Game Scoop! 869: GTA 6 and Those Game of the Year Awards

29:25It's so funny. It's like German expressionist-like. I had a friend write me from LA once. He was like, hey, there's a couple arcade games in this basement. I'm sending you a picture. One is really water damaged. It was a wacko. but yeah if we can look at the next picture i think it has a picture of the side yeah and you can kind of see it's just just looks like go home wacko you're drunk but um in this game you just have to you it's like a robotron like but you shoot aliens but you have to shoot them in pairs and they're big cool monsters it's like a godzilla and a hydra and then you have to like shoot only the godzillas and then or else they mix and match the tops and bottoms of the monsters as mutants it's really cute cool and you're a little alien named cosmic cruiser classic i know we've talked to talk about this on the show before this is a budweiser branded machine so budweiser tapper it's a molded uh cabinet to look like it's all wood grain with a big budweiser on it it's budweiser side art which you can't see this picture and two beer holders for your steins and then a uh taps to actual taps to pour beer with for the controllers this and then i don't think i have this in my picture, but there's a bar stool rail made out of brass at the bottom of it to set your feet up.

30:38Cool. How cool is that? It's amazing. It doesn't get much cooler than that. Okay. Mouse trap. This is a big pink and yellow art package of very 80s art with a dog pulling on a cat's tail. In this game, you play as a mouse and you can hit a dog button. The button in the middle of the game is dog button. You turn into dog when you hit that button. And so it reverses it's a maze game like Pac-Man and you're going around trying to avoid these cats and eat the cheese, but then you hit that dog button and your mouse turns into a dog and you can chase the cats. But look at that art. It's just of its era so nice.

31:13Oh, you can see the Budweiser Tapper art right next to it.

31:18Alright, Speed Rumbler. This is the one I wanted. Do you know this one? No. Oh, you don't. Okay, good. This is the one I want to tell Damon about. So, this looks like when you're walking up to it, you're like, okay, kind of a generic Capcom racing game. No, it is not. This is a Mad Max game that doesn't have branding. So I'd never heard of this before. And you can kind of see the car with a gun on it at the top. And the next image I have is just this briefest glimpse of the graphics because I want you all to go look it up. There's two trucks in here that have backed into each other to block the way.

31:45And a bunch of little people are out and you're in your hot rod with a gun on the front of it and you can jump out of your car at any time. And when you do it, it's like a bail button. You bail out, you roll before it explodes. it's a really cool desert punk Mad Max game. Are those people with Mohawks? Also with a little Blaster Master in there? Yeah, yeah. And it's Capcom. Really, really good one. We gotta play this one next time here at California Extreme. I've never seen that game before in my life. I want the arcade archives people to put that out. So they had the voice actor for Chris Redfield giving a presentation.

32:21They did presentations on a few other classic games and there's a classic game room And then they have like the creator of Q-Bert, who's been interviewed on the show before, and a bunch of other like classic game designers doing presentations. So they added this nice Resident Evil photo op. This, of course, is the new Jill Valentine cast for this movie and a dog here. Actually, that's my beautiful wife. And we had a really good time with this. I don't like that you said that's my wife and Jobert instantly zoomed in on the dog. Okay, not timing it perfectly. But I love this photo op. It was a really cute thing.

32:58And just so you know, there's just a lot of stuff like game festival stuff at this convention. Oh, wait. All right. This is pretty great. So you saw... Ah, chiller! Whoa! Amazing! Yeah, this is a system that you can swap out games in. And the game here is Cheyenne, a nice, wholesome Western shooter. And of course, this is a friend of IGN, Scott Bromley, playing what was really in there. chiller which is a game about shooting bodies up yep making them all bloody and getting points for it yep what's better that's all yeah pretty cool i like the little distance they have for the game no reason to have a reflective monitor in that except they made a game called turkey shoot which shoots up feathers in front of it which was here at this convention cool i don't think i have that many more so we're almost at the end here this is a game i've never seen before it's a breakout or Pong like where you move this thing on the bottom back and forth, but it's a curved Pong paddle.

33:54It's called Clean Sweep and you are actually cleaning out the all the dots in it. And it was hard and interesting and looks like a little gambling machine. And I just loved it. Like what a weirdo game that nobody's ever seen before or is probably very, you know, little documented from some company that I've never heard of before. Super cool. Another company that I've heard of, but it's super weird. This is a game, this and Nibbler were their biggest games. Nibbler is of course the prototype that became a snake on your cell phones. This game is called Eyes and you can see that company there. I love this logo, but the company is called Rockola.

