Favorite Weapons in Video Games pt 1

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A lot going on this week! We do an Anime Check-in, where Ron discusses his first gentle steps into the world of Neon Genesis Evangelion, Joey talks about his continued love for Sailor Moon (despite the annoyingly limited monster vocabulary in season 2), and Paul shares some thoughts on recent Love, Death & Robots episodes. We also come up with a plan to update our fantasy video game draft in the near future, so stay tuned for that. In terms of what we’ve been playing lately, we got a little Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge, a smattering of Mario Party Superstars, a dash of It Takes Two and The Quarry, and Paul celebrates his first video game figure purchase (of the Geralt Ronin figure from Dark Horse Direct, link in timestamps below). Our feature is (some of) our favorite weapons in video games! We run out of time to cover all of them, so look forward to a future episode with more!

Contact us: prettypixelspodcast@gmail.com

We’re on Twitter: @Losperman (Joey) and @bigbadron (Ron)

00:03:40: Anime check-in! Ron talks Evangelion, Joey touches on Sailor Moon, and Paul shouts out Love, Death & Robots

00:16:54: Paul’s still delving into every dark corner of Elden Ring and having a great time in Mario Party Superstars, plus he pre-ordered his very first fancy video game figure! https://direct.darkhorse.com/collections/the-witcher-3-the-wild-hunt/products/the-witcher-3-wild-hunt-geralt-ronin-lone-wolf-figure-standard-edition

00:28:09: Ron’s been doing all kinds of cooperating in It Takes Two, plus he’s been liking (we think) his time with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge with Joey and Tab

00:38:49: Joey’s still in search of Diana, his love, in Animal Crossing New Horizons and has just scratched the surface of The Quarry

00:40:45: Fantasy Video Game Draft check-in! We come up with a plan for how to draft new prospects and make the scoring more fair, but we’ll draft the fresh-faced new recruits on a future episode

01:01:10: Our favorite weapons in games!

01:01:39: Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc0WnaoQJwo

01:05:00: Joey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85Z06j3Hic0

01:07:30: Ron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjls6qvohfU

01:10:39: Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zq1HT7lMn4

01:15:13: Joey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWlsEpGbw68

01:19:00: Ron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5JdatXlG_E

01:22:15: Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsVrS0Jgig8

01:26:47: Joey: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/cat-uxo-storage-production/hazards/909/images/pm-n-4-001.jpg

01:32:04: Ron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QD7aFBJUDU

01:35:45: Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9UeE4xz4HI

01:39:57: Joey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs2QcokiYkI

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/chrono/images/e/e8/Rainbow.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100603155238

01:45:20: Ron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7liB19WRY_I

01:52:15: Paul: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY55T11AG4s

01:57:43: Joey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKtBZgSfqZ4

02:03:00: Ron: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsCqLQJ1EOc

Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com

Pretty Pixels After Dark

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Strap in (and on), it’s episode 69, babyyyyyyy! We couldn’t pass up the opportunity to celebrate this momentous occasion, so we’ve dubbed this episode “Pixels After Dark.” We chat about some historic erotic video games, our first experiences with sex in games, notable examples of mature sexual content, what we want to see in future games with regards to sex, and more. We also cover the epic Microsoft Bethesda showcase, more Capcom news, the newly released PlayStation Plus Premium games, what we’ve been playing, and much more!

Contact us: prettypixelspodcast@gmail.com

We’re on Twitter: @Losperman (Joey) and @bigbadron (Ron)

00:05:40: Microsoft Bethesda showcase

00:06:30: Starfield

00:15:57: Persona games on Xbox!

00:18:40: Hollow Knight Silksong

00:19:30: Redfall

00:20:40: Microsoft Flight Simulator

00:27:40: Sea of Thieves

00:33:17: Capcom showcase

00:36:40: Joey meant Final Fantasy VII Remake, not Resident Evil 7

00:36:55: PlayStation Plus Essential and Premium releases

00:43:22: Joey’s been playing Fantavision, Resident Evil Director’s Cut, Animal Crossing New Horizons, Mario Kart 8, Mario Party Superstars, and The Quarry

00:51:22: Paul’s also been playing Mario Kart 8 and Mario Party Superstars, plus his Elden Ring adventures continue!

00:57:42: Ron’s been kicking it old school with Super Mario World

01:01:37: Final Fantasy VII Remake showcase live reactions

01:03:36: Sex in (and?) games!

