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VGMP: Videogame Movie Podcast

Retro: Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever

Season 6, Ep. 8

We continue to plunder the VGMP vault and polish up our old episodes. Today we're bringing you Ballistic: Ecks Vs Sever, a unique film in that the movie and videogame version were both in development at the same time, but the movie ended up being radically different from the eventual Gameboy Advance release...

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