We play a brutal quiz of our gadget memories

Do you remember your first BlackBerry? Do you remember when that first BlackBerry launched? On this episode taped before David Pierce went on leave, producer Travis Larchuk leads David, Nilay, and The Verge’s Sean Hollister through a game of memory and history and a surprising amount of feelings tied to gadget launches. Subscribe to The Verge for unlimited access to theverge.com, subscriber-exclusive newsletters, and our ad-free podcast feed. We love hearing from you! Email your questions and thoughts to [email protected] or call us at 866-VERGE11. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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• 0:02David Pierce?

  Hello and welcome to The Vergecast, the flagship podcast of many, many Nokia phones. I'm your friend David Pierce, and today on the show, we're playing a game. This is a thing I've actually been wanting to do for a while. One of my great aspirations on The Vergecast is to make Neelai play a lot of TikTok games. Like, I want him to blind rank things, and I want to do the fast money games. There's just so many silly, fun things you can do that we're going to start playing more of on this show. And today, we have our first one. Travis Larchuk, our producer, has put together a whole game. I don't know a ton about it, but I know it has to do with gadgets. I know it has to do with history. I know I am in big trouble, and I'm pretty excited about it. Before we get into it, if you have ideas, if you've, like, seen a TikTok where they're playing a fun game,

• 0:44David Pierce?

  and you want to send it to me because you think it would be fun to watch or hear us be terrible at it on The Vergecast, send them all my way. [email protected] is the email, 866-VERGE11 is the hotline. More games on The Vergecast is my goal for the future, and I want to hear all of your ideas. Our game is coming up in just a second, but first, here's everything else happening on The Verge today. I'm David Amell, and this is 90 Seconds on The Verge for Monday, August 24th, 2026. Amazon's first-party products just got a big price bump, up to 60%. The cheapest products in the lineup were hit the hardest, with the Echo Dot smart speaker jumping from $49.99 to $79.99. The Fire TV Stick 4K Max rose by 40% to $84.99,

• 1:26David Pierce?

  and the base-level Kindle now comes in at $149.99. In a statement to The Verge, a communications manager blamed memory and storage component costs for the price hike, like everyone else. Apple also recently increased its competing HomePod Mini to $129.99 from $99.99, though Google's smart home speaker is holding stable at $99.99 for now. Today, The New York Times reported that Netflix has discussed making Peacock and Fox One available through the Netflix app. Other services like Amazon Prime Video and Roku have long made competing streamers available in their app, but Netflix has always kept its app pretty isolated. The change comes amid YouTube, Netflix's biggest rival, announcing that it will be bundling Peacock as part of its premium subscription starting next year.

• 2:09David Pierce?

  While there are reportedly no imminent plans to make this happen, Netflix has already dabbled in third-party streaming partnerships in France, where it folded live channels and streaming content from TF1 into its app. And finally, the 9.58-second 1,000-meter dash set by Usain Bolt in 2009 has been smashed by Chinese robots participating in the World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing on Saturday. The record set by the Beijing Humanoid Robot Innovation Center ran that distance in 9.39 seconds, though most of the robots had to collide into crash pads, and some of them had to be carried away on a stretcher afterwards. The games are a sort of robot Olympics designed to showcase innovation and bipedal robot technology,

• 2:50David Pierce?

  with other sports like jumping, football, and boxing also being showcased. You can read more on theverge.com. That's 90 Seconds on The Verge for Monday, August 24th, 2026.

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• 4:09David Pierce?

  All right, let's play some games. I'm joined now by Neelai Patel. Hello, Neelai.

• 4:13Speaker 03

  Hello.

• 4:14David Pierce?

  I don't even think you have any idea what you've signed up for here.

• 4:17Speaker 03

  None at all.

• 4:17David Pierce?

  Fabulous. Also has no idea The Verge's Sean Hollister. Hi, Sean.

• 4:21Speaker 04

  Hi.

• 4:23David Pierce?

  And our producer and game master, Travis Larchuk.

• 4:27Speaker 05

  Hello, everybody.

