Video game historian “Critical Kate” Willaert joins a panel scattered across time to cover lost and ignored media, Blobby’s Bloop Boy, and ladies roaming the street with whips.
Cool episode, it’s a different show when the panelists (and guests) are not interacting with each other in real time, but really appreciate that we still get some amazing questions and answers too. Thanks to all for putting it together =)
I’m proud to say I was three for three on having the experiences all the panelists mentioned, so I’m either clocking that up to being cool or old. Or both.
I’m just one person, and she’s got access to viewership data and publications acceptance experience and gotta make a living, but I just want it out there that every single one of Kate’s ideas thst she dismissed out of hand as somethikg no one would be interested in is something I would be VERY interested in.
My pick for unreleased game that’s actually fun is Primal Rage II. It’s surprisingly complete, I like the new characters, the gameplay is smooth. It would have been good. I think the original PR is somewhat underrated, it’s definitely better than the other bad MK klones from the 90’s.
My answer for console with the best games with the least amount of players is 32X. Sort of. I’m not saying it’s actually better than Dreamcast or Saturn but in the context of it’s time it had some versions of games(Mortal Kombat II, Doom, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing) that were much better than you could get on 16 bit.
not only was tommy tallarico the first american to work on sonic, he was the first white boy in japan like that Shogun show. Taught them how to use cannons
About Frank said in the first question:
My friend dug this out of his grandma stuff. It’s a brazillian version of the original Super Mario Bros, but with horrendous cartridge art and it’s name translate to Super Bros.
It was produced by Falconsoft Eletrônica
I’ll also echo the props and appreciation for Esper’s editing. I often listen to the show while getting ready for work in the morning and was briefly zoned out at the beginning so I missed the announcement it was recorded answers. I didn’t even notice for most of it. On paper those shows sound awful, and against the strength and spirit of the show, but it actually works pretty well.
And Spyro does rule. I love platformers, but they came out during my “I’m too mature and cool to play a platformer, I have adult games like Metal Gear Solid to play” era so I missed them in the 90’s. Didn’t get to them until the trilogy remake. Was very pleasantly surprised at how good they are.
Like Frank, I did not grow up in the UK and have spent a lot of time making fun of British games, but am coming around to be fascinated by the microcomputers scene. Alongside watching a lot of Kim Justice videos and experiencing Amiga adjacency via the Genesis, I’d really recommend Digital Eclipse’s Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story if you fall into that bucket. It’s obviously told through the lens of one creator in one moment of time, but that moment of time is the microcomputer era, and alongside including lots of different versions of games across the popular micros, the documentary/digital museum format really collects a lot of the ephemera of that era in a way that gives you a pretty good picture of it and a feel for it
