Level 58 - Over the Top, Just the Way We Like It

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They're lining up a lot of heavy
machinery out there.

Call the insurance company
because we're about to do some property.
Damage today.

Here comes the snap.
Matthews back rolling right.

Can't find us man here.
Comes the Blitz 7.

One game that hit so hard, Your
mama's Mama will feel it.

NFL Blitz 2000 for Midway.
New 4 player mode, customizable play editor and more
sledgehammer quality fun than ever.
Welcome to Remember 64 where this week we are going to fuck
it, Chuck it football.

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My name is David Pitrangelo and
yes, I'm going to fuck it, Chuck it football because I do sports,
I do arcade, I win game.

That is me Jiggy.
Look back here with me again.

Hello Sir, how are you?
Hello, I'm I'm an avid football fan, so I'm very happy to be on
this special episode.

It's a lie.
I can't even you can't know nothing.
That's it.

That's it.
Guys, I just know that it's a game of football.
That's it.

I don't even know.
What and and joining us this time kind of on a whim, man.
I, I thank you for, for hopping in.
We are happy to have you back,

Mr. Superpod Saga himself,
Aaron.

How are you, man?
I'm pretty good, man.

I've got a little bit of a
stomach ache, but nothing a little Red Bull and football
can't fix.

I think we have 3 football
experts on this show, so this is brilliant.
We are going to be talking about

NFL Blitz and there are four I
think.

I can't afford different NFL
Blitz just on the 64.

Obviously it was on arcade as
well, but we're basically just going to be talking about all of
them because there's not a massive difference between all
and we'll sort of mention some of the stuff as we go along.
But we are talking NFL Blitz as of this episode, actually
recording and releasing.

I believe it's going to be just
before the Super Bowl.

So all about timing everybody.
Woo Hoo, go football.

Yeah, that's I think that's why
I was like, let's play blitz.

But also it's fun, stupid arcade
action.

So.
So before I want to get started though, Aaron, you, we are part
of this amazing group of podcasts that you are basically,
I would say that you're probably the, the, the maestro behind all
the president, the maestro, the,

I don't know, some, some title
like that I've got in the

Superpod network together.
But let's talk about it a little bit because our shows are part
of it, but there's a whole bunch of them and there's a lot of
extra stuff too, which which is cool to talk about.
Let's let's talk about that a bit.
Yeah, man.

So, so Tony and Thrac, they they
call me Boss all the time.

Whenever we're in a show or
something together, they'll always say hey boss, man.
And like, yeah, that's me.

Yeah, it's super.
Pod, I don't know if I'm going to do that, but but I must.
It's fine.

Every once in a while it's fine.
Your your pay will be docked, but it's OK.
You don't have to.

Yeah.
Shit, shit.

OK.
There, Yeah, So Super Pod

Network, it's a little, well, I
guess not a little anymore.

It's gotten a little bit bigger,
but it's a, it's a, a network of any video game podcasts and we
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Vice individual ones.

Sometimes we do collaborative
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GameCube games or SNES games and
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Sometimes we'll do videos to cover certain events like
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It's great.
It's, it's an, it's a great opportunity to just like shoot
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Anything.

Yeah.
Like football?

Like football?
Football.

I don't know anything about.
Football.

Wait, no, I know everything
about football so.

Everything.
Yeah.

Come on.
What's?

Come on, boss.
Yeah.

Sorry.
That's great.

Yeah, it's been, it's great.
Like, you know, I think, I think when when I think when you
initially asked me sometime last year, I was like, yeah, that's a
great idea.

It's awesome.
And then I basically just like, didn't do the show for six
months.

So I was like, I felt so bad.
It wasn't like, I felt like it wasn't part of the team or like,
you know, pulling my weight or whatever.
But but more and more shows, more and more awesome people
have been joining.

And there's so much extra stuff
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So Superpod networkis.com is
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There's also a Discord channel.
So there's lots of stuff you can, you can join Discord server
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Network.
So yeah, we're just, it's cool to to be able to have a bunch of
awesome people doing, like you said, like indie podcast stuff
and sort of reaching out and working with each other and.
Yeah.

Everyone's got a great
personality, everyone's got great shows.
Why not mash us all together and and kick some ass while we're at
it, right?

Like that's, it's awesome.
Absolutely.

Yeah.
Hell yeah.

OK, so let's get into let's get
into some some football gents.

Jiggy, I'll go to you first.
Not not not, you know, are you a football guy necessarily?
Did you play NFL blitz?

Are these types of games a thing
that you've played?

Like what's what's as someone, I
always sort of ask this because you're because you're younger
than me.

So it's just like, I feel like
the perspective slightly different, but is it different
at all?

Is this something that you came
across when you were growing up?

Guess what, I did play this
growing up and the only reason why I played this growing up is
because I have a cousin who is actually younger than me who
loves football.

Every time we go over, it was
like, hey, let's throw a football.
Like the man is committed.

He played football in the house
when he was younger even though my aunt yelled at him and he
totally like smacked his head on like a bed frame and had like a
big bubble and had to go to the hospital.
It was fantastic.

Like, he's dedicated, but every
time we went over, he's like, let's play some NFL Blitz.
Like, OK.

And I realized replaying this
game that I play exactly how I played when I was like 8 and had
no idea what I was doing.

It's the exact same thing I go
through.

It shows all the plays.
You see all the little XS, the lines and everything.
I'm like, I don't know, this one looks cool.
Boom click.

I just get tackled and thrown
backwards and I'm like, well, I suck.
So that's pretty much my experience.
And and was it like, was it, I assume it was console at that
time, Like yeah, like on 64 and stuff, yeah.
Yeah.

Well, we, we did a little bit of
both.

We had 64.
I I think there's a PlayStation

One version because they had APS
1 and I remember playing it on that.
Yeah, there was.

And it's one of those games
where it's like, you know, it was treated as like a regular
sports game.

They're kind of everywhere, you
know, Like they were on everything.
There was one almost every year.

All that kind of stuff.
So Aaron, what about you, man?

Same thing, Similar.
Not at all.

Oh man, I, I, I, so I remember
for sure playing NFL Blitz on

PS1.
I couldn't tell you which the hell I think it was.
I think it was like 98 or 97.

I don't remember at all, but I
remember you could, you can basically make your own team and
you drew packs of cards.

And that was cool, 'cause I'm a,
I'm a card guy.

And I was like, dude, there's
cards in this, what the fuck?

And then you can name your team
whatever you want.

It was like the Cincinnati Sugar
Rush or something stupid.

That's actually pretty sick.
I like that.

Yeah, dude.
And I I'm not a big sports guy, if I'm being totally honest, but
like Arcady sports games like

NFL blitz or even like Neo turf
masters, shit like that.

That's that's my bag, dude.
This is actually I played probably a good like couple
hours of of blitz and like it wasn't wasn't bad.
It was pretty fun.

Yeah, yeah.
For me, I was of the age and of the sort of time where like
these games were like, sure, I had pretty much every NHL game.
I had maybe every other Madden game.
I had a FIFA game every once in a while.
But like these are the ones that always we kind of gravitated to
is with, with my friends and stuff.
And this was even a game, at least the original 1, I don't
remember if like 2000 or whichever #99 or whatever number
they had was also in the arcade.

But I played this game even in
the arcade when we could have like literally with the friends
I was at at the arcade, could have gone to his house and just
played it like for free, you know, like, but it was like, oh,
it's blitz, it's a joystick.

