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Call the insurance company because we're about to do some
property. Damage today.
Here comes the snap. Matthews back rolling right.
Can't find us man here. Comes the Blitz 7.
One game that hit so hard, Your mama's Mama will feel it.
NFL Blitz 2000 for Midway. New 4 player mode, customizable
play editor and more sledgehammer quality fun than
ever. Welcome to Remember 64 where
this week we are going to fuck it, Chuck it football.
Welcome to the show everyone, whether it's your first time
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My name is David Pitrangelo and yes, I'm going to fuck it, Chuck
it football because I do sports, I do arcade, I win game.
That is me Jiggy. Look back here with me again.
Hello Sir, how are you? Hello, I'm I'm an avid football
fan, so I'm very happy to be on this special episode.
It's a lie. I can't even you can't know
nothing. That's it.
Guys, I just know that it's a
game of football. That's it.
I don't even know. What and and joining us this
time kind of on a whim, man. I, I thank you for, for hopping
in. We are happy to have you back,
Mr. Superpod Saga himself, Aaron.
How are you, man? I'm pretty good, man.
I've got a little bit of a stomach ache, but nothing a
little Red Bull and football can't fix.
I think we have 3 football experts on this show, so this is
brilliant. We are going to be talking about
NFL Blitz and there are four I think.
I can't afford different NFL Blitz just on the 64.
Obviously it was on arcade as well, but we're basically just
going to be talking about all of them because there's not a
massive difference between all and we'll sort of mention some
of the stuff as we go along. But we are talking NFL Blitz as
of this episode, actually recording and releasing.
I believe it's going to be just before the Super Bowl.
So all about timing everybody. Woo Hoo, go football.
Yeah, that's I think that's why I was like, let's play blitz.
But also it's fun, stupid arcade action.
So. So before I want to get started
though, Aaron, you, we are part of this amazing group of
podcasts that you are basically, I would say that you're probably
the, the, the maestro behind all the president, the maestro, the,
I don't know, some, some title like that I've got in the
Superpod network together. But let's talk about it a little
bit because our shows are part of it, but there's a whole bunch
of them and there's a lot of extra stuff too, which which is
cool to talk about. Let's let's talk about that a
bit. Yeah, man.
So, so Tony and Thrac, they they call me Boss all the time.
Whenever we're in a show or something together, they'll
always say hey boss, man. And like, yeah, that's me.
Yeah, it's super. Pod, I don't know if I'm going
to do that, but but I must. It's fine.
Every once in a while it's fine. Your your pay will be docked,
but it's OK. You don't have to.
Yeah. Shit, shit.
OK. There, Yeah, So Super Pod
Network, it's a little, well, I guess not a little anymore.
It's gotten a little bit bigger, but it's a, it's a, a network of
any video game podcasts and we do a lot of blogs to people will
do their own little blogs like Vice individual ones.
Sometimes we do collaborative ones like we did our favorite
GameCube games or SNES games and a bunch of other stuff like
that. Sometimes we'll do videos to
cover certain events like Nintendo Directs or what we call
the Super Pod Super Show, which is just like mashing everybody,
like as many people as we can get together into one episode to
just talk about whatever the hell we want.
It's great. It's, it's an, it's a great
opportunity to just like shoot the shit about, you know,
whatever. Anything.
Yeah. Like football?
Football.
I don't know anything about. Football.
Wait, no, I know everything about football so.
Everything. Yeah.
Come on. What's?
Come on, boss. Yeah.
Sorry. That's great.
Yeah, it's been, it's great. Like, you know, I think, I think
when when I think when you initially asked me sometime last
year, I was like, yeah, that's a great idea.
It's awesome. And then I basically just like,
didn't do the show for six months.
So I was like, I felt so bad. It wasn't like, I felt like it
wasn't part of the team or like, you know, pulling my weight or
whatever. But but more and more shows,
more and more awesome people have been joining.
And there's so much extra stuff that that everyone's doing, like
the blogs, for example, and all these extra episodes and shows
and polls and all this kind of stuff.
So Superpod networkis.com is where you can find everybody,
including us and all the extra content as well.
There's also a Discord channel. So there's lots of stuff you
can, you can join Discord server and also under Super Pod
Network. So yeah, we're just, it's cool
to to be able to have a bunch of awesome people doing, like you
said, like indie podcast stuff and sort of reaching out and
working with each other and. Yeah.
Everyone's got a great personality, everyone's got
great shows. Why not mash us all together and
and kick some ass while we're at it, right?
Like that's, it's awesome. Absolutely.
Yeah. Hell yeah.
OK, so let's get into let's get into some some football gents.
Jiggy, I'll go to you first. Not not not, you know, are you a
football guy necessarily? Did you play NFL blitz?
Are these types of games a thing that you've played?
Like what's what's as someone, I always sort of ask this because
you're because you're younger than me.
So it's just like, I feel like the perspective slightly
different, but is it different at all?
Is this something that you came across when you were growing up?
Guess what, I did play this growing up and the only reason
why I played this growing up is because I have a cousin who is
actually younger than me who loves football.
Every time we go over, it was like, hey, let's throw a
football. Like the man is committed.
He played football in the house when he was younger even though
my aunt yelled at him and he totally like smacked his head on
like a bed frame and had like a big bubble and had to go to the
hospital. It was fantastic.
Like, he's dedicated, but every time we went over, he's like,
let's play some NFL Blitz. Like, OK.
And I realized replaying this game that I play exactly how I
played when I was like 8 and had no idea what I was doing.
It's the exact same thing I go through.
It shows all the plays. You see all the little XS, the
lines and everything. I'm like, I don't know, this one
looks cool. Boom click.
I just get tackled and thrown backwards and I'm like, well, I
suck. So that's pretty much my
experience. And and was it like, was it, I
assume it was console at that time, Like yeah, like on 64 and
stuff, yeah. Yeah.
Well, we, we did a little bit of both.
We had 64. I I think there's a PlayStation
One version because they had APS 1 and I remember playing it on
that. Yeah, there was.
And it's one of those games where it's like, you know, it
was treated as like a regular sports game.
They're kind of everywhere, you know, Like they were on
everything. There was one almost every year.
All that kind of stuff. So Aaron, what about you, man?
Same thing, Similar. Not at all.
Oh man, I, I, I, so I remember for sure playing NFL Blitz on
PS1. I couldn't tell you which the
hell I think it was. I think it was like 98 or 97.
I don't remember at all, but I remember you could, you can
basically make your own team and you drew packs of cards.
And that was cool, 'cause I'm a, I'm a card guy.
And I was like, dude, there's cards in this, what the fuck?
And then you can name your team whatever you want.
It was like the Cincinnati Sugar Rush or something stupid.
That's actually pretty sick. I like that.
Yeah, dude. And I I'm not a big sports guy,
if I'm being totally honest, but like Arcady sports games like
NFL blitz or even like Neo turf masters, shit like that.
That's that's my bag, dude. This is actually I played
probably a good like couple hours of of blitz and like it
wasn't wasn't bad. It was pretty fun.
Yeah, yeah. For me, I was of the age and of
the sort of time where like these games were like, sure, I
had pretty much every NHL game. I had maybe every other Madden
game. I had a FIFA game every once in
a while. But like these are the ones that
always we kind of gravitated to is with, with my friends and
stuff. And this was even a game, at
least the original 1, I don't remember if like 2000 or
whichever #99 or whatever number they had was also in the arcade.
