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Intro
0:00:05 Game Under Obituries
Feature
0:00:48 Hiroshi Yamauchi
0:08:14 Nelson Mandela
0:12:22 Richie Benaud
0:15:45 Saturo Iwata
0:21:55 Sean Price
0:29:34 Rick May
Outro
0:39:33 Thanks for Listening
Transcript
Phil: Hi everyone, this is Phil Fogg.
Phil: I'm not joined by Tom Towers this week, sadly, because we're just going to do a special small show, basically after doing Rick May's obituary in our last episode.
Phil: For this episode, episode of The Game Under Podcast, I decided to go back and listen to some of our obituaries that we've run over the last seven years.
Phil: This is nothing that we do that's planned, as always it's impromptu and always irreverent.
Phil: And I thought it might be something that you could enjoy in these unprecedented times.
Phil: Thanks for listening.
Phil: Other bad news from Japan in, I guess, is Hiroshi Yamauchi has died.
Phil: He is the dude that ran Nintendo when it was in its NES era.
Phil: So basically, this is the guy responsible for the company that saved home console gaming, brought it back from the dead.
Phil: And so, he is dead now.
Phil: Dude was worth billion dollars, the th richest man in Japan at the time of his death, which makes you wonder, if he had billion and his other dudes richer than him, it's probably like Mike Toyoda.
Tom: Mike Toyoda?
Phil: Stan Hattach.
Tom: John Honda.
Phil: John Honda, Tim Sushi, and Frank Kickamont.
Tom: Or Pento.
Phil: Yeah, so he's dead.
Phil: I mean, do you have any strong feelings about this?
Tom: I'm just surprised that he is apparently so hated.
Tom: And it's all because he's sold rare, apparently.
Phil: Oh, is that why?
Tom: Yeah, apparently.
Phil: So here's the deal with him, right?
Phil: He was a hard motherfucker.
Phil: He was the guy that basically told the publishers, you can only produce three games on our NES each year, you know, which forced Konami, for example, to set up shadow companies like Ultra, so they could make Metal Gear Solid.
Phil: You know, there's all this stuff going, these shadow games going on.
Phil: And they made sure that they were the only manufacturer of the cartridges all the way up through the DS and DS era.
Phil: So, if you're a publisher, you can't make your own DS cart.
Phil: You have to submit your game to them.
Phil: They press it on the cart and on and on and on.
Phil: So, you know...
Tom: Was he the one that also monopolized the American games industry in that he did many deals with outlets so that they could only sell Nintendo consoles?
Phil: Yes, yes.
Phil: And this got, they got sued for that and there was regulation that followed.
Phil: He was in charge when they were in trouble for price fixing in the EU.
Phil: He's just a hard mother, you know.
Phil: He just ran things the way he wanted to run it.
Phil: He crushed small guys.
Phil: He probably was the guy who put the hit out for Gunpei Yokoi.
Phil: Undoubtedly.
Phil: Undoubtedly.
Phil: He probably killed him himself.
Phil: Ran him over.
Phil: So, he cuts, he puts a, drills a hole in the oil filter so his car stops on the freeway.
Tom: Yep.
Phil: And follows him and runs him down.
Phil: Yeah.
Tom: Absolutely.
Phil: I believe that, looking at him.
Phil: He owned a series of spas and stuff in Japan.
Phil: Now this has just turned into Hiroshi Yamauchi trivia.
Phil: We're not reading.
Tom: It's his loving obituary.
Phil: It's funny because we're not reading from notes.
Phil: I didn't do any research for this.
Phil: It's just general information you have about this dude.
Phil: He's the dude that probably knocked Nintendo for a couple of gens by insisting that they stick with the carts on the N
Phil: Yep.
Phil: Which, you know, from a technical perspective, I agree with, but from a market perspective, it was ridiculous because it made their games slower to manufacture, more expensive and less publisher-friendly.
Phil: And more expensive to buy, so yeah.
Phil: So he's dead.
Phil: And one day on this podcast, we'll be talking about Iwata being dead.
Tom: Can I ask, is there a way we can link him somehow to the Yakuza?
Phil: Oh, most definitely.
Phil: I mean, you're not the th most richest man in Japan who runs his business like it is a mob outfit.
Phil: Absolutely.
