1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,120 Everybody, everybody. Snuffy, big bird. 2 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,240 Come see what I'm looking. Welcome to Remember 64, where 3 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:12,440 this week we're learning our ABC's and our 1-2 threes. 4 00:00:42,470 --> 00:00:46,190 Welcome to the show, everyone. My name is David Pitrangelo, and 5 00:00:46,190 --> 00:00:50,670 I really, really want to play one of the most iconic and most 6 00:00:50,670 --> 00:00:53,710 nostalgic opening themes ever on this episode. 7 00:00:54,230 --> 00:00:56,350 But then I'm very scared that we're just going to get dinged 8 00:00:56,350 --> 00:01:02,360 with a copyright claim. So instead you get this, and 9 00:01:04,879 --> 00:01:08,160 then I'll stop there. In case that also creates a 10 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:10,280 claim, Jiggy Lookback is here with me. 11 00:01:10,280 --> 00:01:13,520 Hello. Jiggy look to count numbers. 12 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,960 Yeah, he does. Well, if any of that makes any 13 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:23,040 sense to you whatsoever, maybe you got it from the theme, maybe 14 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:25,040 I got it from that amazing impression right there. 15 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,080 But this time we are talking about Elmo's number journey and 16 00:01:29,120 --> 00:01:32,720 Elmo's letter adventure, and what a perfect time. 17 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:35,480 If you're listening to this, when this episode comes out in 18 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:39,400 2024 in March, what better way than to bring school to you 19 00:01:39,400 --> 00:01:41,640 while you're on March or Spring Break? 20 00:01:41,920 --> 00:01:43,680 Come on, that's just what this is about. 21 00:01:44,080 --> 00:01:45,600 Yeah, we're here to bring us, bring us some school. 22 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:47,080 You don't have to do homework. We did it for you. 23 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:49,480 But we're going to tell you all about it and what is, what it 24 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,480 all means. So that's what we're covering 25 00:01:52,480 --> 00:01:55,120 today. That's going to be the double 26 00:01:55,120 --> 00:01:57,240 header 2 games that we're covering. 27 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:01,440 I think this was something that we had on our To Do List on our 28 00:02:01,440 --> 00:02:05,880 check boxes for a little while and we kind of landed on it 29 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,720 because we're like we kind of need something shorter this time 30 00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:10,039 around. Let's let's find something 31 00:02:10,039 --> 00:02:12,160 short. And this was one of the shortest 32 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:14,880 ones that popped up so so here we are. 33 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:17,960 Oh, we're here. I can't. 34 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,800 I can't believe that. I can't believe the day has 35 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,040 finally come that we get to tackle both of these games, 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:27,720 these mythical games that I've seen growing up so many times 37 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:31,200 and never like so many garage sales, so many. 38 00:02:31,200 --> 00:02:34,200 I've always seen Elmo involved. It's always been super cheap. 39 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:37,880 Never picked it up because obviously this is going to be 40 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:45,000 terrible, but been so curious as to A how they actually play 41 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:47,120 because I've never watched anything about them. 42 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:50,840 B are they actually terrible? Question mark? 43 00:02:51,320 --> 00:02:53,720 Is there any redeeming qualities? 44 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,160 I actually would argue there is. We'll get into that. 45 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:00,560 Yes, we will. Absolutely. 46 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:02,400 So actually that's one of the first things I want to talk 47 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,080 about is because you're you're several years younger than me, 48 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:10,240 there's a little bit of a time difference of what Sesame Street 49 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:13,880 means to both of us, right. So it's not even necessarily 50 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,480 directly related to this game, but it is a little bit like you 51 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,680 said, you saw these games sort of maybe come across your 52 00:03:19,680 --> 00:03:22,200 peripheral around the time that they came out. 53 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:25,360 They both came out in 1999. That's the year that we're that 54 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:29,960 these came out. But Sesame Street for me was in 55 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:33,440 my back mirror by that point like it was for me. 56 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:37,800 It's early 90s and you know, first couple years of the 80s 57 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:41,440 after I was born kind of thing. So basically by the time the N64 58 00:03:41,440 --> 00:03:46,040 came around, I was out of my Sesame Street phase that that's 59 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:48,360 it. So I only know these exist 60 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,000 because as I got older, I just was more aware of games that 61 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:54,600 came out around that time. But I don't think that's ever 62 00:03:54,600 --> 00:04:00,040 crossed my view at all in 9899 or 2000 or any anywhere around 63 00:04:00,040 --> 00:04:03,760 there. But for you, how did you grow up 64 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,360 with Sesame Street? Cause for me, it was a huge part 65 00:04:08,480 --> 00:04:11,640 of me growing up. I mean, I don't, I probably just 66 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,520 had less TV available. I lived kind of in the middle of 67 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:17,920 nowhere and we had like 4 channels when I was young. 68 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,640 And this is one of those go to's. 69 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,040 My parents tell me that I was glued to the TV when Sesame 70 00:04:24,040 --> 00:04:25,760 Street came on. I was that kid. 71 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:28,840 I do remember watching it, but not that intently 'cause I was, 72 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:31,200 you know, three years old or two years old or something, right. 73 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:35,000 But you know, there was no Dora, There was no SpongeBob, there 74 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,160 was no Bluey. It was Sesame Street. 75 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:39,920 That's that's what I had. So that was my version of it. 76 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:44,400 And yeah, like I said, games like this just were not in my 77 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,880 wheelhouse at this time based on age. 78 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:49,440 So what about you? Well, first thing I want to say 79 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:51,840 is that one of those shows you mentioned is not like the others 80 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:54,000 and that is SpongeBob. That's not at all. 81 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,400 I know. I know what you meant, but I was 82 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,720 like OK. I would, I would say early 83 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:03,440 SpongeBob is much more, quote, UN quote, not child friendly, 84 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:06,080 'cause they're all kind of, you know, can be for kids. 85 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:08,800 But like earlier ones that I remember at least watching the 86 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:12,200 first couple seasons, like when I was younger or they don't have 87 00:05:12,200 --> 00:05:16,160 as many, like inside jokes, if that makes sense, or culturally 88 00:05:16,160 --> 00:05:17,880 relevant jokes, you know, stuff like that. 89 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:20,960 But again, that's my experience with SpongeBob is when it first 90 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,640 started, not, you know, even 5610 years ago, it was like 91 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:27,280 early 2000s. I remember when SpongeBob first 92 00:05:27,280 --> 00:05:29,640 started. Oh, OK, I I yeah, I was there. 93 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:31,680 I watched the first couple episodes and I remember 94 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,560 thinking, this is weird, but liking it, you know, just the 95 00:05:35,560 --> 00:05:37,480 whole concept. I was old enough to think it was 96 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:38,920 weird. I probably would have been like 97 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:41,200 6 maybe. Yeah. 98 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:44,320 So that I would, I would have been, yeah I would have been at 99 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:47,120 least over 10 by that point when it when it debuted. 100 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,600 So, but yeah, so Sesame Street is one of the longest running 101 00:05:50,600 --> 00:05:52,560 shows. Sesame Street is one of the 102 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,960 longest running TV shows programs of any kind in the 103 00:05:55,960 --> 00:05:59,160 history of TV. So do you have experience with 104 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:00,440 it or had you had experience with it? 105 00:06:01,560 --> 00:06:06,560 Minimal. OK, I so growing up like as a 106 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:10,520 kid I had Barney the Dinosaur was a big, big deal. 107 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,520 I had bananas in pajamas. Yes, that was another. 108 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:20,280 One I love and Blue's Clues was really like I when I was a kid. 109 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:23,080 Blue's Clues was in its heyday, and that was arguably my 110 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,760 favorite show. Sesame Street existed, but I 111 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:33,440 didn't really get into it. I know I I must have watched 112 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,400 enough to know the Elmo's World song, which I know came a little 113 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,720 bit later, but I know the Elmo's World song. 114 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:42,200 I may not know all the lyrics, but I know. 115 00:06:42,200 --> 00:06:44,000 The It's recognizable to you, yeah. 116 00:06:44,840 --> 00:06:47,760 You know, and I I remember that. And I remember the scribbles and 117 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:51,800 everything. And yeah, Sesame Street was 118 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,560 never something that I sat there and actively watched it. 119 00:06:55,240 --> 00:06:57,120 It was round. It was a thing. 