But I played this game even in the arcade when we could have
like literally with the friends I was at at the arcade, could
have gone to his house and just played it like for free, you
know, like, but it was like, oh, it's blitz, it's a joystick.
You have like a couple buttons let's play and then you put in
like, you know, 50 cents or a quarter or whatever it is like
every half. So you like you could you had to
pay sort of as you went progressed through the game,
whether you're on your own or playing with someone else or
something. So I had a lot of experience
playing these games. I even have it's, I think it's
on the shelf behind me somewhere.
I'm going to grab it. It is I do I love these games so
much that as when I got older they when they re release these
games like maybe like 2-3 years after they stopped making these
slightly more like cartoony Arcadia ones.
They had blitz the league, which is kind of like when you think
of like how Mortal Kombat nowadays handles like when you
do, you know, super moves or whatever they call them and you
see like the bones crack and like the organs get crushed and
stuff. This game has this game has
that. Yeah.
So like, yeah, you hit a guy and his knee just like his kneecap
just bursts open or. Yeah.
And it's so. So it doesn't have.
It doesn't have. We'll get into this too, but it
doesn't have any actual players in it.
It's all separate from the NFL. But whoever made this.
Oh, it's still OK, Midway still published it, but so they still
had probably, they probably had the rights to it and stuff, but
Renderware made it. I don't know how that is, but
but basically like what's crazy about this is like you think
these games are over the top. This thing not only did that
where it zoomed in when someone got hurt, but in order to heal
your players, you use like steroids and illegal drugs.
Yeah, that's what it was. So it was like, oh, instead of
waiting for the guy to fully heal for like 4 games or
whatever, you could just give him drugs and then he would come
back out the next game and he would have like, it would change
like his, his stats. So he might run faster, but he
was more likely to fumble the ball.
Whereas before he was pretty evened out like stuff like that.
So they added all this extra stuff to it and you were like,
you're the GM of the team, but you got to play the games too.
Yeah, it was, it's, it's pretty wild.
I remember I saw this like in the store not long ago.
It was like 699 and I'm like my Xbox still works and I wanna
play this game so. That makes me wanna play it.
I Did you ever play NFL Street on three?
60 dude. 'Cause that one.
All three of those games, all three of those games are
amazing. All those games are awesome.
And and that's what I mean by like all these types of games is
that the NFL street ones, SSXI would say is kind of similar to
it, which to me is like those are my favorite.
Like SSX 3 to me is like the best sports game ever made.
No Tricky is the second one I think 3 for some reason.
Just I don't know, maybe I just played.
I also have that behind me somewhere.
Three, the one where you can play is Mario and Yoshi on the
OR or something. Maybe on the GameCube?
Maybe. For my.
Own Tour. Yeah, that might have been the
one when they like released it separate from the.
Yeah. It was like these weird like
sequence of like sport related games where you could just play
as like Mario for some reason on GameCube.
There's like the GameCube version is not selling.
Let's throw Mario in there. Yeah.
We know it's not going to do as well.
So we got to do that to sell it, yeah.
That's what I was gonna say. The NBA street on, on GameCube,
you could play as Mario, Luigi and Peach and Peach.
And then they had, then they had fucking Mario Hoops, three on
three on DS where you could, you could be like a Black Mage or a
Mughal and a Cactar, I think. That's awesome.
That's like that's I wish I played that one.
I know of it, but I never played like that stuff is awesome.
That stuff's great. Like yeah, so like all these
games are like are kind of my shit.
Like all these games are my shit and I'm a sports guy.
Like I the hockey runs through my blood, not just 'cause I'm
Canadian, but it's just always something I've always done.
And big. Deal in your family.
Big deal in my family, like all this stuff, right?
Like it's like it's, you know, soccer's big in my family too.
A lot of people played it growing up.
Tennis like everything like think about it pretty much
because we're in Canada, football's not as huge.
Everyone just watches the NFLCFLS something, but it's much
smaller and not quite as as big. But you know, you put something
like this in front of you, especially as a kid, and you're
like, yeah, I get to just destroy the other team and my
buddies. Of course you're going to
fucking play it. Like obviously.
So this this game, I was like, you know, it's really easy to
just pick up and play. It's just wild arcade sports is
all it is. So I was happy to replay this.
I still think for the most part it holds up.
I don't know if you guys think it feels like too old school or
if it feels too arcady or I don't know.
Do you guys think it like still feels all right?
No, that's what I like about it. Yeah, OK.
Actually I like that it's simple, otherwise I never would
have understood anything. Well, that's.
And I just love that these every single player is just hyper
buff, like unrealistically buff, like three times buffness and
they they come up and they like they grab like it's not just a
tackle. They will literally go and grab
someone like buy the shirt and just like throw them.
Like I'm trying to think of what the and I got Mortal Kombat on
my brain. But I mean, it's just, it's.
Very like there's wrestling moves in it essentially like
that's, you know, guys are doing leg drops on guys and like it's.
Yeah, the leg drops. They'll fly across the fucking
screen at you to tell you it's so good.
So that's so fucking. Yeah, so like the hits are crazy
and the guys are big or whatever, but I think like a lot
of the fun was like and still kind of is.
Like look at this. Yeah, the play's done and you
can just keep drop kicking the guy until the screen changes.
Like, literally. Does a ground pound like a Mario
style ground pound on the body, laying on the body slam, Yeah.
Dude, the deal's goofy fucking dances when they get a touchdown
to you, man. Yeah, that's awesome.
Like the best, the best. The thing I always do is like,
holy shit, let's say you, let's say you, I think if like you run
out of bounds, you can kind of still run with the ball or
whatever, right? And if you're close to the end
zone, the guy starts doing like a little bit of like a dance or
whatever. So I just keep running and watch
the guy sort of like prancing with the ball and stuff.
It's fucking hilarious. It's so funny.
Like he's leading a marching band.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it's like.
Yeah. So they just, they have fun with
it. And the wildest thing is that
these are all actual NFL players.
Like these are these are the rosters from that, which is
like, there's no, I mean, I know there's no way they would do it
now because they don't make these games anymore, but I can't
believe they said yes to this shit.
It's crazy to me. It's it's crazy like.
Like I I don't know much about football, but I am from
Wisconsin, so playing as Brett Favre felt right.
Or nowadays pretty wrong, but well at the time.
What's wrong with Brett Favre? Yeah, he's a bit of a schmuck,
but that's just my opinion. I don't.
I don't know. I don't.
Know he won't he won't retire he he wouldn't retire or won't
retire and he's he's still playing What No, no, no, but he
did play for a years ago. But he did play for a long time
though, like he played for a while.
In a long he. Was a oh damn, you see that
toss? Yeah, baby, you see that toss?
An air guitar dude, he's going insane.
Never mind the thrill, look at that air goal air guitar.
And they also have like voice overs and stuff too, which is
great. It's.
So good dude. Oh my God.
Yeah, I, I felt like it, like it played.
Do do you remember which ones you guys played?
Because I know there's like a bunch.
They're kind of all. Kind of I can answer that and.
You can or you can't. I I can, I think.
