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The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast
by Anna & Paul
An Adventure Game Podcast
Episodes
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The Hardest Adventure Games
This week, comma, Anna and Paul rank adventure games from tough to cruel, with each pick making that hint book harder and harder to resist. Mangia! Our episode on Codename: Iceman Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store Shek out OneShortEye's...
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THE PAX TAPES
Welcome to a special edition of the Classic Gamers Guild Podcast: The PAX Tapes! Anna spent PAX West 2026 helping Roberta Vaughan’s Retro Adventures bring the FMV Zone museum to life and catching up with the people who make games and gaming history so memorable. From Sierra legends to today’s...
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The Weirdest Moments in Adventure Games (with AdventureGameGeek)
This week Anna and Paul are joined by friend of the show AdventureGameGeek as they break down some of the strangest moments in adventure games. They also go on a side quest about bellybutton coitus—which only solidified the overall theme. Mangia! Shek out AdventureGameGeek's YouTube channel for...
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Space Quest: Vohaul Strikes Back (with Developer Frederik Olsen)
This week Anna and Paul played Space Quest: Vohaul Strikes Back and spoiler, they both fell in love with it. So they brought on one of its developers, Frederik Olsen, to dig into the making of it—all while walking you through the game itself. It's a good time, MANGIA! Download & Play Vohaul…
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The Worst Things Adventure Games Do
This week Anna and Paul are discussing their adventure game pet peeves! From minor annoyances to irrational irritations to absolute deal breakers, it's a good time all the way through the chaotic ending. MANGIA! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App...
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Beneath a Steel Sky REVIEW
This week Anna and Paul played Beneath a Steel Sky for the first time and they had a LOT to say. This one is pretty thorough. At some point the amount of data in human sperm comes up, and that's when it also becomes educational. MANGIA! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam...
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Best & Worst Relationships in Adventure Games
This week Anna and Paul talk about Relationships in adventure games. Which was the most toxic? Who could do better but probably won't? Who's the best flirt and who had the best sexual tension?! All this and more, MANGIA! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower...
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Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror REVIEW
This week Anna and Paul played Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror and then they tell you like, allll about it. Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom Fellows Documentary: The Ghost Game that Isn't About…
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Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars Review
This week Anna and Paul played Broken Sword: A Circle of Bloody Templars, or some variation of that, and they very exhaustively, very nerdily, walk you through it. Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows ! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom...
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Adventure Game Vibe Guide
This week Anna and Paul are matching vibes to games. Ten vibes, to be precise: Cozy, Spooky, Lonely etc. They give their fav game for the mood and then a matching recommendation. It's a good time, Mangia! Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom Fellows Documentary: The Ghost Game that Isn't About Death…
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Top 10 Houses in Adventure Games
This week Anna and Paul are discussing Adventure Game Houses! Well, twenty of them anyway, there's a crazy amount of houses in adventure games if you start looking into it. They also try to define what a house in an adventure game is and they learn a little about themselves along the way. Also…
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Best & Worst Adventure Game Series-is
This week Anna and Paul are discussing Adventure Game Series-is. Which series' had the best first entry? Which had worst first game, but got dramatically better? Which series deserved one more game or should have stopped one sooner? All this and more, mangia! Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom…
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Torin's Passage - Review
This week Anna and Paul are deep in Torin's Passage, a game by Al Lowe that is considered by many to be a hidden gem in the Sierra catalog. What did they think of it? Unclear! Press play to find out and mangia! Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom Fellows Documentary: The Ghost Game that Isn't About...
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Adventure Game Music Selections Vol. 1
This week Anna and Paul are... I don't know how to word this. They're like, well first of all they're talking a lot. Seems to be kind of a theme with this show. But more specifically they've come with 7 music selections (each) and are going to play 30 second (ish) clips of their choices and talk…
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Top 10 Adventure Game ENDINGS
This week Anna and Paul do a Top 10 ranking of the best adventure game endings EVER OF ALL THE TIME. It's fun and it's for you so please, mangia Shek out OneShortEye's Phantom Fellows Documentary: The Ghost Game that Isn't About Death Spoiler Free Time Codes! To skip... Dagger of Amon Ra - Skip…
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Top 10 Adventure Game Locations
Join our hosts Anna and Paul as they embark on a nostalgic journey through gaming history's most memorable and beloved locations! In this episode, they count down their top 10 in-game locations that have captured players' imaginations for decades. Whether you're a veteran adventurer who solved...
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Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire Review
Well, here it is! The fifth and final game in the Quest for Glory series. and it's an amazing game! Anna says so. Anna tells Paul. Anna tells everyone! Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by...
