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Video Game Purists Episode 3: Snack Time!
This week Fred finally gives up on Magic the Gathering: Arena while Trees scams grocery stores and gets back into Call of Duty.
Opening Song: Facehammer by Ozzed
Used with permission via creative commons, you can find this and many other excellent tracks at ozzed.net.
Closing Song: Main Theme – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
Video Game Purists Episode 2: No, It Isn’t Monster Hunter
This week Fred and Trees are talking about the next generation of consoles, Dauntless, and Best Buy’s subtle decline.
Opening Song: Facehammer by Ozzed
Used with permission via creative commons, you can find this and many other excellent tracks at ozzed.net.
Closing Song: Main Title Theme – Golden Axe (Arcade)
Video Game Purists Episode 1: Kickin It Old School
Fred and Trees return to discuss, um, the fact that this podcast feed keeps changing all the time. Well this time it’s as permanent as a podcast gets. Weekly shows, Fred and Trees, talking about video games new and old. We may have other shows, we may have more GH101, and we may soon see the return of Jam but nothing is set in stone yet. For now the two just get back into the old discussions with why Fred abandoned his lecture series, what Trees has been up to, and a few questions from the community.
Intro Song: Facehammer by Ozzed (ozzed.net)
Opening Song: Rock in a Hard Place – Halo Anniversary
Closing Song: Trilla Death – Jedi Fallen Order
Lecture 0: Introduction
Welcome to the second iteration of Gaming History 101. Always intended to be a lecture series, this new version of the podcast will be a more comprehensive look at specific topics in gaming’s history, ideally covering those less documented arenas. Fred Rojas is your solo host and in this introductory “episode zero” he lays out his background as well as the format for the new show.
Opening Song: Opening – Mega Man 2 (NES)
Closing Song: Beginning – Akumajo Densetsu/Castlevania III (Famicom)
Podcast: Tis the Season (2019 Edition)
Fred and Jam have joined forces again to bring you a collection of Christmas memories that lead into many conversations about gaming’s past.
Songs (in order of appearance)
Welcome to Christmas NiGHTS – Christmas NiGHTS (Saturn)
Ice Tower – Legend of Xanadu (PC-Engine CD)
People of the North Pole – Final Fantasy X (Playstation 2)
Snow Mountain – Super Mario 64 (Nintendo 64)
Beyond the White Storm – Gradius Gaiden (Playstation)
The Wizard: 30th Anniversary Retrospective
The Wizard released on December 15, 1989 and was unsuccessful with both critics and the general public. Still, it rallied up a hype machine for a company almost synonymous with video games at the time: Nintendo. Armed with child star Fred Savage from the extremely popular show The Wonder Years, this video game take on Tommy has become a cult favorite for those that were children of the late 80s. Fred dives into the relevant content and culture surrounding the film that gets close to home if you were born within a very specific time period.
Opening Song: You Don’t Get Much by the Bo Deans
Send Me An Angel by Real Life
I Live by the Groove by Paul Kerrick
Closing Song: Portions for Foxes by Rilo Kiley
Podcast: Retro Turkey Day
This week GH101 is celebrating Thanksgiving with guest Klaitu and a discussion on retro gaming today. They discuss the different options from actual hardware to both software and hardware emulation. It also delves into the cost involved in each option.
Opening Song: Forest Interlude – Donkey Kong Country 2 (SNES)
Transition Song: Witchwood – Fable (Xbox)
Closing Song: The Four Orbs – Klonoa: Door to Phantomile (PS1)
Podcast: The History of Pokemon (Plus Sword and Shield)
This week Fred was out of commission but the community (and a new podcast) teamed up to make some great content. It starts off with the History of Pokemon as told by Chase from the Learned from Gaming podcast and it then flows to a much larger discussion on the legacy of Pokemon as it relates to the just releasing Pokemon Sword and Shield. This discussion includes Chase as well but also involves community members Vos and Los. In fact, this episode is a crossover with Los’ recently released The Talking Place podcast.
And Now It’s Time For Some News
This week is one of transition, but that doesn’t stop new content. At the start are several announcements to the future of the show followed by a cut news segment recorded by Fred and Austin for the Halloween Special. If you haven’t been keeping up with retro news, there’s a lot of good stuff here.
Opening Song: Main Menu Theme – Medievil (PS1)
Transition Song: City in the Storm – Panzer Dragoon Orta (Xbox)
Ending Song: End Theme – Cosmic Fantasy 2 (Turbografx CD)
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