Think of the Children: Historical Stories – The Horrible Show 031611

Our Think of the Children series continues with analysis of the best stories of the NES and SNES eras. Justin, Cole, Ethan, Gifford, and our guest, Craig reflect on Zeldas, Metroids, Quests, and soft Squares while forgetting your favorite game. Send in your questions to [email protected] or @TheHorribleShow

It’s been a while since The Horrible Show thought of the children, but @pwrglove (Craig) joins Justin, Cole, Ethan, and Gifford to nominate some of their favorite gaming storylines to help round out those kids’ gaming educations. Of course you have to survive some classy babysitter conversation to get to the historical conversation, but we never said our podcast wasn’t a minefield. Gifford takes on us a mobile journey with this week’s On the Spot question about the future of the relationship between app developers and our favorite mobile providers. If that’s too futuristic for you, we will take you back home to the early days of video games as we seek out the stand out storylines of the first generations of video games. We use Nintendo as the time benchmark and attempt to cover the NEs, SNEs, and N64 eras, but only make it through the first two thanks to glorious overanalysis of Zaxxon, King’s Quest, Super Mario Bros, multiple Zeldas, Fantasies, and X-Com. What did we leave out? Probably something important, and feel free to let us hear about it as we finalize our list. Anger takes over the end of the episode as GiffTor and Ethan unleash their fury about their disappointment about Homefront.

Cast:

Justin (JDevL), Cole (Colefacekilla), Ethan (Wizardtrain187), Gifford (GiffTor), Craig (pwrglove)

Guide:

Intro and Threesomes – (01:03 – 24:20)

On the Spot Question – (24:30 – 31:57)

Think of the Children – (31:58 – 1:35:44)

NES Era – (33:51 – 1:03:41)

SNES Era – (1:03:43 – 1:35:33)

HorribleNight.com Updates – (1:35:46 – 1:36:49)

Shout Outs – (1:36:50 – 1:43:24)

Threesomes of the Week:

Cole – 8 Mile, NBA Jam, Torchlight

Craig – The Wolfman, MacBook, Back to the Future: The Game

GiffTor – GoW fiction, Gears of War 2, The Hangover

Ethan – Majesty 2, Nat Geo Underwater Civilizations, Culture Beat – Mr. Vain

Justin – 127 Hours, Bulletstorm, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Storyline Nominees (working list)

NES Era

Zork I: The Great Underground Empire
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest
Double Dragon
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II
King’s Quest IV
Police Quest 3
Secret of Monkey Island
King’s Quest V
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
The Oregon Trail
Maniac Mansion
The Day of the Tentacle
Grim Fandango
Mega Man 2
Super Mario Bros 3

SNES Era

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Alien 3
Super Metroid
Metroid II: Return of Samus
Jurassic Park 2
Aladdin
Secret of Mana
Final Fantasy VI
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Super Star Wars Trilogy
X-Com: UFO Defense
Mega Man X
Earthbound
Traffic Department 2192
Wing Commander
Warcraft II

References:

Lucas – The Wizard, Tandy 1000, Hustle & Flow, 1981 IU Championship, Benicio Del Toro, Hugo Weaving, Lenovo, The Hangover 2, Taking on Tyson, The President’s Speech, Ethan’s Dance Video, Windows 7 Phone Issues, SCUMM, Michael Wolfskin, Goonies II, Kefka, Chryssalids, In Gaming We Trust Open Game Night, PAX Prime Aug 26 – 28

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