Ian is dead right. I experienced that feeling with Super Mario brothers. The warp zones changed the IDEA of the game from this thing that was linear and unchanging in your approach to this active out of the box secret. And it really wasn’t even so much that Mario Bros had this thing, it awoke the idea that there’s secrets in games every where! It felt like the blinder had been lifted to give us the opportunity to find more of this. Like what else am I missing??? Then Zelda hit our house and it was on.
Walking through the wall in Zelda goes unappreciated for that same reason. Miyamoto was about showing how you could set up rules and then immediately subvert those rules. This is why I video games, back in the day, we are so much more mysterious and involving.
I heard about Barry's win back in the day but never saw the RAW episode from which that happened. I can't remember if it was 1993, 1994, or 1995. I only saw Barry Horowitz in wcw a few years later but have no idea what happened to him after that.
I think one of the biggest mind blows for me was the Naboo Starfighter in Rogue Squadron on the N64. One of the few cheats that weren't discovered until a few months before Episode 1 came out.
The next #CUPodcast voice messages will ALL be Tommy Tallarico impersonators, including Voxandra trading in her Jersey accent for the best possible Tommy a female could possibly do
For the Professor wondering what to call his section on video games, he should call it "Writing in Electronic Media" or "Fiction in Electronic Media" or something similar. :) I think it is so awesome when teachers integrate modern media storytelling into their curriculum.
I’m gonna have to support that veto on imitation Tommies. There can be only one. This isn’t some kinda Tommy-verse situation where Tommy’s from the multiverse team up to defeat the sinister six.
10:15 Ha! Mike Knox would be proud :D How Pat rattles off his boy stable an reasoning is incredible. 10/10 would bury them with a golden shovel! Ian you can have Kanyon and La Parka -- esp. if u brought signs! Can of coke to Will, Pat & Ian!
Biggest discovery made was in Eternal Champions on Sega CD. I was able to do a cinematic finish against a friend without knowing they existed. They are incredibly hard to do, even if you know how to do them.
That is what I heard about eternal Champions for Sega CD. I remember reading about the overkills? And how you had to be in a very specific spot and do a button combo. I guess the overkills we're meant to make mortal Kombat look like Barney the dinosaur and friends.
Something I discovered on my own was the SNES version of Judge Dredd. I have to assume it's the same in Genesis. Regular enemies will surrender and you can arrest them. The key is knowing which weapon to use on who. I managed to pull off a full run arresting every enemy that can be arrested, including the Judge Hunters.
It's funny people only seem to complain when Microsoft gets a new exclusive title and cheer when Sony does. I agree about larger companies buying up smaller companies though
@@JTSuter It’s interesting. A few months ago, I discovered the RetroBird UA-cam channel, and asked him if he was the one doing the Tommy voice on Pat’s channel. He kindly denied this proposition. But who knows? Maybe he likes to work in the shadows.
Entering the "octopus pot" in Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I had no idea that was there and just accidentally dropped down as I was passing by and I nearly had a heart attack. I thought I had broken the game somehow.
“Oooow, that seems like a risk?!” - Pat Man, that made me laugh really hard. I’d rather eat that than those MASSIVE pickle pouches they sometimes have.
I LOVED hearing you guys talk about your Boy Stables. I'm a big fan of OSW too and I always like to see when creators I like overlap. Btw Kanyon totally counts.
I still remember that, on one of my numerous rentals of Metroid before I got my own copy, I somehow managed to get underneath the platform in one of the item rooms and it counted as being in lava, so my energy drained away without being able to escape. I realize now that it was just a glitch, but I was sure at the time that it was an intentional secret and spent a ton of time basically trying to get out of bounds again.
Not really a slip up but, I've bought a counterfeit Bomberman second attack for $5 just so the guy wouldn't attempt to sell it somewhere, or to someone else. I didn't want to risk that shit being in circulation. I use it for store training now.
Just want to note that there is a Human Centipede game out there. It’s basically a sprite swap of regular Centipede, but it’s just as disturbing as it sounds.