Tom: Yep.
Phil: You know this guy.
Phil: Yeah, absolutely.
Tom: So we could basically call this a Yakuza kills one minute.
Phil: Yes, and Yakuza is involved with Sega as well.
Tom: So perfect.
Tom: It all came together.
Phil: Thank you Well, first Yamauchi, now Tom Clancy.
Tom: Is dead.
Phil: Dead.
Phil: Age
Phil: And I thought...
Tom: Was he assassinated?
Phil: Um, it's unknown at this time, the cause of his demise.
Tom: Well, I'm putting my money on assassination.
Phil: Yeah, this is a man who sold his name to Ubisoft in
Phil: Ubisoft has said that they will continue pumping out Tom Clancy-inspired games.
Tom: Now, you say he sold his name to Ubisoft in
Tom: Why are you using that as an example?
Tom: Because Tom Clancy Games as a brand have existed long before then.
Phil: Mm-hmm, that's when they locked it in.
Phil: That's where they...
Tom: Okay.
Phil: Ubisoft can now...
Tom: So no one else could make Tom Clancy stuff after that?
Phil: Not games, no.
Phil: That's it.
Phil: They bought out his name.
Phil: So if you...
Phil: And Ubisoft can do anything they want with it.
Phil: They could bring out Scented Underwear.
Tom: Tom Clancy's Cooking Mama.
Phil: Tom Clancy's Cooking Mama.
Phil: That would have to be a joint with Majesco.
Phil: They could do Tom Clancy, Nancy Drew Mysteries.
Tom: Another joint project.
Phil: Click and Point Adventure, yeah.
Phil: So there you have it, dead.
Phil: And yeah, I just felt that you might want to just say something at his passing.
Phil: You know, I know how much you like Tom Clancy games and his novels.
Tom: I do actually like Tom Clancy games.
Tom: I'll have you know.
Phil: Oh, did you quite enjoy End War, the voice operated RTS?
Tom: That's my favorite Tom Clancy game, in fact.
Phil: Yeah, mine too.
Phil: I bought that, then I realized I don't have a microphone.
Phil: So I tried hooking up a SingStar one, but that was from a different region.
Phil: So it didn't go too well.
Tom: That's disappointing.
Phil: Yes, it is disappointing.
Tom: And yet, despite that, it's still your favorite.
Tom: I think that shows how good it was.
Phil: I think my favorite Tom Clancy game is probably Splinter Cell
Phil: What was the team squadron Tom Clancy, Ghost Recon?
Phil: Ghost Recon?
Tom: I am very, very disgusted by what you've said there.
Tom: I think we'll find the correct answer to that question is Rainbow Six.
Phil: Ah, Rainbow Six, yeah.
Phil: No, no, I'm thinking Ghost Recon.
Tom: That's the crappy one.
Phil: Yeah, the crappy one, I have a bunch of them on the Xbox, the Xbox real one, and I played a couple of minutes of that, and that was memorable.
Phil: So I just thought we'd put Tom Clancy to bed here and bit his memory, you know, fond voyages, Tom Clancy.
Tom: This is what happens when we have someone die who we can't link to the mafia in one way or the other.
Phil: Well, he's obviously linked to the CIA, which is a mafia of types.
Tom: Well, I did say he was assassinated.
Phil: Yeah, we do the worst obits.
Phil: If you have an enemy or a nemesis and you finally kill them off, please let us know.
Tom: Can you imagine what would have happened if I'd chosen to say anything after Ryan Davis had died?
Phil: Oh, yeah, no, yeah, I'm glad that you didn't.
Phil: So, in other news, unfortunately, we have to deliver the news.
Phil: Probably people haven't heard this yet.
Phil: This is eulogy that, on the face of it, doesn't have much of gaming currency.
Phil: But Nelson Mandela has died.
Phil: And this is-
Phil: Nelson Mandela.
Phil: He was a human rights leader from South Africa.
Phil: Little known of, little heard of.
Tom: I hadn't heard of him.
Phil: No, no.
Phil: He was a black man put in jail.
Tom: You mean African-American?
Phil: No, no, no.
Phil: Just a genuine African.
Phil: No American seed had infiltrated his DNA.
Phil: In any case, Nelson Mandela was an African who, for years, spent his time in jail.
