{"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":"Tips & Tricks Vol. IV, Issue 1 - Tomb Raider [S1E12]","slug":"tips-tricks-vol-iv-issue-1-tomb-raider-s1e12","published_at":"2025-08-28T13:57:41+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/tips-tricks-vol-iv-issue-1-tomb-raider-s1e12","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/tips-tricks-vol-iv-issue-1-tomb-raider-s1e12--67542813","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67542813/funfactors1e11_tips_tricks_january_1997.mp3","summary":"ISSUE LINK: Tips & Tricks - Volume IV Issue 1 GAME LOSERS T&T ARTICLE: A Comprehensive Oral History Of Tips & Tricks – The #1 Video-Game Tips Magazine | Game Losers We're the Tomb Raiders! Aidan and Ty teased Tomb Raider takes last episode, and here they finally are--and so is our look at a very popular game magazine that didn't (quite) have reviews at all, Tips & Tricks. Our hosts explain the appeal this magazine had (or didn't) to them at the time, flip out about the masthead featuring a very diverse staff working under Larry Flynt, and flip through the unique combination of in-depth strategy reference material with little-to-no traditional editorial. And then: we review their walkthrough (?) of Tomb Raider , and talk about how the game itself might have impacted it. ----- Sources include the Internet Archive , the Video Game History Foundation , 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: Tips & Tricks - Volume IV Issue 1 GAME LOSERS T&T ARTICLE: A Comprehensive Oral History Of Tips & Tricks – The #1 Video-Game Tips…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4824,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/funfactor-7252688/episodes/tips-tricks-vol-iv-issue-1-tomb-raider-s1e12/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/tips-tricks-vol-iv-issue-1-tomb-raider-s1e12.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}