I had an idea about doing an 'educational course' in gaming about a decade ago, from about every angle... The technology, the real life influence, etc., it's kinda been a pipe dream until gaming really became a mainstream thing _again_ I've either been way too busy or way too depressed to contribute anything to it, and I appreciate the efforts from those who can, and your coverage of it, via your fans. Hope You and yours (obv. including Ian and Frank, God bless 'em) had a safe and enjoyable Christmas (and a Happy New Year as well). edit: Is that _really_ TT at the end? Or a terrible impressionist, really?
Billy Jack Haynes was a great pick by Pat. I would go with Iron Mike Sharpe, Spike Dudley, Mikey Whipwreck, Bruiser Bedlam, and Lanny Poffo. Some of those are borderline but, if La Parka couts, so do these.
My Boys Stable is: 1: All Ed Leslie's dumb ass gimmicks(Yes, even Booty Man) 2: Al Snow 3: Gangrel 4: Taka Michinoku 5: Hurricane Helms Bottom Boy: Stevie Richards
For horror movies turned into video games, it's a tough conversation to start with because it already has been produce as its own IP. . Personally, I would love to see Vampire Hunter D done by Platinum Games, House on Haunted Hill would be great mystery exploration games, Last House on the Left would be heavily story-driven. . Bio-Hunter would be another kind of experience, and A Nightmare on Elm Street would be interesting but a fucking challenge to program. . Again, some of the ideas that I pulled are 80% done, but it's fun to dream. . .
Vampire Hunter D by Platinum would be a godsend. I have the PS1 game that's in the style of Resident Evil 1. Not terrible despite its reputation but far from great too. A V.H.D. game that played like Bayonetta would basically be my dream game.
I loved the original Castlevania games on the NES. And I love super Metroid but I've never played SOTN because I had a N64 instead. I have a copy of SOTN for PS1 but just haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
Same. I actually bought a bundle of SoTN & RoB on PS4 this year. Got about 85% through SoTN and got distracted with something else. This podcast reminded me I need to finish that soon. It was pretty great going blind with no nostalgia blinders or anything.
I disagree on the "no AA games anymore" thing. Like my games of the year list -- I kind of see it as "$60/$40/$20 games". But that can easily be AAA, AA, and B budget games (or indie games). You have the AAA $60 games like Ratchet and Clank, Hitman 3, Far Cry, and Halo. But lots of games came in at the $40 mark; (or SHOULD be $40 mark more appropriately); like Kena Bridge of Spirits, Mario Golf, that Aliens game, Pokemon Snap, Returnal, Guardians of Galaxy, Biomutant, 100% Id argue Metroid Dread. Many of them came out at $40 or quickly went to that price point. And most were in my games of the year (Not Mario Golf or Aliens). And a lot of the cheaper B budget indie games are really up there and could be AA games this year like Sakura of Rice and Ruin (was end of last year but I put it in this years games). I mean I bought Poison Control, Scarlet Nexus, Cruisin' Blast and Lost judgement recently. Those arent AAA are they? But they arent indie. i guess it depends on your definition. But I still see lots of those mid-tier games.
resident evil 4 is a game I have played a thousand times if not more so I thought I knew everything about it but I never completely beat mercenaries so when someone else showed me the hand cannon I was blown away pun intended
I personally haven't experienced any major issues at a game store. Just missing discs in re-sealed video games or different game put in clam shell game case.
As an OSW fan too, I have to say my boys stable: X-pac (head boy), Ernest the Cat Miller, Glacier, Perry Saturn, and Ahmed Johnson. Pat, I like your choices. Disco as head boy I have to say is top notch. Avatar was weird b/c he would come out unmasked and then mask up when the match started. Any Al Snow persona is a great choice for a boy btw. I believe the other Killer Bee is Jumping Jim Brunzel. And finally Billy Jack Haynes was a good worker back in the day but my god has he went off the deep end and has become a crazy man. Listen to him talk, you'll be like wtf? Ian, besides La Parka I didnt know who any of those guys were and I was a little disappointed by that. and The Amico will come out in Q1 2022 just like you said, it would just be silly to think otherwise.
How would I do a college course on video games? Probably by era. So everything leading up to the NES, then just separate it by generation. I'd probably also break out arcade games / arcades on their own. Especially if this doesn't happen for another 10 or 15 years because by then... you'll have a lot of people going into college who have never even seen a real arcade or arcade game. It's a special part of the culture I think. I'd say looking at it by time periods is probably the way I'd do it, calling out special games that really transcended their own generations or had heavy influences on their own generations and beyond.
