Demo Derby: Official Playstation Magazine Issue 73

Dang, already been a month since the last one? Not meant as a snide remark, just that time's moving fast. Hopefully this will manage to be at least a monthly series from now on!

The silk anime button up shirts immediately placed this in 2003. Those things were everywhere from like 2003-2005.

TIP TEAM

FF11 Destroyed my life

Jiggy wasn't ready for Dan to pass directly to the other team...Goddamn those 2K NHL games were the best

RIP Gaming Advisory Panel

2003-2003

I wish we could have a third on here. Like... I know Jan is watching stuff, but a third voice is helpful on these.

Don't buy a racing wheel.

I was watching an old Xplay VHS this week (don't ask) and can confirm True Crime rules

what IF I got back into FFXI

I was pretty excited to learn that James Marsters is into Twisted Metal: Black.

21:21 "I still reserve my artistic license and there are areas where I do like to push things" *adds another shotgun shell*

I don't know why but that killed me.

I was like 15 and won 1200 bucks off an adult with a gambling addiction over hours of games of nba street.

Jak 2 is a great game and too often gets brushed off for its change of tone, and GTA inspiration. It's an amazing action platformer and the plot is well realized. Fun as hell.

What I would give for SSX3 in HD on the Switch. Maaaaan.

Was that gaming advisory panel bit in some previous demo disc? I swear some of the "contestants" in that have appeared previously on demo derby.

That bit in the FFXI part made me realize. 2003 is closer to Kids In The Hall than we are to 2003.

You can't be a whippersnapper, Dan. You have a spouse and a house. You're a fully-fledged grown-up!

Final Fantasy XI might be the only reason that company still exists, it basically kept them running after Spirits Within

"Gabe" and Robert Khoo, both of Penny Arcade fame, were apparently the first match of that Soul Calibur 2 tournament, which is a thing that I'm sure you all wanted to know.

Man, I had so many of those. I hung on to my two favorite DBZ shirts but am too much of a coward to ever wear them. Although, I busted one out when I saw Super Broly at the theatre.

Hah, i had the same hard rule as Dan had. 'There's 0% chance of me paying a monthly fee to play a game.'

Still haven't broken that golden rule.

And yeah.. Brad from the Gaming Advisory Panel was pretty good at what he did there!

It's worth noting in terms of GB lore that James Marsters also played Piccolo in the live action Dragonball movie.

Look, I’m not going to tell you that Cy Girls is a bad game, but it’s worth noting that Gamespot made Alex Navarro review it.

James Marsters legitimately seems like a cool dude. Buffy was pretty great.

I was in the Gamer Advisory Panel, which ultimately was just a smaller forum. It was a pleasant community that had fun Socom 2/3 game nights. I was too young to really try for E3 visits, but they did do monthly game giveaways. I won a lucky month for FFXIII, MW2 and Dragon Age: Origins in late 2009. As I recall the forum never came back after the PSN hacks that shut down the network and website for an extended time. It was a good ride.

@ultimaxe: Lemme guess, Khoo won?

I still have my Gamer Advisory Panel tag on my keyring. Never forget your roots.