Join Chris and Katie as these thirtysomething siblings journey through their childhood archive of cartridges, discs, and emulators to relive the cherished and challenging times of their video gaming youth and find out once and for all if the classics of the 80s and 90s game consoles hold up to a modern playthrough. From NES to PS2, Genesis to GameBoy, and even a PC game here and there, they’re reminiscing, replaying, and reviewing some of the all-time retro classics, and maybe a few all-time clunkers too.
"But morning is when you're SUPPOSED to farm!"
This is just ONE of the many nuggets of wisdom one can learn from this episode, along with the pros and cons of virtual gamified polygamy, giving weeds to people who are willing to buy them, and much, much more! That's the kind of high-octane, action-packed, information-fueled podcast we deliver over here!
This time around, Hosts Chris and Katie are journeying back to the farm, going Back to Nature (see what I did there?), and ... Harvesting a Moon, or something? Either way, this dating-sim-masked-as-farming-game came out, it consumed hundreds of hours of at least ONE host's life, and you'll have to listen to find out who!
From spreadsheets to sprites, romancing to roma tomatoes, this one's got it all... and to get even a slice of that "all", you've gotta click that play button and dive on in!
24 Apr 2024
Episode 53 - The Oregon Trail
Let's all hop along, hop along onto the wagon... why? Because we've got a trail to ride my friends, a trail to O-re-gon! And what'll we do on our way way over there? Why, we'll...
Get dysentery!
Get robbed!
Break limbs!
Get stranded!
Go hungry!
Die of thirst!
Get bitten by snakes!
...and fail to ford a few rivers!
Because that's the way it goes, down yonder O-re-gon way!
Guess what this episode's all about? If you were in elementary or middle school around when we were, you'll be having flashbacks about now to the greatest text-based edutainment game located in every school in the country right about now!
If not... hop on in and get your learn on! TO OREGON!
27 Mar 2024
Episode 52 - Super Mario World
It's a-me... YOSHI! After 51 warm-up episodes, the hosts of the show have finally gotten enough podcasting under their belt, and are ready to tackle the most important game in history, SUPER MARIO WORLD!
Why is it the most important game ever? Well obviously, because it was the debut of ME, Yoshi! Not some stupid horse, not a sidekick, but the hero of the series. Letting that bumbling Mario get where he needs to, protecting him, eating everyone he can't beat by himself... let's be real, he'd never have found all those level exits without me!
Now, what did these two intrepid hosts think of my game, going back to play it? Did they like the new and expansive world? Did they love my auto-scrolling levels? Were they enthralled by the colored Switch Palaces? How did they enjoy re-visiting all of Bowser's minions?
There's really only one way to find out... twirl-jumping yourself over to hitting the Play button and checking it all out, of course! And don't you DARE think about sacrificing me to my doom just so you can make a particularly long jump! I REMEMBER....
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