You have like a couple buttons
let's play and then you put in like, you know, 50 cents or a
quarter or whatever it is like every half.
So you like you could you had to pay sort of as you went
progressed through the game, whether you're on your own or
playing with someone else or something.
So I had a lot of experience playing these games.
I even have it's, I think it's on the shelf behind me
somewhere.

I'm going to grab it.
It is I do I love these games so much that as when I got older
they when they re release these games like maybe like 2-3 years
after they stopped making these slightly more like cartoony
Arcadia ones.

They had blitz the league, which
is kind of like when you think of like how Mortal Kombat
nowadays handles like when you do, you know, super moves or
whatever they call them and you see like the bones crack and
like the organs get crushed and stuff.
This game has this game has that.
Yeah.

So like, yeah, you hit a guy and
his knee just like his kneecap just bursts open or.
Yeah.

And it's so.
So it doesn't have.

It doesn't have.
We'll get into this too, but it doesn't have any actual players
in it.

It's all separate from the NFL.
But whoever made this.

Oh, it's still OK, Midway still
published it, but so they still had probably, they probably had
the rights to it and stuff, but

Renderware made it.
I don't know how that is, but but basically like what's crazy
about this is like you think these games are over the top.
This thing not only did that where it zoomed in when someone
got hurt, but in order to heal your players, you use like
steroids and illegal drugs.

Yeah, that's what it was.
So it was like, oh, instead of waiting for the guy to fully
heal for like 4 games or whatever, you could just give
him drugs and then he would come back out the next game and he
would have like, it would change like his, his stats.
So he might run faster, but he was more likely to fumble the
ball.

Whereas before he was pretty
evened out like stuff like that.

So they added all this extra
stuff to it and you were like, you're the GM of the team, but
you got to play the games too.

Yeah, it was, it's, it's pretty
wild.

I remember I saw this like in
the store not long ago.

It was like 699 and I'm like my
Xbox still works and I wanna play this game so.
That makes me wanna play it.

I Did you ever play NFL Street
on three? 60 dude.
'Cause that one.

All three of those games, all
three of those games are amazing.
All those games are awesome.

And and that's what I mean by
like all these types of games is that the NFL street ones, SSXI
would say is kind of similar to it, which to me is like those
are my favorite.

Like SSX 3 to me is like the
best sports game ever made.

No Tricky is the second one I
think 3 for some reason.

Just I don't know, maybe I just
played.

I also have that behind me
somewhere.

Three, the one where you can
play is Mario and Yoshi on the

OR or something.
Maybe on the GameCube?

Maybe.
For my.

Own Tour.
Yeah, that might have been the one when they like released it
separate from the.

Yeah.
It was like these weird like sequence of like sport related
games where you could just play as like Mario for some reason on
GameCube.

There's like the GameCube
version is not selling.

Let's throw Mario in there.
Yeah.

We know it's not going to do as
well.

So we got to do that to sell it,
yeah.

That's what I was gonna say.
The NBA street on, on GameCube, you could play as Mario, Luigi
and Peach and Peach.

And then they had, then they had
fucking Mario Hoops, three on three on DS where you could, you
could be like a Black Mage or a

Mughal and a Cactar, I think.
That's awesome.

That's like that's I wish I
played that one.

I know of it, but I never played
like that stuff is awesome.

That stuff's great.
Like yeah, so like all these games are like are kind of my
shit.

Like all these games are my shit
and I'm a sports guy.

Like I the hockey runs through
my blood, not just 'cause I'm

Canadian, but it's just always
something I've always done.

And big.
Deal in your family.

Big deal in my family, like all
this stuff, right?

Like it's like it's, you know,
soccer's big in my family too.

A lot of people played it
growing up.

Tennis like everything like
think about it pretty much because we're in Canada,
football's not as huge.

Everyone just watches the
NFLCFLS something, but it's much smaller and not quite as as big.
But you know, you put something like this in front of you,
especially as a kid, and you're like, yeah, I get to just
destroy the other team and my buddies.
Of course you're going to fucking play it.
Like obviously.

So this this game, I was like,
you know, it's really easy to just pick up and play.
It's just wild arcade sports is all it is.
So I was happy to replay this.

I still think for the most part
it holds up.

I don't know if you guys think
it feels like too old school or if it feels too arcady or I
don't know.

Do you guys think it like still
feels all right?

No, that's what I like about it.
Yeah, OK.

Actually I like that it's
simple, otherwise I never would have understood anything.
Well, that's.

And I just love that these every
single player is just hyper buff, like unrealistically buff,
like three times buffness and they they come up and they like
they grab like it's not just a tackle.
They will literally go and grab someone like buy the shirt and
just like throw them.

Like I'm trying to think of what
the and I got Mortal Kombat on my brain.
But I mean, it's just, it's.

Very like there's wrestling
moves in it essentially like that's, you know, guys are doing
leg drops on guys and like it's.

Yeah, the leg drops.
They'll fly across the fucking screen at you to tell you it's
so good.

So that's so fucking.
Yeah, so like the hits are crazy and the guys are big or
whatever, but I think like a lot of the fun was like and still
kind of is.

Like look at this.
Yeah, the play's done and you can just keep drop kicking the
guy until the screen changes.

Like, literally.
Does a ground pound like a Mario style ground pound on the body,
laying on the body slam, Yeah.

Dude, the deal's goofy fucking
dances when they get a touchdown to you, man.
Yeah, that's awesome.

Like the best, the best.
The thing I always do is like, holy shit, let's say you, let's
say you, I think if like you run out of bounds, you can kind of
still run with the ball or whatever, right?
And if you're close to the end zone, the guy starts doing like
a little bit of like a dance or whatever.
So I just keep running and watch the guy sort of like prancing
with the ball and stuff.

It's fucking hilarious.
It's so funny.

Like he's leading a marching
band.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what it's like.

Yeah.
So they just, they have fun with it.
And the wildest thing is that these are all actual NFL
players.

Like these are these are the
rosters from that, which is like, there's no, I mean, I know
there's no way they would do it now because they don't make
these games anymore, but I can't believe they said yes to this
shit.

It's crazy to me.
It's it's crazy like.

Like I I don't know much about
football, but I am from

Wisconsin, so playing as Brett
Favre felt right.

Or nowadays pretty wrong, but
well at the time.

What's wrong with Brett Favre?
Yeah, he's a bit of a schmuck, but that's just my opinion.
I don't.

I don't know.
I don't.

Know he won't he won't retire he
he wouldn't retire or won't retire and he's he's still
playing What No, no, no, but he did play for a years ago.
But he did play for a long time though, like he played for a
while.

In a long he.
Was a oh damn, you see that toss?
Yeah, baby, you see that toss?

An air guitar dude, he's going
insane.

Never mind the thrill, look at
that air goal air guitar.

And they also have like voice
overs and stuff too, which is great.
It's.

So good dude.
Oh my God.

Yeah, I, I felt like it, like it
played.

Do do you remember which ones
you guys played?

Because I know there's like a
bunch.

They're kind of all.
Kind of I can answer that and.

You can or you can't.
I I can, I think.

I played 2001 first.
One I played 99.

Yeah.
So I think that's the second or third one or something.
I don't know.

I played, I played the first
one.

I think the one we're looking at
now is I think the first one.

And then I played either 2000 or
2001 because they actually there's people that mod this
game, which makes sense.

