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136 – Grand Theft Grover

From the street to your ears.

Our Intro and Outro music is by Ben Landis off his album Adventures in Pixels – “Credits Music for an 8 Bit RPG” (Twitter @thebenlandis)

Our interlude track was “FamiFunk over Breakfast” by RoccoW

Show Notes

22:55 – Listener email discussion question “How did you fine gentlemen and retro game aficionados begin the podcast?”
33:26 – “FamiFunk over Breakfast” by RoccoW
35:03 – Retro Showdown!
43:01 – Bailey’s pick “Sesame Street 123 Astro Grover” (NES)
44:17 – Hunter’s pick “Spacequest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers” (PC)
45:31 – Jason’s pick “Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus” (NES)
46:29 – Captain’s log, Stardate 201505.17. We have officially gone 135 episodes without coming up with the idea of “space games” for the Retro Showdown theme. Don’t let that fool you. We have loads more of broken light bulbs and face palms in store. Just you wait. Kirk out.
1:04:29 – My God, it’s full of stars! And you can be too with your vote for your favorite in the showdown poll. We’re finally keeping track so your vote means more now than ever. We can’t let the Communist Jason Lamb win, can we? Well, he already is, but that can be stopped! Only you have the power!

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Chronoslinger

Believe it not the only game that has made me cry is "Super Mario World", no it was nothing in the game itself. But I could not beat one of the special levels (either the very last one or the second to last), I tried probably dozens of times. My brother was watching me play the whole time, and kept laughing at my misfortune each time I plummeted to my peril. Time after time I could not beat this level, and time after time he laughed and laughed. He laughed so much that it brought me to tears (come on I was a kid). I actually don't remember the outcome of this endeavor, but I'm sure I beat the level eventually.

Jave

Hey, this is Jave from HG101, first-time caller.

The one game that came close to making me cry was The World Ends With You.

It's kind of a spoiler, so skip this paragraph if you haven't played it, but I was at the final boss and just getting my ass kicked over and over again because I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to do, and this rolled on until like 1 in the morning. So I was tired, frustrated, relieved, and a little baffled by the way the story was unfolding, and then, with all this stuff going through my head, they got the part in the ending sequence where they almost... but don't quite... reveal Shiki's real face for the first time, and for whatever reason, I came very close to losing it at that moment.

I have cried at movies, but it's usually the music that gets me. There's a scene during Star Wars episode 3 where the music slowly transitions to one of the motifs from the original film, and a wave of nostalgia always hits me at that exact moment. Likewise in the new Muppets movie when they sang Rainbow Connection.

Also, I think Passage is one of those games you need to have a bit of context before you start playing. I tried it on a vague recommendation and just found it to be utterly confounding, and I can't go back to it either.

NintendoLegend

@Jave Hi Jave -- thanks for listening, commenting, sharing a story, AND providing a keen insight on Passage! Hope to see you around again, with absurdly classy comments like that.

	Sesame Street 123 Astro Grover (NES) - Bailey
	Spacequest IV: Roger Wilco and the Time Rippers (PC) - Hunter
	Dynowarz: Destruction of Spondylus (NES) - Jason

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