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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Welcome to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe, the podcast where comedy and great drinks collide! Join host Matt and a rotating crew of friends as they sample unique beers, wines, cocktails, and spirits, diving into the stories, history, and science behind each sip.
Packed with laughs, hilarious anecdotes, fun trivia, and drinking games, our show offers a laid-back yet enlightening experience for anyone who enjoys a good drink with great company. Tune in for “Stellar Sips” and “Cosmic Chugs” as we explore new flavors and share memorable stories along the way.
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Matt and Friends Drink the Universe
Think or Drink - Video Game Trivia
This episode is about celebrating the joy that video gaming brings to our lives. Andy, Chris, Josh, and Rob join Matt for video game trivia! We are all avid gaming enthusiasts which makes for a raucous episode filled with insight, laughter, and a delicious drink to match the mood. Chris assembled a truly "Game Genie" level of trivia quests which fosters engaging conversations about favorite single-player and multiplayer games, offering something for everyone. Our drink of the day, Matt's Gerudo Vally margarita, sets the relaxed vibe as our hosts dive into nostalgic memories and hilarious anecdotes about their gaming journeys.
The tension mounts as we kick off an exhilarating trivia battle, where Chris set the difficulty level to "Expert" and challenges us with questions and categories ranging from classic titles to next-gen wonders. With a sprinkling of laughter and friendly roasts, we foster an atmosphere of competition that’s both playful and spirited.
We conclude by delving deep into classic video game soundtracks, showcasing how music enhances our gaming experiences and evokes cherished memories. Sip, laugh, and play along!
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10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We have liftoff. Welcome to Matt and Friends. Drink the Universe, drink the Universe. Welcome back to Matt and Friends Drink the Universe. We have a very exciting episode for you today. The theme is Think or drink.
Matt:Are you thinking or you drinking? So we have some special drops to share with you today from a man who, as far as I'm concerned, is a bit of a legend, and that leads into our theme for this trivia, which will be run by Chris. Chris, we're doing video game trivia today and our special sound drops we have are from the legendary Jeff Stitzer, who is the voice of God. Halo multiplayer announcer Ooh hell yeah. Yeah, I'm very excited.
Matt:So let's go around the table. We'll introduce ourselves and then we're going to get to some trivia which I will be participating in, hopefully not sucking. So let's go this way around the table. Hi everybody. It's Rob, I'm Chris. I'm Rob, I'm Chris, I'm Josh. I'm Andy. Andy's joining us virtually. And who are you? And I am your host, matt.
Rob:Oh man, I do love the games where you actually play instead of run, because then I get to beat you.
Matt:So before we dive into this, I do want to share the drink that I put together for today. Buckle up, yep. Rob dove right into the rim of this one and found it unpleasant you know, sometimes you're just not ready for the rim job, you know so I thought the rim was really nice.
Matt:So the drink here is a watermelon margarita, but this is made to be themed with garudo valley from the legend of zelda series, to have that desert yet spicy feel to it. I did a lot of research for this one and I was happy with how this one turned out, but it is rimmed with tahini, so it does have a nice spice to it.
Rob:It's not the tahini that's throwing me. What else is in this? Because there's something in it that is throwing me. Well, it's theoretically smoking. Yes, it's a mezcalita.
Josh:It's not really a margarita, so this is a mezcal-based drink, not traditional tequila.
Matt:Yeah.
Rob:So it's the mezcal, the smokiness that's throwing me off of the drink, not the.
Matt:Tahin, not the smokiness that's throwing me off of the drink. Not the tahin, not the tahin. So I picked this because ocarina of time is my favorite single player game. If I have to split things down, my favorite multiplayer game is by far and away the halo series. Pick one, uh of them. I absolutely love that series. But odst, I love odst oh, phenomenal game shocking. Oh my god, I was not a fan. Oh, nathan Fillion voices one of the dropshippers.
Matt:I'm talking about multiplayer only. It does not have as much to it as the other Halo games do, that's for sure. But I want to ask that question of all of you favorite single player, favorite multiplayer Chris, if you feel the need to break this down by decade system, whatever you need to do over there, I mean if you feel the need to break this down by decade system whatever you need to do over there.
Chris:I mean, if, if you go? Uh, my, my favorite game of all time is legend of zelda, majora's mask. A close second is chrono trigger, so they're almost equal in my eyes. I've played both of those games I'm not even exaggerating probably 50 times a piece. Uh, and then uh, multiplayer is really difficult for me, but I have to land on splinter cell chaos theory.
Chris:Uh, it's kind of a little known multiplayer game the splinter cells game series is huge, and the third in the series had a multiplayer that I played an obsessive amount in late high school, early college, I mean. Close second is obviously the Call of Duty series. I was a big Call of Duty player for years as well. Not so much anymore. I can't stand them anymore. The culture of that game is abysmal. But that's yeah. That's where I'm landing.
Josh:When you say multiplayer, do you mean online multiplayers, or it could be local Online couch. I mean, I would have to say my favorite of all time was mario kart double dash. As far as multiplayer games, go solid.
Josh:I could play that for hours with my friends. We would swap up the teams. We would always be playing with whoever I mean. It was just so much fun. As far as like the online games go, I spent a lot of time playing Call of Duty, so that would probably be my next one there. As far as single-player games go, man, I am more of a recent entrant into the whole series, but Assassin's Creed Valhalla I really liked that game. I love following stories.
Rob:Quality really playing that.
Josh:Yeah, I love following stories and world building. I really liked Far, far cry primal. I thought that was just a lot of fun and I'm currently in the middle of and I think this is probably probably the biggest game I've played. It takes the longest. I'm a playstation guy is assassin's creed odyssey, so I know I'm playing things out of order, but that game just has so much to it and I mean I feel like I'm I'm up in like the level, the 30s at this point, but there's so much that I haven't done yet that I still can, even when I'm done with the story, I can go back and do so much odyssey is the one in set in ancient greece.
Rob:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Josh:So I mean the assassin's creed, the, that whole series. So far I've I've had a lot of fun playing through that and I know I'm late to the game, but it's a lot of fun.
Rob:I'll jump in next if you don't mind. Yeah, I'm not going to be able to land on one because I I think it's a little bit difficult. Growing up, I didn't play a ton of single-player games, like I wasn't, uh super into gaming individually. I was more into like gaming with friends. Um, so if I'm, if I'm going to start with team multiplayer type games you know, halo obviously carried me through college.
Matt:Uh, I played with three of the people sitting at this table, um, sometimes when we were supposed to be going to college, that yeah that's fair, um, but.
Rob:But also I'll throw out a couple other like honorable mentions. Uh, marvel, ultimate alliance I loved that game. Played that a lot with some friends from college. Played through it multiple times because the replayability with like doing a different character as your main, was always fun. But also my classic multiplayer game that I loved Turtles in Time oh, such a good game. Turtles in Time. As far as single player, I'll go more recent. Either the Arkham series, Batman Arkham series I didn't even think of those.
Chris:Very good. Hundreds of hours of gameplay in that.
Rob:Or the Sony Spider-Man series has been equally as impeccable, both graphically, storyline and just playability.
Chris:I got to dust that off. I played only like maybe an hour of I don't know which one, one of the Spider-Mans.
Rob:The first one's very good. The second one is unbelievable as well.
Josh:I would take the Arkham. Personally, I'd take the Arkham series over the Spider-Man games, but they are both a lot of fun.
Matt:I want to let Andy answer, but I have this really obscure return of the jedi on, I believe, on nes yeah yeah, and it was the first time that I had played that game and I just it was damn near impossible, but it was a lot of fun yeah, we got to that point where the millennium falcon has to drive through the middle of the death star.
Matt:Yep, and it was infuriatingly difficult on that style of controller that was second only in my mind to the lion king game for sega genesis. If you ever played that game was so good. The stampede where, if you have four, hearts.
Chris:All you have to do is go all the way to the left of the screen and, although you'll get hit, once you'll only get hit once so you'll make it through classic andy you're up.
Andy:All right, so I I'm a little bit more of a fan of the goofy games, so we'll start with my favorite all-time game. Is diablo 2? Such a good game, god, I played so much of that game. Favorite multiplayer game josh, I'm with you, except mine's. Mario kart 64 okay I man similar. Just such great memories of being at parties and you know, whoever comes in last has to give up their controller and just rotating through.
Josh:Yeah, for sure.
Andy:But I tend now to I stick to games that I can put down quickly or games that help me be active. So I am still a very avid Pokemon Go player. If any of the listeners want to be a Pokefriend, I'm down for that.
Matt:When he says avid Andy is underselling this greatly. Really, when you have Pokedexes of shiny and lucky that you're actively trying to fill it, how many of the shiny Dexes do you have done now?