It's a sports game and you can,
it's a wild arcade game and stuff.
And they have all the updated rosters, like this year's
rosters, they have a 2025 version.
Of stuff.

What the fuck?
That's?

Cool, so people are adding that
all the stats are sort of updated.
It's like, oh, if you're a shitty team, the stats aren't as
good like things like that.

So like it's all the update.
It's the same game.

It plays the exact same same
way.

But other than that, the the the
three that I I played here and there and mostly played that
2001.

I think it just like looks
better, like it just looks cleaner.
The differences like that was the biggest thing I noticed.
The plays are somewhat different, but that's just
'cause I was like looking as opposed to Jiggy who's like
whatever, I'll just pick the one with the big arrow.
I was like actually trying to like pick a certain one.
I'm looking at it, they're showing the things so I, I can't
sit there and just like look at them to see what they do because
it gives you this anxiety inducing countdown of like 10
seconds.

And then you're like reading the
names and they're stupid names like Monkey and.
And the bomb.

The bomb is the best.
The bomb is by far the best man.

It's great.
It's a good place.

I will say I did understand when
it said free point, that one I got because.
You didn't have to do anything and to give you a point, you.
Just clicked for a free.

Point OK.
Or fucking what's the what's the kick thing?
They do not.

It's not a the field goal.
Yeah, field goal.

I think it's free throw like a
fucking idiot.

But that's basketball.
It's kind of the same.

It's not worth any.
Well, it is worth.

It's still worth points.
It's still worth.

It's true.
Welcome to Anaphobe Blitz, where the points are made-up and don't
matter.

There we go.
Yes, yeah.

The point where is it?
But the the games are made-up and the points don't matter.
What is it and who's lying?

Something like that, right.
Is that what it is?

The rules are made-up and the
points don't matter.

Yeah.
There you go.

Yeah.
Aaron, I don't know.

Did you did you ever get time
with it?

Because I think you said when I
when I was like, oh, hey, do you want to play this?
You're like, yeah, I barely touched these games.
Was it, was it a good time?

Do you remember like the was it
good?

I don't know.
Did you like it?

Yeah, man, I, I put, what did I
say?

I think I put like two, yeah,
two or three hours into the game just kind of goofing, goofing
around, trying to get a feel for it.
Yeah, it was actually pretty fun, man.
Like, it wasn't, it wasn't as like I've never played a newer
Madden game.

I've like I've seen maybe other
people playing them here and there or seeing like videos of
it and it seems real fucking demanding.
Like it demands that you really know your shit.
But in blitz, no, like like with

Jiggy picking random plays and
still being able to to make a, to make a touchdown, dude, like
you don't even know the plays at all.
You just pick one and then you just run dodge, hit turbo.
Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.
And you hopefully, yeah, you hold on to turbo literally the
entire game and then just hope for the best.
I don't know, and it's sweet.

Yeah, look at.
That shit, dude, the wrestling moves they do and like yeah,
it's just it's fast.

Like it, it feels way faster
than like a like a it's much faster than an actual like
Madden game or like a like a football simulator type game.
Dude, It's yeah.

Well, that that's what, that's
what the EA games are, right?

Like, you know, Madden or FIFA
or you know, whatever.

They don't call FIFA anymore.
They just call it football.

Maybe I can they drop the FIFA
license.

That's all I know.
Shit.

Yeah, they did like this year.
Last year was the first time they did it because FIFA's
corrupt as shit and they and they're like, Nope, we're not
dealing with you anymore.

All those are like, they they
are.

They are very simulation like.
Like that's what they're going for, right.
And then they're like, hey, we'll throw in a big head mode
for you if you want, but like, wouldn't you rather just play
blitz?

Like, come on, it's like they're
never gonna do this.

That's The thing is like they
can throw in an arcady mode that feels different to but they're
never gonna.

So cool dude.
Like yeah, FIFA fucking FIFA blitz.
Oh dude.

That'd be awesome.
Just drop kicking guys with like with like soccer cleats.
Their faces are just fucking mangled and like.
It's called.

It's called Mario Strikers
telling you.

Oh, I gotta play that game.
I've only like touched it a.

Couple of times.
That's it, yeah.

Actually, the wee one.
The wee one's the best one in my opinion.
Or I gotta I think there's a Neo

Geo soccer game.
That's a really good soccer brawl.
That game's awesome, soccer.

Brawl.
Soccer brawl.

It's just a bunch of like Cyborg
dudes kicking a ball around at.

The rules, man.
Oh, this is like the baseball.

NES it does look awesome.
Robots.

This is like there's a ANES game
that was robots, but it was baseball base wars, base wars,
base wars.

Yeah, sounds fucking so you're
just you're this is like this is like somewhat similar to blitz
where you where you do this aggressive stuff.
Dude.

The guy.
I knew there was a mega.

There's a Mega Man soccer game,
too.

Oh, there is, that's right.
Yeah, yeah, Base wars is crazy.

So like if you tried sometime, I
don't know if it was all the time, but it was like a close
play.

Let's say the guy's trying to
throw you out at first or second base or something, right.
And the ball's really close to when he touched the base instead
of like, you know, going to the going to the, the, the judges or
the, the, the, you know, the guys that sort of look at the
tape or whatever.

In real life, you fought the guy
and you'd have like a mini fighting game like in the middle
of the game and it's like, oh, if you if you won, you got the
base.

If you lost, you're out.
Like that's amazing.

That's such a good idea.
I'm downloading the ROM right now do.
It from a game that's like from like, you know, probably 88 or
89 or something like that.

Like that's a sick idea.
That's exactly the type of shit that I want in a sports game
dude.

Just something nonsensical and
then then stupid.

That's exactly what I want.
Well, and that's like, I mean, I don't know, I don't know how the
rights work with this stuff or whatever, but something like
blitz, it doesn't have to be like on a football field.
You know, it could be the same game.
It could emulate what football does, but it could be robots, it
could be aliens, it could be a mix of a bunch of shit and it
would still be like it.

It's cool that it's real teams
and it's fun that you could be like, Hey, my favorite team, I
just drop kick someone or I just leg dropped the guy that you
know the the player that I just watched on TV last week.
I get that.

But at this point, these games
are fun because they're fun, not because you give a shit about
these teams, right?

Especially now 20 years later
after these these row 25 years later.
Like this Bass worst thing is a perfect example.
I I like baseball.

I'll watch baseball all the
time, but I would rather play this game than a real 1 like a
simulation 1.

Like, why wouldn't you?
I?

I kind of feel, well, I guess
not the same way I have a like,

I kind of like watching hockey
live.

I've only seen the live hockey
game one time in my whole life, but it was pretty sweet.
But like arcade hockey games, like what the fuck is the one on
Sega Genesis?

I'm just.
Going to I'm going to let you find out what it is, because
those games are even more so than all the ones I mentioned.
Those games are the best and it's so find out which one that
is 'cause the one I'm I played was always on Xbox, GameCube and
maybe 360 or something.

It was all in that area.
NHL hits.

That's what they were called.
NHL.

It was midway.
All Star Hockey.

Maybe it was All Star hockey,
but hits was was midway just like blitz was.
So think about whatever this game is, but with hockey and
it's only three on three.

It's super fast.
If you do a bunch of hits or you know, get a bunch of shots and
stuff like that.

You had like a bar, like you
know, the turbo bar at the bottom.
If you ever guys, guys ever got anyone that was like on fire in
these games, it's much harder to do.
You have to like complete a pass, I think three times in a
row or something to the same person in in hits, it's a
similar thing.

