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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: October, 2017
Oct 30, 2017

Nate and Ryan sit down this episode in bat and mist form, respectively, to discuss 1990's CASTLEVANIA III: DRACULA'S CURSE, the most fun you can have with a whip without bringing Devo into the picture. Hear discussion of Universal movie monsters, find out which host loves the Netflix Castlevania and which hates it, and discover the secret love that binds two men together (it's manticores). 

SHOW NOTES:

Castlevania III on the Nintendo eShop:

https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/o1RG7sVLN_8mkQ2I31JCx7ZDVPofx1KG

I couldn't find the picture of the manticore that we referenced, sorry.

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Oct 16, 2017

Nate, Sebastian, David, and Jordan gather to discuss LEMMINGS, the 1991 puzzle/herding game from DMA Designs. Hear Nate's frustration at trying to play the game with a controller rather than a mouse, David's defense of actual lemmings (the animals), and Sebastian's theory that the Lemmings are Fraggles who have joined a cult. Also, we ponder what "Lemmings: Tactics" might look like.

 

SHOW NOTES:

Here’s a history of Lemmings in Mike Dailly’s own words: https://web.archive.org/web/20150627001229/http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/Lem_1.htm

Apple’s 1985 “Lemmings” Ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_9lT7gr8u4

Oct 2, 2017

Jordan returns to join Nate and Sebastian in discussing SUPER MARIO WORLD, the flagship title of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and one of the best side-scrolling platformers ever made. Come for the discussion of SMW's elegant level design, stay for infighting about the console wars and banter about swears. Jordan tells us about nightmarish ROM hacks, Nate tells a story about mushrooms in bubbles, and we make Sebastian watch the Super Mario World cartoon show. 

SHOW NOTES:

An attempted Kaizo Mario run at AGDQ:

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

Another Mario ROM hack, “Super Panga World”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt-unq5i_oU

All 13 episodes of the Super Mario World cartoon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCgS64Le_PA&list=PL7F9A88911148633F

“The Mama Luigi Project”:

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

 

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