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This podcast where Ashley and Chris, two game boys, chat about titles from their personal gaming history. Each episode, one of the hosts presents a game from their childhood, including a brief history of its development and any personal anecdotes. After playing the game off-mic, the second half of the podcast is a discussion of how it holds up and whether the nostalgia factor still stands. Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThisGameWhere YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisGameWhere Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisgamewhere/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ThisGameWhere/ Contact us: thisgamewhere@gmail.com
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Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Thursday Mar 11, 2021
Populous is the first game from developer Bullfrog, it's the progenitor of the entire God game genre, and it's also This Game Where's first Super Nintendo game. We know, we're not sure how we went so long, either, but it's happening now. Does Populous deserve to lead the charge for such an illustrious machine? Listen in to find out! Plus, Chris finally reveals the truth behind why video games have cheats in them.
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
Thursday Mar 04, 2021
It appears Chris and Ashley's idea of kicking something off with a bang differ slightly, as Chris has 'kicked off' the second lot of fifty episodes with this, King of the Monsters. It's a kaiju wrestling game set in some kind of Neo-Tokyo which, when you put it like that, actually sounds pretty great! But is it? Listen in to find out!
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Thursday Feb 25, 2021
Fifty episodes! Who thought we'd get this far? We certainly weren't banking on it. But we're here nonetheless, and we're talking about another game neither of us had played until this week - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. An absolute classic that had somehow passed us both by, we remedy that here and then let you know whether it was worth bothering (it was!).
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
The story of Marble Madness has a fair few interesting tidbits to it, many of which we discuss in this episode.
What, you want one now? Okay, well it was one of the first games designed by industry titan Mark Cerny, before he went on to be the architect of Sony's PlayStation family of systems.
Another? The dev team use ray-tracing tech to build the levels, a technology that is only now at the fore of gaming's conscious.
If that's done the job of wetting your whistle, just press play and listen along for more!
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
Thursday Feb 11, 2021
It's Valentine's Day again and Chris and Ashley are having a proper conversation about the place and treatment of love in games, including a look at Florence, a little indie that aims to present the workings of a relationship for the gaming crowd. Listen up and find out whether it manages it!
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Thursday Feb 04, 2021
Chris continues with his delusional insistence that "Sonic is okay, really" this week, bringing us a second slice of Sonic The Hedgehog (The Game). It's the second of three iterations of the blue blur's original outing he's made Ashley play, with only the Master System version outstanding.
Something tells us if that ends up on the podcast there's going to be serious words had between the two of them. But it is what it is, we suppose, and maybe the game really is okay, really. You'll just have to listen to the podcast and see, won't you?
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
If you've played Denki Blocks then you know why we're talking about it today. It's one of a vast array of excellent games that made the Game Boy Advance a compelling and worthwhile console to have, and the studio behind it (named after the game itself) was founded by four leading lights of DMA Design, the studio behind GTA and Lemmings, among many other gems.
The studio itself, one of the UK's most prolific having created more than 200 games over the last 20 years, has a fascinating story; just last year, they were the winners of the Scottish BAFTA for the game category. So join us to learn more as we delve deep into Denki!
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Thursday Jan 21, 2021
Whatever IS The Secret of Monkey IslandTM? By an incredible stroke of luck, it turns out Chris was one of the very few people Ron Gilbert shared it with and he shares it with everyone in this week's episode! Come join us for a chat about swashing, buckling and all that piratey stuff.
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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/