Gary Whitta
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Podcast Appearances
that were once deemed like beyond our reach you know remember how like the home like the nes port of like again an arcade game wouldn't be as good right because the hardware wasn't as good now it's better arcades are basically extinct now because you can everything they could do you can now do on a machine that is crazy to think about the fact that we had to have these boxes in our living rooms or like right next to our tv to run these eight bit games and now like straight up it's just on this little pad
Let me show you one of my... You can take it anywhere. It doesn't even waste the battery that much. Let me see if I can show you one of my favorite things. Um, real quick. This might not be the most interesting thing for people that are listening on audio, right?
Let me show you one of my... You can take it anywhere. It doesn't even waste the battery that much. Let me see if I can show you one of my favorite things. Um, real quick. This might not be the most interesting thing for people that are listening on audio, right?
You should do the Apple hearing test with the AirPods because it will test your hearing now and tell you if your hearing's fucked up.
You should do the Apple hearing test with the AirPods because it will test your hearing now and tell you if your hearing's fucked up.
This is the thing I wanted to show you. This is one of my all-time favorite arcade games. This is Outrun. This is the arcade version. Oh, that's awesome. This is the fucking arcade game. Holy cow. I used to put quarters in when I was, you know, 10p pieces or 50p pieces when I was a kid, or what you could call quarters here, I guess.
This is the thing I wanted to show you. This is one of my all-time favorite arcade games. This is Outrun. This is the arcade version. Oh, that's awesome. This is the fucking arcade game. Holy cow. I used to put quarters in when I was, you know, 10p pieces or 50p pieces when I was a kid, or what you could call quarters here, I guess.
And, like, all these arcade games, I was like, oh, man, I wish I could have them in my home. Like, I want to reach back in time to, like, the 12-year-old me and say, one day, my son...
And, like, all these arcade games, I was like, oh, man, I wish I could have them in my home. Like, I want to reach back in time to, like, the 12-year-old me and say, one day, my son...
padawan you will walk around with all of these games in your fucking pocket you're gonna like look and i'll be like what that's nutty like your child's gonna how can that be real and yet your kids will be playing the playstation 6 and you're gonna look at them and be like yo this in 30 years you're gonna be playing this on the smallest handheld it's kind of war imagine what we're going to be doing in another 20 years i do imagine i do think that like oh we're gonna be losing all our job screen panels will be will go away there'll be some kind of
padawan you will walk around with all of these games in your fucking pocket you're gonna like look and i'll be like what that's nutty like your child's gonna how can that be real and yet your kids will be playing the playstation 6 and you're gonna look at them and be like yo this in 30 years you're gonna be playing this on the smallest handheld it's kind of war imagine what we're going to be doing in another 20 years i do imagine i do think that like oh we're gonna be losing all our job screen panels will be will go away there'll be some kind of
You know, like the headsets that we have now, I'm a big believer in VR, but the technology is not really there yet. It's still too clunky and heavy and annoying in many ways, but it will eventually come down to like a pair of glasses like this or even contact lenses where you're just like, fuck, holodeck time. We'll get there.
You know, like the headsets that we have now, I'm a big believer in VR, but the technology is not really there yet. It's still too clunky and heavy and annoying in many ways, but it will eventually come down to like a pair of glasses like this or even contact lenses where you're just like, fuck, holodeck time. We'll get there.
Well, I think we'll get there. I mean, again, a lot of things that seem very quaint to us now from like the 80s and 90s, the things that we now consider cutting edge are going to seem very quaint to the next generation. Fair.
Well, I think we'll get there. I mean, again, a lot of things that seem very quaint to us now from like the 80s and 90s, the things that we now consider cutting edge are going to seem very quaint to the next generation. Fair.
In that version, you look like Andy from Alien Romulus because you've got the same...
In that version, you look like Andy from Alien Romulus because you've got the same...
style of hair oh yeah i'm not saying i'm not saying any rob or alien romulus he's he's the best thing in it um so what was interesting was everybody and i remember tim getty's going oh that's gonna look so sick in my living room in my in my you know my game room or whatever everyone reacted was there anyone at the time he was going hold on though isn't actually a bit silly because my first reaction and of many people when they first saw it was they've gone too far this is this is silly
style of hair oh yeah i'm not saying i'm not saying any rob or alien romulus he's he's the best thing in it um so what was interesting was everybody and i remember tim getty's going oh that's gonna look so sick in my living room in my in my you know my game room or whatever everyone reacted was there anyone at the time he was going hold on though isn't actually a bit silly because my first reaction and of many people when they first saw it was they've gone too far this is this is silly
The Slim was a massive, massive improvement, particularly the all-digital version of it, and then the Pro with the fins, the stripes on the side, I think looks really good. So when we bought a PS5 Pro recently, so the original launch fatty disk drive model, which I didn't want the disk drive model, but it was the only one I could get at the time, Do you remember?