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Episode 583: Gaming in the Year 2004 (Patreon)

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2023-12-29 08:00:06
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2004: Absolutely a year that happened. And 20 whole years ago! Check your calendars if you don't believe us. On this episode of Retronauts, join Bob Mackey, Ray Barnholt (of No More Whoppers), Diamond Feit, and Stuart Gipp as they travel back in time to examine gaming in the year 2004.

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Rasheen Jordan

San Andreas, Halo 2 and Snake Eater all coming out in a three week span. We were eating good.

Paul

I think I finished the previous episode yesterday, which was 1974 and 1984, was there a 1994 one I missed or if that one being skipped this time around?

Craig

I’ve been getting that photo bucket email for almost a decade now.

Andrew O.

Halo 2 was the game that spawned weekly gaming nights with my friends and we've continued them until present day! A couple years after starting, about half the group got addicted to World of Warcraft. It brought out the worst in my friends and almost killed the group. They still play, albeit more casually, but they are still Blizzard sheep. The way Blizzard purposely developed an addictive game and ruined peoples' lives is unforgivable. In my eyes it's one of the worst games ever made, from one of the most reprehensible developers ever, and it has had negative impacts on everyone I know who played it, as well as those around them. (Even if they refuse to acknowledge it.) On a lighter note, Katamari Damacy is the best game of 2004.

Carlos Hernandez

I’m still using my launch switch - works great! I do wish I had that oled screen, but with switch 2 around the corner 🤷🏽‍♂️

Dylan (batmanboy11) Freitag

I, for one, strongly welcome the idea of a future Retronauts episode being about the whole Hot Coffee debacle. It's incredible how LITTLE controversy there was from mainstream media when GTA V came out (and games generally around that time), but I wonder if the release of GTA VI will be more of the same. With all these conservative grifters who were definitely playing GTA 3-San Andreas at the time and loving them now saying it's "too woke" and they think being able to kill cops in a game is abhorrent, I know they'll at least TRY to make it a controversy again. Everything old is new again, etc.

Seth Short

I would 100% be stoked to hear a hot coffee episode. Take no prisoners and fly that flag.

Ryan Hoye

+1 for a Hot Coffee episode. Maybe do a whole podcast run on video game based moral panics.

Shel Freezes Over

I would add one important cultural touchstone that came out in 2004: the premiere of the tv show Lost. It did two things: 1. launched JJ Abrams into mainstream prominence which would give him and his popcorn sensibilities license to reboot and/or reimagine major pop culture franchises like Mission Impossible, Star Trek, and Star Wars. 2. Popularized the mystery box style of storytelling that Abrams was so fond of. I would argue that Abrams-fueled nostalgia baiting and constant mystery box stories have seeped into every aspect of popular culture, including games. I can’t lay all the blame on Abrams or Lost (a show that I actually like, even the ending), but they definitely feel like they heralded the start of some major trends.

Michael Castleberry

I feel like 2004 is the year in my 20s I get the most nostalgic for. Turned 24 that July, I was working at Hollywood Video, things were going well and a bunch of bangers released that year.

Wood Duck [Legacy Edition]

As someone who was 15 in 2004 I absolutely love hearing from millennials older than me what it was like being an "adult" in this turbulent time both for games and real world events. Will we ever again have fun stories relating to game and hardware launches etc? "Yes Billy I remember it well I thought Super Online Brothers would release at 4pm but then I saw in the discord that the steam download would start at 3! Oh those were magical times."

takeshikitano3

God bless Stuart for mentioning Permission to Land, my favorite rock album ever

George Ward

Lost was a big debut show of that year.