Andy:So I have the first three generations of Pokemon shiny. Dexes do you have done now? So I have the first three generations of pokemon shiny dex is complete. That includes legendaries and mythicals and regionals. First three, first three generations complete, working on the fourth how many years? How many years? And that's the funny thing is, we didn't play from the start. Pokemon go started in 2016. I think Rachel and I started playing in 2018, but yeah, and have you been?
Josh:playing solid from 2018 to now. Yeah.
Andy:Wow, I would say I have probably, maybe since 2018, two, maybe three days when I haven't at least caught a Pokemon. Holy cow.
Josh:That is crazy investment, but you know what it's.
Andy:One of those things that, like during the pandemic shutdown, like to have that daily goal to go outside and spin that poke. Stop down the street from me and go for that walk to catch some like that helped me stay sane yes, same with siobhan and I.
Chris:You know, siobhan and I both got into well, I got into pokemon go at the time and siobhan got into the harry potter game that no longer exists, but it was. It was pivotal to the pandemic. And getting out and active and not feeling guilty about it, like there was, there was a little bit of that like you could play that game socially distanced, and so you didn't feel bad being outside, even though you shouldn't have felt bad being outside. But, like you know, at the same time you didn't want to feel like you were pressing your company on other people and having to play a game together. So, and that, for I know, uh like andy and I are big board game, uh folks, and so the fact that we couldn't go over to each other's houses and play a board game together made it really really tough. So that was a good difference.
Josh:I never got into the Pokemon Go. In the pandemic I did a lot of solo disc golfing, which was my way of being outside. But I think, equally as niche and nerdy as this is, since two of us mentioned Mario Kart, are we doing a disservice by not mentioning Smash Brothers?
Chris:I was going to say there's a couple other classic multiplayer. Goldeneye is one of the other ones.
Josh:Perfect Dark, Perfect Dark, GoldenEye I spent a lot of time in high school playing Smash Brothers with people. Once we were done with the Mario Kart it was like, oh, now we're playing Smash Brothers and, just like Andy said, your last place, your controller's gone. You're going to someone else's coming in on this and just keeping a running kill count on the day.
Chris:And in college we did Mario Party as well. Oh yeah, I mean Mario.
Josh:Party is just. I still play that with my kids, and my wife, who doesn't play any video games at all, will play Mario Party with us.
Matt:I will totally pick on Jen, because she's the one that's like I don't like video games. She comes in to play one round, destroys everybody. It's like I'm done, she's out. She's done that for me in Halo, got to quit. When she's on top, she'll get five kills. When I go to the bathroom, she's like you were getting shot. And I'm like great, and I come back and my score's up by five. I'm like thank you. I'm like do you want to actually play? Grab a controller, let's go. No.
Chris:Alright, press start. Matt, do you have a magic thing? No, Okay. I mean you already did the. Are you thinking or are you drinking? So I mean we can just move on.
Matt:Think or drink. You know what we can do to start this off. Let's get a good one. Drinking spree yes.
Josh:Matt, I'm going to tell you I think this is the best cocktail you've made so far on the podcast. I know the other two don't like it.
Rob:I'm not saying that that was bad, it's just not my taste.
Josh:I mean, and Chris doesn't like agave spirits, so he would not like this, but I think this is very good.
Rob:Chris, are you a man who would light the mouth on fire? Maybe split that beer a little bit, yeah, yeah.
Josh:I got to say lights. The mouth on fire is such an over-exaggeration For those of you out there who are listening that have had a tahini rimmed margarita before and can handle any amount of spice. It lightly heats up the tongue.
Chris:I I wouldn't even it. It does light it up, though not in fire, but like it the salt really like sure, okay, like up the taste buds.
Rob:Yeah, all right, fair enough all right, it wasn't the spiciest thing I've ever had, it's. It's the smokiness that I was not a fan of.
Chris:All right, yeah, so this trivia is broken down into several categories, because I felt like I wanted not just like random trivia, sure. So here are the categories you guys can play along at home. Our first category will be old school, so these will be centered around games that were released before 2002. Then, of course, if we do old school, we've got to do next gen, so that category will be games that are released after 2002. Then, my personal favorite, the KB Mod keyboard mouse or die. I'm a big, big PC gamer. Oh boy, it's the argument of the ages. These games are exclusive to pc. Well, for the most part, then, we're gonna move on to hut, hut, hike, some sports games yes do you know your sports games?
Josh:I hope you do. There was a lot of head shaking during the pc one over here.
Chris:I think you're the most uh, most attuned to the pc game and then, uh, you know, we've all done it Up, up, down, down, left, right, left right. Ba select start Cheat codes.
Rob:The Konami code Okay.
Chris:That will not be a question. So suck it, matt. And then we are going to try a final category of video game music and sounds. So I will play the music from the game and you're going to try and tell me what game it and sounds. So I will play the music from the game and you're going to try and tell me what game it's from. I tried to pick like really really obvious things for licensing, matt, and I decided we'll play like just five seconds or less on the podcast, but we'll keep playing it for a couple more seconds for you guys to try and figure it out.
Rob:Yeah, so are we doing anything differently from a points perspective?
Chris:We are just going to do points, so you get a question right. You're going to get a point Earning points whoever has the most at the end. There are power-ups that we will have. I tried to make them a little bit video game themed. So we will have the mushroom, or make it a double. So if you use your mushroom, you'll earn two points instead of just one for guessing correct. Well, I'll use my mushroom. We know you do, rob. Thank you.
Matt:Oh, come on, I have like 40 sound effects I can use tonight.
Chris:Speaking of your mushroom Rob.
Matt:Yes.
Chris:We might want to use the ninja star on there for your bat mitzvah. Oh my God, this will slice the answers down and eliminate a wrong choice.
Matt:From the question If you haven't listened to the interstellar breath.
Chris:That's a callback for you.
Matt:Don't listen to that one.
Chris:Moving on, we have the ghost block. So everybody who's played Mario Kart knows the ghost that will go and steal another player's item, but this one. If you use your ghost, you will steal another player's question and be able to answer it, so sort of like the put it on their tab, but like in reverse, whoa, I like it, it, and then I will have put it on your tab as the ice block. You can ice someone out by giving your question to somebody else. Remember, this is a little different than our normal trivia where we're counting down points or counting up points. So use your power-ups wisely. Yep, um, I didn't decide. So should we do one of each power-up? There's four of them.
Chris:I think that makes sense hey, andy, do you have a d8 near you?
Andy:do. I have a d8 near me, that's why I do, I didn't bring any dice in his pants, bag of dice in a captain morgan bag because I'm not high class enough to get a uh, traditional crown royal. Yeah, you, yeah, you got to get the.
Chris:Crown Royal. Yeah, so we'll say Rob's 1-5. You can be 2-6. Matt will be 3-7. And Josh will be 4-8. So roll for first player Five. That would be Rob, and we'll just go clockwise in that order. Then it's me.
Rob:Robbio.
Chris:All right, rob, you are getting question number one ironic oh, I love how it's gonna come through hilarious. All right, here we go. Which of these was the first game to feature the pow block? Was it mario bros, super mario bros, super mario bros 2, or Super Mario Bros 3?
Rob:I'm going to go with Super Mario Bros.
Chris:Oh, I'm sorry, it is Mario Bros.
Matt:Oh.
Chris:The very original Mario Bros you may not have actually played. It was the arcade-style one where you just fought between Mario and Luigi and tried to hit the enemies and it had the POW block. One where you just, uh, fought between mario and luigi and tried to hit the enemies and it had the power block at the bottom center. Damn, I had no idea all right, here we go.
Josh:Oh yeah, it was like the um when it was super mario brothers like a little multiplayer type style game it was like super mario brothers what was it? Two, when the other player was passing, you hit that button real quick. It would make you go into that little mini game and play them to see if you could take your turn, yeah, yeah, that's the game you're talking about, right?
Chris:yes, yeah, yeah, but it was originally an arcade cabinet game by itself. Yep, here we go. Question number two for andy. I'm ready that might get old, but for the first couple, I'm gonna do it. Uh, number five, here we go. The first couple, I'm going to do it. Number five, here we go. The first game in the Final Fantasy video games franchise was released? For what console? Nes, genesis, snes or N64?.
Andy:Well, it's definitely not N64, because I remember playing it before that. You know what I'm using the Star right off the bat.
Chris:Ninja star we will eliminate. Should I be a dick and say eliminate? N64? Don't do it. I will eliminate SNES. Okay, so you have NES, genesis or N64.
Andy:I did not have a Sega, so I am going to say it was Nintendo.
Chris:NES is correct, andy, with our first point and first, good use of a power-up Good point here we go for Matt's first question. Oh, I forgot to eliminate five. It's okay, I'm a professional. Number seven Introduced in Super Mario Bros 3,. Larry Morton, wendy, iggy, roy, lemmy and Ludwig made up the troupe led by who? Bowser, kamek, bowser Jr or Waluigi, it's Bowser Jr, it is Bowser Jr.
Josh:Oh, I want to wear.
