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Now displaying: February, 2017
Feb 20, 2017

Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan gather to discuss Marble Madness, gaming's most spherical pastime. Come for our discussion of the game's awesome music, stay for the beginning of Sebastian and Ryan's life-long blood feud over whether or not Star Wars is trash. All hate mail can be delivered directly to the @GoBackandPlay twitter account, addressed to Sebastian.

Show notes:

You can play the original arcade version of Marble Madness for free at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/arcade_marble

Here's a link to Mark Cerny's GDC post-mortem of the game on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klPs3KrXiJE

Here's a link to a video by Gaming History Source showcasing tons of different ports of MM to various systems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvzrn2sxEOY  

Feb 6, 2017

Nate, Sebastian, and Jordan gather to discuss Dragon's Lair, the arcade game that ran on Laserdisc and looked just like a cartoon! Because it was a cartoon. We talk about Don Bluth films, "Quick Time Events," and problematic damsels. 

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