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Games We Grew Up With
by Games We Grew Up With
Join Chris and Katie as these thirtysomething siblings journey through their childhood archive of cartridges, discs, and emulators to relive the cherished and challenging times of their video gaming youth and find out once and for all if the classics of the 80s and 90s game consoles hold up to a modern playthrough. From NES to PS2, Genesis to GameBoy, and even a PC game here and there, they’re reminiscing, replaying, and reviewing some of the all-time retro classics, and maybe a few all-time clunkers too.
Episodes
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Episode 54 - Harvest Moon: Back to Nature
"But morning is when you're SUPPOSED to farm!" This is just ONE of the many nuggets of wisdom one can learn from this episode, along with the pros and cons of virtual gamified polygamy, giving weeds to people who are willing to buy them, and much, much more! That's the kind of high-octane,...
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Episode 53 - The Oregon Trail
Let's all hop along, hop along onto the wagon... why? Because we've got a trail to ride my friends, a trail to O-re-gon! And what'll we do on our way way over there? Why, we'll... Get dysentery! Get robbed! Break limbs! Get stranded! Go hungry! Die of thirst! Get bitten by snakes! ...and fail to...
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Episode 52 - Super Mario World
It's a-me... YOSHI! After 51 warm-up episodes, the hosts of the show have finally gotten enough podcasting under their belt, and are ready to tackle the most important game in history, SUPER MARIO WORLD! Why is it the most important game ever? Well obviously, because it was the debut of ME…
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Random Non-Rose 6: Super Mario RPG (Remake)
It's-a-me, AGAIN! Geno and Mallow (and, I guess, Mario, Peach, and Bowser) are back (tell a friend!)... in SUPER MARIO RPG! Not to be confused with Episode 5 of our dear podcast, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. The heroic journey is undertaken once more, and our favorite heroes and…
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Episode 51 - Disney's Aladdin
Everyone remembers the lyrics to that famous song... "I come from a land down under, where rubies do gleam and lamps thunder..." -- that's the one, right? Well it should be, because the Cave of Wonder definitely qualifies. We're going far, far into the future (look it up!) and to the land of...
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Episode 50 - Pokemon Red & Blue
Fiiighting Trainers by moonlight... Maaaaking friends by daylight... Never running from a real fight... they are the ones called Pokémon! What do you get when you cross a senile old man who can't remember his own grandson's name, a pair of eleven-year-olds who are cast out into the world to fend...
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Random Non-Rose 5: Assassin's Creed 2
Who's that jumping off the building up there? Who's that calmly walking amongst a group of courtesans as though he's not quite obviously not one of them? Who's that jumping into a pile of hay and saying "shhh, you can't see me in here!"? It's Easy-O! Etch-Ee-Oh! Eez-yo! No, it's EZIO! The hosts…
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Episode 49 - Kirby's Dream Course
Oh Kirby, you're so dreamyyyy... or at least, your golf course is! And what better way for a character who's known for being mostly marshmallow-cloud and gains power through eating enemies to celebrate the great athletic event that is golf, than... to turn into a golf ball with a variety of…
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Random Non-Rose 4: Vegas Dream
HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY, GWGW! It's our third birthday (how did that happen?!?), so we decided to put out a special Non-Rose episode that throws wayyyy back in our hosts' gaming lives! Where else can you go to turn $700 into $10,000,000 than VEGAS, BABY? Or, more often... where else can you go to turn...
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Episode 48 - Super Bonk
Ever wonder what would happen if a group of video game developers were told to just go wild and make the weirdest, most confusing, least story-driven, crazy game possible, preferably including a man-child that grows and shrinks, Alice in Wonderland-style, and occasionally shouts out a ride-able…
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Episode 47 - Rhythm Games
Kick, punch, it's all in the mind! Well, I mean... that's ONE example of this genre, but this time instead of Um Jammer Lammy, we're focused in on the behemoths of the rhythm game genre from about 2005 to 2015... Guitar Hero, Rock Band, DJ Hero, and all those rock 'n' roll, guitar 'n' drum,...
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Episode 46 - F-Zero
Three, two, one... it's space-lights out and space-away we go! It's time to rev up those hovercar engines, blast around the semi-epilepsy-triggering track, bounce against strangely rubbery walls, and entertain futuristic billionaires by racing other poor unfortunate souls... and occasionally blow...
