Water. Churning tide turning, sun
burning. Wave crash, cookie tossing,
snake and quaking, booty shaking, scrolling, controlling
rock and rolling. Strap on that seahorse and ride.
Welcome to Remember 64, where this week we're revving our
watercraft engines. Welcome to the show, everyone.
This is Remember 64, whether it is your first time listening or
your or a returning listener or viewer of the show, welcome once
again. My name is David Pitrangelo and
I love me some racing, but man, if I could just win a race once
in a while, that'd be kind of nice.
Oh, a pretty dolphin. Hello Miss Dolphin.
I think I'm just going to chill with you for a little while.
Oh, and it's soothing sounds of the dolphin squeals the intro
race Lady. Is this what heaven feels like?
And of course, Jiggy Lookback is here with me.
Oh yeah, we're racing on some Waves Max Power crossing the
finish line with that 3D model booty.
Let's do it. Gotta love the 3D bottle
booties. And of course we have a special
guest with us. I have been on their podcast, I
think a couple of at least once, maybe a couple times.
Memory. If memory serves me correctly,
Aaron from Super Pod Saga is here to talk about Wave Race 64.
Aaron, welcome to the show. Hello, I'm going to quote my
favorite part from Wave Race 64. OK, OK.
OK. OK.
Yeah, that is there. There's some there's some pretty
cool, interesting and goofy sounds coming from this game.
That is definitely something we're going to, we're going to
be visiting in the next few minutes for sure.
Aaron, before we we jump into talking about Wave Race and why
you brought the game to our attention to have it as one of
the games that that you wanted to play as well.
But let's talk a little bit about your show.
Let's talk a little bit about Super Pot Saga and and what's
been happening lately. Right on.
Well, yeah, Superpod Saga, It's just me now.
I think the last time you were on, Tommy was still with us, but
he left. He left recently.
But yeah, it's just just me and I invite some guests on every
every episode. And each episode is a different
video game topic that we decided to talk about.
I'll let the guests decide. And yeah, we cover all sorts of
different stuff from I think the was a Day if you've been on to
talk about indie hidden gems and favorite video game locations
and we've done episodes on like the the 6th generation consoles
or like our favorite video game weapons and stuff like that.
Just a different topic every time.
You never know what to expect. It's on, it's on everything.
But just look up Super Pond Saga and you'll find it.
And it was very. It was super easy and I just
followed. Well, thank you Jiggy.
Yeah, it's just like that. It's very it's very laid back,
casual. I don't have a script or
anything. I we just go all off the cuff
and just have fun. Talk about cool games that we
like and why we like them, and goofy fun ad breaks toward the
middle where we just make up goofy random garbage and then
that's it. That's the show.
Super bad Saga. It is it is a great time to
record and a great listen I I can I can attest to that for
sure. So yeah I definitely check it
out it's it's really fun man. It like you you and Tommy and
then yourself like you you guys together and and you solo.
It's been it's been it's awesome it's it's it's just fun like
it's just fun that's that's the best way I could I I'm not I'm
not good with words sorry people but it's just fun it's a good
time so check it out So I want to go back to you before we get
into some of the the breaking down the details of the game and
stuff like that but what is it about about Wave Race 64 for you
that it was one of the games when we've chatted over over the
over time that this is one that you know I want to put my hand
up for for for talking about it what what about Wave Race 64
like hits for you back then and and maybe even now.
What's All right? I played a little bit of this
game at my my cousin's house a long time ago.
I don't remember a whole lot about whether or not I actually
played it or not, but I know that they had it and I played it
a little bit. But mostly I watched them play
it and I've been pretty interested in it lately because
it's just one of those series that Nintendo just abandoned I
think with the GameCube. I think the last one we got was
on the GameCube, the IT was like blue storm or whatever and it's
it's just like a water yeah an on water or water based we're
going to call it racing game just seems so cool and it'd be
so rad to have another wave race again And this one on the 64,
despite being on the 64 still looks really really good.
Like the character models look really awesome.
The water looks great, the dolphins and sharks and the the
seagulls. I can't think of what a seagull
was called for a minute, but. Everything.
It's it's a flying shark. It's a flying shark really, is
what it is, yeah. Yeah, and it's just such a it's
such a beautiful game. Like, yeah, it's just so fun to
play. I'll I'll get into how how badly
I suck at the game in in a little bit but it's it's an
awesome, awesome game. Nice, nice.
I want to make sure that I cue this up because I want to talk a
little bit about about the game being being made and sort of how
it came to be. Because there is a little bit of
like sort of love for this game because of the way it looks and
the way it plays and the technology that they that they
use in order to like make the waves and the graphics and stuff
so early on in this in the life cycle of the console.
So as always, let's bust out the history books everyone.
I'm learning. We're going back to the early
days of the Nintendo 64 November of 1996.
This is depending on where you look it up and depending on
where you might have lived. I believe it is either the third
or fourth release for the console in North America.
So it is very early. It is essentially a launch title
cause the the console had a launch window I would say with
games and this was within that first couple of months of when
it hit North America. So yeah, this is essentially a
launch title, but it was led by I am going.
The development of the game was led by Here I am mispronouncing
Japanese names Shinya Takahashi. That's pretty good.
That's better, right? Probably one of the easier
names, so you. Could be a native speaker.
Didn't you know? Didn't you know it was just
hiding my talents? Oh wow, this is me sucking at
this race right now. Terrible.
Yeah. You know what this was?
So if anyone's watching the YouTube version, I think this
was me playing around with like how the the steering works and
stuff, which we'll get into. And then I quickly realized
after this one race, which is the 1st and easiest, I
definitely can't race in whatever setting I chose.
So that's my that's my excuse at least for this.
OK, so it was led by Takahashi who was at Nintendo since 1989,
so he'd been there for a very long time, and NES and SNES days
and everything. He's one of the people that is
credited in Nintendo from being able to bring the company from
2D to 3D. So he's like a major player in
Nintendo, being able to just make anything for the 64 and
develop the technology. So big name in the in the in the
company. From what I could tell, he still
works there or just very recently stopped working there.
So this guy's been with the company for 40 years, which is
just insane. But hey man, you work for
Nintendo. I'm sure everyone wants to work
there for 40 years. So I'm off all for it, right?
Oh yeah. For sure.
Yeah, so the game came about. Oh, there we go.
I just restarted it. So I was like, fuck this.
Terrible. OK, so while experimenting with
the Nintendo 64 Silicon Graphics technology, a tech demo was made
and the and speak piqued the curiosity of the team and they
just said this is according to an interview with with Time.
I found it at-time.com back in like 2010, I think it was.
They said we want to quote, make something fun of it.
So whatever that demo was, which was a racing game with water
involved, they wanted to make something fun of it so that
that's it. That's what made Wave Race
Everybody make something fun. Make something fun of it.
