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The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast — 242 episodes

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1

Best & Worst Relationships in Adventure Games

2

Broken Sword 2: The Smoking Mirror REVIEW

3

Broken Sword - Shadow of the Templars Review

4

Adventure Game Vibe Guide

5

Top 10 Houses in Adventure Games

6

Best & Worst Adventure Game Series-is

7

Torin's Passage - Review

8

Adventure Game Music Selections Vol. 1

9

Top 10 Adventure Game ENDINGS

10

Top 10 Adventure Game Locations

11

Quest For Glory V: Dragon Fire Review

12

LucasArts Top 10

13

The Sierra Top 10: Two Lists, One Winner

14

Quest For Glory IV: Shadows Of Darkness Review

15

Quest For Glory: Wages Of War Review

16

From Space Quest to SpaceVenture: Ken Allen Talks Music

17

Al Eufrasio - Sierra Animator (Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Torin's Passage)

18

Quest For Glory II: Trial By Fire - Review

19

The PRGE Tapes: Conversations from the Portland Retro Gaming Expo

20

Merch, Marketing, and Modern Adventures (with YakWaxLips)

21

The Dagger of Amon Ra (with OneShortEye)

22

EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

23

PAUL ALMOST DIED + Blue Force

24

Bonus Episode: ERROR 47: Honoring Roberta Vaughan with Music, Mayhem, and a Live Kickstarter

25

Inside Shadows of the Afterland with Rubén López

26

Sean Parker and the Fogtown FMV Revival

27

Codename: Iceman (it's actually kinda good?!)

28

Adventurous Non-Adventure Games

29

Would You Rather...

30

Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist

31

Quest For Glory: So You Want To Be A Hero

32

The Adventure Game Yearbook

33

Character Battle Royale - SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!

34

Heroes, Shadows & Save Games

35

The Most Adventurous Adventure Games

36

Gross, it's Non-Adventure Games!

37

Patches, Mods, Debugs & Cheats!

38

Screensavers And The Screens They Saved

39

The Curse of Monkey Island

40

Monkey Island 2 LeChuck's Revenge

41

The Secret of Monkey Island

42

Questing For Glory (with Jason Mical)

43

Cozy Holiday Games

44

New Old Games!

45

Ranking Non-Sierra/LucasArts Adventure Games!

46

Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within

47

Ranking Sierra Point & Clicks THE SEQUEL

48

Ranking Sierra Point & Clicks

49

From Idea to Reality: The Making of The Phantom Fellows

50

Ranking LucasArts Adventure Games

51

Ranking Sierra SCI0 Games

52

Adventure Game Fan Fair (Recap)

53

Ranking Sierra AGI Games

54

Blade Runner

55

Sierra Remake Comparison IV: King's Quest

56

The Enduring Appeal of Pixel Art (feat. Tom Hardwidge)

57

The Dialectical Tension Between Point-and-Click Interfaces and Text-Parser Mechanisms in Digital Ludology. (feat. Slatts)

58

Quest for Style: Character Design and Fashion in Adventure Games

59

Adventure Game Sitcoms

60

Sequel Police: We Gave 15 Classic Adventures a Sequel

61

Loom: THAT'S What They Were Weaving?!

62

King's Quest VI - Also the Best King's Quest (feat. Erik Elsom)

63

Sierra Remake Comparison III: Space Quest

64

The Dig (Feat. Daniel Albu)

65

Sierra Remake Comparison II: Leisure Suit Larry

66

Point, Click, Listen: Dave Gilbert (Wadjet Eye Games)

67

This Was SO Last Year (RIP 2023)

68

Adventure Game Interfaces

69

Sierra Remake Comparison I: Police Quest

70

Conquests of the Longbow: The Legend of Robin Hood (Feat. OneShortEye)

71

Quest For Story: The Role of an Adventure Game’s Plot

72

Oh, The Horror! (with Adventure Game Geek)

73

The Best King’s Quest

74

Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity

75

Hidden (In Plain Sight) Gems

76

Thimbleweed Park

77

Sacrificial Waffles: the Divine Comedy of Adventure Games

78

Games for Your Inner or Actual Child

79

Exploring Environments Made for Exploring Environments Made for

80

How to (re)Make an Adventure Game Soundtrack (with Error 47)

81

FMV Adventure Games

82

Consequence, Comfort & Modern Adventure Games

83

Enclosure 3D

84

Technobabylon

85

Dreamcasting with (not you Sega) Adventure Game Hotspot

86

The Best [stuff] in Adventure Games

87

Crooks, Bamboozlers & Baddies (Antagonists)

88

Toonstruck

89

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade THE GRAPHIC ADVENTURE

90

GAMES HAVE CHARACTERS (or ”Protagonists”)

91

Sidekicks

92

Big Sexy Boxes

93

Sarah & Anna’s Musical Picks

94

Mystery Games

95

Girls in Gaming

96

Adventure Game Puzzles

97

Interview with Eugene Sandulenko (ScummVM, Project Leader)

98

David Homb Returns! (Actor, Phantasmagoria)

99

Back In... 1984-86 - The Years In Gaming

100

Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers

101

What Have You Been Playing?

