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Episode 667: Gaming in the Year 2005

🕑 Added 2025-01-24 08:00:07 +0000 UTC

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Randy Beekler

Thank you Bob! MK64 is a big dose of nostalgia that people seem to champion blindly. The game being worse than you think does not mean you were wrong to love it as a younger person! Two things can be true: the game was average AND you had a ton of fun with your friends.

Dave Caffrey

I had never heard it before but it was one those songs that hit you like a ton of bricks. Can't explain why.

Stephan Jive Turkey Kuwabara

Thank you Bob! It was bugging me too, it was super familiar, but I couldn't quite place it.

Michael Castleberry

I'm so glad we've mostly moved passed the "angry" YouTuber trend. It got a passing mention, but Jade Empire is a phenomenal game, and probably BioWare's most underrated and unique action RPG.

CitizenMeh

This was in the midst of the beige era of gaming, which explains why I got so much into 16-bit emulation back then. Don't think I bought a single new game that year...

Kellen Taman

I miss EA’s MVP Baseball, they were the best MLB games.

PosiVibez4evr

18 in ‘05 Stopped playing video games for 10 years starting around this time Didn’t come back till the 3DS era Great hearing coverage of a time I was out of the hobby thank you

Wood Duck

As someone who was 16 in 2005 I really appreciate hearing from the elders what it was like being an "adult" at the time! Personal core memories include playing through Half Life 2 on ultra low on the family Dell machine, using an MP3 discman with CDRWs as an MP3 player (to listen to game music and OCRemixes like a huge nerd) and playing a lot of LAN Halo 2 with the neighbouring kids as our houses shared a network! Oh and can't forget being a raging Stan for Battalion Wars, following every scrap I could in the build up to release then adopting a military punk aesthetic for my cringe teenage fashion style!

Stephen Maurer

Great episode! One small correction: That hostile Peter Moore interview was with Dan Hsu, not Jeff Gerstmann.

J.P. McD.

20 years ago this month I was busy playing REmake (and kindly requesting my sister stay in the living room with me while I played late at night), wanting to play all the prequels before RE4.

Brian Clark

Great iPod Nano callout in the show's intro. A 1st gen iPod Nano was what I listened to the very first episode of Retronauts on back in the day.

Rasheen Jordan

Condemned was good

Dave Dalrymple

Honestly, I don't blame EA or Activision for running Rock Band and Guitar Hero (respectively) into the ground with their bimonthly track packs and sequels. The fad was always going to die out in the early 2010s. I'm more mad at myself for getting rid of my Rock Band peripherals so lightly in 2016.

Dave Caffrey

Thanks Bob!

Normallyretro

It certainly was a grayish brownish time

Andrew O.

I must've been 19. I remember cashing my paycheck and thinking I had enough money to splurge on a $20 game. I get to Gamestop, shuffle through my cash, and I realize I had an extra $20. (Two bills were barely linked together by a mangled staple! Bank error in my favor!) Thankfully, first-party PS2 games were $40, so I bought Shadow of the Colossus. I was hooked and beat it within 24 hours. Good times.