01:05:29: Softporn (1981)

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-odd-history-of-the-first-erotic-computer-game/383114/

https://archive.org/details/a2_Softporn_Adventure_1981_Blue_Sky

01:11:34: Night Life (1982)

https://mashable.com/article/video-game-sex-scenes

https://archive.org/details/d64_Night_Life_19xx_William_Quinn

01:15:00: X-Man (1983)

https://archive.org/details/atari_2600_x-man_1983_universal_gamex_corporation_alan_roberts_h.k._poon_gx-001

01:16:40: Leisure Suit Larry (1987)

https://archive.org/details/LeisureSuitLarry1VGA

01:16:45: Our first experience with sex in video games

01:26:00: Hot Coffee mod, GTA San Andreas (2005)

01:28:38: BMX XXX

01:31:18: Mass Effect (2007) and Fox News’ infamous “Sexbox” segment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKzF173GqTU&t=4s

01:39:11: Custom Maid 3D (2011)

01:49:20: Who We Are Now (2017) and Knife Sisters (2019)

https://spincut.itch.io/who-we-are-now

http://knifesisters.com/

01:51:35: Tab’s blog: https://gamingteacher.blog/

02:13:40: Punch Line (2016)

Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com

State of Play and Summer Game Fest

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E3 season is upon us, even if the show itself is once again missing in action. In its absence, we propose claiming the term “E3” as a broad term meaning “big summer announcement season.” After this year’s Summer Game Fest, we need something… more exciting, and “E3” still sparks excitement in many of us. So… happy E3, everyone! Does that work? We’ll workshop it. Paul, Ron, and Joey talk about what they’ve been playing, but then a dramatic text rips Ron away from us (cue dramatic reality TV cut and tense music), leaving Paul and Joey to chat about Sony’s State of Play and the Summer Game Fest showcase. Resident Evil 4, Final Fantasy XVI, Lady D, The Rock, The Last of Us, and so much more. We also chat about what we’ve been playing, including No Man’s Sky and Elden Ring. Next week is our Pretty Pixels After Dark, celebrating episode 69, so join us for lots of painfully awkward sex talk!

Contact us: prettypixelspodcast@gmail.com

We’re on Twitter: @Losperman (Joey) and @bigbadron (Ron)

00:07:05: Ron’s been chipping away at GTA: San Andreas and eatin’ grits

00:11:45: Paul is nearing endgame in Elden Ring

00:22:00: Joey loved Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers, has mixed feelings about his return to No Man’s Sky

00:40:49: This is where Ron leaves, but he stopped his recording so there is a bit of an odd cut here

00: Sony State of Play!

00:47:25: Resident Evil

00:54:55: PSVR 2

01:02:09: Stray

01:06:09: Dead Spa- uh, The Callisto Protocol

01:09:46: Rollerdrome

01:12:20: Eternights

01:15:01: Street Fighter VI

01:23:20: Tunic and Season: A Letter to the Future

01:25:27: Final Fantasy XVI

01:32:42: Summer Game Fest! We begin with broad thoughts, then kind of jump around a bit. We don’t dwell on very many titles as we did with the State of Play

Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com

Odd Gaming Associations

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Slight change of plans, dear listener. Paul is out of town again this week, so we’ve pushed the “favorite weapons in video games” episode back a few weeks and are, instead, talking about some of our weird (and not weird) gaming associations. Ron and Joey talk a brisk jaunt down memory lane and share some associations we have with specific games. Which game do you suppose one of us used No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom album as a soundtrack for? And which of us was watching Dateline, playing Doom, and listening to Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral? We also meander in and out of related memories, including Zours candies, The Box (a music video dial-in show from the 80s/90s), gaming snacks and more. We also talk about the partner lineup for next week’s Summer Game Fest, KotOR coming to Switch, Sailor Jupiter, and what we’ve been playing.

Contact us: prettypixelspodcast@gmail.com

We’re on Twitter: @Losperman (Joey) and @bigbadron (Ron)

00:05:16: Girl Talk: http://illegal-art.net/girltalk/

00:08:30: Joey’s Sailor Moon update

00:12:19: Summer Game Fest announces its “partners” for next week’s showcase (https://www.summergamefest.com/#partners-intro)

00:22:50 : Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords is coming to Nintendo Switch next week

00:26:25:: Ron’s been playing a whole lotta nothin’

00:30:16: Joey beat Parasite Eve, has been revamping his island and continues the search for Diana in Animal Crossing New Horizons, he’s been sucking up some ghosts with friends in Luigi’s Mansion 3, and he has started and is loving Arcade Spirits: The New Challengers

00:52:08: Odd Gaming Associations!

00:53:14: Aerosmith and TurboGrafx-16 (Ron)

00:55:55: Is that Alan Grant? (Joey)

01:01:58: No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom and EarthBound (Joey)

01:10:00: Dateline, Doom, and The Downward Spiral (Ron)

01:18:09: Super cheesy nachos, sugar-syrupy Kool-Aid, and Chrono Trigger (Joey)

01:22:36: Zours and Perfect Dark (Ron)

01:28:12: Tom Petty’s “Runnin’ Down a Dream” and the freedom of GTA: San Andreas (Joey)

01:30:12: Twisted Ankle and Tomb Raider (Ron)

01:32:00: Green Jelly, Maximum Carnage, and The Box (Joey)

Theme song by lovers.tiff: loverstiff.bandcamp.com