Chart 100 Market Economy?
Hello OLLers! For episode 100 I thought it might be fun to celebrate with having a chart of the 100 best games of all time according to the listeners. Thus, if people are reading this site as much as they should be, I’ll be able to compile said chart for episode 100. Please send your 20 favouritest games in the whole wide world ever! to derek at onelifeleft dot com. Oh and do be good and put them in the order of preference.
Please note I reserve the right to put a Warriors game at the top of the charts even if you lot aren’t capable of realising they’re the best games ever.
One Life Left — s05e03 — #99 — 99 Not Out
It’s been a busy seven days for tawdry, frivolous news, which means it’s up to Ann to raise the bar. Can she do it? No, obviously not, but listen to her try: for the third time in four weeks, it’s ALL NEW! One! Life! Left!
In this week’s show
* Ann gets giggly about celebrity death,
* An official response from the Lego Game Team concerning last week’s proposal,
* And the team introduce themselves for the first. Time. Ever.
Plus new features, old features, reviews, music, and a few minor technical glitches. You might also be able to see some video of us somewhere. I’m unclear on how that works. Hm.
Music on 99:
Suspension by Smiletron
I Breath in Black and White by 4Mat
Beat It (Wavedude Remix) by MJ
Facebook / Twitter / Email / Call us about our Episode 100 special. We might see you at Develop, right? Good.
Download the MP3 here. Why aren’t you subscribed yet? Do that!
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We’re going all multimedia…
…like an old CD-ROM.
See this:
It’s a boring dark square, isn’t it? Currently. But just before 7:00pm this evening, it’ll flicker into life like when Alexander Graham Bell invented the Bluray disc. And for an hour or so, you’ll be able to view StudiOLL LIVE as we broadcast to the nation’s capital over FM and the world over the Internet.
It’s part of our ongoing commitment to break new ground in videogames radio. And it’s sure to be an unmitigated disaster.
Listening live is the only way to get the full OLL experience, before the sanitised version is set free over iTunes and that. And while you’re looking at us, be sure to be listening to us over at www.resonancefm.com. And you can chat with other OLL listeners live here: http://tinyurl.com/ollchat
See you! (Well, we won’t: but you’ll be seeing us!)
One Life Left — s05e02 — #98 — Trauma Center
It takes a special kind of show to carry off two comebacks in three weeks but here we are. After a one-week hiatus to take stock, hire and fire, One Life Left returns rejuvenated, reshaped. All three presenters are back, too. Seriously, someone needs to have a word with HR.
Still, One Life Left isn’t just Ste, Simon and Ann doing their best to make silence sound inviting. The show would be nothing without fabulous features submitted by listeners, and Episode 2 contains some of the very best. There are the beloved regulars, of course, and the return of two Season 4 favourites, but there’s also something brand new sneaks in at the end. Consider the Trauma in the title a clue.
Elsewhere, OLL’s brave experiment in listener interaction continues. The thing about listener interaction is that it requires participation from both parties. The first party — the broadcaster — requests the interaction. The second party — the listener, that’s you — responds in kind. Phone us, please. The number is in the show and Ann is waiting for your call.
Music in #98:
Leave Everything / Move On by Covox
Sparks by Cornbeast
Soulja Boy! Crank those pink squares! by Jay Lever
Email: team@onelifeleft.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/onelifeleft
Search for us on Facebook and join our page / group
Do all those other things that we don’t exactly know what they’re for
Like talking to other people
And socialising
And you know
Life
See you!
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One Life Left — s05e01 — #97 — Guess Who’s Back?
Guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back, guess who’s back…
For the newcomers: One Life Left is back. What? Oh! It’s a radio show about videogames. It’s presented by Ste Curran, Simon Byron and Ann Scantlebury. Ste and Simon both work in the videogame industry and have done forever. Ann, after close to a hundred episodes, now knows what a videogame is. We assume. Possibly.
We broadcast on FM radio, courtesy of the brilliant Resonance FM, in the United Kingdom on Monday evenings and podcast the show later that night. We don’t talk about videogames all the time and we try to be inclusive. Lots of our listeners don’t play videogames all that much, just like Ann. Some of them don’t play at all.
For the veterans: Oh, wow. Tonight was totally fun and we’ve missed you. Promise.
Season 5 Episode 1 contains: Ste, Ann, Simon and a very special guest. News about videogames, Music that sounds like videogames, four tiny features loosely themed around videogames. Lots of chat about E3, some chat about Ann’s cat. That sort of thing.
Music in s05e01: Three Kings by Swampyboy, Relapse and Corecontax (apologies for failing to credit the final two in the show), 8 Bit De La Mort by the incomparable Jungle Fiction, and Raw Footage Trash80 Remix by Leeni.
