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Greece's. Great,
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great, great phrases. Hate
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you wouldn't Yes, you go listeners. I'm Jesse
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Thorn America's Radio three Hours or more as Boy
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Detective So Jordan we have a very special
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new project that we are. Bringing.
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Our audience into here it's called Graces
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Game Gauntlet. It is a labor of
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love. Jesse, your Daughter Grace Love and
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hate an eighth or that that one
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cannot access to without set other he
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has. I am getting a yin yang
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tattoo on my shoulder and one says
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my daughter Grace and the other says
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the video games she's making me. I
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thought that so Jesse Daughter Grace is
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a retro video game. Not, She's got
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an awesome collection of retro games and
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some games that are bad. And yeah,
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There are retro gamers who's greatest dream
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is to play all the brilliant Zelda
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games. And then there is my daughter
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who wants to play all of the
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games that involve the Seven Up Spock.
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Ah so ah. What we wanted to
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do was have Grace pick six of
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the worst, weirdest, most what the fuck
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games that she's got and she has
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made us play them. So we will
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be playing these bad games, will be
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reviewing them for our special show Greatest
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Game Gotland and will be streaming them
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live. For you at a later
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date Justin you want me to reveal
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the games will be playing dumb or
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we're going to have Will will have
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Lived as little preview of our first
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episode of a minute but. Jordan
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I'm giving you an emotional. Connection.
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Drumroll. To. Prepare you to
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read the names of these Awful Here
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are. The. Pieces Of Shit will
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be paying her. Wayne's World, The Wayne's
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World, The Platform or were Garth shoots
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a gun at ninjas. Okay so to
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be clear, this is a when we're
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going to preview in a minute and.
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This. Is so real. Like basically
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what they did. Is.
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When Wayne's World became a hit. With.
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The World incorporated of Lorne Michaels or
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whatever. Made. An outline for
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a video game. Like. These are going
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to be the six levels and of
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the video game is once in a
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music store ones that raw blows apartment
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like basically them at that level of
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outline. Then. Gave it to
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two completely different a video game developers
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who did not communicate with each other.
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One. Of her made Nintendo games, one
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of who made Super Nintendo games and
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then each of them. Very.
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Clearly not having seen the film,
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assess, assess the then just work
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from at like six Sentence outline
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made completely different. Fucking insane.
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Video games are really really while we're
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Garth suits a gun and Wayne and
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Garth fight ninjas. As you
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is a truly terrible game, but a
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lot of fun to plan. A lot
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of fun to talk about. So yeah,
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we'll be hearing a bit from our Wayne's
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World episode, but we will also be
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bringing you later in the year. Contra Force,
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which is apparently a bad game that
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they slapped the Contra logo on so
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that people would buy it. Contra of course,
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a beloved franchise. Apparently this games ah,
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is not. Good. Ah
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think it's what they call a nightmare.
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yeah probably a real bad game are
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we have Dragon's Lair? not to the
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arcade version with the wonderful animations the
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any as game which I imagine is
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just some sort of medieval platform or
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yeah like the arcade version has his
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have like videodisks or laser discs in
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yeah side of it so like you
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would interact with fully animated Don Bluth
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filmed essentially yeah. There. Is doing
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are also a bad frustrating game and it's
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own web services but it is genuinely beautiful
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of under look at ah at A And
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here's an interesting fact. I I know you're
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not a huge retro gaming room at this
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early. There's. No laser disc player
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inside a Nintendo? No, no, it's just
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the world's shittiest Nintendo Ds Dragon's Lair.
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Ah, this is kind of fun. This
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is a famous one. Shaq Fu Shack
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of course secure. Neil Ah When he
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wanted to have a video game for
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some reason, he didn't. The to
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be a basketball game. So it is
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a fighting game where he travels the
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universe beating up Alien. Yeah he tried
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to make it a celebrity Superman game
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but Jerry Seinfeld already bought the life
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and sale assessor Silva playing sat through
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The next game is cool world. You'll
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remember the horny live action animation hybrid
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from the mid nineties. Apparently there wasn't
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any as game in which the crazy
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as like to get in any S
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license where you had to demonstrate that
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it was family friendly right? Like. There's
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no like there's no warning this
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allowed on Nintendo. none. And so
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this is like this is like
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a fundamental contradiction in the premise
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of this video games we'll be
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playing Cool World And finally another
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very same as bad video games:
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Superman Sixty Four The and Sixty
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four Superman game where he flies
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around through fog and rings and
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rings. Fog and rings. But it's
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hard to see the rings because
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of the thought Justice. So yeah
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we. Are we playing all of these
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crap heaps thanks to Grace? Or Learn English?