Gonna be an unpopular opinion I know, but for the teacher/professor, while I'm all for incorporating media like video games into academic curriculum where it's appropriate, I think trying to wedge that into English specifically is really kind of a stretch tbh. I mean, I guess you could do it as part of a general unit about narrative/story structure, but eh, I feel like video games in an academic context are still definitely better suited for say a media studies/communications/even art-related sort of course (and like at a university level at minimum, ideally graduate) than via English. Maybe I'm just not being imaginative enough, but honestly I think that a major issue with especially humanities in academia today, people are getting far *too* "creative" about how to formulate the curriculum, and I often disliked when it was obvious some teacher/professor was trying to just stuff something in that they had a personal passion for that wasn't actually pertinent to the field with gymnastics to explain why it was relevant and should be in there. Especially as someone who loves the humanities and resents the way they're increasingly being eschewed and derided in favor of STEM, it irks me when teachers/professors take the fact that they're in a humanities field as carte blanche to just shoehorn in and cover their personal/individual interests etc. and reach/BS as far as the actual relevancy. There's also the risk of something like this being perceived as trying hard to come off as "relatable" or make the field/material seem "hip and relevant" which most of the time students see through too and usually has the opposite effect than intended. Remember, especially at the college level and up, most people studying a certain field (like English) are going to be taking it because they actually have a passion themselves *for that area* ,and so it doesn't need to be watered down, transformed by incorporating things like this or made "cool" with gimmicks which usually backfires. And at the lower levels of education, kids generally don't want things they love and think of as separate from school to be blended in there. IDK...the more I think about it I suppose it sounds like I'm really dismissing the idea (more harshly than I initially intended), and I guess I sort of am. Just don't think that would really work in English curriculum/class at all, and maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned but I feel like it's best if some things stay distinctly separate. Literature is my main passion/interest in life in general, and I like video games obviously, but I can't easily imagine and don't think I would like it at all if the two were fused together in an academic context (and yeah, I know there's literature mainly about video games and vice versa, the vast majority of which I think is crap frankly). Outside of edutainment etc where the academic learning happens *through* video games as a tool directly (which is completely different, nothing I've said in this comment applies to that), the only suitable contexts for studying video games in an academic setting would be if you're teaching a course to students with a major geared towards learning to make them (duh), or "media studies", certain subfields of sociology, etc. type of deal at a graduate school-level. Otherwise, nah. Just my two cents.
No. We need more Tommys, not less. More, I say. The ultimate horror video game? Troll 2 on the Amico, of course! "OCIMA is Amico spelled backwards!!!" Long Beach public TV? That's a shame. Maybe in 2022, things will improve and Tommy can become one of the sponsors of Hot Seat with Wally George.
I just pony'd up for a new PC and I just play xbox games with the service. I'm out of the console game. Tired of the BS. Old stuff (ps4 and back) is all I need.
Retro Bird is so generous to give you a call in episode collab for free
I thought “fake Tommy’s” voice sounded oddly familiar… 🤔
Unmistakably that retro bird
Glad I wasn't hearing things
You mean no one told you yet? I thought everyone knew....Retrobird is the word!
Ian is dead right. I experienced that feeling with Super Mario brothers. The warp zones changed the IDEA of the game from this thing that was linear and unchanging in your approach to this active out of the box secret. And it really wasn’t even so much that Mario Bros had this thing, it awoke the idea that there’s secrets in games every where! It felt like the blinder had been lifted to give us the opportunity to find more of this. Like what else am I missing??? Then Zelda hit our house and it was on.
Walking through the wall in Zelda goes unappreciated for that same reason. Miyamoto was about showing how you could set up rules and then immediately subvert those rules. This is why I video games, back in the day, we are so much more mysterious and involving.
I really liked Barry Horowitz's push from jobber to lower mid-card. I remember screaming like hell when won his first match in WWE against Skip.
I heard about Barry's win back in the day but never saw the RAW episode from which that happened. I can't remember if it was 1993, 1994, or 1995.
I only saw Barry Horowitz in wcw a few years later but have no idea what happened to him after that.
