Level 82 - Nagano Winter Olympics 98 - Curling Might Just Be The Best Sport Ever!

At the Winter Olympics in
Nagano, Japan, it's so bad.

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My name is David Ptrangelo and I really do love the Olympics,
like I legitimately do, but I suck at it pretty badly.
Plus, you know, in real life the

IOC is kind of shitty, but
still.

Hey, go Canada, go go Canada, go
woo woo jiggy look back.

Hello, how are you?
I'm doing well.

There are two things I like
about the Olympics. 1 is the bizarre like opening ceremonies
that seem to be possibly satanic and all the Internet black hole
that goes down like analyzing every single element of it.
Every little piece of it.

Yeah, every.
Little piece.

I love that.
That's great.

And then number 2, when Mario
and Sonic did it and I had to go like this to run really fast and
I'm waving my hands really fast, up and down, up and down.
Man, that was great.

Just the first one though, I
don't think I really played any after that.
I I think I played maybe the second one they made, I actually
don't really remember.

I think I did play the Winter
Olympics, actually.

Maybe.
Snowboarding, that could be cool.
And then it was like, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Actually, I think that that is the, I don't know what, which
ones which, but I did play a

Winter Olympics 1, whichever
one, it was nice.

It was a while ago, it was a
while ago, not recently, but it was a while ago.
But yeah, we are talking, we're talking Olympics.
But of course, because it's the

N64, we're definitely we're
gonna talk a little bit about what's going on right now 'cause
as of this recording, we're on day four or five of the Winter
Olympics in 2026.

So pretty early on, some medals
have been handed out.

Been watching man, when the,
when the, especially when the

Winter Olympics come on, it is
always on in our house.

And when I'm working and what I
like, I honestly, it's always on.
It's tough with the time change because it's in Italy.
So it's, you know, really it's pretty much just the morning and
then you watch some replays and stuff.
But I just, I love it.

I really, really like watching
it.

I love how you know, it's
amateurs, athletes, some people are just this is like their
hobby almost, but they're just really freaking good at it.
And that's just always been impressive to me.
Like I love watching hockey, I love the professional hockey
players being in it, all that stuff.
But it's it's almost like more rewarding to just watch like the
average Joe or Jane win something or even come 5th place
or something.

Like it's just they work their
ass off for this.

And I just love that stuff.
And I'm very stereotypical

Canadian.
I've never played curling.

I've never actually done it
myself, but I really enjoy watching it, learned to
appreciate it as I got older.

We'll get in, we'll get into
that.

I know.
No, I know, I know.

For some reason, this is always
on in the background in my house too, and I never turn it on.
So just be whatever.

It's always there.
I'm like, oh, the Olympics, except for I made I'm, I had to
turn it off because I wanted to watch the, the new Game of
Thrones spin off the Night of the Seven Kingdoms.
Really enjoying that.

I was.
Like 3 year Olympics I.

Wanna watch this?
I mean, that's totally fair though.
Like, why not give it a shot if you like the show or whatever?
Also, Paul Remnant, controller, says rooting for Canada this
year because yeah, you are.

Yeah, you are.
Tim's here as well.

All right, we got it.
We're getting, we're getting a house, House of House of friends
here in the Olympics.

Anyways, my point is we're
talking about the 1998 Nagano

Olympics.
There is the Nagano Olympic

Games game for the N64 as well
as the Hockey Olympics game.

What's the full title of it?
I think it is.

Hockey.
Olympic hockey.

Olympic hockey 98 and negative
Olympics 98.

Pretty simple.
So they split them up two different games.
We'll get into the details of all of that in just a little
bit.

But yeah, I love me some
Olympics.

You know, I just, I'll put on
pretty much anything, even if it's not a Canadian team, I'll
watch whatever.

I really don't care.
I like it.

I really, really do.
I I'm a sucker for it.

The IOC is kind of shitty and
kind of corrupt, but the games themselves are fun to watch.
What isn't these days?

Yeah, well, that's very.
You know what?

Yeah, it's shit.
Oh God, everyone.

He's right.
Except for Nintendo 64.

That's never.
Corrupt or remember 64 as far as you know, everyone, it is not
corrupt.

You won't find this show on the
Epstein files.

No, it's not on any files
whatsoever.

There's no paper trail of
anything here, so or e-mail trail really.
So OK, before we get into the into two games.
Oh, Tim says he's not at work for once, but I am driving
through the mountains so my connection might be an issue.
Look at this.

This guy is going to go ski down
a mountain before we talk about the N64 characters.
In Down Down a Mountain, as we're talking about a game where
we skied down a mountain.

Perfect.
Good thinking, Tim.

Tim is just he's more into it
than we are already.

Look at that.
That's great.

Yeah.
OK, so I mentioned last episode we when we talked about Tonic
Trouble that I'm kind of looking for.
We want to build up the Ocarina of Time kind of like what we did
with Banjo Kazooie, where we played a couple games that are
in the franchise and then sort of, you know, capped it off with
with the game itself.

So our green of time is just one
of those games.

The the question that we had
from our voice cast dot app last week or last time during that
episode referred to it as a very terrible game, which obviously
we know that it is.

So we have to like, you know,
work up to it to make ourselves feel better before we get to a
terrible game.

So I want to put out a poll of
Zelda games that we're going to play leading up to it.
I think one of them we've already decided we're probably
going to do 2, maybe we'll do 3, but probably 2.
One of them is, what is it, 4 swords?
Is that?

Yeah, and GameCube 4 Sword
Adventures, Yeah.

Or is it?
I can't remember the full adventures.
There's AGBA version and a

GameCube version.
We'll figure out which one or ones will play.
That will be one of them.

The other one I want to, I want
people to help decide which one we're going to we're going to
play.

So I'll have a couple of
choices.

But as of right now, I thought
I'd open the discussion just a little bit since we played
around with it a little bit last episode 2.
I thought Jiggy that we could do my, my, I'm leaning towards the
very first one on NES and

Famicom or the second one, which
is the weird.

Yeah.
And then maybe we'll pick one more and then I'll see how what
people say.

So my idea is to pick maybe
those 2 + 1 more, which we can sort of narrow it in on, or I
can just sort of pick out of the blue kind of thing.
We'll play those, talk about those, do a separate episode in
each of those games, each of the two games that we end up doing.
And I'm going to put up a poll,

I think on YouTube might be 1 of
it.

And then I'll share that link
because that, that link can go for for quite a while and, and
we'll lead up to it.

You know, it's not like you have
to get your vote in in just a couple minutes or a couple
weeks.

Like we're going to lead up to
it and take our time with it and pick the right week, pick the
right guess, pick the right games, all these types of
things.

Get Jiggy's cat to join us, Like
all that stuff.

So, yeah, so I don't know, I
feel like, I feel like the first two are not a bad place that I.
Like it, Yeah.

I've never played through either
of those.

I've played both of them, but
I've never played through them.

So that would be my goal.
I'm going to like, push through both of them or one of them, One
of them.

One of them at least Yeah, yeah,
there you go.

Tim says Zelda 2 love the Tim
says play Zelda 2.

Jiggy will love the difficulty
as much as Perfect Dark.

