A late-blooming gamer plays everyone else's formative games for the very first time.
Episodes
Mar 5, 2020
Mar 5, 2020
1hr 42 min
Today on Never Was A Gamer: Metal Gear Solid for the SNES!
Timecodes:
00:22 Introduction.
01:18 Earthworm Jim: A GameFan Critical Retrospective.
8:45 What's up with Hideo Kojima?
17:25 Is Kojima an auteur? (Is anyone?)
25:27 What does Michelle know about MGS? (Snake in a box)
BREAK.
33:02 Origins of Metal Gear.
38:59 Dimitri recalls the hype cycle for MGS1.
50:05 A letter from Gabe Newell.
52:45 Demo discs!
BREAK.
54:56 Looking at promo materials & concept art.
1:01:05 E3 trailer and TV ad (1998)
1:07:10 MGS as a "cinematic" game (again)
1:15:25 Stealth in games.
1:37:12 Predictions.
Promo materials:
Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020
1hr 41 min
Today on Never Was A Gamer: Super Metroid on SNES!
Timecodes:
0:00: Overall impressions
22:15: Why does Super Metroid's gameplay work?
42:50: Metroidvanias and nonlinearity
58:10: Cinematic games
1:21:00: The ending (Tourian and onwards)
1:34:30: Predictions
1:37:50: Michelle's Final Score
Feb 20, 2020
Feb 20, 2020
1hr 17 min
Today on Never Was A Gamer: Super Metroid for the SNES!
Timecodes:
0:00: Intro & general impressions
28:20: Our memories of Super Metroid
35:00: Games in 1994
46:30: Advertising for Super Metroid
1:10:00: Predictions
Materials:
North American television ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxrACWQvzHw
Japanese television ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG6c2JOuGuk
Feb 10, 2020
Feb 10, 2020
39 min
Welcome to Never Was A Gamer, the show where a late-blooming gamer makes up for lost time by playing everyone else's formative games. We are Michelle and Dimitri, and in Episode 0 we talk about our lopsided histories with games and how this weird project came to be.
If you want to skip it and head right to Episode 1, the Super Metroid arc is waiting for you now.;
-M&D