Beautiful. Did you know that?
And you might. Were you done?
Let me ask you that first. Are you done yet?
Because there's a fun fact after that.
Please do, yeah. Because they were, I believe
they were. They originally had boats like,
yeah, high speed boats and that's what they were doing.
And then Tim Stamper from Rare said it would be cooler if you
had jet skis. Like, whether that's a passing
comment or whatever, he's like do jet skis and that's what they
did. And and it's and it's from from
Rare too, you know, which obviously was very intertwined
with Nintendo, you know for multiple reasons and games and
stuff like that. But the fact that, you know, it
wasn't like Miyamoto, that was like you know what I like Jet
Skis. Let's use that.
That's something fun. It's like, no, no, this this
guy, you know, Stamper was the guy that did it.
And I think boats could have been cool.
But immediately when I read that too, I was like, if you guys
ever played Hydro Thunder. That's what I was gonna say.
That's what it reminded me. Of is this, is this the first
racing game on water or 'cause I know, I know Hydro Thunder came
out in like 99 or something like that, so that, yeah.
So I don't there's a wave race before this.
Yeah, I mean, there's other ones that are kind of like, yeah, OK,
I was gonna mention that too. The, I don't know that it's the
first that's like on water because they're probably be some
sort of boat racer or something, even for like Genesis or there
must be something like that but for 3D, gotta be, as far as I
can tell, it's gotta be the first one.
But yeah, the the one before this, which I never realized,
honestly until I think a couple years ago that this was like a
sequel. I had no idea there was another
wave race growing up, no. Idea on the Game Boy of all
things. What the hell?
On the Game Boy, I look, I got it right here.
Look at that. Oh, wait.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's awesome. So this is my little emulator
device. I had it on there.
I had a bunch of like Gameboy games like preloaded on it, and
that was one of them. And I played it a little bit,
actually. It was, it was, it was pretty
good, you know, it wasn't amazing or anything, but it's
sort of, you know, top down and you just have like the jet skis
that kind of honestly just look like little speed boats kind of
thing. And you're just unattractive.
Have you played a jiggy or have you have you seen it?
No, I've seen it though. Yeah, I've seen that it's top
down. It's kind of like I'm trying to
think what the Mini Racers game is.
Micro Machines? You ever play Micro Machines for
NES? That's what it reminds me of.
That's what it reminds me. Of very similar, wasn't there
also? No.
I don't think it was a racing game, wasn't there another game
with boats that Rare made? It was on the Rare Replay, I
think, but not, I think. But I don't think it was a
racing game though. I think it was just like a
combat game. Oh.
Rare replay. Rare Replay.
I can do this. OK, cool.
I'm gonna look it up while you try and remember it.
Yeah. I don't know, maybe you're
talking about blast core with vehicles.
No, it's not. It's not Blast Core for sure.
Also a game that people should check out now that it's on
Switch. Blast Core is not perfect, but
it is. It's interesting, and an early
early one. Cobra triangle.
Yeah.
OK. Yep.
Yeah, 81 even. Older.
That's on Rare Replay. Yeah, yes.
Wow. I didn't know it was either.
I just looked it up too. I don't think I've ever played
that. I don't have.
Oh, it's a. Replay I don't.
Have an Xbox. Which sucks.
I do. It's awesome.
Wikipedia says it's racing. So it's it's racing.
Thanks Wikipedia. Thanks wiki.
Yeah, that game. That game rocks.
Actually, that's a. That's a pretty good.
OK, I gotta try that then that's that's awesome.
I gotta try that. Like twisted metal, but on
water. Oh shit that sounds great that's
awesome. OK.
So lastly what I wrote down as far as what the as far as like
making cause the the waves in this and and how the waves look
and how they react and all those types of things.
I think is like especially the way they look is something that
was was new at the time. They basically started making it
available in 3D for this game because you you have to
obviously code it differently and program it differently than
you would for. For 2D it's called alpha
blending. I don't know much about coding
or really what that what that means, but alpha blending
apparently is the process of combining an image with the
background to create the appearance of full transparency.
So basically they would with the waves.
What they would do is they would go between no transparency and
alpha blending and sort of put those two together on top of
each other in like motion. And that's how it made the waves
look either transparent or you know, I guess not transparent or
opaque or whatever you want to call it.
So that I I think whatever they did, however it works it to me
it looks great. I think the waves and stuff,
they they look, they still look awesome, so.
And the way the background reflects off of the surface of
the water too, man, that's so and and you can see like the
fish kind of like swimming toward they like swim toward the
the surface of the water too man, that that's so that's so
rad for the N64. It's so it's ahead of its time
like other games maybe would have had a chance to do that or
at least try to or whatever. This was like before they even
knew what the fuck they were doing with this console.
You know what I mean? Like number three.
Yeah. Game #3.
It's amazing. Yeah.
So so that's that's that's pretty cool that they were able
to to kind of do that and stuff. But let let's get into let's get
into the game itself. Let's talk about the gameplay
and Jiggy, I'm going to start with you because I asked Aaron
sort of his experience with it. But did you have past experience
with this before we started playing it again?
And what'd you think? I did not have any past
experience with this. This is like one of those.
This is strange. I've always had opportunity to
play this game. Always.
Never, never have I it like anytime it's anywhere.
It's like, well, I'm I think the problem is I I was, you know I'm
a bit younger. I got into the N64 in 99, so at
that point I already had my first game was Donkey Kong 64,
People, people know this. And then we had Diddy Kong
Racing, we had Mario Kart, we had all those why would I go to
wave race when I could do hovercrafts in Diddy Kong
Racing, you know? But it's, it's one of those,
it's always been there and I've always been curious about it.
So I'm happy to say that, you know, I got to play it and it
was fun. I had fun.
It was it was cool. I love the waves.
I it actually the game that pops into my head when I play this
game because if this doesn't show you that I'm a bit younger
is a Crash Bandicoot warped. Crash Bandicoot.
Three, because there's a Jet Ski game play in that.
Game, and I'm going to look that up real quick.
That's all I could think of the entire time I'm like, this has
got to be this is exactly like Crash Bandicoot Warped.
Which is funny because when I play Crash Bandicoot Warped, I
had the back like back thought that I'm like this is this is
probably what wave race is like like.
It's the whole game. And it was.
So, so you so you did you play it on Switch or where did you
end up I? I did play it on Switch this
time. Yeah, what it's available on
there. I I played some of my my
gameplay of of it on there as well.
The recording that I'm having running while we're recording
and that's on the YouTube version of this of this episode,
is me playing on the 64, so it doesn't look quite as sharp.
I think that you know they they've done a pretty decent job
of sharpening things up on the Switch online ones.
So I I do think that they look pretty good.
The colors pop a little bit more and stuff.
How did you, how did you, how did it feel like?