So if anyone hasn't heard that
Jiggy played the highest difficulty of Perfect Dark on
stream for weeks and weeks and weeks.
If you go back and pretty much the entire second-half of 2025
felt like we were constantly, I was constantly asking what's the
update on Perfect Dark?

How's the stream going?
And it was, it was a struggle.

Fun but a struggle, right?
Yep, Yep.

Yeah, OK.
So that's probably where we're going to keep an eye out on
social media and on the YouTube channel remember 64, where we'll
have a pull up and you guys can help us narrow down the choice
of what that other Legend of

Zelda game is going to be.
So that's how I want to do that.

And we'll, yeah, we'll keep
talking about when we're exactly we're going to do it.
But we got a couple good games coming up as well in the next
little while and also talked a little bit about doing more
sports games.

We'll see.
We'll see which ones we narrow in on couple guests that we're
talking to to, to come on the show as well.
So it's going to be fun.

So stay tuned everyone.
All right, Jiggy, we talked a little bit about the actual
Olympics.

Now, maybe not this game
specifically or games either of these games specifically, but do
you have, other than the Sonic and Mario Olympic Games, any
other Olympic themes, sports games that you ever played sort
of grown up?

Or did you ever play any of
these two?

No.
No, I, yeah.

I can't think it.
McDonald's, I think had an

Olympic, an Olympic Games, but
it wasn't winter.

It was like I remember there
being like sprinting, but I don't remember what it was, but
I think it was on N64 actually.

If there's another Olympic game,
it could have been gamekeep though I'm not sure.
I don't know.

I don't even know what it was.
That's my only.

Experience.
Yeah, it looks like there's just the one on the 64 when you'd
sort of search for it, unless there's like a Japanese, you
know, only Olympic Games or something like that.
But I don't see any other ones that are specifically.
No idea, I just remember there being something at McDonald's so
it could have been a different console though but.
Tie in ones that is like, you know, a a demo concept type
thing that ends up, you know what I mean?
Like one of those sort of small games.
I don't know how you would do that if they would, they
wouldn't give you a cartridge or something.
But yeah, anyways.

Or like that Burger King game.
What's that?

Burger King, where it's like a
stealth game, but it's.

Burger King, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They had they had a they had a couple, they had one.
It was like a stealth, stealth

King was what it was.
And then there was like AI think there was like a bumper cars 1.
Oh yeah, like.

Bumper King or something.
And then I think that was.

Game Cube generation I think it
was.

That was 360.
I know it was. 360 Oh, OK.

But there was one other there
was, there's three of them.

And I know that I think the
Stealth King one was the considered the best one.
Yeah, it sort of has this like weird sort of cult following
type of thing.

Oh, of course it does.
Yeah, it has to because it's just so weird and it's like, how
is this actually decent?

I totally get it.
For me, I don't think I ever played the Nagano Olympics game,
but I but I played the hockey one because, you know,
stereotypical.

Yeah, of course, but also like,
I don't think I had a ton of experience with it.
And it may just be melding together with the wing.
Gretzky's hockey, because that's what it is.
It's pretty much the exact same game.
Yeah, it's the exact same game.

I yeah, I had a thought.
I was like, this is Wayne

Gretzky's but like Olympic
themed.

And then only to like look it up
and people are like, this is just a reskin of Wayne Gretzky's
3D argument.

I'm like, Oh yeah, OK, I don't
need to play this anymore.

Do you have any time with?
Did you play put any time into it?
Or just a little bit, Just a little bit.
I kind of got the gist of it pretty quickly.
I was like, I've already played

Wayne Gretzky's.
Like, so much so.

Yeah, it's, it's the like.
Identical.

It's the same freaking game.
So the only thing I could really find that is in any way detail
about this is very obvious.

It's excluded from the Olympic
game, which I already said, and it is using the same engine as
the winger XC's 3D hockey from I think just the year before or
year and a half prior.

That's it.
And then it's just international teams with the players that are
on those international teams.

And the difference between this
version and I think it's

PlayStation is there's a couple
teams that are not on the N64, probably just do the storage
space or something or the other way around.
It makes sense.

And it's like, it's like random
teams that weren't, you know, wouldn't be considered quote UN
quote competitive, you know?

Yeah, that we didn't care about.
Yeah, that people aren't.

It's not the US, it's not
Canada, it's not Sweden, it's not Russia, it's not those
teams, right?

So I, I wanted to loop this in
together because it's like 1, I kind of already knew that that
was the case.

And two, it says Olympics, so
let's just do the Olympic Games together.
But at the end of the day, the easiest thing we can do is not
really talk about and waste too, too much time on that game
because just play Wingrix's 3D hockey.
It's a better game, even though it's older.
And as Jiggy's dog barks, he's just going to go hush the dog,
Hush the dog, it's all good.

Don't worry about it.
It's fine.

It happens, it's OK.
It took me a SEC to get the little guy down today for the
first time in a long time.

I had to go back into the room
and and help him calm down, which he hasn't done in quite a
while.

He's been pretty consistent with
his going to sleep time.

He's just not really early.
So so the only thing I will say about either the Olympic one, if
you're like into playing, you know, want to use international
teams and sort of have multiple stars on one line.
Like I can understand the draw of stuff like that.
It's kind of like an All Star team in a way.
Cool.

That's fine.
Whether it's this or Wayne Greg, she's 3D hockey.
Do yourself a favor and change the control scheme because the
default control scheme in and and angle that you play at.
They're just, they don't work.

They're just not good.
Take it from a Canadian folks.

It's it's just so like why is I
think, I think shoot is like down C or something and and hit
is it's just, it's all, it's all over the place.
I understand wanting to use multiple buttons to do different
things.

I get that.
But holy jeez, man, it's just, it's so awkward.
Just simplify it.

There's there's different
control schemes in the game so you can switch it up and that is
the first thing you should do is change it and look at the the
map that it tells you what it is and go OK, that feels more
natural and just play around with that because otherwise the
game is worse than it should be just because of the control
scheme.

Fair enough.
It looks fine.

It sounds fine.
It's the same game.

Nagano Olympics 98.
Let's talk about that.

So made by Konami.
For some reason I thought that was a little strange.
I didn't expect that.

Yeah, I've.
I was immediately like, oh

Konami, this might actually be
amazing.

Wait what?
Let's let's hear that Konami ping.
Not the one I thought of because usually it's like the longer one
from like the SNES days and stuff but also long intro.
I don't know if you watched it.

Didn't actually.
It's like 4 minutes or some shit, it's so long.
And start.

That's where I skip.
But the music is great, I'm not gonna lie.
Like this is Primo elevator music, flash corny porno music.
Like that's what it's good.

Hello there.
Hello dear.

I'm an active sort of guy.
I enjoy a good lose just like anyone else.
Sir, that is a bobsled.

How dare you?
Oh, oh, I'm sorry, minus speed.

Skating.
Yes, it is your mistake.

How dare you?
OK, so the gist of this game is they throw in as many sports as
they possibly can.

You pick which ones you want to
play, or you go through a sort of championship mode where I
think you play through seven or eight different ones.
You choose which ones and it sort of adds up your score and
competes with, you know, either another player or against the
CPU.

