TV season
1998-05-02
Episode 1
1998-05-02 • 30 min
In the first episode of Season Two, Tommy speaks with the producer behind Tekken 3, goes behind the scenes of the very first March Madness game at EA Sports, review the original Battle Zone, and more retro fun!
Episode 2
1998-05-16 • 30 min
Tommy Tallarico hits Madden Bowl '98 with Morris Chestnut, Coolio and Ronnie DeVoe (from Bell Biv DeVoe!)! Victor Lucas checks out Robotron 64! Vic visits Heat.Net to scope out Vigilance! Kelly Benson hits the street to talk with regular people about what they know about the Game Developer's Conference while Zoe Flower joins Vic at GDC '98!
Episode 3
1998-06-06 • 30 min
Tommy Tallarico visits PlayStation to talk with game industry veteran and long time PlayStation executive, Phil Harrison! It's one of EP's first visits to the fabled LucasArts as Victor Lucas chats with Tom Byron about Star Wars: Rebellion! Kelly Benson asks regular people where they bring portable games! Vic also visits Nintendo Of America HQ to talk with Mark DeLoura about the success of the Game Boy as well as the brand new (at the time) Game Boy Pocket Camera and Printer! Vic also talks with the creator of the Game Boy Color, Nintendo's Kenichi Sugino! Producer, Erik Wahlberg tells Tommy about Heat.Net's zombie game, Flesh Feast! David Perry is a guest on the show as he talks to Tommy about Shiny Entertainment's Wild 9! The Tekken 3 Move of the Week and Sympatico Question of the Week return and its more Reviews on the Rock!!!
Episode 4
1998-06-13 • 30 min
Victor Lucas wears a goofy hat and finds out about 1080 Snowboarding for the N64! Nolan Bushnell talks with Tommy Tallarico about the early days of Atari! Tommy also visits Namco to explore how lightguns work! Vic uncovers some intel on a brand new (in '98) Battlezone! Tommy checks out 3DO's Requiem! Tekken 3 Move of the Week! Reviews on the Run from the slopes! Kelly Benson's Streeters and much more!
Episode 5
1998-06-20 • 30 min
Tommy Tallarico takes over 3DO and has a chat with founder (and the founder of EA) Trip Hawkins! Kelly Benson takes to the streets to find out how people would knock other riders off of a motorcycle! Tommy then jumps on a bike, heads to EA and finds out about Road Rash 3D! Tommy hangs out with Bill Roper at Blizzard to find out about Starcraft! Meanwhile Victor Lucas discovers the latest tech for PC gaming at 3DFX! Vic then heads to Nintendo to check out NBA Courtside and chats with cover athlete, Kobe Bryant! The Tekken 3 Move of the Wee
Episode 6
1998-07-04 • 30 min
Tommy Tallarico interviews David Perry about his career and his new games at Shiny Entertainment! Tommy also connects with 3DO (and EA) founder Trip Hawkins to talk about Army Men! Victor Lucas visit Nintendo of America to find out about Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball for the Nintendo 64! We find out about Pitfall 3D! Vic also visits Microsoft HQ to check out Monster Truck Madness 2! Additionally Tommy has the latest on Vigilante 8 directly from Activision! All that, plenty more and Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi in Reviews on the Run!
Episode 7
1998-07-11 • 30 min
Join Tommy Tallarico and Victor Lucas as they take a trip back to one of the earliest E3 trade shows and see classic games like The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pokémon, Tomorrow Never Dies and many more. Learn about the formation of Naughty Dog with co-founder Jason Rubin! Hit the streets to learn what people knew about E3 back then and much more in another action packed episode of The Electric Playground!
Episode 8
1998-07-18 • 30 min
In this star-studded episode of The Electric Playground, Tommy Tallarico tracks down the latest on James Bond's new game, Tomorrow Never Dies! Victor Lucas goes on a hunt at Nintendo of America headquarters for more info about Rare's classic, Banjo Kazooie!
Episode 9
1998-07-25 • 30 min
Tommy Tallarico checks out Crystal Dynamics' (long before Tomb Raider!) Akuji: The Heartless! Victor Lucas visits Iguana Entertainment in Austin, TX (makers of the N64 classic, Turok!) to find out about All Star Baseball 99! Tommy, Vic and Zoe Flower investigate the success of Total Annihilation, led by game industry legend, Ron Gilbert! Vic finds out about the Jane's flight combat games and Colonel Bud Anderson talks about his friendship with Chuck Yeager! Vic spends some time in Origin's Hamster Tunnel to get the latest on Ultima Ascension! Kelly Benson asks if you believe in Voodoo Magic?
Episode 10
1998-08-08 • 30 min
In this ridiculously stuffed episode, Tommy Tallarico talks with Jason Rubin and Andy Gavin about the Crash Bandicoot franchise! Victor Lucas talks with Vince Zampella and Jason West (co-founders of Respawn) about one of their collaborations, Skies! Tommy visits Westwood Studios to talk about Command & Conquer!! Kelly Benson wants to know if people know what a Bandicoot is! Vic checks out Mission: Impossible for the Nintendo 64 and gets the intel on an upcoming little known PlayStation game called Metal Gear Solid! Vic and Tommy wrap up the show by shooting Reviews on the Run in a meat locker!!
Episode 11
1998-09-05 • 30 min
In this episode, Victor Lucas talks with a very young Cliff Bleszinski and James Schmalz about Unreal and also travels to Ensemble Studios to talk to the team about Age of Empires!! Tommy Tallarico talks with Davy Jones from DMA about the birth of a little franchise called Grand Theft Auto! Vic also visits Paradigm Simulations and digs into F-1 World Grand Prix and uncovers some info on a reboot of the arcade classic, Asteroids! We've got Tips & Tricks and Tekken Moves and Tommy and Vic review Tekken 3 for the PlayStation, Yoshi's Story for the N64 and PlayStation's Blasto!
Episode 12
1998-09-12 • 30 min
Victor Lucas heads to Dallas and visits John Romero and his colleagues at the ill-fated, Ion Storm, makers of Daikatana, Anachronox and Dominion! Vic also spends time with Nintendo and chats with Shigeru Miyamoto about a small upcoming cartridge called: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! Mike Wilson (now running the awesome, Devolver) had an amazing dream with Gathering of Developers and Vic had a pretty great conversation with him about it in 1998. Tommy Tallarico catches up with Ed Boon, John Tobias and Dave Michicich from Midway talking about Mortal Kombat 4!! Tommy also puts on his shiniest shirt and heads to Heat.Net's headquarters and talks with the CEO Gary "Crazy Gary" Griffith. Jason Wilson from Tips & Tricks has our Tip of the Week! Our Tekken 3 Move of the Week is back and EP's Kelly Benson asks people to show us their fighting moves! In Reviews on the Run Vic and Tommy look at Triple Play 99, MLB '99, Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball and High Heat Baseball!
Episode 13
1998-09-19 • 30 min
In this episode, Victor Lucas puts on Tommy's shirt and heads to Westwood Studios to talk about Dune 2000! Tommy Tallarico catches up with Nick Bruty from Planet Moon Studios to talk about Giants: Citizen Kabuto! Kelly Benson asks people how cops will fight crime in a 100 years! Vic checks out the bleak LAPD 2100, which shares some design tech with EA's awesome Strike series! Tommy gets all the dirt on the hugely successful Deer Hunter franchise! Vic visits with 3DO and they show off BattleTanx! Heat.Net has a one-million player online game with 10Six! We've got Tips & Tricks and Trespasser shows up in our Question of the Week! And Tommy and Vic review: Army Men, Einhander, Wetrix and Chopper Attack!