How did how did it control in your mind since you hadn't
played it previously? Well, since I used the N64
Switch online controller, it's. I imagine it's probably pretty
similar to what you experienced, right?
I personally, I was having a hard time really wrapping my
head around like doing flips and stuff at first.
Oh yeah, me too. Because it's almost like you
have to, you have to angle yourself down or up and like get
momentum and then kind of flip into it.
With the joystick it's it's different because you almost
feel in other games you would go off the ramp.
And you don't. OK, you hold down on the
joystick and it would like slowly, like backflip or
something. Yeah, I had to look.
I had to look these up. I had no idea how to do.
You have to whip it like you have to whip it.
Whip it like you go down on the up, down and up and then.
Down and up would be good. I don't know what else you could
do, but I got really good at backflips, so I backed.
Really. All the time.
I had a hard time with. I had a hard time with the
tricks when I was racing. I wasn't really.
Oh yeah, when you're racing, it's like, forget about it.
It's only if it's convenient, which it rarely is.
Rarely is and. Riding the waves was cool,
though. Like every once in a while you
get a wave that like comes with you, like it pushes with you,
and if you kind of maneuver your craft just right, you can sit on
the top of it and ride it in. It gives you like a speed boost.
It's that was cool. It is.
Cool. I think they somehow they were
able to to really like make the reaction that your craft or your
racer has with the race it, with the waves.
I think sometimes it feels like it maybe makes you like, you
know, move around a little too sharply sometimes.
But I think that's also like, well, you just have to know how
to react to those waves. Like that's just part of how the
game feels, part of the gameplay.
It's not, I wouldn't say it's necessarily a fault of the game,
but I do. I did actually like the levels
that were like the one, what was it called?
I should have them all pulled up, but it's the one that we had
up on the video a minute ago where you're sort of like in the
swamp area and stuff. Oh yeah, yeah.
That one I think looks really great to to start.
But also like I I kind of like that there aren't like a lot of
waves bumping me around. But then you go to these levels,
like this one, which is like the the fortress or something like
that, and it's just. This.
This one can lick my sack. I hate this fucking stage.
Dude, it's chaos. With the boxes and shit.
Or maybe that was the one before, but I want the boxes
fucked me up. Yeah, there's a couple of them
with the boxes and the one and then you'd like the shortcuts
and stuff like that. I so I I think that I for me, I
like the way that that you do have to take the waves into
account. They're not just there for show
kind of thing, right? So like, we're talking about
like the older versions of a game like this.
Waves are there, but they're like, for example, the Game Boy
One. If there's a wave, there's like
these arrows that point across the screen and it basically just
pushes you left or right or back or forward a little bit.
And that's kind of it. And I understand that's just the
limitations of of a Game Boy. But with this, like a huge wave
is coming, You have to like, prepare for it because it could
launch you over something. For example, that will give you
a little bit of like a a shortcut or it could totally
screw you up and you could like run into a wall or you can angle
your craft the wrong way or whatever.
And it's like you you gotta, you gotta pay attention.
It's not just, it's not just press a or hold on to A and just
go. So Aaron, what do you think,
man? How'd you how'd you feel?
Sort of picking it back up? It's weird, man.
So like, I'm a pretty big fan of of cart racers like Diddy Kong
Racing. Of course Mario Kart, Sonic and
All Stars Racing Transformed. For anybody who's ever played
that before, that was really fucking good.
But yeah, coming from from those to this was really fucking
difficult because like, I guess some of those games do have
little water sections, but not nearly as.
Like I don't want to say like complex, but like not nearly as.
They're not. Real.
Like real. Intense unwieldly.
Sometimes I. Feel.
There we go. Unwieldly is a good fucking
example because like, yeah, the first, my first, like first race
on that first track, just that stupid Oval.
All right. I couldn't.
I was like, OK, I'll, I'll try to do a power slide around that.
You know, that corner, you know, easy peasy.
But of course you're on a jet ski on water.
There's no, there's no power slides.
There's no drifting. There's no drifting.
Yeah, you just hit hit R1 or. Don't turn.
Yeah, turn to turn or not to turn?
Yeah, it was. It was hard to kind of like what
what Jiggy said. It was hard to like wrap your
mind around like racing on water as opposed to like land.
But like once you do kind of get a grip of of how the jet ski
handles maybe like when you tweak your settings a little bit
too, like make it the handling a little bit tighter and make it
more like front end heavy or whatever.
Yeah, once you get like a the handle of that, it's actually
pretty fun. Like a lot pretty fun.
It's really fun. It's it's awesome.
Did you did you tweak your your, your Craft settings a particular
way and just get used to that? Or were you kind of like jumping
around with stuff? I I jumped around a lot when I
when I first tried trying to get used to the game, I did jump
around a lot. Don't don't ever turn the the
handling, like all the way up to light 'cause that sucks.
Oh my God, the sharpest little turn and you you do like a
fucking. That's what was 780.
Up. Yeah, 'cause I I was, I was
playing on like, I don't know, like normal, I think.
Right? Which is not easy to to play.
Like it's it's hard. The, the, the, the normal
definitely is very, very hard to win a race.
And I I turned it up, 'cause I was like, I kind of screwed up
in a couple turns. I think I made it like even like
2 notches higher than what I had like previously.
And I was hitting walls. I was so I can make it.
I was just like what just happened?
Like I couldn't. I couldn't do it.
I couldn't have to go back.
Yeah, make it a little heavier. I forgot with.
I think the third stat had something to do with like Boost
or something else. I forget what that was.
Yeah, and then the. Yeah, dash and.
There's weight, yeah, There's weight.
There's man, I should just go back to the.
I should just go in this video and just check.
Guys, I got. I am so prepared that I know
exactly what what it is here. Let's see, where is it?
Where are. Things like Boost or.
From there you go handling engine and here we go.
Dash and Top End I don't. I don't get what the dash part
means though. Does that Is that like
acceleration or like? I think that's what it is, yeah.
So I think if you go to dash, it's more the acceleration.
If you go to Top end, it's your top speed.
That's how I and I I think that is the case, 'cause I think I I
went a little bit more to Top end because as long as you're
hitting all your all the the checkpoints, that extra couple
of miles or kilometers per hour on certain races, especially
ones that don't have tons of waves, I think felt like it made
it an actual difference, like I felt like it was actually going
faster. The other ones, what is it?
Gripper handling? I can't remember which one of
those where it yeah, it completely.
That's the one that completely screwed up my steering it.
Was. I think so.
Good. I couldn't do it.
I think, yeah, that's the one I fucked up as well too, 'cause
like, if you go too loose, like the slightest turn just sends
you on in a Whirlpool, man, it sucks.
Don't ever do that. Yeah, it I I I think I played a
couple races with normal just just because just try it with
the IT seemed fine. Like it's not like you're at a
disadvantage necessarily. I think a lot of it is.
