Odd Gaming Associations

Slight change of plans, dear listener. Paul is out of town again this week, so we’ve pushed the “favorite weapons in video games” episode back a few weeks and are, instead, talking about some of our weird (and not weird) gaming associations. Ron and Joey talk a brisk jaunt down memory lane and share some associations we have with specific games. Which game do you suppose one of us used No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom album as a soundtrack for? And which of us was watching Dateline, playing Doom, and listening to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral? We also meander in and out of related memories, including Zours candies, The Box (a music video dial-in show from the 80s/90s), gaming snacks and more. We also talk about the partner lineup for next week’s Summer Game Fest, KotOR coming to Switch, Sailor Jupiter, and what we’ve been playing.

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00:05:16: Girl Talk: http://illegal-art.net/girltalk/

00:08:30: Joey’s Sailor Moon update

00:12:19: Summer Game Fest announces its “partners” for next week’s showcase (https://www.summergamefest.com/#partners-intro)

00:22:50 : Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is coming to Nintendo Switch next week

00:26:25:: Ron’s been playing a whole lotta nothin’

00:30:16: Joey beat Parasite Eve, has been revamping his island and continues the search for Diana in Animal Crossing New Horizons, he’s been sucking up some ghosts with friends in Luigi’s Mansion 3, and he has started and is loving Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers

00:52:08: Odd Gaming Associations!

00:53:14: Aerosmith and TurboGrafx-16 (Ron)

00:55:55: Is that Alan Grant? (Joey)

01:01:58: No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom and EarthBound (Joey)

01:10:00: Dateline, Doom, and The Downward Spiral (Ron)

01:18:09: Super cheesy nachos, sugar-syrupy Kool-Aid, and Chrono Trigger (Joey)

01:22:36: Zours and Perfect Dark (Ron)

01:28:12: Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and the freedom of GTA: San Andreas (Joey)

01:30:12: Twisted Ankle and Tomb Raider (Ron)

01:32:00: Green Jelly, Maximum Carnage, and The Box (Joey)

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