Phil: And people were like, well, why are you guys talking about this guy no one's ever heard about?
Tom: Who was a criminal.
Phil: A criminal terrorist on The Video Game Podcast, right?
Phil: Well, the fact is that he had the stupidity, absolute lack of judgment to die a week before the PlayStation came out in his territory.
Phil: Now, the PlayStation is now available in countries, the Czech Republic, Greece, Turkey, Australia, South Africa.
Phil: This is approximately more, oh no, exactly more territories, or more territories rather than the Xbox One.
Phil: And, you know, I mean, the Xbox One isn't releasing in South Africa.
Phil: You know, obviously, racists.
Phil: But the PlayStation has now released in countries, including South Africa.
Phil: And had Nelson Mandela hung on for one more week, one can only think that he would have been playing Resogun, Assassin's Creed
Tom: Killzone Shadow form?
Phil: Killzone Shadow form.
Phil: So, I mean.
Tom: Or he might have been playing Call of Duty Ghosts.
Phil: He may have been playing Call of Duty Ghosts, or watching Alcatraz.
Tom: Had the Xbox One come out by that stage?
Phil: No, not in South Africa, sadly.
Phil: And that may have.
Tom: Maybe what happened was, he was a, as we know, he'd been sick for a while.
Phil: Yep, very sick.
Tom: Yep, so he was a Nintendo fanboy, and had the Wii U.
Tom: And so he was holding on, holding on for the PSlaunch to fail, as the Wii U's had, right?
Tom: Then elsewhere, the sails were through the roof, and that was it.
Tom: He couldn't go on, and he didn't want to see it happen in South Africa as well.
Phil: That was it for him.
Phil: And I mean, this is so sad.
Phil: Here's a man who obviously had...
Tom: Loved the Wii.
Phil: Loved the Wii.
Tom: And the Wii U.
Phil: Loved his Wii.
Phil: All those years in jail, he would have been playing his SNES, his GameCube.
Phil: Upon release, Winnie would have introduced him to the Wii, and sadly, he left Winnie, but would have firmly clutched his Wii, even in her absence, and upon seeing the success of the PlayStation couldn't carry on any further, and seeing it coming toward Africa, he relented.
Phil: And let me just say that at this point, we have successfully penetrated West Australia.
Phil: We now do have faithful listeners in West Australia, and for that, I am fortunate, and full of thanks and gratitude.
Tom: Are we into Africa yet?
Phil: Unfortunately, we are yet to penetrate Africa.
Tom: But we're now blacklisted from Africa.
Phil: We're whitelisted, apparently, because of our race.
Phil: And this is unforgivable.
Phil: I don't understand why Africa hasn't turned to us for the video game news and commentary.
Phil: Yeah, and also, you know, we want to give respects to fellow podcaster Richie Benaud.
Phil: Boy hadn't been at it long, which makes his...
Tom: I believe he died in a car crash.
Phil: Yeah, his loss is all the more tragic, particularly since, you know, the recent release of Furious
Phil: But Richie Benaud, Paul Oneout, fellow podcaster.
Phil: And that ends Game Under.net's exercise in podcasting.
Tom: Unless I missed something, that was a surprisingly positive obituary for Richie Benaud, except for my comment.
Phil: Well, I probably confused our international audience by drawing him into Fast and Furious.
Phil: So I think it was a highly disrespectful.
Phil: I don't think we'll be clipping that and sending it to his wife.
Tom: It works.
Tom: You went along with it though, so that's okay.
Tom: He was an infamously bad driver.
Tom: That's what that is.
Phil: Well, if you didn't know.
Phil: Fuck man.
Phil: You should be glad I know the dude's name and how to pronounce it.
Phil: You know, it's not like he's that dude, you know, the guy who drove race cars and died.
Tom: Paul Walker?
Phil: No, the Aussie guy.
Phil: He drove a Ford.
Phil: Dick Johnson drove the other car.
Phil: He was a guy that rode cars.
Phil: He died in a car crash.
Phil: He was very famous.
Phil: Peter Perfect, Peter...
Phil: Guy, the guy.
Phil: Bathurst, Marlborough, nothing.
Phil: The guy.
Phil: What's his name?
Tom: Wynn.