• 4:28David Pierce?

  What have you done to us today?

• 4:31Speaker 05

  Okay, gamers, we are going to play a game about the linear nature of time, which proceeds, as always, at the rate of one year per year. This game is called... When did that come out? So if you've ever played the card game Chronology or Timeline, this is a rip-off of that. So, together...

• 4:51Speaker 03

  Now we just got sued. I think we're playing a game called The Vergecast enters existential litigation.

• 4:57Speaker 05

  I can't debate it intellectually.

• 4:59David Pierce?

  We've played that every week.

• 5:00Speaker 05

  Property expert on this. But I believe that you can only patent game mechanics, not copyright.

• 5:06Speaker 03

  Decline, decline.

• 5:07Speaker 05

  So I think we're in the clear. I think we're in the clear. Okay, this is inspired by the card game's Chronology and Timeline, but is legally distinct and different from them.

• 5:19Speaker 03

  That's what I'm looking for.

• 5:20David Pierce?

  Nailed it.

• 5:21Speaker 05

  Okay, great. So the way that this is going to work is that we're collectively going to build a timeline of gadgets. You will be given a random gadget on your turn, and you have to figure out where in the timeline that gadget goes. If you are correct, it will be added to the timeline, and you will get a point. If you are incorrect, it will be discarded from history, and you will not get a point. This could butterfly effect the world and change events forever, so be careful. We will continue to play the game until we get bored or until we've recorded enough to reasonably insert a mid-roll break into this episode.

• 5:59David Pierce?

  Perfect.

• 6:01Speaker 05

  Okay. Neelai is going to kick us off. Neelai, your categories are, and these are loose categories, phones, wearables, or anything goes, could be anything.

• 6:16Speaker 03

  I'm going to have to go with phones, please.

• 6:18Speaker 05

  All right, phones. All right, so we are starting the timeline. The timeline is seeded with the Nokia 9000 Communicator, and the object that you have to place on the timeline before or after that is the Samsung Galaxy Fold.

• 6:32Speaker 03

  And I just have to pick before or after. I don't have to say year?

• 6:35David Pierce?

  Correct.

• 6:35Speaker 03

  After, okay. Nailed it.

• 6:37David Pierce?

  Are you sure?

• 6:38Speaker 05

  Are you sure?

• 6:39Speaker 03

  I was doing the math. I think I could get the year.

• 6:41Speaker 05

  You sure it came out after 1996?

• 6:43Speaker 03

  I'm correct here.

• 6:44David Pierce?

  This is actually a trick question. The Nokia 9000 Communicator is timeless. It is all years forever and ever.

• 6:51Speaker 05

  Neelai, you are correct.

• 6:53David Pierce?

  Great job, Neelai.

• 6:54Speaker 05

  Okay, David, you have the Nokia Lumia 520.

• 7:00David Pierce?

  I'm realizing we could play this game with just Nokia and numbers, and it would be impossible.

• 7:05Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 7:06David Pierce?

  And also, there would be 1,000 options.

• 7:09Speaker 05

  Does anybody know what this was?

• 7:11Speaker 03

  The 520 was okay. It was a plasticky Windows phone, if I remember correctly. Sean?

• 7:17Speaker 04

  I'm remembering, like, a baby blue. Is this right?

• 7:21David Pierce?

  Yes.

• 7:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, that feels right, yep.

• 7:22Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 7:24David Pierce?

  This was back when they had that really, like, sharp design. It was great, those are good times. Anyway, this goes between 1996 and 2009.

• 7:32Speaker 05

  Okay. You are correct, 2013.

• 7:37David Pierce?

  Later than I thought, actually.

• 7:38Speaker 04

  Just little babies.

• 7:40Speaker 05

  Sean?

• 7:41Speaker 04

  Oh, okay.

• 7:42Speaker 05

  You have the Fire Phone, and things are getting spicy now because the timeline is, we have 1996, 2013, and 2019 on the timeline. So where does it go? Fire Phone.