Matt:Sorry, here we go Off to josh a little spinning shell and the flying up to the air and the jumping.
Chris:Oh number six, hosted by phil moore. What 90s nickelodeon video game themed game show featured a video adventurer named mikey and a playable virtual video zone which winning teams faced the show's resident game wizards named Murloc, scorchia and Mongo. Was it Snick Games, nick Arcade, nickelodeon Games or Phil's Game Cabinet?
Josh:I don't know, and I saw Rob furrow his brow, so I'm going to put it on his tab.
Chris:Oh boy, I'm going to give him the ice block, All right.
Rob:Rob.
Chris:Okay, so the four choices were Snick Games, nick Arcade, nickelodeon Games or Phil's Game.
Rob:Cabinet. I'll be honest with you, I don't know either, but I'm going to go'm gonna go with is it too early, phil's?
Matt:is it too early to use this? Yeah?
Rob:yeah, beer trail, oh okay oh my god, I'm gonna go with phil's game cabinet oh, I'm sorry rob it is nick arcade.
Chris:I used to get that was one of those well josh you get a point for that.
Josh:Oh yeah, I get a point.
Rob:Yeah, that was yeah, andy, josh and Matt all pick up points on that round. Yeah, rough.
Chris:Funny story Big goose egg for me. I called multiple times to try and get on that game show.
Josh:Oh, yeah, did you.
Chris:And got in very much trouble because it was not a toll-free number that you had to call.
Josh:It was like a long distance it wasn't like you know that it was gonna cost money, or you were just uh, it was just a phone number.
Chris:So, yeah, I knew not to call 1-900 numbers but like it was like a california number or something, I don't know. Anyway, moving on back to rob, I am ready.
Rob:That's such a you thing to do number 12.
Chris:This character made jumping famous In this arcade classic released in 1982 and featured enemies such as Coily, ugg, wrong Way, slick and Sam. Was it Mario Bros, qbert, sonic or Fix-It Felix? What is Qbert? Qbert is correct.
Rob:Yeah very nice.
Josh:This character made jumping famous.
Chris:I was trying to go for the Fooler of Mario.
Matt:Not that obvious, I love the Wreck-It Ralph reference on the end of that.
Josh:Well, done the way that was worded just made me laugh. People are like hey, you ever hear of jumping? Oh yeah, I saw Q-Bert doing it the other day. That was worded just made me laugh. That people are like hey, you ever hear of jumping? Oh yeah, I saw cubert doing it the other day andy, here we go.
Chris:Which of these was not an original track in mario kart? Was it mario circuit, ghost valley, sherbert land or rainbow road? Uh, this is also sorry, super mario kart for the SNES I'm talking about.
Andy:Okay.
Chris:We're old school.
Andy:I'm going with Sherbert Land.
Chris:Good job, I thought that would trick somebody Nice.
Josh:That was my guess, but I didn't.
Chris:I believe that one was introduced in Mario 64. 64.
Andy:I definitely remember it in 64. Yeah, All right, moving on to Mr.
Chris:Welser For real this time, number 4. In Pac-Man, the ghosts have names Blinky, pinky, inky, and Was it Bob, joe, clyde or Dinky?
Rob:Stinky, that was obvious.
Josh:Bob Joe Clyde or Dinky Stinky, that was obvious.
Matt:I feel like it's got to be. Bob.
Chris:It's.
Matt:Clyde, isn't it? No, it's. Clyde.
Rob:It's Clyde, damn it. Yeah, I actually knew that, josh here, we go.
Josh:Well, all right okay.
Chris:In the third installment this is my favorite question in this category, by the way. Sorry, I should have said that before starting to read the question. That's all right. In the third installment of double dragon, the brothers names suffer an unfortunate typo that made it into the release of the game. Which of these typos is correct? Was it? Billy is misspelled as bimmy, jimmy is misspelled as Bimmy. Jimmy is misspelled as Bimmy. Billy is misspelled as Jilly, or Jimmy is misspelled as Jilly.
Matt:Oh crap.
Josh:I'm going to go, I don't know. This is a tough one. I feel like if I didn't know it off the top of my head, I'm not going to know it.
Chris:I'm going to say B whatever the second one was Jimmy is misspelled Bimmy. No, sorry, it is. Billy is misspelled Bimmy. Go look it up. It is absolutely hilarious that they put so little care into just cranking out another Double Dragon game that they didn't proofread it whatsoever. Okay, last question of this category for each of you. Here we go, rob.
Rob:Yes.
Chris:Okay, I'm going to mute that now because it's getting annoying. Which of these was not? A boss in Mega man 2? Metal man, Missile man, Bubble man or Air man, Air man oh sorry, it is Missile man.
Josh:He was confident with that one.
Chris:The full list of bosses in that game Metal man, wood man, bubble man, air man, crash man, heat man, flash man and Quick man. Yikes, wow, I just made Missile man up. I don't think that's an actual boss. Maybe it is, maybe I just guessed a cheap alliteration.
Matt:well, Some game somewhere. Missile man is definitely a boss.
Chris:It felt good, yeah, yeah, missile man feels good, yeah, alright, andy, here we go you want to revisit that for a second there of Missile man feeling good ah hey, to each their own rocket, missile man, and I'm gonna live in a long long time save that for a little later alright here we go, andy, which spooky 2001 GameCube game starring Mario's brother got a reboot for Nintendo Switch in 2019? Ghost Blocks.
Rob:Oh, Josh Ghost.
Chris:Blocks. Okay, is it A Luigi's Mansion, b Luigi's Adventure, c Wario's Adventure or D Wario World?
Josh:That would be Luigi's Mansion.
Chris:That is correct.
Andy:Wow, I have your copy of it for Wii and I've never gotten around to playing it.
Josh:It's fun.
Chris:Such a good game. The second one incredible as well. Okay, matt, two choices left in this category. It is going to be number three. What is thought to be the first analog video game created in 1958? Is it Tennis for Two? Pong Ghost Block, it's Pong. Would you like to hear the other answers? Sure, but Breakout or Adventure Pong. It's.
Josh:Adventure isn't it? Sorry it? Sorry, rob, that's not right.
Chris:It is Tennis for Two. Tennis for Two was a game developed that was displayed on an oscilloscope in 1958.
Andy:For what?
Josh:Rob, our first used power-up that didn't pay off.
Matt:I'm feeling this and I'm using it again. Damn it. Yeah.
Rob:You knew it was tennis for two. Yes, it's not Pong.
Chris:Pong didn't come out until the 70s. Yes. I think 72. I had it written down and I erased it when I was editing.
Rob:I was just thinking it was like the first popular video game at home. May have been why.
Chris:I was editing. I was just thinking it was like the first popular video game at home. May have been why I did it, oh you ass.
Josh:Wait, so does Matt get a question? A point for that. Yes he does, yeah, so.
Matt:Matt gets a point. Why, thank you, you're welcome.
Josh:Well, it's the same as if you put it on someone else's tab and then get out of here. Whatever good talk.
Chris:Last of our old school questions. Which of these was not a catchphrase of Duke Nukem? Somebody's going to freaking pay for screwing up my vacation. Blow it out your ass. Hail to the king, baby, or shut up and die already.
Josh:I got to be honest with you. I never played Duke Nukem. Sad, so much fun Matt don't you want to use your ghost block? Look at him.
Rob:He's furrowing his brow real hard. Why does?
Josh:Matt look like he's holding in a fart.
Matt:Because he is, because I want to use it in the worst way, but Chris didn't say I'm here to kick ass and chew bubble gum and I'm all out of gum, which would have given me the clear answer on this one.
Josh:Can you read them one more time for me? Yes, remember, you're looking for the one that's not there.
Chris:Yeah, A catchphrase Somebody's going to have to pay for screwing up my vacation. Blow it out your ass. Hail to the king baby, or shut up and die already I mean they didn't use profanity back then did they Ghost block.
Josh:It's got to be okay, thank god, go for it, matt it's b?
Rob:no, it's hail to the king baby.
Chris:No, it's definitely not hail to the king baby is definitely a catchphrase. It was. What is not a catchphrase is shut up and die already damn it, blow it out your ass, believe it or not, was in duke nukem 3d wild thank you for the free point, matt, because I was gonna guess the same one as you Do.
Josh:you want to know what the points are? Yes, let's do it After category one.
Rob:Nope, I have one point.
Josh:Rob has one, andy and Matt have two and I have three. I am down two power-ups. Matt is down one, andy is down one and Rob is also down one.
Rob:All right, andy, we must destroy him moving right along here we go next gen. Here's where I shine. When I come into my own, don't blow your wad, let's see, see how that works out for him.
Chris:Cotton. Question number 11. This series spans a wide range of historical settings. Each game offers a rich, immersive historical setting blending real world events. Andy, your answers are a wide range of historical settings. Each game offers a rich, immersive historical setting, blending real-world events.
Josh:Okay, Andy, your answers are.