You have to hit a bunch of guys
and your meter builds up and then your whole team's on fire.
No one can get knocked down.

Your shots are like bullets.
Every time you shoot, if you take a real, if you take a
really hard slap shot and it hits the goalie, he might save
it, but he'll fall over.

Like he'll get knocked over and
his name will pop off and like there's crazy fights and if you
lose a fight, you're out of the game and you have to replace
them with someone else.

The game, the game is unreal.
And they made, and same thing with Blitz.
They made like four or five of them or something a few years in
a row.

And I have so many memories
playing those games and there's so much fun.
And they were made a couple years after these.
So they're a little bit more, you know, they look a little
sharper or play a little bit better, that kind of thing.
But those games are the fucking best.
They're so.

Good.
This game graphically looks pretty good.
Like, yeah, the shadow, The shadows are shadows.
Yeah, the shadows.

Yeah, that's right.
They're not just blocks.

Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.

That's yeah, that's pretty cool.
Yeah.

Keep going, Dogpile.
Yeah, and that's the other thing too.
I wish.

I think that I wouldn't be
surprised.

I should have looked that up.
I wouldn't be surprised that there's codes where you can
extend the time of after the play so you can just beat guys
up more like, so it's not just like 4 seconds or something like
that.

Did you find the game, Aaron?
Did you find the the hockey game?
Yeah, it was Mutant Hockey

League.
Oh yes, yes, I know that one.

And there's like there's a team
with all skeletons or one where it's like all pig dudes.
Yeah, yeah.

See that's that's the shit we
need 100% Oh my God.

It's, it's just, it's just
stupid fun, man.

It's just stupid fun.
Like there's there's got to still be a market for that,
right?

There's no way that something
like Blitz or that game like us.

Well, yeah.
But like, you know, if we want to play it, I'm sure there's
lots of people that want to play it.
Like there's got to be right.

Like, come on.
It's probably, it's probably one of those things like Madden is
so like at the forefront that everyone's just like afraid to
put a football game out because they're like, there's no way
we're going to compete with

Madden every year.
Yeah, that's there's, there is a football game that's similar
Mutant, mutant football.

No, you just said.
You, you just said.

That sounds right.
I think there's, I think it's like blood.
No Blood Bowl.

Blood Bowl, maybe that's that's
what I'm thinking of.

Oh, there is a mutant Football
League, though.

Is that the one that you just
said?

No, yeah, no, Mutant Football
League is the one I'm thinking of.
It's like works and shit.

And they all have like spikes on
their shoulder pads and stuff.

That's great.
Like I'm, I can't remember which one I've played, but I tried
like a, you know, free trial and like a weekend on Steam or
something like that.

And it was, it was fun, man.
It was pretty fucking cool, like.
Oh that reminds me of a did you guys fuck with any of the cheats
in this game 'cause this game has a lot of cheats.
I wanted to.

I wanted to.
I did not.

I didn't get to it.
Did you?

What did you use do?
It you can like when the game is loading and you see the teams
and they like they have a little, 3 little.
Box thing at the bottom, yeah.

Yeah, you can.
Just like if you push a certain combination of buttons you can
pick, you can get like soup.

Like there's just a shit ton of
different stuff.

Like I think I got always blitz
mode or something like that.

Hyper blitz mode is what it was.
My bad.

Hyper Blitz mode.
Did you get it by accident?

Yeah, I was just.
Tapping.

Oh shit, that's amazing.
There's an invisible cheat.

You can make your whole team
invisible so you don't know what's going on ever.
You're just like your whole team's invisible and it's just,
it's impossible to fight.

Oh, there is one that I was
there is a cheat, yes.

OK, yes, now that I look at the
list, there's one that's called late hits and it lets you hit
the guys longer after the play ends, so you could do more of
the crazy shit afterwards and stuff.
So there's that.

A night game, No head mode.
Nevermind big head mode.

There's a no head mode.
Oh my God, there's so many.

Oh yeah, hyper blitz.
Damn, look at that hyper blitz, turn off stadium.
I guess like there's it's just black in the background.
I don't know, super field goals, power defense, power blockers,
no punting, no inner, no out of bounds.
Could you imagine just running?

What, like fuck all the way
around?

It'd be amazing.
Yeah, invisible quarterback, hyper blitz, fast passes, big
net team.

Yeah.
That's awesome.

There's a bunch of extra
characters too.

And I, I there's an alien.
Yeah, there's a boxer.

A a Dino Grinch.
Grinch.

To this fucking.
Game dude bonus players there's a guy that's named you can be
the yeah you can be the Grinch you can be a thug apparently,
whatever that is I'll.

Just have like a cap on and like
a trench coat or.

Something yeah, I'm just looking
at the at the list.

It doesn't actually have a
picture or anything like that, but yeah, on side kick.
How to do it?

Yeah, there's like there's tons
of shit in this like, and that's the other thing too is this game
played and looked pretty much exactly the same in the arcade.
So if you knew that code, like if you whether you accidentally
got it or not, if you knew that code and you went to the arcade,
you could put the same one in when you went when you got to
the machine and it would it would play the same way.
Like that's great.

Like to to have.
I mean, I know the arcade sort of late 90s were slowly but
surely gone, you know, like that they kind of this is around the
time that they died.

But like this is one of those
games that like translated so well because it's just there to
be like we keep saying goofy fun and it works regardless of what
controller or control scheme you're using.
I think like, I don't know that that really makes a huge
difference.

I think it felt fine on the 64
controller but like oh.

Hell yeah.
Like is it would it be improved if I had it on Xbox?
Probably not.

Like it doesn't.
I don't think he really it it would matter.
I think you just have you have the the button right underneath
the joystick or or you could use

AD pad.
Let me just let me just, you know you can't, you can't move
past perfection, right?

There's no there's no better
controller than.

Why?
Why try guys?

We played this game with the
best controller ever ever made.

All you need is 1 joystick.
All you need is.

All you need is 1 joystick.
Nintendo.

No.
Yeah.

They always real back.
Control because people just they don't understand.
They just come on people, let's go.
Like I know.

Man I I remember playing
whichever the fuck blitz game I had on PS1 back in the day.
I had a friend come over and stay the night and he didn't
really care if oops.

He didn't really care for any of
the other games I had that were

Co-op.
Like I think I had gauntlet

Legends and a couple other games
and he was like no, let's play blitz man, you'll like it, just
watch this shit.

And we would.
We would play against each other and just like punch in random
cheat codes and see what we get.

Like we just tap buttons, tap
the fuck out of the buttons on the loading screen and just get
random cheats and it would just be madness and chaos, dude.
Like that, that shit was so much fun.
It's, if I had, I'll probably get my brother-in-law over here
one of these days to play it, just just to goof around and
just, yeah.

And it's total, total goof.
Cam.

I wish there was a way to do
like, like four players, like like four teams on the screen.
That'd be just madness.

Man, Oh yeah, like, like.
Four, it's like a four, like vertical and horizontal like.
Yeah, I think you just invented like a.
Cross shape it's.

A cross shape football end
zones, I I don't even know.

Can you imagine?
What like. 4 crosses, someone walks in, they're just like what
are you doing?

The ref walks in and he's like
fuck, it's Ultra Football Day.

Oh man, now they brought
religion into this fucking thing.
God damn it.