I played 2001 first. One I played 99.
Yeah. So I think that's the second or
third one or something. I don't know.
I played, I played the first one.
I think the one we're looking at now is I think the first one.
And then I played either 2000 or 2001 because they actually
there's people that mod this game, which makes sense.
It's a sports game and you can, it's a wild arcade game and
stuff. And they have all the updated
rosters, like this year's rosters, they have a 2025
version. Of stuff.
What the fuck? That's?
Cool, so people are adding that all the stats are sort of
updated. It's like, oh, if you're a
shitty team, the stats aren't as good like things like that.
So like it's all the update. It's the same game.
It plays the exact same same way.
But other than that, the the the three that I I played here and
there and mostly played that 2001.
I think it just like looks better, like it just looks
cleaner. The differences like that was
the biggest thing I noticed. The plays are somewhat
different, but that's just 'cause I was like looking as
opposed to Jiggy who's like whatever, I'll just pick the one
with the big arrow. I was like actually trying to
like pick a certain one. I'm looking at it, they're
showing the things so I, I can't sit there and just like look at
them to see what they do because it gives you this anxiety
inducing countdown of like 10 seconds.
And then you're like reading the names and they're stupid names
like Monkey and. And the bomb.
The bomb is the best. The bomb is by far the best man.
It's great. It's a good place.
I will say I did understand when it said free point, that one I
got because. You didn't have to do anything
and to give you a point, you. Just clicked for a free.
Point OK. Or fucking what's the what's the
kick thing? They do not.
It's not a the field goal. Yeah, field goal.
I think it's free throw like a fucking idiot.
But that's basketball. It's kind of the same.
It's not worth any. Well, it is worth.
It's still worth points. It's still worth.
It's true. Welcome to Anaphobe Blitz, where
the points are made-up and don't matter.
There we go. Yes, yeah.
The point where is it? But the the games are made-up
and the points don't matter. What is it and who's lying?
Something like that, right. Is that what it is?
The rules are made-up and the points don't matter.
Yeah. There you go.
Yeah. Aaron, I don't know.
Did you did you ever get time with it?
Because I think you said when I when I was like, oh, hey, do you
want to play this? You're like, yeah, I barely
touched these games. Was it, was it a good time?
Do you remember like the was it good?
I don't know. Did you like it?
Yeah, man, I, I put, what did I say?
I think I put like two, yeah, two or three hours into the game
just kind of goofing, goofing around, trying to get a feel for
it. Yeah, it was actually pretty
fun, man. Like, it wasn't, it wasn't as
like I've never played a newer Madden game.
I've like I've seen maybe other people playing them here and
there or seeing like videos of it and it seems real fucking
demanding. Like it demands that you really
know your shit. But in blitz, no, like like with
Jiggy picking random plays and still being able to to make a,
to make a touchdown, dude, like you don't even know the plays at
all. You just pick one and then you
just run dodge, hit turbo. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah. And you hopefully, yeah, you
hold on to turbo literally the entire game and then just hope
for the best. I don't know, and it's sweet.
Yeah, look at. That shit, dude, the wrestling
moves they do and like yeah, it's just it's fast.
Like it, it feels way faster than like a like a it's much
faster than an actual like Madden game or like a like a
football simulator type game. Dude, It's yeah.
Well, that that's what, that's what the EA games are, right?
Like, you know, Madden or FIFA or you know, whatever.
They don't call FIFA anymore. They just call it football.
Maybe I can they drop the FIFA license.
That's all I know. Shit.
Yeah, they did like this year. Last year was the first time
they did it because FIFA's corrupt as shit and they and
they're like, Nope, we're not dealing with you anymore.
All those are like, they they are.
They are very simulation like. Like that's what they're going
for, right. And then they're like, hey,
we'll throw in a big head mode for you if you want, but like,
wouldn't you rather just play blitz?
Like, come on, it's like they're never gonna do this.
That's The thing is like they can throw in an arcady mode that
feels different to but they're never gonna.
So cool dude. Like yeah, FIFA fucking FIFA
blitz. Oh dude.
That'd be awesome. Just drop kicking guys with like
with like soccer cleats. Their faces are just fucking
mangled and like. It's called.
It's called Mario Strikers telling you.
Oh, I gotta play that game. I've only like touched it a.
Couple of times. That's it, yeah.
Actually, the wee one. The wee one's the best one in my
opinion. Or I gotta I think there's a Neo
Geo soccer game. That's a really good soccer
brawl. That game's awesome, soccer.
Brawl. Soccer brawl.
It's just a bunch of like Cyborg dudes kicking a ball around at.
The rules, man. Oh, this is like the baseball.
NES it does look awesome. Robots.
This is like there's a ANES game that was robots, but it was
baseball base wars, base wars, base wars.
Yeah, sounds fucking so you're just you're this is like this is
like somewhat similar to blitz where you where you do this
aggressive stuff. Dude.
The guy. I knew there was a mega.
There's a Mega Man soccer game, too.
Oh, there is, that's right. Yeah, yeah, Base wars is crazy.
So like if you tried sometime, I don't know if it was all the
time, but it was like a close play.
Let's say the guy's trying to throw you out at first or second
base or something, right. And the ball's really close to
when he touched the base instead of like, you know, going to the
going to the, the, the judges or the, the, the, you know, the
guys that sort of look at the tape or whatever.
In real life, you fought the guy and you'd have like a mini
fighting game like in the middle of the game and it's like, oh,
if you if you won, you got the base.
If you lost, you're out. Like that's amazing.
That's such a good idea. I'm downloading the ROM right
now do. It from a game that's like from
like, you know, probably 88 or 89 or something like that.
Like that's a sick idea. That's exactly the type of shit
that I want in a sports game dude.
Just something nonsensical and then then stupid.
That's exactly what I want. Well, and that's like, I mean, I
don't know, I don't know how the rights work with this stuff or
whatever, but something like blitz, it doesn't have to be
like on a football field. You know, it could be the same
game. It could emulate what football
does, but it could be robots, it could be aliens, it could be a
mix of a bunch of shit and it would still be like it.
It's cool that it's real teams and it's fun that you could be
like, Hey, my favorite team, I just drop kick someone or I just
leg dropped the guy that you know the the player that I just
watched on TV last week. I get that.
But at this point, these games are fun because they're fun, not
because you give a shit about these teams, right?
Especially now 20 years later after these these row 25 years
later. Like this Bass worst thing is a
perfect example. I I like baseball.
I'll watch baseball all the time, but I would rather play
this game than a real 1 like a simulation 1.
Like, why wouldn't you? I?
I kind of feel, well, I guess not the same way I have a like,
I kind of like watching hockey live.
I've only seen the live hockey game one time in my whole life,
but it was pretty sweet. But like arcade hockey games,
like what the fuck is the one on Sega Genesis?
I'm just. Going to I'm going to let you
find out what it is, because those games are even more so
than all the ones I mentioned. Those games are the best and
it's so find out which one that is 'cause the one I'm I played
was always on Xbox, GameCube and maybe 360 or something.
It was all in that area. NHL hits.
That's what they were called. NHL.
It was midway. All Star Hockey.
Maybe it was All Star hockey, but hits was was midway just
like blitz was. So think about whatever this
game is, but with hockey and it's only three on three.