And that's basically it.
But there are, I want to say there's a, is there a dozen?
There's ten different events, but a couple of those have
different versions of that same event.
So you're cycling through a bunch to try to figure out which
ones to play.

This is one of those ones where
I recommend either looking up some sort of guide that gives
you some hints in my opinion, or the manual to kind of tell you
how to control some of this stuff.
Is that the first thing I noticed?
So Jiggy, you said you hadn't played this before.
What was your impression sort of going in and and did it change
sort of as you sort of got a handle on how things worked?
Yeah, it changed a little bit later.
When I first started I had actually exactly what you were
saying.

The controls I didn't find
intuitive and like their explanation of the controls are
not intuitive because it literally unless I miss
something, they just pop the controls on the screen real
quick.

They're like L is power, R is
power, A is something else, and you're like, OK, we'll.
Show it here probably when they start an event, but it's like,
yeah, they basically show they give you like it's kind of when
they show what the, let's say what the the times are for
everyone that's competing right now.
And instead of just showing, you know, whatever you would see on
TV underneath it, they have a little icon that says A does
this, B does this.

This one has handle for the
joystick, whatever handle means an edging for A, which I guess
when you're skiing, edging would be, you know, a tighter turn or
something like that.

But that's it.
It's just these two buttons and simplifying controls for a sport
that is complicated and takes a lot of skill.
I understand that, but kind of needed a little bit more I
think.

And that's really basic.
The downhill felt like a slog to me.
And that was, it's the first one that you play because it's just
the first one that shows up.

So I did this and at first
you're like, oh baby, let's go and you're flying.
And then 'cause it does.

Look like you're going pretty
fast, I think like that kind of stuff, like they, they give you
that sense of speed.

Yeah, They give you the sense of
speed, you're hitting the flags, but then you're playing that for
45 seconds straight and you go,

OK, what, what now?
And then it just keeps going another like 35 seconds.
And then finally you just like hit the end.
You're like, OK, there's just no, there's no like in between
action.

There's no, there's nothing to
keep you really engaged.

You're basically just you're
moving fast downhill and you're steering.
That's that's, yeah. 'Cause it automatically, it
automatically sort of pushes you like you press AI think to go or
whatever, but like your speed in something like the downhill is
which on the surface feels like a very simple sport and and not
a bad idea say like, OK, this is the one you start with because
it's like, OK, you're supposed to go between flags.
You're supposed to not fall and try and be the fastest.
OK, cool.

Like a time, like a time trial
almost right.

Like I get it, you know, and
that's generally what it is.

But yeah, there's not a whole
lot of extra, you know, it's very.
There's nothing to keep you locked in, it just feels very
basic.

Yeah.
And like, you wanna do like the edging with a button 'cause you
know that that was a function and you start doing it and then
you sort of realize, at least I did, oh, I don't need this.
And in fact, if I do do this, it makes me go way slower.
You slow down, yeah.

Like your best, just not even,
not even edging at all.

Just go straight down the
mountain.

My, my biggest issue once I got
a handle of like, OK, this is how it feels to turn too too
early or too late, which, you know, I get that.
That's just part of learning how things control in general is not
being able to see that much ahead of me.
You know, I think it would be very simple and honestly kind of
I wanted to say in Canon, but in real life, you know, these
athletes study these tracks.

That's part of what you do.
You practice and you study what angle is best for you.
How do you better?

How do you optimize your your
ski or your snowboard or whatever sport it is in order to
be the best in the world for this competition.
So I think even just having like a little mini map, like doesn't
have to tell you where the flags are, doesn't have to tell you
even how long you know it is or, or what you know, like it just
simply a a line that's kind of says, Oh, this is kind of
generally where the turn is or generally where the The thing
is, like, because I found it like I missed flags because I
couldn't see over the hill, whereas the athlete know they
know where that flag is, right.

And it felt like, well, now I'm
just now they're just gaming the game instead of making me enjoy
this the way that I feel like I should.
So I was a little bit annoyed with that and maybe I was just
looking for more than I should have, but the skiing stuff is
all kind of the same.

Yep, it kind of feels the same.
I don't know that it.

It was cooler when you did go
off like an edge and like flew in the air a little bit.
Yeah, that is let's see.

OK, so.
You kind of do it in the downhill like once or twice,
but.

The freestyle is where you do
the jumps and you do different tricks and stuff like this
stuff.

But this is a different sport,
right?

Like this one's completely
different.

So when you do just the basic
racing, it's what we were just talking about.
That's what that is, right?

And they have two different
distances.

I think it's whatever, a couple
1000 meters and 5000 meters, whatever the actual like events
are.

And then you go on to something
like this one, which is, sorry, the freestyle skiing aerials
where if you don't know what that is based on just the name
is they, they go off a very steep hill and they have a very
steep jump.

And they just do as many flips
and dips and whatever and all that stuff sort of in the air.
And you try to land it and you get a score for it.
That's how it works in real life.
That's how it works in this game.
But in this game you have to do it kind of a strange way.
Did you figure this out at first 'cause I was very.
Confused, I did not figure it out at first.
Again, another reason why having some sort of guide, which I
usually don't like doing, have some sort of guide and or or the
manual sort of pulled up on APDF or something like that is is
helpful.

Because if what you have to do
is you pick one of I think it's 10 or 12 different tricks.
Yes.

And then it's your turn to to do
the jump and you try to just keep tapping A or BI think or
B&A together back and forth in order to build up your power,
which I guess is the power of how high you might jump.
And then based on that, the athlete does or has enough time
to do the tricks that they need to do.
And then you have to press 1 button when you land in order to
land the trick.

So do as many twirls and flips
as you want, but if you don't land it, you're going to get
docked a lot of points.

Sure, that's fair, but holy
shit, landing this was it was hard.
Yeah, I played this for like 2 seconds and then I'm like Nope.
And I I quit and I did a different event.
Yeah, the thing I did realize on this one was I still think it's
worth with giving it it it a shot like a longer shot because
I do think once you are able to pull it off, it's kind of cool
to see the different moves.

It's kind of cool to see how you
tally things.

The landing I think is the
biggest issue because the what you have to do is you have to
press.

I think it's B right when the
back of your skis hits the ground, which I guess on the
surface or on paper makes sense, but it's kind of blurry and not
that sharp, at least not in my experience of the way I played
it, to be able to tell exactly where that really really thin
dark line is when it touches the snow.
No, I just gave up.

I don't, I don't know, not even
going to, not even going to pretend, man.
Dude, I'm impressed with this person who's just getting first
place all the time.

Because that certainly was not
me.

No, definitely not.
Not in like any event.

I didn't.
I think I came first in one thing, which we'll get to
eventually, and it.

Was I wonder if this it's the
same thing that I also got first in OK?
We'll we'll get to when we get when we get to the sport that
you came first in, We'll we'll both, we'll both mention it.
Yeah.

OK, So what did you move on to?
What was sort of one of the ones was like the first one that
clicked per SE, like without even really having to try too,
too hard.

What was one of the ones that
you were like, oh, this, this feels good.
Even if I'm not, you know, fantastic at it.
The first one that really clicked, I mean curling.
Oh, curling.