I think one of the biggest mind blows for me was the Naboo Starfighter in Rogue Squadron on the N64. One of the few cheats that weren't discovered until a few months before Episode 1 came out.
I think A Quiet Place could make for a good videogame. Basically don't make a peep, or they swarm you.
There was a game show called video power that ended with exactly that kind of toy run every single episode
On the toy run, I remember one copy of each video game being on display. It's also where I first heard of the Neo Geo.
really love Ian's light-bending invisible shirt
The next #CUPodcast voice messages will ALL be Tommy Tallarico impersonators, including Voxandra trading in her Jersey accent for the best possible Tommy a female could possibly do
I'm liking the Tommy Tallaricoverse.
For the Professor wondering what to call his section on video games, he should call it "Writing in Electronic Media" or "Fiction in Electronic Media" or something similar. :) I think it is so awesome when teachers integrate modern media storytelling into their curriculum.
"Electronic media" is a bit too broad. TV, radio, and Internet are all electronic media.
I’m gonna have to support that veto on imitation Tommies. There can be only one. This isn’t some kinda Tommy-verse situation where Tommy’s from the multiverse team up to defeat the sinister six.
Val Venis. The choppy choppy we-we- was hilarious and insane.
Thank God it was cold in there and he was suffering from shrinkage.
10:15 Ha! Mike Knox would be proud :D How Pat rattles off his boy stable an reasoning is incredible. 10/10 would bury them with a golden shovel! Ian you can have Kanyon and La Parka -- esp. if u brought signs! Can of coke to Will, Pat & Ian!
Thanks Jay!
Jay Hunter approved!!!!
How bout a double jack champ
Oh my god Jay in the wild . I feel like I have been touched by greatness
5:00 - Definitely Retro Bird. :) Great youtube channel.
La Parka and Kanyon totes count in a Boys Stable
Biggest discovery made was in Eternal Champions on Sega CD. I was able to do a cinematic finish against a friend without knowing they existed. They are incredibly hard to do, even if you know how to do them.
That is what I heard about eternal Champions for Sega CD. I remember reading about the overkills? And how you had to be in a very specific spot and do a button combo.
I guess the overkills we're meant to make mortal Kombat look like Barney the dinosaur and friends.
After listening to Tommy's voicemail now I really want Pat to do "A Very Amico Christmas" NES Punk video in a few years. If the Amico ever comes out.
oooh!! that’s retro bird!!!
“Jumpin” Jim Brunzell was the other member of the Killer Bees.
Something I discovered on my own was the SNES version of Judge Dredd. I have to assume it's the same in Genesis. Regular enemies will surrender and you can arrest them. The key is knowing which weapon to use on who. I managed to pull off a full run arresting every enemy that can be arrested, including the Judge Hunters.
It's funny people only seem to complain when Microsoft gets a new exclusive title and cheer when Sony does. I agree about larger companies buying up smaller companies though
From now on, all Tommys will be RetroBird 😂
RetroBird Lee Jones?
Retrobird has a youtube channel and he is the guy who did the fake tommy
Or at least it sounds like him
@@greggnuber5966 actually I think one of them is RetroBird and the other one is the “real” Tommy. It’s hard to tell which one is which.
@@JTSuter It’s interesting. A few months ago, I discovered the RetroBird UA-cam channel, and asked him if he was the one doing the Tommy voice on Pat’s channel. He kindly denied this proposition. But who knows? Maybe he likes to work in the shadows.
I almost spat out my drink, lmao
RetroBird is hilarious!
Entering the "octopus pot" in Alex Kidd in Miracle World. I had no idea that was there and just accidentally dropped down as I was passing by and I nearly had a heart attack. I thought I had broken the game somehow.
That Tommy was 100% Retro Bird. I would bet my life on it, it's not just his voice but also his cadence and sense of humor.
I always wanted to be on the Starcade show on TBS during the early 80's.
Warp Zones in Mario was 🤯 the first time too
“Oooow, that seems like a risk?!” - Pat
Man, that made me laugh really hard. I’d rather eat that than those MASSIVE pickle pouches they sometimes have.
I LOVED hearing you guys talk about your Boy Stables. I'm a big fan of OSW too and I always like to see when creators I like overlap. Btw Kanyon totally counts.
