The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast

This week Anna & Paul embark on a journey of self growth, where you might say they learn a few things a long the way. Or maybe along the way. That's, spelling that word is one of the things they learned. If you're a fan of adventure games, laughter or Nietzsche, you're going to want to listen to this one, it's even got some accidental profundity at the end. Wanna know what's actually talked ab...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about kids games that you could totally play too if you want, we won't tell anyone what a bloody weirdo you are. We're talkin' your Pajama Sam, your Freddy Fish, your Adam (the kid from EcoQuest), your Pepper's Adventures in We Haven't Played That One Yet, we've got em all folks. We even share helpful tips on how to indoctrinate your own kids, as adventure gam...

This week Anna & Paul get all whipped up over Adventurous Environments or Immersive Environments or whatever other versions of this show's title we didn't use, that also attempts to set an explorative mood. See like, Exploring Environments won because it's like, that's both what we did aaand it's what these environments were made for. For exploring. So. We explored them. Okay fine, we talk abo...

This week Anna & Paul sit down with none other than the Space Quest Historian, Troels Pleimert, and Jon Paul Sapsford, the musical masterminds behind Error 47 , the band behind Synths of the Fathers, King's Chill and Soup's On, the reimagined music behind Sins of the Fathers, King's Quest and the 7th Guest. Are we good? Any ah, anymore things behind things or can we just start the episode? Ok good...

This week Anna and Paul are joined by their good friend, vocalist and FMV avocado I mean aficionado, Jackie Stewart! They talk everything Full Motion Video, they even talk about partial motion video. That’s actually not true but the point is, this is an episode on everything FMV and you, are gonna maybe love it. Mangia! Do a backing! Soup's On: music from The 7th Guest & The 11th Hour on vinyl Wis...

This week Anna & Paul look at how Sierra and LucasArts approached making their games, the role of an adventure game and how consequence fell out of favor, with modern adventure games largely adapting the comfort approach to game play. Stay tuned to the end for a special announcement and please listen to this responsibly. Mangia!  Support the kickstarter for Soup's On: Music from the 7th Guest & Th...

This week Anna & Paul talk about the mesmerizing 3D remaster of the 2004 AGI game, Enclosure! It's a spooky murder mystery which are all words we adore, especially in that order, and we love it. Orrrr do we... DUN DUN DUNNNN! Also stick around to the end for the first Developers Corner on The Phantom Fellows, which will always be at the end of an episode, as to not force it down your whatevers. Th...

This week Anna & Paul are talking about Technobabylon, a modern point and click adventure by Technocrat and Wadjet Eye Games. Did you play it? Did they like it? Wait, did they play it?! All this and more, tonight at now. Mangia! Also, you're gonna wanna play this so grab Technobabylon on GOG or Steam Also 2, Early on we say we will warn you of spoilers and then we decided not to talk any spoilers...

This week Anna & Paul are joined by special guests, Jack and Joshua of Adventure Game Hotspot to do some "what if this game was a movie"-ing. We take classics like Broken Sword, Grim Fandango, Willy Beamish and more and cast them as major motion pictures. Or even minor motion pictures, it's really not about the motion so much as the actors. Also there's a fun bonus round at the end where, well, yo...

This week Anna and Paul tackle too many of their favorite things in an adventure game. From the best house, in-game food and GUI, to the best driving, world building, and mini game, this episode has at least all of that. Prolly more but in like a, a, careful what you wish for way. Anyway, Mangia! Chad Armstrong's invaluable site,  Edenwaith Wishlist our adventure game maybe! ThePhantomFellows.com...

This week Anna and Paul talk about the more unsavory adventure game characters. The ones who might but fun to party with but that make terrible roommates. From who was generic to who was the most malevolent, who did you love to hate and how did Sierra and LucasArts do villains differently. We talk about all this, when Anna isn't talking about Quest For Glory. Mangia!   Wishlist our adventure game...

This week Anna and Paul talk about Toonstruck the 1996 financial disaster I mean point and click adventure game, that has the heart of a... a better selling game. Also, Paul maybe goes on too long- yelling about the European box art- but otherwise it’s actually pretty listenable. Mangia!   Wishlist our adventure game maybe! ThePhantomFellows.com The Phantom Fellows on Steam Say hi I guess! Twitter...

