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Speaker 1: It's ready. Are you get in touch with technology? With

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Speaker 1: tech stuff from how stuff works dot com. Hi there,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the podcast. Today. We're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: the best video games never made. I'm a writer here

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Speaker 1: at hell Stuff Works. My name is Jonathan Dreamcast Strick, London,

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Speaker 1: with me as editor Chris Colliko Vision Palette, and uh,

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Speaker 1: we're experts on things that have never been made or

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Speaker 1: were started and then abandoned. And um. The article that

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Speaker 1: I wrote mentioned several video games that fizzled out and development,

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Speaker 1: but we're going to talk about some other ones as

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Speaker 1: well as some video games that may not have even

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Speaker 1: been thought about by anyone other than ourselves. At this point,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to throw this over to Chris. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: give us get us started here, So Chris, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 1: as as Jonathan is so happily pointed out, I am

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Speaker 1: a fan of systems that are no longer invoked. So

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Speaker 1: I think my favor it would be a civilization too

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Speaker 1: for the Amiga, which we're still waiting for those of

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Speaker 1: us who still own Amiga's um which for those of

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Speaker 1: you who don't know as a as an old computing

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Speaker 1: system that was brought to market by Commodore and then

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Speaker 1: part of their hands and went to a couple others.

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Speaker 1: But in a more modern note, I'm interested to see

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Speaker 1: what happens with SPOR this year. Hopefully they will be

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Speaker 1: bringing that to market Electronic Arts and will write, um,

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Speaker 1: it looks fascinating. And they've been threatened with the vapor

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Speaker 1: wear title for not bringing it out sooner because they

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Speaker 1: keep promising it and then you know, the date slips.

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Speaker 1: But right this this is a common problem. Um, you

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Speaker 1: have video game companies that announced the video game early

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Speaker 1: in the development cycle and they promise all these different

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Speaker 1: functions and then they realize they have to deliver on

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Speaker 1: those functions or risk gamers wrath, which the gamers among

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Speaker 1: us know is great. Indeed, so this the things happened before.

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Speaker 1: There was a video game called Fable which had a

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Speaker 1: lot of different promises that some gamers felt it didn't

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Speaker 1: deliver upon. So some people are being a little more

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Speaker 1: cautious or they're they're saying, well, we're going to we're

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Speaker 1: not going to release it until it's it's ready, and

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Speaker 1: then it just never seems to get ready. There's one

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Speaker 1: very famous example of this. It's called Duke k Newcam Forever.

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Speaker 1: We mentioned it in the article, but no discussion about

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Speaker 1: video video games that were never made as complete without it.

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Speaker 1: It was first announced more than ten years ago and

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Speaker 1: we're still waiting, but are three D Realms says that

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Speaker 1: it's coming, so we'll just have to wait and see.

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Speaker 1: I guess maybe another ten years. They just want to

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Speaker 1: get it right right. So, do you have a favorite

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Speaker 1: a favorite video game that's never made? Um? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of hard to say, isn't it, but uh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm a trekky or trekker if that's the politically correct term. Now.

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Speaker 1: I was very much looking forward to Star Trek Online,

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Speaker 1: which unfortunately has fizzled out. Um. We hope that maybe

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Speaker 1: one day team will get together and actually deliver on this,

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Speaker 1: but for now, not so much. Well what about yourself?

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Speaker 1: Do you have a favorite one that's been never been made? Um?

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Speaker 1: You know, to tell you the truth, I really haven't. Um,

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Speaker 1: but simply because there are so many that I haven't

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Speaker 1: gotten around to playing yet. Um, you know it's there.

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Speaker 1: I have a backlog, a stack. Perhaps a better question

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Speaker 1: to ask is is are there any video games that

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Speaker 1: you wish someone would make that haven't been mentioned by

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Speaker 1: anyone yet. Well, you know, I was thinking about the

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Speaker 1: possibility of of, you know, taking an existing franchise and

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Speaker 1: and bringing it up to date, maybe with a celebrity

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Speaker 1: endorsement like Dick Cheney's Duck Hunt Excellent. It's a it's

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Speaker 1: the game where you you shoot the other player as

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Speaker 1: opposed to the ducks. Oh, you know, you bring that

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Speaker 1: added amount of realism to it. That's fantastic. Well, that's

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Speaker 1: a that's a good point. Know. I was also thinking

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Speaker 1: about we were talking earlier about the Lego series of games.

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Speaker 1: For those of you who are not familiar, Lego has

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Speaker 1: partnered with some franchises such as the Star Wars franchise,

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Speaker 1: the Indiana Jones franchise, the Batman comic book um and

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Speaker 1: produced some really fun, fun games that are both true

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Speaker 1: to the spirit of the original franchise and they bring

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Speaker 1: some levity and silliness in with the whole Lego aspect.

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Speaker 1: And there's some properties that we talked about that that

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Speaker 1: might benefit from the Lego treatment. Um we had the

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Speaker 1: would be excellent they would have to be very small

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Speaker 1: to to fit in the minifig tradition. And I suggested

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Speaker 1: to Jonathan, who is a wrestling fan, that we could

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Speaker 1: have a Lego w w E game. When someone gets

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Speaker 1: so it'd be great to see one of them. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, the victim of a really spectacular move where

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Speaker 1: I'll give you an example, so the Undertaker delivers a

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Speaker 1: would would split up into tiny little pieces. I would

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Speaker 1: buy this game twice. I would buy it from multiple systems.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this game that will probably never exist,

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Speaker 1: so my expectations are already high. But we were also

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Speaker 1: talking about other things, so just to see an interesting take,

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Speaker 1: I suggested a Lego Glen Garry Glenn ross um which

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Speaker 1: show would have a little Lego Alec Baldwin yell at

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Speaker 1: you and and fire you. That would be a very

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Speaker 1: interesting game. I'm sure you can think of a thousand others. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and Chris and I we could We could talk about

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Speaker 1: these all day long because we have um, but we'll

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