I bought a Switch and Animal Crossing as things went to hell earlier in the year and it went a long way to providing stress relief and keeping me sane, aside from Tom Nook's familiar predatory tactics.

That would be fantastic!

Major props if Brad Boimler is in this novel.

They need to bring back Ninja Warrior the original Japanese one, Sasuke. That shit was dope! I loved g4 and I watched it everyday in it heyday. Hell I dvr attack of the show just in case I missed it and I barely did lol. I loved the DVD recommendations and this could easily turn to streaming recommendations and we…

I was just going to chime in and say if there was no X-play there wouldn’t be a G4 but before that it was ZDTV and Leo and Patrick on Screensavers (and Leo on Call for Help).  If there is no Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb, there will be no G4/Xplay.   It’s sad to think that since G4 originally died there has been no in…

I would be interested in seeing a channel work with big gaming Youtubers(that aren’t problematic as hell, PewDiePie). It would be interesting if they just took existing content and tried to work it into a tv show format(especially since the length of certain videos and playthroughs can vary wildly) or if they did some…

I was also wondering how a revival would play in a post-Gamergate world.

For my money, there’s nobody in the intervening 6 years who has stepped in to fill the weirdly subversive, genuinely funny, and wickedly sharp shoes of X-play...so I’ll be tuning in (if tuning is the thing I need to do to watch it). If this new G4 can capture that spirit, I’ll certainly be happy.

It’s ultimately less maintenance. Arcades in Japan are much larger than any other arcades most anywhere in the world. Some are upwards of eight to nine stories with sometimes 40 machines on a floor. It also allows for quick updates. Many arcades in Japan are frequently updated with patches, unlike say American…

25/30 is still pretty good! And all my favorite tracks are in, so I'm all set.

Proper covid attire:

He’s got some real Red Dwarf energy going on there...

I wonder if they’ll include an easter egg where NPCs come up to Tony Hawk and say he looks “...like that famous skateboard guy.” 😏

That guy in the picture kind of looks like Tony Hawk. Man, I wonder what he’s been up to lately.

Considering that Jake Phelps continued to skate up until the time he died, I think that offering older versions of everyone is pretty nice. Jake remained true right until the very end and was going to be damned if old age was going to make him hang up his board.

If you’re not aware, the podcast How Did This Get Played? with Nick Wiger and Heather Ann Campbell covered Getting Over It recently. Doesn’t exactly cover what you’re looking for but they definitely go in depth about the designed frustration of the game.

They’re two, they’re four, they’re six, they’re eight
Sequential turbos hauling freight
Big and chrome and forged, it’s true!
They’re the Forced Induction Crew
All with different roles to play
trading goods or pinks the same
Down the hills and round the bends
Thomas and his friends

Wasn’t gameloft, but it was far and away the best mobile gaming had to offer back in the day.

I hated that damn dog.