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Season 4 |
| 61 :04x01 - Gran Turismo (Feb/03/2005) | | Named after the legendary European endurance races, Gran Turismo, has dominated the racing game genre. With real-world type racing, it has become one of the big names in the racing genre. Icons looks at the creation and future of the game that changed racing games forever. | | Guest Stars: Geoff Keighley as Himself | |
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| 62 :04x02 - Splinter Cell (Mar/03/2005) | | Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell has quickly become one of the most-adored and applauded stealth action franchises on the market today. Icons looks back at the previous two releases of the series and looks at the creation of the next adventure of Sam Fisher, Chaos Theory. | |
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| 64 :04x04 - Tim Schafer (Apr/28/2005) | | Icons spends a week, a frantic week, with video game designer Tim Schafer. Unfortunately, this week is the final week before the deadline of his new game Psychonauts is to be finalized. Icons looks at Schafer's past achievements, his three year hiatus, and the behind the scenes footage of finalizing a game before dead line. | |
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| 65 :04x05 - Star Wars (May/12/2005) | | It's a franchise that has become ingrained in the minds of people throughout the world and is considered the one of the best series of Science Fiction movies ever. Yet despite the popularity of the films, they have had a hard time translating into the world of video games. Icons looks at the history of the Star Wars video game franchise to see it's few successes and many failures. | |
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| 66 :04x06 - Ralph Baer (Jun/09/2005) | | He's been considered the father of video games, although he hasn't always been given the credit he deserves. Icons follows Ralph Baer through his childhood fleeing from Nazi Germany to his work on creating the tools that would go on to become a multi-million dollar industry. | |
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| 67 :04x07 - PlayStation (Sep/08/2005) | | The world of video games is more harsh than gamers know. Fueled by a betryal from former partner Nintendo, Sony went on their own to create a video game system that would challenge the big two video game companies of the time. Icons looks at the controverisal history and successful rise of the Playstation. | |
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| 68 :04x08 - George A. Romero (Oct/31/2005) | | He's considered the father of the modern horror film genre. With his creation of Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero firmly placed his name in horror history as the one who pushed the limits a little too far for some. Now after a long hiatus, he returns to the world that made him famous in Land of the Dead. Today, Icons looks at the history of George A. Romero and his creation of the zombie genre. | | Guest Stars: Simon Pegg as Himself, Chris Gore as Himself, Quentin Tarantino as Himself, George A. Romero as Himself | |
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| 69 :04x09 - NES (Dec/01/2005) | | It's the "other" game system that brought happiness to millions of children, and it was the one that made plumbers popular. Icons looks at the video game console that brought interest back to home gaming: The Nintendo Entertainment System. | |
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| 70 :04x10 - Xbox 360 (Dec/04/2005) | | It's the next generation of gaming, and Microsoft is getting a huge head start. With the release of the new console, Icons takes a look back at Microsoft's first venture into the video game console market and at the making of the Xbox 360. | |
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| Ultimate Spider-Man (Sep/22/2005) | | In comics, it is not uncommon for the system to "reset" itself having all that you know about a character to change into something different. Marvel has done it once again with it's "alternative universe" Ultimate titles. And the first comic to get it's own game is your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. Game Makers leads you through the creation and development of Marvel's first Ultimate-related game. | |
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Season 5 |
| 81 :05x01 - J.J. Abrams (Jun/03/2006) | | With this summer's smash Mission: Impossible III, J.J. Abrams has emerged as one of Hollywood's A-list directors. Icons traces Abrams's accomplished career from child prodigy through his trio of television hits, Felicity, Alias and Lost, and this summer's impending blockbuster, M.I. III. Features interviews with the stars and co-workers who've joined Abrams on his impossible mission. | | Guest Stars: Greg Grunberg as Himself, Philip Seymour Hoffman (1) as Himself, Jennifer Garner as Herself, Ving Rhames as Himself, J. J. Abrams as Himself | |