• 7:52Speaker 04

  This is difficult because I think the Fire Phone is only one year away from the Lumia 520, and I cannot remember if it's 2012 or 2014.

• 8:04David Pierce?

  Is this a group project, or is this a Sean project?

• 8:07Speaker 03

  It's a Sean project.

• 8:08Speaker 05

  This is Sean's point, but if you would like to collaborate and make this a cooperative exercise, that's fine.

• 8:13David Pierce?

  Absolutely not.

• 8:14Speaker 03

  Here's what I know, and this is like a weird sense memory of these phones, and this tells you exactly how poisoned my brain is. I associate every one of these devices with a different office. Like, I remember where we were, what office we were in when the Fire Phone came out, which is going to help me immensely.

• 8:33Speaker 04

  It is a damn shame that I don't. Having worked from home for most of that period. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with after 2014. I think it's 2014. Let's do it.

• 8:45Speaker 05

  Okay. Between the Nokia Lumia 520 and the Samsung Galaxy Fold, you are correct.

• 8:51Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 8:52Speaker 05

  2014. Well done. Going back to Neelai, you have the first Google Pixel. So on the timeline, we have the Nokia 9000 Communicator, 1996, Nokia Lumia 520, 2013, Fire Phone, 2014, Samsung Galaxy Fold, 2019.

• 9:11David Pierce?

  Neelai, would you believe me if I told you there was a Google Pixel in 2002, and then Google just forgot about it for, like, 15 years?

• 9:18Speaker 05

  I will give you a hint, which is it will not be between 2013 and 2014.

• 9:23Speaker 03

  It's good. And also, presumably not between 1996 and 2013.

• 9:31Speaker 03

  Thanks for the hint.

• 9:32Speaker 05

  Sometimes you get a lucky break.

• 9:36Speaker 04

  Pixel not next.

• 9:37Speaker 03

  What happens if, so they're not, they're, just to be clear on the, on the setup here. There's not two things that happened in 2014?

• 9:44Speaker 05

  If it, yeah, if a year is already on the timeline, it will not show up again in that timeline.

• 9:49Speaker 04

  I love how invested Neelai is in wedding this.

• 9:54Speaker 03

  I, I'm just, I'm just experiencing my youth again.

• 9:58Speaker 03

  I'm just feeling all the feelings and I believe, it's funny, my, my, my strong memories are the pixel too. But I'm going to say between Fire Phone and Galaxy Fold.

• 10:08Speaker 05

  All right, between 2014 and 2019, you are correct, 2016.

• 10:13Speaker 03

  That's a, a Fideye Office. That's what I remember.

• 10:17Speaker 05

  What were the snacks like in that office?

• 10:19Speaker 03

  You're in it right now.

• 10:22Speaker 05

  At the time, what were the snacks like? Because snack vendor has changed since then.

• 10:26Speaker 03

  When we moved in that office, the snacks are glorious.

• 10:29Speaker 06

  Yeah, there, there are rumors of overtime snack deterioration.

• 10:34Speaker 05

  Anyway, it's the IBM Simon. Does anybody know what the IBM Simon was?

• 10:39Speaker 06

  Remind me? I'm not sure that I do. What was the IBM Simon?

• 10:43Speaker 03

  I'm going to go ahead and say it was a phone.

• 10:45Speaker 05

  All right, David, this would be a good time for me to introduce the concept of lifelines.

• 10:52Speaker 05

  You have three lifelines. You can use a lifeline once for the entire game.

• 10:56Speaker 06

  Ooh.

• 10:56Speaker 05

  Your lifelines are Wikipedia. I will read you a random sentence from the Wikipedia page of this thing. Picture. I will look at an image of this thing and describe the image to you.

• 11:08Speaker 06

  Love it.

• 11:09Speaker 05

  This is, or this is a lifeline that no one's ever thought of before. It's called one out of two, which is, I will tell you two possible places on the timeline where this thing could go.

• 11:19Speaker 06

  I'm going to go picture.

• 11:21Speaker 05

  Okay, picture. Great. This thing.