Chris:A well, I'll read the end of it, Blending real-world events with a deeply immersive narrative. Here are a few of the primary locations Rome, london, ancient Greece and Feudal Japan. Shit, shit, shit. Is it A Super Mario B Assassin's Creed, C God of War, or D Dark Souls and feudal japan? Shit, shit, shit. Is it a super mario b assassin's creed, c god of war or d dark souls assassin's creed? You got it crap.
Matt:Wow, you're making the assumption we're gonna get the ninja game assassinated that one.
Chris:Moving on, andy, you get another question back to back here, number seven. Starting in 2003, the call of duty game series is one of the most popular fps games. How many games are in the call of duty series? Is it a, 16, b, 21, c, 25 or d, 30? Roll that dice, andy. What do you think?
Andy:what I think is I'm using another power up.
Josh:We're gonna ice that right over to josh oh, josh, wow, it's got to be over 16. It was 21, 25 and 20 and 30 30 okay um, I'm gonna go with 25 oh, oh close, it's 21.
Chris:There are a few other mobile games and stuff that I didn't include in the list and I won't obviously read 21 game names to you, but pretty insane that there are 21 games in that series.
Josh:Yeah, and they're not stopping. All right, moving on.
Chris:That was a point for.
Josh:Andy, by the way.
Chris:Yes. Question number four for Welser here what game was inspired by an April Fool's prank done by a collaboration by a popular video game studio and Google in 2014? Was it A Rainbow Six Siege, b, pokemon Go, c, minecraft or D, the Sims 3? Man, I thought this would be easier. I'm sorry. Minecraft, no, sorry, this would be easier. I'm sorry, minecraft. No, sorry, it's Pokemon Go.
Josh:I thought so it was because of the year, you said, and Andy said that.
Chris:Yeah, damn, it was one of their banners and it was a whole like catch the Pokemon and you could click it on the Google search page.
Josh:Jeez.
Chris:Wow, I actually don't remember that occurring, but when I read the trivia I was like that is an incredible thing. I can't not.
Matt:Yeah, andy, I feel like I've dishonored you with my bad answer there that was my guess, but I had no knowledge of this at all yeah, all right.
Chris:Well, we're gonna go to another pokemon question for josh here. Pokemon was made famous during the old school area. However, it's remained alive and well in several titles in the next-gen era. Which of these was not a game Black 2 and White 2, ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, mega Sword and Mega Shield or Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl.
Josh:One of them is not like the others, so I'm going to go with that one. Black one and black two.
Chris:No, sorry, that is the red herring there that is a game black two, white two. It was mega sword and mega shield, it's just sword and shield no mega yeah wow, that looks like he wants to say something yeah, I just noticed your shirt.
Matt:It took me this long tonight, wow, yeah.
Chris:How I'm wearing a Zelda shirt for those who can't see me.
Matt:It's the chicken on the right side there. I think you mean.
Chris:Kaku but yes. Yes. All right, rob back to you here.
Rob:Yes, I'm ready.
Chris:Between Call of Duty and Halo, the internet was forever changed by paving the way to internet game content creation. One massive success story was rooster teeth with its web series that utilized the halo game engine and voice dubbing to create videos. What is the name of that web series? Was it a halo infinite, b, space wars, c, halo combat devolved, or d, red versus blue, red versus blue?
Andy:yeah, baby, yes, very funny and incredible if you have not Halo Combat Devolved or D Red vs Blue, red vs Blue. Yeah, baby, yes, very funny.
Chris:And incredible. If you have not seen that, dear listeners, turn this podcast off immediately and go watch it from the beginning.
Matt:Finish this podcast, then go watch it.
Andy:It's light red.
Chris:Chupa thingy. How about that Griff?
Josh:Someone needs to remind Matt that he's on his own team here and he's over here giving hand signals to Rob, which we're wrong.
Rob:No, we watched this together. We watched this together. I mean, he knew I was going to get that wrong.
Matt:That was the. If you somehow forget this, use the mushroom.
Chris:Here we go. Who are we at? We're at Andy. Right, andy? Which of these games was the first of its kind with motion controls? Was it? Legends of Zelda Breath of the Wild. Legends of Zelda Twilight Princess. Legend of Zelda.
Andy:Skyward Sword or Legends of Zelda Wind Waker. It could be Twilight Princess. That's the first one I played on Wii. You said Breath of the Wild was an option as well.
Chris:Yes, skyward Sword and Wind Waker.
Andy:It's definitely not Skyward Sword. I'm going with Twilight Princess.
Chris:That is correct. Whoa Almost talked himself out of it. Yes, I almost did.
Andy:Because there was like that little overlap there of GameCube and Wii producing. At least one of them came out on both.
Chris:Wind Waker came out and then, like maybe a year later, the Wii came out, and so a lot of people did not play Wind Waker because it was at the end of the tenure of the GameCube.
Matt:Yep, which is actually one of my favorite Zelda games, but I will also say weird I will also say that twilight princess is infuriating to play with the motion controls yeah, I, I like twilight princess.
Andy:I didn't like the art for wind waker. Yes, same, so I couldn't, I couldn't get into it yep, all right, matt, here we go.
Chris:This game included quote an unattainable goal, unquote an achievement literally impossible to unlock because it was included just as a joke to screw over people's perfect games. Was it A Goat Simulator, b Trucking Simulator, c Farming Simulator or D the Sims?
Matt:Oh hell, it's the Ninja Star that removes one option.
Chris:It is yeah let's go ahead and use that. All right, we will remove Farming Simulator, so you have Goat Simulator, trucking Simulator or the Sims. I'm going with the Sims. Oh, sorry Goat.
Matt:Simulator.
Josh:It is Goat Simulator. What was it? Do you know what was the?
Chris:It's just called Unattainable Goal and it had no parameters to it. Because you couldn't.
Josh:Oh, so there wasn't even something to tell you to try to do that you couldn't do.
Matt:No no as the completionist. I'm guessing you'll never play that game because of that Also because it's a goat simulator.
Josh:It's actually a pretty hilarious game. I have played it. Oh yeah, yeah, okay.
Chris:You can like launch a nuke and destroy the whole town as like an end game scenario Flawless, All right. Moving on Josh, In which game is the primary currency called V-Bucks? Is it A Minecraft Fortnite? Okay, there is a correct answer for. Josh.
Josh:I was afraid someone was going to try and steal it from me.
Josh:It's going to be a low-hanging fruit there for you.
Chris:Moving back to Rob Ready, what third-person shooter video game developed by Nintendo was first released in 2015 and featured characters known as Inklings? Was it A Mario Paint Wii B, splatoon C, fortnite or?
Rob:D Mii, I'm going to use my mushroom and this is Splatoon.
Chris:It is Splatoon Very good.
Rob:That's two points for me.
Josh:Yes, back in the game, baby we're quickly leaving matt in the dust what a shame.
Rob:Damn it to hell you can find him at the bottom of the bottle all right, andy.
Chris:Moving on back to you, what north carolina-based video game company created the 2018 breakout hit fortnite. Was it a, valve, b, konami, c, epic games or d activision?
Andy:uh, you guys can go ahead and make fun of me. I have no idea. I've never played fortnite. Wow, seems like something epic would do.
Josh:Let's go with epic epic is correct what a guess, well done well done, andrew.
Chris:Okay, matt, what is the name of the animal companion found in the fallout games? Is it a pal, b mr snuggles, c dog meat or d roach?
Matt:first of all, I have never played any of the Fallout games. What a terrible person. You are Second of all go ahead and read those again for me.
Chris:Was it Pal Mr Snuggles Dogmeat or Roach? I went Dogmeat, it is Dogmeat, very good.
Andy:I really wanted it to be Mr Snuggles.
Rob:Fun fact Roach is the horse in the Witcher.
Chris:Yep yep. Mr Snuggles would have been an amazing pet name. Okay, last question of the round for Josh Joosh. The M12 Force Application Light Reconnaissance Vehicle, a fictional armored vehicle that appeared in Halo, was better known by this animal name A puma, a chupacabra warthog, Mushroom Warthog or capybara? Yes, it is warthog. The gimme question.
Josh:I was waiting for somebody to steal it. Okay, so, rob and correct me if I'm wrong you still have a ninja star and an ice block. That is correct. Okay, how many points do I have? Four? Yeah, andy, you have a mushroom. And you have six points. Matt, you have a mushroom and an ice block. Do you need us to go over what those are? No, okay, and you have three points and I have a ninja star, and I've got six points. And you have three points and I have a ninja star, and I've got six points.
Chris:Okay, andy and Josh in the dead heat so far. Moving on to everybody's favorite category, kb Mod, some PC gaming questions here for you. Let's try. Rob, here we go First question of the round number 11 on my list. What classic open-ended PC game of 1993 may have been inspired by a jules verne novel where characters were marooned on an island? Was it a monkey island, b missed c puzzle adventure or d 20 000 leagues under the sea? I'm gonna go with Myst, that is correct.
