Telling the Tale

Look how short that title is! That's amazing! All of our episode titles so far are WAY too long. This one? Mwah. Short and sweet. Who's on the moon, gang? Is it gnomes? Probably gnomes. Well, anyway, this is Puzzle Agent 2. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the fi...

In the entirety of Telltale Games' 14-year-long existence, they only made one series of games with a wholly original, non-adaptation story. What happens when the President of the United States runs out of erasers? Something to do with gnomes? Aww buddy, I super think it's gnome related. No? Well, anyway, this is Nelson Tethers Puzzle Agent. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on...

Video games, you know. We like video games. Dustin draws stuff from them. Wolfe pretends to work on them. Video games. Strong Bad likes video games too. Like Stinkoman 20X6, Peasant's Quest, Snake Boxer 5, Lade Crate Ape, Mista Fixit, Math Kickers feat. The Algebros, Space Circus Catastrophe, Thy Dungeonman, Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder... Anyway, this is 8-Bit is Enough. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitte...

Wolfe and Dustin are having just the swellest time with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and this episode is ridiculous. Pure bananers. Have you ever played a movie? Have you ever watched a game? This is sort of like both those things, but also Dangeresque is there and he's got to get the formula. You know, the formula that makes plants grow good? And also he has to get the rocket's l...

In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, only the rockingest may thrive. Do Wolfe and Dustin have what it takes to win a battle of the bands? Absolutely not. Wolfe plays trumpet. That's an automatic DQ. Ooh, DQ. Dairy Queen. Haven't been there in a while. They used to have one near me, but it hasn't been there for like a decade. It's not like there aren't ice cream places, but DQ had some...

War is hell. War is human. War is Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. This is Strong Badia the Free. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the third episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Baddest of the Bands, next week!

Wolfe and Dustin love just one thing. 1: Enjoying a cool one at the bar after a hard day's work, 2: expanding our professional networks in satisfying, fulfilling ways, and 3: talking about Homestar Runner. Now, we get to do that third thing. So, join us as we FINALLY get to talk about Homestar Ruiner, the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @Th...

Piss and hell, baby. This one's about hell! Join us for this episode of the Telling the Tale podcast, where we'll talk about the final episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, What's New Beelzebub?! Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, H...

Temporal paradox detected. Please back away from the pod bay doors. Space. These aren't the droids you're askin' me about. Danger, Will Robinson. Star Trek quotes. Get out of mah swamp! ...where we talk about the penultimate episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Chariots of the Dogs! Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the Telli...

Welcome vamps and tramps to this week's episode of Telling the Tale. We've come a long way since we covered Culture Shock three months or so ago, but check it: we're zombies. We've been zombies the whole time. Did we just blow your gourd? I know, right!? It's wild! Dustin and Wolfe (more like "were"wolfe, am I right?) have just been shambling around, sucking brain and feeling no pain. We haven't b...

Hmm! Interesting! This is it? This is the episode? Huh! Neat! Well, is it the whole... it is? Cool, I think. It's... hmm! on Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the feed for the next episode in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Night of the Raving Dead, next week!

Wolfe and Dustin, after their poker and Bone vacation, are now eager to jump back into Sam & Max. 'Tis the season, you might say. Because it's the Christmas episode! Sam & Max has a Christmas episode, we love these. How will Sam & Max's second season (also known as "Beyond Time and Space") fair against the highs of season one? We'll take a look at its first episode, Ice Station Santa, right here,...

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While Sam & Max is where Telltale Games first acquired its fame within the industry, it was not their first attempt at the adventure game genre. That would be Bone. On this episode of Telling the Tale, Wolfe and Dustin will be covering Bone: Out from Boneville, the first of Telltale's two Bone game episodes. Technically these aren't episodes? They were marketed as their own full games. But they're...

Here on Telling the Tale, we're not necessarily covering all of Telltale's work in release order. We want to go roughly chronologically (i.e. starting with mostly older things and graduating to mostly later things), but we've reserved the right to hop around back and forth. This, then, is a very special episode as we are covering Telltale's very first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em. It's about poker...

It's a Max, Max, Max, Max, Max, Max world on this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Wolfe and Dustin have wrapped up their playthroughs of Sam & Max Save the World and at least one of them has a lot of feelings on the secret identity of the season's villain. Is it super problematic? Is it super problematic, but that's okay? Is it super problematic and not okay, but we shouldn't really be the voi...

"We heard you like video games so we put a video game in your video game." - Ed Hibition on this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the feed for our episode on the exciting finale of Sam & Max Save the World, "Bad Side of the Moon," next week!

It's time for a very special political episode. Watch us bob and weave through Bush-era-specific presidential humor and emerge without a scratch. This episode marks an increase in episode-scope at the ol' Telltale factories, and Wolfe and Dustin definitely have some thoughts about what that means for the future of Sam & Max. All that and more in this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wo...

Check it out: mob stuff. This is the mob episode! Sam and Max can't GET enough mob style hijinx going on. All your leaning on folks, whacking folks, playin' cards, and general mobliness: all in this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin And subscribe to the feed for our episode on Episode 4 of Sam & Max Save the World...

Boy howdy, that there sure is a lot of colons for the name of a video game, huh? Sam & Max break out into television stardom, so of course Dustin and Wolfe have some thoughts. More than last week, the 2006-ness of Telltale's first season of Sam & Max is starting to show. How do each of the hosts feel about that? Find out in this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWo...

Wolfe and Dustin kick off the podcast by talking about Culture Shock, the first episode of Telltale's early flagship game, Sam & Max Save the World. How does it hold up in 2021? Is it a good first kick into the mainstream for Telltale? Do children understand what Swiss cheese is? These questions and more are sort-of-answered/sort-of-dodged in this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Mitchell Wolfe...

On September 20th of 2018, things were looking good for the employees of Telltale Games. They were nearly finished with the final season of their award-winning episodic video game series, The Walking Dead, and their next-scheduled game, this one based on the show Stranger Things, was primed to be another in their long line of successes. Over the years, they acquired the licenses to make narrative-...