I think the easy difficulty or like the the opening
championship thing. A lot of it for me felt like it
was. This is where you can kind of
get used to what you want to use, and then once you get to
the normal one, I got my ass whooped constantly.
It was so hard. I don't know, Jiggy, did you get
that far? Did you play into like the other
difficulties? No good.
No, absolutely not. I I yeah, I've decided after our
Earthworm gym 3D experience I wanted to take things easy from
now on and that's that's that's gone through even to my normal.
So I not to divert from this game but I borrowed Super Mario
RPG from my my little brother nice for the Switch, the Switch
remake. I'm super excited and there's
the Breezy mode and normal mode, and like I would always pick
normal mode for everything, but I picked Breezy and I'm really
enjoying it. Nice.
That's good, man. Hey, who?
Who cares? You're having fun, right?
That's. Exactly.
You're having fun. Who fucking cares?
Who? Gym 3D made me wanna play games
easy for. A while Aaron, please avoid that
game it it will break you. I've played it and it's, it's
it's garbage, Yeah, yeah. We we have an episode on that.
And I I think, I think there was stuff that we were like, oh this
is this is all right. But for the most part, it was
like son of a bitch. It sucks.
It's one of those games you see the glimpse of.
It could be good, it could be fun, but it's just they just
fail on everything basically. Yeah, it just does not come
together in a in a pretty in a decent package.
So I wanted to make sure that we that we covered some of the
music and the sound. I want to for sure, you know
what I'll do soundtrack is I'm going to start with because I'm
already on it. I'm going to start with how the
races start and let me know if you guys can hear this, but I
think you'll be able to do it. Oh no, come on, sound.
Sound. Why isn't it working?
That's weird. It should work.
No. All I can think of is Mario Kart
music, so I'll fill it in. Why isn't it working?
That's so strange shit. Oh God, it's still in my head
now. Well, that.
Somebody's joined me in my little singing moments.
Dude that I do that shit all the time on my show, so.
Perfect. Come on, come on, super pod
saga. Sometime we'll we'll we'll
doodly doodle long, dude. Let's.
Doodly do to do it. Oh my God, of course.
Oh man, OK, I forgot. Fun fact.
Please do what's? Up a fun fact, when this game
was re released on the Wii Virtual Console, the licensing
for the Kawasaki stuff was up. So all the advertisements and
Kawasaki related stuff was replaced with Wii, Nintendo DS
and 64 like posters and banners and stuff.
Just. 'Cause they, yeah, I guess,
'cause they would have had to, right?
That's, yeah. Did they you think they had to
get it like renewed for the for the Switch online thing or is it
had it? Renewed for Wii U, so I'm
assuming that that just like transferred over.
Oh, is it on Switch? I didn't even realize if it was
OK. It is on switch.
Yeah, it's all. Yeah, so they must have just
signed for 20 years or whatever it is, or 30 years we use Older
than than I probably realized. Ripped to a real one.
Love that fucking thing, dude. Yeah, it's yeah.
Jesus. Oh man, I am insanely
disappointed the sound is not working.
Well, you know what? The sound is really great.
And instead, what I'm gonna do is I'm going to insert the music
right here. Guys.
Wasn't that beautiful? Wow, it was so.
Beautiful. You heard it.
It was great. It was so.
Great. I really love the the really
stupid ones that I love are the the third and fourth goal ones
for like when you finish a race in like third or fourth place,
they're so they're so chill. And then, like, they're just so,
so good. Like so it's so funny because
the guy that's commenting is like, oh, you're in second,
you're in, you're 10 seconds behind, you're 4th, you're 3
seconds ahead or whatever. And then when you come in like
third or fourth, he just goes try harder or.
He's not even close. Oh, too bad.
All right. Like he, like, insults you.
He just goes from being like you said.
He goes from being like kind of friendly and like encouraging to
what the hell is wrong with you? Race better, essentially.
OK, OK. OK.
OK, going zipping through
checkpoint after checkpoint on the fortress place dude.
Oh my God. Oh yeah, that's.
Right, my hero. OK, OK.
You left everybody high Max power.
Yeah. Also then let you hear the
engine Rev too just rear. Yeah, dude.
You feel it. You feel the power.
It's it's it's definitely I think it definitely enhances the
the game though like I I do think that the I do think that
the the music and the sound effects and stuff are are pretty
good. I do appreciate that that they
they kind of made sure that that was a good solid part of the
game. You know, it's not, it's not
this massive soundtrack, It's not like you have a million
different sounds or whatever, but like they could have easily
just done wave noises and the the engines very basic and then
just called it a day, 'cause that's kind of what a lot of
stuff at that time was doing anyways, right?
So. Yeah, you could have licenses
that like holy shit licensed it out and made like all all Rob
Zombie all the time on this fucker like they did with
Twisted Metal Four or some shit instead.
Yeah, Nintendo was like, no, dude, they fucking with the sick
fucking soundtrack for this. And even like Blue Storm, they
they really, really fucking awesome job on on these games in
the soundtrack. Like bring it back.
I'll fucking choke whoever I need to to get this God damn
serious back, dude. It's so fun, yeah.
I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try this sound and see
if it works OK. No, no.
Dragula. Come on through the bitches.
Do you imagine, like, ripping through these fucking
checkpoints, Dragula? There's only one perfect band
for this, though, and it's Nickelback.
Oh God, oh man. Don't drag my photograph.
Don't drag the Canadian embarrassments into this.
Creep. Please, creep.
Can you take the? Effort of having that band, like
having an actual band and they make their lyrics like they they
change them up so that they're related to what's happening in
the game. So it's it's about Jet Skis or
something, right? It's like, can you Rev me
higher? Look.
At this jet waves where the score lines are something like
that, I don't know. Oh my God.
Never made it as a jet ski. Couldn't cut it as a jet ski?
Then this is how you jet ski. Holy fuck, cut that part out.
Don't leave it in. Fuck it.
Are you kidding? There's no way that's that's not
staying in. It is.
You know what? Actually, I think I found the
new theme song for the entire show.
It's like like that one episode of Futurama with the the, the,
the, the sex spots or whatever. It's like hello there Phillip
Jay Fry. Oh man, I'm so disappointed.
I couldn't play it. I thought we could all just jam
out. But you know what?
I appreciated the the renditions, gentlemen.
I think that it was that was beautiful.
I think So, Jiggy. We talked a little bit about
Aaron, stepped away for two seconds.
We talked a little bit about doing some of the tricks in this
game 'cause the racing is one thing, but there is a a a sort
of, you know, stunt mode that you can play.
And look at that trick, man, I suck at doing these.
I me too, could not figure it out.
I looked them up and I still couldn't pull them off.
That one, that one trick that just happened on stream where
she just, like stuck her arm out like that, is that really a
trick? I think so.
It just like. You're just signaling a turn,
bro. Like that's not.