I still remember that, on one of my numerous rentals of Metroid before I got my own copy, I somehow managed to get underneath the platform in one of the item rooms and it counted as being in lava, so my energy drained away without being able to escape. I realize now that it was just a glitch, but I was sure at the time that it was an intentional secret and spent a ton of time basically trying to get out of bounds again.
Not really a slip up but, I've bought a counterfeit Bomberman second attack for $5 just so the guy wouldn't attempt to sell it somewhere, or to someone else. I didn't want to risk that shit being in circulation. I use it for store training now.
That's actually not too expensive for training materials.
@@vxicepickxv it was easier to take it off his hands after I explained to him how is a fake
Sounds like Ian is a Toryumon/Dragon Gate fan according to his Boy Stable.
Very much was back in the day
That tommy gas to be retro bird!
Is that Retro Bird at around 5:00? lol
Those are some solid Boy Stables, guys. Also Ian, according to OSW lore, Kanyon and La Parka are Boy Stable eligible, so you're good there.
There's no such thing as a perfect voice mail ques.... who's in your boy stable? A winner is you.
Can of coke to ya mate!
lol i think i hear RetroBird at 5:00
Ian's really enjoying the questions a little too much with all that vibrating! Lol
The movie Brain Scan with Edward Furlong should be a VR game
Wow. I remember that movie. It was pretty good for what it was.
Just followed you guys on spotify. Looking forward to listening to the back catalog!
This Tommy guy sounds a lot like retrobird.... just sayin
First big game secret for me was turning into Super Sonic for the first time in Sonic 2. I did not see it coming!
"The Thing" game on PS2 was actually very, very good, not perfect but damn was it good!
Duuuude nice call on the Billy Jack Haynes. He is on my list 100%
Just want to note that there is a Human Centipede game out there. It’s basically a sprite swap of regular Centipede, but it’s just as disturbing as it sounds.
I had an idea about doing an 'educational course' in gaming about a decade ago, from about every angle... The technology, the real life influence, etc., it's kinda been a pipe dream until gaming really became a mainstream thing _again_
I've either been way too busy or way too depressed to contribute anything to it, and I appreciate the efforts from those who can, and your coverage of it, via your fans.
Hope You and yours (obv. including Ian and Frank, God bless 'em) had a safe and enjoyable Christmas (and a Happy New Year as well).
edit: Is that _really_ TT at the end? Or a terrible impressionist, really?
I love the idea of the Toys R Us toy run as an origins story for the original reseller
I agree. In the 80s movies were amazing. Pre CGI. Explains why I'm not excited about current gen
Mine was the ending of Metroid and seeing Samus in a swimsuit
I 2nd this .. blew me and my cousin ms mind !
LA parka was good. Kanon was a good pick. I enjoyed his early wcw stuff. I enjoyed early Alex Wright.
The Killer Bees were awesome! It was either Summerslam 88 or 89 they had a match with the Russo's that was amazing!
Hurricane Helms! Loved his shtick, met him once and he signed my mister Roger's shirt and I wore it for years
Pat should've broken out the "WHAAAT?!?" when Ian said he's never played The Thing on PS2
Billy Jack Haynes is quite the character in real life too. He has some "interesting" stories and theories.
Didnt he have some story where he said he witnessed a murder that was ordered by the Clintons or some crazy bull shit like that?
Billy Jack Haynes was a great pick by Pat. I would go with Iron Mike Sharpe, Spike Dudley, Mikey Whipwreck, Bruiser Bedlam, and Lanny Poffo. Some of those are borderline but, if La Parka couts, so do these.
I had this on for way too long before I realized Ian wasn't sitting in the chair...
With Ian shaking his GD leg it looks like a permanent and never-ending EARTHQUAKE! 🤨🙄
Ill almost always buy anything Reese's related at the checkout lane. There are a lot of different variations...and they are all awesome.
Ah man I loved disco inferno when I was a kid!
My Boys Stable is:
1: All Ed Leslie's dumb ass gimmicks(Yes, even Booty Man)
2: Al Snow
3: Gangrel
4: Taka Michinoku
5: Hurricane Helms
Bottom Boy: Stevie Richards
For horror movies turned into video games, it's a tough conversation to start with because it already has been produce as its own IP.