I was really, I was really drawn
to curling.

This is making fun of me
watching curling and this I.

Didn't make fun of you at all
for watching curling because I was going to comment and say
this was my favorite event of the game.
And it was for me too. 100% Is this the 1:00 you got first?
Yes, it is.

Yes it is, and me too.
It's the only.

One, because it makes the most
sense.

It does.
You line it up, you have power.

You, you know, you brush it and
give that little extra.

Yeah, like at the end of the
day, curling I, I find interesting because I like the
strategy of it.

Like I like the the the fact
that like this week, every single time a rock gets thrown,
every single time, it doesn't matter who you're playing
against.

So whether it's a team of
whatever team or individual or just to like whatever it is, it
always seems like every single time it's something different.
And you would think that something like this, like like
this type of sport just in general, like in real life is
just like, Oh well, everyone's just going to try and throw it
in the very center and you're just going to keep knocking.
And whoever shoots blast, basically they win because they
knocked the other team away and that's it.
And that never, never happens.

And it's always comes to be some
sort of crazy strategy or if it's a close match, it's always
really entertaining.

And for the most part, I think
this nails that.

I don't know if you felt in any
way if that's how it turned out for you.
But yeah, this is the, like I said, this is the first one that
I I got in and like all the mechanics made sense.
I think I had to take like one turn of just being like, OK,
this is how I lined it up.

This is how I shoot.
This is how I do a little sweeping.
But it was it made sense and it it worked and I was engaged the
whole time.

Right, right.
This despite it being a, you know, fairly slow sport,
obviously there's there's enough here to sort of find a way to
make it interesting, you know, and it doesn't feel like they're
like, it's like this is like the only curling game ever, I think.
I don't know.

And it's mixed in with I, I I
can't think of any any other ones.
I'm, I'm going to look it up because I'm sure there was like
1 obscure one that was only in

Japan or only in the European
region or something like that.

But so was it the controls?
Was it sort of the simplicity was like what was like the main
sort of, I guess you kind of said like it was kind of easy to
understand that's why you liked it the most.
Yeah, easy to understand, but also it's the, I think what you
said, the strategy, there's strategy to it.
There's it's less go downhill or hit button at this time and it's
more like, OK, I'm going to plan it out.
I'm going to put this over here.

I'm going to give this one a
little more oomph.

Give this one a little less
oomph.

Like it's, it's just, I don't
know, it just it's more engaging.
It's more engaging in general.

And there is and there's
multiple things that you're trying to do too, right?
Like that's, I mean, that's just curling or sports similar to
this in general, right?

You got the power, like you
said, you can curl it too.

It's not just like, oh, a
straight shot.

They allow you to sort of
choose, you know, I want to put a spin on this thing and then it
actually does the turn.

It doesn't look janky.
You know, it doesn't feel like the CPU is kind of ripping you
off or anything with cheap shots or something that you'd never be
able to pull off.

Where as I think with most of
the other sports, especially the racing ones, how we both said we
were terrible at it, it just felt like the times that they
were hitting were just like, how are you doing this?
Yeah, like I said, go down, downhill.
They give you an option to edge and I felt like if I edged at
all I would lose, like I wouldn't get first place.
Yeah, I'm like, what?

I'm sure if you watch this EPU
run they'd be like Ed like doing the turns so tight all the time
and still crush you in timing.

You know, I know.
I can tell you my least favorite event though and just get it out
of the way.

Sure.
Snowboarding halfpipe.

Oh really?
Yeah, that was my least.

Favorite event it was.
It was close with another but I won't spoil the other one.
But the snowboarding halfpipe was my least favorite event.
OK.

I'm gonna pull that up 'cause I
wanna see it, 'cause that was definitely not my least
favorite.

Yeah, it was my least favorite
due to the the way that you do the tricks.
I was very disappointed.

OK, so the way that it works, if
anyone doesn't know, and I definitely didn't know, I don't
think this is some like, you know, massive seller or
whatever.

So I don't know a ton of people.
Let's see.

I'm going to try and find it
here.

A ton of people played this at
the time.

Here it is half pipe.
There we go.

Yeah.
So if anyone doesn't know, this is actually not too too
dissimilar from from doing the the the big ski jump that I was
mentioning before the Alpine skiing free freestyle.
You pick the moves before you pick a series of moves in this
one instead of just one, and it takes you around on on the half
pipe.

And then every time the athlete
goes over a jump, you have to press that series of buttons
that follow that.

So what's the deal, Sir?
Yeah, I mean, if, if just describing it wasn't enough, you
select your tricks, OK.

And at first I just wanted to
get into it and just like clicked, click, click, click,
click, click and it just selected the same trick for me
forward over.

And over right you can pick the
same trick 10 times or whatever the amount of.
Yeah, but you go down and I was like, all right, let's go in the
half pipe and you have no control over your guy.
He auto moves automatically.

I'm like, this sucks.
And then you're just doing button combinations before you
hit the jump, which is like super easy, I'm not gonna lie.
Like if you miss it, it could get a little complex like what
they're playing here, but I mean it, it's easy.
If you're if you do any sort of

QuickTime event in any game
ever, you can nail this.

It's no problem.
And it's just it's so long.

It's so long, you do it for like
a solid 3 minutes and it's just boring.
There's nothing to do, there's no action.
If you would move at the same time, it would be more engaging,
but you don't.

You wanted SSX within Nagano
Olympics 98, that's what.

You wanted, I wanted to be able
to move on a snowboard.

To control.
Versus like, it's less about the button presses and more about
just, it's so slow, man.

It is, it is slow.
They're they're kind of doing like a, a rail shooter on rail
shooter, but for snowboarding halfpipe, that's, that's what it
is, right where it's like it moves for you and all you're
doing is doing button presses.

Now, I don't think anything you
said was wrong, but I didn't think it was my least favorite.
Either What's your least favorite?
Well, I wanna, I wanna hold on this one.
I actually, I think the early stuff, the sort of first half
tricks that you do are stupid easy.
You're right.

You'll no problem.
You'll hit them, but you'll have no chance.
Of being left, right B, left, right.
BI had an entire.

Yeah, if you picked the same
thing 10.

Times but it was so lame.
Anyways, I was like oh.

It it is, it is a little lame
and it is slow.

And I do agree that not being
able to control it.

Like I had this like tendency to
be like turning and pushing the joystick as they were going up
and down the half pipe just by chance.
And that actually because I was just, I felt like I was doing
it, even though eventually I realized, oh, that does nothing.
I thought I actually was for the first couple jumps.
The later combinations like the sort of latter half ones that
get you more points and stuff are actually pretty hard.
You have to do like you'll have like a second and a half maybe
to sort of input the, the actions.
And I think a couple of them have like 2 full loops.
One of them has like 3 like half circles and then ABAB or
something like that.

And I'm just like what the like
it was my hands were all over the place.
I I couldn't do it, but I wanted to try to see if I could be
competitive.

I really wasn't.
I think I came 5th or 6th at one point and I was like, all right,
that's pretty good.

I guess my, I guess my heart
sort of headed in like, oh, snowboarding is going to be the
best of this game.

And I just, it wasn't that and
it really.