34:31Rockola is a jukebox company that got into making, you know, these machines right at the last minute, you know, kind of just like, oh, can we do this too? They bought a bunch of TV monitors and put out some games, but they put out Nibbler and I saw like what was probably a high score champion playing Nibbler for hours at California Extreme because that type of stuff happens. And she was very good. And I was, I could not believe it with my eyes because the high score was set like three times over. Okay. This is my favorite game that was there, Zookeeper. It's a Taito game. And I just want to call out if you have a chance to go play Zookeeper in any way, you're kind of running around keeping animals in a pen, then you're jumping around at kind of Donkey Kong-like level.

35:09And it's wonderful. It's just a great game. And it's just, it has a lot of magic and character to it. and it's just totally goofy. And it's one of those games you can walk up to and you're like, why wasn't this the biggest game in the world? Because it's just so fun and it feels so intuitive like Pac-Man. Yeah. I think they made a Zookeeper for DS. Yeah, we saw that there's a few future Zookeeper releases that I'd never heard of before. There's also Zookeeper World. Okay, that's it. Thank you so much, Joe. I really appreciate it. I have two more show and tells on camera. Okay. Go ahead. I was just going to say, there's Zookeeper World on Apple Arcade, but it's a completely different game.

35:44It's like a match three game, but we're playing. Well, it expands the cinematic universe of Zookeeper. Yep. Okay. So as I said, there was a console room with a bunch of for sale stuff. And I bought a bunch of like, you know, Frogger puzzles and board games and just stuff from the eighties. But this is my favorite two things I bought. I want to show it to games. Cool. Here's a copy of Mega Man for DOS. It's a PC Mega Man game. Is that the black and white one? No, it's not black and white, but it has it's made. It's published by Capcom, but it's made by, you've got to look up the Wikipedia entry for this because it's made by a single sad boy who made only three robot masters.

36:22There's only three. It's barely playable. It says, match your metal against the mind of the evil Dr. Wily. The back, it says, my favorite thing is at the back, it says, at last, confront Kroark, a mega computer revved by the psychotic calculations of Wily's mad brain. only game with Kork in it everybody and also I don't know that dog wasn't in the first Mega Man game but here's Rush what is not the first Mega Man game it's just something else what robot masters are in it oh we got Sparkman it says blow Sonic Man to Splinters Sizzle Volt Man and demolish Dynaman which seems to be original robot masters yeah so going from the worst game ever to canonically the best game ever on GameScoop.

37:12I also picked up a really nice copy of the Breath of the Wild collector's edition complete. I have a beat up nasty copy of this that I don't know why I didn't store better. So this was just a nice upgrade and it came with all the stuff in it. I thought that was really cool. Cool. It was huge. Yeah. So anyway, go to California Extreme. It's really fun. I'll see you there. I went one time back when I still lived in SF. It is a really, really fun time. Yeah, we played Bad Dudes together, but we did not save Ronnie. Yeah, didn't get to get that hamburger. We also played Fire Truck. Okay, okay, okay.

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40:08See MintMobile.com. Back to our listeners. This is David Popp, Damon, and the Omega Cops. As a longtime listener, thank you for providing a much-needed escape during my drives to and from high school. After a long day of principaling in Denver, the mental recharge is greatly appreciated. I especially enjoy hearing what everyone is playing as an avid gamer born slightly before Nick. I'm rarely caught off guard by your picks, but then Damon mentioned Disgaea 5. And here we are, 100 hours later. I'm now playing it on both PlayStation and Switch, and it's exactly my kind of game. Absurd depth without requiring me to relearn a complicated control scheme.

40:43Every time work causes an extended gaming drought. Thanks for the recommendation. You are welcome, David Pop. And I think I mentioned that after having avoided it for years now, I decided to give Disgaea 7 a try, even though they went with a blasphemous change in art style. And I'm happy to report that I actually love Disgaea 7. I'm absolutely in love with it. Is this a 7 here? No, this should be 5. Oh, okay, okay. This is Disgaea 5. But yeah, 7, yes, I would still prefer the 2D sprites, but whatever. It's still the same gameplay, still the charm, the weird quirkiness. It's all in there. And it's just an incredibly addictive gameplay loop going from like a story mission to dungeon grinding in an item world.