It just crosses it.
What?

Father, Son.
Holy Spirit.

Ultra Football.
Ultra Football.

Like, and that's what's crazy
about this.

Like you're saying like, oh, you
know, we can ask someone over and play it.
And like, even if they've never played this before or it's been
a long time, like pretty much like all three of us, you could
pretty much pick up, pick up and play this game.
You might, yeah, you might get used to like, oh, I have to, you
know, really pay attention to which guy's flashing to throw it
to or whatever.

But like, you know, a couple
buttons, you know what Turbo is, once you figure out how the
passing works, that's it.

That's pretty much it.
Like that's, that's the gist of it in a good way.
I think.

You know, that's not a bad
thing.

In a midway fumble.
Yeah, midway.

And that's the thing.
It's a midway thing and.

Yep, they don't really good
about that.

Dude, they fucking figured it
out in so many so many games in so many different ways, right,
like in this is I think this is probably one of the things
they're most known for is probably this series movie.
I guess like if you say blitz, I think they just automatically
you know, or if you say Midway blitz automatically comes up.
So and then of course there's always I recorded on the on the
little soundboard here, a couple things I didn't get in get to
enough as I wanted to.

But of course, there's the
announcer of all the Midway games, all the midway like
sports games and stuff, right?

Like that guy's.
This is NFL Blitz.

Like it's just he does the same
thing in the hits games, which is great.
It's the same guy just talking hockey stuff.
The one of the ones, one of the ones that I love.
I don't know if it shows up in any of the any of the NFL ones,
but in in the hockey ones, every once in a while when you do like
a really huge hit, the guy goes.

He just took the express
elevator to the basement.

I It's so good.
Hell yeah.

And then of course there's, you
know, there's NBA Jam and stuff too, which is obviously very
similar with like all that crazy shit.
But like that, that line, because we played that game so
much, it hits growing up is when we were actually playing hockey,
sometimes guys would actually yell that out off the bench when
someone got hit.

We would use that as a line when
someone got hit in an actual hockey game, and it was great.
Which ones?

Which ones?
Yeah, Go ahead, Jiggy.

Yeah.
I just followed kind of the the

Midway games rabbit trail here
to see kind of what what they dipped their hands in and Mortal
Kombat came up quite a bit.

No shocker, like kind of just
Arcady stuff in general.

But then they did kind of morph
into Nether Realm Studios, which continued the Mortal Kombat
trend and injustice and like.

Because I think I think WB owned
like bot Midway or Midway went bankrupt or something like that.
And then Netherrealm is is.

More Cale as old as time.
Yeah, Yeah, right.

Yeah.
So there is no Midway anymore.

It's just it lives on through
all these these types of games and stuff.
But like I mentioned Mortal

Kombat before completely
forgetting that they were linked.
Yeah, well, that's the the second you said Mortal Kombat,
I'm like, did they?

Yeah, Yes, they did.
Oh, you're right.

Yeah, 100%.
You did a.

Lot of good ship.
They did Doom 64, they did

Killer Instinct.
Well, they they published.

Published.
Yeah, Yeah.

Yeah, it was like.
And Doom is Doom.

I mean me and Jiggy play it last
year.

Like Doom 64 is really good.
Doom 64 is pretty good, Yeah.

I'm not.
I actually think about that storm.
Yeah, we did with Matt.

Yeah.
The the I don't know when we play, I haven't played all of
them and I think I said that at the time and I haven't even
played all the new ones, which are also pretty good.
I think out of the old ones that would that ended up I think it's
probably my favorite doom 64.

It was that good.
The levels were that good and and it's just, I don't know,
just felt right.

It felt good with the 64
controller too, which I was kind of surprised, but yeah, it was
I.

Think the visuals are really
like they they really hold up just because it's, it's sort of
like that in between.

Like it's still using the
sprites, but it also offers that 3D thing which makes it feel
special.

Yep, Yep, sort of in between.
Aaron, what was the OH for?

Oh dude.
The play that we saw.

No, no, I wasn't paying
attention.

I saw the Midway developed
Midway developed Hydro Thunder dude.
We got to do that all right.

The three of us are going to
have to play Hydro Thunder.

Duh.
And gauntlet legends.

I'm such a fucking winky dink
man.

Yeah.
Is Winky Dink your favorite character in Gauntlet Legends?
Yeah, absolutely, man.

If you could fit that in the
screen instead of just your initials, you'd put Winky Dink
right?

Winky Dink Kelly, Yeah.
Blitz the.

League is under Midway by the
way.

What is Blitz the league?
Yeah, the one that I have, yeah, it's, it's, it's published by,
it says Renderware.

I don't know if that's the
developer or another publisher, but I remember the game looking
pretty good too.

I have not played it since I
bought it.

Like, oh.
Dude, Midway did Doctor Muto.

Oh.
That's right.

I didn't know that.
They've made so much, They've made so much.
They did the Rush Rush 2049.

Yeah, 24, I don't know.
Much in general.

Dude, yeah, LA Rush, all of
that.

The suffering, the ties that
bind the whole.

Rampage.
Oh yeah, Rampage.

Dude, rampage midway.
I miss.

I miss midway so.
Much Rampage is one of those games where I, I feel like I
might have told the story on, on this, this podcast before, maybe
another one.

But like we used to do this
thing where one of my buddies had like a huge property with a
big forest, you know, behind his house and stuff like that.
And there was 11 weekend a year where we'd go to his place and
we'd go like, camping on his property, essentially.
So we'd go, we'd have dinner with his parents or something
and be like, OK, we're gonna go set up a tent.
We'll see you guys tomorrow at like, noon, basically.
And we were like, you know, 12 years old, thirteen years old.
But we were like, you know, really close.
Oh, I have to hit pause on this.

Look at this.
Yeah, yeah, look at my.

Screen yeah, look at this
screen.

Oh no like so this is the one
that was like the the 2025 thing.
So I don't know if this is an actual like load screen from
like the actual game, but this one they put in there and it if
anyone's not watching it, it's basically a fan with a bunch of
like cheese whiz poured all over him.
I think is kind of what it looks like or like chili.
Dogs.

Some sort of condiment?
Some sort of condiment?

More than one, I think.
Mustard and ketchup.

Mustard, ketchup or like like
cheese that would be on on the.

Hey, I need to get some of my
hot dog nachos.

Nachos could be Nacho cheese.
Yeah, exactly right.

Like.
Maybe.

Maybe he was doing the dumb and
Dumber thing, like he ate something real spicy and he was
doing the like and like shooting it into his mouth and his mouth.
Whatever.

Yeah, who?
Would this helps?

And it's on the strategy tip
screen telling you how to use the turbo button.
So it's just it's perfect.

That's absolutely perfect.
Was I saying?

Oh.
Screen has been like just pretty girls.
Yeah, it's just like the cheerleaders.
And stuff like that.

Yeah, nice to see some.
Nice to see something I actually want to see.
No, I'm just kidding.

Did.
Bod represent.

Yeah, Rampage is one of those
games that has like 100 and something levels, 100 levels or
something like that.

Every like the Super, super long
we played it, we had, we went to go have dinner, we went to go
camp for the night and then we played it again in the morning.
Like we kept the 64 on four people and played the whole game
and it like I think it took us like four or five hours.
Like it's just a stupidly long.

Was it worth it?
I don't know probably at the time, but would it be worth it
now?