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| 82 :05x02 - Suicide Girls (Jun/10/2006) | | They are the "other" girls next door. Pierced, inked and completely uninhibited, the Suicide Girls began their run on the internete in 2001. Their modern take on the classic pin-up became an instant sensation. Icons looks to the site's past with founder Missy Suicide giving us a behind the scenes for a look at these modern bare-naked ladies. | | Guest Stars: Missy Suicide as Herself | |
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| 83 :05x03 - Marc Ecko (Jun/17/2006) | | Urban street graffiti obsessed him as a child. Because of this interest, Marc Ecko became the C.E.O. of the clothing empire Ecko Unlimited and more recently the creator of the graffiti based video game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. He has also taken on the politics in New York City and was behind a promotional hoax that caught the attention of the White House. Icons takes a look at the life of Marc Ecko. | | Guest Stars: Mark Ecko as Himself | |
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| 84 :05x04 - Michelle Rodriguez (Jun/24/2006) | | She's the bad girl next door, but many can help but still admire her. With a much-publicized DUI while filming on the popular televsion show Lost, Michelle Rodriquez's publicity has grown, and some say it only serves to perfectly suit her "tough-chick" image. | | Guest Stars: Stan Lee as Himself, Kate Bosworth as Herself, Michelle Rodriguez as Herself | |
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| 85 :05x05 - Suicide Girls: Uncut (Jul/01/2006) | | You just can't get enough of a good thing. Icons returns to the world of The Suicide Girls with a sneak preview of the new Suicide Girls DVD release The Italian Villa. This new "Uncut" episode also features more exclusive coverage from the soon-to-be released horror remake The Wizard of Gore, featuring a few of your favorite SGs. It's time to revisit the world of some of the interenet's favorite bare-naked-ladies | | Guest Stars: Missy Suicide as Herself | |
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| 86 :05x06 - Kevin Smith (Jul/15/2006) | | He brought us Clerks, and that pretty much says it all. Kevin Smith has created a cult following due to his "real world" films and his positive connections with fans. Smith shares with Icons his life, his friends and gives us a tour of the Cannes film festival, where his long awaited sequel, Clerks 2, is showing. Snoogins! | | Guest Stars: Rosario Dawson as Herself, Bryan Johnson (4) as Himself, Jeff Anderson (1) as Himself, Kevin Smith (1) as Himself, Jason Lee (1) as Himself, Jason Mewes as Himself, Brian O'Halloran as Himself, Harvey Weinstein as Himself, Stan Lee as Himself, Scott Mosier as Himself, Jennifer Schwalbach Smith as Herself | |
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| 88 :05x08 - Shepard Fairey (Aug/12/2006) | | Keep your eyes and mind open, and question everything" is the motto that artist, activist and pop culture pioneer Shepard Fairey lives by. While he was a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, 19 year old Fairey began plastering images of wrestler Andre the Giant on any surface he could find. Almost 20 years later that image has become known around the world and is the foundation of the phenomenon called Obey Giant. G4 TV takes a look at the life of a true original on Icons: Shepard Fairey. | | Guest Stars: Henry Rollins as Himself | |
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| 90 :05x10 - Lollapalooza (Aug/26/2006) | | In the great tradition of Woodstock, Lollapalooza burst on the concert scene in the summer of 1991 with headliners Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction. Conceived by Perry Farrell the festival mirrored the rise and fall of the punk and grunge scene. After some stops and starts, Lollapalooza is back with the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Kanye West headlining at Chicago's Grant Park and G4 is front Row Center for Icons: Lollapalooza. | | Guest Stars: Henry Rollins as Himself, Ice-T as Himself, Perry Farrell as Himself | |
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| 91 :05x11 - The Onion (Sep/02/2006) | | While more pedestrian newspapers belabor obvious stories like the war in Iraq and government corruption, there's one news organization that tells the tales no one else dares tell: The Onion. Where else could a reader find headlines such as "NASA Chief Under Fire for Personal Shuttle Use" and "CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighter All These Years"? Now ICONS, goes behind the scenes to reveal the relatively untarnished history and the daily angst of America's Finest News Source. | |
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| 92 :05x12 - British Music (Sep/24/2006) | | G4 rocks across the Pond to explore the music scene in London, Manchester and Sheffield, England. Since the explosion in the '60's the UK has dominated the world of rock 'n roll. We follow two new bands, Nine Black Alps and Oceansize who could be the Oasis or Coldplay of tomorrow. | |
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