Phil: There was a guy that used to win the...
Tom: There was a guy once.
Phil: There was a guy once.
Tom: Drove racing cars.
Phil: Yeah, the Bathurst race.
Phil: And it was him and Dick Johnson, which is the guy's real name.
Phil: And it's Peter.
Tom: I know that.
Phil: Peter Guy was the guy that drove the competing manufacturer's car.
Phil: And most often...
Tom: Peter Brock is the famous Bathurst driver.
Tom: He's not dead.
Phil: He is dead.
Phil: He died in a car crash.
Tom: When?
Phil: Years ago.
Tom: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Tom: Yeah.
Phil: You're Australian.
Tom: You should know this stuff.
Tom: Yes, no, you're right.
Phil: He died a lot.
Tom: Who the fuck am I thinking of then?
Phil: He died like a...
Phil: I don't care who you're talking about.
Phil: I'm talking about Peter Brock, Peter Povec.
Phil: He can beat against Dick Johnson.
Phil: Anyway, he's dead.
Tom: The king of the mountain.
Phil: Yeah.
Phil: Now, who?
Phil: Dick Johnson or this guy?
Tom: Peter Brock.
Phil: Peter Brock.
Phil: Yep.
Phil: So, respectfully, we, uh, obiturize Peter Brock.
Phil: And that ends up...
Tom: He's famous for his commentary career in cricket.
Phil: Yes.
Tom: If anyone was wondering.
Phil: Unfortunately, not a podcaster, but, um, let's hope that he passes the key test at the pearly gates.
Phil: Thanks for watching!
Phil: And on to Graver News, we occasionally obiturize people on the podcast, but this is probably one where we're not gonna...
Tom: Well, you might not be.
Phil: Well, we obiturize Peter Brock.
Tom: Yup.
Phil: Right?
Phil: But obviously, you know, the most significant passing of late is, you know, Saturo Iwata, the leader of Nintendo, and age so came to bile duct cancer.
Phil: Yup.
Phil: And having said that, I can't say what I was going to say now.
Tom: Because it was too offensive or not offensive enough.
Phil: Because it's too offensive.
Phil: Because I didn't make the association before.
Phil: See, when we give obituaries on this show, we generally accidentally insult the party that we're obiturizing.
Tom: I'm not sure how accidental it is.
Phil: Well, sometimes it's accidental, as is in the case with Peter Brock.
Phil: I forget who else-
Tom: That was the best one.
Phil: Yeah.
Phil: You know, the guy.
Phil: I was going to be like a jerk.
Tom: You also, I think, accidentally did the same with Richie Benaud by making the inference to his bad driving skills, which you were not aware of.
Phil: Correct.
Phil: Yes.
Phil: And so, you know, it occurred to me, like it'd be a really jerky thing to start saying bad things about Iwata.
Tom: But it would also be jerky for us not to.
Phil: Right.
Phil: So one of the things I was throwing around in my head last night was, well, you know, you say Iwata asks, I say, Iwata asks.
Phil: And he died a while back.
Tom: Shouldn't it be Iwata asked?
Phil: No, I was saying asked.
Tom: Yeah, but the wittier.
Phil: Yeah, past tense, yes, wittier.
Phil: Yeah, but now we're gonna have to cut all of this out, of course, because Iwata was obviously a greatly respected and well-liked personality.
Tom: As was Richie Benaud.
Phil: Yes, and Ryan Davis.
Tom: And Peter Brock.
Phil: And Peter Brock.
Phil: And other people we've a bit surprised before.
Phil: The thing that I like about him is that, like I was listening to some pretty obscure podcasts about him attending business meetings for the DD, which I've talked about before, where they were trying to develop a nonviolent first person shooter, which involved using a water gun, which was later used as flood in Galaxy, sorry, Sunshine.
Phil: And obviously you see Splatoon as the fulmination of that.
Phil: And just to see someone who like, back with the Nand the DD and they're trying to bring it to America, they're like, we've got to have a shooter, but we're going to do it in a Nintendo like way.
Phil: We're going to have something that's nonviolent, that's fun, the protagonists of kids.
Phil: And then, they spent three years on this, the team that developed it thought that it was perfect.
Phil: And then Nintendo goes, no, we're not going to release the DD in America and this won't sell in Japan, so we're not going to do it, you know?