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Random Non-Rose 3: Half-Life 2
Rise and shine, dear listeners - rise and... shine. It’s another Random Non-Rose Episode! This time we are delving into Half-Life 2 for the PC! Looking back at a game many have said is one of the greatest games of all time is a challenge, but our intrepid hosts have their crowbars ready. Host…
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Episode 45 - Super Punch-Out!!
Float like a butterfly, sting like ... an unresponsive SNES Classic controller that disagrees with your assessment that you threw an uppercut instead of a body punch! That's how the phrase goes, right? We're in the ring for this one, the squared circle, not hitting below the belt, getting saved…
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A Very Special GWGW - Co-Op Games
The more you know... about how we play co-op games, the more surprised you are we haven't hurt each other in real life! This very special episode of Games We Grew Up With is all about those magical moments on the couch, across the country, or both, when you get a group, perfectly in sync, working...
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Episode 44 - A Link to the Past
Thank you Link! But our Princess is in another castle! ...wait, that doesn't sound right... wrong Princess and wrong mostly-silent Protagonist trying to save both the world and her! This is another LEGEND OF ZELDA, and this time we're finding A LINK TO THE PAST (for the Super Nintendo)! All the...
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GWGW's 2022 Year in Review!
2022... What a year it was for Games We Grew Up With! We laughed, we cried, we screamed at entirely-inappropriate ratings predictions for SimCity 2000 (or at least, some of us did...) From Mario 64 to Final Fantasy VII, General Chaos to Starcraft, Crash Team Racing to Super Metroid, we covered 12...
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Episode 43 - General Chaos
Well well well, if it isn't the most aptly-named game of the show's history! Both for game content as well as what it took to even get the two hosts to be able to play (and stream) it to all our viewers on Twitch! This one digs deep into the archive, and pulls out a simple, complex…
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Episode 42 - StarCraft
"GWGW, reportin' for duty!" It's time, it's time, it's finally time... IT'S RTS TIME! In this episode, the crew dove deep into the world of Terran, Protoss, and Zerg, in STARCRAFT! We collected minerals, we learned hard lessons about what dropships are, and we figured out that... well, the Zerg…
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Episode 41 - Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Alpha, get me some teenagers with attitude! Well, we may not be teenagers anymore, but I think anyone who has listened to even part of an episode of this podcast knows there's plenty of attitude to go around. And hey, if you check the show's title out, we DID grow up, way back when! And the…
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Episode 40.7 - Final Fantasy VII Remake
Forty and three-quarters... a perfectly reasonable episode number, right? Really, if we're talking about "Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade INTERmission", I think 40.7 is quite appropriate! And who's that voice? That's not Host Chris! Well-spotted (heard), dear listener! That's Producer Kyle,...
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Episode 40 - Final Fantasy VII
It's here! It's here! 2 years later, and it's finally here! It's FINAL FANTASY VII DAY!!!! Rejoice, for it is a day of celebration across the entirety of the pizza. Err, across the entirety of Midgar. We laugh, we organize materia, we (*cough* Host Katie *cough*) snicker when one of the leading...
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Episode 40.5 - Final Fantasy VII - Rose-Tinted Thoughts
HOOOOOJJJJOOOOOO!!!! We're back... but NOT back from the past... not quite yet! It turns out that, since Final Fantasy VII was the main game that this podcast was started for, our intrepid hosts have more than a few things to say about it! A few weeks ago, we all sat down to record the…
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Episode 39 - TIE Fighter
Power! Unlimited power! Or at least, that's what the Empire would have you believe. Join them in TIE Fighter, and work to exterminate all that Rebellion scum. Even more importantly, this episode we talked about this game LIVE, and streamed it to YouTube (where the extended cut is still…
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Episode 38 - Crash Team Racing
3, 2, 1... race! Get your boost on, drift around the corners, and take out Mario, Bowser, and Peach! Oh wait... no... hold on, that's... Coco, Pura, and Dingodile! Why, that must mean that we're in the world of CRASH TEAM RACING! Why yes, you brilliant clue-deducer you, we ARE! We've gone back to...
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Episode 37 - Super Metroid
Samus is a WHAT? Well, if you're out of the loop, you'll just have to listen in and find out... as the GWGW crew discuss Super Metroid for the Super NES! Exploring the wonders of the MetroidVania genre with one of its earliest and best variants, Hosts Chris and Katie wind their way back and forth...
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Random Non-Rose 2: Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
WhatwhatWHAAAT? No rose segment? Wasn’t that just a weird one-off thing that Host Katie did for Jak 3? Why no, dear listener, it was NOT! Our "Random Non-Rose" series continues, this time with BOTH of the hosts, playing through Dr. Mario… err, I mean, Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine, for the…
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Episode 36 - Super Mario 64
Its-a-us, GWGW! For our 36th episode, there was no better choice than a game with a completely DIFFERENT number in it, Super Mario two-to-the-sixth power! I mean, Super Mario 64! Back to the favorite console of everyone with three hands, the N64, and all its three-dimensional glory! Hosts Chris…
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Episode 35 - Final Fantasy VI
KEFKA PLEEAASSSEEEE!!! We're back... not just back with a new episode, but back to our FINAL FANTASY series! This time, it's the Internet's number-one favorite of the entire series, Final Fantasy VI! (Or III, if you grew up in North America in the mid-90s...) The last iteration of the...
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Episode 34 - SimCity 2000
"Aliens! Earthquakes! Riots! FIIIRRREEEE!!" At least, if you ask Host Katie, that's the plot summary of SimCity 2000... Producer Kyle might instead go with "Electrical grid, taxes, bond measures, and population growth!". Any way you cut it, SimCity 2000 changed the world of simulation gaming. An...
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Episode 33 - Mega Man
CUT! CUT! Little android man, born without a soul... Cut Man, along with Guts Man, Fire Man, Bomb Man, Elec Man, Ice Man... even the evil Dr. Wily himself... a long list of enemies for our hero, Mega Man, to defeat, on his way to saving the world. It's back to 1987 this time, for the start of a...
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Episode 32 - The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's... it's... a giant multi-colored, winged whale with a kaleidoscopic paisley pattern all over it, that's for some reason named the Wind Fish! Come on, how could you not see that? For this one, we're headed back all the way to the GameBoy…
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Episode 31 – Commander Keen In Goodbye, Galaxy!
“Bonk. Bonk. Bonk.” What’s that, you ask? Is it fate, come knocking? Is it a raven, rapping, rapping at your chamber door? Why no, in fact, it’s COMMANDER KEEN! More specifically, Commander Keen constantly slamming his (helmeted) head into the top of whatever was above him, as Hosts Chris and…
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Episode 30 – Final Fantasy V
SALSAAAA!!! It’s in everyone’s top-5 favorite dips for tortilla chips, and it’s the very poorly-translated name of one of the lead characters in this episode’s game, FINAL FANTASY V! We continue our grand tour of the Finals Fantasy, and this is the very last one that will come WITHOUT a rose...
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Random Non-Rose 1: Jak 3 (Katie Edition)
What’s this? An episode of Games We Grew Up With… with NO rose-tinted glasses segment? With only HALF of the hosting crew? Yes, my dear friends, your wishes have been granted! It’s Host Katie, accompanied by Host Katie, with a dash of Host Katie for good measure, talking about Jak, Jak, and Jak...
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Episode 29 – Spyro the Dragon
It’s that time again! Time to dive back into the archives and pull out another classic title to frustrate one, the other, or both of our hosts! This time it’s fire-blasting, boost-jumping, dragon-saving, key-fetching, and platform-gliding with everyone’s favorite winged protagonist, Spyro the...
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Episode 28 – Zombies Ate My Neighbors
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a giant baby? Come to crush us? As we try to save our neighbors from giant worms, roaming zombies, and 6-foot-tall ants climbing over the hedge maze that we really shouldn’t have put into the backyard in the first place? I know, I know, everyone loves a…
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Episode 27 – Wolfenstein 3D
MEIN LEBEN! It’s the start of year 2 (Season 2? Are we doing that?) of the show, and what better way to kick off such a grand occasion than killing a bunch of Nazi scum, and destroying Mecha-Hitler with WOLFENSTEIN 3D, right? It’s time to go back to DOS, it’s time for some Shareware, and it’s…
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Episode 26 – Sonic the Hedgehog & Sonic 2
Happy Birthday to us… happy birthday to us… happy birthday, dear podcast… happy birthday to us! It’s episode 26! It’s episode ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It’s a COMBO episode! It’s a SPECIAL GUEST STAR episode! It’s an EXTRA LARGE episode! Everything’s coming up Milhouse today… SONIC! THE HEDGEHOG!...
