Games We Grew Up With

Games We Grew Up With


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Episode 32 – The Legend of Zelda – Link’s Awakening
January 12, 2022

Look!  Up in the sky!  It’s a bird!  It’s a plane!  No, it’s… it’s… a giant multi-colored, winged whale with a kaleidoscopic paisley pattern all over it, that’s for some reason named the Wind Fish!  C

Episode 32 - The Legend of Zelda - Link's Awakening
January 12, 2022

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's... it's... a giant multi-colored, winged whale with a kaleidoscopic paisley pattern all over it, that's for some reason named the Wind Fish! Come on, how could you not see that? For this one,

Episode 31 – Commander Keen In Goodbye, Galaxy!
December 15, 2021

“Bonk. Bonk. Bonk.” What’s that, you ask? Is it fate, come knocking? Is it a raven, rapping, rapping at your chamber door? Why no, in fact, it’s COMMANDER KEEN! More specifically, Commander Keen constantly slamming his (helmeted) head into the top

Episode 30 – Final Fantasy V
November 17, 2021

SALSAAAA!!! It’s in everyone’s top-5 favorite dips for tortilla chips, and it’s the very poorly-translated name of one of the lead characters in this episode’s game, FINAL FANTASY V! We continue our grand tour of the Finals Fantasy, and this is the very

Random Non-Rose 1: Jak 3 (Katie Edition)
November 09, 2021

What’s this? An episode of Games We Grew Up With… with NO rose-tinted glasses segment? With only HALF of the hosting crew? Yes, my dear friends, your wishes have been granted! It’s Host Katie, accompanied by Host Katie, with a dash of Host Katie for good

Episode 29 – Spyro the Dragon
October 13, 2021

It’s that time again! Time to dive back into the archives and pull out another classic title to frustrate one, the other, or both of our hosts! This time it’s fire-blasting, boost-jumping, dragon-saving, key-fetching, and platform-gliding with everyone’s

Episode 28 – Zombies Ate My Neighbors
September 14, 2021

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… a giant baby? Come to crush us? As we try to save our neighbors from giant worms, roaming zombies, and 6-foot-tall ants climbing over the hedge maze that we really shouldn’t have put into the backyard in the first plac

Episode 27 – Wolfenstein 3D
August 18, 2021

MEIN LEBEN! It’s the start of year 2 (Season 2? Are we doing that?) of the show, and what better way to kick off such a grand occasion than killing a bunch of Nazi scum, and destroying Mecha-Hitler with WOLFENSTEIN 3D, right? It’s time to go back to DOS

Episode 26 – Sonic the Hedgehog & Sonic 2
July 20, 2021

Happy Birthday to us… happy birthday to us… happy birthday, dear podcast… happy birthday to us! It’s episode 26! It’s episode ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY! It’s a COMBO episode! It’s a SPECIAL GUEST STAR episode! It’s an EXTRA LARGE episode! Everything’s com

Episode 25 – Final Fantasy IV
July 07, 2021

It’s time!  Final (final, final, final) Fantasy again!  Maybe they should have named the series The Neverending Story.  That’s not taken, right?   Final Fantasy IV!  Where, unlike the previous games,