• 11:23Speaker 06

  I'm pretty sure I know the answer. I'm just enjoying this now.

• 11:26Speaker 05

  This thing is like a very long, black rectangle. It has.

• 11:30Speaker 03

  So it's a phone?

• 11:31Speaker 06

  Yeah, we've, we've.

• 11:32Speaker 03

  That doesn't help at all.

• 11:33Speaker 05

  Also a very long screen on it, like an LCD screen, and it comes with a, a thin black stylus on the side.

• 11:42Speaker 03

  Dude, you're just like Samsung Galaxy Fold.

• 11:45Speaker 05

  The picture, the picture I am, the picture I am looking at, let me see, it is very, it looks very skinny. And the picture that I am looking at has it pictured next to, uh, an, an older iPhone. And it is definitely like longer than that original iPhone.

• 12:02Speaker 06

  I confess you've, you've made my answer slightly more nerve wracking for me, but I'm going to say at the very, this goes at the very beginning, before 1996.

• 12:10Speaker 05

  Okay. You are correct, 1994.

• 12:15Speaker 06

  Barely correct.

• 12:16Speaker 05

  Well done.

• 12:17Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 12:18Speaker 05

  Sean.

• 12:19Speaker 06

  You said stylus and I was like, maybe this is 1999. Like that's just what we were doing.

• 12:24Speaker 05

  The BlackBerry Pearl.

• 12:26Speaker 04

  Thank, thank goodness. Thank goodness that there's nothing between 1996 and 2013 yet.

• 12:32Speaker 06

  Truly.

• 12:33Speaker 03

  This is the stages of our career, Sean. Where did we work then?

• 12:38Speaker 05

  Does anyone remember what the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 was?

• 12:42Speaker 04

  Apparently it was an Engadget.

• 12:44Speaker 03

  It was an Engadget. Yes, the office, uh, was in Union Square. It's now the Instagram office, which is, just says everything about everything. But this was one of Joanna Stern's favorite phones. It was a consumer BlackBerry.

• 12:56Speaker 06

  Yeah, the Pearl was the, the, the skinny one, right? That was like, they did away with the Y and they tried to smoosh the keyboard into a much skinnier thing.

• 13:03Speaker 05

  Uh, all right. Did the BlackBerry Pearl 8100 come out between 1996 and 2013? It did, 2006. All right, back to Neelai. This, this will be, once the timeline reaches eight things, we will begin a new round. Uh, so this is the Surface Duo, potentially the last one this round.

• 13:21Speaker 03

  If you will recall, Panos Panay announced these devices on our podcast in, at our office, the one that Travis is sitting in right now. And then it was the pandemic. So this one is easy.

• 13:32Speaker 05

  How, how were the snacks then?

• 13:35Speaker 03

  That was, that was the height. After that, it was all over. They, they realized that no one was coming there. The snack budget fell to nothing. Um.

• 13:43Speaker 06

  I'm really realizing, Neelai, you, you have organized your adult life by phone launches. Like this is just who you are.

• 13:51Speaker 03

  It's, it's really, really bad.

• 13:55Speaker 05

  Okay, so you are putting it after the most recent object on the timeline, which is the Samsung Galaxy Fold 2019.

• 14:01Speaker 03

  Yeah, it, it almost has to be.

• 14:03Speaker 05

  Okay, let's see. 2020.

• 14:06Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 14:06Speaker 05

  Very good.

• 14:07Speaker 03

  You have those like pre pandemic memories, right? You're like, you remember when you were, where Kennedy got shot? I remember the Surface Duo being announced in, in like the podcast room you're sitting in. And then it was like, the world is over.

• 14:19Speaker 06

  Brutal.

• 14:20Speaker 03

  There's a Surface Duo timeline that never happened.

• 14:24Speaker 06

  It's true.

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• 16:36Speaker 05

  Everybody's doing great so far. I don't think we've had any wrong answers so far. And now it's time for a new round. David, you get to pick the category. Would you like computers, gaming, or anything goes?

• 16:48Speaker 06

  Let's go anything goes. Full chaos. I'm ready.

