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:

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!