Episode 17: The Atari 2600 is older than Crispy!

Brian’s back from hia­tus, bring Stephen and Crispy back for a video game heavy episode of WhatThe­Cast. The Atari 2600 turns 30 right as Halo 3 hits the mar­kets … so Brian and Stephen get all nos­tal­gic about inter­ac­tive fic­tion (the kids call them “text adven­tures“).

Do time-traveling Aus­tralian pirates lis­ten to this pod­cast? Can young­sters like Crispy relate to the Atari 2600 and Zork era of gam­ing? Was E.T. the first attempt at Myst? Can text mes­sag­ing be com­bined with text adven­tures? Can mod­ern bev­er­age tie-ins work with clas­sic video games? And will Stephen’s kids think he’s crazy when he talks about video games in black and white? Lis­ten to Episode 17 and find out!

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