I thought you were going to say
you went into the woods and like reenacted rampage like.
Climbed the trees and like started shaking them.
Yeah.

Try to grab the tree people and
eat them.

Stumped them up.
The tree people.

Jesus Christ.
I don't know, maybe they're jumping off and like trying to
jump on like his parents vehicles and stuff like.
Oh, atomic elbow that shit.

Here's what I think of your
dad's Range Rover.

Jumping off the roof.
NFL Blitz.

Yeah, blitz midway.
For life, my own fentanyl.

Here.
Here.

OK.
Oh yeah, I got the what's it called the sound?
Which ones?

They Oh, here, this one.
Anyone see what's driving that truck?
Makes sense.

It's great.
You're pathetic.

And then the players chirping
each other, saying you're pathetic.
And sometimes when you get hit, the guy just like grabs his leg.
He's like, oh, I think it's broken.
I saw that.

It's so good.
I love that stuff.

And then I think you guys were
mentioning a little bit before, but some of the moves that you
do, like the hits that you do are hilarious.
And it seems like I don't know if they're randomized or if it
matters like.

Look at that.
Yeah, shit.

You gotta like suplex them.
Just literally.

Tight dude.
Lifted behind his back.

It's crazy.
Just lift like power bombs and behind him like just.
Oh yeah.

I can't believe that the timing
of that you just like just like look at the hits and he did
those like crazy.

Stuff and then he does the
horse, the horse thing after when he when he gets it like
it's, it's unreal like that.

That stuff is really fun.
Does it like make it's he's dead?
He just, the dude just like tackled him like goes straight
toward the camera and he flies off screen and the other guy
just lays in the ground, doesn't move anymore, doesn't move at
all.

I also like because I love just
the way that stuff looks.

Even when I had the ball and got
stopped, I would run my guy into their players just to see more
hits just so I could see them go flying.
Like it doesn't matter, right?

There's no injuries, there's no
penalties or anything like that.

Like one of the things you can
do that they like actually say like, hey, here's a tip is you
can hit the guy before he gets the ball, which an actual
football.

If you like tackle the guy
that's running, trying to, you know, be a receiver, you get it.
You get a flag in this.

They encourage you to hit the
guy before that happens, like take him out so he doesn't get
the he doesn't get the ball thrown to him.
Love it.

Yeah, On the flip side of that,
one of my main strats playing this game was to just like back
up, like I was about to throw it and then just start running as
the quarterback like over and over and over.
Yeah, we haven't.

I feel like we've even talked
about the actual gameplay, but yeah, yeah.
That would that would give me some yard gainage.
Otherwise I'd be like, I'd throw it and they'd somehow
miraculously like do an interception like every time.
And I'm like, I don't understand or or I just like I'm about to
get it an incomplete pass because they just tackle me to
the ground because of that.

Yeah, exactly.
And so, and sometimes you try to throw to the guy that you think
is going to be open, but he's like off screen and you're like,
whoa, where's that ball going?

And it just ends up like
somewhere else.

And then it's usually incomplete
because you can't see if he's covered or whatever, right.
I, I, so I thought I was like,

OK, I kind of remember like
throwing the ball all the time, like that's the best way.
And you, you would assume that the best way to get a lot of
yards and get far and all that kind of stuff.
Look at that.

I got a touchdown of the 0
seconds left in the game and I won.
Eagles win.

Eagles fatality.
Fatality.

It.
Does look very Mortal Kombaty.

Yeah, exactly.
The more I look at this, the more I'm like, wow, this is like
Mortal Kombat.

Just just with the the football,
just football, just the football is in it.
Otherwise it's yeah, it's it's beating each other up.
Look.

At that, the lightning and
everything.

Yeah, that's what that's what
the hits games are like too.

Like literally the menu when you
like chew stuff, lightning bolts, hit it and shit.
Like it's just, you know, and you can make your own
characters.

You can have like an alien head,
like all those kinds of things, right.
But those, again, those games came out after.
So it's different.

Yeah.
So I found actually running was actually pretty good.
I actually was like getting a lot of yards and actually
getting far by just doing what you said, Jiggy, and actually
like sort of moving myself around and going, oh shit,
there's an opening and then running like, you know, 20 yards
or something like that and actually doing all right.
They amplify the team's, the opposing team's speed though.
So like you start running and everyone just like it's 20 times
faster.

Yeah, it's like a rubber
banding.

Yeah, it's yeah, it's Canary
Mary all over again.

Yeah, Oh, yeah.
And also the one of the the worst part about this game is
this is me going through my like controller pack to try and like
save the game.

You need to like have an almost
like a completely empty thing.

Yeah, I know it was.
Look, it's looking for 123 free pages.
I have 9.

Oh holy shit.
Yeah, and look how many, look how many games have like nothing
on them.

Like I'm sorry, but I'm not
getting rid of No Mercy for

Blitz.
I'm not doing it, sorry.

And I'm not getting rid of NHL
because me and my buddies are trying to like play a season and
we get to play this.

And you can't get rid of
Superman.

And can't give her Superman even
though it only takes up one page, although I might have
actually deleted Superman.

I don't know.
I don't remember if I did or not.
I might have, but like 123 is like the whole thing almost.
I'm I'm pretty sure I don't know why I don't really yeah, that's
understand why it would need so much That's.
Fucking wacky man.

Yeah.
So this is when I was playing on the Everdrive and stuff.
I did play a little bit emulated a little bit on on Steam Deck
just to see what it it's the it's the same, you know, but
then you don't need to have the controller pack to save.
So whatever, right?

Man, Nintendo on the 64, I feel
like they were just making you like they just wanted you to
have multiple controller packs.

Oh yeah, like that was the
thing.

And I'm like, Nah, no.
The whole like how are these memory card what?
It's a It's a forever pack.

No, I do not have a forever
pack.

OK, Yeah, you should get one of
these.

Yeah, they they hold.
Would you like to tell me what it is or?
It's a forever pack.

Thanks.
That's all you.

Need to know that's all you
need.

To know I'm trying to think of
the YouTube, but he did it was with his buddies and they make
it and it's just like got lots of pages on it and it just it
doesn't use the battery memory that a lot of those controller
packs use.

Oh, that's why it's forever.
So it just I mean it's just like a normal controller pack.
The only caveat to this, and they might have updated it, was
that things like time trials and

Diddy Kong Racing require like
something stupid like 128 pages or something and there was like
a cap off that.

It didn't quite reach that.
So maybe NFL Blitz hits that cap off and you wouldn't be able to
save.

Or it's at the cap maybe?
Or it's at the cap.

Yeah, it's something weird, I
think.

I think it's been updated.
But still, I use it for everything.
It's great.

It's a good idea.
Damn.

That's The thing is like we have
the ever drive that we that we use to play the games, but like,
you know, you're supposed to play it.
The point is that we're playing it like the authentic way and no
safe States and things like that with it.
But like you need to save your game if the game allows you to
to do that and you need the fucking pages to do it if you
want to do it that way and it's 123.
I was like, I'm no sorry.

Always disappointed when a game
cannot save to the cartridge like.
Ever.

Like growing up, it was
devastating to me.

Like Rayman 2 was one that I
just loved and I was like.

I don't have a controller pack.
Oh, you need it for that too?

I wonder why?
I guess I don't know.

Is that game?
Is that game that massive that they had no space I guess?
A big game, but so you know,

Andrew Kazooie didn't need one.
Yeah, right.

It's huge.
Mario didn't need one.