Rob:Yes, it is. Yeah, I've heard of that one.
Matt:It's a great game.
Chris:On to yeah listeners, if you're too young to know. Myst. Best puzzle game series ever. They recreated the original Myst with remastered graphics. It is amazing, go play it. Riven, the second one in the series amazing as well, but the graphics, uh suck.
Josh:Hopefully they remaster that one I foresee a lot of chris sidebars on this category.
Chris:Okay, andy on to you. Everyone remembers the classic 3d pinball for windows, bundled with microsoft windows xp. But did you know it was actually just meant as a demo for a full game with multiple tables you could play. What was the name of the full game? Was it A Tilted Pinball, b, 3d Pinball, adventure, c, full Tilt Pinball or D XP Pinball? I played the shit out of that. Yeah, everybody did. Oh, yeah.
Andy:I had several PC pinball games. I want to go with Full Tilt.
Chris:That is correct. Very good, well done.
Josh:This guy, I can't remember the other table names.
Chris:Alright, back to Matt. Hopefully you can get this one here. Counter-strike Source was released as a remake to the acclaimed first-person shooter, featuring updated graphics Only available for PC. What game studio produced this game? Was it A Valve, b Konami, c Rockstar or D Capcom Valve? That is correct.
Rob:You frightened me with how long you took of that Speaking of Valves valves one just opened across the table.
Chris:From me we won't hear it. Jesus christ, if it starts to smell in here, I'm throwing you out the window, wafting in my direction.
Matt:What are you doing, you? Can edit that out, right it took a hot second. There it's. Oh my god. I studied for this and looked up a lot of counter-Strike and that era of game questions. That was not one that was on the radar.
Chris:I was thinking about doing the maps, but I figured that would have been too hard, so I just went with the studio.
Matt:That actually might be stuck back there in the brain. Sorry, are we three for three in PC games and then, it comes to me, I feel like this is unfair.
Josh:Here we go, Josh, to you. I don't like it.
Chris:Although earlier versions of the game featured a character named as Ivan the Space Biker, the games maker eventually settled on Gordon Freeman as the hero. What was the game? Was it A Half-Life, b, halo, c, dead Space or D Starfield? Okay, I know it wasn't.
Josh:Halo C Dead Space or D Starfield. Okay, I know it wasn't Halo. I'm in the space biker. So can I do my little Ninja Star guy.
Chris:Ninja Star. We will eliminate Dead Space, so you have Half-Life, Halo or Starfield.
Josh:I'll go with Half-Life. That is correct, we're four for four in this category.
Rob:You should be proud of us.
Chris:Never, never expected this in my days there's a couple challenging ones coming up, but here we go, here we go. Number six ski free was in fact a game about skiing that was free, this classic windows 3.0 game. Let you ski down a mountain while trying to avoid obstacles. If you happen to hit one of, it's the Yeti. It is the Yeti. I remember that was a cool game Once again if you haven't played that dear young listener who plays Fortnite all the time go out get yourself a copy of Ski Free.
Rob:This is like awakening parts of my brain that I had shut off. That's what I was hoping for I remember you couldn't win at that game.
Josh:Yes, there was no. Eventually, the Yeti was going to catch you.
Chris:It was like an endless runner game yep, yep, here we go, andy, you're up yeah what simulation video game franchise was originally developed by will wright and launched in 1989 for the macintosh computer? Was it a organ trail, b sim city, c roller coaster, tycoon or d the Sims?
Andy:You said 1989?
Chris:89 on a Macintosh computer.
Andy:I feel like that's got to be. Oregon Trail has to be right, it is Sim.
Chris:City.
Josh:Wow, oh, was Oregon Trail older than that? I don't think so.
Chris:I didn't look up when Oregon Trail was released.
Josh:There's no way. Sim City is older than Oregon Trail.
Chris:I'm kind of sad it doesn't have the full sound effect.
Matt:I know.
Chris:All right To you, though, matt. Next question, number nine, in the timeless Oregon Trail, speaking of video game, you were often given three options to get across the rivers. Which of these was not an option? A cock and float Eh. B build a raft. C take a ferry or D ford the river.
Rob:Matt what you know about cocking and floating.
Josh:Grow up.
Matt:Read those one more time. Read those one more time.
Chris:He just wants me to say cock, again Cock and float. Yep, build a raft, take a ferry, board the river. What was? A Cock and float, I believe.
Matt:Read them one more time.
Josh:Dear. God no.
Matt:Cock and float yes.
Chris:I recall these all being options in various games. Build a raft. Yes, take a ferry.
Josh:Yep Ford the river Yep One of them? Definitely not. Oh my gosh, this has to be the easiest one.
Chris:Build the raft is correct.
Josh:Yeah.
Chris:Dear God, Matt, it took you way too long.
Matt:I think you just remember that. I swear. I remember that being an option in one of the versions, like one through 50 or whatever they have through 50.
Chris:He says wow. All right, joshosh, your next question, number seven on my list, only available on pc and mobile devices. This game by the developers of wow, let you build, battle an opponent with trading cards. Wow.
Josh:Yeah.
Matt:Andy's about to explode. Either he's got to go to the bathroom real bad or he knows the answer.
Rob:I can't tell which one.
Josh:He's just cocking and floating over there. I mean there's a lot of it's building card deck and battling. Read the question again so I know who you said the game developer was.
Chris:Game developer of WoW. I didn't say who you said the game developer was. Game developer of wow. I didn't say the name of the game developer wow yeah wow wow being a world. Yeah, I got that. I knew that um I'm gonna go?
Josh:I, I don't know, I I never really played any of these, but I'm gonna go with magic the gathering.
Chris:Oh sorry, it is hearthstone, which which, by the way, andy, I thought you were going to say was your favorite multiplayer game.
Andy:I played the shit out of that damn game.
Josh:Sorry to let you down, andy, was that our? First missed question of this.
Chris:No, no, no, no no.
Josh:Andy missed in this round as well.
Chris:All right, moving on back to Rob.
Josh:Here we go number four.
Chris:Nope number 12. It's changed in the last second. Here we go. Pc gaming was popular for attempting to enhance the classroom with educational video games. In when in the World is Carmen Sandiego, a user is required to have a warrant for each arrest while traveling to locales as widespread as Oslo, kathmandu, cairo and Lima. Which of these was not a version of the game? A? Where in Time, b when in Space, c Carmen Sandiego, math Detective. Or D when in Asia?
Rob:Oh, God when in Asia?
Chris:Yes, yes, wow, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I thought someone would go with carmen san diego math detective, which is apparently a game never heard of in my life.
Andy:Sounds hilarious that was one of the like computer lab games when I was a kid, really we had math munchers, man math munchers yeah, we also. We had a math tower game that it was like you were doing a heist and to go up each floor you had to do the math questions. Oh, my god, I remember that one mandy, here we go.
Chris:Your question what is considered the most popular mmorpg game of all time? Is it? It A Final Fantasy XI, b World of Warcraft, c RuneScape or D EverQuest?
Andy:Uh yeah, let's mushroom it. It's gotta be World of Warcraft, right?
Chris:That's what I think it is. Any EQ nerds go away, I don't care, your game sucks. World of Warcraft forever.
Rob:That's two more points to the Andyy.
Matt:Yes, I have never played it I haven't either, because I knew I'd get addicted to it.
Andy:I knew how it would go.
Chris:Yeah, never touched that's exactly why I didn't pick it up. Luckily, we got involved in it late on and a friend got a subscription for us for three months. Siobhan and I played for three months. At the end of it we were like this is fun, we should keep playing this. And then we looked at the cost of continuing to play monthly and we were like, absolutely not. We are poor people, we cannot afford this game.
Chris:Oh hello, guild Wars We'd already been knee deep in Guild Wars at that point Shout out to I have a friend who loved Guild Wars at that point.
Rob:Shout out to I have a friend who loved Guild Wars, Chris Galloway.
Chris:Oh yeah, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah we were alpha testers for Guild Wars 2. Wow, terrible, terrible failure of a game. They ruined ruined that game. All right, we are moving on to Matt. Question number four. Exclusive to PC for several years, this game features enemies such as the zombies, pigmen and creepers. Is it A Minecraft, b, half-life, c, runescape or D, age of Empires? Yeah, we're going to mushroom that one. It's Minecraft. It is Minecraft, oh well done. Had to give an easy one there for you.
Matt:Thank God.
Chris:I needed a softball. Two points to.
Rob:Welson Claw. Well, that was lovely, I believe.
Chris:Now we're over to Josh Josh last question of the KB Mod category for you which of these games is a PC-exclusive building and management-style simulator? Is it A Minecraft B, factorio C, rimworld or D Fallout Shelter style simulator? Is it a minecraft b, factorio c, rim world or d fallout shelter?
Josh:well, I've never played any of those. I feel like minecraft is no longer exclusive if it ever was exclusive to pc, so it can't be that. What are the other three factorio?
