97: Doom Killed Adventure Games

Unconsoleable

Our guest this week is none other than Ron Gilbert, who we determined is definitely legendary, has achieved everything based on skill alone, and is totally not old. Is any of this true?! You'll have to listen to find out :-p

We go all over the place in this episode, from the far reaches of adventure gaming history to what makes a game succeed to good and bad design in adventure games and even movies.

What mobile games does Ron like? Is he ever moving to Australia? Will there ever be a third Monkey Island game? And how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? We get to the bottom of all this and much more!

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Stuff we mentioned:

• Lucasfilm
• The cat hair puzzle
• Doom
• Monkey Island
• Firewatch
• Telltale Games
• King's Quest 4
• Thimbleweed Park
• Grim Fandango Remastered (iOS, Android & Steam)
• The Witness
• Our Blame the Game episode
• Pocket Mortys (iOS & Android)
• Seb Burnett's episode
• Survy Scallywags (iOS & Android)
• Tower defense games
• Kingdom Rush
• Love You to Bits (iOS only)
• The Cat Lady
• Bertram Fiddle (iOS, Android & Steam)
• The Ring
• Stephen King's IT
• SCUMM
• Gabriel Knight
• Jessica complains about octagonal plates
• Brazil
• Terry Gilliam
• Donnie Darko
• Exploding hamster easter egg in Maniac Mansion
• David Fox
• Matt Ditton
• Jenn Sandercock
• Michael Land