Yeah, well, Mario didn't need
one.

Yeah, that's right it.
Makes sense for like time trials and stuff like that, that are a
little more like you could save a a ridiculous amount of them or
something, you know?

The only thing with sports games
and ones like similar to this is that I guess I don't think in
the very first one you can make your own team, but in the later
ones you could.

And you can also make your own
plays.

Like I guess you could take it
to a friend's place and stuff, but to take up an?
Annexation of Puerto Rico.

Super Bowl winners.
Like some really fucking stupid play where a dude just runs
around in a circle over and over and over until he dies.
I tried it, I tried it really briefly.
It, it's not bad for a, for a game this age to, you know,
from, from this time to be able to like, you know, basically you
select the, the receiver or the runner or whatever and you just,
you kind of just run them along the field and then it, and then
the guy will just follow that pattern And you're like, oh, do
you want to confirm that movement?
Yes.

Do you want to try again?
Yes or no?

And then you just, you beat, you
pick 3 or 4 four receivers and you, you, if you want to
position the quarterback right behind the, the lineman or a
little bit further back, which is shotgun, I believe, where
he's like a couple feet back from the line and that's it.
And then you just hit save and you're like, cool, now I can use
this and it just adds it to your playbook and you're like, OK,
awesome.

Cuz all the plays are the same
no matter what team you are.

So I just noticed something.
Yeah, one of the plays of this game sometimes.
No, I noticed that a long time ago.
Yeah, OK, no, I sucked too.

One of the plays was called Sub
Zero.

Yep.
And now it makes me want to go back and read all the plays and
see if they're like Mortal

Kombat references or other
Midway game references.

Cruisin.
Cruisin was, but was up there.

Cruisin is one of them, yeah.
Which is their game to the

Cruisin games, yeah.
That's awesome, I didn't even think about that.
See.

It's one called Doctor Muto or
something there's.

Well, that would have been way
later.

Oh yeah, that was PS2, Yeah.
Zigzag these are monkey might be something.
Cruisin's the only one I had.

Cruisin's one.
Some of these are actual, like

QB post is like an actual play.
I don't know, spider legs.

Spider legs could be a reference
to something.

Sounds like it could be.
I don't know what else is there here.
Let's see.

I don't know what else I picked.
Turmoil dog hook DAWG.

Sub zero, there it is.
Yeah, Sub zero Hail Mary's obviously an actual play and
then all the defense plays are are are pretty limited,
unfortunately.

I wish there was more like I
wish there was more crazy like blitz play so you could just
send everybody at them and there's like two of those and
that's it.

I mean, you could do whatever
you want with your player that you're you're selecting, but for
all the other players in the field to kind of do the same to
do a, you know, a blitz or a suicide that they call it and
stuff like a.

Suicide.
Fuck yeah.

Yeah, man, just everybody go at
him.

Oh, come on.
That was a catch.

So I I think, you know, it's a
sports game, It's an arcade game.
It's crazy violent fun.

I do think Jiggy we we sort of
blew past it a little bit.

But I do think that that it does
still look pretty good.

I agree.
Oh yeah, yeah.

You know, it's got those, those
chunky polygons and characters and stuff.
But like, it makes sense.

I think like it, it works for
this.

Every character is like the same
model with just color palette differences.
I think there's a couple guys that look like the lineman, I
think are just like a little bit.
They have like a, they have like a belly on them essentially.
That's the difference like.

Slightly slightly bigger.
Yeah, but I think everyone like everybody.
Has the same buff arms.

Exactly.
But everyone's just huge and jacked, which is not.
The case they're built like

Samus, dude, they've got those
big ol power suit shoulder or

CM.
Oh yeah.

Now we just need that that NES
fucking like.

Five dudes dove with that one
guy.

That's a suicide.
That's probably because it was a.
Suicide so good.

Football is the ultimate
strategy RPG, man.

You see when they're standing
there and they're like, they're like wiggling their legs like
Elvis.

Do you see that?
Oh yeah.

Like when they're ready to like.
They're like waiting for the punt.
They're like.

Going to get it.
That's Elvis, right?

Yeah, for for sure, yeah.
That's that's what he does, he says I'm getting.
It he was picking.

Back in the through.
So that's the other thing.

So like if a team is on fire,
for example, one of the things you get is like if someone tries
to tackle you from behind, if that guy's like hitting boost
and he you don't, I don't know if I don't know how it
determines this.

The guy who's on fire will carry
that guy like a piggyback for like 10 yards before he falls
down.

That kind of shit's amazing.
Like that's amazing.

That's that stuff is great.
Like we need more of this.

We've said it already, but we
need more of this shit, you know?
Like this is honestly, man, this is way more, I'm getting way
more laughs out of this than I would regular football.
Like just watching them flip over each other and piggyback
and like that dude fucking dove 30 feet in One Direction.
Man, that was so cool.

What?
They're just fighting, dude.

I'm telling it if you guys,
whether it's it's an emulation thing, which I know is not super
easy with the original Xbox or something, but if you want to
play an updated version, look for Blitz the league.
I think they made more than one of them.
I just have the first one and if you have an original Xbox, like
it's not going to be expensive, maybe maybe 10 or 15 bucks at
the most when you see it.

So it is 100% worth playing.
I haven't played in a while, but

I remember at the time one of
those ones where I think I, I, I think rentals were still might
have still been a thing at the time.
And I rented it and then I liked it so much that I bought it when
I saw it like on sale when I was younger and and I still have the
same, you know, I got rid of it, but I was like, I saw the same
Xbox.

I'm going to find this game
again and I'm going to buy it like it's it's great and it's
stupid violent.

You know, it doesn't take itself
seriously, like none of these games do.
So good updated version.

If you want to, you know, you
can play it on more modern hardware.
It looks pretty good from what I remember.
Or just go back and play these like they are.
They still hold up.

It doesn't really matter what
they look or sound like or whatever, They're still fun.
Like the the just the gameplay of it is just stupid fun and
even when you lose, like when I lost a couple games, I was like,
all right, whatever, cool, I'll just play again like it's it's
great.

I'll jump in again.
They're.

Super quick.
They're super quick.

Yeah, the games are like maybe
like 15 minutes or something, like they're not, they're not
long at all.

So that's really cool.
Yeah.

So that's great.
So, Jake, every once in a while

I, I remember to ask what we
would rate the games.

So this time I remembered,
regardless of which one we played, what do you think of NFL
Blitz if you wanted to give it sort of a number out of 10?
Probably like a like a 7.5.

Nice.
Yeah, yeah, Like that.

Yeah, I.
Think it's pretty solid.

Yeah, it's fun.
Something I would sit there, boss.
What?

About you boss, boss, I would
say yeah, it's 7 1/2 or like an 8 because like even as a non
football guy, I still thought it was super entertaining.
I would love to get a friend over and just goof around and go
fucking nuts on this game.

Yeah, that's the that's the
beauty of it, right, Is that it lets you just kind of fuck
around and if you mess up or if you get tackle or it's an
interception, you're like great, let's do it again.
Like it just does not.

It encourages you to just keep
going because it is so fast.

Like every aspect of the game is
fast.

Everything, no matter what
happens during the game, selecting plays.
Like Jiggy said a while ago, the way 5.
Seconds. 5 seconds. 5 seconds.

It's really not enough.
You're right, it really actually is not enough.
Read.

