The Great Game Guide

In this episode, we’re going to look at early platform games and how they evolved the ideas from Space Panic and Donkey Kong! -------------------------------------------------------------------Season 1, Episode 19: Why We’re Stuck on Platformers, Part 2 Enjoy the show? Please share it with a friend! And be sure to like it on your platform of choice or leave a glowing review. You can contact Sean v...

In this episode, we’re going to start our discussion about one of the most enduring genres of gaming: the platformer! -------------------------------------------------------------------Season 1, Episode 18: Why We’re Stuck on Platformers, Part 1 Enjoy the show? Please share it with a friend! And be sure to like it on your platform of choice or leave a glowing review. You can contact Sean via Subst...

In this episode, we’re going to wind down our discussion of adventure games and talk about where things go from here! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Season 1, Episode 17: The Adventure Where Seeing is Believing, Part 15 Enjoy the show? Please share it with a friend! And be sure to like it on your platform of choice or leave a glowing review. You can contact Sea...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about attempts to grow and evolve the genre of adventure gaming in the 21st century through who brought the point and click adventure back to life thanks to an indie game boom, digital distribution platforms and a project originally known as the Double Fine Adventure! -------------------------------------------------------------------Season 1, Episode 16: The A...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about attempts to grow and evolve the genre of adventure gaming in the 21st century through publishers such as Telltale Games and genres like walking simulators! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Season 1, Episode 15: The Adventure Where Seeing is Believing, Part 13 Enjoy the show? Please share it with a friend! And be sure to...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about adventure gaming in the 2000s as European game development studios and licensed games based on television shows and IPs aimed at girls largely took over the genre and kept the flames burning! Join us on this journey through games you’ve may have loved, some you may have heard of and some you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about visual novels, that particularly Japanese style of adventure game that also led to dating sims, murder mysteries and more! Join us on this journey through games you’ve may have loved, some you may have heard of and some you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! -------------------------------------------------------------------...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about console and handheld adventure games from the 1980s, 90s and 2000s that often offered players a different style of gameplay, but still had those puzzle-solving story-driven sensibilities. Join us on this journey through games you’ve may have loved, some you may have heard of and some you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! --...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about 1990s adventure games using pre-rendered scenes and 3D, including The Longest Journey, Grim Fandango, Escape from Monkey Island, Chronomaster, Sanitarium, BioForge and more! Join us on this expedition through games you’ve may have loved, some you may have heard of and some you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! -------------...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about 1990s point and click adventure games made yet another group of like Westwood Studios, Cryo, Access Software, Cyberdreams, Infogrames, Revolution Software, Viacom and more! Join us on this expedition through games you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Seaso...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about 1990s point and click adventure games made yet another group of like Westwood Studios, Cryo, Access Software, Cyberdreams, Infogrames, Revolution Software, Viacom and more! Join us on this expedition through games you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Seaso...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about 1990s point and click adventure games made by publishers other than Sierra On-Line, including MicroProse, Activision, Adventure Soft, Interplay, Revolution Software, Legend Entertainment, and more! Join us on this expedition through games you’ve probably never played with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide!-------------------------------------------------...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about some of the other adventure games published by Sierra from Coktel Vision and Dynamix including the Gobliiins games, the Inca games, The Adventures of Willy Beamish, Rise of the Dragon and Funny Bone Interactive’s Stay Tooned! Sean will take you on an expedition through games you’ve probably never played. He’s Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide!...

In this episode, we’re going to keep talking about Sierra On-Line and some of their other big games in the 1990s, including Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest 4-6, King’s Quest 6-8, Gabriel Knight, Freddy Pharkas, Torrin’s Passage, Phantasmagoria, Shivers and more! Enjoy your adventure through adventure gaming with Sean Jordan, your Great Game Guide! (NOTE: Blast this cold! Sean will get his voice ba...

In this episode, Sean details tons of other 1980s and early 1990s adventure games LucasFilm Games/LucasArts and Sierra On-Line. Even better, this episode helps to trace how this run of games helped shape the standards of the point and click genre! He’s Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide! (And yes, Sean still has a cold, so pardon his creaky voice, nasally tones, bad singing and the sound...

In this episode, Sean details tons of other 1980s adventure games from North America, Europe and Japan, from Transylvania to Tass Times in Tonetown to Mewilo to the MacVenture games and more! He’s Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide!(And yes, Sean has a cold, so pardon his creaky voice and the sounds of sniffling here and there!) -----------------------------------------------------------...

In this episode, Sean details the history of On-Line Systems and Ken and Roberta Williams's development of the Hi-Res Adventures that gave birth to the genre of graphical adventure games! He's Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide! -------------------------------------------------------------------Season 1, Episode 3: The Adventure Where Seeing is Believing, Part 1Enjoy the show? Please sha...

In this episode, Sean touches on Scott Adams's contributions to gaming before he heads across the Atlantic to look at the interactive fiction scene in Europe and the UK, covering developers like Digital Fantasia, Level 9 Computing, Magnetic Scrolls and DIY software like The Quill, Eamon, PAWS as well as modern interactive fiction! He's Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide! ----------------...

In this episode, Sean dives deep into the inspiration for all adventure games - fittingly named Adventure! - and how a cave system in Kentucky helped an entire genre to blossom. But these games also didn't involve graphics... they took place entirely in players' imaginations! He's Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide! -------------------------------------------------------------------Seaso...

In this inaugural episode, Sean explains why yet another podcast about video games needs to exist, how searching for games you’ve never played can lead to some awesome discoveries and why his philosophy on gaming is a little bit different from everybody else’s. He's Sean Jordan, and he is your Great Game Guide! ------------------------------------------------------------------- Season 1, Episode 0...