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      This is a really fascinating video, and goes into great detail about the chip, Star Fox, and the rise and fall of Argonaut. Props to LoneWolf for digging this up!
       
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    • chaos_Leader
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      Greetings again SFO!
       
      Very recently I got my hands on some recording equipment, and now have the capacity create high quality recordings of games with commentary. I recorded my first video yesterday, and uploaded today. It's a lets Play video of Fallout 3, which you can watch below.
       
      This is my first ever lets play, so any feedback you can give will be helpful: what you feel I can improve, what you like, what you don't like, and general feelings. Also, whether I should make separate threads for separate games, or pile them all together here.
       
      I can do lets plays of a wide variety of other games if you like. My current library will currently be limited to games I can play on the Xbox 360 and Wii, but arrangements might be able to be made for others.
       
      other than Lets Plays, I can probably also do tutorial videos for Smash Bros, especially Brawl, if you guys want that.
       
      But anyway, this'll be hopefully be the first of many more to come, and I hope you'll enjoy them.
       

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