Phil: And I think, and to have him be involved in that, to have, they said he was coming to weekly meetings for that game, for this water pistol game, you know?
Phil: So on the obvious nice side, rainbow lollipop side of things, obviously to see Splatoon come out now and have such a success and to be universally adored by those who play it, that's great and that's what makes Nintendo great.
Phil: But then on the flip side, the other side of that is that, you know, he was a warrior in the trenches, he worked at our labs, and that is also what makes Nintendo great, is the fact that they're willing to bury projects that they work years on, because it's just not right.
Phil: It's not right for the time, it's not right for the console, they don't want to cheapen it.
Phil: And obviously, for him being a part of that company for such a long time had, you know, there's only been two leaders of that company in terms of video games, and he was the second one.
Phil: So yeah, and a lot of people were personally affected by it, I guess, because of his ebullient public persona.
Phil: Is that right?
Tom: I would say so.
Tom: Personally, I didn't actually watch many Nintendo Directs, so that's not part of my personal experience, but on the VG Press, I believe he was one of the regular posters, so I was exposed to it in that sense.
Phil: Right, and the fact that someone of his stature and his knowledge of English would be brave enough to come to thevgpress.com and post, you know, a time and time again amongst us, you know, obviously showed a dedication to the gamers as well.
Tom: Absolutely.
Phil: His love for bananas could not be underappreciated and certainly shouldn't be overlooked as a part of this.
Phil: I also did not watch many Iwata asks or Nintendo directs, but sincerely, I think it's unfortunate and sad that he passed, but I think that also we cannot over, you know, give too much weight to the fate of Nintendo because of his passing.
Phil: Nintendo is going to be fine, come what will, but nevertheless, it is a tragedy for someone to die.
Phil: Quote, so young.
Tom: Is that young?
Tom: These days, I suppose it is, but...
Phil: That's why I said quote.
Tom: Yeah, thank God.
Phil: Because that's what I keep hearing, is so young, yes.
Tom: I mean, is a reasonable age.
Phil: It is a reasonable age to be.
Phil: I'm not sure it's a reasonable age to die anymore because nowadays they keep people alive, you know, forever, unnecessarily.
Phil: But enough about my parents.
Tom: So that means it is a reasonable age to die, is what you're saying.
Phil: For certain people, but not for Saturo Iwata.
Tom: Yep.
Phil: See how I saved the day there?
Tom: Yes.
Phil: But I didn't want to let this show end unless we properly obiturized Sean Price.
Phil: Now, Sean Price is a man who's actually older than me, very old, and so the fact that he died...
Tom: Is this the test we can make for if someone has died young or not?
Phil: Yes, absolutely, because I think he had had enough time because he is much, much older than me, Sean Price.
Phil: He was, of course, probably most famously from Boot Camp Click.
Tom: And How to Scouter.
Phil: Yep.
Phil: And was he Canadian?
Tom: I don't think he's Canadian.
Tom: He's surely from New York.
Phil: Okay, yep.
Tom: Born in Brooklyn.
Phil: Yep.
Phil: And I know him and I love him because he was featured in NBA K
Phil: He was a playable character in a street mode aspect of that game.
Phil: And that's probably his greatest accomplishment, so far as I can get to that.
Phil: I know that he did have a song or an album named Dirt.
Phil: And I can only assume that was the soundtrack of the...
Phil: Of Dirt?
Phil: Of the video game, is that right?
Phil: I think so.
Tom: The original one featuring another dead guy, because the first Dirt game was Colin McRae Dirt.
Phil: Now he died.
Tom: Yep.
Phil: Well, I don't...
Phil: That wasn't the first Dirt game.
Phil: I mean, Colin McRae...
Tom: Yeah, that was the first Dirt game, not the first Colin McRae rally game.
Tom: The first Dirt game did include the Colin McRae prefix, whereas Dirt and after his death, did not.
Phil: Exactly.
Phil: Yep.
Tom: So if you die, if you're a famous person, you die and you have a series, you will be immortalized by having your name removed from that product.
Phil: Yes, because that's respectful.
Phil: And you know, another thing that's respectful about this hip-hop rapper is he was a Muslim.
Phil: And I think we can all enjoy that fact.
