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Game of the Year 2025: Day 1

December 23, 2025·1 hr 50 min·5 clips
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The panel opens by sorting through retro consoles and handhelds, moving between the Nintendo 64, the DS, Android devices, and the Retroid Pocket Classic. Nobody stays on one point for very long. One host wants the Retroid Pocket Classic in the mix, another pushes back, and the group keeps circling the question of what should really count. The magnets keep coming up, not as a throwaway joke but as a genuine contender in the argument. Someone crosses out the wrong pick, someone else makes the case for a bold magnet, and the conversation turns into a small tribunal over what deserves the win. Thor keeps returning to the discussion. Every time the room tries to move on, Thor comes back as the device that has actually changed people's lives, which is about as strong a compliment as this crew gives anything. They also get into colors, cases, transparency, and whether a device feels meaningfully different from the other nearly identical boxes in the category. The Nintendo 64 versus DS question lands hard and becomes a shorthand for the whole debate, since the panel is really weighing nostalgia, usefulness, and weirdness in the same bracket. The bit keeps climbing until the room finally lands on a verdict. Thor takes the top spot, and the conversation ends with the group arriving at that consensus in real time.

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A playful hardware debate that tightens into a clear winner while the panel juggles retro handhelds, magnets, the Nintendo 64, the DS, and Thor.

The panel turns a sprawling hardware debate into something close to a moving target, with retro consoles, Android devices, magnets, the Nintendo 64, the DS, the Retroid Pocket Classic, and Thor all crowding the conversation.

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You want a loose argument about retro gear and magnets.

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