ok Arena of Time, Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Okreina being this little like flute like instrument that he
played to like you could to use it to travel time,
to change the weather. That was like the fundamental instrument.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
Did you beat the game? I did beat the game.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I me having a little bit of o CD, I
want one hundred percent every game before I beat it,
so I didn't just beat it like, I needed to
find every and were these creatures called Skultolas that were
hidden and I needed to find everyone before I would
actually go and play the final boss. That's where are
hundreds of hours came from. If you were describe what
a what a scrotum, cola, what scola, scotola, sculltulla?
Speaker 1 (19:35):
What those look like?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Like a spider like with long legs that could like
spin in any direction. Now, in Zelda prior years, Zelda
was not the character. It would be Link, Yes, trying
to rescue Zelda. Yes, same same, same deal. And I
think the first real mainstream Zelda game where you could
(20:00):
play a Zelda just came out like a few months ago,
so it was always Link. Finally they finally gave Zelda.
Finally she gets her her moment after all this time.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
Yeah about damn time. Yeah, yeah, you were Link, you
were trying to fight Gannon and save Zelda. Did you
ever beat Mike Tyson? I think I did. I never did.
Did you ever have the power you remember the power pad?
I have the power pad. Hell no, we didn't have
any accessories. We're lucky to have the gun that you
that it came with duck Hunt g Yeah, well mine
(20:29):
came up.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
I feel like the original Nintendo, the one I got,
came with the duck Hunt gun and the power pad
for whatever, the track and field game.
Speaker 1 (20:36):
Let me let me tell you something that takes away everything.
Video games are about the exercise.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
No, no, although shout out wi yeah that was fine,
all the tennis and everything. Yeah, and remember they remember
the Fit we Fit Adventure during COVID. That's how everyone
was getting their exercise.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
Which is that that's a horrible thing for people to
get their exercise playing Wei. Yeah, here we are. It
makes you really have to question in your life when
that's exercise. All right, I want to look up a
couple of things when we're done here. Does Nintendo Power
Magazine have now inn online version you can subscribe to?
But if it does, let me know because I would
(21:14):
like to subscribe. Okay, we're going to look up that.
And also, what's the modern I guess the version of
Game Boy is it the it's a DS it's the Yeah,
that was the hottest gift probably like five years ago
because I remember my nephew being obsessed.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
It's still it's still the number two selling console of
all time. Really, yeah, behind the PlayStation two Nintendo Switches
quickly coming up on those, it may overtake them, but
that's your top three.
Speaker 1 (21:47):
How do you have time to do all these video
game things in twenty twenty four, Dan, that's a great question,
He's like, I don't sleep, certainly, Yeah, it's work sleep
video games. I love it. So you gotta chime in.
Let us know your favorite nineties video game. How did
we do or we way off? I feel like we
(22:08):
both went in a different direction between between early nineties
versus late because when when did the Zelda ukulele come out?
Ninety six? Ninety six? Yeah, all right, that's it for
this episode of the hit Me Brady Podcast. If you're
loving what you're hearing, do all the things like share, follow, subscribe,
(22:29):
and we'll talk next time. You know what we forgot
to talk about today?
Speaker 2 (22:32):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:32):
No fashion? Fashion? You know we're going to talk about
next time something other than fashion. No fashion? Okay, great fashion,
definitely like one hundred.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
That's the only reason I agreed to join you for
this was the fashion episode. So I hope we get
to it someday.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
But we learned a lot about you and your band
camp in Zelda Days, Dan Ginsburg, thank you for hanging
on Instagram. Thanks for having me. Yeah, Dan G zero
four eight two and I'm at Brady Radio. We'll chat
next time.
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