No hands. I can grab my jet ski with no
handlebars. No handlebars.
Fucked. Except.
Except with one hand on the handlebars like.
Because otherwise you'd just be flying the fuck off like one big
wave and you're you're toasted. That has happened to me before
in the game where I've hit a huge wave, like going too fast,
and maybe I was. I was pressing forward 'cause
you can kind of like lean forward a little bit, I noticed.
I don't know if it does anything to your speed and then the the
the racer just falls right off the the jet ski it was like.
Shit. Oh shit.
Yeah, he's as drunk as fuck. Yeah, all the Coors Lights, all
the. What else would be a sponsor for
this? That would be a a a Sapporo
maybe? Because.
Of clomato or or Clomato?
The, the, the, the clam, The clam juice.
Yeah, man, That's the that's the the Canadian.
It's a Caesar. That's, that's what you got
right there. That's what that is.
Caesar. Yeah, man.
Oh my gosh. That's what that's it says.
I do not like them at all. I think they're gross, but
people love them. I don't know.
I don't. Know nothing, says nothing, says
Kawasaki. Your day on the beach like a
fucking Caesar or Clamato or whatever.
Tomato and clam juice, yeah. Yeah, dude.
Disgusting. On a really hot, humid day, just
clam juice and tomato and I think it's vodka.
I think so. No, I'm not.
I am not for that at all. Oh, look at that.
Oh, I almost did a trick, but instead I hit a a pillar.
Yeah, I I couldn't figure out the tricks.
I think the stunt mode thing I tried, you go through rings to
get a couple rings, you go off a couple of jumps to to to get
some more points and stuff. But I found it a little too
tough to pull them off and I was like, I'd rather just race,
honestly, at the end of the day. So yeah, like I I think that I
think the levels, I don't know if you guys had favorite levels.
Do you guys have any favorites? Any particular ones, even if you
don't know the name off hand, but.
I really like this one though. This like swamp one.
That one's cool. Yeah.
But I will say I had a least favorite and it it wasn't the
one that's like got the cranes and stuff.
It was. It was like track.
I want to say it was track number two or three, I can't
remember. It's like it was almost a just
an Oval, but you'd have to be really tight around the corners
or you'd go flying out of the buoys.
Like it just kept happening to me and it was really annoying.
Oh yeah, this one was kind of cool too.
The Twilight City one where it is.
Like Twilight City. Yeah, that one's cool.
It it looks cool. Like it looks interesting right?
It's almost like you're you're you're racing through like a a
cyberpunk type of type of thing. You're just.
I don't know it, it looked. Interesting.
Oh, that's cool. That like city with the
spotlights on it. I I liked the 1st two.
I think like the swamp one and like the very beginning one are
really, really cool. They have all those cool little
set pieces and shit, like the animals and the dolphins and
shit jumping around and the cool reflections on the water.
I fucking cannot stand the one with the boxes in the water.
Fuck those boxes and whoever dropped them there and the the
the, the fortress one because they like that.
I think that one has like the little spiky.
Minds. Yeah, why?
Yeah, why are minds popping up? Why are minds on these on these
race tracks? What?
Right. Why is that the?
Thing where you in? That that happens in the in the
normal difficulty they they throw them.
In so if you do easy breezy, you don't have to deal with any
mines. It's great.
It's, it's, it's great. You should have to worry about
dying. I thought they would explode.
I was a little disappointed they actually didn't explode.
It's hard enough. It is you.
Don't gonna you don't gonna add mines to the mix.
Yeah. That's true, dude.
You imagine the movie Death Race, but with Jet skis?
That'd be cool. That that is the end.
That is, the hard difficulty in this game is Death Race.
There's there's snipers just chilling up there.
This this track is really, really cool dude.
It is. I like this one.
Yeah, this one looks really, it looks a lot different than the
rest, cause technically, I think technically it's supposed to be
outside, but it's all at night time, which I don't know that
any other ones are. There's multiple ramps and like
you said, Aaron, like the set pieces is what's cool about
these because there's multiple points where like things are
happening around you that changes from the lap before.
And I love when games do that just in general.
It also it also like lets you replay a level so you know when
that thing's coming because it could be a shortcut or something
like that. And and this level kind of feels
that way a little bit, which is fun.
So yeah, this one. 'S fine.
I don't know it'd be a cool a cool idea for if they did bring
the the series back make it like did you guys ever play either
like split second or I I I think Jiggy said he you played Sonic
and All Stars Racing Transformed or whatever.
Like with with yeah with that one the I think it's like each
lap the the track kind of changes a little bit.
That'd be cool if they would bring back wave race and kind of
do that like each lap. You may be something like in in
fucking split second you can blow up parts of the track and
it affects like the rest of the race.
Like you can cause a skyscraper to like close off one Rd.
So you have to go this way or like that.
That'd be a cool thing to do with with Jet skis, you know?
And I know because you could just like move the buoys or
something like you can just kind of move things around a little
bit or have like a ramp that was underwater before and the water
lowers and now you got a ramp there, you know, like something
like that would be kind of cool. Yeah.
One thing I would. Like if you ever played another
Sonic game, different Sonic game, Sonic Riders.
No. Yes, you could like.
Both of them. You could have different types
of vehicles or characters with different like you could have a
speed type of fly type, of power type, and then you could get
alternate tracks depending on what type you have.
So you can take like different shortcuts.
So like it'll say fly and you go to the left and then you go off
big ramps and then you go like fly through the sky or something
or power. You like busting walls, Like I
love stuff like that. And having those options would
create a little more variety with like customizability too,
which I think could be super cool.
Yeah, that's a good. That's a good idea.
Really cool. I like that.
I also really like. I mean, I I assume just because
you guys have played all these other games that I have not and
are also racing games in a way. You guys play the SSX series at
all. Oh yeah, I love, yeah, Ricky,
SSX, is it three or two? I think it's three that I had
for the original Xbox is probably one of my favorite
sports games and racing games of all time.
I I think it's incredible. I think it's one of the the most
perfect sports games ever. But EA and EA big made lots of
those and with like EA and then Midway and like those style of
games that just don't exist anymore, which is unfortunate.
But those games, like snowboarding games more
specifically I guess have those races where it's.
I mean, some other racing games do too, but those ones stick out
to me where it's just from A to B.
You know, you're not doing laps, you're just kind of going down
the hill and this, you could just go from A to B across, you
know, a track that's made, you know, in the middle of the ocean
or something like that. And that could be cool too.
Yeah, Kind of a similar thing where it's like maybe the track
itself isn't changing per SE, but you're not repeating
yourself. So, like, adding those types of
tracks could be kind of, and it doesn't have to be like super
complicated. It's just a different setting
and one that like changes as you go kind of thing so.
Makes me think of in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater when they have
downhill jam, like it's just fundamentally and everything
else and you're going downhill constantly.
