80-Bit Podsmash

As Sony reigns as king in the platform competition, are they headed for a fall? Sony has made a lot of not so consumer friendly decisions lately. We lay them all out and discuss a state of the industry and assess what's going on over in the PlayStation camp.

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Penguin & Termite are taken over once again by Halloween! We get festive by continuing our Monster Smash series, focusing on monsters in video games. This year, Zombies. Probably the most prolific, overused trope in video games. Why are there so many zombie games? We discuss...

We've discussed lots of things regarding Halloween and gaming, but we've never talked about the cultural influence that each have had on the other. We go over how developers celebrate Halloween, and how Halloween has evolved with the influence of gaming in general.

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Penguin & Termite discuss the significance of those old, pre-loaded, Operating System video games that came pre-installed on most computers. What was the impact and influence on gamers at that time? Do we still see them today?

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Penguin & Termite kick off a new series of topics going over how video games relate to various emotions. With Halloween approaching, we start with FEAR! Covering how video games utilize fear - such as design and narrative direction.

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Penguin & Termite take an introspective dive to investigate cultural appropriation in video games. What is cultural appropriation? What does it have to do with video games? Has the industry gotten better about this? All this and more...

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Is Atari's E.T. the worst game of all time? Were they buried in the desert? There is so much to talk about surrounding the myths and legends of this 1982 flop - that we've decided to dedicate a whole episode around it! Come and learn about what was going on in this piece of gaming history.

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https://www.ign.com/articles/years-later-the-creator-of-et-remains-proud-of-the-worst-game-ever-made

Penguin & Termite took notice of some video game related terminology definitions being compiled into glossaries and published on the internet. With that, we wanted to weigh in on the importance of such things.

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Penguin & Termite reach the finish line of Wikipedia's Best Video Games of All Time list! We walk through the years 2014 through 2018 of this curated list, while offering our perspective of the games themselves and the state of the industry at the time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_considered_the_best

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Nothing celebrates Labor Day more than a good discussion about cheating! Penguin & Termite have devoted an entire episode to the discussion about Aimbot. What is it? How nefarious is it? What's it's impact in the video game culture/industry today? What are its redeeming qualities? All this and more...

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Music: Halcyonic Falcon X - Of Rainbows and Unicorns http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/