102

Back In... 1987 - The Year In Gaming

103

Sanitarium - Psychological Point-and-Click Horror

104

Sam and Max Hit the Road

105

Back in 1992 - the year in gaming

106

The Adventures of Willy Beamish - not for the kids

107

Back In... 1988 (The year in gaming)

108

The Dagger of Amon Ra - A Laura Bow Mystery

109

Back in 1990 - The year in gaming

110

Interview with Richard Aronson, programmer, writer, actor (Conquests of the Longbow, etc.)

111

Interview with Tom Hardwidge, game developer (Lucy Dreaming)

112

Games We've Changed Our Opinions On

113

Back in 1991 - The year in gaming (Bonus - Stephen King Adventure Game Adaptations)

114

Interview with Kaiju, writer, game dev, queer rights activist

115

Voice Acting In Games - the good, the bad, and the unnecessary

116

References vs Easter Eggs - where is the line drawn?

117

Listener Mailbag - May 2021

118

Interview with Aviv Salinas & Dave Seaman (The Corruption Within)

119

PART 2: Interview with Francisco Gonzalez, game developer (Lamplight City, Rosewater)

120

Interview with Francisco Gonzalez, game developer (Ben Jordan, A Golden Wake, Rosewater) - Part 1

121

Interview with Anne Bras (Big Box Guinness World Record holder, game developer)

122

Sexy Games - The games that turn us on

123

Interview with Michael McEntee, Youtuber (Yakwaxlips)

124

Polarization - The topics that divide us

125

Back in 1993... - The Year In Gaming

126

Interview - Jonas Fisch (Founder Common Colors, Developer Prim)

127

Back in 1989... - The Year In Gaming

128

Video Game Death Match - Who Would Win?

129

Second Interview with Lori and Corey Cole, game developers (Hero-U, Quest For Glory), with special guest Josh "Orion" Koss

130

Games with Exceptional Stories

131

Hardware and Emulation - Quest For Compatibility

132

Game Graphics We Adore

133

Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3 - also, Paul doesn't know Star Wars

134

Our Most Replayed Games (and a huge tangent)

135

2020 Mailbag

136

Interview with Noah Falstein, game designer (LucasArts, The Inspiracy)

137

Sim City - goodbye, sleep!

138

Les Manley in: Search For The King - the dollar store Leisure Suit Larry

139

On The Spot Challenge: Lemmings vs The Incredible Machine

140

The Fate of Atlantis - Indy gaming at its finest

141

The Blackstone Chronicles - you'd be crazy not to play it

142

I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream - feel good game of the year

143

The Long Reach - an above-mediocre horror adventure

144

Interview with David Homb, actor (Phantasmagoria)

145

Learning In Games (with special guest Dr. Leslie Markley)

146

Video Game Music (with special guest Lucas Mercer)

147

Interview with Ken Williams and SURPRISE GUEST Roberta Williams (Sierra On-Line)

148

Fun Games Despite Reasons To Suck

149

Great Games That Forgot To Be Fun

150

Games That Only Need ONE Change

151

Our Video Game Crushes

152

On The Spot Challenge: Poor Game Descriptions

153

Recommended Games That Aren't Sierra or LucasArts

154

On The Spot Challenge: Live Action Casting

155

Interview with Al Lowe, video game developer (Leisure Suit Larry, Torin's Passage)

156

On The Spot Challenge: Sequels (Re-upload)

157

Interview with Liana Ruppert, video game journalist (Prima Games, Don't Feed The Gamers)

158

Interview with Cidney Hamilton, programmer (Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption, Summer Daze)

159

Walkthroughs and hintbooks - the whens and hows of help

160

Replay Value in Classic Games

161

Games We Suck At

162

Carmen Sandiego (with special guest Mark Fillon)

163

Interview with Mark Fillon, game developer (Terroir, Chinatown Detective Agency)

164

Gold Rush! - The Sierra On-Line Trail

165

Interview with Chad Armstrong (King's Quest I - Redux)

166

Interview with Ivy Dupler, voice actor (Whispers of a Machine, Unavowed)