• 16:50Speaker 05

  Anything goes, full chaos. All right. The timeline begins with Snap Spectacles 2016.

• 16:57Speaker 05

  Flickr?

• 16:59Speaker 05

  Did Flickr come out before or after Snap Spectacles?

• 17:04Speaker 06

  Flickr was before, and I'm going to say it was 2004.

• 17:08Speaker 05

  Ooh. No bonus points are available, but let's find out. It was 2004.

• 17:14Speaker 03

  I think you should have made Travis describe a picture of Flickr.

• 17:20Speaker 05

  You've already burned that lifeline.

• 17:24Speaker 05

  Sean, Kindle. Did it come out before the, before Flickr in 2004 or between Flickr and Snap Spectacles, which came out 2016, or after Snap Spectacles?

• 17:35Speaker 04

  I was not in an office for this one either. Um, boy, let's, let's go between. I'm just going to go between.

• 17:43Speaker 05

  Ooh, between.

• 17:45Speaker 03

  This was Engadget. Do you remember this? Jeff Bezos gave a demo to us.

• 17:49Speaker 05

  2007, you're correct.

• 17:51Speaker 03

  The F is this dude? Come on.

• 17:54Speaker 05

  Neelai, the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13.

• 17:58Speaker 06

  Neelai's finally screwed.

• 18:00Speaker 05

  We've got Flickr, Kindle, and Snap Spectacles on the timeline.

• 18:03Speaker 03

  What I don't have built in emotional memories of.

• 18:07Speaker 06

  Windows PC launches?

• 18:09Speaker 04

  I know the year.

• 18:10Speaker 06

  But Neelai, this is the one that's flippy.

• 18:13Speaker 05

  Don't forget about your lifelines.

• 18:15Speaker 03

  This is the iPad killer.

• 18:18Speaker 03

  My friend Helen Roser once told me all food writing is just uh is just ruminations on memory. And like, it was definitely true of phones, right? You show me the name of a phone, and I like, I'm a young man again, like Ratatouille. You show me this, and I'm like, yeah, that didn't work either. And like, nothing, like, nothing occurs in my brain.

• 18:37Speaker 04

  I remember debating review scores with with Dan Seifert.

• 18:44Speaker 04

  Retroactively for this. I think I remember debating review scores with Joanna Stern in real time for this.

• 18:50Speaker 03

  Oh, that's a good hint.

• 18:52Speaker 05

  Oh, wow.

• 18:53Speaker 03

  It's a great hint.

• 18:55Speaker 05

  Okay, a random sentence from the Wikipedia page.

• 18:58Speaker 03

  Never mind, it's between, I don't need it. I don't want your dumb life. It's between 2007 and 2016.

• 19:02Speaker 04

  I've I've destroyed all of this and given Eli the way I'm sorry.

• 19:05Speaker 05

  That's so rude. I vibe coded a random Wikipedia sentence maker just for this lifeline.

• 19:11Speaker 03

  No, thank you.

• 19:12Speaker 05

  All right. Where are you putting it on the timeline?

• 19:14Speaker 03

  Between Kindle and spectacles.

• 19:15Speaker 05

  All right, between Kindle and spectacles. So it's between 2007 and 2016 is your guess. It is 2012. And just so you know, the random sentence would have been oddly because Lenovo is kind of known for making ugly but incredibly usable keyboards.

• 19:28Speaker 03

  That wouldn't have helped me at all.

• 19:31Speaker 05

  I wonder if that's from a comment on the page. I don't know how this thing works. All right, David, you're up, and your item is the DJI Phantom.

• 19:40Speaker 06

  I was really hoping this was gonna be Sean, because I there's straight up a decade in here, I believe.

• 19:45Speaker 05

  We've got Flickr, Kindle, Yoga, Ideapad 13, and Snap Spectacles on the timeline.

• 19:51Speaker 06

  Sean, I'm sure knows the answer to this. Because Sean has a catalog of now illegal drones just in his head at all times. I flew a drone one time, and I crashed it, and I'm still nervous to fly a drone again. And so here we are. I'm gonna say after 2016. So I'm gonna put it at the end of the thing here.

