{"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":"Season 1 Finale - Every Final Fantasy VII Review [S1E24]","slug":"season-1-finale-every-final-fantasy-vii-review-s1e24","published_at":"2026-02-24T22:12:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/season-1-finale-every-final-fantasy-vii-review-s1e24","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/season-1-finale-every-final-fantasy-vii-review-s1e24--70257359","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70257359/s1e24_full_episode.mp3","summary":"The grand finale of Season One is here! Our coverage of the 1995-1997 “Generation Gap” ends with a blowout review of (nearly) every (English-language print) review of Final Fantasy VII that we could find. Starting with a quick look back at the first year of FunFactor, and discussion of what’s coming next, we then re-looked at the magazine we debuted the podcast with nearly a year ago, PSM No. 1. We then went on to review, well, all of these reviews: PSM 1: https://archive.org/details/PSM_Issue_001_September_1997/mode/2up Ultra Game Players 102: https://archive.org/details/Ultra_Gameplayers_102_October_1997_U/page/n83/mode/2up The Duelist 21: https://archive.org/details/duelist-21/page/n105/mode/1up The Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine 1: https://archive.org/details/Official_US_PlayStation_Magazine_Volume_1_Issue_1_1997-10_Ziff_Davis_US/page/n85/mode/2up EGM 99: https://archive.org/details/ElectronicGamingMonthly_201902 NEXT Generation 34: https://archive.org/details/NEXT_Generation_34/page/n53/mode/2up GameFan Vol. 5, Issue 9: https://archive.org/details/GamefanVolume5Issue09September1997/page/n3/mode/2up GamePro 46: https://archive.org/details/GamePro_Issue_099_October_1997/page/n49/mode/2up EDGE 049: https://archive.org/details/Edge_Gaming/Edge%20Gaming%20vMagazine%20051/page/n65/mode/1up Game Informer 53: https://archive.org/details/game-informer-issue-53-september-1997 Campus Life Magazine (partial text archive): https://cmnexus.org/magazines/Campus_Life/issues As always, we streamed this recording session live to FunFactor ULTRA members–so if you’d like to get in on the fun, just sign up at https://funfactorpod.com/ ! See you on the Discord, and you’ll see us when we next go live! ----- Sources include the Video Game History Foundation, the Internet Archive, Ret…","meta_description":"The grand finale of Season One is here! Our coverage of the 1995-1997 “Generation Gap” ends with a blowout review of (nearly) every (English-language prin…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6604,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/funfactor-7252688/episodes/season-1-finale-every-final-fantasy-vii-review-s1e24/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/season-1-finale-every-final-fantasy-vii-review-s1e24.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}