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I was like a Superman guy. And
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he had heard that video games where Sonic
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the Hedgehog He had seen it through the
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window of an electronic store and right is
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like yeah well what's video games were a
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character go through rings very go a success
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isn't as good. Aside the Hedgehog know it's
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not better back and everyone agreed everyone a
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better than permitted to was better than Side
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the Hedgehog say i'm sorry did I say
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better than Sonic the Hedgehog? I'm a better
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than that when educational Sonic the Hedgehog game
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Priestess as it's monitored schoolhouse citing or something.
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Just ah so yeah. this is Grace is
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game Gauntlet and. It is only for
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Max One members Maximum fun.org/join If you
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want to hear this show and all
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the other bonus content with accumulated over
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the years it's gonna be funds. The
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game's really bad and we want you
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to enjoy our pain. There's a very
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special. To
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me but the any Us one and also you
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about. Super Any s one
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wrote. The Nintendo game, as I
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mentioned, is a port of a
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Gameboy game, and it has many
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of the qualities of gameboy games
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such as. Being. Difficult,
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confusing, and hard to look at them.
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I'm. It. Is it
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starts with some sort of monochromatic
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graphic art of When and Garth
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and some Wayne and Garcia dialogue
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and tax. I will say so
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I've watched this be a play
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through on you tube. The texts
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that I think is in this
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intro is like from the movie.
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It's Wayne's monologue to camera when
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he's like explaining his whole deal
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and there's a little. There's.
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A little chunk of it that you
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know in those graphics where he says
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the text says i've had a lot
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of jobs but nothing you could call
6:50
a career and I'm like what of
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weird thing to see in a Nintendo
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game. Someone explaining says that they're having
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a hard time finding a career at
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such a weird thing to see in
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those graphics. wouldn't you say that In
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Contra, that's really a story about someone
7:04
finding what color their parachute is right?
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That so that's so true. Yes and
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An and they think that's a journey.
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We're all on what color is. My
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parachutes, Fire.
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Men are from Mars, women are from Venus.
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That's true, Yes, Center parachutes
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women are bungie cords.
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Honestly, this part of
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the game. Is. Probably
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my favorite part of the game. Ah, I
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liked her kids. It reminds me of how
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much I like them. If he wins for
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Susan, it's mundo. remember Wayne's world to pay
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us. Ah
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yeah. having having watched as a few
7:39
times of my kids because it's my
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it's my wife's favorite movie of all
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time so I've watched a few times
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relatively recently and is received It's a
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joy. It's a wonderful areas movie. If
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my kids like a to they are
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you know they were stand it completely
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but but they like it so. In
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the first level of this game
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you are Garth. And.
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It's. Hard to tell that you're garth. It
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looks a little bit like you are.
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Wearing either like a long enemies style
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busy long coats yeah style business suit
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or maybe a flabby shirt dress. It's
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yeah, the that the fat. I wouldn't
8:16
know this is Garth other than the
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fact that I read a Wikipedia entry
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saying that you play as Wayne and
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Garth so much. I guess this is
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Garth in your blonde. but yeah he
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does look like he's wearing like something.
8:30
a Sailor Moon Love. Interest would
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where he's fighting his way through
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a music store. and like I
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said, there are some of these
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games where they just get like.
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An early treatment of what the script might
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be like a may have to make the
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game from. It's good that they they knew
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what the movie was going to be. When.
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They made this game because it
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allowed them to anticipate things like
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how much Garth loves guns. Yes,
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He has a gun. It's it's it's yeah,
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it's totally insane. I mean I understand
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the challenge of like we want to
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make a Wayne's World game. What did
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they do? But yeah, just the decision
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select right? Garth just suits living drums
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with a gun. It is so weird.
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So he is. he. he. It seems
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to be some kind of ray gun
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on him. The only reason you can
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identify this? Not from any unusual. It's
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gun shaped, Yeah, but it looks like
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kind of little electrical bolts or something
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like that. Are you. Coming out
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of it success is Dorothy
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Qc. A gun.
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He founded his dad's closet. T
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V and a variety of guns. He might
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need a rak. that's true. Yeah, that's a
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joke from the ah that jokes Gray and
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I was the best it of in this
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game. Italia comes up in the super. didn't
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an aversion to will get to it. And.
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I mean some. Ah Bryce
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from on gotta love. Hey
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if you love that. Go. To Maximum fun.org
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by showing than get the whole thing. Yeah,
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there's a lot of other bad games coming
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your way and lot of other bonus content
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