Today on Never Was A Gamer: Metal Gear Solid for the SNES!  

Timecodes:  

00:22 Introduction.   

01:18 Earthworm Jim: A GameFan Critical Retrospective.   

8:45 What's up with Hideo Kojima?   

17:25 Is Kojima an auteur? (Is anyone?)   

25:27 What does Michelle know about MGS? (Snake in a box)   

BREAK.   

33:02 Origins of Metal Gear.   

38:59 Dimitri recalls the hype cycle for MGS1.   

50:05 A letter from Gabe Newell.  

52:45 Demo discs!  

BREAK.  

54:56 Looking at promo materials & concept art.   

1:01:05 E3 trailer and TV ad (1998)   

1:07:10 MGS as a "cinematic" game (again)   

1:15:25 Stealth in games.   

1:37:12 Predictions.   

Promo materials: 

FOXHOUND concept art.      

Gamers Republic Cover: Cyborg Ninja.      

GamePro MGS Spread.   

1998 E3 trailer.   

1998 TV ad.   

Today on Never Was A Gamer: Super Metroid on SNES!

Timecodes:

0:00: Overall impressions

22:15: Why does Super Metroid's gameplay work?

42:50: Metroidvanias and nonlinearity

58:10: Cinematic games

1:21:00: The ending (Tourian and onwards)

1:34:30: Predictions

1:37:50: Michelle's Final Score

Today on Never Was A Gamer: Super Metroid for the SNES!

Timecodes:

 0:00: Intro & general impressions

28:20: Our memories of Super Metroid

35:00: Games in 1994

46:30: Advertising for Super Metroid

1:10:00: Predictions

Materials:

Lambshanks ad

Concept art spread

Game Players cover

North American television ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrACWQvzHw

Japanese television ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG6c2JOuGuk

Welcome to Never Was A Gamer, the show where a late-blooming gamer makes up for lost time by playing everyone else's formative games. We are Michelle and Dimitri, and in Episode 0 we talk about our lopsided histories with games and how this weird project came to be.

If you want to skip it and head right to Episode 1, the Super Metroid arc is waiting for you now.;

-M&D