Gaming History 101

This week Fred and Trees open with a discussion about The Quiet Man before moving on to online retro gaming hunts and the joys of recapturing your childhood.

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Fred and Trees are joined by guest Chase from the Scarcasm podcast to talk about the spookiest, best day of the year.  What starts off as a round robin of horror games ends up in a lengthy discussion about the just released Call of Cthulhu game.  Eventually Trees gets to chime in and down the rabbit hole everyone plunges as the discussion of high demand retro games is had.

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This week Fred and Trees are talking a lot of racing games, including Forza Horizon 4.  Sprinkled in are other recent releases such as Dragon Quest XI and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

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This week there’s plenty of discussion about Fall, which leads to Halloween, which always leads to horror movies when Fred’s involved.  Once jumping to video games things shift to the Extra Life 2018 fundraiser, then Trees’ casino nights and video games, and finally a discussion on the Playstation Classic.

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After some initial tech issues, our heroes speak of upcoming adventures raiding tombs and partying in casinos before eventually getting to video games.  Austin sparks a conversation on the myriad of titles on Xbox game pass, Fred vents about media personalities that have no idea what they’re talking about, Trees gives what he’s been playing, and it all closes on some Spyro 4 fan creation demos.

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Fred and Trees are back!  There’s a lot to catch up on, but they do manage to remain mostly on games including God of War (2018), No Man’s Sky, Devil May Cry (2001), Trees gets a Switch, Dead Cells, and the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection.  All that along with discussions of the Analogue Super NT, gamers as game designers, and some recent news.

Also Fred is doing Extra Life this year!  He’ll be set up with prizes and dates soon, but if you’re game feel free to donate early here: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/316569  Donating early does not disqualify you from any prizes.

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Coming in last, but not least, is Nintendo’s direct.  Jam, Andy, and Fred discuss this positive, game-heavy presentation that focused largely on Smash Bros.

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It’s down to three: Andy (42 Level One), Chase (Scarcasm), and Fred (Gaming History 101/B-Team). The three manage to talk at lengths about Ubisoft’s many announcements and the positive impressions that came from it.

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