Save Your Game Save Your Game Podcast

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

We went into this one with NO PLAN, folks. It's free-style nerding today on the old podcast. Matt played some cool games and finally hit up that Stardew Valley update. Roses talks about Home of the Underdogs and some of retro games we really didn't enjoy. Plus, some ranting about game preservation.

Flashpoint: Infinity: https://flashpointarchive.org/downloads/

ScummVM: https://www.scummvm.org/

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Games Discussed:

* Norco
* Callahan's Crosstime Saloon
* Eagle Eye Mysteries
* Citizen Sleeper
* Stardew Valley
* The Quarry
* Animal Well
* King's Quest
* Monkey Island
* Touche: The Adventures of the Fifth Musketeer
* The Gene Machine
* Orion Burger
* Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb
* Runaway
* Vortex Point
* The Room: Tribute
* Jurassic Park: The Ride - Online Adventure

Special guest Francisco González stops by and tells us a wild story about his new role playing hobby. Matt thinks Indika is weird and incredible. We talk for over an hour about how great Disco Elysium is, and then like 15 minutes about The Thaumaturge.

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Games Mentioned:

* Rosewater
* Grand Theft Auto Online
* Indika
* Disco Elysium
* Planescape: Torment
* The Thaumaturge
* Lamplight City

Roses falls in love with Disco Elysium and Matt goes frickin' ham discussing Marvel Midnight Suns. We take a ton of audience questions and discuss a variety of topics. Text Adventures, games that we hated after we loved but thought we'd hate, "That doesn't work!", genre distinctions in games, "The Power of Cheese", and an EXHAUSTIVE dissection of Detective Games.

Michael's amazing fan art: https://imgur.com/a/KnLj7Wg

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

* Disco Elysium
* Midnight Marvel Suns
* Breath of the Wild
* Majora's Mask
* Siberia
* A Space for the Unbound
* The Last Door
* The Legend of Skye
* Contradiction
* Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus
* The Cat Lady
* Burnhouse Lane
* Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* Softporn Adventure
* Portal & Portal II
* Sanitarium
* The Monkey Island Games
* The Dig
* The Invincible
* Chants of Sennaar
* Strange Horticulture
* Papers, Please
* What Remains of Edith Finch
* Kathy Rain
* Mixed Up Fairy Tales
* Journey Man Project 3
* The Laura Bow Games
* Return of the Obra Dinn
* Case of the Golden Idol
* Paradise Killer
* The Sexy Brutale
* LA Noir
* The D'avekki Studios Games

(btw these are relatively  in order, but it's unlikely we'll ever go through the exhaustive work of putting timestamps on our YouTube videos, so... sorry about that. BUT if ya'll wanna do it in the comments, we'll shout you out on the show)

Thanks for listening!

The charming and insightful Cressup joins Matt and PushingUpRoses to talk about the ethics and complexities of streaming narrative games. We talk about the finger puzzle in Monkey Island 2 a lot, a weird Greek FMV game, the creeping date range of "retro games" and just have a blast.

Email us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

* Grim Fandango
* Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
* Nick Delios - Conspiracies
* Phantasmagoria
* Black Dhalia
* Kings Quest 8
* Escape From Monkey Island
* Quest for Glory
* Curse of Monkey Island
* Harold Halibut
* Assemble With Care
* Eastshade
* Exit 8
* Shinkansen 0
* That Dragon, CancerGet
* Five Nights at Freddy's
* Dead by Daylight
* At Dead of Night
* As Dusk Falls
* Please Touch the Artwork 2
* Cult of the Lamb
* Jackbox Party Pack
* King of the Castle
* Five Dates
* Clue
* Nancy Drew

The album of the year is finally out, and let us be the first to tell you that T.S. did NOT disappoint with her newest release, 3D MARIO. Best Nintendo-themed, 3-D album yet.

We did not play Harold Halibut yet, but Matt did play an Adventure/RPG set in 1905 Poland and Roses played with her cat. We  talk about Return to Monkey Island so much that we get kind of emotional?

We also forgot to mention that we are part of the Adventure Game Hotspot Network, which you can find here: https://adventuregamehotspot.com/

Email Us! mattandroses@gmail.com

Games Mentioned:

* Harold Halibut
* Police Quest
* The Thaumaturge
* Disco Elysium
* Quest For Glory
* Return to Monkey Island
* The Secret of Monkey Island
* Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge
* The Curse of Monkey Island
* Escape from Monkey Island
* Tales from Monkey Island