The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast

This week Paul played Sierra's black sheep, what some call the rite, or maybe right, of passage for the clinically obsessed adventure gamer... it's Codename: Iceman. He's gonna walk you through it so you don't have to play it, while switching vehemently between 'you should play it' and 'you absolutely should not'- it's quite a rollercoster of confused emotions and misguided angst. Honestly, I thin...

This Week Anna talks about non-adventure games that feel adventurous, and Paul is a cynical bastard about each one them, the entire time. Mangia!   Shek out Emil's awesome, new old-school FPS Reverend !   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower   Mac App Store   The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest! The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (G...

This Week Anna and Paul ask themselves "Would You Rather..." and of course it's based on Adventure Game whatevers. Tropes or characters or something idk, look the microwave just went off and I can smell my food so naturally I've lost interest in writing this. MANGIA!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower   Mac App Store   The Phantom Fellows Pi...

This Week Anna & Paul played Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist and when you listen to them talk about it, you're gonna be like wow, they sure did. MANGIA!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower   Mac App Store   The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest! The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)     Shek out our...

This Week Anna & Paul played Quest For Glory! And honestly, I can't focus on writing this because I've got that song in my head that's all 🎶 I NEED A HERO Something something into the night 🎵 And he's gotta be fast and it would nice if he was strong and I'd really just like someone who would listen to me about my day  🎵 Anyway it's something like that. But also, we played this game and now...

This Week Anna & Paul are combing through the Yearbook from Point 'n Click High, and deciding things like: Who had the best hair? Who's the class clown? Who has the most punchable face? Who had the best death animation?  It kinda starts as more Yearbook trope kinda questions and then transforms into general award-show style questions but it's a good time, you'll see, you'll all see. Or I guess...

This Week Anna & Paul are like, here lemme just give you an example, this is the episode: Larry Laffer vs Roger Wilco - Who are you choosing to babysit your kid? Gabriel Knight vs. Indiana Jones - Who's the best smooth talker? Laura Bow vs Grace Nakamura - Who figures out a supernatural mystery faster?   It's a lotta that. And it's a lotta fun, MANGIA!   The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (...

This week Anna & Paul are talking—wait, is that a good name for the episode? I was kinda thinking "Pixels and Personas" but that sounded kinda vague, but maybe it's more mysterious which I think you want for catchy episode titles. Whatever. This week they're talking about Archetypes—first they lay out the different archetypes using pop-culture and words, then they assign the most iconic advent...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about the most adventurous adventure games! The ones that aren't just an adventure by genre but that make you feel like you're on a grand adventure! They've broken it down into categories such as globe trotting/grab your passport adventures, adventures that take place over one crazy day, and more! So grab some gummy bears and rice cakes and mangia!   The Phant...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about non-adventure games, for some reason. Oh, Paul was supposed to say, for his first pick, "Astro Chicken" and he formally regrets forgetting this very so-so joke. See cos, that's in an adventure game and so it represents his hesitation to embrace anything outside of the adventure genre.  I'm glad I explained it, it's for sure funnier now. Mangia!   The Pha...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about patches, mods, things and stuff!    Come for the things, stay for the stuff. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower     Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network : Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better? Adventure Game Geek's My Games o...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about screen savers! From the origins to the toasters to the sad, slide show end— what a ride it was.   AfterDark for Windows 10/11 Flying Toasters for MacOS     Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower     Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network : Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The...

(We had some technical issues and this weeks episode was recorded onto a single track. We apologize for any resulting loss in quality and any rather, unsavory, background noises.) (Especially the sexy, squishy ones.)   This week Anna & Paul play The Curse of Monkey Island! Is it the best Monkey Island, or the worst? It's for sure one of those extremes, find out what at least one of us thinks,...

This week Anna & Paul play Monkey Island 2: Guybrush is a dick now. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower     Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network : Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better? Adventure Game Geek's My Games of the Year 2024 (feat. Paul & The Phantom Fel...

This week Anna & Paul are doing it.    They're finally going to Monkey Island.    Not the actual Monkey Island in South Florida, no. The good one. The make believe one.    Time to find out what they think of what many consider the GOAT. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower     Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Netw...

This week Anna & Paul are joined by author of the upcoming book "Questing For Glory The Definitive History of the Quest for Glory Series", Jason Mical! Jason brought his expertise, fun facts and insight as he and Anna talk at Paul about their favorite series! Join us as we walk through each game in the series, and delve into everything from development stories to soundtracks—Mangia!   Questing...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about cozy games to play during the holidays! They also touch on the odd lack of snow in adventure games while mentioning all the ones they could think of with some. Because snow >= holidays. So roast some acorns on the fire and curl up on the whatever and Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower  ...

This week Anna & Paul sampled some of the exciting new old games that just recently released: King's Quest - It Takes Two To Tangle, Space Quest V - Talkie Edition, and King's Quest VI - AGI Demake. They sampled all of them, and then talk about weird Canadian sandwiches. And possibly the games too, I don't know, you tell me. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GO...

This week Anna and Paul are ranking some adventure games that weren't made by Sierra or LucasArts. If Paul got his way this episode is called I Have No Willy And I Must Beamish, but I'm guessing it's prolly something clunky and annoyingly descriptive. Anyway this was fun, Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflower     The Adventure Games Pod...

This week Anna & Paul talk about Gabriel Knight 2: The Beast Within! Look. I'm gonna give it to you straight, seee, this isn't our finest hour, but we wanted to get something to you under tricky circumstances and this is arguably, possibly better than deafening silence, I don't know, you tell us. Mangia?   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflowe...

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra Point And Clicks, AGAIN! This time they do it even more betterly. That's not true, it's still pretty cavalier if not lawless, but this time it's the titles released in 1993-1996. Ish. What game comes out on top? Totally forgot. For sure a Sierra one though. Mangia!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   Steam   itch.io Fireflow...

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra Point And Clicks! Look, I'm typing this through my cats legs while he looks deeply into my eyes so let's justvzdvd - okay now he's sitting on most of both my arms. Look you know the deal, there were games, now they're ranked and a bunch of laughs and nonsense happen in between - MANGIA!   Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now! GOG   St...

An episode 4 years in the making... 105,482 Line of Code & Dialog 19,850 Sprites 1,415 Days in Development  150 Inventory Items 151 Achievements  72 Rooms In Game 39 Characters 14-22 Hours of Gameplay 1 Developer This is it. On September 27th The Phantom Fellows will be released. Here is our game developers roadmap, how an adventure game goes from an idea to a reality.   I've had the best 4 ye...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about Indiana McCracken and The Loom of Tentacle Island! Ok fine, they're actually ranking all of LucasArtseses adventure games but the dummy who writes these just wanted to say that (hey screw you, me!) So grab some snacks and get cozy - unless your thing is listening to this while exercising in which case absolutely do not get a snack or cozy, and tune in to...

This week Anna & Paul are ranking Sierra's SCI0 games! SCI0 was a magical time for Sierra, Colonel's Bequest, Space Quest 3, Hero's Quest, King's Quest IV, Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3, codename iceman, Police Quest 2, Conquests of Camelot... and because ranking these legendary games is such a difficult task, they've brought in help from the CGG community as well as from their Adventure Game H...