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007 First Light, Mina The Hollower Review, Gaming's Skyrocketing Prices

5/28/20262 hr 59 min

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Leo Vader, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, and special guest (and former MinnMax cohort) Suriel Vazquez rave about 007 First Light from the developers of Hitman and explain why it's the best Bond game yet. Then Kyle Hilliard joins the show as we review Mina the Hollower from Yacht Club Games, debate how "Arkham" LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is, and throw up our hands in frustration about the Steam Deck price increases. Oh, and we also try to wrap our minds around Yoshi and the Mysterious Book on Nintendo Switch 2. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...

00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:05 - Get a Steam code for Town To City

00:04:24 - 007 First Light

00:36:36 - Visit Pocahontas County, Iowa

00:43:05 - Mina the Hollower

01:04:24 - LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

01:28:02 - Steam Deck price increases/game industry price increases

01:44:05 - Yoshi and the Mysterious Book

01:58:23 - Thanking iam8bit

02:00:23 - Community questions

02:50:01 - Get A Load Of This

Suriel’s GALOT - https://vivaldi.com/

Janet's GALOT - https://www.epilogue.co/product/gb-operator?srsltid=AfmBOoqvRb8a73RGlZc8rVCbsfsrz5CKHHGA6dVK6DiESaJY-yyihBzT

Hanson's GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6WUD8NHqLg

JeffM's GALOT - https://noai.duckduckgo.com/

Community GALOT - https://www.kirksnotes.com/p/panic-at-the-mixtape

Other links mentioned...

Janet Garcia tries Tamagotchi for the first time - https://pentopixels.com/article/first-tamagotchi-in-2026-adult-review-experience

Leo Vader's video on The Guide To People - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdkuvkukYA

Sarah and Haley explore BitSummit in Japan - https://youtu.be/cr-Z-ckmpgI

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First 90 seconds
  1. Ben Hanson· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of the Midmax Show, a place about games, friends, and getting better. I'm Ben Hanson, joined by Jeff Marchiafava.

  2. Jeff Marchiafava· Panelist0:27

    That's me.

  3. Ben Hanson· Host0:28

    Joined by Jenna Garcia.

  4. Janet Garcia· Panelist0:29

    Hello.

  5. Ben Hanson· Host0:31

    The one and only Leo Vader. [laughs] Oh, he swings in on a rope. And we're also joined by the fantastic returning champion, former Midmax cohort, Suriel Vasquez.

  6. Suriel Vasquez· Guest0:43

    Wahoo.

  7. Ben Hanson· Host0:45

    He's here. He's here. Everybody rejoice at home. Welcome back, Suriel.

  8. Suriel Vasquez· Guest0:50

    Good to be here.

  9. Ben Hanson· Host0:52

    Yeah. What have you been up to, dude?

  10. Suriel Vasquez· Guest0:54

    Uh, just doing consultant and game dev stuff, working on some side projects, and the rest I [laughs] can't talk about, so.

  11. Ben Hanson· Host1:02

    Are you... Here's, here's a question for you. Sit down, please. Are you busy? Do you look at your schedule and you say, "My God, there's too much going on," or do you have, like, nice peaceful days in your freelancing world?

  12. Suriel Vasquez· Guest1:13

    Um, it's, a lot of it is self-guided, so I, I started using more, like, what are called Pomodoro timers, which is just one- Yeah Yo, let's go You came to the right podcast for that, buddy. We're on one- Yes ... yeah ...

  13. Janet Garcia· Panelist1:25

    I'm all on the Pomodoro timers right now.

  14. Suriel Vasquez· Guest1:27

    Because I am- We finally have them outnumbered. Yeah.

  15. Unknown speaker1:29

    [laughs]

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