#69 - Retro PC Games
from Penny Men Hosted by Penny Men
We didn’t want to say the funny number, so we flipped it upside down and called it 64! That spiraled into: Commodore 64 nostalgia (the games, the loading screens, the beige plastic smell) Oregon Trail dysentery trauma (plus: cholera, snakebites, broken wagon axles, and a suspicious number of “you have died” screens) Sled dogs with broken legs (and whether oxen can row if you shout at them through a megaphone) From there, we take a long detour into the pixelated backroads of: RollerCoaster Tycoon (and the ethics of $25 bathrooms) Sid Meier’s Pirates! (the only game where you can dance, duel, and get scurvy in the same afternoon) Zoombinis (featuring the allergy wall, the pizza troll, and that smug little “yep, we solved it” walk) Secret of Monkey Island — including: the spitting contest, the rhyming insult sword fights, monkey kung fu, and the coffin salesman you can literally trap in a coffin (he’s fine) We debate whether Guybrush Threepwood is immortal, whether the three-headed monkey is real, and whether Carmen Sandiego is secretly just a geography tutor with bad PR! Also featuring: “It’s not your turn, my friend” frog (the original rage quit) Dabney Coleman’s extended video game universe Lode Runner monks And the eternal question: Did Hot Tub Time Machine rip off Rescue the Scientist… or was it the other way around? Zinger count for this episode: at least 12, depending on whether you count “scurvy jokes” as zingers!
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