It's super fast. If you do a bunch of hits or you
know, get a bunch of shots and stuff like that.
You had like a bar, like you know, the turbo bar at the
bottom. If you ever guys, guys ever got
anyone that was like on fire in these games, it's much harder to
do. You have to like complete a
pass, I think three times in a row or something to the same
person in in hits, it's a similar thing.
You have to hit a bunch of guys and your meter builds up and
then your whole team's on fire. No one can get knocked down.
Your shots are like bullets. Every time you shoot, if you
take a real, if you take a really hard slap shot and it
hits the goalie, he might save it, but he'll fall over.
Like he'll get knocked over and his name will pop off and like
there's crazy fights and if you lose a fight, you're out of the
game and you have to replace them with someone else.
The game, the game is unreal. And they made, and same thing
with Blitz. They made like four or five of
them or something a few years in a row.
And I have so many memories playing those games and there's
so much fun. And they were made a couple
years after these. So they're a little bit more,
you know, they look a little sharper or play a little bit
better, that kind of thing. But those games are the fucking
best. They're so.
Good. This game graphically looks
pretty good. Like, yeah, the shadow, The
shadows are shadows. Yeah, the shadows.
Yeah, that's right. They're not just blocks.
Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's right. Yeah.
That's yeah, that's pretty cool. Yeah.
Keep going, Dogpile. Yeah, and that's the other thing
too. I wish.
I think that I wouldn't be surprised.
I should have looked that up. I wouldn't be surprised that
there's codes where you can extend the time of after the
play so you can just beat guys up more like, so it's not just
like 4 seconds or something like that.
Did you find the game, Aaron? Did you find the the hockey
game? Yeah, it was Mutant Hockey
League. Oh yes, yes, I know that one.
And there's like there's a team with all skeletons or one where
it's like all pig dudes. Yeah, yeah.
See that's that's the shit we need 100% Oh my God.
It's, it's just, it's just stupid fun, man.
It's just stupid fun. Like there's there's got to
still be a market for that, right?
There's no way that something like Blitz or that game like us.
Well, yeah. But like, you know, if we want
to play it, I'm sure there's lots of people that want to play
it. Like there's got to be right.
Like, come on. It's probably, it's probably one
of those things like Madden is so like at the forefront that
everyone's just like afraid to put a football game out because
they're like, there's no way we're going to compete with
Madden every year. Yeah, that's there's, there is a
football game that's similar Mutant, mutant football.
No, you just said. You, you just said.
That sounds right. I think there's, I think it's
like blood. No Blood Bowl.
Blood Bowl, maybe that's that's what I'm thinking of.
Oh, there is a mutant Football League, though.
Is that the one that you just said?
No, yeah, no, Mutant Football League is the one I'm thinking
of. It's like works and shit.
And they all have like spikes on their shoulder pads and stuff.
That's great. Like I'm, I can't remember which
one I've played, but I tried like a, you know, free trial and
like a weekend on Steam or something like that.
And it was, it was fun, man. It was pretty fucking cool,
like. Oh that reminds me of a did you
guys fuck with any of the cheats in this game 'cause this game
has a lot of cheats. I wanted to.
I did not.
I didn't get to it. Did you?
What did you use do? It you can like when the game is
loading and you see the teams and they like they have a
little, 3 little. Box thing at the bottom, yeah.
Yeah, you can. Just like if you push a certain
combination of buttons you can pick, you can get like soup.
Like there's just a shit ton of different stuff.
Like I think I got always blitz mode or something like that.
Hyper blitz mode is what it was. My bad.
Hyper Blitz mode. Did you get it by accident?
Yeah, I was just. Tapping.
Oh shit, that's amazing. There's an invisible cheat.
You can make your whole team invisible so you don't know
what's going on ever. You're just like your whole
team's invisible and it's just, it's impossible to fight.
Oh, there is one that I was there is a cheat, yes.
OK, yes, now that I look at the list, there's one that's called
late hits and it lets you hit the guys longer after the play
ends, so you could do more of the crazy shit afterwards and
stuff. So there's that.
A night game, No head mode. Nevermind big head mode.
There's a no head mode. Oh my God, there's so many.
Oh yeah, hyper blitz. Damn, look at that hyper blitz,
turn off stadium. I guess like there's it's just
black in the background. I don't know, super field goals,
power defense, power blockers, no punting, no inner, no out of
bounds. Could you imagine just running?
What, like fuck all the way around?
It'd be amazing. Yeah, invisible quarterback,
hyper blitz, fast passes, big net team.
Yeah. That's awesome.
There's a bunch of extra characters too.
And I, I there's an alien. Yeah, there's a boxer.
A a Dino Grinch. Grinch.
To this fucking. Game dude bonus players there's
a guy that's named you can be the yeah you can be the Grinch
you can be a thug apparently, whatever that is I'll.
Just have like a cap on and like a trench coat or.
Something yeah, I'm just looking at the at the list.
It doesn't actually have a picture or anything like that,
but yeah, on side kick. How to do it?
Yeah, there's like there's tons of shit in this like, and that's
the other thing too is this game played and looked pretty much
exactly the same in the arcade. So if you knew that code, like
if you whether you accidentally got it or not, if you knew that
code and you went to the arcade, you could put the same one in
when you went when you got to the machine and it would it
would play the same way. Like that's great.
Like to to have. I mean, I know the arcade sort
of late 90s were slowly but surely gone, you know, like that
they kind of this is around the time that they died.
But like this is one of those games that like translated so
well because it's just there to be like we keep saying goofy fun
and it works regardless of what controller or control scheme
you're using. I think like, I don't know that
that really makes a huge difference.
I think it felt fine on the 64 controller but like oh.
Hell yeah. Like is it would it be improved
if I had it on Xbox? Probably not.
Like it doesn't. I don't think he really it it
would matter. I think you just have you have
the the button right underneath the joystick or or you could use
AD pad. Let me just let me just, you
know you can't, you can't move past perfection, right?
There's no there's no better controller than.
Why? Why try guys?
We played this game with the best controller ever ever made.
All you need is 1 joystick. All you need is.
All you need is 1 joystick. Nintendo.
No. Yeah.
They always real back. Control because people just they
don't understand. They just come on people, let's
go. Like I know.
Man I I remember playing whichever the fuck blitz game I
had on PS1 back in the day. I had a friend come over and
stay the night and he didn't really care if oops.
He didn't really care for any of the other games I had that were
Co-op. Like I think I had gauntlet
Legends and a couple other games and he was like no, let's play
blitz man, you'll like it, just watch this shit.
And we would. We would play against each other
and just like punch in random cheat codes and see what we get.
Like we just tap buttons, tap the fuck out of the buttons on
the loading screen and just get random cheats and it would just
be madness and chaos, dude. Like that, that shit was so much
fun. It's, if I had, I'll probably
get my brother-in-law over here one of these days to play it,
just just to goof around and just, yeah.
And it's total, total goof. Cam.
I wish there was a way to do like, like four players, like
like four teams on the screen. That'd be just madness.
Man, Oh yeah, like, like. Four, it's like a four, like
vertical and horizontal like. Yeah, I think you just invented
like a. Cross shape it's.
A cross shape football end zones, I I don't even know.