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Episode 25 – Final Fantasy IV
It’s time! Final (final, final, final) Fantasy again! Maybe they should have named the series The Neverending Story. That’s not taken, right? Final Fantasy IV! Where, unlike the previous games, you have to… fetch the four elemental crystals? Deal with a sad backstory involving orphans? Fly in an...
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Episode 24 – Halo: Combat Evolved
I’m sorry, Dave, I can’t do that… err, wait, wrong AI! This time it’s Guilty Spark, Cortana, along with the Flood, the Covenant, and everything else from 2001’s OTHER evil-space-computer-themed action adventure, Halo: Combat Evolved! This comes after the 24-hour birthday stream for Host Chris,...
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Episode 23 – The 7th Guest
Which way should we go now? I’ll give you a hint… straight to the “Play” button on this episode! Chris and Katie are checking into the haunted mansion of The 7th Guest for PC & Mac, and trying to puzzle (literally) their way back out again! Cake slices, lettered tin cans, first-person mazes,...
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Episode 22 – Kirby Super Star
It’s a (fat) bird! It’s a (pink) plane! No, it’s KIRBY! And he’s a SUPER STAR! Here for an appearance in the final Super Nintendo game before the switch to Nintendo 64, in an 8-in-1 side-scrolling & platforming adventure, inhaling enemies and exhaling pure, raw, fluffy, pink power! Hosts Chris…
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Episode 21 – Street Fighter II
Round 21… PLAY! We’re headed to Japan! And Brazil! And Thailand! And, apparently, the U.S.S.R.! Why? Because it’s Street Fighter II time, and we’re flying all around the world to fun fight locales, dragon punches, yoga fires, and tiger knees! Across the arcade, Sega Genesis, and Super Nintendo,...
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Episode 20 – Final Fantasy III
Like blind hogs looking for acorns, we’re back to look for the best Final Fantasy games! This time, it’s Final Fantasy 3… no, not THAT Final Fantasy 3, the OTHER one! The one that only came out in Japan originally, and only came out on the DS in North America. And you know what? It was pretty…
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Episode 19 – Mario Kart 64
Let’s a-go! This time we’re hitting the gas pedals on our 100cc karts and racing our way into 1997 and the game that took the Nintendo 64 by storm, Mario Kart 64! Hosts Chris and Katie hop in (both with Toad, they’re definitely siblings!) to join the Mario crew racing through Kalimari Desert…
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Episode 18 – Jak 2 (Renegade)
It’s time to go back to the past! Err… back to the future! Or… oh who cares, it’s BACK TO THE JAK! Chris and Katie are jumping into the pools of Dark Eco, picking up Precursor Orbs, and figuring out what’s new and exciting with the second iteration of the Jak & Daxter series. Taking a giant...
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Episode 17 – Star Fox 64
“Do a barrel roll!” This episode, our intrepid hosts are hopping into the cockpit again for some classic space combat from 1997 with STAR FOX 64. In doing so, they answer some of the world’s burning questions like: What’s the difference between a barrel roll and an aileron roll? What really makes...
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Episode 16 – Grand Theft Auto 2
GIMMEYOURWALLET! We’re stealin’ cars, throwin’ molotov cocktails, and… turnin’ gangsters into hot dogs? Well, it’s GRAND THEFT AUTO 2, what do you expect?!? Hosts Chris and Katie are hopping into the driver’s seat and rolling back the odometers of their memories to check out this top-down, crazy,...
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Episode 15 – Super Mario Bros.
A big episode number calls for a big classic game… SUPER MARIO BROS! In this episode, Hosts Chris and Katie drop down the warp tube allllllll the way back to 1985, and give the OG of classic console games a run-through for the first time since it was near-new! Hundreds of tries on the last level...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Join Chris and Katie as these thirtysomething siblings journey through their childhood archive of cartridges, discs, and emulators to relive the cherished and challenging times of their video gaming youth and find out once and for all if the classics of the 80s and 90s game consoles hold up to a modern playthrough. From NES to PS2, Genesis to GameBoy, and even a PC game here and there, they’re reminiscing, replaying, and reviewing some of the all-time retro classics, and maybe a few all-time clunkers too.
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