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The Back Page: A Video Games Podcast
Episode 38: The PS2 Mini Draft
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What if Sony released a PS2 Mini? And what if it was good? In this week's episode, Matthew and Samuel each pick 10 games to be released with a hypothetical PS2 Mini. Head to the poll on our pinned tweet @BackPagePod to vote on who picked the best games, and we'll announce the winner on a future episode!
The winner of this episode was Samuel.
This week's music comes from the Gitaroo Man soundtrack by COIL, Tomohiro Harada and YUAN, the Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater soundtrack by Norihiko Hibino and Cynthia Harrell, the Final Fantasy XII soundtrack by Hitoshi Sakimoto, Hayato Matsuo and Masaharu Iwata and the Silent Hill 2 soundtrack by Akira Yamaoka.
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