It's it's kind of a cool breakaway from just a normal
format of running laps. Exactly.
It doesn't have to be a mode,
even per SE, or it doesn't have to be like every two races,
that's what you do, One out of every circuit.
You know, whenever, every like 5 you can, you can have one of
those. Yeah, give us a boost.
That would be dope. There's a boost in the Game Boy
One. There's a boost in the Game Boy
One. What if there is in the game
Cube One? Yeah this is me doing stunts.
I I terrible. This is me.
I was just like going like this at the joystick.
He's like wee all that arm would.
Be. Good.
And I could never, I could never come in first.
I tried for about 20 minutes and I was like, OK, I came in second
and and every time the the voice over guy is just like you almost
did it. Yeah, you almost did it.
I'm like, ah shit. Oh, for the for the the sequel
on the GameCube, you can pick up turbos and stuff, but there's
also like different weather conditions as well.
Like of course waves. But then there's yeah, there's
like rain. Damn, that's really really cool
that. Would be very cool.
Yeah, I gotta check that out. I mean, I don't have a GameCube,
but I can, you know, obviously there's ways to play it.
Oh yeah, but that would be cool now that I've played this, you
know, it's another thing too, is like, I think this is, this is
kind of perfect to be. This is one of those games that
really works well to be on the Switch online because you don't
have to spend a ton of time playing it to get the gist of
it. And then you can kind of go back
and play a circuit or play a race or whatever.
What is that? What are you pointing at?
I can't say. That's your GameCube.
Oh, that's your GameCube. Oh.
It's one of them. Oh, one of them up.
Yeah, sure. Yeah, I.
Just wanted to say I have a spare.
You have a spare. That's nice.
Yeah, must be that. Like my my good old black game
cube that I've been running since I was.
I don't know 10 or how. It's an OG.
It's a It's an OG one, yeah. Oh yeah, they're all.
I only buy the OG ones because they have the digital ports on
back. Oh yeah, forgot.
Well my my OGSNES is still running from 90.
Three, I think is when. I am dude.
It's yellow. It's not yellow.
There was no impressed but it but it's definitely not the
color it's supposed to be like it's it's it's faded and stuff.
Yeah, but no yellow no yellow anymore.
Yeah, yeah. It's definitely not the not the
shiny Gray. It's all dark Gray but no
yellowing. But I but it would.
I've seen like videos online and stuff for like, even though it's
that you can still clean it and it'll look sharper and look look
new and stuff. One day I want to do that.
I like the look of that console. I know some people prefer like
the Japanese 1, the Famicom, but I I like, I like that one too.
So, super. Nintendo looks fine, yeah.
I like the plane. Yeah, exactly right.
And it ain't no, it's like a genesis, but.
I I like the I like the SNES better.
I like. The way No, I think that.
I think this nest actually looks cooler.
Yeah, Genesis kind of Harkins back to like Atari days.
I feel like it looks more like traditional home console,
whereas this nest is just like. Let's just pop it in, baby, pop
it in and flip the flip the flip thing.
Flip the flip. I always forget that it had like
the power switch, the middle eject button as a kid.
We would just. Pull.
You just pull the game out and say you never, never use that.
Like, it's probably a good idea, 'cause it's less likely to
probably damage your cartridge. But as a kid, you're not doing
that shit, man. You just taking that thing right
out. I've got fucking places to go
and then Lunchables to eat. God damn it, I'm not wasting any
fucking time. Mom said it's lunchtime.
I gotta go. These dunkaroos aren't gonna eat
themselves. Eat themselves?
Hell no. I white icing Dunkaroos or the
chocolate ones. They have chocolate ones.
Yeah, they did. I only remember the.
Yeah, they had them for us. I only remember the white ones.
Oh, really? Oh, I oh.
This isn't just a meat thing, OK?
I I probably had the white ones. I've never had a chocolate.
One, yeah, that was a chocolate one.
I mean I prefer, I prefer the the icing ones, but but yeah, we
had that option, we had that and also like we had ones that were
very similar, but they were the gram, the the little like honey
gram bears. Did you guys have those?
Yeah. Teddy Graham, Teddy Grahams,
That's it. Teddy Grahams.
They had those. They started making.
Once Dunkaroos got popular, it started putting those in like
Dunkaroo containers and like having their own version of that
as like, competition. Interesting.
Yeah. And they and they had like icing
and stuff. So it'd be like a Teddy Graham
that tastes like honey with like chocolate, chocolate, sort of
icing or whatever it was considered.
All right, let me tell you why. That sounds good.
Yeah, it was good. There was Keebler Elf, like, you
know, like El Fudge cookies and stuff.
Yeah, they made little s'mores ones that were like like you
could. I know those.
And then Graham crackers, a small bar of chocolate.
And then like marshmallow sauce. Oh, that sounds.
And I loved just just caking the thing with marshmallow sauce.
Eating it and then like licking the marshmallow sauce out of the
little package like it was the best, yeah.
It was the best at that point. You can't.
You have to do it. You can't just let it sit there.
You gotta you gotta do something with it, right.
So. What the Frick?
You just did a handstand. Yeah, that's one of the moves
that I looked up. It's one of the moves I looked
up, it was something about like you have to do you have to press
A and do forward and back or something like that in the mid
air, which is it's it looks cool, but then I get all these
points and I still come in second place.
Yeah, it's like you have like this perfect run and I'm like
how the hell am I supposed to do this?
I I played it for a bit and I'm like, OK, yeah, I'm going to go
back to racing. So you're one of those people
that actually puts your initials in.
OK, so that's. Yes, I always do.
I always, I always. It's.
That's another thing too. And this reminded me.
For me there is. One name that goes in a three
letter slot. A, a, a.
And I bet you can. Figure it out.
Is it ass or is it just a? A.
Yes.
No, it's. Oh, that's a good point.
I guess there's two names that it could.
Be it's either a car service or it is your rear end.
It's one of the exactly Oh my God, no, I do you know what it
is? On that I I got used to always
doing it because one of the cool things about my initials is that
and I want to do this when I when I have a kid too.
Is that I wanna I wanna see if I can make their middle name.
I I don't know what is it what's what is it when it's is it
chronological You know what I mean where it's it's it's an
order. So when I would have to put my
name in in a in an arcade when I got a high score like for
example With this when it gets you to like calculate your score
it was D and then I would just move over to J and move over to
Pi wouldn't have to go like A. Oh.
Like over to P? Yeah, yeah, You wouldn't have to
zigzag. You just go down.
I just go down the alphabet and it was always satisfying.
I don't know what that is. I don't know why that's a thing,
but I was like, fuck yeah, my name has my initials have that
Dang. So I don't know that's that was
so that's one of the reasons why I do it is because it's easy.
It's easy, OK? Yeah, it's easy, yeah.
