Gaming Podcast 122: There You Are Perry

This week we’re one person down, but we’re carrying the torch anyway. This gaming podcast covers the latest news, hits up a flashback of Qix and digs into the history of Taito. We’ve got some great comment this week from ipod gaming to console generation predictions. This weeks news includes:

We’re also going to hold a little contest to give away to copies of Plants vs. Zombies from popcap. Listen to the gaming podcast for the details! We want to thank all the folks who wrote in and cheftafoya for some of the news articles.

Question of the week? Are you going to sign up for hte Starcraft II beta on hype alone…?

0 thoughts on “Gaming Podcast 122: There You Are Perry”

  1. Oh, Derrick – how can you bag on Qix? Just get the MAME ROM and play – it can get pretty addictive. It’s especially satisfying when there’s two Qixes and you split them.

    It’s not as hard as you think.

  2. I remember the Chips & Bits website used to let people preorder “Duke Nukem Forever”, back in the very late 90’s. ‘:D (Cracked me up every time I saw the ad… and that was over nine years ago.)

  3. Its really great that you came up with the idea of facilitating a mini game to give away copies of plants vs zombies! yes i will sign up for starcraft II beta.

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