We're ex-convicts, no one will marry us now. We're doomed to a life of observing the need to fix bridges, inhabiting a dead town, fearing dentist technology, bowling alone, refusing to trust the neighbors, Wet Banditing our own house, vomiting all over the wall, observing a fluid town, stealing husband's secret savings, losing a lot in translation, interpreting a poster, panty-raiding ourselves, sneaking out of an inn, refusing to tell a fortune, and drinking to numb the pain. I don't seem to be in good shape today, come back some other time.

00:00:00 The Server Has a Tattoo
00:04:14 Intro
00:06:22 World Map
00:09:32 Nayla
00:13:01 Nayla Buildings
00:28:37 Aiedo
00:36:54 Aiedo Buildings
00:45:43 Big Market
00:57:12 Jail
00:58:28 Real Net
01:02:20 Outro

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What on earth are you, and what is this place? To figure that out, we're doing it in the Birth Valley, re-entering the Techno Drome, expanding Chris' vocabulary, touring the Porsche factory, mixing monsters with machines, creating a bioactive environment, enjoying the Professor Holt bit, referencing Nei, citing sexy lady anime, determining the cat girl origin point, upsetting mother nature, stacking computers, breeding harmful monsters, meeting a computer child, and carrying the will of Seed. Sterilization treatment completed; please follow the line on the floor.

00:00:00 Marathon Man
00:03:06 Intro
00:04:32 Return to Birth Valley
00:05:45 Bio-Plant
00:21:32 Rika
00:31:44 Seed
00:45:57 Fresh Air in Zema
00:49:24 Real Net
00:56:20 Outro

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Somehow the body has become lighter. With your new carbon fiber ears, listen to us fading white, hiding Grandfather in the back, favoring the monger, reading lady numbers, deploying a custom animation, separating charge and information, making dirt wet for too long, accepting a Motavian party member, resolving the stone mustache, separating tears from sweat, violating a sacred area, knowing our limitations, and wearing sweat pants to church. The old man doesn't have any bad intentions.

00:00:00 On the Beach
00:02:29 Intro
00:03:46 Tonoe x Grandfather
00:16:17 Warehouse Basement
00:24:52 How Old Is ______
00:27:18 Return to Zema
00:33:56 Igglanova Rematch
00:36:55 Exploring Zema
00:46:04 Real Net
00:51:24 Outro

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What a pig this dog is! Before experiencing canine pork, we're finding Krup stuck in our teeth, lying about our academic career, telling people where I hurt myself today, spreading religion, leaving the cabinets open, embracing orange soda genericism, disinheriting a son, harnessing the power of CRBN, teaching kids in the home, figuring out if we're using magic, shooting meat ropes, banishing the natives to one town, sitting lost in thought, and welcoming the owl folk. It's about the only thing I'm capable of doing.

00:00:00 Sonic Speed Simulator
00:04:01 Intro
00:06:12 Rune-inations
00:08:19 Krup
00:11:48 Krup Houses
00:23:49 Saya School
00:36:57 World Map
00:37:40 Valleymaze Entrance
00:40:27 Valleymaze
00:42:50 Tonoe
00:47:12 Tonoe Market Stalls
00:50:07 Tonoe Houses
00:53:30 Real Net
00:59:29 Outro

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Well, Chaz, your brain seems to work a little bit. At least enough to listen as we're speaking with the beardy-guy-vestman, swallowing a town with quicksand, adding morality to terraforming, pounding Zima, performing a community raking service, experimenting with macros, stoning everyone in town, refusing to help orphaned children, discussing mustache petrification logistics, grifting Hahn, comically tugging our collars at the sight of cum, standing and thinking while caped, sporting a winning chin, losing a fight with a stance, and calling bullshit on Rudy (1993) and Rudy (1944). What a stupid name.

00:00:00 Dragon Quest I & II via Chris
00:02:24 Intro
00:04:36 Mile
00:15:11 Mile Houses
00:21:32 World Map
00:25:36 Zema
00:30:34 Birth Valley
00:37:17 Return To Zema
00:38:25 World Map
00:40:04 Molcum / Rune
00:52:24 Real Net
00:59:34 Outro

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This monster business is no mystery after all. As we uncover the secrets, we're wondering if manga can be in color, installing headquarters in the basement, dropping multiple fishies, fingering to win, sweating to lose, producing the Venn diagram of veins and ticklers, conducting numerous brain activities, breeding monsters in the basement, teleporting before your eyes, hiding the basement situation, connecting the parcel to the monsters, and combining a bad guy haircut with a science robe. It seems like these are signs of something to come.

00:00:00 Chris Is Steamed
00:03:13 Intro
00:04:16 Principal's Office
00:10:43 Hahn Mahlay
00:18:44 Piata Clean Up
00:20:24 Basement Dungeon
00:35:15 Reporting To The Principal's Office
00:45:17 Wrapping Up Piata
00:46:32 World Map
00:48:49 Intro To Mile
00:49:15 Real Net
00:54:54 Outro

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I've always wanted to go to a Town of Learning, so we can learn to make a podcast of listening. We're talking about throwing away a cake, tolling the bell, fearing The Computer, Chaz'ing a Rudy, erecting character sprites, rendering a world beyond the Genesis, locking up books, flipping through options, buzzing off, measuring the dew point, learning Chris' biggest scholastic achievement, falling victim to a strange religion, setting the table for the dirty kitchen, jumping in the fountain, and doing a bunch of that dust. Stop wasting time, there's nothing here.

00:02:24 Intro
00:03:39 Power On Prologues
00:09:36 Wake Up, Chaz
00:18:07 World Map
00:21:27 Piata Academy, Pre-Principal
00:37:21 Piata Outdoors
00:43:09 Piata Houses
00:43:55 Chris' Group Project
00:48:56 More Piata Houses
00:54:46 Real Net
00:58:28 Outro

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On the second episode of our Phantasy Star IV background info, we're watching commercials in Japanese, realizing "cels" and "panels" are not interchangeable, looking at print ads, riding for Rick, revealing the dark phallus, appreciating the work of Boris Vallejo, speaking perfect french, traveling beyond history, citing The Cutting Room Floor, pacifying fans, filling batchin' samples, sleeping walking with thumbs, declaring Earthworm Jim "The Skyrim of Platformers," leaking prototypes, reading from zines, glitching level 99, pounding burger and cola, completing Phantasy Star, bailing on Phantasy Star II, and yearning to explore the alternate timeline. I wonder what the people will see in the final days?

Check out the FunFactor Podcast for more fun stuff from Aidan and Ty.

Ty Schalter (FiveThirtyEight, VICE) and Aidan Moher (Vulture, WIRED) review what rocked and what sucked about the classic video game magazines that inspired them to become journalists, authors, and critics--and what they can tell us about today's digital media and games.

00:00:00 Intro
00:03:05 Promotional Media
00:11:40 Merchandise
00:14:02 Game Box
00:21:24 Game Manual
00:23:29 Cut Content
00:27:30 Fan Fiction
00:28:52 Contemporary Reviews (featuring FunFactor)
01:04:37 Modern Reviews
01:11:02 MODS
01:14:03 Memories
01:26:08 Expectations
01:31:04 Counts
01:34:06 Real Net
01:39:03 Outro

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