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A very silly self-guided tour through the history of videogames, from Advance Wars to Zork. Except chronologically. So it would be the other way around.
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Now displaying: December, 2016
Dec 16, 2016

Nate makes a terrible financial decision, Sebastian loses it at a commercial for breakfast cereal, and Jordan reveals which terrible videogame console he owned as a child. All in the pursuit of a malevolent ape named DONKEY KONG. This episode is rated T for Teen, because Jordan says a swear. 

Relevant clips from the 1983 Donkey Kong Saturday morning cartoon show:

https://youtu.be/B2ks97n8x8M

https://youtu.be/PPodjspYk08

The Donkey Kong cereal commercial:

https://youtu.be/dEdDWb7RYcQ

 

Dec 5, 2016

Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan discuss the origin of interactive fiction, the efficacy of weasels as a rat-control solution, and whether Dolly Parton is a time traveler from the future. Along the way, they consider Infocom's seminal classic text adventure: ZORK. Join us as we dive into the Great Underground Empire, and stick around to see if anyone gets eaten by a grue. 

Guest starring Kari as the voice of Zork.

 

LINKS:

You can play Zork online at the Internet Archive (Apple IIe version):

https://archive.org/details/a2_Zork_I_The_Great_Underground_Empire_1980_Infocom (Beware, to my knowledge you can’t save.)

You can also get the Lost Treasures of Infocom on the App Store here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lost-treasures-of-infocom/id577626745?mt=8 The original Zork is a freebie.

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure, courtesy BBC4:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition

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