Can you imagine? What like. 4 crosses, someone
walks in, they're just like what are you doing?
The ref walks in and he's like fuck, it's Ultra Football Day.
Oh man, now they brought religion into this fucking
thing. God damn it.
It just crosses it. What?
Father, Son. Holy Spirit.
Ultra Football. Ultra Football.
Like, and that's what's crazy about this.
Like you're saying like, oh, you know, we can ask someone over
and play it. And like, even if they've never
played this before or it's been a long time, like pretty much
like all three of us, you could pretty much pick up, pick up and
play this game. You might, yeah, you might get
used to like, oh, I have to, you know, really pay attention to
which guy's flashing to throw it to or whatever.
But like, you know, a couple buttons, you know what Turbo is,
once you figure out how the passing works, that's it.
That's pretty much it. Like that's, that's the gist of
it in a good way. I think.
You know, that's not a bad thing.
In a midway fumble. Yeah, midway.
And that's the thing. It's a midway thing and.
Yep, they don't really good about that.
Dude, they fucking figured it out in so many so many games in
so many different ways, right, like in this is I think this is
probably one of the things they're most known for is
probably this series movie. I guess like if you say blitz, I
think they just automatically you know, or if you say Midway
blitz automatically comes up. So and then of course there's
always I recorded on the on the little soundboard here, a couple
things I didn't get in get to enough as I wanted to.
But of course, there's the announcer of all the Midway
games, all the midway like sports games and stuff, right?
Like that guy's. This is NFL Blitz.
Like it's just he does the same thing in the hits games, which
is great. It's the same guy just talking
hockey stuff. The one of the ones, one of the
ones that I love. I don't know if it shows up in
any of the any of the NFL ones, but in in the hockey ones, every
once in a while when you do like a really huge hit, the guy goes.
He just took the express elevator to the basement.
I It's so good. Hell yeah.
And then of course there's, you know, there's NBA Jam and stuff
too, which is obviously very similar with like all that crazy
shit. But like that, that line,
because we played that game so much, it hits growing up is when
we were actually playing hockey, sometimes guys would actually
yell that out off the bench when someone got hit.
We would use that as a line when someone got hit in an actual
hockey game, and it was great. Which ones?
Yeah, Go ahead, Jiggy.
Yeah. I just followed kind of the the
Midway games rabbit trail here to see kind of what what they
dipped their hands in and Mortal Kombat came up quite a bit.
No shocker, like kind of just Arcady stuff in general.
But then they did kind of morph into Nether Realm Studios, which
continued the Mortal Kombat trend and injustice and like.
Because I think I think WB owned like bot Midway or Midway went
bankrupt or something like that. And then Netherrealm is is.
More Cale as old as time. Yeah, Yeah, right.
Yeah. So there is no Midway anymore.
It's just it lives on through all these these types of games
and stuff. But like I mentioned Mortal
Kombat before completely forgetting that they were
linked. Yeah, well, that's the the
second you said Mortal Kombat, I'm like, did they?
Yeah, Yes, they did. Oh, you're right.
Yeah, 100%. You did a.
Lot of good ship. They did Doom 64, they did
Killer Instinct. Well, they they published.
Published. Yeah, Yeah.
Yeah, it was like. And Doom is Doom.
I mean me and Jiggy play it last year.
Like Doom 64 is really good. Doom 64 is pretty good, Yeah.
I'm not. I actually think about that
storm. Yeah, we did with Matt.
Yeah. The the I don't know when we
play, I haven't played all of them and I think I said that at
the time and I haven't even played all the new ones, which
are also pretty good. I think out of the old ones that
would that ended up I think it's probably my favorite doom 64.
It was that good. The levels were that good and
and it's just, I don't know, just felt right.
It felt good with the 64 controller too, which I was kind
of surprised, but yeah, it was I.
Think the visuals are really like they they really hold up
just because it's, it's sort of like that in between.
Like it's still using the sprites, but it also offers that
3D thing which makes it feel special.
Yep, Yep, sort of in between. Aaron, what was the OH for?
Oh dude. The play that we saw.
No, no, I wasn't paying attention.
I saw the Midway developed Midway developed Hydro Thunder
dude. We got to do that all right.
The three of us are going to have to play Hydro Thunder.
Duh. And gauntlet legends.
I'm such a fucking winky dink man.
Yeah. Is Winky Dink your favorite
character in Gauntlet Legends? Yeah, absolutely, man.
If you could fit that in the screen instead of just your
initials, you'd put Winky Dink right?
Winky Dink Kelly, Yeah. Blitz the.
League is under Midway by the way.
What is Blitz the league? Yeah, the one that I have, yeah,
it's, it's, it's published by, it says Renderware.
I don't know if that's the developer or another publisher,
but I remember the game looking pretty good too.
I have not played it since I bought it.
Like, oh. Dude, Midway did Doctor Muto.
Oh. That's right.
I didn't know that. They've made so much, They've
made so much. They did the Rush Rush 2049.
Yeah, 24, I don't know. Much in general.
Dude, yeah, LA Rush, all of that.
The suffering, the ties that bind the whole.
Rampage. Oh yeah, Rampage.
Dude, rampage midway. I miss.
I miss midway so. Much Rampage is one of those
games where I, I feel like I might have told the story on, on
this, this podcast before, maybe another one.
But like we used to do this thing where one of my buddies
had like a huge property with a big forest, you know, behind his
house and stuff like that. And there was 11 weekend a year
where we'd go to his place and we'd go like, camping on his
property, essentially. So we'd go, we'd have dinner
with his parents or something and be like, OK, we're gonna go
set up a tent. We'll see you guys tomorrow at
like, noon, basically. And we were like, you know, 12
years old, thirteen years old. But we were like, you know,
really close. Oh, I have to hit pause on this.
Look at this. Yeah, yeah, look at my.
Screen yeah, look at this screen.
Oh no like so this is the one that was like the the 2025
thing. So I don't know if this is an
actual like load screen from like the actual game, but this
one they put in there and it if anyone's not watching it, it's
basically a fan with a bunch of like cheese whiz poured all over
him. I think is kind of what it looks
like or like chili. Dogs.
Some sort of condiment? Some sort of condiment?
More than one, I think. Mustard and ketchup.
Mustard, ketchup or like like cheese that would be on on the.
Hey, I need to get some of my hot dog nachos.
Nachos could be Nacho cheese. Yeah, exactly right.
Like. Maybe.
Maybe he was doing the dumb and Dumber thing, like he ate
something real spicy and he was doing the like and like shooting
it into his mouth and his mouth. Whatever.
Yeah, who? Would this helps?
And it's on the strategy tip screen telling you how to use
the turbo button. So it's just it's perfect.
That's absolutely perfect. Was I saying?
Oh. Screen has been like just pretty
girls. Yeah, it's just like the
cheerleaders. And stuff like that.
Yeah, nice to see some. Nice to see something I actually
want to see. No, I'm just kidding.
Did. Bod represent.
Yeah, Rampage is one of those games that has like 100 and
something levels, 100 levels or something like that.
Every like the Super, super long we played it, we had, we went to
go have dinner, we went to go camp for the night and then we
played it again in the morning. Like we kept the 64 on four
people and played the whole game and it like I think it took us
like four or five hours. Like it's just a stupidly long.