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Personally, I would love to see Vampire Hunter D done by Platinum Games, House on Haunted Hill would be great mystery exploration games, Last House on the Left would be heavily story-driven.
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Bio-Hunter would be another kind of experience, and A Nightmare on Elm Street would be interesting but a fucking challenge to program.
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Again, some of the ideas that I pulled are 80% done, but it's fun to dream.
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Vampire Hunter D by Platinum would be a godsend. I have the PS1 game that's in the style of Resident Evil 1. Not terrible despite its reputation but far from great too. A V.H.D. game that played like Bayonetta would basically be my dream game.
Yes, play Symphony, but for god's sake not the god awful Saturn version. Anybody actually in the know knows to avoid that shit pile like the plague.
Tabasco Slim Jim is the way to go.
I think it was in the 90s, but how did you guys not bring the nickelodeon arcade game show? That would have been an amazing show to be on!
I've always wanted to know Shigeru Miyamoto well enough to be able to call him Shiggsy
Sega Saturn SotN with the new patch is quite good - gives the PS version a run for top tier. Maybe soon it will become the definitive version.
Mario warp zone was a mind eff back in the day
Ian looks like max headroom, macho man slim jims oooo yeah.
I loved the original Castlevania games on the NES. And I love super Metroid but I've never played SOTN because I had a N64 instead. I have a copy of SOTN for PS1 but just haven't gotten around to playing it yet.
Same. I actually bought a bundle of SoTN & RoB on PS4 this year. Got about 85% through SoTN and got distracted with something else. This podcast reminded me I need to finish that soon. It was pretty great going blind with no nostalgia blinders or anything.
I disagree on the "no AA games anymore" thing. Like my games of the year list -- I kind of see it as "$60/$40/$20 games".
But that can easily be AAA, AA, and B budget games (or indie games).
You have the AAA $60 games like Ratchet and Clank, Hitman 3, Far Cry, and Halo. But lots of games came in at the $40 mark; (or SHOULD be $40 mark more appropriately); like Kena Bridge of Spirits, Mario Golf, that Aliens game, Pokemon Snap, Returnal, Guardians of Galaxy, Biomutant, 100% Id argue Metroid Dread. Many of them came out at $40 or quickly went to that price point. And most were in my games of the year (Not Mario Golf or Aliens).
And a lot of the cheaper B budget indie games are really up there and could be AA games this year like Sakura of Rice and Ruin (was end of last year but I put it in this years games).
I mean I bought Poison Control, Scarlet Nexus, Cruisin' Blast and Lost judgement recently. Those arent AAA are they? But they arent indie.
i guess it depends on your definition. But I still see lots of those mid-tier games.
resident evil 4 is a game I have played a thousand times if not more so I thought I knew everything about it but I never completely beat mercenaries so when someone else showed me the hand cannon I was blown away pun intended
I personally haven't experienced any major issues at a game store. Just missing discs in re-sealed video games or different game put in clam shell game case.
I have a used copy of Kingdom Hearts in a KH2 case. Or was it a KH2 in a KH1 case? That's the worst of it for me.
As an OSW fan too, I have to say my boys stable: X-pac (head boy), Ernest the Cat Miller, Glacier, Perry Saturn, and Ahmed Johnson. Pat, I like your choices. Disco as head boy I have to say is top notch. Avatar was weird b/c he would come out unmasked and then mask up when the match started. Any Al Snow persona is a great choice for a boy btw. I believe the other Killer Bee is Jumping Jim Brunzel. And finally Billy Jack Haynes was a good worker back in the day but my god has he went off the deep end and has become a crazy man. Listen to him talk, you'll be like wtf? Ian, besides La Parka I didnt know who any of those guys were and I was a little disappointed by that. and The Amico will come out in Q1 2022 just like you said, it would just be silly to think otherwise.
Yeah,Xbox aka the 123 kid is definitely in the stable hes the first name that popped in my head!
The speaker at 4:21 sounded like retrobird
The fake Tommy early in the vid sounds like Retrobird lmao.
I'm right up there with Ian with the Tijuana momma. It wrecks havoc on my a.r.d but if I see it at check out line in buying it.
good show, tnx
How would I do a college course on video games?