120 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,120 I just didn't. It wasn't my thing. 121 00:06:59,400 --> 00:07:01,720 I liked other things more. Yeah, I think kind of the 122 00:07:01,720 --> 00:07:06,480 Muppet. The Muppet characters, maybe 123 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:11,240 just I I was kind of AI was kind of afraid of puppets as a kid. 124 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:14,360 Like puppets, ventriloquist dummies, like those kind of 125 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:15,760 they. They creep me out and I had a 126 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:18,400 fear of them. I wasn't, like Afraid of Sesame 127 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,960 Street, but I think just that general, like I didn't like 128 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:26,000 puppets kind of pushed me away from it a little bit more, you 129 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:28,240 know, just in case something creepy did show up. 130 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:31,560 Just in case Elmo's head popped off or someone came out of 131 00:07:31,560 --> 00:07:32,760 Elmo's mouth or something, you know? 132 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,840 Yeah, everything. Traumatized, traumatized for 133 00:07:34,840 --> 00:07:36,880 life, for life. But there is, but there is 134 00:07:36,880 --> 00:07:37,760 something to that. There is. 135 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:41,040 There is a sort of uncanny valley to Sesame Street, right? 136 00:07:41,080 --> 00:07:43,000 For oh, for some characters. Absolutely. 137 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,800 Absolutely. There is this this creepy factor 138 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:52,680 thing going on, Yeah. I I I think, I think based on 139 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,280 the shows that you're saying that we're pretty much your 140 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,160 wheelhouse around the same age that I was watching Sesame 141 00:07:58,160 --> 00:08:02,280 Street is why. Maybe Sesame Street wasn't at 142 00:08:02,280 --> 00:08:04,920 the forefront, right? Because those existed, right. 143 00:08:04,920 --> 00:08:07,960 You had those choices, like Barney huge for my cousins, my 144 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:11,080 younger cousins and my brother and like, you know, Blue's Clue, 145 00:08:11,080 --> 00:08:13,320 same thing, 100% that was in my family, my friends. 146 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,440 Like, I know of those because they were just a few years 147 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,040 behind me kind of thing. So those existed. 148 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:21,120 They didn't for me. So Sesame Street was one of 149 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,560 those things all kind of educational, you know that 150 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:25,720 that's sort of educational programming. 151 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,320 So that's all part of it. I will say what's funny? 152 00:08:29,320 --> 00:08:31,480 Yeah, I. Was just going to say that I 153 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,159 like. I said yeah, like kind of 154 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,320 afraid, like didn't really wasn't my thing. 155 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:38,760 But I love The Muppets. So but I said just apply. 156 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:42,000 These are basically Muppets, but I like they are The Muppets. 157 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:44,360 I liked Kermit the Frog. I didn't like these guys. 158 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:46,400 Yeah, it's it's the same. It's the same. 159 00:08:46,920 --> 00:08:48,840 Henson, yeah. It's Henson Company and and 160 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,320 Frank Oz and those guys, right? It's the same thing. 161 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,720 So actually jumping off that same thing whether if you have 162 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:57,040 any experience with Sesame Street at all, even if it's 163 00:08:57,040 --> 00:09:02,680 minimal like you do, I highly, highly recommend the movie. 164 00:09:02,680 --> 00:09:04,640 I just looked up the exact title because it's a little bit of an 165 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:05,880 odd title, but it kind of makes sense. 166 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:10,120 Street Gang, How we got to Sesame Street is the full title. 167 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,640 That's a documentary that came out a couple years ago and it is 168 00:09:14,040 --> 00:09:17,560 how they made Sesame, how they conceptualize it, how they made 169 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:20,440 it come to life, how they it basically tells the tale from 170 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,560 like 19. I want to say it's like 1970 or 171 00:09:22,560 --> 00:09:25,000 whenever they first or 68, something like that. 172 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:28,080 When they first debuted it, how they came up with the ideas, how 173 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,000 they executed everything up until about I would say the 174 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:32,640 early 90s, mid 80s kind of thing. 