Was it worth it? I don't know probably at the
time, but would it be worth it now?
I thought you were going to say you went into the woods and like
reenacted rampage like. Climbed the trees and like
started shaking them. Yeah.
Try to grab the tree people and eat them.
Stumped them up. The tree people.
Jesus Christ. I don't know, maybe they're
jumping off and like trying to jump on like his parents
vehicles and stuff like. Oh, atomic elbow that shit.
Here's what I think of your dad's Range Rover.
Jumping off the roof. NFL Blitz.
Yeah, blitz midway. For life, my own fentanyl.
Here. Here.
OK. Oh yeah, I got the what's it
called the sound? Which ones?
They Oh, here, this one. Anyone see what's driving that
truck? Makes sense.
It's great. You're pathetic.
And then the players chirping each other, saying you're
pathetic. And sometimes when you get hit,
the guy just like grabs his leg. He's like, oh, I think it's
broken. I saw that.
It's so good. I love that stuff.
And then I think you guys were mentioning a little bit before,
but some of the moves that you do, like the hits that you do
are hilarious. And it seems like I don't know
if they're randomized or if it matters like.
Look at that. Yeah, shit.
You gotta like suplex them. Just literally.
Tight dude. Lifted behind his back.
It's crazy. Just lift like power bombs and
behind him like just. Oh yeah.
I can't believe that the timing of that you just like just like
look at the hits and he did those like crazy.
Stuff and then he does the horse, the horse thing after
when he when he gets it like it's, it's unreal like that.
That stuff is really fun. Does it like make it's he's
dead? He just, the dude just like
tackled him like goes straight toward the camera and he flies
off screen and the other guy just lays in the ground, doesn't
move anymore, doesn't move at all.
I also like because I love just the way that stuff looks.
Even when I had the ball and got stopped, I would run my guy into
their players just to see more hits just so I could see them go
flying. Like it doesn't matter, right?
There's no injuries, there's no penalties or anything like that.
Like one of the things you can do that they like actually say
like, hey, here's a tip is you can hit the guy before he gets
the ball, which an actual football.
If you like tackle the guy that's running, trying to, you
know, be a receiver, you get it. You get a flag in this.
They encourage you to hit the guy before that happens, like
take him out so he doesn't get the he doesn't get the ball
thrown to him. Love it.
Yeah, On the flip side of that, one of my main strats playing
this game was to just like back up, like I was about to throw it
and then just start running as the quarterback like over and
over and over. Yeah, we haven't.
I feel like we've even talked about the actual gameplay, but
yeah, yeah. That would that would give me
some yard gainage. Otherwise I'd be like, I'd throw
it and they'd somehow miraculously like do an
interception like every time. And I'm like, I don't understand
or or I just like I'm about to get it an incomplete pass
because they just tackle me to the ground because of that.
Yeah, exactly. And so, and sometimes you try to
throw to the guy that you think is going to be open, but he's
like off screen and you're like, whoa, where's that ball going?
And it just ends up like somewhere else.
And then it's usually incomplete because you can't see if he's
covered or whatever, right. I, I, so I thought I was like,
OK, I kind of remember like throwing the ball all the time,
like that's the best way. And you, you would assume that
the best way to get a lot of yards and get far and all that
kind of stuff. Look at that.
I got a touchdown of the 0 seconds left in the game and I
won. Eagles win.
Eagles fatality. Fatality.
It. Does look very Mortal Kombaty.
Yeah, exactly. The more I look at this, the
more I'm like, wow, this is like Mortal Kombat.
Just just with the the football, just football, just the football
is in it. Otherwise it's yeah, it's it's
beating each other up. Look.
At that, the lightning and everything.
Yeah, that's what that's what the hits games are like too.
Like literally the menu when you like chew stuff, lightning
bolts, hit it and shit. Like it's just, you know, and
you can make your own characters.
You can have like an alien head, like all those kinds of things,
right. But those, again, those games
came out after. So it's different.
Yeah. So I found actually running was
actually pretty good. I actually was like getting a
lot of yards and actually getting far by just doing what
you said, Jiggy, and actually like sort of moving myself
around and going, oh shit, there's an opening and then
running like, you know, 20 yards or something like that and
actually doing all right. They amplify the team's, the
opposing team's speed though. So like you start running and
everyone just like it's 20 times faster.
Yeah, it's like a rubber banding.
Yeah, it's yeah, it's Canary Mary all over again.
Yeah, Oh, yeah. And also the one of the the
worst part about this game is this is me going through my like
controller pack to try and like save the game.
You need to like have an almost like a completely empty thing.
Yeah, I know it was. Look, it's looking for 123 free
pages. I have 9.
Oh holy shit. Yeah, and look how many, look
how many games have like nothing on them.
Like I'm sorry, but I'm not getting rid of No Mercy for
Blitz. I'm not doing it, sorry.
And I'm not getting rid of NHL because me and my buddies are
trying to like play a season and we get to play this.
And you can't get rid of Superman.
And can't give her Superman even though it only takes up one
page, although I might have actually deleted Superman.
I don't know. I don't remember if I did or
not. I might have, but like 123 is
like the whole thing almost. I'm I'm pretty sure I don't know
why I don't really yeah, that's understand why it would need so
much That's. Fucking wacky man.
Yeah. So this is when I was playing on
the Everdrive and stuff. I did play a little bit emulated
a little bit on on Steam Deck just to see what it it's the
it's the same, you know, but then you don't need to have the
controller pack to save. So whatever, right?
Man, Nintendo on the 64, I feel like they were just making you
like they just wanted you to have multiple controller packs.
Oh yeah, like that was the thing.
And I'm like, Nah, no. The whole like how are these
memory card what? It's a It's a forever pack.
No, I do not have a forever pack.
OK, Yeah, you should get one of these.
Yeah, they they hold. Would you like to tell me what
it is or? It's a forever pack.
Thanks. That's all you.
Need to know that's all you need.
To know I'm trying to think of the YouTube, but he did it was
with his buddies and they make it and it's just like got lots
of pages on it and it just it doesn't use the battery memory
that a lot of those controller packs use.
Oh, that's why it's forever. So it just I mean it's just like
a normal controller pack. The only caveat to this, and
they might have updated it, was that things like time trials and
Diddy Kong Racing require like something stupid like 128 pages
or something and there was like a cap off that.
It didn't quite reach that. So maybe NFL Blitz hits that cap
off and you wouldn't be able to save.
Or it's at the cap maybe? Or it's at the cap.
Yeah, it's something weird, I think.
I think it's been updated. But still, I use it for
everything. It's great.
It's a good idea. Damn.
That's The thing is like we have the ever drive that we that we
use to play the games, but like, you know, you're supposed to
play it. The point is that we're playing
it like the authentic way and no safe States and things like that
with it. But like you need to save your
game if the game allows you to to do that and you need the
fucking pages to do it if you want to do it that way and it's
123. I was like, I'm no sorry.
Always disappointed when a game cannot save to the cartridge
like. Ever.
Like growing up, it was devastating to me.
Like Rayman 2 was one that I just loved and I was like.
I don't have a controller pack. Oh, you need it for that too?
I wonder why? I guess I don't know.
Is that game? Is that game that massive that
they had no space I guess? A big game, but so you know,
Andrew Kazooie didn't need one. Yeah, right.
