Game Older

Game Older

By Jonathon AndersonVideo Games
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Game Older episodes

  • Twilight Princess | Game Older

    Andi beat a game! And it's a Zelda game! Come hang with us for a bit

    while we discuss the special place the Zelda series has in each of our
    hearts.

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    Media used

    • Title Theme (Ocarina of Time) Guitar Cover | DSC

    • Link's Awakening Medley (from The Legend of Zelda: Concert 2018) | Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

      • Also included is background music and marketing from a variety of

      Zelda games, including Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, and Breath
      of the Wild.

      1 hr 25 min
    • Ōkami | Game Older

      Jonathon was finally left with no excuse to not play Ōkami, when Cam

      joined the crew, Steam library in tow. Like the game, we spend a lot
      of time hanging out and talking too much.

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      Media used

      • Ōkami OST

      • "Harushiden," halc, ocremix.org

        • Games mentioned

        • Ōkami

        • Myst (series)

        • Death Stranding

        • Spyro the Dragon

        • The Witness

        • Viewtiful Joe

        • God Hand

        • Vanquish

        • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

        • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

        • The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

        • Bayonetta

        • Nier: Automata

        • Snake Pass

        • Crash Bandicoot

        • Katamari Damacy

        • Chibi-Robo!

          • Other references

          • Sorry, I don't like Okami, Tim Rogers, Kotaku

            • 56 min
          • Quern | Game Older

            In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Myst, Andi and Jonathon

            discuss their history with the Myst franchise, games that remind us of
            Myst, and their experience playing the 2016 game Quern: Undying
            Thoughts.

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            Media used

            • Cyan logo soundtrack, Windows 3.1 release

            • Myst Theme, Myst OST

            • Moiety Theme, Riven OST

            • Finale, Myst OST

            • Adventure, Fez OST

              • Games mentioned

              • Myst (franchise)

              • Breath of the Wild

              • The 7th Guest

              • Lemonade Stand

              • Quern: Undying Thoughts

              • Obduction

              • Fez

              • The Witness

              • SOMA

              • Celeste

              • Gone Home

              • Tacoma

              • What Remains of Edith Finch

              • Dear Esther

              • The Journeyman Project (franchise)

                • Other references

                • Classic Games Postmortem: Myst, Robyn Miller, GDC

                • Keith Balard, YouTube

                • Sequelitis, YouTube

                • Myst (books)

                • The Magician’s Nephew

                  • 1 hr 45 min
                • Dads | Game Older

                  In a very special episode of Game Older, Jonathon explores the

                  primordial history of his computing and gaming life by talking with
                  his dad, who was there to witness it all. Along the way they divert
                  into such tangents as the horrors of VHS tracking, TI-99 machine code,
                  and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

                  This episode features prominent clips from the album "Home," a

                  self-produced record from the 1970's gospel band P.O.A.

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                  After publication, Andy Anderson followed up with this response:

                  While listening to this, I remembered that my first encounter with

                  computer games was around 1973 or 74 when I went with a friend to
                  EIU's computer lab (he was a student) and played a text game in which
                  you were given information about an enemy invader and and had to make
                  decisions regarding your strategy. No graphics, just text. The game
                  was on the mainframe. It was INTERESTING.

                  Media used

                  • Not So Cheap Thrills

                  • Son Rise

                  • Soul Brother

                  • Lantern

                  • Sleeping

                  • Home

                    • Also includes a clip of the soundscape from the Matel Intellivision

                    game "Snafu," as well as a clip from ISO/BOBS: The Lonesome Pine
                    Special,
                    which bears particular sgnificance to both Jonathon and his
                    dad. Listen to find out more!

                    1 hr 10 min
                  • SOMA | Game Older

                    After playing and ranting about Amnesia, the Dark Descent, Andi and

                    Jonathon revisit the work of Frictional Games with their latest entry,
                    SOMA.

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                    Media used

                    • The Prestige

                    • SOMA soundtrack

                    • Star Trek, Deep Space 9

                    • Balance and Ruin: Elegy for a Ruined World

                      • 1 hr 17 min
                    • Amnesia | Game Older

                      Jonathon's got things to say about Frictional Games' "Amnesia: the

                      Dark Descent"! After trying and failing to put his thoughts down in
                      essay form, he's taken to the podcast in hopes that Andi will be able
                      to extract from him why he thinks that the game is more than just a
                      really good monster closet.

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                      Games mentioned

                      • Amnesia: the Dark Descent

                      • Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs

                      • Soma

                      • Silent Hill 2

                      • Resident Evil (series)

                      • The Witness

                      • Bioshock

                      • Valkyria Chronicles

                        • 57 min
                      • Brothers | Game Older

                        Andi played Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons with our two sons one Sunday

                        afternoon, and went in blind. Hear her go into emotional detail about
                        why she might have regretted it.

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                        Music used

                        • Brothers: a Tale of Two Sons (launch trailer theme)

                        • No Sugar In My Coffee by Caught in a Ghost (from the reveal trailer for A Way Out)

                          • 59 min
                        • Tandem Gaming | Game Older

                          Andi and I play games together, but not really traditional multiplayer

                          games. Join us for a long-delayed, rambling conversating about what
                          games bring us together; and how it affects us, our friends, and our
                          family.

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                          Games mentioned

                          • Myst (series)

                          • Prince of Persia: Sands of Time

                          • Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

                          • Peasant's Quest

                          • Donkey Kong Country

                          • Donkey Kong Country Returns

                          • Valkyria Chronicles

                          • New Super Mario Bros.

                          • Super Mario Galaxy (series)

                          • Mass Effect (trilogy)

                          • Metal Gear Solid (series)

                          • Obduction

                          • The Witness

                          • Ibb and Obb

                          • Dark Souls 2

                          • Snipperclips

                          • The Walking Dead

                          • Heavy Rain

                          • Indigo Prophecy

                          • Half Life 2

                          • Portal (series)

                          • Fable 2

                          • Oblivion

                          • Final Fantasy

                          • Final Fantasy X

                          • Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Oracle of Seasons

                          • World of Warcraft

                          • Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap

                            • Music used

                            • Myst Theme by Robyn Miller, from Myst

                            • Succeeded Wish (instrumental) from the Valkyria Chronicles "Steam" Launch Trailer

                              • 56 min
                            • The Witness | Game Older

                              Long imagined but never before realized, I managed to get one of my

                              non-gamer friends to actually play a game and share their experience
                              with me! My father-in-law saw me playing The Witness over Christmas,
                              and didn't want me to leave before I set him up to play it after I was
                              gone. More than that, he totally bought in to engaging with it at a
                              satisfying philosophical level. I loved having the conversation, and I
                              hope you enjoy listening to it.

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                              Music used

                              • Escape Artist by Zoe Keating (from the trailer for The Witness)

                                • 38 min
                              • Cyberpunk 2077 | Game Older

                                Our second attempt at a podcast makes it a real thing, right? This

                                time we consider sexuality and objectification as portrayed in a video
                                game trailer compared with a related music video.

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                                Music used

                                • Bullets by Archive

                                • Hatchet by Archive

                                • Cyberpunk 2077 trailer by CD Projekt RED (featuring Bullets by Archive)

                                  • 1 hr 1 min

                                About Game Older

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                                A podcast where old(er) people talk about playing (frequently older) games.