Game Players 92 - NBA Live '97 [S1E10]

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Ty Schalter & Aidan Moher

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Ty Schalter (VICE, FiveThirtyEight) and Aidan Moher (WIRED, Vulture) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become professional journalists, authors, and critics—and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games.

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Game Players 92 - NBA Live '97 [S1E10]

FunFactor

1 hour 13 minutes

3 months ago

Game Players 92 - NBA Live '97 [S1E10]

ISSUE LINK: Ultra Game Players No. 92 - Christmas 1996

Mike Salmon's shot-calling review of NBA Live '97 stuck with Ty for almost 30 years—and it cuts to the heart of everything our podcast is about.

For the first time ever, we revisit a magazine: Game Players, right after the "ULTRA" makeover that inspired the name of the very premium tiers you subscribe to! We take a hard look at the makeover, their 1996 year-end reviews, and Mike Salmon's refusal to give a major publisher's release a score it didn't deserve.

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