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Favoriting July 8, 2010: Video Games Explained: Part I !!!!!! Feat. Dr. Jordan Blackman!!!

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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti  Are You Gonna Look After My Boys?   Favoriting Scared Famous 
Procedure Club  Vermont   Favoriting Doomed Forever 
Wild Nothing  Confirmation   Favoriting Gemini 


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Listener comments!

  12:04am
Doug:

Night Pervple!!
  12:05am
Doug:

Uhh... People!!!
  12:09am
Different Alex:

Oh goodness, this my first time listening to Night People live!
  12:25am
bennett4senate:

yo Sandy if you're looking for good online video game sounds check this http://www.coinopvideogames.com/sounds.php awesome home recordings of like 12yr old kids in an arcade
  12:38am
Kendall!:

Yo I'm playing videogames RIGHT NOW. Found a perfectly great condition Nintendo Entertainment System in the trash the other day.
  12:43am
Josh:

Whittle me this, whittle me that...
  12:48am
Doug:

Ariel Pink! Another very entertaining show thus far. I was just insincerely echoing Scharpling with my opening comment, I understand how gentlemanly the Night People are.
  12:49am
Indiana Jordan:

I was also a Genesis kid, but was always jealous of my friends' Super Nintendos. Although my parents had an NES when I was born. Damn Duck Hunt, the bane of my toddler years. That dog was always laughing at me.
  12:56am
Felix:

Please update your playlist. great music. thanks
  12:56am
minnesota jeff:

Is the track list just behind, or wrong? Because currently is X-Ray Spex, and before was The Wipers.
  12:58am
Doug:

I heard they made a roundabout with them in India.
  12:59am
Indiana Jordan:

I have a copy of the Atari E.T. I hope the videogame police don't come to get me.
  12:59am
Josh:

E.T. is the archetype of the typical bad movie game. The main problem is trying to time the release of the game with the release of the movie. They usually wind up getting rushed towards the end, and tend to suck in general.
  12:59am
Kendall!:

back in my day we didn't even have playlists you all should be happy
  1:00am
Joshua K:

stock market isn't a game, its a sport
  1:04am
Different Alex:

I found a child's drawing of the final level of Super Mario 3 that said "Alex - age 4" in the corner. Thus proving that I beat Super Mario 3 by the age of 4.
  1:09am
minnesota jeff:

Odd, my WFMU feed clicked off and started playing what was next on my iTunes list after WFMU. Which was Wipers and X-Ray Spex, I thought something was odd that Night People would play 3 X-Ray spex songs in a row.
  1:09am
Josh:

A sentient creature involved in a game isn't necessarily a player. He or she could be like one of the pieces in a game of chess, rather than the player.
  1:11am
Aly:

Why are you hanging up on me?
Also, dictionary.com has 24 separate different definitions for "game" but you could dissect the theory game endlessly.
  1:13am
Joshua K:

that game mancala from africa goes back to at least the 6th or 7th century AD according to the internet.
  1:14am
Joshua K:

Heres a bit of trivia: Nintendo originally started as a playing card company
  1:15am
Josh:

Nintendo started out making playing cards. They sold them to the Yakuza, who never used the same deck twice, or so I heard.
  1:16am
Different Alex:

Nintendo also once owned a chain of love hotels. I wish I was joking.
  1:18am
The Lonliest Monk:

Diplomacy is a game of total planning and scheming. Little element of chance...
  1:19am
Aly:

Almost all games exercise logic. Man to computer games exercise mathematical reasoning. Man on man games teach strategy and manipulation. Chicken is not a fun game.
  1:20am
Joshua K:

Quit playing games with my heart
  1:23am
Aly:

Head games, it's you and me baby
Head games, and I can't take it anymore
Head games, I don't wanna play the...
Head games
  1:26am
Aly:

Bagatelle games originated in the 19th century.
  1:27am
Aly:

and it was pretty much like billiards.
  1:28am
Joshua K:

They had pins and holes but didn't add flippers till the 40s.
  1:31am
Joshua K:

In japan it was puckman, but it looked too much like fuckman in english so they changed it.
  1:32am
Indiana Jordan:

He sounds like Mel Brooks.
  1:32am
dolgo:

Yea he's a puck, puckman
  1:35am
Joshua K:

What was up with Dig Dug... he goes around digging and then inflating his enemies till they explode. Thats kinda violent.
  1:36am
Danne D:

From my old fart's memory.
Rough evolution:
Pong
Breakout
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Pac-Man
(Ms Pac-Man really is the same game again)
Donkey Kong
Things pretty much exploded in many directions so the size of the impact after this isn't always the same
Dragon's Lair is very important too.
  1:37am
Different Alex:

TETRIS.
  1:37am
Danne D:

Mr Do > Dig Dug
  1:38am
Joshua K:

megaman castlevania metroid
  1:39am
Danne D:

getting into consoles, etc is sorta a discussion apart.
The beauty of the C-64 was that it basically was a great gaming machine, but you got your parents to buy it because it was a "real" computer

The Summer Games/Winter Games series from Epyx was awesome on the C-64.
  1:39am
Different Alex:

Bomberman.
  1:41am
Danne D:

Sports: Tecmo Bowl!

