Hey everyone, we're so sorry about the two-week break, but we're back with ENERGY! Matt has two new segments to present. One that's very normal, and one that's utterly bizarre. Roses went to England and played some arcade games. Matt went to the Adventure Game Fan Fair and we talk about a bunch of demos.

The rest, you're just gonna have to hear for yourself.

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Games Mentioned:

• Die Hard: The Arcade Game
• “Dynamo Cops or something”
• Mario Kart
• House of the Dead
• Typing of the Dead
• Track and Field
• ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkotron
• Mortal Kombat II
• Tapper
• Baby Pac-Man
• Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
• Mario Party
• Super Mario World
• Lamplight City
• Casual Birder
• Resonant Tale
• The Crimson Diamond
• Heir of the Dog
• Home: A Story of Light
• Phantom Fellows
• War of the Western Deep
• President Rocket
• Fogtown
• Quest for Glory V
• Liesure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards
• Freddy Pharkus: Frontier Pharmacist
• The Fan
• Carol Reed: Amos Green’s Final Repose
• Fran Bow
• Weird: Truth is Stranger than Fiction
• Krabat and the Sorbian King
• Wild Wild West: The Steel Assassin
• Dust: A Tale of the Wired West

IT'S BAKING TIME! Matt makes bad cookies and then Roses and Matt plan some really cool Stardew-themed Macarons. We briefly revisit the Detective Grimoire series and talk about Rise of the Golden Idol. Then we do a deep-dive into a game that captured the hell out of our imaginations: Dreams in the Witch House!

PLUS A RETURN OF A BELOVED SEGMENT!!!

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Games Mentioned:

• Tangle Tower
• Detective Grimoire (THE ORIGINAL FLASH GAME)
• Rise of the Golden Idol
• Quest For Glory
• Dreams in the Witch House
• The Dunwich Horror (Upcoming Sequel)

Lets talk about guinea pigs for a while then too many Lorelais before we DEEP DIVE into TANGLE TOWER - a fun mystery game! And we talk about its predecessor Detective Grimoire and the demo for the third game in the series, The Mermaid Mask. It's, honestly?, just a good episode.

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Games Mentioned:

• Lorelai
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Detective Grimoire
• The Mermaid Mask
• Tangle Tower
• The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon
• The Duck Detective

Roses has new teeth and can't eat no potatoes, but she DID learn about a lot of games with an overwhelming number of cats. We take your questions about achievements, non-adventure game mechanics, console gaming, genre distinctions, Andrew Plotkin's Cruelty Scale, and much more!

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Games Mentioned:

• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• A Castle Full of Cats (and the others in the series)
• The Blue Cat
• Tunic
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers/The Beast Within
• Dropsy
• Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Riven
• Warcraft Adventure Game
• Hive Swap
• The Tex Murphy Series
• Arcane: Online Mystery Serial
• Disco Elysium
• Monkey Island II
• Harvester
• A Space for the Unbound
• Zelda (just a bunch of em)
• Brok the Invesigator
• Lair of the Clockwork God
• Bulb Boy
• Clock Tower
• The Neverhood
• Soma
• Banjo Kazooie
• Mario 64
• Scooby Doo (Genesis)
• Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
• Deja Vu
• Cosmic Spacehead
• A Boy and his Blob
• ToeJam & Earl
• Quest For Glory
• Space Quest III

Healthcare! World Hunger! Capitalism! Unfinished Games! Get ready for some R-A-N-T-S!

"Aw, Man..." coming soon to NBC

Also, we talk about Laura Bow: The Dagger of Amon Ra for an hour.

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Games Mentioned: 

• A Space for the Unbound
• Stardew Valley
• The Haunted Chocolatier
• Lorelai
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Journeyman Project
• The Sexy Brutale
• Mystery House
• The Colonel’s Bequest
• The Dagger of Amon Ra

After a week off, Matt and Roses are back fresh as... roses, I guess. After the contractually obligated Stardew Valley talk, we discuss four of YOUR AUDIENCE RECCOMENDATIONS! A Space for the Unbound, The Invincible, The Journeyman Project, and The Cat Lady! This leads to a deep discussion of the entire Harvester Games catalogue.

YOUR TAKEAWAYS: 1) If you recommend us a game, guess which one of us it will appeal to more!  2) Email us your opinions on Harvester Games games.  3) Games: They're not just Pac-Man anymore.

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Games Mentioned:

• Stardew Valley
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
• A Space for the Unbound
• Persona series
• The Invincible
• Firewatch
• The Journeyman Project: Legacy of Time
• The Journeyman Project: Project Pegasus
• The Cat Lady
• Downfall
• Burnhouse Lane
• Lorelai
• The Dagger of Amon Ra
• Pac-Man

Hey everyone, we're not doing an episode this week, so we just thought we'd throw you a quick episode to tell you how we're not doing an episode. So, sorry there is no episode, but here's an episode about that.

And, while we were here, we thought, to apologize for not having an episode, we'd answer a few listener questions.

In conclusion, there is no episode. So here is your episode about how there is, in fact, not an episode this week.

Episode.

First, you should know: It's not Matt's fault. Second, you should know: PushingUpRoses is a chaotic force. Third, you should listen to us talk about video games. We talk a lot about games we WANT to play, but haven't, then we DEEP DIVE into both of the major releases from Postmodern Adventures.

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Games Mentioned:

• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
• Strange Horticulture
• Strange Antiquities
• Billy Masters was Right
• Urban Witch Story
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Animal Well
• The Witness
• Nightmare Frames
• An English Haunting
• Gabriel Knight Sins of the Fathers
• A Thousand Clowns (this is a movie, but Matt describes it for a solid 2 minutes, so it goes on the list)

We all knew it was coming eventually. THE BIG TWO! Such a natural pairing of two pieces of media we probably don't even need to mention it. But we will. Matt and Roses play and talk about Duck Detective: The Secret Salami and Harvester. The 1996 FMV video game Harvester. The episode basically records itself. 

We also say goodbye to a dear, dear, dear, dear friend.

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Games Mentioned:

• Kings Quest V (R.I.P.)
• Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
• An English Haunting
• Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers
• Nightmare Frames
• The Last Door
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
• Resident Evil
• Silent Hill
• Case of the Golden Idol
• Harvester
• Night Trap

PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp talk to Stuart Ashen (Ashens, of YouTube fame,) about moon logic and weird, unfair, bizarre, beautiful adventure game puzzles. Also, Matt played Lil' Guardsman.

Ashens' talk on moon logic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7nk_Apf35A

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Games Mentioned:

• The Adventures of Mad Dog Williams in the Dungeons of Diridion
• Kings Quest 6
• Heaven's Dawn
• Baldur's Gate 3
• Aladdin
• Lil' Guardsman
• Papers Please
• Disco Elysium
• Phantasmagoria 2: A Puzzle of Flesh
• Monkey Island II
• Operation: Stealth
• Chrono Quest II
• Police Quest 1
• Runaway: A Road AdventureA
• Discworld
• Codename: ICEMAN
• Lone Eagle: Columbian Encounter
• Police Quest IV: Open Season
• Kings Quest 5
• Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards