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Join Alex, Michael, and others are they talk about the plotlines of legacy videogame franchises, how they evolved, and how they often go off the rails. They will also talk about how these games were developed, who was involved in writing these storylines, and why some gaming stories end up being completely bonkers.
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Monday May 16, 2022
Monday May 16, 2022
In this week's episode, Alex and Michael tackle the incredibly influential Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
In this episode of Fallin' Thru Plotholes, Michael and Alex talk gaming history as they discuss the Gizmondo, and the wreck a company behind it, Tiger Telematics.
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Sources used:
Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up: Author: Randall Sullivan. WIRED.com, published October 1st, 2006. https://www.wired.com/2006/10/gizmondo/
The Weird, Wild Saga of Gizmondo. Author: Nicolas Stecher. TheDrive.com, published March 14th, 2016. https://www.thedrive.com/news/2559/the-weird-wild-saga-of-gizmondo-part-1
A Horse Named Gizmondo: The Inside Story of the World's Greatest Failed Console. Author: Ellie Gibson. Eurogamer.net. Published July 13th, 2014. https://www.eurogamer.net/a-horse-named-gizmondo-the-inside-story-of-the-worlds-greatest-failed-console
Notorious Gangsters and No Games: The Gory Story of the Gizmondo. Author: Mike Diver. Vice.com. Published March 9th, 2015. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wd7nqz/notorious-gangsters-and-no-games-the-gory-story-of-the-gizmondo-656
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
Tuesday Apr 12, 2022
In part 2, Alex, Michael and Matt discuss the follow up to Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross. A game that does its best to be just about as confusing as possible. Come for the multiple timelines and dimensions, stay for the 45 playable characters and destruction of everything you know and love!
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
In this episode, Alex and Michael are joined by Matt from twitch.tv/cartridgeblowers to talk all about Chrono Trigger, a fun time-traveling story as they wonder if a goodbye is really sad if you can just time travel, why one teenage girl is responsible for all modern inventions, and for some reason talk about the 1992 US Men's Basketball Team.
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Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
Tuesday Mar 22, 2022
In this episode, Alex and Michael finally tackle Halo Infinite, a game with terrible plot twists, a need to wipe away narrative baggage but still gets weighed down by it anyway, and maybe one of the most unmemorable villains ever conceived.
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Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
In this episode, Alex and Michael discuss the mess behind the royalty rights to Ms. Pac-Man, and talk about companies making shady deals, weird back-stabbery, and the weirdness that is the character Crazy Otto.
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Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
In Part 3 of our series on Fallout, Alex and Michael talk about New Vegas and Fallout 4, examining a good story about factional fighting in the Mojave Desert, and then pivot to talking a lot about babies I guess.
Good quick rundown of the Fallout 76 controversies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjyeCdd-dl8&ab_channel=InternetHistorian
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Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
In part 2 of our series on the Fallout series, Alex and Michael talk about Fallout 3, going over its origins and plot, all the while trying to figure out how Interplay still exists in the first place.
Archived thread of one very angry NMA poster: http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16613&mode=threaded
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Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
Tuesday Feb 08, 2022
In this episode, Alex and Michael rouse themselves from the dead to talk about Fallout, an series that blends 50's nostalgia culture and retrofuturism with the reality that emphasizes the important of potable water and not dying of radiation.
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Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
Tuesday Jan 11, 2022
In a bonus episode, Alex and Michael discuss a ruined Christmas, old computers, and why you really, really should test your software.
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Sources for this episode:
Open: How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing. Author: Rod Canion. BenBella Books, October 15th, 2013.
If you want basic ease, look at Compaq Presario. Author: Michael J. Himowitz. Publisher: Baltimore Sun, November 8th 1993.
Power of X. Author: David Craddock. Shacknews, November 13th 2020. https://www.shacknews.com/article/120300/bet-on-black-how-microsoft-and-xbox-changed-pop-culture?page=9
Usenet Archive. Author: Various. Google Groups Archive. December 24th, 1994. https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.disney/c/acQdJgSV6wM/m/fXQaSrv6Z0sJ?pli=1