10th: Tony Hawk Pro Skater

09/26/20 • 57 min

Welcome to the physically middle aged, mentally adolescent podcast! We relive our virtual glory and dig into the remaster of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2. We are having a ton of fun.

Also:
- Physically - middle aged; mentally - adolescent
- A Black Panther heads up
- Who doesn't remember Bonk!?
- Is the guilt of betraying your video game system loyalties real?
- Simulation vs just simple skins on the gameplay, we like one more than the other
- We recount our video game system history
- The old days of hard wired Xbox leads to the best video game experience ever
- The good old days when video game fun took EFFORT.
- Do YOU remember the first time you saw The Matrix?
- What does all this have to do with Biggie and Tupac?

Welcome to the physically middle aged, mentally adolescent podcast! We relive our virtual glory and dig into the remaster of Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2. We are having a ton of fun.

Previous Episode

9th: Tackling The To-Read List

We have a lot of books in our pile to read, so we discuss what is upcoming for the both of us. What have we read recently, and what are we going to read next? We discuss.

Sean's List:
- Fear Agent
- Transmetropolitan
- Jack Kirby's Fourth World
- Starman
- East Of West

Paul's List:
- IDW G.I. Joe
- Deadly Class
- The Sixth Gun
- Sandman
- The Girl From The Other Side

Also:
- Limitation breeds creativity!
- We preview our upcoming read through of Sandman
- Also, that audio book is sometimes good, sometimes... falls a little short
- Our favorite Audiobooks, and... Faulkner?
- What is Hoopla and why is it great?
- Ty Cobb is a terrible person
- Derailed... by Bill Cosby (no!!!)
- Paul has never read the King! Where to start?
- We've been working too much
- Paul triggers Sean with his Comixology habits
- Stack those code sales!

Next Episode

11th: Sandman - Preludes & Nocturnes

Sean has some loose ends to follow up on, particularly Age of Apocalypse, Mind MGMT, and Fear Agent. For the meat of this episode we discuss the first Sandman volume, Preludes & Nocturnes, and why it is so great.

Also:
- Mike Tyson makes a lot of sense in the Age of Apocalypse
- The Summers brothers, "naw, but actually"
- Claremont's X-Men makes us love the characters, and you can't go wrong
- Mind MGMT follows the rules and pulls it all together
- Fear Agent belongs in the dictionary for "Stick The Landing"
- Harbinger doesn't live up to the memories, for one of us
- Ranking the adult animated comedy shows!
- We need a James Joyce moment comparing Ulysses to Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
- Maybe Watchmen IS a good starting point for comics...