41:30And then trying to recruit new characters, build out my army. This is Disguise 7 here. It also has like an ancient Japan theme to it, even though you're in like a demonic neverworld. It's great. Love it. So if you, like me, were avoiding Disgaea 7 for one reason or another, I think if you're a fan of the series, it's going to... You'll still find it's still the same old Disgaea, and I really, really love it. Yeah, I can see what you're saying about the art style of the gameplay, but the hand-drawn art here looks pretty great. Yeah, I love all this hand-drawn art. It's just these, the 3D models in the game.

42:00That's all it is. That's all. Okay, this is one I think Sam will be able to help with this. This is Matt from Vienna. Esteemed gentleman of the Omega Camp, Longtime listener, a few times writer. I've heard the tales, the tales of the fun and glory of the Pikmin games, that is. I've decided to investigate myself, but there is yet one problem. Which Pikmin to pick for a squire like me? Who else but the fabled court of the scoop to help me out and share their Pikmin wisdom? Every week, I'm so glad to have at least one single game podcast in the realm. You have my thanks and appreciation. Fare thee well.

42:34I don't have an opinion, but I like your letter. Yeah. What's this weary traveler's name? this is uh matt from vienna ah well met matt and huzzah so uh i think that you can just skip to pikmin 4 it's gonna say it's it's basically a reboot i think each one just got better so just just play 4 i think it's just i think it's the best one wonderful although it is nice i it can you i think you can play both 1 and 2 in the e-shop which is like kind of cool that the gamecube wants but those get remade also so it's like yeah yeah but 4 is definitively i you know if it's not the best it's just so easy to get into and we'll teach you everything about it and has so many like fun little nintendo references and stuff and i love the dog as the addition yeah it's great yeah the dog is a great addition you can ride them around yeah i think that's i think each pick pin got a little bit better and four is the best it's also just a huge game that would be my recommendation as well yeah it looks really good too man this game was out this year it would be my game of the

43:40here okay we're gonna do a little exercise before we get into 20 questions this is just something i came up with on my commute uh the other days and i i went through it myself it's it's gonna be tricky but i went through myself this is possible i'm gonna put one of you on the spot but to make it fair jobert let's flip a coin let's see who's going to participate in our exercise here we go oh wait wait sam sam you call it you call heads or tails you call it okay i will like to be tails okay let's let's flip miles per hour all right hey it is you this is what you're gonna do sam this is a wait wait i won and i get punished yeah you won the honor to have to do the work that's how it works this is and sam this is just one of my dumb ideas name a game for every letter of the alphabet that starts with every letter of the alphabet that's all we're doing I already don't have one well Mark and I will help you I was going to say I can help you it's just a fun exercise okay let's go Animal Crossing that was the one I had B you want me to read them off?

44:57Balloon Fight yep yep uh okay um uh crash bandicoot yep yep yeah d uh disgaea five there you go is mark supposed to be helping me or i'm on i'm on the spot i know i was like i just thought of it he's just trying to kiss his boss's ass no it's fine but the pressure is off of them um so uh E. Oh, boy.

45:32That's never. EverQuest? EverQuest, is that a game? EverQuest, yes. Why is it so hard? F.

45:43Farm Bill. That's where you're going. I will say, Final Fantasy, I will say, I think not having the pressure on, I just... They're just coming to you. I got him. I already got one. You already got a G? Yeah. All right. Think of alliteration.

46:08Gex. Sure. Yeah, I would have thought Ghosts and Goblins was sure. Or Grand Theft Auto. All right. H. Yep. yeah I just get worse and worse at it oh no Hexen? I thought you would have gone for Halo but sure I went with Hi-Fi Rush that was the first thing that popped in my head that's good this is a little trickier yeah what about like

46:49I'm sure there's like an Izzy or something like that. Indianapolis, you know, Indiana Jones. Indiana Jones. Are in the Temple of Atlantis. What's it called? I don't know. I forgot what the game's called. The Great Circle. The Great Circle is the reason why. Great Circle. J Jet Set Radio. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Okay. K, kangaroo. Yeah. I'm sorry. Killer instinct came to my mind, but yes, kangaroo. Oh, that's a good one. Yeah. L, let's do, I want to say laser something. That'd be fun. Libble rabble. What? I just thought for sale at California Extreme. It's a famous Japanese game, Libble rabble. What were you going to go for?

