The Very Exciting Podcast

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In Episode 2 we report back on Tomba! for our Retro Video Game Club, flip through 2005 PlayStation magazine ads, and somehow spend ten minutes on pinball.

Carmichael Jones (Shaun w/ a U) and Andy T. talk about the first three hours of Tomba! (evil pigs, rotating camera angles, and a LOT of backtracking), a trip to the Pinball Expo, ridiculous Official PlayStation Magazine ads (a body spray with a "foreign relations" warning card, 3D glasses for the PS1, and Blockbuster's guide to being a better gamer), plus Blockbuster and Hollywood Video war stories and one coworker whose lies never stopped getting bigger.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome to Episode 2 (Retro Video Game Club: Tomba!)

1:29 Pinball Expo in Chicago and the new Fallout pinball

3:28 Pinball leagues: old machines vs. new machines

5:01 Stern's 50th anniversary panel (and the free cake)

5:37 Bon Jovi pins, Pokémon pins, and angry pinball guys

8:07 What we've been playing: Fallout Pinball, Outer Wilds DLC, Rocket League

9:45 Bon Jovi pinball price check ($12K!)

10:18 Pinball Maps, shady token pricing, and Rocket League

11:39 Old PlayStation magazine ads

12:47 The TAG body spray ad (and Bod spray in a Windex bottle)

16:52 The PS1 3D glasses ad

18:31 Blockbuster's "How to Be a Better Gamer" ad

22:15 Blockbuster vs. Hollywood Video: dot matrix receipts and command-line rentals

25:18 The prolific liar at the video store (karate, snake pits, one limp)

28:18 Tomba! homework check-in

29:31 Rotating perspectives, loading screens, and backtracking

31:48 Metroidvania basics: the golden egg and the 1,000-year-old man

33:28 Biting dwarves and David the Gnome vibes

35:03 Pink hair, a feral child, and a monkey who wants bananas

36:55 The first evil pig (and the door you'll never find)

39:29 The never-ending torch quest

42:34 The laughing and crying mushrooms

44:30 Stormy Mountain and the piranha plants from hell

46:02 Why the PS1 era was so experimental

47:20 The farting plants

48:19 Homework for Episode 3: catch the third evil pig

49:55 Pig bags and chest colors (100, 1,000, and 10,000-year-old)

51:57 Are we 100% completionists? (Kingdom Hearts 2, Outer Wilds)

53:40 Boss fight talk and where to play Tomba! today

Join the club: play the first three hours of Tomba! with us, then tell us how far you got. Next episode's goal is the third evil pig.

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The Very Exciting Podcast is a gaming podcast with a retro lean. Each episode we talk about what we're playing, dig through gaming's strange past, and work through a retro game together in our Retro Video Game Club.

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Episode 1 of The Very Exciting Podcast! Carmichael Jones (Shaun w/ a U) and Andy T. settle on a name, go down a Boy Throb rabbit hole, trade what they're playing, and kick off a retro game club with Tomba on PS1.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Welcome + how we landed on "The Very Exciting Podcast"

1:57 Boy Throb: is this band real? (Nathan Fielder theories included)

5:15 The Hulk casting story

7:38 The house-flipping convention that felt like a megachurch

10:30 What this show is about (games, mostly retro, plus life)

13:50 What we're playing: Outer Wilds (no spoilers) + the DLC

18:55 Fatal Frame, Fallout: New Vegas, and NBA 2K21's shutdown

23:33 "Ball and gun gamers" and liking all kinds of games

25:21 Favorite retro games: Sega, Streets of Rage, the Nomad, and the Duke controller

28:24 The night we camped out at the mall for a Wii (and lost)

34:20 Bricking consoles: Wii and PS3 jailbreak disasters

35:55 Metal Gear Solid talk

37:16 Retro Game Club kicks off: Tomba (PS1)

42:56 AI game mashups (Call of Duty Zombies x NHL 2K)

44:12 Does Carmichael Jones sound like DSP?

1:00:06 Wrap-up + homework

RETRO GAME CLUB

Play Tomba on PS1 until you capture the first evil pig (about 2-3 hours), take notes, and join the discussion in the comments. Then start thinking about a game to suggest (nothing 60 hours long, please).

GAMES MENTIONED

Outer Wilds, Fatal Frame, Fallout: New Vegas, NBA 2K21, Tomba, Spice World, Metal Gear Solid, Streets of Rage, Heavy Rain, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7