Millennium Edition | Nintendo, SEGA, and Games of the 2000s

Millennium Edition is an original podcast from the Sound Stone Network covering the GameCube, Dreamcast, and other games from the late 90s and 2000s. Join writer, teacher, and podcaster Sean Douglass, along with co-producers Gooey Fame and Darren Hupke, as they explore topics in video games from this turn-of-the-millennium period. Rather than being purely a retrospective, Millennium Edition focuses on what makes the games of this time still so relevant and current today. And along with celebrating the creativity of Nintendo and SEGA at the time, the show also explores the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and other consoles of this time period, including handhelds. The new millennium was a unique time for video games. Graphical leaps led to new levels of resolution and fidelity, with games that showed off advanced water and lighting effects and detailed character models. Innovations like wireless WaveBird controllers and console internet connectivity changed the way people played, and with gaming in the third dimension no longer in its infancy, developers found ways to offer more polished and refined 3D experiences. Despite their age, the games of this era have aged particularly well and remain in high demand. The timelessness of these games, and this hopeful, playful technological landscape of the late 90s and early 2000s, is what this show is all about. If you're a Nintendo or SEGA fan still enjoying the GameCube or Dreamcast today, or if you're someone just discovering games of this period for the first time, we hope Millennium Edition will be a fun and nuanced look back at a time that today feels both comfortingly nostalgic and surprisingly modern all at once. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.