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“How Did This Get Played?” Is Really Worth Listening to No Matter How You Feel About Video Games

August 28, 2019
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Hosts Heather Anne Campbell and Nick Wiger, as a sort of sacrifice for humanity, have subjected themselves to playing the worst video games of all time (many of which that deserve to be buried in sand more than the infamous video game of adaptation of E.T.) to bring you very satisfying hour of dissecting just how truly bad these games are on the new podcast How Did This Get Played?.

Sure, it’s a Sisyphean task for Heather, Nick, producer Matt Apodaca, and a weekly guest, but the anguish that every one of these video games cause is a pretty great bit of dark, existential humor, especially since you can often feel the rancor they have for having to revisiting these beyond-the-bottom-of-the-bargain-bin games. Such titles include Leisure Suit Larry, Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker, Superman 64, and so much more (yeah, there are so many bad video games). You can be a hardcore gamer or barely interested in video games and we’re will to bet that How Did This Get Played? would make for a really good listen.

The name of this podcast, derived from the beloved movie podcast How Did This Get Made?, definitely had a high bar to reach, but most certainly delivers on ripping apart those best/worst video games. 

Episodes for How Did This Get Played? drop weekly from Earwolf.

July 1, 2017
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The inaugural edition of this show was so much damn fun. If you thought that comedians playing very bad video games was a winning formula, you were right on. 

Again, Mike Drucker put together another great line-up that will play and riff through some of the worst of the worst in the video game canon. 

Tickets are $10, but you can enter to win free tickets via our friends at DoLA.

The rest of our listings for comedy shows, events, open mics, maps, and more can be found at www.thecomedybureau.com

May 25, 2017
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Mike Drucker is not only having comedians play video games, which is proven formula for a good time (see Conan’s Clueless Gamer), but he will be having them play some of the worst games of all time like Shaq-Fu, Bible Adventures, and more for Sh*t Arcade next month at Nerdmelt.

You might even get to win one of those infamous games at this show.

Tickets are $10 and you can (and should) get them here.

Join David Dineen-Porter and Reggie Watts in Reminiscing About the Best Video Game We’ve All Never Heard Of

September 26, 2014
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While plenty of you are probably well-studied in video game history, you probably haven’t played “Grandma’s Bath”. Knowing how much of a deep cut it is, we’d guess that you haven’t even heard of it.

Well, allow comedians David Dineen-Porter and Reggie Watts to give your a refresher on this video game classic that we’re betting that maybe two people know of in David Dineen-Porter’s Retro Video Arcade.

Also, if you’re not familiar with Toronto’s David Dineen-Porter, please familiarize yourself.

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