Now in terms of consoles it goes roughly, ignoring a number of small-time type players
Pong
Atari 2600
Intellivision
Colecovision

at this point the computers really gained more prominence and consoles waned a bit (to near extinction)
  1:41am
Kendall!:

if it weren't paired with Mario, nobody would have ever played Duck Hunt
  1:42am
Kendall!:

I don't get it is this the videogame episode or the nostalgia episode?
  1:42am
Danne D:

You had the TRS-80
and the Apple II
and originally the Vic-20 (quickly supplanted by the C-64)
but for the low-end you gotta love the
TIMEX SINCLAIR 1000

The Commodore Amiga was a great gaming rig but was uncommon (due to cost)

The NES saved the console btw
  1:44am
Danne D:

Stupidest game ever for the Atari:

Swordquest Earth World
  1:44am
Danne D:

Atari Adventure was awesome.
  1:44am
Different Alex:

Slightly different era: Half-Life
  1:45am
Aly:

FINAL FANTASY!!!!
Not to mention the Aerosmith game.
  1:46am
Joshua K:

Half-life wouldn't have been possible without Quake 1 technology wise. It used the code from quake 1 and quake 2 engine as a basis.
  1:47am
Aly:

Didn't Metal Gear come before Half Life?
  1:47am
Danne D:

Actually if you want to go older school with moddable games you had the whole "Construction Set" series of games from Electronic Arts.

EA was huge in the C-64 games. Archon was awesome.
  1:48am
Joshua K:

The original Metal Gear was on the NES.
  1:49am
Different Alex:

Over 53,000 people played counterstrike today.
  1:51am
Danne D:

DON'T FORGET THE SEGA DREAMCAST!
  1:51am
Aly:

aside from Super Smash Bros. Melee, Mario Kart 4, Mario Party 7, and Animal Crossing, Game Cube really sucked. Play Station really had the best games.
  1:51am
Joshua K:

9.9.99 never forget.
  1:52am
Danne D:

Dreamcast was awesome and underrated :(
Every weird idea possible was on the Dreamcast - a wonderful oddness about it. If there's something with a stupid controller on the Wii, it probably was done first on Dreamcast :)
  1:53am
Aly:

Dreamcast was just ahead of it's time.

Then came X-Box
  1:54am
Danne D:

Chu Chu Rocket :)
  1:55am
Joshua K:

Part of the reason the Dreamcast failed was because it was so easy to pirate games for it. All you needed was a CD burner and an internet connection.
  1:58am
Danne D:

I still have mine. I'll have to pump up Jet Grind Radio some time :)

LOL - Seaman is the game he's talking about.
  1:58am
Aly:

Wii is marketed to the family, PS3 has become more geared to adult gamers, and X-Box is more for the teenaged bracket.
  1:58am
Joshua K:

The dreamcast hardware was also put into arcade systems internally.
  2:01am
Danne D:

thanks guys, I now have various songs from Jet Grind Radio running through my head.
  2:02am
Different Alex:

Can Microsoft Bob please count as a PC game?
  2:03am
Joshua K:

Here is a huge flowchart of game developers/publishers:
http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/03/history-of-video-game-development-studios-flow-chart-2.jpg
  2:04am
Aly:

Diablo 3 is effing amazing.

Also, Warhammer 40K games, not the table top version.
How about the shift of games like Warhammer, D&D, and Magic to the virtual world.
  2:08am
Danne D:

You could make a good game out of that flow chart :)

Btw, Wacky Races was awesome on the Dreamcast :)

Anyhow, good night, night people :)
  2:09am
Joshua K:

The budget, staff and production level of modern games is way more than it used to. In the 80s you just needed a handful of guys to come out with a hit game.
  2:11am
211:

No.
  2:14am
Joshua K:

To Kill A Mockingbird game rules.
  2:16am
Michael:

There was a christian gameboy game called "Spiritual Warfare" I think you had to hunt deamons
  2:16am
bennett4senate:

there was an interesting profile in the New Yorker about the guy who scores Lost also did video games
  2:16am
Joshua K:

There was a Noah's Ark game where you had to round up the animals
  2:17am
Aly:

Phoenix Wright :)
  2:22am
Aly:

Real money comes from a sequel to a good game.

Console games are way expensive. It's all about the computer games. Currently addicted to team Fortress 2 <3
  2:37am
Joshua K:

American McGee's Romeo and Juliet
  2:46am
Kendall!:

Nick Arcade
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3AH9y_wkk0

please watch
  2:48am
Kendall!:

Aly be my TF2 friend I'm nofattiesplease
  2:49am
Indiana Jordan:

I could hear it online.
  2:50am
Joshua K:

My steam ID is jhvh1
  2:54am
Kendall!:

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