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LucasArts Top 10
Anna and Paul each choose their personal favorite top 10 LucasArts game, and then declare a winner! Tune in to see what game reigns supreme!* Mangia! As promised a link to this awesome article The Secrets of Monkey Island's Source Code by Frank Cifaldi Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows...
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The Sierra Top 10: Two Lists, One Winner
Paul and Anna each rank their personal top 10 Sierra games of all time, then combine the lists into a single shared ranking with a clear #1 winner. King’s Quest, Space Quest, Quest for Glory, Gabriel Knight, and more all enter the mix, and the way they stack up is not what most people would...
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Quest For Glory IV: Shadows Of Darkness Review
Paul and Anna walk the listener through the fourth entry in the Quest For Glory Series. Is it their favorite in the series? Can a computer game make you cry? What the heck is up with that Leshy? And a name that tune segment that will leave you guessing! Mangia! Sprite credit to Jack Povlitz! Play...
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Quest For Glory: Wages Of War Review
Paul and (mostly) Anna walk the listener through the full game auditorily, and Paul explains why this entry is his favorite in the series so far! Mangia! Sprite credit to Jack Povlitz! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store The Phantom...
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From Space Quest to SpaceVenture: Ken Allen Talks Music
Composer Ken Allen shaped the soundscape of an entire Sierra era, from Space Quest to Kings Quest, and that unmistakable Sierra logo fanfare burned into every retro-gamer's brain. Now he’s back with a full new soundtrack for SpaceVenture, and we go deep into how it all came together. In this...
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Al Eufrasio - Sierra Animator (Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Torin's Passage)
This week Anna and Paul sit down with legendary Sierra animator and artist, Al Eufrasio! They go behind the scenes at Sierra on what it was like to work there, how projects were conceptualized and executed, and they also chat a bit about animation, including where to find good, modern animation....
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Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire - Review
This week Anna and Paul played Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire and as per the rules of podcasting, they're going to talk into microphones, at you, for quite some time—largely staying on topic while occasionally wandering into a narrative side quest, as to create a more layered listening…
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The PRGE Tapes: Conversations from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo
Anna hits the floor at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, or as she and her late friend Roberta always called it, the PGRE. It’s a weekend overflowing with nostalgia, laughter, and the kind of serendipity that only happens when you pack decades of gaming history under one roof. This episode brings…
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Merch, Marketing, and Modern Adventures (with YakWaxLips)
This week Anna and Paul are joined by Michael aka YakWaxLips! We're discussing the new Adventure Game Merch Store, the state of modern adventure games, how to market adventure games and support devs, the legacy of LucasArts in modern adventure games, and his opinion of Gabriel Knight, as a...
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The Dagger of Amon Ra (with OneShortEye)
This week Anna and Paul are joined by OneShortEye and they go on the deepest of dives into The Dagger Of Amon Ra! OneShortEye has just concluded a proper digital archeological dig on the game for his upcoming documentary and he brought all of the weird and wonderful finds to share with us.…
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EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus
This week Anna and Paul played say it with me, Echo Quest! Paul enjoyed it whereas Anna didn't appreciate the message citing "our flat earth is clean enough!". Okay fine she didn't. But she does say other things MANGIA! Grab a Phantom Fellows shirt or mug at AdventureGameMerch.com ! Play our...
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PAUL ALMOST DIED + Blue Force
This week Anna and Paul are reunited and they kick things off with some story time about where Paul has been, thennn they get into the 1991 Jim Wall's adventure "Blue Force". It's one of those games a lot of us flagged as "one day I'll play that" knowing very well that day will never come, so…
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Bonus Episode: ERROR 47: Honoring Roberta Vaughan with Music, Mayhem, and a Live Kickstarter
This three-part BONUS episode honors our friend Roberta Vaughan and celebrates the upcoming live debut of Error 47—a tribute band performing all together for the first time this fall. Part One features Jackie, Sarah, Jon Paul, Erik, and Mick, some of the members of the band, as they reflect on...
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Inside Shadows of the Afterland with Rubén López
This week on the Classic Gamers Guild Podcast, we step into the afterlife, but not the peaceful kind. Anna, one half of the CGG Podcast, sits down with Rubén López, one half of Aruma Studios, to talk about their upcoming point-and-click adventure Shadows of the Afterland. If their debut Intruder…
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Sean Parker and the Fogtown FMV Revival
This week, Anna runs a solo mission straight into the fog, Fogtown, that is. She’s joined by Sean Parker, the puppet-wrangling, genre-bending mastermind behind Fogtown, the only detective story brave enough to ask: what if a puppet version of Sherlock Holmes had imposter syndrome, a spatula…
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Codename: Iceman (it's actually kinda good?!)
