Episode 52 - Dare to Dream and Neil Cicierega

Save Your Game

A very sleepy Matt and a very inspired PushingUpRoses welcome an incredible guest onto the show to talk about one of the weirder games we've ever played. Musician, video producer and hella talented dude Neil Cicierega is on the show to talk about playing adventure games as 90's kid -- your dad bringing home shareware adventure games to install on your Windows 3.1 PC and the entire family puzzling over it over weeks, months, and years -- and how to pass that experience on to your kids.

We also do a surprisingly DEEP dive into a bizarre 1993 game Cliff Bleszinski designed in Visual Basic when he was 17, called Dare to Dream. It goes... places. Like literal Hell.

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Games Mentioned:

• King Quest VI
• Icon Architect 1.0
• Dare to Dream
• Hugo’s House of Horrors
• Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist
• There Is No Game
• Unforeseen Incidents
• Day of the Tentacle
• The Dig
• Wanderstop
• Blue Prince
• Palace of Deceit
• Jazz Jackrabbit
• Curse of Monkey Island
• Monster Breeder