Phil: We all appreciate religious diversity in whatever country we live in.
Phil: But what I found was that he's older than me, but he only converted to Islam in which meant he lived a great many years without being a Muslim.
Tom: And in fact, he lived more of his life without being a Muslim than being a Muslim.
Phil: He was disrespecting Islam than having respected it.
Phil: And you also have to have to think...
Tom: So does that actually, when he's being judged by Muhammad, factoring negatively rather than positively?
Phil: Well, the fact that he was before he finally got around to respecting Islam, just two years before -you've got to feel that probably led in some small way to his death.
Tom: Yeah, and I think that's an issue as well, that it was before -because I think after -is the only time you can convert to Islam and live less of your life as a Muslim than more of your life as a Muslim, and it'd be a positive thing due to the stigma.
Tom: But pre--who the hell cares?
Tom: I mean, it was more likely simply just doing it.
Tom: The other thing to be cool with all the hardline blacks in New York.
Phil: Well, let's not get racist about this kind of thing.
Phil: There's many Christian, African-Americans, Indians.
Tom: The five percenters, right?
Phil: Well, I don't want to get into that.
Tom: Those guys.
Phil: But the thing is-
Tom: And the black panthers.
Tom: Because you've got to be Muslim with them.
Phil: Well, you have to be.
Phil: You've got to be part of the brothers of Islam.
Phil: But the thing is this.
Phil: It's like, okay, so after the dude died, his fans raised $in support of his family.
Phil: And you know, I've got to say, this podcast has raised no money.
Phil: And we haven't sold out.
Phil: We haven't, you know, got to the age of or and then gone, oh, Islam, right?
Phil: And then died.
Phil: And then you are practically dead.
Tom: So where's the money?
Phil: So where's the money?
Phil: That's the issue.
Phil: So, I mean, we haven't raised
Phil: If we raise $we'd probably go to a weekly show, right?
Tom: At least for a year.
Phil: Yeah.
Phil: As opposed to the show costing me about $a year in terms of hosting fees and all the rest of it, we'd be actually in the black, so to speak.
Tom: So, we could then, if we're looking from that perspective rather than a wage, the next years, the podcast would be funded.
Phil: So, if you want this podcast...
Tom: A donation from these $
Phil: So, if you want this podcast to go on for the next years, and who wouldn't?
Phil: I mean, we're already in our th episode.
Phil: Can you imagine how good this would be if we did it weekly after years?
Tom: We should get to and refuse to do the rd.
Tom: Episode until we have raised $
Phil: So, rather than ask the listener now for their money, we just want you to hang in there.
Phil: We'll continue doing this bi-weekly.
Phil: And when we get to what point again?
Tom: We get to and then stop.
Phil: Right.
Phil: So, if we get to the age of we're going to stop.
Tom: The episode
Phil: Oh, really?
Phil: So, you're just giving people a two-episode window.
Tom: Two-episode ultimatum.
Phil: I thought you were giving him a -year window.
Phil: I'm obviously much more generous than you.
Phil: But in any case, I mean, I don't want to demean the poor man.
Phil: You know, obviously in with his work with Random Axe and Guilty Simpson and his work with Black Milk, you know, this is someone whose talents cannot be denied, you know, so, you know, God rest...
Tom: Are you familiar with his work beyond the soundtrack?
Phil: No.
Tom: To the video game?
Phil: No, after that I stopped listening.
Tom: Okay, well, I very much enjoyed Random Axe more than most people, because most people came into it with extremely high expectations and were disappointed.
Phil: On the basis of his video game work, I'm sure.
Phil: And you know, working with such talent as Black Milk and Guilty Simpson and Ghostface Killer, not to mention Jedi Mind Tricks and Willie the Kid, I think we were all expecting a little more of him.
Phil: But in any case, let Allah accept him under his bosom or whatever happens and consider yourself Sean Price a bit right.
Phil: Now, this isn't the jeans guy, right?
Phil: You didn't have the, that's the other guy.
Tom: The jeans guy?
Phil: Yeah.
Tom: I'm not, don't know.
Phil: Okay, all right.
Tom: So presumably that means this is not.
Phil: Indeed.
Phil: Is, we've got a special game, Game Under Urology, that didn't come out right, of the, the voice of Peppy dies, and I know you're a big Peppy fan.