167

Video Game Role Models (and not)

168

Undiscovered Gems

169

Our Kinda Unpopular Opinions

170

Interview with Steven Alexander, game developer (Infamous Quests)

171

Games That Should Have Been (But Never Were)

172

The Ancient Arts of Wars - underappreciated RTS pioneers

173

American McGee's Alice (with special guest Mike Albertin)

174

King's Quest 4 (with special guests Sarah Kelley and Anna Vigue)

175

Nerd Representation In Film and TV

176

Interview with Bruce Brenneise, artist (Slay The Spire)

177

The Most Ridiculous Games Ever Made

178

The Best Sequels (that were never made)

179

Ep. 60 - Which Was The Best Year For Adventure Games?

180

Ep. 59 - Alignment Charts: a useful tool

181

Ep. 58 - Police Quest 2 (and a bit of 3)

182

Water Cooler 4: The Rocketeer (with special guest Joshua Blum)

183

Ep. 57 - Simulation Theory - what if WE are in a video game?

184

Ep. 56 - Ultima 7: how awesome is/was it?

185

Ep. 55 - Mailbag

186

Interview with Richard Garriott (Ultima, Shroud of the Avatar)

187

Ep. 53 - EcoQuest: because why not?

188

Ep. 52 - The Red Strings Club: a science fiction highlight

189

Ep. 51 - Neofeud: beautifully flawed

190

Ep. 50 - Blade Runner (the adventure game)

191

Ep. 49 - Space Quest series

192

Ep. 48 - Horror games

193

Water Cooler 3: Hope Kodman

194

Ep. 47 - Brandon Blume (video game musician) interview

195

Ep. 46 - Quest For Glory series (feat. QFG super fans!)

196

Ep. 45 - Mike Albertin (Games My Mom Found) interview

197

Ep. 44 - Julia Minamata (Crimson Diamond) interview

198

Ep. 43 - Shawn Mills (The Sierra Adventure) interview

199

Ep. 42 - Kathy Rain

200

Ep. 41 - Why Weren't These Games More Popular?

201

Ep. 40 - Paul's Magical Technicolored Dream Cast

202

Ep. 39 - Which Game Endings Would We Change?

203

Ep. 38 - Leisure Suit Larry (w/ Anna Vigue)

204

Ep. 37 - Literature, Video Games, and the Written Word (w/ Sean McCauley)

205

Ep. 36 - Which Game World Would We Live In?

206

Water Cooler 2: Battle Royale

207

Ep. 35 - Which Classic Game Character Should Have Joined the Avengers In Endgame?

208

Ep. 34 - Convince Me To Play: Kathy Rain

209

Episode 33: Fourth Wall and Immersion; Mostly Thimbleweed Park

210

Water Cooler 1: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

211

Episode 32: The Neverhood

212

Episode 31: Mortal Kombat (the movie)

213

Episode 30: Another World

214

Episode 29: Enclosure

215

Episode 28: Grand Theft Auto 1

216

Episode 27: Alone in the Dark

217

Episode 26: Fallout 1

218

Episode 25: Planet's Edge: The Point of No Return

219

Episode 24: The St. Christopher's School Lockdown

220

Episode 23: Interview with Lori and Corey Cole, game developers (Hero-U, Quest for Glory)

221

Sneak Preview - Lori and Corey Cole interview

222

Episode 22: Maniac Mansion

223

Episode 21: Jones in the Fast Lane

224

Episode 20: The Colonel's Bequest

225

Episode 19: Police Quest 1 (AGI)

226

Episode 18: Adaptations Into Things (part 2)

227

Episode 17: Adaptations Into Things (part 1)

228

Episode 16: Al Eufrasio (artist, animator - Hero-U) interview

229

Episode 15: Bruce Brenneise (visual artist) interview

230

Episode 14: Mobilization

231

Episode 13: Pamela (Cannot Be Tamed) interview

232

Episode 12: Sequels

233

Episode 11: Remakes, Reboots, and Remasters

234

Episode 9: Chris Kennedy (Displaced Gamers) interview

235

Episode 8: Unique Games (w/ Paul Korman)

236

Episode 7: Joel McCoy (Big Box PC Game Collectors)

237

Episode 6: Q&A (with Paul Korman)

238

Episode 5: Dave Wishnowski (Pro Wrestling X)

239

Episode 4: Paul Korman (The Volume Remote)

240

Episode 3: Jim Ferguson (Making a Scene)

241

Episode 2: Stig Johansen (Dungeons and Dragons writer)

242

Episode 1: Julia Minamata (The Crimson Diamond)