This week Anna and Paul have a chat about the hardest game to google, no not the movie, not the action game- that's still an action- AH HA! Indy 3, the point and click adventure game by LucasFilm. From the perspectives of one who cherishes the series and another who had just watched and played the Last Crusade, we definitely learned at least one thing, at some point, probably.  Enjoy! Wishlist our...

So, you want to talk about heroes? Is what we shoulda called this. Anyway this week Anna & Paul talk about the variations of protagonist and then attempt to apply them correctly to each LucasArts and Sierra protagonist*. It was fun and oddly on topic, enjoy! Wishlist our adventure game maybe! ThePhantomFellows.com The Phantom Fellows on Steam Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (P...

This week Anna and Paul have a chat about sidekicks and what makes a sidekick a sidekick- especially in an adventure game. It wasn't a competition but, Keith won. Enjoy!   Wishlist our adventure game maybe! ThePhantomFellows.com The Phantom Fellows on Steam Say hi I guess! Twitter (Anna) - @CGGpodcast Twitter (Paul) - @PhantomFellows Join the group and talk about this neat stuff! Facebook Page Fac...

Anna and Paul are back for a brand new year of banter, on brand new old games. Just old games. Maybe new games that seem old too, idk. Anyway, this week they talk about one of their favorite subjects, big, big 'ole boxes. Full of disks. Of adventures games*.  This is a lovely, casual reunion, with big boxes spread out on the tables and a branching dialog tree from there.  We hope you enjoy, sorrya...

This week Anna and Sarah talk about music from their favorite classic computer games. From overall soundtracks and scores, to ambient music, title theme songs and more- don't worry, they cover all of the... basses (sorry, Anna is making me say that). We hope you enjoy the show! Also a huge thank you to our listeners and Patreons for your patience and understanding and we are happy to announce that...

This week Anna is joined by guest host Sarah and they had a lot of fun talking about mysteries- with the real mystery being, what is a mystery game? What differentiates it from say, an Adventure game? Join us as we possibly find that out, talk about some of our favorite mystery games past and present and divulge the deets on Steam sales that may or may not be current, but are mystery games that ar...

This week Anna sits down with special guest Sarah Kelley to discuss girls in gaming! Anna and Sarah have a blast combing through some of the magnificent women in gaming- from the girls in the games, to the girls making the games!  We hope you enjoy listening and Anna & Paul will be back soon! Also, please support some of these incredible women! Pamela - Cannot Be Tamed  Ivy - Voice Actor  Anna - K...

This week Anna & Paul take a look at the many different types of puzzles in adventure games. From inventory based to branching dialogs and the many in between, they go over all of them and cite which are crowd favorites and why, based on what Paul generously calls “research”. It was a real good time, come hear what they had to say about your most and least favorite types of puzzle! Facebook Page F...

This week Anna & Paul sit down with Eugene Sandulenko, the project leader for ScummVM! And we don't have to tell our listeners but ScummVM is a portable, one stop shop for all of your adventure game playing needs!   In this utterly fascinating chat, Eugene walks us through what ScummVM does and with easy examples, he also does a magnificent job of explaining how it does, what it does. Join us as w...

This week our great mate David Homb returns for a chat! We were so excited to sit down with David again that we even put the band back together as Ric sits in on the conversation too! We talk about stories from filming Phantasmagoria, about a top-secret new project David is working on for the gaming community and we discuss David's new book "Awake, I Dream" which has a very interesting connection...

We are edging closer to the dawn of classic gaming! When faced with an ever-depleting list of games to cover and a fear of not having enough material for an entire episode, Anna & Paul decided to cover three years in-one, and that was more or less a mistake. However, they had fun digging through, discussing and compiling a little highlight reel of games from a depressing amount of years ago, for r...

Episode 140: This week Anna & Paul discuss what may well be Sierra’s masterpiece, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers. They identify why not loving this game makes you wrong and how playing it if you haven’t, can make you a better person.  Also Paul’s cat gives actual birth live in the background for some reason. And if you listen closely later in the episode, you can once again hear proof that Pa...

Episode 139: This week Anna and Paul have a casual convo about some of the games they've been playing. After talking about the game and giving some feedback on it, they relieve themselves of being on-topic, have another chat about different games and finally make their way back to subject. Several times. Look, they talk games and they laugh a lot so... hopefully you'll enjoy listening! Special Men...