Game Older Jonathon Anderson

Andi beat a game! And it's a Zelda game! Come hang with us for a bit
while we discuss the special place the Zelda series has in each of our
hearts.







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Media used

Title Theme (Ocarina of Time) Guitar Cover | DSC

Link's Awakening Medley (from The Legend of Zelda: Concert 2018) | Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra


Also included is background music and marketing from a variety of
Zelda games, including Link to the Past, Twilight Princess, and Breath
of the Wild.

Jonathon was finally left with no excuse to not play Ōkami, when Cam
joined the crew, Steam library in tow. Like the game, we spend a lot
of time hanging out and talking too much.







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Media used

Ōkami OST

"Harushiden," halc, ocremix.org




Games mentioned

Ōkami

Myst (series)

Death Stranding

Spyro the Dragon

The Witness

Viewtiful Joe

God Hand

Vanquish

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Bayonetta

Nier: Automata

Snake Pass

Crash Bandicoot

Katamari Damacy

Chibi-Robo!




Other references

Sorry, I don't like Okami, Tim Rogers, Kotaku

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of Myst, Andi and Jonathon
discuss their history with the Myst franchise, games that remind us of
Myst, and their experience playing the 2016 game Quern: Undying
Thoughts.







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Media used

Cyan logo soundtrack, Windows 3.1 release

Myst Theme, Myst OST

Moiety Theme, Riven OST

Finale, Myst OST

Adventure, Fez OST




Games mentioned

Myst (franchise)

Breath of the Wild

The 7th Guest

Lemonade Stand

Quern: Undying Thoughts

Obduction

Fez

The Witness

SOMA

Celeste

Gone Home

Tacoma

What Remains of Edith Finch

Dear Esther

The Journeyman Project (franchise)




Other references

Classic Games Postmortem: Myst, Robyn Miller, GDC

Keith Balard, YouTube

Sequelitis, YouTube

Myst (books)

The Magician’s Nephew

In a very special episode of Game Older, Jonathon explores the
primordial history of his computing and gaming life by talking with
his dad, who was there to witness it all. Along the way they divert
into such tangents as the horrors of VHS tracking, TI-99 machine code,
and Microsoft Flight Simulator.

This episode features prominent clips from the album "Home," a
self-produced record from the 1970's gospel band P.O.A.







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After publication, Andy Anderson followed up with this response:


While listening to this, I remembered that my first encounter with
computer games was around 1973 or 74 when I went with a friend to
EIU's computer lab (he was a student) and played a text game in which
you were given information about an enemy invader and and had to make
decisions regarding your strategy. No graphics, just text. The game
was on the mainframe. It was INTERESTING.



Media used

Not So Cheap Thrills

Son Rise

Soul Brother

Lantern

Sleeping

Home


Also includes a clip of the soundscape from the Matel Intellivision
game "Snafu," as well as a clip from ISO/BOBS: The Lonesome Pine
Special,
which bears particular sgnificance to both Jonathon and his
dad. Listen to find out more!

After playing and ranting about Amnesia, the Dark Descent, Andi and
Jonathon revisit the work of Frictional Games with their latest entry,
SOMA.







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Media used

The Prestige

SOMA soundtrack

Star Trek, Deep Space 9

Balance and Ruin: Elegy for a Ruined World

Jonathon's got things to say about Frictional Games' "Amnesia: the
Dark Descent"! After trying and failing to put his thoughts down in
essay form, he's taken to the podcast in hopes that Andi will be able
to extract from him why he thinks that the game is more than just a
really good monster closet.







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Games mentioned

Amnesia: the Dark Descent

Amnesia: a Machine for Pigs

Soma

Silent Hill 2

Resident Evil (series)

The Witness

Bioshock

Valkyria Chronicles