The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast
The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast is an excuse to play licensed video games and give them their (usually undeserved) moment in the spotlight. Host Devon Dozlaw, and a rotating cast of guest co-hosts, watch the films and TV shows that these cash grab video games are ostensibly based on, suffer through the tie-ins, and then sit down to discuss how well the developers honoured their respective licenses, making fun of the games whenever possible.
The Obligatory Movie Game Podcast
OMGP: Total Recall (NES)
For this year’s Valentine’s Day Obligatory Movie Game Podcast Episode, the love affair with Arnold Schwarzennegar movies continues as Devon and Judd sit down to discuss Total Recall for the NES. As big sci-fi fans, they chat about some of the themes that frequently pop up in Philip K. Dick’s stories, and they compare the future in Total Recall to our present, thirty-three years after the film came out. Even though the game is ridiculously hard, they find some elements of the setting and storytelling to praise. Like with any 8-bit tie-in, lots of the film has been left out, and plenty of weird things have been shoehorned in, but it all adds to the game’s charm, at least for a couple of old-school Arnie fans
0:00:00 Intro
0:04:23 IMDB Dive
0:14:38 Film Chat/Where We’re Coming From
0:43:48 Time Machine Time
0:50:05 Plot
1:15:50 Characters
1:29:30 Setting
1:41:37 Rate, Recap, Recommend