And that's totally fair because
it feels like the most actiony action sport out of all the ones
that are in this, you know, or most involved, right?
Damn, the person who's playing this long play is like first
place in everything.

I What the hell?
They're too good feel.

This makes me feel bad.
OK so my least favorite.

I was actually surprised my
least favorite ones was the luge one, which is essentially the
same as bobsled was.

My second least favorite.
Yeah.

But because it's just one
person, there's not as much.

You don't have to do as much.
So the difference here is if anyone doesn't know, obviously
bobsled is a team sport and you're getting a series of guys
into this giant sled and going down this huge tube, you know,
ice, ice tube essentially, and trying to get the best time.
You know, So what you basically comes down to it in both luge
and bobsled is how fast can you push off?
How much can you shift your weight and how can you not hit
the wall or with something like luge where it's just a single
person, you know, die doing it because it's crazy.
This kind of sport, it's just crazy.
And it's just The thing is with the luge 1 is that you're just
tapping buttons really quickly and then just steering.
At least with bobsled, you have to like time when the members
jump into the sled as you're doing that power.
And as much as that is somewhat difficult to do, I found that
part of it at least more involved.
And the luge just sort of loses its luster kind of after the
first couple turns.

It kind of feels the same.
Yeah, let me, let me tell you something.
And I'm not really ashamed.

I'm not really ashamed of this.
But the luge, I did not finish it even once.
And it's mostly due to impatience rather than
difficulty because it it starts off so freaking slow.
Like you're like, it's like painfully slow.
I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm taking forever on this turn, which
seems to be like a reoccurring thing in this game, just like
slow paced when something feels like it should be fast.
And to be fair, I think it gets faster at the end, but it's
like, but it's like the start, it's just so.
And every time I'm just like, let's go.
And I've tried to make it just a little faster and then I'd like
flip and turn over and the animation's actually pretty
funny, but.

I wish I could find it, but this
person's too good The.

Keeper.
After I did it like 3 times in a row, I was like all right, I'm
done with this.

I get it.
Yeah.

And and that's the thing a lot
with this game in general is that you can play each one a
couple times, whether you complete it or don't, and then
you just kind of get it.

Yeah, right.
And it doesn't, it doesn't change.
Not that sports need to change.

I have to pause it on this guy.
Guy came in second place from

Italy.
His name is fungi, which is another name, which is another
name for mushrooms.

So I thought that was great.
Also sick outfit, man like camouflage blue-green, yellow
for some reason.

Maybe that was our actual
outfits in in Megano.

I don't know yeah that that's
that I I totally get that for this and the bobsled.
Honestly, it it is, it's the same and I don't think the track
changes, so if you do get used to it, you just know what's you.
Get used to it.

Yep.
Yeah.

Yeah, it's just not as good as
that Mario Party mini game.

That's that's right.
It's not Yeah.

This is basically a game of mini
games that don't work.

They.
Just aren't as good.

They aren't as good.
Yeah.

Which leads us.
Have we talked about speed skating?
We haven't.

Let's talk about speed skating.
Oh man, speed skating.

Speed skating Please do tell me,
seems like you have some thoughts and feels about speed
skating, Sarah.

Two different speed skating,
one's 500 meters and I think 1's 1000 or 1500, just the same
thing, just longer so.

LRLRLRLRLRLRLR and I don't know
if I'm doing it right.

Loose stamina, loose stamina,
loose stamina, stop moving, stop moving, don't do anything around
the turn, gain stamina back.

That was my strategy and somehow
I won and I was like I was going.
To say, does that, does that feel like you wanted it to be
that way or I can't tell if you liked or disliked it?
No I I would have really liked to have just been able to press
LRLR as fast as possible through the whole thing and gone really
fast.

I didn't mind the stamina meter
but sometimes the LNR like pressing felt really janky too.
Like sometimes the the switch off was like weird and then it
would like slow me down and I'm like what did I do?
Wrong.

And yeah, it doesn't feel, you
know what it is, is that I think

I mean it's supposed to be
whenever you whenever the the character pushes off with their
skates, right?

Whenever they take a stride,
which I understand the the issue, I think, is that you're
watching this bar at the top more than you're watching their
feet.

And because the animation is
kind, not janky per SE, I don't know if janky's the right word,
but very stilted is it's hard to really tell exactly when that
step happens.

So regardless of which thing
you're watching, it doesn't feel natural.
And then that hurts your stamina and your timing and your power
and ultimately your time, which is kind of the issue with this,
I think.

Yeah, again, speed skating.
This actually is one of the few

I think can give you a sense of
speed, but it's so freaking long.
It's like you.

I mean, I don't think I did the
50 or the 500.

I think I did the 1000 and I was
like, why did I do this to myself?
When I got on like lap lap 4?

I'm like, Oh my gosh, when is?
It goes for a while, yeah, it is 500 and 1500.
So it's 3 laps, which which doesn't sound like a lot, but
each, each lap is roughly 30 to 40 seconds, 45 seconds somewhere
in there.

And then you have to do it
multiple times, 'cause there's two different heats or two
different sort of times that you go around.
And then it does, it gets your, does your, adds up your, your,
your time, Right.

And then whoever's the fastest
sort of gets it.

Yeah.
Paul, Tim says Jamaica has a bobsled team.
Yes, yes, they do.

In a fantastic Disney movie.
And then and then Paul says the

Mario Party mini game stresses
some outs, but at least it's more fun than what they have in
this game, at the very least.

Yeah, the speech.
The Jamaican team is cool is cool Runnings.
Is that the movie you're talking about?
You don't know that offhand that it's cool runnings.
How I'm I'm so disappointed,

Sir.
It's absolutely it's cool runnings.
I was trying to remember what it was called and for some reason
is it Cuba Gooding Junior or am

I mixing movies?
I believe he is in it.

He's one of the members of the
team I do believe.

So cool running.
Yeah.

Along but I.
Do I was thinking if I was mixing that with he has that
movie about like the snow dog?

Oh yeah, Snow dogs.
That's what it's called Snow dogs, no?
No, he's not in it.

I thought he was, but yeah, no,
he's not.

Yeah, in my head he was.
So I am mixing with snow dogs.

But the the wonderful, amazing,
hilarious Canadian John Candy.

John Candy's in it.
Yes, that's right.

Yeah, yeah, this is this is one
of those movies I grew up on 'cause it was just always on.
People had it in the VHS.

It's like, it's just a fun,
silly movie.

It's great.
It's it's such a good time.

I don't know if it holds up now.
I probably haven't seen it in like 15 or 20 years, but growing
up in the 90s, all the time it was, we were constantly watching
it and quoting it.

It's based on a team that
actually competed in 1988 and the movie came out in 1993.
So pretty quick turn around actually.
And you wouldn't you, you wouldn't really guess this, but
music by Hans Zimmer, everybody.

Whoa, that was.
A That was an interesting point in his career.
He's probably contemplating retirement and he's like
unbelievable.

He's done some.
Yeah, but he's done some weird movies and stuff, like stuff
that you wouldn't expect.

Like he was involved in Lion
Kings.

Like he worked with Disney,
right?

You know he does.
He does stuff like Gladiator,

Inception, Cool Runnings, Dune,
and The Lion King.

