Posts Tagged ‘mtg’
VGP Ep 154: Audience Participation
This week Fred and Trees re-establish the importance of keeping up with listener mail.
- 26:30 – Fred’s Week
- 1:04:45 – Trees’ Week
- 1:33:30 – The Troma Project
- 1:42:00 – Arkham Asylum
- 1:47:15 – Far Cry 5
- 1:56:00 – MtG Arena
- 2:11:40 – Call of Duty 2
- 2:19:00 – Deathloop
- 2:28:15 – Animal Crossing
- 2:32:30 – Meet Your Maker
- 2:41:30 – Snow Runner
VGP Ep 124: Wii-Ass Game
This week is a hodgepodge of personal life stuff before diving into games!
- 13:00 – Trees’ Week
- 35:00 – Fred’s Week
- 1:06:15 – Ghost of Tsushima
- 1:23:45 – Fortnite
- 2:01:15 – MtG: Arena (Dominaria United)
- 2:28:00 – AC Origins
- 2:38:30 – The Quarry
- 2:44:00 – Pumpkin Jack
VGP Ep 123: Buttered Slotdogs
This week Trees invents the perfect hot dog while Fred talks TV.
- 01:30 – Trees’ Week
- 50:00 – Fred’s Week
- 1:15:00 – Video Game Companies
- 1:44:45 – LEGO Star Wars: Skywalker Saga
- 1:47:15 – Cult of the Lamb
- 1:55:10 – Fortnite
- 2:14:45 – MTG Arena
- 2:17:20 – Xenia
- 2:23:36 – Blades of Time
- 2:31:15 – AC: Origins
- 2:38:45 – Metro: Last Light
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)
My Weekend With MicroProse’s 1997 Magic The Gathering Game
I was an avid Magic: The Gathering fan since the day it released. While I jumped in at the tail end of Unlimited, the first run of the game, my friends and I really jumped in at the Revised edition that combined a majority of the core Unlimited set and integrated the then two expansions Arabian Nights and Antiquities. If you are a Magic: The Gathering first release player, the most intriguing, powerful, and expensive cards exist in the pre-Revised era. This is why when Microprose released Magic: The Gathering game in April of 1997, which was based purely on the Unlimited set, my friends and I were ecstatic. Couple that with the reduced price update, Spells of the Ancients, that added Arabian Nights and Antiquities in September 1997, we all had nostalgia for a game that was only about 4 years old. I think the biggest factor is the what Magic: The Gathering is – a card-based game that lives and dies by the introduction of new sets and consistently selling cards to players – and the fact that these early power cards were super expensive and we all wanted a way to play with them, that I instantly migrated over. Furthermore, it was the first true Magic: The Gathering video game (all other attempts were other types of games with M:TG skins) that gave you everything you wanted: deck construction, online play, tournaments, and even a pseudo-RPG called Shandalar. It’s now available to play on modern systems, and free (provided you are willing to skate legalities), and I had a chance to jump back into one of my favorite high school PC games. For those not familiar with Magic: The Gathering, the next portion of this article is a brief history and explanation of the game (not how to play), but if you’re familiar, feel free to skip to the game section that follows.
Gaming History 101 