Yeah, I like doing Asks 'cause it's funny, I just chuckle to
myself. I'll get like I'll die halfway
through Metal Slug 3 and then then punch it ass and I'll be
like. Everything's OK now.
Everything's all good now. Yeah, dude.
You know this, this game is very arcadey.
Yes. We didn't really talk about
that, but it's very home arcade, which is something you typically
see from Sega. I feel a little bit more than
other companies. Yeah, so kind of a cool 64 title
for that reason, I think. Yeah, And I think, I think the
sound, the music, the announcers, all that stuff plays
to it as well. And that's one of the reasons
why I think the Hydro Thunder thing sort of popped up in my
head too. Not just because it's it's it's
racing on water, but all those things kind of felt like if you
put this in an arcade, you could, you could, you could put
quarters into this thing and people would play it, you know,
play a race for for $0.50 or for 1/4 or something like that.
And I think it would it would work.
Surprised it wasn't. Me too.
When you really think about it, you you could, I would easily
put a couple dollars of quarters into this and play a few races
with friends. Even if it was two player and
the and the computer was the other two.
I I would do that. I think it'd be.
Fun. I would easily put a single
dollar in and play and then quit and then go do something else
like Cubert. Cubert.
Dude, then go get my ass kicked that Mortal Kombat.
I love. I love Galaga.
It's a great game. Galaga.
'S good. Yeah, Galaga's one of the
classics, man. That's that's one of the really
good classics in my opinion too. I I like that our our arcades
around here were not very good. So like they were at movie
theaters and there was like 1 stand alone one.
By the time we were like 8 years old, it was gone.
Like it was, it was just past. Unfortunately, it was just past
this time. By the time the mid 90s came
around, this was here. So this is, you know, this is
what you played instead, right? Obviously.
Oh yeah. For sure.
You know. Yeah, we just we just played.
Go ahead, dude. Oh, I was just going to say.
And then the arcades, like they started stepping it up and
they're like, Oh well, you actually sit on a jet ski and
wind blows in your face and you. Yeah, yeah, dude.
Yeah, we had a again another another Iowa thing.
We have what's called the Pizza Ranch.
It's a pizza place which has a buffet.
No, we're going to stop right there, because I freaking love
Pizza Ranch it. It's so.
Good. It is so.
Good. I miss it.
I'm from Wisconsin and we had Pizza Ranch.
I love Pizza Ranch. You go there, it's.
Awesome. Dude, it's a it's like, AII
guess you compare it to like ACC's or something like it's
like a pizza buffet and you go in and they have all sorts of
pizzas made. But you go and you'd be like, is
there any pizza you want? And you're like Mac and cheese
with like stuffed crust or something.
That was very specific. That's what my brother always
ordered, actually. It got a little bit fried
chicken. But I love it.
Fried chicken is good, dude. And I would go in and I would
get like they have soft serve ice cream.
I would just immediately go put soft serve ice cream in my cup
and go put soda in it and make a float.
And it was a good day every time you went to pizza.
Ranch. Damn, that sounds amazing.
Dude. Oh, my God.
Dave, come on down to the Midwest, my man.
Oh, they have this breakfast. Or not.
Perfect this like dessert pizza that'll blow your fucking.
It's it's pizza. Or it's like no, that is it
cactus. It's a cinnamon one, right?
Yeah, they they also have blueberry and they have cherry.
They have apple. It's it's like this like crispy
crust with like a like a glaze drizzled on it with like
cinnamon and sugar and like little pie fillings.
Basically like they have a cherry and like blueberry.
Dude, it sounds like a pie. Like sounds like basically.
The one is like, it's like the the like if you ever had like an
apple crumbly pie, like I love apple.
Crumble, Apple. Crumbly.
That's what it is. And they have an Apple version,
and they have just a Cinnamon version and it's it's Aw man.
Oh shit. These these places still exist?
I'm still around. Yeah, yeah, I I can drive like
20 minutes that way and go to one right now, like a little
live stream myself. I really eat.
So I mean, I really, I really don't trust.
I really don't trust getting it across the border, but if you go
I will pay for the postage to get it here.
I I don't know about that one, man.
I think it. Probably cost me like $65 just
to get it across the border. Oh God, you're probably better
off just getting a plane ticket and flying out, yeah?
Yeah, it's like it's like us when people want to go to
concerts or or or especially like sporting events and stuff
like that. It's cheaper to sometimes drive
to like Buffalo or to Pennsylvania to go to the
concert than to pay for it here 'cause it's so friggin
expensive. Really.
God, yeah. Dude, it's nuts.
It's insane sometimes. But this one?
Man. It's.
A whole. It's a whole state or over from
me. Oh shit.
I'm from Wisconsin, but I moved to North Carolina, so now I'm
just like, you know? Everybody makes mistakes, dude.
What the fuck is he called this from Wisconsin?
Culver's. Culver's is like the shit.
I still have Culver's. Culver's.
Still have it in North Carolina? Do that.
Where you go, it's good. It's Yep.
Consistency. It's just a it's just a burger,
a good burger place like. They're just smashed with like,
butter and shit. Or, however they do it, the
butter burgers. They call it a butter burger and
it's just it's just great. Bread and butter.
Fried battered cheese curds. Yep, cheese curds.
Oh my God, this is gonna kill me when I look for these places
next time I go down. You know what I did?
I would take, I would take a burger.
And this is at Culver's. I still do it.
Take a Burr. You open it up right?
You order some. They have like melted cheddar
cheese. That's like it's like Nacho
cheese, but it's better. It's like 'cause it's actual
cheddar is it's actual cheddar or quote UN quote, cheddar.
You put you put that on. Oh, it's from Wisconsin.
We don't mess around. OK, that's cheese heads, yeah.
It's legit. Yeah, cheese heads.
Yeah, you dump that cheese on the burger and then you can put
some deep fried cheese curds on top and you seal it up and.
Sorry, what do you do? What was that?
Like a like a part of the cop I guess.
Yeah, typewriter. Yeah, I don't love, but we had
the same idea. I know we're supposed to be
talking about wave race, but but Danny, what's like what's the
best fast food in in in Canada that you've come across or or in
your are they are they provinces?
Is that what they're called? Not states, but like?
Provinces. I'll connect it, OK?
What's the best food you could see yourself eating while riding
one handed on a jet ski? You know what?
It's OK. So I don't frequent fast food
all that much like I used to. I know.
But the the the problem with that is like, if it's like a
place that just arrived, I wouldn't even know.
But I know you guys have these two.
Five Guys is really damn good. Five Guys is really good.
There's also like a couple of like, what the Hell's it called
now? It's like, I think it's.
I think it's actually specifically like a Toronto
thing. What the fuck is the place
called? But it's another burger joint
where you get like multiple patties for like a really good
deal. And it's just, it always just
like tastes fresh. But I will say there's one place
that I don't think exists anymore.