175 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,160 And just how they implemented curriculum. 176 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:39,520 How they how they came up with the Muppet ideas. 177 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,760 And then the characters, the voices, the people that were the 178 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,800 characters and designed everything, wrote the songs, 179 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:51,800 created these carrot like it is. And honestly like I I sort of 180 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:55,920 like look back at movies that I've watched at the end of the 181 00:09:55,920 --> 00:10:00,280 year all and and for 2021 when this came out, this was my 182 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:04,440 favorite movie of that year. It was amazing and it made me 183 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:05,800 laugh. It made me cry. 184 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:08,080 Just watch this movie. It is. 185 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:11,640 It's so, so heart warming and so good. 186 00:10:13,000 --> 00:10:14,760 Yeah, I just highly recommend. I just want to. 187 00:10:14,760 --> 00:10:16,760 I want more people to watch it. And one more of you it's so. 188 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:20,040 It's so great. It comes from that era of public 189 00:10:20,040 --> 00:10:23,720 access television being a thing and educational TV and like Mr. 190 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,680 Rogers is another good example of that. 191 00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:28,680 So I could understand Mr. Rogers. 192 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,040 I I I never watched Mr. Rogers. I knew of it. 193 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:33,560 I probably seen an episode or two. 194 00:10:33,560 --> 00:10:34,840 Didn't really watch that one either. 195 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:38,000 That was maybe it was a little bit before me or happened kind 196 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:39,760 of ending. When I was, it was it was 197 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:41,360 ending. It was ending when I was 198 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:43,160 starting to watch Sesame Street, essentially. 199 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,000 Yeah, Yeah. So, so, but same, same vibe. 200 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:49,120 Anytime you see any documentary or anything on it, or the movie 201 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:52,240 with Tom Hanks, it's like, yeah, yeah, it's a bit emotional 202 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,720 because they're just genuinely trying to do something good and 203 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:55,880 it's heart warming. Exactly. 204 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:59,240 You know, Exactly. And that you know it this these 205 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:01,880 games, you know, they're not that, but there's something 206 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:03,000 there. There's something there. 207 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:07,560 So I I, so I I kind of stepped on my own toes here queuing up 208 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:11,680 something. But this is the perfect, this is 209 00:11:11,680 --> 00:11:15,520 almost like the perfect sound bite that I've been using since 210 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:19,200 day one that applies so much to this episode. 211 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,920 So bust out your history books, everybody. 212 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:25,800 I'm learning. We're going back to November of 213 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:30,400 1999 and because we are learning and learning with Elmo, I'm 214 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:32,760 going to do it again. I'm learning. 215 00:11:33,000 --> 00:11:34,840 Because I love it. I know it's The Simpsons, but 216 00:11:34,840 --> 00:11:36,360 too bad everybody. You get it twice. 217 00:11:36,560 --> 00:11:41,480 Probably even more than that. OK, so here's here's what I 218 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:44,720 found with the description of this game and some info about 219 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,280 the companies that that made it, which I thought maybe it would 220 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:51,800 be one of those games that has very minimal, you know, 221 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:53,800 background. It's just, hey, it's Sesame 222 00:11:53,800 --> 00:11:55,160 Street. It's a kids game. 223 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:57,920 Let's just get somebody to license this and pump something 224 00:11:57,920 --> 00:12:00,280 out. It's a little bit of that. 225 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:02,720 It's it's a little bit of that. You know, like I said, you get 226 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:04,560 that with license games sometimes I think, right? 