Tom: Massive Peppy fan, obviously.
Tom: Which character was he?
Tom: Is he the frog?
Phil: Oh, so you know it, video game.
Phil: So.
Tom: Why that was, right?
Phil: Well, the funny thing is, is the hyperlink to this story is the story.
Phil: Rick May, and maybe we should call him Rick May Not now, uh, Team Fortress Soldier and Peppy the Hare voice actor dies at age from coronavirus.
Phil: And it's like, you don't even need to click on a link like that.
Phil: I mean, that is the story.
Tom: Peppy the Hare, the frog in, uh, Why That Was, everyone absolutely despises, but.
Tom: Again, like Waluigi, what fucking character in Star Fox stands out?
Tom: It is literally just the fucking frog.
Tom: I'll get to it.
Tom: They named a game Star Fox, and the fucking fox in it is completely forgettable.
Phil: Well, we'll get to that.
Phil: But again, this headline, IGN.
Tom: Why is he even relevant?
Tom: If this was the dude who voiced the frog.
Phil: He didn't voice the frog.
Phil: He's not the frog guy.
Tom: This is my problem with this being a news story.
Tom: This is your problem?
Phil: This?
Tom: This is your problem with the news story?
Tom: It is.
Phil: That it's not Slippy who died.
Tom: Correct.
Phil: Great.
Phil: Okay.
Phil: The name of the article, Rick May, Team Fortress soldier, and Peppy the hare voice actor dies at age from coronavirus.
Phil: It occurs to me that this is like the s trailer version.
Phil: Like the hyperlink is like the trailer version of s movies where they tell you everything you need to know about the movie.
Phil: You don't even have to go and see it anymore.
Phil: It's like the trailer spoiler that we talked about off air last week.
Phil: But yeah, no, Rick May voiced the rabbit.
Phil: And the rabbit is famous for saying, do a barrel roll.
Phil: Now, you know why I know it's famous for saying do a barrel roll?
Phil: Because I've been told times since Rick May died that that is a big thing in video gaming.
Phil: And I listened to another major video game podcast this morning on my drive to my essential workplace, where they were basically in tears that this person that we've never even heard of died.
Phil: And look, it's not like he's the dude that voices Mario, whatever that guy...
Tom: He didn't even voice the frog.
Phil: He didn't even voice Slippy.
Phil: You know, I can do a Slippy.
Phil: He's also the voice of the Team Fortress soldier.
Phil: Do you have any memories?
Phil: Do you have any memories?
Phil: This is a time to reflect after all, Tom.
Phil: Do you have any memories of the Team Fortress soldier and what he may have said and what he would say now?
Phil: One can only consider.
Tom: We just talked about the very affecting last day of June and referenced that Dragon Cancer, an even heavier game, but I have not cried as much as I did as when I first killed the soldier in Team Fortress
Phil: I never cried as much as when I first played Team Fortress with a keyboard and mouse and couldn't figure out what the hell was going on.
Phil: This was about years ago, of course.
Phil: So he died at age from coronavirus, and it's like, okay, look, if he was okay, you know, that's sad, but I mean, he could have died because the dominoes came to the doorbell, came to his doorbell and rang it, you know.
Phil: He could have died because he saw a different colored butterfly through his window.
Phil: I mean, you know, I just, I just, I...
Tom: What's the average age of death now?
Phil: Average age of death?
Phil: I think for someone my age, it's like or
Phil: I think it's gone down slightly in the States.
Phil: It's probably gone up here in Australia, but...
Tom: It's also gone down in England, and the next person we're going to talk about who was killed by the coronavirus was also and that is Timbrook Taylor.
Phil: Oh!
Phil: Hey, this is not fake.
Phil: I didn't know that.
Phil: I did not know that.
Phil: Oh, man.
Phil: Because I grew up watching The Goodies with Bill Ottey and Graham Greene, I think.
Tom: Yep, correct.
Phil: And Timbrook Taylor, and these guys did sketch comedy confined to a set group of characters that they played consistently, so it wasn't like they were changing characters from sketch to sketch.
Tom: It was basically a sitcom slash sketch show combination.
Phil: Yeah, and I guess it could be remembered.
