Love him or hate him, Shane Bettenhausen was a fucking treasure trove of info about games. I was constantly astounded by his knowledge while listening to the 1UP Yours podcast, and found his opinions to be very well-informed and interesting even when I disagreed with him.
Some company would be a fool not to snap him up, he was a natural when it came to podcasting. He'll be sorely missed on my iPod.
1) it's the first gaming magazine I ever got. I remember it had a "blowout" preview of Zelda 3 for the SNES on the cover.
2) The golden age of print in the mid nineties where one issues of EGM was literally 400 pages and took you all month to read. I still keep a few for posterity.
My fondest memories of EGM were from the Street Fighter II era. They would occasionally have SFII guides and I eagerly waited for every issue.
The editors' 'farewell' posts have started showing up on the 1UP homepage.
Just an FYI for the people who've already sworn off the site.
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Love him or hate him, Shane Bettenhausen was a fucking treasure trove of info about games. I was constantly astounded by his knowledge while listening to the 1UP Yours podcast, and found his opinions to be very well-informed and interesting even when I disagreed with him.
Some company would be a fool not to snap him up, he was a natural when it came to podcasting. He'll be sorely missed on my iPod.
Agreed. According to his farewell post, Shane decided to leave.
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I loved thumbing through EGM when I was at my folk's house; I never bothered to change my mailing address, so there'd always be a stack of two or three when I'd drop by for a visit. It'd give me something to do for the better part of an evening...and occasionally, there'd be a few wonderful tidbits I hadn't heard about yet, such as the Splatterhouse remake.
The times, they are a'changing'...
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Does anyone have a twitter list of those that worked at 1up so I can keep up to date with what is going on? I have a few of their feeds but not all.
It is sad to see such a great group of guys and gals get removed from what they did so well like this. Now I have to find another podcast (until the guys get their other podcast up and running) and video podcast (already miss the 1up show)
I wish them all the greatest of luck and everything. It is so sad to see something like this happen to such a great group of people that really did do a great job with the topics at hand.
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January 8th, 2009 by As Promised: Episode 1 of Rebel.fm
January 8th, 2009 by Aegies
Won’t you please welcome Anthony Gallegos, Nick Suttner, Philip Kollar, Matt Chandronait, Ryan O’Donnell, Jade Kraus, and me, as we bring you the opening salvo of Rebel.fm. It’s on, bitches.
Hey, look, it’s a torrent that won’t fucking destroy the site when you download from it!
PS: Yes, quality not so good for a lot of it, but bear with us. Things will be better next week. Promise. Even if we have to bring in a ringer to show us how it’s done.
