The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast
A Point & Click Adventure Game Podcast, Classic & Modern- New episodes every other Tuesday!
Episodes
This week Anna and Paul are reunited and they kick things off with some story time about where Paul has been, thennn they get into the 1991 Jim Wall's adventure "Blue Force". It's one of those games a lot of us flagged as "one day I'll play that" knowing very well that day will never come, so press play and let them walk you through it instead. Mangia!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
This three-part BONUS episode honors our friend Roberta Vaughan and celebrates the upcoming live debut of Error 47—a tribute band performing all together for the first time this fall.
Part One features Jackie, Sarah, Jon Paul, Erik, and Mick, some of the members of the band, as they reflect on Roberta’s legacy, how the project came together, and what it’s like preparing for a live show as a group of longtime friends, collaborators,...
This week on the Classic Gamers Guild Podcast, we step into the afterlife, but not the peaceful kind. Anna, one half of the CGG Podcast, sits down with Rubén López, one half of Aruma Studios, to talk about their upcoming point-and-click adventure Shadows of the Afterland. If their debut Intruder in Antiquonia was about memory and resisting modernity, this one’s about being dead before you’re even born, and trying to change your des...
This week, Anna runs a solo mission straight into the fog, Fogtown, that is. She’s joined by Sean Parker, the puppet-wrangling, genre-bending mastermind behind Fogtown, the only detective story brave enough to ask: what if a puppet version of Sherlock Holmes had imposter syndrome, a spatula sword, and a head that occasionally falls off?
We talk about how the pandemic turned a scrappy puppet TV show idea into a fully modular FMV gam...
This week Paul played Sierra's black sheep, what some call the rite, or maybe right, of passage for the clinically obsessed adventure gamer... it's Codename: Iceman. He's gonna walk you through it so you don't have to play it, while switching vehemently between 'you should play it' and 'you absolutely should not'- it's quite a rollercoster of confused emotions and misguided angst. Honestly, I think he... I think he actually had FUN...
This Week Anna talks about non-adventure games that feel adventurous, and Paul is a cynical bastard about each one them, the entire time. Mangia!
Shek out Emil's awesome, new old-school FPS Reverend!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest!
The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)
This Week Anna and Paul ask themselves "Would You Rather..." and of course it's based on Adventure Game whatevers. Tropes or characters or something idk, look the microwave just went off and I can smell my food so naturally I've lost interest in writing this. MANGIA!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
This Week Anna & Paul played Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist and when you listen to them talk about it, you're gonna be like wow, they sure did. MANGIA!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest!
The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)
Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspo...
This Week Anna & Paul played Quest For Glory! And honestly, I can't focus on writing this because I've got that song in my head that's all 🎶 I NEED A HERO Something something into the night 🎵 And he's gotta be fast and it would nice if he was strong and I'd really just like someone who would listen to me about my day 🎵 Anyway it's something like that. But also, we played this game and now we're gonna talk about it. MANGIA!
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This Week Anna & Paul are combing through the Yearbook from Point 'n Click High, and deciding things like: Who had the best hair? Who's the class clown? Who has the most punchable face? Who had the best death animation?
It kinda starts as more Yearbook trope kinda questions and then transforms into general award-show style questions but it's a good time, you'll see, you'll all see. Or I guess hear- whatever, MANGIA!
This Week Anna & Paul are like, here lemme just give you an example, this is the episode:
Larry Laffer vs Roger Wilco - Who are you choosing to babysit your kid?
Gabriel Knight vs. Indiana Jones - Who's the best smooth talker?
Laura Bow vs Grace Nakamura - Who figures out a supernatural mystery faster?
It's a lotta that. And it's a lotta fun, MANGIA!
The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)
This week Anna & Paul are talking—wait, is that a good name for the episode? I was kinda thinking "Pixels and Personas" but that sounded kinda vague, but maybe it's more mysterious which I think you want for catchy episode titles. Whatever. This week they're talking about Archetypes—first they lay out the different archetypes using pop-culture and words, then they assign the most iconic adventure game characters atheir fitting ...
This week Anna & Paul are talking about the most adventurous adventure games! The ones that aren't just an adventure by genre but that make you feel like you're on a grand adventure! They've broken it down into categories such as globe trotting/grab your passport adventures, adventures that take place over one crazy day, and more! So grab some gummy bears and rice cakes and mangia!
This week Anna & Paul are talking about non-adventure games, for some reason. Oh, Paul was supposed to say, for his first pick, "Astro Chicken" and he formally regrets forgetting this very so-so joke. See cos, that's in an adventure game and so it represents his hesitation to embrace anything outside of the adventure genre.
I'm glad I explained it, it's for sure funnier now. Mangia!
This week Anna & Paul are talking about patches, mods, things and stuff!
Come for the things, stay for the stuff. Mangia!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network:
Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better?
Adventure Game Geek's My Games of the Year 2024 (feat. Paul & The ...
This week Anna & Paul are talking about screen savers! From the origins to the toasters to the sad, slide show end— what a ride it was.
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network:
Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better?
(We had some technical issues and this weeks episode was recorded onto a single track. We apologize for any resulting loss in quality and any rather, unsavory, background noises.) (Especially the sexy, squishy ones.)
This week Anna & Paul play The Curse of Monkey Island! Is it the best Monkey Island, or the worst? It's for sure one of those extremes, find out what at least one of us thinks, while the other refuses to rate the...
This week Anna & Paul play Monkey Island 2: Guybrush is a dick now.
Mangia!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network:
Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better?
Adventure Game Geek's My Games of the Year 2024 (feat. Paul & The Phantom Fellows)
OneShortEye's Even MORE King's ...
This week Anna & Paul are doing it.
They're finally going to Monkey Island.
Not the actual Monkey Island in South Florida, no. The good one. The make believe one.
Time to find out what they think of what many consider the GOAT. Mangia!
Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!
Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network:
Space Quest Historian's Tex Murp...
This week Anna & Paul are joined by author of the upcoming book "Questing For Glory The Definitive History of the Quest for Glory Series", Jason Mical! Jason brought his expertise, fun facts and insight as he and Anna talk at Paul about their favorite series! Join us as we walk through each game in the series, and delve into everything from development stories to soundtracks—Mangia!
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