Episode description
Episode 184
Circana, a well-reputed US market research company, has published the top 20 selling games each year from 2000 - 2023 (https://www.circana.com/intelligence/entertainment-top-10/2024/gaming-through-the-decades-us-top-20-best-selling-video-games/). On today's episode, we analyze this list of titles from the dawn of the new millennium, reflect on popular trends that no longer exist, and discuss a plethora of games that shaped our taste growing up. We chat about the games on the list from 2000 - 2010, and plan on covering the rest of the list next week in a part 2. As always, we conclude with the games we're playing (Metaphor: ReFantazio, Factorio, Deadlock). This episode was recorded in October 2024. Royalty free music from BenSound.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Extra Life Announcement
4:45 - 2000
11:09 - 2001
17:13 - 2002
22:01 - 2003
27:25 - 2004
30:52 - 2005
34:08 - 2006
43:03 - 2007
50:09 - 2008
58:52 - 2009
1:02:23 - 2010
1:11:09 - Metaphor: ReFantazio
1:14:15 - Factorio
1:17:59 - Deadlock