specialist knowledge to understand, it tends to be like very happy memories or very, you know, very specific things that you loved about particular games. And so like when you zoom right in, you know, right down into like the sort of the granular individual games, like here's an anecdote from Animal Crossing, you know, you never really lose anyone because, you know, it's it's kind of like the place of purest enthusiasm in the book as well. ...
would make every displayable on your PAL machine. And it's like, yeah, you don't have to do this anymore. People just download shit now. It's so much easier. They don't know the board. The best free gift I ever got from a games magazine was Cube magazine gave away, I think maybe a sample of freeloader just to let you play Animal Crossing. So it's like if you import Animal Crossing, this disc will let you play us Animal Crossing on your UK GameCube. So specific. Yeah. But I think that's a great gift. Like, here's…
Listen to this moment
00:11:38 - 00:12:22
In Context
... who does that? Now no one has to do this kind of thing, you know, no one has to go and get import discs and download, you know, or buy a freeloader. Do you remember the freeloader for the year? Oh, yeah, I've still got one of those. Yeah, the little disk you'd put in and it would, you know, it used to get them for PlayStation 2 as well, I think it would make every displayable on your PAL machine. And it's like, yeah, you don't have to do this anymore. People just download shit now. It's so much easier. They don't know the board. The best free gift I ever got from a games magazine was Cube magazine gave away, I think maybe a sample of freeloader just to let you play Animal Crossing. So it's like if you import Animal Crossing, this disc will let you play us Animal Crossing on your UK GameCube. So specific. Yeah. But I think that's a great gift. Like, here's a ticket to the thing that we've been talking loads about that you'd like to play, but you can't probably and I did do it. And I you know, I got a US copy of Animal Crossing. And yeah, my first experience of it was through cube. So that's an inspired government. Yeah. Well, I think the addition, the giant story just proves you're the right person to write this book. That's that's for sure. This, this is a weird thing to praise about a video game book, but the cover is really nice. There are plenty of nice looking game books increasingly. So I think is that space becomes more competitive. But I do think it legitimizes it as a, you ...