This week Paul played Sierra's black sheep, what some call the rite, or maybe right, of passage for the clinically obsessed adventure gamer... it's Codename: Iceman. He's gonna walk you through it so you don't have to play it, while switching vehemently between 'you should play it' and 'you...
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Adventurous Non-Adventure Games
This Week Anna talks about non-adventure games that feel adventurous, and Paul is a cynical bastard about each one them, the entire time. Mangia! Shek out Emil's awesome, new old-school FPS Reverend! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App…
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Would You Rather...
This Week Anna and Paul ask themselves "Would You Rather..." and of course it's based on Adventure Game whatevers. Tropes or characters or something idk, look the microwave just went off and I can smell my food so naturally I've lost interest in writing this. MANGIA! Play our adventure game! The...
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Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
This Week Anna & Paul played Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist and when you listen to them talk about it, you're gonna be like wow, they sure did. MANGIA! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Mac App Store The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by...
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Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero
This Week Anna & Paul played Quest For Glory! And honestly, I can't focus on writing this because I've got that song in my head that's all 🎶 I NEED A HERO Something something into the night 🎵 And he's gotta be fast and it would nice if he was strong and I'd really just like someone who would...
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The Adventure Game Yearbook
This Week Anna & Paul are combing through the Yearbook from Point 'n Click High, and deciding things like: Who had the best hair? Who's the class clown? Who has the most punchable face? Who had the best death animation? It kinda starts as more Yearbook trope kinda questions and then transforms…
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Character Battle Royale - SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!
This Week Anna & Paul are like, here lemme just give you an example, this is the episode: Larry Laffer vs Roger Wilco - Who are you choosing to babysit your kid? Gabriel Knight vs. Indiana Jones - Who's the best smooth talker? Laura Bow vs Grace Nakamura - Who figures out a supernatural mystery...
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Heroes, Shadows & Save Games
This week Anna & Paul are talking—wait, is that a good name for the episode? I was kinda thinking "Pixels and Personas" but that sounded kinda vague, but maybe it's more mysterious which I think you want for catchy episode titles. Whatever. This week they're talking about Archetypes—first they…
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The Most Adventurous Adventure Games
This week Anna & Paul are talking about the most adventurous adventure games! The ones that aren't just an adventure by genre but that make you feel like you're on a grand adventure! They've broken it down into categories such as globe trotting/grab your passport adventures, adventures that take...
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Gross, it's Non-Adventure Games!
This week Anna & Paul are talking about non-adventure games, for some reason. Oh, Paul was supposed to say, for his first pick, "Astro Chicken" and he formally regrets forgetting this very so-so joke. See cos, that's in an adventure game and so it represents his hesitation to embrace anything...
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Patches, Mods, Debugs & Cheats!
This week Anna & Paul are talking about patches, mods, things and stuff! Come for the things, stay for the stuff. Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's The…
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Screensavers And The Screens They Saved
This week Anna & Paul are talking about screen savers! From the origins to the toasters to the sad, slide show end— what a ride it was. AfterDark for Windows 10/11 Flying Toasters for MacOS Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Shek out our friends…
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The Curse of Monkey Island
(We had some technical issues and this weeks episode was recorded onto a single track. We apologize for any resulting loss in quality and any rather, unsavory, background noises.) (Especially the sexy, squishy ones.) This week Anna & Paul play The Curse of Monkey Island! Is it the best Monkey...
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Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge
This week Anna & Paul play Monkey Island 2: Guybrush is a dick now. Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG Steam itch.io Fireflower Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network: Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve...
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The Secret of Monkey Island
This week Anna & Paul are doing it. They're finally going to Monkey Island. Not the actual Monkey Island in South Florida, no. The good one. The make believe one. Time to find out what they think of what many consider the GOAT. Mangia! Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG...
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Questing For Glory (with Jason Mical)
This week Anna & Paul are joined by author of the upcoming book "Questing For Glory The Definitive History of the Quest for Glory Series", Jason Mical! Jason brought his expertise, fun facts and insight as he and Anna talk at Paul about their favorite series! Join us as we walk through each game…
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Cozy Holiday Games
This week Anna & Paul are talking about cozy games to play during the holidays! They also touch on the odd lack of snow in adventure games while mentioning all the ones they could think of with some. Because snow >= holidays. So roast some acorns on the fire and curl up on the whatever and…
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New Old Games!
This week Anna & Paul sampled some of the exciting new old games that just recently released: King's Quest - It Takes Two To Tangle, Space Quest V - Talkie Edition, and King's Quest VI - AGI Demake. They sampled all of them, and then talk about weird Canadian sandwiches. And possibly the games…
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