To All the Games I've Never Played (Episode 14) - a podcast by Pam and Riley

from 2016-10-03T14:00

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Today we're talking about AppleCider's article, Looking Back on Gaming without Nostalgia! We chat about feeling left out of the conversation, and how you don't necessarily have to play a game to talk about it.


Guest Intro (00:00:45)


Brief intro to our returning guest, AppleCider!


What we've been up to (00:01:19)


AppleCider (@appleciderwitch)



  • World of Warcraft

  • Fall TV Shows: Atlanta, Chef's Table: France


Kaleri (@kaleri_)



  • World of Warcraft

  • Zootopia

  • Once Upon a Time

  • Grey's Anatomy


Pam (@jasyla_)



  • Virginia

  • The Bunker

  • Attack the Block

  • Hard Candy

  • The People vs OJ Simpson

  • American Horror Story

  • Chez Lindsey


Gaming and Nostalgia (00:36:03)


AppleCider's article : https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/09/looking-back-on-gaming-without-nostalgia.html



  • Why write this now? What spurred you to talk about it?

  • Gatekeeping in gaming

  • Positives and negatives that come from having a lack of nostalgia

  • How much mainstream dialogue around games requires extra knowledge (ex describing a game as a 'Metroidvania')

  • Cultural osmosis of gaming knowledge

  • There are so many ways to experience a game now (Let's Plays, Streaming) so do you need to play a game to talk about it?


Twitter/Listener questions (01:27:47)



  • Does a gender double standard also apply to requiring childhood gaming for credibility or is that universal? @lonelyboardgame

  • Does a remake of a classic owe a duty to new players to do more than just modernize the graphics? @alatinolawyer


AppleCider's new article is up on Kotaku! Check out her writing on Overwatch and femslash here: http://kotaku.com/why-overwatch-fans-are-obsessed-with-shipping-its-femal-1787244865?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=Kotaku_twitter


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Music: Vivacity by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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