Nate, Sebastian, and Jordan gather to discuss METAL GEAR, a game about being sneaky and talking on the radio. We discuss donuts, the commonalities of codec conversations and Shakespearean soliloquies, and how a game can be anti-war but pro-soldier. Jordan tries not to get too deep into the weeds of Metal Gear lore.
SHOW NOTES:
A picture of the Metal Gear cover next to a promotional still from Terminator:
http://www.cannotunsee.net/post/1051633464/metalgear
A Kotaku UK article about "Worlds of Power":
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/07/21/the-metal-gear-novelisation-is-super-weird
Nate, Sebastian, Ryan and Jordan all gather to discuss Dragon Warrior, one of the earliest breakout JRPGs. Come for discussion of grinding and exploring, stay to hear a long digression about slow TV and to find out who drank an entire boot full of beer this weekend (it was Sebastian).
Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan gather to discuss The Legend of Zelda, the biggest open-world game they've encountered so far and the origin of yet another of gaming's longest-running series. Come for the discussion of the dichotomy between textual and meta-textual information, stay for Ryan's daddy issues and to find out what kind of bed sheets Sebastian had as a child.
SHOW NOTES:
Original NES manual:
http://legendsoflocalization.com/media/the-legend-of-zelda/manuals/ZeldaNESManual.pdf
The opening to the Zelda cartoon that ran as part of the SMB Super Show:
https://youtu.be/OE4VkfYaP1w?t=1m
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