Chris:rimio, rimworld or Fallout Shelter.
Josh:And Fallout has been on all kinds of consoles. I will go with one of the other two that I don't know. Factorio, factorio is incorrect.
Chris:It is RimWorld.
Josh:Golly, I got it down to two.
Chris:He smelled my red herring and threw it out. Minecraft.
Rob:Wow, hey, I would just like to say officially we all did a lot better in that category. Yeah, I was much much better.
Chris:Now I'm a little afraid for our next category sports, sports, sports oh hey, real quick, josh, where are we standing?
Josh:not as good as we were before, for me at least. Uh, we have a tie, three players at seven, so josh, matt and rob are at seven and andy's at nine. Oh boy, wow andy and correct me if I'm wrong, but we have, uh, an ice block for matt. We have nothing for andy. Is that correct? Correct all? And we have a Ninja Star and an Ice Block still left for.
Rob:Rob, that is correct, I'm ready.
Chris:Okay, here we go, rob. Yes, the game 1080 Snowboarding might need to have a rename, as recently this record was set by snowboarder Hiroto Iguara. Was it a 1920, a 2160, a 2340, or a 2640?
Rob:Hey Andy, I have ice blocked to you. Ooh Uh C 2340 is correct.
Josh:This guy, this guy. I love that. Did you know that, or was that a guess?
Andy:No, that was a straight up guess.
Josh:Unbelievable. Wow. Just so everyone knows. It was the first time on a snowboard in the X Games this year and then somebody did it on skis later that same X Games.
Chris:That's six and a half full rotations. The video is bonkers Go YouTube it, it is wild. I cannot imagine being able to spin that much that fast that I I am so upset yeah, that was a backfire I should have punted it to matt on yeah, oh my gosh. All right back to back questions. Andy for you, which game was the first hockey game to feature fighting on the ice? Was it a blades of steel, b wayne gretzky Hockey, c Slapshot or D Mario Lemieux Hockey.
Andy:Wayne Gretzky.
Chris:Sorry, that is incorrect. It was Blades of Steel, wow.
Matt:Blades of Steel. I remember Wayne Gretzky was 64.
Chris:No, there was an earlier Wayne Gretzky.
Matt:Was there. I remember the 64 version.
Chris:Yeah, all right, moving on, welser to you. Oh great, this game was featured in Family Guy for its glitch method of scoring easily. Corner three is it A double dribble, b basketball, c NBA Jam or D Coach, k college basketball.
Matt:I.
Josh:Coach K college basketball. I'm going to ice block this to Andy.
Matt:If he gets this, we're pretty much toast.
Josh:Yeah.
Chris:Read the options again A double dribble, b basketball, c NBA jam or D Coach K college basketball Double dribble, double dribble is correct.
Josh:Oh my God, this is unreal. Assassinating Drinking spree.
Chris:Yes, very accurate. Oh, my Lord Wow.
Josh:I can't believe this.
Andy:All right. I do better when I answer other people's questions.
Josh:I mean he's up four points on all three of us, I know.
Matt:Oh and his connection seems to be not working anymore. Did he get his?
Josh:question right in this one. No, no, no, and we were lucky, jeez, and we gave him two extra points and I was on both of your sides on that. All right he took two shots in the dark, josh listed To.
Andy:on that, all right, here we go, two shots in the dark.
Josh:Josh listed that one to be fair, that one was not a shot in the dark. Sure, sure, sure that one.
Chris:I've not played many sports games, but double dribble I did play I had to look it up because I wasn't sure, because basketball is totally the title of an atari game, uh, but double dribble, I believe, for nes, nes, yeah, wow, okay, over to josh, listed in guinness world records as the best selling sports video game franchise in the world has to be mad. This series has sold over 325 million copies as of 2021. Sorry, my statistics a little out of date, but is it a fifa, b madden, c, ncaa football or d tiger woods?
Josh:shoot tiger woods. Ah, man, so you said globally or just overall, this is globally best-selling sports franchise video game I feel like that brings fifa and even golf into it, but I don't think it's Tiger Woods I am going to go with. I mean, in the US it's got to be Madden, but if we're going the whole world, I think it's got to be FIFA. So I'll go with FIFA. That is correct FIFA. Nice, this is so sweaty, I feel like I have to get everything right now.
Chris:Back over to Rob. Yeah. Wii Sports was not Nintendo's first foray into interactive video games. Also known as the Family Trainer, this game device connected to the NES to allow for interactive fun. Was it A the Power Jumper, b the Power Mat, c the Power Runner or D the power pad?
Rob:I believe it is the power pad that is correct.
Chris:Power pad.
Rob:Matt has one in his basement Power pad Andy back to you.
Chris:The first Gran Turismo game was released in 1997, intended to emulate the appearance and performance of large selection of vehicles, most of which are licensed reproductions of real world automobiles. Due to the exclusivity on sony playstation, turn 10 studios brought this game franchise to the xbox series of game consoles. Was it a grand theft auto b need for speed c forza mortis, boats, mortars. Was it A Grand Theft Auto B Need for Speed C Forza Motorsports, motor.
Rob:Motorsports. Thank you, motorboats.
Chris:And or D Enthusia Professional Racing.
Andy:Grand Theft Auto seems too obvious. What was the second choice?
Chris:Second choice was Need for Speed.
Andy:Yeah, let's go with Need for Speed.
Chris:Oh sorry, it is Forza Motorsports.
Josh:Oh man.
Chris:Everybody here very sad for.
Rob:Andy getting a question wrong.
Chris:Okay, moving on. Well, sir, which of the following game consoles did not get a Mario Golf variant? Was it NES, snes Game Boy or GameCube Go with Game Boy, incor or GameCube Go with Game Boy Incorrect GameCube. No, it is SNES.
Rob:Oh man, oh wow, I played it, the original Mario Golf. I played Mario Golf on Game Boy all the time. Yes, loved that game.
Chris:Wow, all right, moving along, josh, number one. In what year was the first Madden NFL game released? 1988, 1992, 1996, or 2000?
Josh:I'm going to go with you said 96 was the like see.
Chris:Yeah, I'm going to go with 96. That is incorrect. Is it 92? 1988? Was the first madden nfl game wow, wow wow, wow, wow was considered very impressive for the simulation ability of the game to be able to have like ai be able.
Matt:Ai is not really truly accurate, but you know, you, yeah, run in straight lines and turns at 90 degree angles I'm imagining okay, back to rob ready number nine, starting with tony hawk's pro skater in 1999.
Chris:The series was one of the best-selling video game franchises in the early 2000s. Which of these was not one of the tricks that could be performed? A the Misty Flip, b Christ Air, c Double Backflip or D 360 Shove it Rewind. A Ooh, I'm sorry. The correct answer is C, the double backflip. Ooh oh.
Rob:Wow Okay.
Chris:The 360, shove it rewind. Solid check Absolute classic Rob Saturday night. I don't know. Wow, that's what she said. I don't know. All right, andy, andy, back to you. Wii Sports is a 2006 sports simulation video game developed and published by Nintendo for the Wii video game console. The game was designed to demonstrate the motion sensing capabilities of the Wii remote. Which of these was not an original Wii sports activity? Was it A Golf, b Baseball, c Boxing or D Table Tennis?
Andy:Table Tennis.
Josh:Easiest question. You gave us the whole night Unreal.
Andy:Regular tennis.
Josh:That's another great multiplayer game. I played a lot of tennis against my brother and sister when I was younger.
Andy:There was the follow-up, one which had fencing. Fencing was a lot of fun. On that I want to say there was archery.
Chris:Archery and the kendo. What's the?
Josh:Are you talking about the one on the Switch? Switch has the sword fighting, it's not Kendo.
Chris:No, I think it was on Resports Resort, though, where you?
Josh:had to have the clip-in thing, in the bottom.
Chris:Oh yeah, Okay, Matt, here we go. Video game history is littered with plenty of worthy, worthwhile tennis titles, from Mario Tennis to Virtua Tennis. It's only fitting that we highlight something a little more obscure. This one is named for one of the most famous tennis players of all time. Was it A Pete Sampras, B. Andre Agassi, C Steffi Graf or D Billie Jean King? B? That is incorrect it is. Pete Sampras. Whoa Pete Sampras. Whoa. Tennis Pete Sampras tennis.
Chris:Okay, last but not least here, josh, the 1990s remain a rather weird time for futuristic sports, with a dash of violence, and Bill Lambert's combat blank takes things to a next level. Was it A baseball, B football, c tennis or D basketball?
Josh:Basketball.
Chris:That is correct.
Rob:You just need to know who Bill Lambert is. He's on the Bad Boy. Pistons Never played any of these.
Chris:and then I was like, oh, he's a basketball player, that's why they did it as a combat thing, because he was known as a bruiser and hit people on the court all the time. That round went okay. I was a little nervous.
