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Millennium Edition | GameCube, Dreamcast, and Games of the 2000s

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Millennium Edition is an original podcast from the Sound Stone Network covering the GameCube, Dreamcast, and other games from the late 90s and 2000s. Join writer, teacher, and podcaster Sean Douglass, along with co-producers Gooey Fame and Darren Hupke, as they explore topics in video games from this turn-of-the-millennium period. Rather than being purely a retrospective, Millennium Edition focuses on what makes the games of this time still so relevant and current today. And along with celebrating the creativity of Nintendo and SEGA at the time, the show also explores the PlayStation 2, Xbox,...

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Hard Water: Jetting into Summer with Wave Race: Blue Storm 03.07.2026 1:18:33

As temperatures rise, we're heading to the beach with the 2001 GameCube launch title Wave Race: Blue Storm. The third entry in the Wave Race series, there are perhaps few games that show off this console generation's famous water effects quite like Blue Storm, a Jet Ski racing game that is still a fun (and challenging!) ride today. For this episode, we have some familiar Sound Stone faces as Sean...

Happy Housewarming: How Luigi's Mansion Set the Tone for the GameCube 18.06.2026 1:22:23

Luigi's Mansion was an unconventional launch title to introduce new players to the GameCube. With Luigi in the starring role and playing completely unlike other Mario games, it didn't embrace the broad appeal we'd come to expect from other launch titles like Super Mario World or Super Mario 64. And yet, Luigi's Mansion would go on to become one of the GameCube's highest-selling games, and its expr...

Appreciating Dark Cloud Today—Beyond the "Zelda Killer" Hype 04.06.2026 1:28:09

As press got their first glimpses of Dark Cloud for the PS2, some hailed it as a coming "Zelda killer" and the PlayStation's answer to Nintendo's storied franchise. This narrative would follow the game through its development and even into its reviews. But looking back more than two decades later, was all this hype really justified? And did premature comparisons to Zelda—when the game was really g...

Finding New Depths to X-Men: Next Dimension Two Decades Later 22.05.2026 1:11:03

For this episode, Sean is joined by Ben, a former comics journalist who covers fighting and comics-related games through his YouTube channel @sandalwoodgrips , for a conversation on the 2002 X-Men fighting game X-Men: Next Dimension. While Next Dimension might be an underrated title that never made a big splash in the fighting game scene at the time, both Sean and Ben are huge fans of it, and Ben...

Maken X is a Surreal, Sublime Brainjack and Slash Adventure 08.05.2026 1:25:09

Maken X, from many of the developers behind the Shin Megami Tensei series, is a sci-fi first-person sword fighting game that came to the Dreamcast in 1999. From its experimental gameplay to its branching international story filled with eccentric characters, it plays like nothing else. And while it may not be perfect, it's still a perfect example of how a game doesn't have to get everything right t...

Is Link in Soul Calibur II the Best Fighting Game Guest Character? 23.04.2026 1:04:05

Welcome to Millennium Edition! Millennium Edition is a new original podcast from the Sound Stone Network exploring video games form the last 90s and early 2000s. And rather than just looking back at these games, with this show we particularly want to reflect on how these games remain both relevant and current today. Various technological advances at the time led to games of this period aging parti...