• 20:13Speaker 05

  It is 2013.

• 20:16Speaker 06

  I was afraid of that.

• 20:17Speaker 05

  Wrong answer. All right.

• 20:21Speaker 06

  Sean, would you have gotten that right? Be honest.

• 20:23Speaker 04

  I would have gotten it right, but only because I would have guessed that it was after the Yoga 13. I could not remember if there was a DJI Phantom in 2011.

• 20:34Speaker 06

  It was either it was either put it between the Yoga and the Spectacles or after the Spectacles. And like, it just was one of those when in doubt 10 years ago was a long time ago, and I just went for it. And I was wrong.

• 20:45Speaker 03

  Can I tell you how I remember? It's very bad. Again, this is just.

• 20:49Speaker 06

  What phone did you use?

• 20:51Speaker 03

  We sat in Paul Miller's apartment, making an index of all of the kinds of things we are going to cover. We came to almost murderous blows about it, and drones weren't on the list.

• 21:04Speaker 06

  Incredible.

• 21:06Speaker 05

  What were the snacks like in that apartment?

• 21:10Speaker 03

  Paul lived above Byte Cafe. The snacks were amazing.

• 21:13Speaker 05

  All right.

• 21:14Speaker 06

  Pretty good.

• 21:15Speaker 05

  Okay, who's turn? It's Sean.

• 21:17Speaker 06

  Sean.

• 21:17Speaker 05

  We've got the Nexus One for you.

• 21:19Speaker 04

  We are also missing a DJI on the board.

• 21:22Speaker 06

  It's gone. It is evaporated into history.

• 21:25Speaker 04

  Not allowed in the United States.

• 21:27Speaker 05

  It's been removed from history.

• 21:29Speaker 03

  Exactly.

• 21:34Speaker 05

  Flickr, Kindle, Lenovo, Ideapad, Yoga 13, and Snap Spectacles are on the timeline. We need to place Nexus One.

• 21:41Speaker 04

  Uh, the Nexus One is gonna go between the Kindle and the Yoga 13.

• 21:49Speaker 05

  How confident are you?

• 21:50Speaker 04

  Hundred percent.

• 21:51Speaker 05

  Okay, great. You're correct. 2010.

• 21:54Speaker 03

  It's an Engadget phone. It's not a it's not a Verge phone.

• 21:57Speaker 06

  But like a late Engadget phone.

• 21:59Speaker 03

  Yeah, I mean, obviously, yeah.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  I remember chasing down Eric Schmidt in a hallway to go see and be the first person to touch the Nexus S, which came out after that in 2011. So I figured this is just the one year before.

• 22:13Speaker 03

  Yeah, see, this is literally just being like, and then we were children. We were sitting on the dock of the bay. All right, uh, Sonos One.

• 22:20Speaker 05

  We've got Flickr, Kindle, Nexus One. We got two ones on here. Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 13 and Snap Spectacles.

• 22:28Speaker 04

  Looking for the Sonos One.

• 22:31Speaker 03

  Um, I'm just gonna work this out. The Sonos One, we have them in our house. They have voice assistants in them, which means they're post Alexa. Alexa is 2013. That didn't come out that fast. So I'm gonna go after 2016 at the end of the list.

• 22:44Speaker 05

  After 2016. 2017.

• 22:48Speaker 06

  Wow, I would have gotten that one wrong, too.

• 22:50Speaker 04

  Same.

• 22:51Speaker 06

  I pegged that at like 2014, 2015.

• 22:54Speaker 05

  David, it is your turn. You've got the Apple Watch.

• 22:57Speaker 06

  Uh, between the Ideapad and the Spectacles.

• 23:00Speaker 05

  Between 2012 and 2016?

• 23:02Speaker 06

  This one I actually feel good about for the first time in like four of these.

• 23:05Speaker 05

  You're correct.

• 23:06Speaker 06

  I wrote a giant feature about the Apple Watch in 2015.

