{"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":"ULTRA BONUS TEASER: What Killed the Sega Saturn? - Greg Sewart & PandaMonium [S2B1]","slug":"ultra-bonus-teaser-what-killed-the-sega-saturn-greg-sewart-pandamonium-s2b1","published_at":"2026-05-27T21:44:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/ultra-bonus-teaser-what-killed-the-sega-saturn-greg-sewart-pandamonium-s2b1","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ultra-bonus-teaser-what-killed-the-sega-saturn-greg-sewart-pandamonium-s2b1--72193672","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72193672/teaser_what_killed_the_sega_saturn_greg_sewart_pandamonium_s2b1.mp3","summary":"NICK’S PATREON: PandaMonium | creating a Sega Saturn documentary series. | Patreon GREG’S PATREON: Greg Sewart | creating Generation 16 | Let's Read Videos | Retro Game Streams | Patreon Please enjoy this snippet of our first Season Two ULTRA Review Crew bonus episode, where we're throwing it back to, um, the disastrous 1995 surprise launch of the Sega Saturn in North America?? That’s right–thanks to a production whoopsie by someone very silly (Ty), we very nearly lost this amazing bonus episode. But thanks to a crucial save from our guests, a little bit of elbow grease, and a couple of months of Season Two launch stuff coming first, we managed to get this incredible conversation cleaned up and in your ears. We’re joined by two *incredible* guests: Greg “Stewy” Sewart , a former editor at EGM, and Nick “PandaMonium ,” perhaps the Internet’s foremost Sega Saturn documentarian. We ask all the hard questions: What went wrong? Who’s fault was it? And–perhaps most importantly–could Sonic X-Treme have saved everything? ——— 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":"NICK’S PATREON: PandaMonium | creating a Sega Saturn documentary series. | Patreon GREG’S PATREON: Greg Sewart | creating Generation 16 | Let's Read Video…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1437,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/funfactor-7252688/episodes/ultra-bonus-teaser-what-killed-the-sega-saturn-greg-sewart-pandamonium-s2b1/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/funfactor-7252688/ultra-bonus-teaser-what-killed-the-sega-saturn-greg-sewart-pandamonium-s2b1.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}