Other stuff: Hey! You! Please write to us / call us / tweet us / whatever. You’re a huge part of why we do this and it’s genuinely awesome to be back. The next show is in two weeks’ time and after that return to our usual a weekly schedule. We’ve lots of new features and guests and surprises to come over the next 23 episodes.
One more thing: OLL is completely independent and relies on word of mouth to bring in new listeners. If you listen to the show and like it all we ask is that you tell your friends. Then they’ll tell their friends, they’ll tell their friends and pretty soon we’ll be able to tell the whole world about Ann’s cat. Thanks! And see you in a fortnight (or less, if you follow our Twitter / go on our forum / etc).
Bye!
OLL xx
Oh! If you don’t like streaming, grab it from iTunes (search for One Life Left in the store, it’s free) or download the episode here.
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Happy ANNiversary!
It was a sunny day three years ago that we climbed the rickety stairs to the Resonance FM studio to broadcast the first, and most definitely worst, One Life Left. Actually, was it sunny? I can’t remember.
Three years on, what have we learnt? Not a lot, but we do a lot less preparation now. I’m not really selling this as progress, am I?
We’ve had a lot of fun over the past three years, and we hope you have too. So, thanks for listening or contributing (or listening and contributing), and libel suits pending, we’ll be making Europe’s only FM broadcasting videogame radio show until someone else comes along and makes it impossible to use that title anymore.
Normal service will resume shortly.
Ann, Ste + Simon
xx
One Life Left Presents: Nolan Bushnell ‘My Life In Videogames’ recorded at BAFTA
It’s a One Life Left special, as we meet Nolan “the father of videogames” Bushnell ahead of his brilliant BAFTA presentation: “My life in videogames.”
Subscribers through iTunes or the RSS page should find this in their inboxes now. If you’ve not subscribed: GODOITNOW.
Oh, and do keep an eye out for more ace stuff happening at BAFTA.
One Life Left — s04e24 — #96 — Poole Over
Season Finales are supposed to offer closure, but What mortal could write an ending for a season that’s included all-star contributions from Joe Cornish, Iain Lee and Simon Byron’s niece? Only one man: it’s official OLL literary expert Steven Poole, author of Trigger Happy, the definitive book about videogames!
Steven’s bar-raising appearance not withstanding, what else can you expect from the last episode of OLL for a little while? There’s a spectacular three-way song fight between Season 3’s most tuneful contributors. There’s what Ann declared before the show to be her ‘worst news ever’, no small feat. There are reviews, there are chiptunes, there are small sobs as we say goodbye. Boo! Hoo!
There’s also reference to these awesome listener-contributed remixes which we didn’t have time to play. Find them in this crudely open directory right here:
Spencer Lee’s “No Butts”
Blinn’s “OLL Amiga Mashup”
Amazing. Thanks, chaps. And thanks to SteVader too, who rescued this show after someone (not us, obviously) broke the Resonance backup machine.
Other Music on #96
The Doctor’s in Danger: Mahamajama
Hotncold: Bit The Medusa
The Kat and Marie Waltz: Orenji
Download the MP3 from here.
And with that One Life Life Season 4 is done, done, done. New listeners, don’t fret: twenty-four episodes of varying quality are available on this website or iTunes right now (you can even go back as far as the start of Season 3 if you really want). Old listeners, don’t fret either. We’ll be back. In a little while. Maybe in less time than you expect.
Why? Well, we talk about that at the end of the show. But the abbreviated version: make sure you’re subscribed on iTunes or following our RSS Feed. We’ll be running some exclusive subscriber content over our break. And we’ll still be broadcasting new content on Resonance 104.4 FM.
One final note: if you’ve ever considered doing a feature for OLL now is the time to suggest it. We’ll be launching season five with a new lineup of contributors and one of them could be you. You should know the address to email by now.
Bye! And don’t forget to write,
love,
Ste, Simon and Ann
xxx
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One Life Left — s04e23 — #95 — Authority Complex
OLL faces up to the challenge of a Simon-less show this week in the only way it knows how: by packing in half a dozen features, keeping the libel to a minimum and staying well inside our comfort zone. News. Reviews. Authoritative commentary. You’ll find half-assed attempts at all of those in the penultimate episode of Season 4!
Our run of excellent guests continues, too. Dave Green (I’m Dave Green) joins us in the studio to teach us about some more retro hardware. There’s some improvised music and a listener competition, and Ann has a special request for email mischief.
Also brilliant returns for Best Worst Game, Odds On O’D and Game For A Laugh. We are fortunate to have them all.
You might find there’s some stereo imbalance during some of the recorded features this week. Apparently one of the CD players is a bit off-kilter. Some post-production tinkering only resulted in multiple Audacity crashes – we’ll try and fix it in the live broadcast next week. It’s our finale! Do join us (and our special guest)!
Music on #95:
Swapping Harpoons with Ron Moss – Poke-1,170
8-Bit Symmetrical Girl – Chalices Of The Past
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