8-4 Play
Hosted by 8-4 Play podcast team · 8-4, Ltd.
4.6from 773 ratings
- 429
- Episodes
- 59
- Transcribed
- 773
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2010
- First episode
About 8-4 Play
Every other week, tune into 8-4 Play for talk about Japan, video games, and Japanese video games, straight from the 8-4 offices in beautiful downtown Tokyo.
- Publisher
- 8-4, Ltd.
- Category
- leisure · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 17 Sept 2010
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
59 of 429 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
8-4 Play 9/18/2026: TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
8-4 Play 9/11/2026: TORNEKO ATSUME
28 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
8-4 Play 8/28/2026: SALTY MOONTEARS
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8-4 Play 9/18/2026: TOKYO GAME SHOW 2026
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] I'm surprised they never brought 3D.game heroes back, to be honest. I love that game, man. Townfall, speaking of old series, has anybody played it? Yeah, did anybody get a chance to play it? Oh, Silent Hill? Silent Hill, yeah. I've played an hour of Silent Hill, actually. Okay, I hear good things. I, um... I really appreciate that they're willing to try so many different things with Silent Hill lately. Obviously, they remade 2, then they did F, and essentially they're reaching out to all these different teams around the world and creating new games in the vision of Silent Hill that didn't work in the past for a while, during the PS3 era especially, but they found a model that actually seems to work well, and this one feels very different. […]
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- John Linneman
- Jason Schreier
- Mike McWhertor
- Shane Bettenhausen
- Jeremy Parish
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.6 / 5
- 654 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 119 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 51 / 100
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- Quality
- 62
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 99
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