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So Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! Interesting villains, and the retro games sometimes deliver the goods. Who wants another mustache twirling bozo who just wants to tie your wife to the railroad tracks? A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don’t want them. And here we celebrate some of the … ok… sorry for the misuse of the term.. “good” ones.
So meet the villains of this episode:
Andrew “I’m right – damn the consequences” Ryan – Bioshock 1.
Donkey “But Mario is the evil one” Kong – The Donkey Kong series.
Sarah “I will bathe in your blood, but I’m the victim here” Kerrigan – Starcraft 1 and 2.
Robo “He’s just like Hitler” Hitler – Castle Wolfestein.
Wallace “Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck” Breen – Halflife 1 and 2.
Shodan “I’m god, now you curl up and die” – System Shock 1 and 2.
(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate “The incel of piracy” LeChuck – The Monkey Island series.
00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro
00:12 DJ Daemon speaks: Games are often stories – and stories need heroes and villains. The boring and uninteresting are a dime a dozen and we don’t care. But in this episode, we give you seven retro game villains that have a reason to be what they are, do what they do while shoving very little remorse.
00:36 Pip Malt – Bacon Cookies
03:47 DJ Daemon speaks: I don’t care much for the “evil for evil’s sake”. It’s a boring a useless trope, that is fit for lesser bosses and the occasional end boss when the focus is not the evil and the villain. But a good villain has a rationale, a drive, and a motivation. Some are into greed, some are corrupted and unleash hidden flaws when life goes bad for them, some have ulterior motives and no idea as to why everyone hates them, and some would have been good if only “insert plot element here” would not have happened. So today we go under the sea, into the jungle, among the stars and into the blood drenched walls of a certain castle. And we wade through the corpses and the destroyed landscape to find the nature of evil wherever it may be.
04:50 Falcon of Pulse and TDR – Her Spirits Rise
09:53 DJ Daemon speaks: Would you kindly consider a bit of wisdom from yours truly: · “A man choose, but the slave of an idea has to obey”. In Bioshock you come to an underwater city built on the idea of total freedom.
11:11 Noiseless – Addiction
15:54 DJ Daemon speaks: If you ever played Donkey Kong, you know that mr Kong is the villain-Gorilla stealing the hero’s girlfriend and then proceeds to throw barrels at him to kill him. And the hero, Jumpman is trying to rescue his lady, named “lady”.
16:57 Sidewinder of Porphyria – in the Eyes
20:28 DJ Daemon speaks: In StarCraft, three races battle it out… in space. Classic premise if you ask me. It’s the humans, the huge comodo-dragon-like Zerg and some weird mage class aliens called the Protoss.
21:33 Laxity of Vibrants – Progressive Jodling
24:41 DJ Daemon speaks: In castle Wolfenstein you fight the nazis. This was before a thousand other games took up this plot and made it a bit boring. The end boss is – I kid you not – Robo-Hitler. It’s like regular Hitler, but now he’s a robot.
25:44 Parity Error – Wish of Freedom
30:38 DJ Daemon speaks: In Halflife Wallace Breen is the elusive administrator that set up the catastrophic experiment that led to earth coming under attack from an alien race. His solution is to negotiate peace with the efficiency of Neville Chamberlain.
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By Erik ZalitisSo Tina Turner may not need another hero, but we need more villains! Interesting villains, and the retro games sometimes deliver the goods. Who wants another mustache twirling bozo who just wants to tie your wife to the railroad tracks? A proper villain has to have a reason to be who he or she is or we don’t want them. And here we celebrate some of the … ok… sorry for the misuse of the term.. “good” ones.
So meet the villains of this episode:
Andrew “I’m right – damn the consequences” Ryan – Bioshock 1.
Donkey “But Mario is the evil one” Kong – The Donkey Kong series.
Sarah “I will bathe in your blood, but I’m the victim here” Kerrigan – Starcraft 1 and 2.
Robo “He’s just like Hitler” Hitler – Castle Wolfestein.
Wallace “Long, intellectual rant on why all is perfect and you suck” Breen – Halflife 1 and 2.
Shodan “I’m god, now you curl up and die” – System Shock 1 and 2.
(Ghost/Zombie/Whatever) Pirate “The incel of piracy” LeChuck – The Monkey Island series.
00:00 Flashback – tracks from the past – Show intro
00:12 DJ Daemon speaks: Games are often stories – and stories need heroes and villains. The boring and uninteresting are a dime a dozen and we don’t care. But in this episode, we give you seven retro game villains that have a reason to be what they are, do what they do while shoving very little remorse.
00:36 Pip Malt – Bacon Cookies
03:47 DJ Daemon speaks: I don’t care much for the “evil for evil’s sake”. It’s a boring a useless trope, that is fit for lesser bosses and the occasional end boss when the focus is not the evil and the villain. But a good villain has a rationale, a drive, and a motivation. Some are into greed, some are corrupted and unleash hidden flaws when life goes bad for them, some have ulterior motives and no idea as to why everyone hates them, and some would have been good if only “insert plot element here” would not have happened. So today we go under the sea, into the jungle, among the stars and into the blood drenched walls of a certain castle. And we wade through the corpses and the destroyed landscape to find the nature of evil wherever it may be.
04:50 Falcon of Pulse and TDR – Her Spirits Rise
09:53 DJ Daemon speaks: Would you kindly consider a bit of wisdom from yours truly: · “A man choose, but the slave of an idea has to obey”. In Bioshock you come to an underwater city built on the idea of total freedom.
11:11 Noiseless – Addiction
15:54 DJ Daemon speaks: If you ever played Donkey Kong, you know that mr Kong is the villain-Gorilla stealing the hero’s girlfriend and then proceeds to throw barrels at him to kill him. And the hero, Jumpman is trying to rescue his lady, named “lady”.
16:57 Sidewinder of Porphyria – in the Eyes
20:28 DJ Daemon speaks: In StarCraft, three races battle it out… in space. Classic premise if you ask me. It’s the humans, the huge comodo-dragon-like Zerg and some weird mage class aliens called the Protoss.
21:33 Laxity of Vibrants – Progressive Jodling
24:41 DJ Daemon speaks: In castle Wolfenstein you fight the nazis. This was before a thousand other games took up this plot and made it a bit boring. The end boss is – I kid you not – Robo-Hitler. It’s like regular Hitler, but now he’s a robot.
25:44 Parity Error – Wish of Freedom
30:38 DJ Daemon speaks: In Halflife Wallace Breen is the elusive administrator that set up the catastrophic experiment that led to earth coming under attack from an alien race. His solution is to negotiate peace with the efficiency of Neville Chamberlain.