It's huge. Mario didn't need one.
Yeah, well, Mario didn't need one.
Yeah, that's right it. Makes sense for like time trials
and stuff like that, that are a little more like you could save
a a ridiculous amount of them or something, you know?
The only thing with sports games and ones like similar to this is
that I guess I don't think in the very first one you can make
your own team, but in the later ones you could.
And you can also make your own plays.
Like I guess you could take it to a friend's place and stuff,
but to take up an? Annexation of Puerto Rico.
Super Bowl winners. Like some really fucking stupid
play where a dude just runs around in a circle over and over
and over until he dies. I tried it, I tried it really
briefly. It, it's not bad for a, for a
game this age to, you know, from, from this time to be able
to like, you know, basically you select the, the receiver or the
runner or whatever and you just, you kind of just run them along
the field and then it, and then the guy will just follow that
pattern And you're like, oh, do you want to confirm that
movement? Yes.
Do you want to try again? Yes or no?
And then you just, you beat, you pick 3 or 4 four receivers and
you, you, if you want to position the quarterback right
behind the, the lineman or a little bit further back, which
is shotgun, I believe, where he's like a couple feet back
from the line and that's it. And then you just hit save and
you're like, cool, now I can use this and it just adds it to your
playbook and you're like, OK, awesome.
Cuz all the plays are the same no matter what team you are.
So I just noticed something. Yeah, one of the plays of this
game sometimes. No, I noticed that a long time
ago. Yeah, OK, no, I sucked too.
One of the plays was called Sub Zero.
Yep. And now it makes me want to go
back and read all the plays and see if they're like Mortal
Kombat references or other Midway game references.
Cruisin. Cruisin was, but was up there.
Cruisin is one of them, yeah. Which is their game to the
Cruisin games, yeah. That's awesome, I didn't even
think about that. See.
It's one called Doctor Muto or something there's.
Well, that would have been way later.
Oh yeah, that was PS2, Yeah. Zigzag these are monkey might be
something. Cruisin's the only one I had.
Cruisin's one. Some of these are actual, like
QB post is like an actual play. I don't know, spider legs.
Spider legs could be a reference to something.
Sounds like it could be. I don't know what else is there
here. Let's see.
I don't know what else I picked. Turmoil dog hook DAWG.
Sub zero, there it is. Yeah, Sub zero Hail Mary's
obviously an actual play and then all the defense plays are
are are pretty limited, unfortunately.
I wish there was more like I wish there was more crazy like
blitz play so you could just send everybody at them and
there's like two of those and that's it.
I mean, you could do whatever you want with your player that
you're you're selecting, but for all the other players in the
field to kind of do the same to do a, you know, a blitz or a
suicide that they call it and stuff like a.
Suicide. Fuck yeah.
Yeah, man, just everybody go at him.
Oh, come on. That was a catch.
So I I think, you know, it's a sports game, It's an arcade
game. It's crazy violent fun.
I do think Jiggy we we sort of blew past it a little bit.
But I do think that that it does still look pretty good.
I agree. Oh yeah, yeah.
You know, it's got those, those chunky polygons and characters
and stuff. But like, it makes sense.
I think like it, it works for this.
Every character is like the same model with just color palette
differences. I think there's a couple guys
that look like the lineman, I think are just like a little
bit. They have like a, they have like
a belly on them essentially. That's the difference like.
Slightly slightly bigger. Yeah, but I think everyone like
everybody. Has the same buff arms.
Exactly. But everyone's just huge and
jacked, which is not. The case they're built like
Samus, dude, they've got those big ol power suit shoulder or
CM. Oh yeah.
Now we just need that that NES fucking like.
Five dudes dove with that one guy.
That's a suicide. That's probably because it was
a. Suicide so good.
Football is the ultimate strategy RPG, man.
You see when they're standing there and they're like, they're
like wiggling their legs like Elvis.
Do you see that? Oh yeah.
Like when they're ready to like. They're like waiting for the
punt. They're like.
Going to get it. That's Elvis, right?
Yeah, for for sure, yeah. That's that's what he does, he
says I'm getting. It he was picking.
Back in the through. So that's the other thing.
So like if a team is on fire, for example, one of the things
you get is like if someone tries to tackle you from behind, if
that guy's like hitting boost and he you don't, I don't know
if I don't know how it determines this.
The guy who's on fire will carry that guy like a piggyback for
like 10 yards before he falls down.
That kind of shit's amazing. Like that's amazing.
That's that stuff is great. Like we need more of this.
We've said it already, but we need more of this shit, you
know? Like this is honestly, man, this
is way more, I'm getting way more laughs out of this than I
would regular football. Like just watching them flip
over each other and piggyback and like that dude fucking dove
30 feet in One Direction. Man, that was so cool.
What? They're just fighting, dude.
I'm telling it if you guys, whether it's it's an emulation
thing, which I know is not super easy with the original Xbox or
something, but if you want to play an updated version, look
for Blitz the league. I think they made more than one
of them. I just have the first one and if
you have an original Xbox, like it's not going to be expensive,
maybe maybe 10 or 15 bucks at the most when you see it.
So it is 100% worth playing. I haven't played in a while, but
I remember at the time one of those ones where I think I, I, I
think rentals were still might have still been a thing at the
time. And I rented it and then I liked
it so much that I bought it when I saw it like on sale when I was
younger and and I still have the same, you know, I got rid of it,
but I was like, I saw the same Xbox.
I'm going to find this game again and I'm going to buy it
like it's it's great and it's stupid violent.
You know, it doesn't take itself seriously, like none of these
games do. So good updated version.
If you want to, you know, you can play it on more modern
hardware. It looks pretty good from what I
remember. Or just go back and play these
like they are. They still hold up.
It doesn't really matter what they look or sound like or
whatever, They're still fun. Like the the just the gameplay
of it is just stupid fun and even when you lose, like when I
lost a couple games, I was like, all right, whatever, cool, I'll
just play again like it's it's great.
I'll jump in again. They're.
Super quick. They're super quick.
Yeah, the games are like maybe like 15 minutes or something,
like they're not, they're not long at all.
So that's really cool. Yeah.
So that's great. So, Jake, every once in a while
I, I remember to ask what we would rate the games.
So this time I remembered, regardless of which one we
played, what do you think of NFL Blitz if you wanted to give it
sort of a number out of 10? Probably like a like a 7.5.
Nice. Yeah, yeah, Like that.
Yeah, I. Think it's pretty solid.
Yeah, it's fun. Something I would sit there,
boss. What?
About you boss, boss, I would say yeah, it's 7 1/2 or like an
8 because like even as a non football guy, I still thought it
was super entertaining. I would love to get a friend
over and just goof around and go fucking nuts on this game.
Yeah, that's the that's the beauty of it, right, Is that it
lets you just kind of fuck around and if you mess up or if
you get tackle or it's an interception, you're like great,
let's do it again. Like it just does not.
It encourages you to just keep going because it is so fast.
Like every aspect of the game is fast.
Everything, no matter what happens during the game,
selecting plays. Like Jiggy said a while ago, the
way 5. Seconds. 5 seconds. 5 seconds.
It's really not enough. You're right, it really actually
is not enough. Read.