Probably by era. So everything leading up to the NES, then just separate it by generation. I'd probably also break out arcade games / arcades on their own. Especially if this doesn't happen for another 10 or 15 years because by then... you'll have a lot of people going into college who have never even seen a real arcade or arcade game. It's a special part of the culture I think.
I'd say looking at it by time periods is probably the way I'd do it, calling out special games that really transcended their own generations or had heavy influences on their own generations and beyond.
Also Game Theory. Evolution of Gaming Theory.
Hellraiser on PS1 would be amazing
Anyone know which Pawn Stars episode Pat was referring to with the comic?
Gonna be an unpopular opinion I know, but for the teacher/professor, while I'm all for incorporating media like video games into academic curriculum where it's appropriate, I think trying to wedge that into English specifically is really kind of a stretch tbh. I mean, I guess you could do it as part of a general unit about narrative/story structure, but eh, I feel like video games in an academic context are still definitely better suited for say a media studies/communications/even art-related sort of course (and like at a university level at minimum, ideally graduate) than via English.
Maybe I'm just not being imaginative enough, but honestly I think that a major issue with especially humanities in academia today, people are getting far *too* "creative" about how to formulate the curriculum, and I often disliked when it was obvious some teacher/professor was trying to just stuff something in that they had a personal passion for that wasn't actually pertinent to the field with gymnastics to explain why it was relevant and should be in there. Especially as someone who loves the humanities and resents the way they're increasingly being eschewed and derided in favor of STEM, it irks me when teachers/professors take the fact that they're in a humanities field as carte blanche to just shoehorn in and cover their personal/individual interests etc. and reach/BS as far as the actual relevancy. There's also the risk of something like this being perceived as trying hard to come off as "relatable" or make the field/material seem "hip and relevant" which most of the time students see through too and usually has the opposite effect than intended. Remember, especially at the college level and up, most people studying a certain field (like English) are going to be taking it because they actually have a passion themselves *for that area* ,and so it doesn't need to be watered down, transformed by incorporating things like this or made "cool" with gimmicks which usually backfires. And at the lower levels of education, kids generally don't want things they love and think of as separate from school to be blended in there.
IDK...the more I think about it I suppose it sounds like I'm really dismissing the idea (more harshly than I initially intended), and I guess I sort of am. Just don't think that would really work in English curriculum/class at all, and maybe I'm a bit old-fashioned but I feel like it's best if some things stay distinctly separate. Literature is my main passion/interest in life in general, and I like video games obviously, but I can't easily imagine and don't think I would like it at all if the two were fused together in an academic context (and yeah, I know there's literature mainly about video games and vice versa, the vast majority of which I think is crap frankly). Outside of edutainment etc where the academic learning happens *through* video games as a tool directly (which is completely different, nothing I've said in this comment applies to that), the only suitable contexts for studying video games in an academic setting would be if you're teaching a course to students with a major geared towards learning to make them (duh), or "media studies", certain subfields of sociology, etc. type of deal at a graduate school-level. Otherwise, nah. Just my two cents.
what !i never knew that!
People really don't realize that all the Amico controversy is just jealousy of Tommy and Shiggy's friendship.
No. We need more Tommys, not less. More, I say.
The ultimate horror video game? Troll 2 on the Amico, of course! "OCIMA is Amico spelled backwards!!!"
Long Beach public TV? That's a shame. Maybe in 2022, things will improve and Tommy can become one of the sponsors of Hot Seat with Wally George.
horror movie future game tie in 'Killer Condom' great German flick.
The Tommy calls are funny
Didn't know Pat was an OSW brah!!
Wonder if Tommy Prime will provide us with an amico new year...
TJ MAMAS are the best!
Hey us bean counters like to play video games as well!
WALL OF DVDS?
To be all honest. Are they really gonna limit people from buying elderscrolls?
Double A game: ultra age
Why is Ian remote ?
I have THE THING on original Xbox
I just pony'd up for a new PC and I just play xbox games with the service. I'm out of the console game. Tired of the BS. Old stuff (ps4 and back) is all I need.
B brian blair and jumpin jim brunzell are there names and dont look up billy jack haynes and what he is like today