The names read like three of
them, and I go, well, I hope this one works, yeah.
Hey, I haven't seen that arrow point that direction before.
I'm going to pick that one.

Oh my gosh, then there's
multiple pages.

I didn't even realize that.
Oh, really?

Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

Oh shit, yeah, Page 3.
Yeah, there's 3-3 pages I think for offense.
I think defense there's one, maybe 2 depending on which kind
it is you have.

Savant levels of reading.
To be Oh yeah, you have to know exactly where you're going.
Yeah, I, I think I'm on the same page, maybe seven and a half. 8
is probably where I'd be two, like it's just stupid fun and
that's great.

It's refreshing, honestly.
Like with all the games, like modern games, especially having
something like this is what we need, which is why I think we
kept, we've said so many times so far.
That's why we would want something like this.
Whether it's actual like humans playing the game or it's, you
know, the mutant football or the robot baseball that I was
talking, like, just give us some more of stuff similar to that.
I think we need a breath of fresh air with crazy shit like
this.

Like we just do and this does it
and did it for years and it's just been too long since we had
something like this or at least something that, you know, was
insanely popular like this one was right.
So NFL Blitz, great games.

Pick up any of them.
Honestly, I think you're going to have a good time no matter
what.

They all pretty much play almost
exactly the same just as fast, just as crazy.
Yeah, they're fun.

Yeah, they're great.
The the ones that are like 2002 thousand and one if you're using
like if you're playing like this version of them, but the real
players just looks a little bit sharper just because they've
they were able to sort of fine tune things.
But after that they're still awesome games.
So NFL Blitz, check it out.

And gentlemen, thank you for
joining me.

Jiggy, where can everybody find
your stuff?

What's what's happening sort of
early, early bit of the year here in 2025?
Well, go.

Go go find me on YouTube.
And we're we're starting to dive into actually PlayStation one.
So a little, a little bit of blasphemy going on here, but
people have been requesting

PlayStation enough and I'm like,
you know what, let's play some

PlayStation games.
So hey, we're covering some of the platformers on that.
So it's gonna be fun.

Well, same generation, so it's.
Oh yeah, it's it's.

Inferior controller, but you
know, whatever.

I oh IA 100% agree with that
early place.

I mean honestly I'm just not a
fan of PlayStation controllers in general.
The five is I think 5 is I actually.
Do like to do a Full disclosure?

Yeah, it's OK.
That's all right.

Me the the five is great in a
lot of ways, like for a lot of reasons, but I I still very much
despise the fact that the joysticks are just right beside
each other at the in the middle of the control.
I hate it.

Yeah, you have big fucking
thumbs.

They just collide like it.
That or my my fingers.

My thumbs always like slip off
of one of them inevitably depending on what game it is.
Like I just my hand just does not.
Just slippy thumbs.

I got slippy thumbs, man.
Oh.

Yeah, do I know?
I know like the the dual shot or the so so the the PS1 with the
analog sticks and the PS2 and

PS3.
They just had like the like like the bald man thumb sticks.
Do you PlayStation consoles?

Do they have like the little
like?

Yeah, four and five have a much
better that's good.

But those, yeah, like the the
two and three, like there's no way I can't.
I feel like the.

Console straight.
Listen, the PS5 controller is like a near perfect controller.
It's great and honestly the I I also like the joystick thing
isn't a huge deal to me, but I do prefer the the like Xbox
orientation of like you know, it just feels more natural, but the
battery life is something that really irks me on those
controllers like they're epic and like the haptic feedback and
stuff is cool, but the battery life is trash.
The pro controller on the switch, Switch, aside from the
the triggers which aren't the greatest otherwise, it's got the
haptic feedback.

Not to the extent that the
PlayStation has, but it just lasts like 80 hours versus.
It does.

Versus like 4 hours of my
PlayStation controller.

Yeah, and then God forbid you
play it for a couple hours, you let it sit out for a couple days
and it's like, oh, now you only have half an hour left.
Like what the fuck, you know, you know, 'cause like those
batteries, these.

Are PlayStation controllers I
have to cycle through them on a charger?
Like every time I turn it on I basically have to switch the
controller and I do not play that long.
Yeah, right, right.

I have the the switchers, I have
the power a ones, which is sort of like the third sort of like
one of the third part.

That thing also has a very good
battery on it too.

I got that a couple years ago
and has the sort of the little sort of trigger things
underneath the where your paddles.
Yeah, the paddles, that's it.

They work great.
I I you know, I played the first game I played with it was when
the prime remaster came out.

I guess it was last year and I
was like, oh, it's a first person game.
I kind of don't want to play it handheld.
I want to get it with a controller.
They had one on sale.

I was like great.
It's it's great.

I really, really like it and I
think it also has Bluetooth built in.
I think I could be wrong about that.
So I could use it on my computer if I wanted to as well, which is
nice.

And it has the stagger joysticks
just like the, you know, it's the same thing as the Pro
Controller has that too.

So they figured it out.
Why can't Sony?

Right even even Amber Nick has a
controller with the staggered sticks man.
The Amber Nick RG PO1 controller dude.
So I use it on my laptop all the time when I emulate shit on
launchbox.

Dude it's so fucking those.
Guys have figured some shit out.

Those guys have they?
They pump out.

I was just talking to my buddies
about this the other day.

They pump out so many handhelds
that I don't understand how many people don't have one because
there's like a million different models every month.
It seems.

They've got they've got one that
looks like the the Game Boy

Advance.
They've got one that looks like the Game Boy Color, one that
looks like the fucking GB ASP like just just go buy one man.
Use your Your boy errands link and go buy an Amber nick if you
don't have one.

What is that link, Sir?
Let's plug it, Let's go.

Or is it super long and
complicated?

Let.
Me look, we're gonna cut a voiceover.
Cut to voiceover.

That's.
Higher link letter by letters, you can spell it out.
We'll be here.

We'll be here for 30 minutes
while he reads out all the numbers and letters.
It's pretty long, but I think you can just use coupon code
Superpod Saga I think.

There we go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Nice.
And honestly, I have an

Ambernick from, I wanna say 3 to
3 1/2 years ago now, I don't remember which RG something
something it is.

It's kind of like an in between
of like the GBA and PSP size and form factor and stuff.
It's great, It's fantastic.

It runs PS1, some 64 stuff.
But like anything 2D, anything before that generation is
flawless.

And pretty much all of their
stuff is pretty much like that.

So anyways, other than that,
Aaron, what about the Superpod, the network, all that kind of
stuff.

Let's plug away one more time.
Yeah, man.

So if if you want just me,
Superpod saga.com, you can find all of my episodes there and
socials and all that.

And also my website has a link
right to Superpod Network, so you can go which that is just
superpodnetwork.com.

Yep.
So you can, you can find, yeah,

Superpod Saga, remember 64, you
can find fine time all of all of

Bill's shows.
He's got three shows.

Yeah, Bill's a machine, man.
It just is a machine.

There's, yeah, there's a bunch
of awesome, great, awesome shows pumping out content all the
time.

Got blogs coming all the time,
man.

Yeah, go go check all of that
out.

Nice, nice.
Well, that's it for this week, everybody.
Thank you for joining us on this journey of professional.
Everybody.

We know everything about
football show.

That's what this was, right?
Yeah, that made sense.

Hail Mary.
Hail Mary, everybody.

Hot dogs get hot dogs.
You.

Let's do that football.
Thanks everyone for joining us.

See you next time.
Bye.