Rob:No, Everything's gone, great man.
Chris:Yeah.
Rob:This has been great. Alright, here we go. Last round, right?
Chris:We're on to cheat codes, you filthy cheaters. No, no, no, there's a music thing, at the end.
Rob:Oh my God, there's two more rounds Buckle up.
Chris:Here we go. Rob your cheat code? Question as Charles Foster Kane drew his last breath in Citizen Kane, he said his famous last word, rosebud, perhaps as a nod to this character's extravagant wealth. This cheat code was a quick way of earning money. In what game?
Rob:A the Sims B Age of Empires? I have no idea.
Chris:No, it is the Sims.
Josh:Oh, I thought it was Age of Empires also.
Chris:Oh man, I had no guess for that one, Andy question number three this game's cheat code did not give you an advantage, but it did enable blood in the game. That was the catalyst for ESRB ratings in video games. Was it A GoldenEye007, b, nfl Blitz, c, mortal Kombat or D Punch Out?
Andy:Mortal Kombat. Mortal Kombat is correct, whoa.
Chris:Cranking around to Matt here, rocket man burning out the fuse up here all alone. Enter this code to get your very own jetpack in this game. L1, l2, r1, r2, up down left right. L1, l2, r1, r2, up down left right, was it A Jet Force, gemini B, halo, infinite C, grand Theft Auto or D? Down left right, was it a jet force, gemini b, halo, infinite c, grand theft auto or d, fortnight the grand?
Matt:theft auto.
Josh:That is correct that was a classic style of man just flying around, yep yep, all right, josh on to you.
Chris:This nes game, known for being one of the most difficult games, had a series of hidden warps to skip around to different levels, including one where you needed to purposely hit a wall. Was it A Super Mario Bros, b Battletoads, c Contra or D Metal Gear? Uh, contra, ooh, incorrect, it is Battletoads. Brutal On Hyper, hyper, whatever the level was where you rode, a little jet ski looking thing oh screw that level and you had to purposefully hit a wall.
Matt:No, I'm still bitter. That level is damn near impossible.
Andy:Oh yes, the videos of people trying to play that level and failing are great.
Chris:The reason many of us broke our NES controllers wall is Back to you, rob. This game featured cheats like always on fire, infinite turbo and baby mode. Was it a madden 99? B football manager, c nba jam or d american mcgee's alice nba jam?
Rob:it is n Jam.
Chris:Well done, Love that game. Okay, back to Andy. We have question number one. Which of these games makes use of the famous Konami code? Was it A Donkey Kong 64, B Dead by Daylight, C Frozen Olaf's Quest or D Mortal Kombat 5?
Andy:Mortal Kombat 5?. Mortal Kombat 5.
Chris:No sorry, Dead by Daylight. Apparently uses the famous Konami code. Never played it.
Josh:Wow, me neither.
Chris:For you, matt. This game featured cheats such as DK mode, paintball mode and all guns. Was it A Halo?
Matt:Stop it's 007.
Chris:007, all right, moving right along this guy, oh yes do you remember what dk mode was man?
Matt:yes, it made the player's heads jive freaking enormous, did all right super easy to shoot.
Chris:Okay, number nine for josh. This one is definitely not a cheat code, but was a fun way to trick your friends or little brother. In this game, if you hit a feathered animal too many times, all of its friends will come to deliver vicious payback. Was it A Lion King, b Animal Crossing, c, minecraft or D? Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time?
Josh:I am gonna go. I feel like you guys are gonna be mad at me if I don't get this, because you all seem like you know it and you're wearing a Zelda shirt and you pointed out the chicken before that. You called Cluck Cluck. Is that what you called it? Cuckoo, cuckoo. Yeah, so I'm going to go with that. The.
Matt:Ocarina of.
Chris:Time.
Josh:The death chicken. All right, I'm going to get out of here alive.
Matt:My daughter asked me in that game. We played it. And she goes what happens if I hit the chicken with a sword? Go find out, go ahead. And she whacked it. And she goes what if I do it again? And we went through this four or five times. Then she goes the chickens are chasing me. That's like Helldivers. Yep.
Josh:Bad life choices have you played the newer hell divers, hell divers 2? No, I haven't. They've got these like giant nukes that are like stuck in the ground, and every time we bring somebody new into the game we're like, oh, go over there and shoot that thing and it'll, it'll give you a bunch of guns and they just shoot it yeah see you later yeah they burn one of our lives, but it's always.
Chris:It's always a good laugh all right back over to Quote. How do you turn this thing on? Unquote Was the hilariously brilliant cheat code in Age of Empires II to spawn. What in-game Was it? A a Panzer tank, b 100 Zulu warriors, c a Shelby Cobra or D a giant Trojan horse.
Rob:I'm going to go with a Panzer tank. Oh close, that was the Shelby Cobra.
Chris:But it was the Shelby Cobra which had a giant mounted machine gun to it.
Josh:I was going to say how is a Shelby Cobra close to? A tank, and then you're like well, it had a big, big, huge gun.
Andy:There was one that would be a baby on a tricycle with a bazooka.
Chris:Bazooka? Yeah, I don't think that was. Was that Age of Mythology? Maybe, I don't remember.
Andy:Maybe it was one of them.
Chris:All right, I'm the heck out of those games. Over to you, andy. In the original game, the Legend of Zelda, what was the effect of naming your character Zelda? A you got infinite lives. B you got max health.
Andy:C enabled New Game Plus. Or D turn the character's sprite into Princess Zelda. I don't know, I've never heard this. I'm going to guess it turned the sprite into Princess Zelda.
Chris:Oh no, it is New Game.
Josh:Plus Wow.
Chris:Okay, I was right there with you on that guess, matt, your last cheat code in the original Doom. What did the cheat codedqd enable?
Josh:god mode, yes, it was god mode what a guy working himself back into the game here idk if I believe was infinite ammo and id clip was walk through walls.
Chris:I can't remember any more offhand, but okay, those are the important ones, josh, your.
Andy:CU was see-through walls.
Chris:Yes, yeah, the whole map. Okay, josh, beware of this fake cheat code. If you perform the action, step forward, step back, turn right three times, then perform a backwards jump it will cause your character to explode. In what video game the Cupid Shuffle? Was it A, minecraft, b, mortal Kombat 4? C, tomb Raider2 or D, just Cause2?
Josh:Alright. What was the actual actions? Again Forward, backward, right, right, right.
Chris:Take it back now y'all, it was step forward, step backwards, turn right three times, then perform a backwards jump.
Josh:Well, you can't turn right in Mortal Kombat.
Chris:Tomb Raider. Tomb Raider 2 is correct. Just cause Lara to explode. What a hilarious way to troll people.
Matt:I seem to remember that actually.
Chris:Yeah, I didn't know about this until.
Matt:I was starting to do research.
Chris:What a hilarious thing to troll people, be like, oh, you could get infinite lives, and then you just watch Laura explode.
Josh:Alright, so the end of that round. Rob is still holding on to one power-up left, I am. And he's also in last place with nine points. Matt is in third place with ten, I am in fourth no sorry, second place with eleven and Andy is still in first place with 13, with a two-point lead going into our final category final category we're gonna do music.
Chris:We're gonna do this pretty fast. Okay, here we go here, we go rob. Your first song hit me.
Rob:Hopefully this isn't ear-piercingly loud am I getting choices or oh, that hits hard. No, I just have to guess.
Chris:You just have to guess. Is it Sonic? That is incorrect. That is the Contra Jungle theme from the original NES Contra. Unfortunate.
Josh:You left the one power-up that you cannot use in this category.
Rob:How was I to know that you couldn't use it in this category? I mean?
Josh:he did say you're going to have to name the video game.
Rob:Well, but I thought that it would be multiple choice, Sorry.
Chris:I didn't make up extra choices.
Josh:I'll give you a bonus point.
Chris:This is Andy, for you.
Andy:That is, legends of Zelda.
Chris:I need the title. Do I have to be more specific than that? Yes, you do.
Matt:Oh Ugh, can we steal this Please?
Chris:You already used your power-up bro.
Josh:Plus, you flipped off the Game Master.
Andy:Duh.
Matt:Won't be the first time.
Andy:I'm going to go with Twilight Princess.
Chris:Oh sorry, ot. All right, matt, here we go, your first song. Not gonna get into the real theme, or it'd be obvious oh my god oh crap three two age of empires. No, that is dragonborn from skyrim. Yet, dova king, dova king, all right, josh on to you. These are hard 8-bit goes hard. Yeah, it does. Seriously, these get hard.
Josh:My gosh. I mean, obviously it's one of those classic games, but I don't know it off the top of my head.
Chris:I'm going to by the way, I knew this would be the hardest category, because you just hear video game music and you think, oh, I know that's video game music, but remembering what game it's from, I should have done multiple choice Mega man. Not a bad guess.
Matt:It is Metroid.
Chris:Oh, good one. Okay, next round.
