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Michael Pachter, from Wedbush Morgan Securities, joins us to talk about life as a video game analyst and hot topics in the video game industry. Wombat celebrates his 30th by opening his mystery present from Cheapy. We also discuss the latest game industry and shopping news, answer your CAGbag questions and so much more!

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Show Linkage/Notes (click the button below to expand):

Intro music: Rad Racer (NES)

Chinese Students Horde Wiis in Tokyo
Wombat Hate

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CAG Foreplay: New Releases (5/1/07)
David Jaffe on Calling All Cars Reviews

Michael Pachter Interview Part I

Wii Lineup 2007
Virtual Console Downloads Declining

All The Better To Hear You With: PlayStation Eye Has Ears
P To The A To The R To The A: SCEA Confirms PSP PaRappa for U.S.

Gears of War Hidden Fronts Multiplayer Map Pack - 4 Maps, 800 pts on 5/3, free on 9/3
Gears of War COG tag videos are the new horse armor (joystiq)
XBL Marketplace Downloads Reach New Low (kotaku)
New Gears of War downloadable content smells of sh*t (destructoid)
Xbox 360 Xenos GPU shrinks to 65nm this fall
D3 brings Puzzle Quest and friends to XBLA

Best of the Sunday Ads Video Game Deals (4/29-5/5)
Crackdown $30 a Play-Asia
GameTap Goes Free

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Dennis Dyack Interview on Gamasutra

Michael Pachter Interview Part II

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Michael Pachter Interview on Evil Avatar Analysts

Outro: Metroid/Rad Racer (NES)

Bonus Video - The Un-gifting!

Nice!
Downloading it now

Thanx CheapyD and Wombat for what is sure to be annother amazing CAGcast and a very big Happy Birthday to Wombat!

here we go...

Classy gift giving Cheapy, very classy. A+. And you took my suggestion for Wombat to rent games... looking forward to hearing Wombat tear apart some bad games. He should rent Bionicle Heroes! haha

Wow Cheapy, that's a really nice gift. If Wombat ever leaves you, I'll be happy to be the new host!

Originally Posted by Zenithian Legend Wow Cheapy, that's a really nice gift. If Wombat ever leaves you, I'll be happy to be the new host!

No kidding... But you'll have to fight me for it first .

Originally Posted by io No kidding... But you'll have to fight me for it first .

How about we Greco-Roman wrestle for it, that way everyone wins!

I can't believe this Jaffe vs Joystiq spat happened after we recorded....boo!
Jaffe drops the f-bomb 8 times in one small paragraph.

downloading now...

This episode looks to be pretty epic, can't believe you got the Pach-man for the show, downloading it now and cant wait to listen. Also Happy Birthday Wombat.

There's no game I'll pay full price for Cheapy, you've perma-corrupted me.

comment later i knew cheapy was gonna give him a .... i though u were gonna give him oblivion

The quality of the Virtual Console games in March were deplorable at best. When the best game for the month was Tecmo Bowl, maybe something was wrong.
Mystical Ninja and Castlevania are great additions to the Virtual Console, but Nintendo should put a strangehold on Hudson and Sega for all the horrible games they've released so far. Moreso Sega because most of them were released before for cheaper.

Downloading as I type this. Hopefully the present cheapy gave wombat is a piece of paper saying your fired.

Originally Posted by Mex25 Downloading as I type this. Hopefully the present cheapy gave wombat is a piece of paper saying your fired.

Oh, you will be *sorely* disappointed my friend .

Originally Posted by KingBroly The quality of the Virtual Console games in March were deplorable at best. When the best game for the month was Tecmo Bowl, maybe something was wrong. Mystical Ninja and Castlevania are great additions to the Virtual Console, but Nintendo should put a strangehold on Hudson and Sega for all the horrible games they've released so far. Moreso Sega because most of them were released before for cheaper.

What's wrong with the Sega and Hudson games? Not every game can be a million seller. The Turbo games in particular -- Shock Man, Battle Lode Runner, Dragon's Curse... these are all niche games that aren't remembered by the masses, but appreciated by a select few. I can even appreciate Bravo Man. Seeing it on the VC takes me back to '92, when I saw it at Toys R Us and wondered how in the hell is NEC going to compete by releasing games as crazy as this... Anyway, I welcome those titles to a mainstream system like the Wii. Sega has a different problem, because many of the games they've been releasing are on various compilations, so it doesn't make much sense to pay 8 bucks for them. Wonder Boy in Monster World is a great game though, and worth the purchase. Same with Beyond Oasis.

Personally, i'll buy up those less appreciated titles all day long, but that's become i'm hardcore and have a deep knowledge of games/gaming history.

Originally Posted by io Oh, you will be *sorely* disappointed my friend .

Damn got my hopes up again

Originally Posted by CheapyD I can't believe this Jaffe vs Joystiq spat happened after we recorded....boo! Jaffe drops the f-bomb 8 times in one small paragraph.

Man, what is going on? I never read a developer rant like that before. Back in the day developers were anonymous. Does it really make a huge difference if one person rated a game an 8, but the other a 6.7? Back in the day when I read mags like EGM, and Phantasy Star 2 got a 7,9,8,8... I was like that's good! But these days, if a game gets a 7, all hell breaks loose. Both with the possible consumers (only rated a 7! i'm canceling my pre-order!) and now developers ( you!). You're telling me there's no appreciation for a game that's a "7" anymore? What are these gaming blogs anyway? I don't read em and don't need em. Why would I read what some jobless, 17 year old kid thinks about a game, when I've got 20+ years of gaming under my belt.

Where's that video of WOMBAT opening the PS3? It's an Xbox 360 Elite! That would have been hilarious.

The video is coming, but won't be posted until tonight at the earliest.
Sorry!