Fallin‘ Thru Plotholes

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Join Alex, Michael, and others are they talk about the plotlines of legacy videogame franchises, how they evolved, and how they often go off the rails. They will also talk about how these games were ... more

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The podcast currently has 115 episodes available.

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May 17, 2022 Episode 19-1: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is bombastic and pretty ok with war crimes.
In this week's episode, Alex and Michael tackle the incredibly influential Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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1h 2min
April 27, 2022 Episode 18: A Literal Car Wreck Called Gizmondo
In this episode of Fallin' Thru Plotholes, Michael and Alex talk gaming history as they discuss the Gizmondo, and the wreck a company behind it, Tiger Telematics.

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Sources used:

Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up: Author: Randall Sullivan. WIRED.com, published October 1st, 2006. https://www.wired.com/2006/10/gizmondo/

The Weird, Wild Saga of Gizmondo. Author: Nicolas Stecher. TheDrive.com, published March 14th, 2016. https://www.thedrive.com/news/2559/the-weird-wild-saga-of-gizmondo-part-1

A Horse Named Gizmondo: The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Failed Console. Author: Ellie Gibson. Eurogamer.net. Published July 13th, 2014. https://www.eurogamer.net/a-horse-named-gizmondo-the-inside-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-failed-console

Notorious Gangsters and No Games: The Gory Story of the Gizmondo. Author: Mike Diver. Vice.com. Published March 9th, 2015. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd7nqz/notorious-gangsters-and-no-games-the-gory-story-of-the-gizmondo-656
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1h 23min
April 12, 2022 Episode 17-2: Chrono Cross: Why?
In part 2, Alex, Michael and Matt discuss the follow up to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross. A game that does its best to be just about as confusing as possible. Come for the multiple timelines and dimensions, stay for the 45 playable characters and destruction of everything you know and love!

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2h 13min
March 30, 2022 Episode 17-1: Chrono Trigger is just really good
In this episode, Alex and Michael are joined by Matt from twitch.tv/cartridgeblowers to talk all about Chrono Trigger, a fun time-traveling story as they wonder if a goodbye is really sad if you can just time travel, why one teenage girl is responsible for all modern inventions, and for some reason talk about the 1992 US Men's Basketball Team.

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1h 57min
March 23, 2022 Episode 16: What are you doing Halo Infinite?
In this episode, Alex and Michael finally tackle Halo Infinite, a game with terrible plot twists, a need to wipe away narrative baggage but still gets weighed down by it anyway, and maybe one of the most unmemorable villains ever conceived.

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1h 13min
March 08, 2022 Episode 15: The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are a mess
In this episode, Alex and Michael discuss the mess behind the royalty rights to Ms. Pac-Man, and talk about companies making shady deals, weird back-stabbery, and the weirdness that is the character Crazy Otto.

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Sources used:

Pac-Attack, Author: Unknown. Digital Press Issue 24 pg 18-19. Published March 1995.

The rights to Ms. Pac-Man are caught up in a messy legal battle. Author: Kyle Orland. Publisher: Arstechica, September 27th, 2019.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/09/the-rights-to-ms-pac-man-are-caught-in-a-messy-legal-battle/#:~:text=Pac%2DMan%20is%20at%20the,royalty%20rights%20to%20the%20game

How an arcade classic broke all the rules. Author: Colin Campbell. Publisher: Polygon, March 25th, 2016.
https://www.polygon.com/2016/3/25/11287572/ms-pac-man-story

Classic Game Post-Mortem: Ms. Pac-Man. Author: Steve Golson. Presented at GDC 2016. January 13th, 2017.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhM8NAMW_VQ

Worldwide Revenue of Major Toy Companies in 2020. Author: D.Tighe. Publisher: Statista. January 14th, 2022.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/241241/revenue-of-major-toy-companies-worldwide/

AtGames, sued by Ms. Pac-Man's owner, boys up royalty rights to the icon. Author: Owen S. Good. Publisher: Polygon. September 26th, 2019. https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/26/20886032/ms-pac-man-lawsuit-bandai-namco-atgames-rights-royalties

Bandai Namco sues throwback console maker over Ms. Pac-Man mini-cabinet. Author: Owen S. Good. Publisher: Polygon. September 25th, 2019.
https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/25/20884111/bandai-namco-atgames-lawsuit-ms-pac-man-pac-man-flashback-blast-copyright-infringement

Top 10 Highest-Grossing Arcade Games of All Time. Author: Jaz Rignall. Publisher: USGamer. January 1st, 2016.
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/top-10-biggest-grossing-arcade-games-of-all-time
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March 01, 2022 Episode 14-3: Fallout hits a peak, then falls to Earth like a lead balloon
In Part 3 of our series on Fallout, Alex and Michael talk about New Vegas and Fallout 4, examining a good story about factional fighting in the Mojave Desert, and then pivot to talking a lot about babies I guess.

Good quick rundown of the Fallout 76 controversies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8&ab_channel=InternetHistorian

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1h 49min
February 24, 2022 Episode 14-2: Fallout 3 has a really good hook and then Bethesda gets in the way
In part 2 of our series on the Fallout series, Alex and Michael talk about Fallout 3, going over its origins and plot, all the while trying to figure out how Interplay still exists in the first place.
Archived thread of one very angry NMA poster: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16613&mode=threaded
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1h 22min
February 08, 2022 Episode 14-1: Fallout is a fun romp through a nuclear holocaust
In this episode, Alex and Michael rouse themselves from the dead to talk about Fallout, an series that blends 50's nostalgia culture and retrofuturism with the reality that emphasizes the important of potable water and not dying of radiation.
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1h 13min
January 11, 2022 Fallin’ Thru Plotholes Extra: How the Lion King Ruined Christmas and Led to Direct X
In a bonus episode, Alex and Michael discuss a ruined Christmas, old computers, and why you really, really should test your software.

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Sources for this episode:

Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing. Author: Rod Canion. BenBella Books, October 15th, 2013.

If you want basic ease, look at Compaq Presario. Author: Michael J. Himowitz. Publisher: Baltimore Sun, November 8th 1993.

Power of X. Author: David Craddock. Shacknews, November 13th 2020. https://www.shacknews.com/article/120300/bet-on-black-how-microsoft-and-xbox-changed-pop-culture?page=9

Usenet Archive. Author: Various. Google Groups Archive. December 24th, 1994. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.disney/c/acQdJgSV6wM/m/fXQaSrv6Z0sJ?pli=1
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1h 17min

FAQs about Fallin‘ Thru Plotholes:

How many episodes does Fallin‘ Thru Plotholes have?

The podcast currently has 115 episodes available.