So the guy's got range, man.
The guy's got range.

Oh my God.
Did you see my De Niro impression?
It's pretty great.

What my De Niro impression?
Oh yes.

So I make this, there's this
like face I make and I'm like, it looks like Robert De Niro.
Once again, a reason to tune into the YouTube version.
Everybody.

I didn't realize I podcasted
with the with the Hollywood star that's been around for 60 years.
Yep, I didn't realize I podcasted with Taxi Driver.
That's amazing.

I love it.
Also, as we were chatting, I did look up if there's any curling
games, if there's any curling games.
The only thing I could find is this which we already talked
about and there's one for for

Switch actually for only 20
bucks that's called let's play

Curling.
Oh Dang, it uses like your your

ME characters.
Oh, actually, that's cool.

Or no, it doesn't actually.
It just looked like it did.

It uses motion control, you know
what I mean?

It's it's not too bad.
It has a couple mini games in it.
It felt like a very Wii Sports kind of a like game too.
Hey, they have a little mini game in the let's play curling
thing where like instead of just getting it on the circle in the
middle, like sort of what the general sport is, they have like
little almost like they turned it into more of a mini game
where they have little here.

I'm going to I'm going to show
it.

Actually, it's easier to show
than explain.

Where is it?
Let's play curling.

Come on load.
Look at that.

That could.
Be cool.

Yeah, that could be cool.
Right.

You're a little little
basically, if anyone isn't watching you basically the
little like scores on the left and right side.
It's kind of like playing what's that, that game that you play in
like the arcades where you throw the ball up the ramp and it goes
into like the 100 or the 50, the ski, what is it?
Skee ball, skee ball, skee ball.

That's kind of what this is.
But instead you're curling

Penguins and and you're on a on
a curly nice surface.

That's what this game needs more
Penguins.

More Penguins?
Penguins at the Olympics?

Why not?
Yes, Penguin.

Olympics.
Penguin Olympics.

The Penguin.
The Penguin Olympics.

Penguin Olympics.
Easy for me to say.

I think that I think one of the
one of the core issues with this game is that it doesn't feel as
visceral as it should.

You know, like you've said
multiple times, things just kind of feel a little bit slow.
I think they feel a little bit like janky at times.
I think if they just, if they had less sports or let like just
pick the 1500 for speed skating, just do one downhill, don't do
3, then maybe they could have used a little bit more space on
their developments and on the cartridge to perfect or fine
tune some of the other ones.

You know what I mean?
Does that make sense?

Yeah, but it but all the
variations are just like really simple like length variations
for the most part.

I mean they're really not that
different other than the trick ones versus the non trick ones.
Yeah, so, but like why have two different downhill skiing ones?
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.

Just say I know they wanted, I
know it's sort of like an official that has like the IOC
negative Olympics like logo on it and stuff.
Maybe that's part of the reason why they had to do it is that
it's like official and all that, but it doesn't make for a better
game AM.

I yeah, they try to make it
realistic, which is automatically.
No thank you.

I want my games to be silly.
Yeah, I think they could could have maybe taken out a couple
events, take out a couple different events and then maybe
like, I don't know, maybe they just weren't able to and that's
just how it goes.

But like, take a couple of those
events and instead make them a silly version of the half pipe
or a silly version of the speed skating, and then you have some
more variety as opposed to, oh, this one's just longer.
That's yeah.

It's not, it's not really
enough, you know, like.

I'd like to see some weird
characters too, like.

Yeah, like the like Penguins,
you know?

Like it, it could be fun.
I know.

Let me speed skate as Hulk
Hogan.

I don't know why that popped
into my head, but it'd be hilarious.
It would be funny actually.

Why?
Watching Hogan go and then he wins and he just rips off his
shirt and stuff.

I'm trying to think of there's
like a BMX game and he could play as like the Slim Jim guy or
something.

I'm like I.
Think you're absolutely right.

You could play as the actual
like Slim Jim, sort of.

Yeah.
Cartoony character or whatever it is.
Yeah, mascot.

Yeah.
That would be great.

I'm going to look.
That up Macho Man Randy Savage.

Yeah.
Come on, brother, we're going to go speed skating.
Hogan.

Hogan, let's race.
Because that's what you would say.
That's the only thing you you would say.
Yeah, yeah.

I think the only other thing too
is I want to try and pull up some sound just to sort of get a
sense of like what things kind of sound like.
Yeah, it's not bad.

Yeah, like this gear speed
skating.

I do need to say that I was
impressed with the ice effects like the reflection effects.
That's right, yeah.

As you watch as we watch the
speed skating, you can see like the rafters in the.
Yes, they did like a really cool, really cool reflection
effects because it's like your view is basically straight
ahead.

So if you're actually seeing
stuff that you don't see from the 3D model beneath you, but
it's like you can hypothesize or theorize that that would be
above you.

Like, it's really neat.
Yeah, because sometimes when the events start, depending on, I
don't know if all the all the intros are kind of the same, it
just sort of does like the short intro.
It says, oh, this is the events and this is the distance and
that.

And it kind of does like an
overhead zoom of sometimes the arena or the the downhill area
or something like that.

And like that's the only sense
of sort of space that you have.

Otherwise it's essentially like
a third person view behind the athlete every single time, no
matter what sport you're playing, right.
And yeah, something like this with like the the reflection on
the ice and stuff and with the curling too.
You, you see, yeah, you see everything that's around you
above you look, even the characters are reflected in the
ice and it looks just like the characters.
They don't look janky, like they don't look like they're less
than what's above the surface.

It actually moves very smoothly
as well.

So that's a good point.
Actually, I, I forgot to write that down.
That was something I enjoyed too.
Yeah, I, I noticed it when I was playing curling.
I don't think I really noticed it as much doing the speed
skating 'cause I was too hyper focused.
But I, I did notice it when I was doing the curling 'cause you
have time to look around, you know, kind of assess.
It's kind of interesting.

And I wonder if they did it,
they had to have done it like how rare did it in Banjo where
they like basically just mirror the character models and then
like drop the opacity or whatever.
But then like it has like it just blows my mind that there's
stuff you you just can't see.

Like it's got a whole model in
there that you just you don't see the under underbelly of the
roof.

Yeah, yeah, 'cause like, and
then when the angle changes, like curling, as you get closer
to where the shots and the button, I keep forgetting what
the name is.

The button is the middle of it.
That's what it is.

As as the as you get closer to
it on your shot, the angle kind of goes more overhead, which is
actually kind of a cool effect too, where it gives you a better
sense instead of it being really close and down to the ice and
close to the rock that you're throwing, it actually angles up
and gives you a better sense of where you're going to end up,
which is really effective when you're brushing, but also just
cool to see and also sort of like a simulating a little bit
of ATV angle.

But as you do that, it's not
even like the the models on the ice or the reflection off the
ceiling is like just flat and doesn't change.
Like it actually moves with the yank.
Like they're doing real, real, almost what feels like real time
effects.

But yeah, they're probably
simulating some version of a reflection or something like you
said and just, and just sort of copying it down.
But but it's smooth and it works and it doesn't have any slow
down, you know, like there's no like weird results of them
adding a a feature like that.