The names read like three of them, and I go, well, I hope
this one works, yeah. Hey, I haven't seen that arrow
point that direction before. I'm going to pick that one.
Oh my gosh, then there's multiple pages.
I didn't even realize that. Oh, really?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Oh shit, yeah, Page 3. Yeah, there's 3-3 pages I think
for offense. I think defense there's one,
maybe 2 depending on which kind it is you have.
Savant levels of reading. To be Oh yeah, you have to know
exactly where you're going. Yeah, I, I think I'm on the same
page, maybe seven and a half. 8 is probably where I'd be two,
like it's just stupid fun and that's great.
It's refreshing, honestly. Like with all the games, like
modern games, especially having something like this is what we
need, which is why I think we kept, we've said so many times
so far. That's why we would want
something like this. Whether it's actual like humans
playing the game or it's, you know, the mutant football or the
robot baseball that I was talking, like, just give us some
more of stuff similar to that. I think we need a breath of
fresh air with crazy shit like this.
Like we just do and this does it and did it for years and it's
just been too long since we had something like this or at least
something that, you know, was insanely popular like this one
was right. So NFL Blitz, great games.
Pick up any of them. Honestly, I think you're going
to have a good time no matter what.
They all pretty much play almost exactly the same just as fast,
just as crazy. Yeah, they're fun.
Yeah, they're great. The the ones that are like 2002
thousand and one if you're using like if you're playing like this
version of them, but the real players just looks a little bit
sharper just because they've they were able to sort of fine
tune things. But after that they're still
awesome games. So NFL Blitz, check it out.
And gentlemen, thank you for joining me.
Jiggy, where can everybody find your stuff?
What's what's happening sort of early, early bit of the year
here in 2025? Well, go.
Go go find me on YouTube. And we're we're starting to dive
into actually PlayStation one. So a little, a little bit of
blasphemy going on here, but people have been requesting
PlayStation enough and I'm like, you know what, let's play some
PlayStation games. So hey, we're covering some of
the platformers on that. So it's gonna be fun.
Well, same generation, so it's. Oh yeah, it's it's.
Inferior controller, but you know, whatever.
I oh IA 100% agree with that early place.
I mean honestly I'm just not a fan of PlayStation controllers
in general. The five is I think 5 is I
actually. Do like to do a Full disclosure?
Yeah, it's OK. That's all right.
Me the the five is great in a lot of ways, like for a lot of
reasons, but I I still very much despise the fact that the
joysticks are just right beside each other at the in the middle
of the control. I hate it.
Yeah, you have big fucking thumbs.
They just collide like it. That or my my fingers.
My thumbs always like slip off of one of them inevitably
depending on what game it is. Like I just my hand just does
not. Just slippy thumbs.
I got slippy thumbs, man. Oh.
Yeah, do I know? I know like the the dual shot or
the so so the the PS1 with the analog sticks and the PS2 and
PS3. They just had like the like like
the bald man thumb sticks. Do you PlayStation consoles?
Do they have like the little like?
Yeah, four and five have a much better that's good.
But those, yeah, like the the two and three, like there's no
way I can't. I feel like the.
Console straight. Listen, the PS5 controller is
like a near perfect controller. It's great and honestly the I I
also like the joystick thing isn't a huge deal to me, but I
do prefer the the like Xbox orientation of like you know, it
just feels more natural, but the battery life is something that
really irks me on those controllers like they're epic
and like the haptic feedback and stuff is cool, but the battery
life is trash. The pro controller on the
switch, Switch, aside from the the triggers which aren't the
greatest otherwise, it's got the haptic feedback.
Not to the extent that the PlayStation has, but it just
lasts like 80 hours versus. It does.
Versus like 4 hours of my PlayStation controller.
Yeah, and then God forbid you play it for a couple hours, you
let it sit out for a couple days and it's like, oh, now you only
have half an hour left. Like what the fuck, you know,
you know, 'cause like those batteries, these.
Are PlayStation controllers I have to cycle through them on a
charger? Like every time I turn it on I
basically have to switch the controller and I do not play
that long. Yeah, right, right.
I have the the switchers, I have the power a ones, which is sort
of like the third sort of like one of the third part.
That thing also has a very good battery on it too.
I got that a couple years ago and has the sort of the little
sort of trigger things underneath the where your
paddles. Yeah, the paddles, that's it.
They work great. I I you know, I played the first
game I played with it was when the prime remaster came out.
I guess it was last year and I was like, oh, it's a first
person game. I kind of don't want to play it
handheld. I want to get it with a
controller. They had one on sale.
I was like great. It's it's great.
I really, really like it and I think it also has Bluetooth
built in. I think I could be wrong about
that. So I could use it on my computer
if I wanted to as well, which is nice.
And it has the stagger joysticks just like the, you know, it's
the same thing as the Pro Controller has that too.
So they figured it out. Why can't Sony?
Right even even Amber Nick has a controller with the staggered
sticks man. The Amber Nick RG PO1 controller
dude. So I use it on my laptop all the
time when I emulate shit on launchbox.
Dude it's so fucking those. Guys have figured some shit out.
Those guys have they? They pump out.
I was just talking to my buddies about this the other day.
They pump out so many handhelds that I don't understand how many
people don't have one because there's like a million different
models every month. It seems.
They've got they've got one that looks like the the Game Boy
Advance. They've got one that looks like
the Game Boy Color, one that looks like the fucking GB ASP
like just just go buy one man. Use your Your boy errands link
and go buy an Amber nick if you don't have one.
What is that link, Sir? Let's plug it, Let's go.
Or is it super long and complicated?
Let. Me look, we're gonna cut a
voiceover. Cut to voiceover.
That's. Higher link letter by letters,
you can spell it out. We'll be here.
We'll be here for 30 minutes while he reads out all the
numbers and letters. It's pretty long, but I think
you can just use coupon code Superpod Saga I think.
There we go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nice. And honestly, I have an
Ambernick from, I wanna say 3 to 3 1/2 years ago now, I don't
remember which RG something something it is.
It's kind of like an in between of like the GBA and PSP size and
form factor and stuff. It's great, It's fantastic.
It runs PS1, some 64 stuff. But like anything 2D, anything
before that generation is flawless.
And pretty much all of their stuff is pretty much like that.
So anyways, other than that, Aaron, what about the Superpod,
the network, all that kind of stuff.
Let's plug away one more time. Yeah, man.
So if if you want just me, Superpod saga.com, you can find
all of my episodes there and socials and all that.
And also my website has a link right to Superpod Network, so
you can go which that is just superpodnetwork.com.
Yep. So you can, you can find, yeah,
Superpod Saga, remember 64, you can find fine time all of all of
Bill's shows. He's got three shows.
Yeah, Bill's a machine, man. It just is a machine.
There's, yeah, there's a bunch of awesome, great, awesome shows
pumping out content all the time.
Got blogs coming all the time, man.
Yeah, go go check all of that out.
Nice, nice. Well, that's it for this week,
everybody. Thank you for joining us on this
journey of professional. Everybody.
We know everything about football show.
That's what this was, right? Yeah, that made sense.
Hail Mary. Hail Mary, everybody.
Hot dogs get hot dogs. You.
Let's do that football. Thanks everyone for joining us.
See you next time. Bye.