• 23:10Speaker 03

  I remember.

• 23:10Speaker 06

  For Wired Magazine.

• 23:11Speaker 03

  And they never forgave you for it.

• 23:13Speaker 06

  It literally never forgave me for it. Because I wrote down the things that their executives said out loud to me and printed it in a magazine. I got very upset.

• 23:25Speaker 06

  Yeah, 2015. It's a good year.

• 23:27Speaker 05

  Sean, you've got a tough one to end this round. Beta Max.

• 23:31Speaker 03

  No, no, true. Describe a picture of Beta Max.

• 23:36Speaker 05

  Sean, would you like to burn a lifeline and have me describe a picture?

• 23:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, let's just.

• 23:41Speaker 04

  This is this is worth this is worth hearing.

• 23:43Speaker 05

  We're gonna Google Beta Max.

• 23:46Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 23:47Speaker 06

  It's a black rectangle.

• 23:48Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 23:51Speaker 05

  Imagine, if you will, a black rectangle.

• 23:56Speaker 05

  About the size of a VHS, but different.

• 24:02Speaker 05

  And you could see one wheel.

• 24:06Speaker 04

  I think maybe I should put this at the very beginning.

• 24:10Speaker 05

  All right, we'll find out.

• 24:12Speaker 06

  Wrong. It's 2009.

• 24:13Speaker 05

  You're correct.

• 24:14Speaker 03

  Very good.

• 24:16Speaker 05

  Okay, that's all the time we have for the game. Let's find out our final scores. Neelai and Sean are tied at five points each, and David, four points.

• 24:26Speaker 06

  Dead last for David.

• 24:28Speaker 04

  One wrong answer. That's all it took.

• 24:30Speaker 06

  Yeah. I did it for America. We we banned DJI, and so did I. You know what I mean?

• 24:36Speaker 03

  I do like that this was like a very unintentional trip down memory lane in like deeply emotional ways.

• 24:42Speaker 06

  All right, let us know how you did. Vergecast, theverge.com is the email. 866 VERGE11 is the hotline. Give us suggestions. We're gonna play this game again. Travis went through all this work to make this game. We're gonna play it more. We're gonna name it something that is extremely copyright and IP friendly. It's gonna be fabulous.

• 24:56Speaker 05

  You don't think When Did That Happen is a good name?

• 24:59Speaker 06

  No, I don't. But we're gonna name it. It's gonna be awesome.

• 25:01Speaker 03

  How does the Ideapad make you feel? The game?

• 25:06Speaker 06

  Let's break Neelai's feelings. The game by The Verge. All right, Neelai, Travis, Sean, thank you all. This is a delight. We'll see you next time.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  Later.

• 25:15Speaker 06

  All right, that's it for the show. Thank you to Sean and Neelai for being here. Thank you to Travis for putting that game together. And thank you, as always, for watching and listening. I want to hear how you did. Did you get the Phantom right? I am deeply, deeply upset that I got the Phantom wrong. And I'm the only one, in fact, who got something wrong. We're gonna make the game harder next time, and I'm gonna get my vengeance, which I deserve. I'm getting satisfied. Anyway, I want to hear all of your game ideas. I want to hear how you did. I want to know what you think we should do for the next round of whatever this game is gonna be called. I also want to know what you think we should call this game. Vergecast, at theverge.com is the email. 866 VERGE11 is the hotline. We love hearing from you about all those things and everything else. And as a reminder, the best thing you can do to support all of this, to make sure that Travis has all

• 25:58Speaker 06

  the tokens he needs, is to subscribe to The Verge. Theverge.com/subscribe gets you all of our podcasts ad free, including this one. It gets you all of our exclusive newsletters. It gets you all of our coverage of all of those gadgets, most of those gadgets at least, and everything else. Verge.com/subscribe. Thank you in advance. The Vergecast is a Verge production and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. The show is produced by Josh Kahas, Eric Gomez, Brandon Kiefer, and Travis Larchak. We will see you tomorrow. Rock and roll.

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