Like, it just sort of works, you
know?

Yeah, I played this on my analog
3D and I didn't really, I didn't experience anything bad or any
slow down or anything and I wondered if the original
hardware had any slow down but.

No.
The only thing I might have had is on a couple, maybe like one
or two very brief times in one of like the downhill skiing
ones.

It felt like maybe it took a
quick little.

A little dip.
Yeah, a tiny little dip, but nothing that affected what I was
doing, and nothing that happened consistently either.
Like, it might have just been that particular angle, it could
have been a glitch, it could have been whatever.
But everything else, most of the time, the game's fairly simple.
You know, there's not a ton that you're gonna have to like.
It's not gonna be rendering a ton of stuff or working too,
too, too hard.

But.
And because things don't move super fast, like you said, it's
like that's part of it.

But, but yeah, no, it, it, I, I
played the on my, on the

Eberdrive on, on the original
hardware and totally fine.

I didn't have any, any real
glaring issues with it whatsoever.
And and other than sort of like stuff like the reflections that
the the character models are fine.
You know, yeah, it's fine.

It's 1998.
Yeah, that's probably as good as

I would have expected, honestly.
And it's just, you know, the same character models with
different colors like.

There's a, it's one of those
things that's kind of like you, you play this game and the
graphics aren't, you're not going to be concerned with them.
Like they're pretty standard across the board.
There's nothing special and there's nothing like that
detracts from your experience either from graphically.
Yeah, and even though the game is going for the sort of
realism, like you said earlier, like it doesn't take you out of
it that they kind of look a little bit Polygon cartoony at
some point.

It's just, it's, it's fine.
Maybe it's just like, because that's just the expectation of
us going into something like this, playing so many games.
But if you if at the time you played this new, I think you
would look pretty good.

You know, there's no big huge
crowd shots.

There's no like extra
extravagant sort of approaches to many of the events.
But certain ones like the curling and I think the speed
skating, like you said, those little details make the game
feel better than it would otherwise.
It doesn't feel the way it looks or sounds.
I think it just a lot of the events feel a little bit slow
and bland or blander than they should I guess.
Right?

I don't know, what do you think?
I think people should check it out or.
This is I think this is going to be 1 I I don't think anybody
really needs to check it out.

Yeah, unless you're super into
Winter Olympics for some reason.

Hey I.
What do you mean?

Wait, what do you say like that?
Punk.

Well, you know what I mean?
It's like, I don't know, it's like if I told somebody like if
you're super into football and maybe you'll like Madden 9798
and 99, but if you just check out 97, you're fine.
You know what I mean?

It's like I don't know.
It's not that I don't.

Know why that was so funny?
I almost choked in my water, almost thought I don't know why
I thought that was so funny.

It's not that impressive.
You're not, you're not wrong.

It's just, it's so it's pretty
basic.

There are other.
Well, OK, there's one other

Olympics game and it's got silly
characters in it.

So that would be my vote for you
to go play Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games over this one
on the Wii where you can, like, run absurdly stupid.
Yeah.

It's just it's there's nothing.
There's nothing that makes me think, oh, I would tell people
to go play this.

I wonder if it was a joke and if
you're going to play the hockey game, like that's cool, but you
could just play Wayne Gretzky's 3D hockey.
Literally don't play this one like I just it's not that it's
terrible, it's just it's not worth going to the less lesser
than one when it the engine is exactly the same and crazier,
more goofy arcady stuff happens in a game that came out a year
and a half before it.

Just just play the the Wayne
Gretzky.

Just do it.
Just do it, Paul says.

You know, I think I'm going to
pass on this.

One that means if this comes to
NSO curling tournaments online, let's do.
It So that's what I was about to say.
What if?

What if there was just there's
not a market for it.

I know it's not big enough, but
what if they had just a curling game, whether it's on NSO, just
like they made a cartridge for this at the time and it was a
little bit more like robust.

Maybe it looked different or
sounded a little bit better or you know, things like like sort
of little small details.

I think largely the controls,
they could probably only do so much with it and I think it's
mostly fine.

Would that, I mean, maybe that
would be interesting.

That could be cool.
That could have been cool.

Yeah, I'd be more more inclined
to play that.

Yeah, mainly because it was the
most and like fun one to play I guess.
Yeah.

I mean, what what does that say
when you have an Olympic Games game and you have snowboarding,
you have bobsledding, you have skiing, ice skating?
Freestyle which is like tricks and stuff.
And the best thing on there is curling.
Yeah, I, I thought I was going to get here and tell you, dude,
I know it's stereotypical and I know that I'm Canadian and it's
like, oh, the Canadians are the only ones that like curling.
I know that's not the case, but like, yeah, of course you like
curling 'cause you're Canadian.

And now I was going to have to
like convince you.

No, no, no, you got to try it
again.

You got to try again.
I love that we both liked it.

Listen, listen here, bud.
I'm from Wisconsin.

We're basically Canadian.
So I I can't even like we might as well just have the same
opinion on this.

That's actually very true.
It's very, very similar in that.

Yeah, 100%.
That's that's very true.

We got we got Maple syrup too.
Eh, I don't.

Know does it come from us I.
Don't know.

No, we got our own.
I've been to the Maple tapping farms.
Oh.

So good.
It's probably.

I mean it's.
Probably not that it's probably the same.
We're about I think my hometown was probably about 8 hours from
Canada.

Yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Oh, at the most, probably.
At the most, yeah.

Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't too far of a drive.

If I went up to visit my
grandma, you'd be like an hour away.
Yeah, like.

If I drove from Toronto, the
Toronto area, where I am and where I grew up, to get to the
closest border crossing is less than five hours.
Yeah, like, yeah, you know, I'd,

I'd be in the middle of nowhere
and and actually, no, I could drive actually to Detroit in
about 4 1/2 to five hours, like into downtown Detroit.
The trees, the trees are pretty much the same.
It's it's pretty much the same.

Yeah.
But I, I love that it's, I love that it's the one that we both
landed on.

It's, it is, it does say
something though.

It does say something about this
game.

You're not wrong.
I 100% agree.

The one thing I wanted to pull
up was because I was wondering sort of as I was playing it, oh,
I wonder what Jiggy thinks about this and like, kind of mulling
over what I feel about this overall and stuff.
And I pulled up a couple of quotes from reviews from the
game at the time.

Perfect, GameSpot said, describe
the gameplay as quote about as tough as answering a phone when
it rings, and summed up the game as an unmixed bag of terrible,
underdeveloped games whose feeble, undernourished gameplay
comes down to timing one or two button taps.
Just not just per race, but per event.
That is a mouthful of descriptors.
That is pretty much pretty much right.
Yeah, I think, I think they're coming from the perspective of
this is a new game and we have to pay money for it.
And I'm coming from the perspective of this is an old
game and I didn't have to pay money for it and.
And move on.

I'm still telling people not to
play this.

That's you know what it can't
really, it can't somewhat up to differ.
And it's like, I don't even want to say it's bad.
It's just so unmemorable.

Yeah, that's that's true.
It just does not.

Even when the game is super bad,
you can I could still be like, no, you should play this because
it's so bad.