47:40Lemmings. lemmings that's pretty good i'll do lost odyssey yeah lost odyssey okay um m metro 20 whatever not mega man okay um n let's see uh i don't know there's some new games can only think of a roblox game

48:08um this is why i think of a think of a ninja gaiden oh yeah sure i was gonna say oh that's good i was gonna try to lead you to one of my favorite digitized uh graphics arcade games which would be narc and oh i can't use oblivion because it starts with elder scrolls so oh um or man i'm out i'm out of ideas for oh does does out now is that something out uh yeah you can you can what you can get rid of what about what about oxen free oxen free yeah right order 1886 was the order yeah yeah that's a good one too yeah that's good P this should be doable yeah Pragmata Prince of Persia, Portal Harappa the Rapper that's good Q, no game to start with a Q probably just skip that one yeah 20 questions because you skipped the 2-0 and that's a video game now no there's got to be Q games Quicks Quest for Glory hubert hubert yeah yeah it was popular to cue things at the time are um resident evil resident evil yep yeah s is probably the most common letter right so let's go with uh snake for cell phone because i mentioned it already t um what's what's what's the easy one for this trog for any s yep tetris tetris yeah tron yeah tron yeah uh you um on maybe unreal is that the name of an early game unreal something yeah unreal tournament tournament until dawn until dawn is good yeah the uh the b yeah there's a game called v right well there's a 80s sci-fi show called v they might have made a game maybe that valiant what's it called hearts or something hearts is a konami oh yeah Turn-based strategy game.

50:30Wasn't there also a really old game just called Venture? I know there was Adventure. Yeah. There's also Venture, right? I think so for Atari, right? Yeah. And there's also a company called Venture. But yeah, there's a Venture for Atari. All right. Four more. W. Okay. Yeah. W, Warcraft. Yep. Yeah. X. There's a game called Zizix. Yeah. I think that's... Yeah, that might be one of the... And there's X-Men. Oh, yeah. Sure. Yeah. Children of the Atom. Extreme Beach Volleyball. Cool. uh why you can do i don't know star wars yoda stories um or yoshi's cookie yeah she's yeah she's cookie that's good because it doesn't have uh super mario brothers in front of it or anything um that's good and then z we can do zork zork one oh yeah underground empire we did it there's two numbers we did it zero wing i just thought that was a fun exercise it's like that was yeah It's like trickier than you think it's going to be.

51:30Yeah, I know even when you're doing just like words in association with that and you try to do it really fast, it's extremely difficult for human brains to do it. Yeah. Nicely job. It's not easy being put on the spot like that. Yeah, especially after winning a coin toss. Starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times. Your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life. So finding the right tool that not only helps you out, but simplifies everything as a built-in business partner can be a game changer. For millions of businesses, that tool is Shopify.

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53:20Well, now you guys can collaborate and work together because that brings us to Video Game 20 Questions. Our suggestion this week comes from Chris from Melbourne, Australia, who says, I've been listening to Scoop since the beginning. Lots of great memories of being in high school, waiting for the bus and listening on my iPod video. I wanted to write to let you know that my wife and I just had our first child. We had so many girls' names picked out, but when we found out he was a boy, we had nothing we could agree on. Until one day I went for a run and did my usual routine of putting Scoop on, Hearing Damon's classic intro, I was like, oh yeah, Damon, that's a great name.

53:53I came home from my run, told my wife the idea, and she agreed. Fast forward to August 5th, and our own little Damon H arrived healthy and happy. Unbelievable. One thing I couldn't convince my wife to do was add the E in the spelling. So it's not spelled the same way, but it is another Damon H. Just want to let you know that there's another Damon down here in Melbourne, Australia, named after you. Thanks for keeping me company with the only gaming podcast for over half my life. I really appreciate all of you. That's crazy, Chris from Melbourne, Australia. But great story. And thanks for hanging out with us all these years.