Rob:Oh God, this is Sonic.
Chris:Yes, it is Okay. Can you name the zone?
Rob:Oh, the green zone.
Matt:No, it's chemical plant zone two that is correct Whoa, okay, nerd.
Rob:I'm still giving, I'm taking a point for Sonic.
Matt:Seriously, you made Andy pick a game specific.
Rob:Yeah, come on now Come on, I'm in last place, you ass.
Chris:Yeah, he's mathematically eliminated Chemical plant is in multiple games. Thank you very much.
Josh:Are there three for each of us in this category? I think so. Yeah, so he's out already.
Matt:If.
Josh:Andy gets a point, he wins.
Rob:Rob, sorry for the math E equals MC Hammer. We talking about numbers.
Matt:I haven't used that one in a while.
Chris:All right, andy, here we go, your next song. We're all jamming.
Andy:All right, that's Super Mario Brothers 3?
Chris:2. 2 is correct.
Rob:I guess 3 too. It's the radish throwing one it is the radish throwing one.
Josh:Yeah, wow. I don't get a point for that. Thank you, you kept me in the game which. I'm not confident. We stay alive If anyone listened to music trivia, you know that I suck at this.
Chris:Here we go, matt, oh my god, another one that goes so very hard, my gosh.
Matt:You could just be a DJ playing these drops. This is a stab in the dark, but is that Castlevania? That was actually my guess too.
Chris:Need the number game please.
Matt:Oh, jesus Christ, Come on, dude.
Josh:It was Castlevania.
Chris:It is. Oh, I would give it to him Two. It is Castlevania 2.
Josh:Wow, what a pull what a pull, wow.
Chris:Do you know the subtitle of that game please? More Castles, more.
Rob:Castle Morevania. Is that really it, Castlevania 2.
Matt:I was going to say Matt never played it. What Thicker and Vainier.
Chris:Electric Boogaloo Simon's Quest.
Matt:Castlevania 2, Electric Boogaloo.
Josh:Love it? Alright, here we go, Josh. I need this to keep the game going.
Chris:Oh, there we go, boy, if you were on this title card.
Josh:I mean, is it Halo?
Chris:No.
Josh:Is it Final Fantasy? Is it the Witcher?
Chris:No. Close though, it is Fallout 4. Damn, played an epic amount of that game. Here we go Back over to Rob. All right here we go. Hopefully we don't run out of, but who cares?
Josh:final questions.
Rob:I am not recognizing that one. My guess is GoldenEye what?
Andy:Matt Kingdom Hearts.
Matt:It's the Legend of Zelda Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker.
Chris:Yes, Even nailed the song title Dragon Roost Island from Wind Waker.
Josh:Yep, yep, that's a tough one. Goldeneye has one of like. I was expecting to hear that Well listen.
Rob:I just thought it was like from like the story mode of the game Little bloopity bloops.
Chris:I don't know. Here we go, andy, your next one. Oh, I know it, I know it, I know it. This is from a specific era of music.
Matt:I have no clue, but Josh is pumped right now. I'm pretty sure I know it.
Josh:If I don't, I'm going to be really annoyed. I have a guess. I have a guess.
Andy:All right. The guess is Cuphead.
Chris:No, that's not a bad guess though.
Rob:It's that kind of style like music, my guess was Banjo and Kazooie Kazooie. Good, that's the right era. Was that Crash Bandicoot that is?
Chris:Crash.
Josh:Bandicoot I never played much of that. I don't know which one it was. There was a couple, but Crash Bandicoot was a great game.
Chris:It is in the van of Banjo-Kazooie.
Andy:Donkey Kong 64, those games Very xylophone heavy. I remember annoying the crap out of my family so I was only allowed to play it on mute.
Chris:My God family, so I was only allowed to play it on mute. My god, matt's gonna break something. Can you pour and listen at the same time? Absolutely. You better get this sweet jesus do?
Matt:I have to give you the game, yeah, yeah, and if you don't, you have to stop the. Yeah, you have to stop this podcast, and you can't ever do it. You have to give you the game, yeah, yeah, and if you don't, it's the original Halo you have to stop the it's CE.
Josh:Yeah, you have to stop this podcast and you can't ever do it again.
Chris:You have to cancel the whole podcast. Yes, it is the original Halo theme.
Matt:I can't remember who the guy was that played guitar for Halo 2 and that's going to bug the shit out of me, but that gives it ripping guitar riff. All right, here we go, Josh.
Josh:Oh, please, let it be, something easy. Yeah, Pac-Man.
Chris:That is correct.
Josh:Thank you. Well, shit, it was close.
Chris:I have like so many more, so that's fine, I just did random so we'll stop it there, that's okay. I have a lot more bangers on the podcast list.
Matt:One more round. The host, it's my podcast, damn it. One more round.
Josh:One more. Here we go, Rob. Wow, Andy's getting hosed here.
Chris:Not from an era for Rob. I don't think.
Rob:I've got nothing here, I'm going to go. Final Fantasy V.
Chris:I'm giving it to you anyway.
Josh:Wow, it is. Vii. That was brilliant. The main theme from VII, brilliant.
Chris:Nailing the series.
Josh:How many Final Fantasies have they made, and are they still making them? Yeah, are they still making them.
Chris:I think XVI just came out, if I'm not incorrect. Are they still making them? I think 16 just came out, if I'm not incorrect.
Rob:Oh god, I was just guessing with 17.
Matt:Final Fantasy 905, 15 was the one with the car Finalist.
Chris:Fantasy. Alright, andy, your last question or?
Josh:last song Maybe, unless Matt wants to keep going until he's winning.
Andy:Is this Assassin's Creed Black Flag Meow meow, meow.
Josh:No. Is that a Madden? Game. Sounded very football-y, anyone else?
Matt:Like NFL films. Is that Age of Empires?
Chris:No, no Age of Mythology. That is Battlefield 1942. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, we've never gotten there. Get ready for a fight on Iwo Jima. Here we go, matt. Matt. Got to get the exact correct one Super Mario World for SNES.
Matt:Yes, that is correct. Wow, I have a very special memory about that tune that involves Chris and a drum line and spinning and gyrating and dancing.
Chris:Here we go.
Josh:Josh, I'm listening Tetris. Oh yeah, great news everyone. We have a three-way tie at the top. Andy's been hosed, big time hosing.
Andy:I got brutalized by the specifics. Okay, okay.
Rob:Who's all at the top? Everyone but you.
Josh:Great.
Rob:It's okay, rob, you're invited back. How far am I behind? One or two points, two points, okay.
Josh:It's 11 to 13, 13 and 13. Okay. And he's been at 13 for a bit and Matt forced us to play an extra round so that we could catch up.
Rob:Listen, here's what's going to happen. We're going to have a tiebreaker. Okay, the first person to guess the song that Chris plays next.
Josh:Oh yeah, that doesn't work.
Josh:I'm on a delay. If nobody answers, it just keep going. Kirby Name the game.
Josh:No, he's good, he got it Kirby's dreamland.
Matt:it's kirby's dreamland adventure, but I think it's. I'm not sure if it's snes or 64, which one it is, it's actually kirby uh or may race from kirby superstar.
Chris:Are you giving it to me? Did I just win, I would not have made you actually name the game, that one's incredibly obscure naming it kirby matt has wait, I'm so excited I get to play this.
Matt:For me, this is bullshit.
Andy:Matt only won it because he insisted more questions andy, I'm on your side here.
Josh:I'd be losing my mind if I were you. Screw you all. Think or drink winner. Wow, wow. It helps to be the referee in the game and be able to change the rules at the very end. The Chiefs win the Super.
Rob:Bowl.
Matt:ladies and gentlemen, it's my first think or drink people.
Rob:Yeah, it is. It is Congratulations, congratulations.
Matt:Let me enjoy this for a second, all right.
Andy:Matt, you are officially the Patrick Mahomes of podcasting Wow.
Matt:I don't care, I'll take it.
Rob:Patrick Mahomes of podcasting.
Chris:I'm fine with it, just because it's the absolute banger of all bangers.
Josh:I'll send it, patrick Wells Holmes, play it, play it. That's GoldenEye, yes.
Chris:Oh yeah, Absolute banger.
Josh:Oh, it's the best.
Chris:What a game.
Josh:What a game. Very close at the end, very close. Whether Matt cheated or not, we'll let the listeners decide. Get in the comments.
Andy:Get in the comments.
Josh:Yeah, get in the comments, andy, you're always a winner in the comments, get in the comments.
Rob:Andy, you're always a winner in my book.
Josh:Chris, well-constructed game.
Matt:Very, very fun, well done.
Rob:Also need to just really quick shout out. Thank you to Jeff Stitzer for all of the awesome sound drops that we had throughout this episode, that he was so generous to provide us and keeping an ear out for our interview that we have with the man himself legendary. We love you thank you cheers and until next time. Thank you all for us.
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