RetroforceGO! Episode 87: Earthbound with Aaron Linde

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1:00 PM on 04.24.2009, Topher Cantler

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Happy Friday, listeners! This week, Chad and Stella both make their welcome return to the show, and are joined by none other than Aaron Linde of Real Men Play Gradius fame. He used to write for the site, you know. And he was goddamned good at it. Other things that are goddamned good include Earthbound, green tea frozen yogurt, and possibly this episode of RFGO, whose highlights include:

Tower Tower Tower
LINDEH
Duke Togo face
Jesus Christ, it's an antlion, get in the car
Rape and abortion!
Dear Nintendo of America: YOU SUCK
No, really, there's an antlion. You should probably run
Aaron wreaks havoc on the set of Jeopardy

It was a good episode. A long episode. An episode you can get on iTunes, or right over here. Enjoy, and we'll catch you next week.

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31 comments | showing # 1 to 31

Issun

YAY RetroForce!Aaron Linde ?Earthbound? F yeah!
Downloading right now!

Dexter345

<3 <3 <3

I still think it would have been funny if you guys just didn't ever do an Earthbound episode.

Cataract

Rip Taylor voice FTW

Stella Wong

I know I said in the show that you can use your bike on magicant, but you can't actually. XD;; oops!

Isay Isay

I find it interesting that Linde is quick to spoil any game on Podtoid, but restrained himself for Earthbound. Just sayin'

Great show though, I should get around to these games sometime

ElfAngel7

BEST SHOW EVER! Thanks for doing this one guys!

eternalplayer2345

I'm.........pretty excfited!

MisterGrieves

This is definitely one of my favorite Retroforce podcasts ever!

Thanks for discussing my question, and Chad, as far as I see it, you are Rip Taylor. Much love!

Char Aznable

Cataract, the Rip Taylor voice makes a glorious return?! Fuck this, I'm leaving work early to listen.

I just checked out Linde's article for the first time, and that was a fucking excellent read.

Chronic Logic

fuzzy pickles...

You guys say the strangest stuff.

Discarded Couch Sandwich

I'm still listening now even though I still have to play Earthbound. Its on my pile, I swear!

Monodi

The podcast link isn't working for me! This is an outrage!

Grant Mercy

Did I hear Danzig at the start? Did I? That's awesome.

gatorsax2010

How spoilerific is this episode? I haven't played Earthbound, but I'm looking. I may even hit up that fancy new trading thread Dyson started. I may just listen to the first half of this episode for now...

Aaron Linde

@IsayIsay: Yep! I'm uneven when it comes to my spoiler considerations. Alex is in the process of playing a game. But if it's two years outside of a game's release and you don't own it nor have any intentions on picking it up and you don't plan on ever actually getting to playing a game but you're still like HEY SPOILERS WUT then balls to you, skip forward.

mr spooky

Done on a nintendo wii when the English patch was released.

Isay Isay

@ Linde

I have no qualms with spoilers. I'd say every game I have on my queue still to play has been spoiled for me in one way or another, but I'm still going to play them regardless. It's just becoming clearer and clearer that you hate Samit is all.

eskimo bob

I can't listen to this yet; haven't even started Earthbound so far. I'm a european, y'know and I just started Mother 3. when I'm done with that and the whole pile of games that I have unfinished I'll get to it.

Stella Wong

We touched a few points near the end but nothing to go into super detail. We were trying not to spoil it for Dyson but I there was a lot of good points covered about Earthbound! Please play it!

Dexter345

Just finished listening, it was fantastic.

While I was listening, I came up with so many other, better questions to ask. I've since forgotten most of them.

A New Challenger

Hahaha, capital letters! Recently I played through Persona 3 and I used my real name for the main character, but I wasn't paying attention and entered my first and last names backwards. I almost started over, but the two or so hours at the beginning where you have almost no agency and can't save convinced me not to, so I spent the whole game with a weirdly ordered name. I hate when I screw that stuff up.

I finally played Earthbound last year by borrowing a friend's cart. If it never hits the Virtual Console it'll be a real shame. I'm hoping it shows up at Goodwill before I finally break down and pay eBay price. I think my favorite moment was the coffee break.

Draconianviper

This was a really fun one guys. Good job as always. Also Topher, when you told Linde to tell you those '3 words' I totally thought, "Where's my sandwich?" first.

lovemana23

Sweet!

Conrad Zimmerman

There is an American who has done what Shigesato Itoi has done, in terms of being a well-known author who decided to make a game and successfully did so in reflecting their style. Harlan Ellison's I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream is a fantastic game, though very very different.

sparkthatbled

Holy crap, is that the intro to Glenn Danzig's "Mother" before the opening? Rock on!

nebones

ITUNES WON'T LET ME DOWNLOAD

MowDownJoe

That episode was awesome. It made me bust out my SNES, blow into every open port in the off-chance that would get it to start working, and threw EarthBound in. And it worked! It actually worked! Nostalgia is just flowing over!

KoKoO Psy

Mother 64 needs more love...
But boy was it good!

Mr Kite

I can't believe how few spoilers there were.

opeth2112

I have to say that this was the first RPG in a long time I didn't need to go to an FAQ to figure out what the hell to do next. I'm surprised anyone would have trouble finding their way through it. for the record, I didn't play it when it came out, just went through it about 6 months ago.

The Nesta

Why can't I download this episode? Argh! Maddening.

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