54:23Total disbelief. That's just the sweetest, coolest thing. It is. Also, the iPod video thing, 100 % the way I listened to Game Scoop when I first was a fan. Yeah. Good times. Okay. He also has a 20-question suggestion this week. He has an anecdote about it, but I'm going to have to redact the whole thing. So let's just let the questioning begin. Okay. And by the way, we, you know, you can always send us the Taco Bell ratings for 20 questions, which is of course, you know, as hot and Diablo and Verde, but we have a new one, which is mild ass.

55:10I don't know how I'm going to count on my fingers because I have to hold my damn arm. uh this is the only way that I can hear Sam and Mark is if I hold this up just like this well that's the true challenge I'll just count on one hand well I hope this is a mild ass one does this game make me want to live Moss that's not a real question um hmm is this from go ahead does the letter of this game start between A and M? I don't think we allow that question, Mark. Oh, come on. I already did all the alphabet answering we can do in these. Is this from this century? Yes. Okay. Do you think Mark Medina has played this game?

56:03Yes. Whoa. It's stellar blade. Let's go. Is this game about bikinis? let's see is this game exclusive to a platform no did this come out on a Nintendo platform yes okay was that platform cartridge based yes that's five all right so we're on switch switch two but it was on everything DS3DS which would be weird yeah okay let's see here is this an indie game yes is this game part of a series no hmm would you describe well is this game in the is this game a cozy or a roguelite no that eliminates all indie games yeah is this a platformer or action or puzzle game yes is it a platformer yes that's 10 sorry did we establish that it's an indie game yeah indie platformer indie platformer that's what I played or braid or spelunky those are not part of a series as well so let's see here um Is this game known for being difficult?

57:41Yes.

57:44Oh. It might be Celeste. Yeah. Or like Super Meat Boy. I don't know much about Celeste. No, that's like part of a series. Yeah.

58:01Well, let's see. It's a platformer that, okay, difficult. So Is the theme around the game Retrying over and over? Do you die often? Yeah Yes Yes

58:26Do you play as a human?

58:32No No But that's confusing

58:38yeah because he's a meat boy okay could it be a castlevania like or something like that yeah let's we need to figure it like is there combat i mean being known for being difficult is interesting right yeah that's interesting shovel knight maybe yeah shovel knight that's Hollow Knight, but like a lot of these little series. Hollow Knight, yeah. I mean, I guess we don't know if it's a Metroidvania, but did we just count that? I mean, Metroidvanias can be platformers. I don't know. Yeah. Is this a Metroidvania? No. Well, I mean, that's pretty interesting. Of course it's not a Metroidvania. To be kind of a, yeah, well, and Mark played it.

59:24So a linear indie game that Mark played. Who was famously too old for Metroidvanias. Exactly. Yeah. That's hard. Except for the new Castlevania game. I'm coming out of retirement. Does this have retro style graphics? No. That's 15. Wow.

59:51Not a Metroidvania. But like, is there combat? Maybe there's no combat. That doesn't seem like... Yeah, there's not a lot of stuff I can think of that's like this.

1:00:08Now, especially without the retro graphics. I mean, could it have polygonal graphics? We don't know if it's 2D. It could just be like ukulele or something, right? Oh, that's true. We didn't know. We don't know if it's 2D. and could we should ask that because that's gonna is is this oh yeah good is this 2d no okay so maybe mario 64 likes yeah a hat in time astro that's just yeah astro is part of part of a series and astro is exclusive indie 3d platformers are unusual but like yeah ukulele is one of them ukulele you don't obviously don't play as a human in that yeah a hat in time i feel like you clearly play as a human yeah or is mario a human i don't know i don't know he goes to a human world and that's true they don't work yeah um interesting a challenging oh maybe it's the one where you like walk up the mountain like super weird that devs reacted

1:01:32oh wait the one that just came out baby steps yeah baby steps that would make sense which that's not switched though oh it's not no it's probably something like that

1:01:51that'd be great if it was baby steps though right let me so danie you said you said it it is difficult what was the question again we asked if it was difficult you said yes maybe it's Cairn also one of my favorite games this year you got three questions and a guess but Mark didn't play that right no I I feel like I feel like we need to narrow it down a little bit more as far as the year the year yeah cause we're still in we still have 26 years to go through right yeah You said this century? Did this come out in the last 10 years? Yes. Two questions and a guess. I think it's just a Switch game.

