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

What are the top ten video game submarines? (08:07)
What the hell is going on with Lord of the Rings games? (14:36)
What are we going to do about the name CRPG? (20:02)
How do you delineate PC game history? (25:39)
What’s a book about video games you wish existed but you don’t have eight years to write? (32:21)

Mel Stone asks: Using only video game characters that have never appeared in an RPG, create the quintessential four-person RPG party (43:47)
How do you design a video game magic system that doesn’t just rip off Dungeons & Dragons? (51:26)
What’s the best way to get ancient computer games to run on modern PCs? (58:21)

Recommendations and Outro (01:03:28)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:


Tales of Game’s Studios Presents Chef Boyardee’s Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa


Space Funeral


Undertale


Ramble Planet


Void Pyramid


The CRPG Book


Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup


RPG Maker


Pokémon fangames


Pokemon Xenoverse


Dragon Ball: Xenoverse


Dragon Quest series


Nintendo Direct 6.21.2023


In the Hunt


Metal Slug series


Steel Diver


The Hunt for Red October


Sub Rebellion


Prisoner of Ice


Banjo-Tooie


Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts


Final Fantasy VII


Super Mario Land


The missing Titanic tour sub is steered with a simple Logitech gamepad


California Extreme


Theme: Submarine


Titanic: A Mysterious Undersea Adventure


Periscope


Silent Hunter series


Das Boot: German U-Boat Simulation


Hunt for Red October adaptations


Cthulhu


Subnautica


Shinsekai: Into the Depths


Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds


Silent Service


Radar Mission


The Lord of the Rings: Gollum


The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria


The Walking Dead


Embracer Group Paid $395 Million for ‘Lord of the Rings’ Rights


Gollum developers apologize for the game’s ‘underwhelming experience’


J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings: Volume One


Melbourne House


Australia


Dave’s Killer Bread


Alvarado Street Bakery


Call of Duty series


Planescape: Torment


Final Fantasy series


Fallout games


Dungeons & Dragons


Baldur’s Gate series


Dragon Slayer


Wizardry games


Etrian Odyssey


Dragon Master Silk


Shining the Holy Ark


Disco Elysium


Pillars of Eternity


Divinity: Original Sin


Street Fighter series


DirectX


Microsoft Windows


Windows 95


FM Towns


PC-8800 series


PC-98


Touhou series


Apple II


Commodore 64


Amiga


ZX Spectrum


Color Graphics Adapter


DOS


Xbox 360


CD-ROM


Cyberpunk 2077


Hardcore Gaming 101: A History of Korean Gaming


Ragnarök Online


Legend of the Red Dragon


Dungeon Fighter Online


Ultima Online


EverQuest


World of WarCraft


The Conclusion of the Amico


Project X Zone series


Advance Wars


Tom Johnson


Shenmue


Wild Woody


Clive Rosfield


Clive Barker


David Cage


Blanka


Brazil


Tectoy


Playtronic


Zeebo


Monkey D. Luffy


Iñaki Godoy


Katy Perry - Dark Horse ft. Juicy J


Shin Megami Tensei series


Octopath Traveler


Bravely Default


Final Fantasy: The 4 Heroes of Light


Final Fantasy XVI


Devil May Cry series


Immortals of Aveum


Ghostwire: Tokyo


Phantom Dust


Earthsea


The Maimed God’s Saga


DOSBox


MiSTer


Project EGG


Ys series


C64Dreams


Total Replay


AmigaVision


eXoDOS


Exodos On Fire Cutz


Recommendations:
Frank: The Video Game History Hour with Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin
Brandon: Il Balletto di Bronzo, purchase a physical copy of Hyper Gunsport
Felipe: The CRPG Book
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