Ep. 293 - Catch a Wheat! with Felipe Pepe

Author of The CRPG Book Felipe Pepe joins the panel to determine what CRPGs are, how to play them, and what happened with the Gollum game. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Felipe Pepe. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. What are the top ten video game submarines? (08:07)
2. What the hell is going on with Lord of the Rings games? (14:36)
3. What are we going to do about the name CRPG? (20:02)
4. How do you delineate PC game history? (25:39)
5. What’s a book about video games you wish existed but you don’t have eight years to write? (32:21)
6. Mel Stone asks: Using only video game characters that have never appeared in an RPG, create the quintessential four-person RPG party (43:47)
7. How do you design a video game magic system that doesn’t just rip off Dungeons & Dragons? (51:26)
8. What’s the best way to get ancient computer games to run on modern PCs? (58:21)

Recommendations and Outro (01:03:28)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa
• Space Funeral
• Undertale
• Ramble Planet
• Void Pyramid
• The CRPG Book
• Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
• RPG Maker
• Pokémon fangames
• Pokemon Xenoverse
• Dragon Ball: Xenoverse
• Dragon Quest series
• Nintendo Direct 6.21.2023
• In the Hunt
• Metal Slug series
• Steel Diver
• The Hunt for Red October
• Sub Rebellion
• Prisoner of Ice
• Banjo-Tooie
• Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts
• Final Fantasy VII
• Super Mario Land
• The missing Titanic tour sub is steered with a simple Logitech gamepad
• California Extreme
• Theme: Submarine
• Titanic: A Mysterious Undersea Adventure
• Periscope
• Silent Hunter series
• Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation
• Hunt for Red October adaptations
• Cthulhu
• Subnautica
• Shinsekai: Into the Depths
• Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds
• Silent Service
• Radar Mission
• The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
• The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria
• The Walking Dead
• Embracer Group Paid $395 Million for ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rights
• Gollum developers apologize for the game’s ‘underwhelming experience’
• J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: Volume One
• Melbourne House
• Australia
• Dave’s Killer Bread
• Alvarado Street Bakery
• Call of Duty series
• Planescape: Torment
• Final Fantasy series
• Fallout games
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Baldur’s Gate series
• Dragon Slayer
• Wizardry games
• Etrian Odyssey
• Dragon Master Silk
• Shining the Holy Ark
• Disco Elysium
• Pillars of Eternity
• Divinity: Original Sin
• Street Fighter series
• DirectX
• Microsoft Windows
• Windows 95
• FM Towns
• PC-8800 series
• PC-98
• Touhou series
• Apple II
• Commodore 64
• Amiga
• ZX Spectrum
• Color Graphics Adapter
• DOS
• Xbox 360
• CD-ROM
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Hardcore Gaming 101: A History of Korean Gaming
• Ragnarök Online
• Legend of the Red Dragon
• Dungeon Fighter Online
• Ultima Online
• EverQuest
• World of WarCraft
• The Conclusion of the Amico
• Project X Zone series
• Advance Wars
• Tom Johnson
• Shenmue
• Wild Woody
• Clive Rosfield
• Clive Barker
• David Cage
• Blanka
• Brazil
• Tectoy
• Playtronic
• Zeebo
• Monkey D. Luffy
• Iñaki Godoy
• Katy Perry - Dark Horse ft. Juicy J
• Shin Megami Tensei series
• Octopath Traveler
• Bravely Default
• Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light
• Final Fantasy XVI
• Devil May Cry series
• Immortals of Aveum
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Phantom Dust
• Earthsea
• The Maimed God’s Saga
• DOSBox
• MiSTer
• Project EGG
• Ys series
• C64Dreams
• Total Replay
• AmigaVision
• eXoDOS
• Exodos On Fire Cutz

Recommendations:

Frank: The Video Game History Hour with Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin

Brandon: Il Balletto di Bronzo, purchase a physical copy of Hyper Gunsport

Felipe: The CRPG Book

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