Has anyone been keeping track of Icons on G4?

[VACRMH]

It's the only show I bother watching on G4... anyone recording or have a list of all the episodes out there?

I know i've seen these....

Prince Of Persa
SNK
Half-Life
Video Game Music

[christianscott27]

ahh google

http://www.g4techtv.com/icons/index.html

[VACRMH]

ahh google

http://www.g4techtv.com/icons/index.html

I was just there and didn't see an actual list...

Untill this time when I clicked the episodes button <_<

Thanks 8-)

Other question still stands though, anyone recording them?

[ubersaurus]

Nah, but they are pretty readily available on bittorrent.

Although the latest run has pissed me off of that show. Seriously, who the fuck decided MARK CUBAN needed an Icons? He doesn't even have the remotest relation to video games.

[Gapporin]

Although the latest run has pissed me off of that show. Seriously, who the fuck decided MARK CUBAN needed an Icons? He doesn't even have the remotest relation to video games.

:hmm:

What the?

[VACRMH]

Nah, but they are pretty readily available on bittorrent.

Although the latest run has pissed me off of that show. Seriously, who the fuck decided MARK CUBAN needed an Icons? He doesn't even have the remotest relation to video games.

Have a link?

And yeah :-/ That one I turned off...

[Querjek]

More recently, Icons episodes have been abouting people in both the computer and video gaming industries. I saw an episode strictly about the Apple II, not just the game for it either.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

I think this show needs to be on DVD.

[Anexanhume]

I enjoyed the snk, nes, and mega man ones. The shows that provide the factual information like that are nice. Other ones are crap though.

[Sanriostar]

Half of the Icons shows are decent, room-temperature fact and history shows that I enjoy. The other half are ego-strokes or promotional stuff disgused as a Icons episode. Doom: over half of it was about Doom 3, and the Game music was nothing more than a humjob to that Tom guy. You're doing an Icons episode about Game music, and not mentioning Rob Hubbard? Yeah, there's objectivity....

[whoisKeel]

I've only seen one, and it was on Oddworld. Very informative, I need to start watching this show more often.

[Berserker]

Half of the Icons shows are decent, room-temperature fact and history shows that I enjoy. The other half are ego-strokes or promotional stuff disgused as a Icons episode. Doom: over half of it was about Doom 3, and the Game music was nothing more than a humjob to that Tom guy. You're doing an Icons episode about Game music, and not mentioning Rob Hubbard? Yeah, there's objectivity....

I actually just got done watching that one. It would've been rather acceptable if the Icons episode was called "Doom 3", but no, in fact, it was just called "Doom".

They sped through Wolfenstein all the way through Quake 3 in what seemed like a span of, at most, 2 minutes(and that's being generous). With a minor, almost obligatory amount of seconds spent talking about the general impact Doom had.

There is, as I recall, no mention of the revolutionary precedent the game set in terms of letting fans make their own mods, which I recall they rather lavished upon in the "Unreal" episode of Icons(but then, maybe it's easier when you're covering 3 or 4 games that all look more or less the same, polygon counts notwithstanding).

In all, I'd say they did an outstanding job of capturing Doom 3, and an outstandingly poor job of capturing Doom as a whole. And despite this, the show is still generally leaps-and-bounds ahead of any other G4 show.