Tom: Timbrook Taylor was also important in the genesis of Monty Python, and he was on at last the show with John Cleese and Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman.
Phil: Yeah, and Timbrook Taylor exactly was around at the genesis of Monty Python.
Tom: And he could have been in Monty Python.
Phil: He chose not to.
Tom: And thank God for that because we got the goodies.
Phil: Yeah, and the goodies, I think if you look at the show like The Young Ones, which was another kind of comedy show of the same nature, the goodies laid the path for The Young Ones in a very consistent way because they...
Tom: They laid the path basically for the new wave of British comedy that The Young Ones were a part of and which continues in things like Peep Show, which have got slightly more...
Phil: Conventional US.
Tom: Yep, but that was basically the beginning of that movement many years in advance of it.
Tom: And it's much more revolutionary than Monty Python because Monty Python, contrary to popular belief, came about in an outbreak of surrealist style comedy and absurdist comedy.
Phil: Yes, yeah.
Phil: It wasn't standing out by itself.
Phil: And it was influenced by...
Phil: What was Spike Milligan's...
Tom: I forgot what it was called, but that was indeed a massive influence on them.
Phil: Yeah, like Spike Milligan, they're comedy troupe, and I hate myself for not knowing this right now, but he was a part of a comedy troupe, and that really laid the framework down for that avant-garde British comedy.
Phil: I'll think about it, but you keep...
Phil: The Goons.
Tom: Yep, that's it.
Phil: So I'm really sad to hear this news.
Phil: But at the same time...
Tom: He was
Phil: He was and he could have died of anything.
Phil: So the way that they were talking about this on this other major podcast was, it just shouldn't have happened.
Phil: Things like this just shouldn't have happened.
Phil: It's avoidable.
Phil: If only Trump had done something, this -year-old English actor living in Sweden could have been saved somehow.
Tom: Well, Sweden also have a lax strategy as well.
Tom: So they could be going after the Swedish party that is in power, but probably no one knows who the Swedish party is, or if there even is a Swedish party.
Phil: I've got a -ounce malt liquor in my hand, so I think in tribute to Rick May or Rick May Not, I'm going to do a barrel roll with this and pour one out for a video game champion.
Tom: And just before we finish denigrating Monty Python, I've got to point out that one of the most famous Monty Python sketches is about a joke that is so funny.
Tom: Anyone who sees it dies.
Tom: The good is, unlike the pretentious Pythons, managed to kill someone with one of their sketches, I believe, the Yorkshire pudding sketch.
Phil: Oh, really?
Tom: And Graham Chapman, who died at the peak of a so far even worse pandemic, the HIV AIDS pandemic, he died at the height of that, but he died of cancer, not HIV AIDS, and not even HIV AIDS related complications in regards to cancer.
Tom: So that's another complete failure, whereas Timbrook Taylor managed to die in a historic pandemic, unlike as yet any Monty Python.
Tom: So yet another victory for the goodies over Monty Python.
Phil: Yeah, and it's interesting that in people died of AIDS related injuries.
Phil: So, you know, we all go around.
Tom: That's in Africa though, mainly so.
Tom: It doesn't matter.
Phil: No, but that's, I mean, that's the point about all of this.
Phil: And Graham Chapman, you know, I didn't know him obviously, but yeah, he died of cancer.
Phil: And we talk about AIDS.
Tom: And he did die young.
Phil: He did die exceptionally young.
Tom: Well, not that young actually,
Phil: Well, that's a lot older than I thought.
Phil: I thought he was in his thirties.
Tom: At that stage, they should be marching into the gas chambers, if you ask me.
Phil: We are not going to ask you.
Phil: Hi everyone, this is Phil Fogg again.
Phil: I hope you enjoyed our Game Under Special, Game Under Obiturizers.
Phil: I just gotta add, listening back to some of those, those have been going, now they run basically over seven years of different obituaries we've run.
Phil: I've gotta say, the joke about the Sean Price one was that I did not know who Sean Price was before, during or after that obituary.
Phil: So I was basically just reading Wikipedia, like I do every week.
Phil: And with that, I hope you enjoy and listen to the next episode of The Game Under Podcast.
Phil: It's good to see that I can screw up our outros even without co-host Tom Towers being here.
Phil: Thanks for listening, everyone.