You know, like it's funny.
This is like there's nothing funny about it.
It's just so it's not terrible mid.
Yeah, it's not terrible.

It's obviously not very good.
It's, it's just, yeah, it's not memorable.
And it's, it doesn't have any staying power, you know, like
there's no reason for you to play it longer than what we did,
which probably in total between the two of us was only a few
hours.

Let's be honest, right?
This wasn't a huge undertaking or a lot of homework and stuff.
And like we said, we didn't play that much of the hockey game.
And that's totally fine.

That's just what some of these
games are.

You would just think that a game
that had like a dozen events would have more meat on the bone
and it just it just doesn't

Curling does because there is
the strategy and there's the things you it's time to sort of
figure out where you But that's that's not enough to say like
you have to play this game.

So sadly a miss, but also hints
of things where you're like, yeah, I could see it, but but
that's as far as it goes, you know, not not a resounding
failure and definitely not a resounding thumbs up.
So negative Olympics 98 is is mostly a mess and Olympic Hockey
98 is definitely a mess.

Just go play wanker Greg Cheese
3D hockey.

So jiggy.
We are still sort of in the first couple of months at this
point of of 2026.

What's keeping you busy, good
Sir?

What isn't keeping me?
What is it?

Oh man, dude, right now?
Currently I'm in battletoads mode.
Oh.

That's right.
And yeah, it's really hard.

My friend watched my stream and.
Paddle toads, right?

OGNES Battletoads.
My friend was watching my stream and he like texted me later.
He's like bro I couldn't even follow what was happening on
screen.

As a viewer he's like I don't
know how you beat that level.

It's just like perfect frame
tapping the turbo tunnel.

I like I got I got crazy that
and I like I'm playing it on

NSO.
So I did like the save states, right?
And I was like, I was like, OK,

I'm not going to use the rewind
function that I could.

I was like, I'm going to use
save states at strategic checkpoints.
It's just a quality of life thing, right?
Not every two seconds or.

Whatever, but like, you know,
every once in a while and then when I, but when I was in the
turbo tunnel, I did that when I got to the end, 'cause it's just
stupid.

And I like practiced it like a
couple times that I could just like do it in a row.
I'm like, all right, think I got it.
Now we're going to go back and we're going to start the turbo
channel from the beginning and beat it.
And everyone's like, what?

I'm like, yeah.
I was like, did you think I was going to, I was going to cheese
this?

No, no, no, no, no.
Real men finish the game the way it's supposed to.
I'm a real gamer.

I'm a I'm a pro gamer, a guy.
Gamer.

Yeah, real gamers knows that
safe states aren't for it.

Everyone.
I was going to do the whole push up the fake glasses thing too.
Yeah, I was like, I have real glasses too.
Sometimes I forget and I do that.
It's kind of funny.

But yeah, I'm doing that.
I just streaming that and then plenty of videos in the works.
Going to be great.

Awesome.
I'm going to just sort of sort of plug that we're gonna have a
couple of fun episodes again coming up.
Again, like I said, we'll work towards Zelda at some point.
We'll keep you posted as to what that's going to be, but look out
for the poll on on YouTube and I will share the link across
social media.

Remember 64 show and and push
that out there.

The more responses, the better,
even if you you pass it on to people that aren't watching or
listening or whatever.

I just, you know, it's a great
way for us to sort of make that decision.
Kind of make sure that we pick something that people want to
see in here.

And we'll play for swords as one
of them.

And we'll either play one one of
the two NES games and then maybe

I'll put a third option up there
too.

But try to put up options that
come out around a green of time or leading up to it, just to
sort of pick something that's that, not something that came
out for, you know, Switch or or

Wii U or something like that.
We'll go too, too far ahead.

Yeah.
What's that?

Let's play Tears of the Kingdom.
I have yet to play that game.

I am, yeah.
I don't know, I it just, I liked

Breath of the Wild quite a bit
and played it non-stop when I got it.
I don't know if I really want to do the whole make my own stuff
thing.

I don't.
It's for some reason doesn't appeal to.
I don't know what it is.

It gets some people and it
doesn't get others.

And I, for one, totally love it.
My brother and I, I think, are divided on this.
He's like, no Breath of the

Wild's better.
I'm like, but Tears of the

Kingdom is everything about
Breath of the Wild just more and, and you get the like, fun.
I like creating different like contraptions and gadgets and
stuff because it offers you a unique solution to every puzzle.
Right, which sounds great because you can kind of approach
it however you want.

I, I like that.
I, I don't know why it's like when I hear it, I go, Oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, that would be fun.

I think I could come up with
some crazy shit or try 7 different things and have fun
with each one.

Like cool.
I don't know why I feel like when I get my hands on it, I'm
gonna like, I, I don't know what it, I don't know what my
hesitation is.

I mean, there's lots of games to
play so that like there's no massive rush for it and stuff.
But I think what I want to do is if it's, if it comes to like a
Legend of Zelda game, like I kind of want to play some of the
ones that I missed before that, you know, I never played Wind
Waker.

I.
Haven't played that.

I haven't, I haven't played the
the the Wii and Wii U one.

Twilight Princess and Skyward
Sword, I haven't played those ones either.
Those are the three.

Those are the 3D ones that I
completely missed and I never got to.
I've played a lot of the 2D ones and of course the 264 ones, but
those ones, for some reason, I'm just very, very interested in.
Obviously lots of people, you know, sing the praises of of
Wind Waker, you included.

But now that it's on NSOI have
almost no excuse.

So eventually I'll get to that
one too.

I think that's probably.
Twilight Princess is the best one of those 3 though.
Looks like Paula.

Greese Paula Greese says
Twilight Princess is a fire.

A fireball, it's pretty much
it's pretty much what you want

Zelda to because you everyone
has this envisioning in their head of like, yes, this is like
Nintendo Lord of the Rings and that's what Twilight Princess is
it's Nintendo Lord of the Rings and then they never did it like
that again and.

And there's nothing, I don't
think there's anything wrong with the way that they approach
Breath of the Wild and sort of opened up like I, it's cool do
something different.

I don't, I don't mind that at
all.

I just, you know, I got, I got
to play more.

I just got to play more of them.
And I think ones that are slightly older, I wouldn't say
those games are old, but ones that are slightly older, I feel
like for some reason I want to play those first.
So we'll see.

Yeah, that's fair.
Yeah, definitely.

We'll narrow down the ones this
year and we'll play through these and and we'll have a
couple of new guests coming up and a couple of cool games.
And maybe by the time that happens, the snow will be gone,
people and things will be brighter and I'll feel better.
Oh my God, is the winter over yet?
I'm so cold.

Oh, Jesus, people, Jesus, Jesus,
Jesus, you know, don't you know?

Do you look back?
You know about?

I thought you're going to say,
do you smell what the winter is cooking?
I watched a lot of old wrestling in the last few weeks For some
reason.

I don't know why.
I don't know why.

I really like I just The Rock
was in my head.

I don't know why when The Rock
was good and not a terrible actor, but that's just my
opinion.

OK, everybody go enjoy some real
Olympics.

You don't have to play these
games.

Cheer on your, your home country
or whichever 1 you choose to cheer for.
Thank you very much for joining us.
We will see you next time on

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