1:02:46The human thing is weird. Human thing is weird. What was the answer to that question again? Do you remember, Damon? You're not a human, but it's a little bit confusing. There's a reason why. So think about that. yeah yeah yeah that's usually it means you're a robot or you're a vampire did you play any games was this designed in Japan no you're not a human but it's confusing one more question and a guess what the heck does that mean not a lot of indie games coming out of Japan no that's true maybe it's something like goat simulator but you're it's it's more funny than that yeah that's part of a series it's just weird that's that's also what's stripping me up is like it seems like something we know but it's like such a like such a one-off what if it's just like big walk or like one of these new games it's a it's a slop game yeah oh wait big walk's not a slop game but but but what are some other ones like uh that are kind of platform but multiplayer focused yeah so there's you know dang yeah we didn't ask about that if it was multiplayer you can ask we got one more question well is this game exclusively single player no yikes and now we're at our guess maybe it's it takes two or maybe Fall Guys yeah Fall Guys that's good it's one of those two I bet what do you think oh what if it is it takes two because you are technically humans but you're not yeah exactly and what else he did the jail game and then he did the split fiction And the reason I'm eliminating those is because it's more obvious that you're humans in those, right?

1:04:53Right. It might be It Takes Two. I just don't know. It's Switch existence or anything like that. I don't know anything about that. Me neither. But it's about being a parent. And this guy clearly has parenting on his mind because he's naming kids after GameScoop members right and left. Yeah. Hopefully I'm next. All right. Is this It Takes Two? No, it is not. It Takes Two. Chris from Melbourne, Australia says I find it interesting how this game was such a huge phenomenon during the pandemic then Epic bought the developer and it seems to have disappeared completely still some fun memories it is Fall Guys no it was Fall Guys I was like wait you're describing Fall Guys you're humans in a costume, is that what's going on in this game No, but they're called...

1:05:46I mean, guys is in the title. That's all I'm saying. But they're not human beings. Oh, man. Great game. This is a good game. Yeah, I thought this was a very marked game. This was... It was, and this was a pandemic game, man. Yeah, totally. It's also a friend's flop, right? It dropped on PlayStation... Yeah, before... It dropped on PlayStation Plus. Before friend's flop was a thing. So everyone could play it with their subscription. We got so close. Wait, so this is on Switch? It's on everything. I guess I didn't know that. Yeah, it's on everything. available today. It doesn't make sense. And Epic bought it?

1:06:17Epic bought the developer and then, yeah, it just seems to have disappeared. Yeah. Interesting. And it's just... Yeah, I remember this and like Rocket League and Among Us. Those were like, yeah, those were really big back then. Yeah, big pandemic games. And this is just difficult, Sam. It's just the controls are difficult on purpose. So it's just hard to do anything. Like the maybe steps thing, right? Yeah, kind of like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you'll jump and you'll get like bounced off things in a weird way. You'll fall and stuff like that. Other characters can make you fall. It's called Fall Guys.

1:06:52Yeah, I've played a lot of this game. I love this game. There's good times. One of those games where it's like the moment your friends move on, it's over. And that's the issue, right? Is like you and your group of friends get all together. Same with like Among Us, right? Like everybody gets together, they all play and then all these updates and stuff come out. But you know, It's really hard to pull people back. And it'd be impossible for me to be like, hey, friends, you guys want to play Fall Guys in the big two six? Like I would, but I wouldn't get them so that I wouldn't play. Yeah. It's a good one, though.

1:07:27Yeah. It's a good suggestion. Yeah, seriously. You guys got very close. Mentioned the game right at the end. Yeah. Yep. Thank you for the suggestion, Chris, from Melbourne, Australia, and the honor of letting me play some small part in your family's life. Viewers, listeners, if you have your own suggestions for Video Game 20 questions, email them to me at the email address, gamescoop at igin.com. That's all the scoops that we have for you this week. Sam and I and Justin and Nick Limone. We're all going to be in Germany for Gamescom next week. So we'll be recording a Game Scoop there and then we'll be sharing some of our adventures.

1:08:02So please be excited for that. Mark, you stay home. You have to stay home. Okay. I want to go next year. I might try to go next year. Yeah, that'd be great. We'll see. It's usually a pretty good time. So thank you. I've never been. Thank you, Sam. Thank you, Mark. Thank you to Jobert and everyone working behind the scenes to make this episode possible. My name is Damon. This is IGN Game Scoop. And we're out.