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X-Play

Debut: July 04, 1998

Ended: October 13, 2022

What do you get when you cross video game news and sketch comedy? You get X-Play, the biggest and most popular gaming show on TV! The show began as Gamespot TV in 1998 on the ZDTV Network and featured a set format for each episode. Each episode would start off with Game News, where Adam Sessler or Lauren Fielder would give a brief overview of top news stories featured on the GameSpot website. Game reviews were run in a segment known as The Grill (games were graded on GameSpot's official 0.1-10.0 system), Spotlight showcased special content such as interviews with industry leaders, and Game Breakers featured strategy guides and hints for recently released games. The show was renamed Extended Play in 2001 where Sessler hosted with Kate Botello. When the show became X-Play in 2003 Sessler was joined by well-known co-host Morgan Webb. Along with gaming news and reviews, the series was well-known for comedy sketches it's humorous countdown episodes, its 5-point game rating scale, and hatred of certain games and franchises by the hosts. X-Play was cancelled in 2012 as the G4 Network underwent a re-brand and the final episode aired in January 2013. The show returned with G4's relaunch in 2021 but was cancelled when the relauch of the channel closed.

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Title	Date Added	Air Date
X-Play	04/20/2013	(1998 - 2022)
Pulse	04/20/2013	(2002 - 2004)
Attack of the Show!	02/03/2021	(2005 - 2022)
Cheat!	04/20/2013	(2002 - 2009)

Intros

Intro from June 4, 2003.

Credits

Outro from June 4, 2003.

Posters

Quotes

Morgan: "(reviewing "Final Fantasy VI Advance")All we remember about part 7 is Aeris dying and a whole lot of slash fanfiction starring Cloud and Sephiroth. All we remember about part 8 is awkward ballroom dancing. All we remember about part 9 is that Zidane looks like one of the Olsen twins... with a tail. All we remember about part 10 is how much we hated blitzball. And all we remember about part 11 is... Actually, we repressed all memories of part 11, it was an MMO."

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Adam: "Next up to be reviewed is "Family Guy", a game based on a TV show that was funny three years ago."

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Adam: "In the end, all it did was make me yell. And when I yell, children cry. So, by the transitive properties of association, if the PSP makes me yell, and when I yell, children cry, the PSP makes children cry. It's the corporal punishment of gaming consoles."

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Morgan: "Delicious strawberry jam. That's right kids, people are made of jam."

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Morgan: "Welcome to X-Play. We're sorry."

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Morgan: "For a game about non-lethal violence, it sure makes me want to kill the developers!"

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Announcer: "Three cheers for Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb!"

Adam: " Let's be honest. We only merit two cheers... out of three."

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Morgan: " Bad music in games causes gamers a sharp, sudden pain not unlike a swift kick to the testicles... not that I'd know what that felt like..."

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Adam: "All right, in case you don't understand, don't buy this game! Don't rent this game! Simply insert it into the toilet and flush, and if the Blockbuster employees try and stop you... run."

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Morgan: "Hello and welcome to X-Play, the show that brings you merciless game reviews such as this one:"

Adam: "Splinter Cell for the Nintendo DS... still sucks!"

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Announcer: "Dude, where's the party at? 'Cause it ain't with Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb!"

Adam: "There's a party here!"

Morgan: "Speak for yourself, Sessler."

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Adam: "You like Xenosaga? What the fuck is your problem?"

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Adam: "And you know what? Hobbits suck at fighting."

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Adam: "$600 for a console and Sony can't kick a $15 cable my way?"

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