{"podcast":{"title":"FunFactor","slug":"funfactor-7252688","podcast_index_feed_id":7252688,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5859211/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.funfactorpod.com/","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/c857218fdfcc86a8302cd77459d3c14b.jpg","author":"Ty Schalter","episode_count":39,"summary":"Ty Schalter (VICE, FiveThirtyEight) and Aidan Moher (WIRED, Vulture) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become professional journalists, authors, and critics—and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games. New episodes drop every other Tuesday!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688"},"episode":{"title":"GamePro 108 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night [S1E17]","slug":"gamepro-108-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-s1e17","published_at":"2025-11-19T01:31:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/gamepro-108-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-s1e17","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gamepro-108-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-s1e17--68630891","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/68630891/funfactor_s1e17_gamepro_108.mp3","summary":"ISSUE LINK: https://archive.org/details/gamepro-issue-108-september-1997/GamePro%20-%20Issue%20108%20%28September%201997%29/mode/2up Grab your whip, your holy water, and your PlayStation 1, because we're reviewing GamePro's review of Castlevania: Symphony of the Night! We also get on one of Aidan's biggest hobby horses--2D graphics vs. 3D graphics, and whether the latter inherently beat the former--and ride. We had a ton of fun talking through the different biases that we (and different magazines, editors, and writers!) had when discussing the power of novel technology versus, and in the pursuit of, creative ideals. ----- Sources include the Video Game History Foundation , the Internet Archive , Retromags.com , our original research, and our personal magazine collections. The FunFactor theme, and all other original songs, are composed and performed by Millennium Falck. Check out his work at millenniumfalck.com!","meta_description":"ISSUE LINK: https://archive.org/details/gamepro-issue-108-september-1997/GamePro%20-%20Issue%20108%20%28September%201997%29/mode/2up Grab your whip, your…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":5323,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/funfactor-7252688/episodes/gamepro-108-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-s1e17/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/gamepro-108-castlevania-symphony-of-the-night-s1e17.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}