When we were growing up in high school, we would go, during our
lunch, the one guy who had a car, we'd go to this place
called TCS and it was a Greek fast food place.
But they served, yeah, but they served really like big burgers
and had like a huge thing of fries on the side, all made
like, like, not not burgers out of the freezer with like like
handmade burger things. And you'd get this amazing sort
of handmade fast food. If that even is not an oxymoron,
it probably is. And it would be, I don't know.
At the time, it was like $9, which is like unreal now and
unreal for a kid in high school too.
So if I would go to anywhere, if it still existed, it actually
would be like a 15 minute walk from my house for where I live
now. If it still existed that would
be the one burger. Or if I could hold the whole
tray with all the fries, cause the fries are really good.
I would do that while riding my jet ski.
Hell. Yeah, the fries are the best
part of Five guys because they, like, fill the bag, No.
Matter. And they're and they're good
fries, right? Sometimes.
Sometimes you can get the burger and the fries are just kind of
like, yeah, whatever, they're they're afterthought, which is
for me. I don't love McDonald's fries.
I know a lot of people love them, but for me, they're just
kind of like. All right.
For me, they're the standard. They're like, that's what you
strive to be. And if you can be better, great.
But if you're worse, I'm like, I'm just gonna get McDonald's
fries. Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair. But I don't expect anything
exceptional out of them, but they're always consistent.
I guess it's probably exactly that's what and that's what
they're going for. That's the McDonald's thing, I
guess, right? So.
Let me tell you something, you go.
To find they just exist. Yeah, they just exist.
So you get a milkshake, right? And you can get it with the Oreo
bits in it right? You can get like Oreo bit I just
discovered You can also get the Oreo cream which is separate.
You can get both of them injected into your milkshake.
Oh my fucking God dude. Dude, I'm telling you, try it.
Liquefied Oreo cookies. Just put that in an IV and call
me dead. It's fantastic.
It's a good way to go. It's a good way to go.
It sounds it sounds worth it. Just by Oreo, just.
By Oreo. Oh.
Man, all those newspapers in the water, dude.
Yeah. Right.
Also, I just ran into a box in the last lap of the last race,
which it's a beautiful game, so. It actually is a really big
game. Like the graphics are really
good, the water looks good, the models look good.
Like look at look at this for the pilot wings.
I mean, pilot wings, You were a cylinder.
And this? You're a full human on a jet
ski. Yeah, you know what?
That's a good point, 'cause it came out at the same time they
were essentially launch titles. This for sure is a much more
complex and better looking game for sure.
Well, maybe, maybe not complex in different ways.
I guess you could call it like. Oh, I mean, I think the water.
I think so many games struggled to make water look this good,
Even GameCube. Era.
Even now. I can see now now it's Unreal
Engine. You slap a coat of paint on it.
Play. Play Sea of Thieves and you'll
probably have the best water you.
Know that's that's what I was gonna get too.
It's the best. It's so good.
It's so beautiful. Yeah.
It it reacts well and and your ship reacts well to it.
It looks amazing whether you're on top of it or or in the water
like it's it's great. Yeah, that that's the standard
to me. That is, it is the new standard.
It is beautiful. Yeah, yeah.
It's amazing. Yeah.
This has to be the standard for BF or N64 maybe even like PS1
because like just based off of memory Mario 64 just had it was
just it was just like opaque blue.
Like it was just just blue just there.
And I can't think of PS1 games where you swim but I guess I'm
thinking about croc and that was that's probably also blew.
I can't recall any games that had water that looked like this,
and it's. There, there is none.
I mean speaking from going through like every rare N64
game, which arguably the later Rare games are probably some of
the best looking games in the console, Water never looked this
good like this is. It would just be blue.
It would be a little bit see through, like a little bit
transparent, or it would be blue and it would just have.
Like there it might like have some motion in it and that makes
it look a little better I think. But not just like wave physics
and. That's the thing.
It's it's not just the way it looks.
It's like the way that all the physics work with it too.
Like that matters. It is.
Mario 64 the paintings when you jump in and like the metal for
Yeah, yeah, that that is how this water looks.
Yeah, looks like what's it called?
Is it the T1000 in Terminator 2? Is that?
That's what. That's what going into those
paintings looks like in Mario 64.
That's what I always am reminded of.
It's something looks like, yeah. What's his name?
He walks through the bars. You know, Is it T1000?
Is that what the bad guy is in in T2?
I think it's T1000. Or is that what Terminator?
Is a liquid metal. Yeah, liquid metal.
Yeah, exactly. Which also at that time was like
it was like ground breaking technology to make that, which
was kind of what this game has. This is the T, the T2 of the
N64. That that's what.
That's what this is. T2 of the N 60.
T2 of the N64 Wave Race 64. Boom.
Put it on the box. OK, so I'm we're all hungry now.
It's late at night, but we should just go get some fast
food instead. Aaron, I want to say thanks for
coming on the show, man. This was this was a blast.
And thank you for teasing me with really good fast food that
I will probably almost never get a chance to have.
That's fine man. Thank you for having me on and
also indulging me with some some Canadian goodies that I'll have
to check out if I if I ever happened to cross the border
over there someday. I mean, I've watched enough
Handmaid's Tale to to know that someday I'll have to go to
Canada for for, you know, I don't know if if if Jiggy has
ever seen Handmaid's Tale, but it's pretty fucked.
It's it's pretty fucked. It's all, it's all filmed in
Toronto and a few of them other the like the fancy houses where
they live and stuff is like 15 minutes for me.
It's like down the street it's yeah, it's it's it's a tough
watch but it is a very good, it's very good.
It's a very tough watch but it's very good.
But yeah, thanks for having me on the Yeah.
No worries. Don't worry.
Handmade sale. Yeah, it's fucked up, but it's
it's yeah, no worries, man. Jiggy, what's been going on
lately for for yourself with the YouTube channel and everything.
How's, how's it all? How's it all going, man?
How's it all going? You busy, man?
Oh, it's it's going great. I'm just chugging stuff out.
I'm just working hard and putting stuff out as often as I
can. Took a weekend off and now we're
back at it and the next game on the docket.
I'm not sure when you plan on having this release, but I'm
sure people will be able to see it.
Defending Shadow the Hedgehog. Hell yes.
All right. We're defending.
For that damn game. Defend.
Defend that shit, man. Yeah, those those analyzing
videos and what Jiggy's been doing at Jiggy.
Look back on YouTube has been great and have been doing very
well lately, so keep up the good work.
Man, it's open right now. Awesome.
Yeah, do it, buddy. It's open right now, right?
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Lines 5 full. Pizza Ranch, Salad Bar, Pizza
Ranch, 5 star. Oh my God.
All right. What Jiggy said.
How about that. What Jiggy said?
And what Aaron said as well. OK.
Thanks guys, for being here. Thank you everyone for
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