227 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:06,680 Like, I think that's not, unfortunately, it's not that 228 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,000 uncommon, especially in the 90s. It's just let's get a name and 229 00:12:11,000 --> 00:12:13,760 slap the company on it and create anything. 230 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:17,160 Power Rangers was a perfect example, I think, in some ways. 231 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:19,880 Yeah, yeah, for sure. So. 232 00:12:20,440 --> 00:12:22,600 Oddly enough, I thought of Power Rangers when I was playing this 233 00:12:22,600 --> 00:12:24,200 game. Oh, my gosh. 234 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:27,800 OK, OK, cool. I think we're on the same page 235 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:29,480 on I, I. We'll see what point, but we'll 236 00:12:29,480 --> 00:12:30,080 get to that. Yeah. 237 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:34,240 OK, so this was published by New Kid Co. 238 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:38,720 They acquired the rights for properties like Sesame Street, 239 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:41,360 Dora the Explorer. They made games about that. 240 00:12:41,520 --> 00:12:43,200 They had Tom and Jerry games as well. 241 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:48,000 Most of their games were rated E for everyone, which is very 242 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:52,800 common for games like this except one, a Tom and Jerry game 243 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:54,480 that I don't know if you've seen this, this game. 244 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,960 I've I've looked it up. I was like, oh, I don't 245 00:12:55,960 --> 00:12:58,440 recognize this. It's called Tom and Jerry War of 246 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:04,360 the Whiskers and it came out for Xbox, PS2 and GameCube and it's 247 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,520 rated T for teen for excessive cartoon violence. 248 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:12,040 Yeah. So it's you know you're going 249 00:13:12,040 --> 00:13:14,560 into the next generation of consoles and you could do more 250 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:16,360 with it. And I guess, you know it seems 251 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:18,760 like it's it's very similar to the Tom and Jerry that's four 252 00:13:18,760 --> 00:13:21,680 and 64 where you're kind of in a room and you battle each other. 253 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:25,680 But maybe it's just, you know, you can see it all more or it's 254 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,200 just more graphically it's pretty cool. 255 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,320 It does look, yeah, it does look kind of cool, so very cool art 256 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,000 style and everything. So that's the publisher that 257 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:39,080 that put this out there. They have pretty much all 258 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:42,160 educational stuff that they put out there or some version of a 259 00:13:42,160 --> 00:13:43,600 kids cartoon or something like that. 260 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:49,160 That's basically what it was. So it was also developed by Real 261 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:52,400 Time associates. I recognized the logo, but I had 262 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:54,240 no idea what they were or who they were. 263 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:56,120 It just popped up when I turned on the game. 264 00:13:56,560 --> 00:14:01,600 They were founded in 86 by ex Mattel Electronics employees. 265 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:04,560 So these, yeah, so these people were making little Mattel 266 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:08,360 electronic toys or toys that involved electronics in them and 267 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:09,800 stuff. And they said, you know what 268 00:14:09,800 --> 00:14:12,320 we're going to start making games for in television. 269 00:14:12,320 --> 00:14:15,640 That was their initial goal. Sounds like a great goal. 270 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:16,880 I know, right? That's cool. 271 00:14:16,880 --> 00:14:18,280 That's awesome. That's great. 272 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:21,560 So they made a bunch of games across and television, Turbo 273 00:14:21,560 --> 00:14:27,000 Graphics, PC, Game Boy. And then now is my excuse to go 274 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,400 down a little bit of a rabbit hole. 275 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:33,120 People may have seen me post this online over the last couple 276 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,880 days, and I'm probably going to do something else about it too. 277 00:14:36,280 --> 00:14:38,560 If I haven't, by the time this episode comes out, I probably 278 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,880 will after. But here's my little bit of a 279 00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:46,040 rabbit hole Jiggy, OK? The most impressive thing I find 280 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:49,920 personally that Real Time Associates made is create a few 281 00:14:49,920 --> 00:14:52,160 games in the early and mid 2000s. 282 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:55,280 So like Game Cubera right? Or at least starting a Game 283 00:14:55,280 --> 00:14:58,640 Cubera. They made games specifically for 284 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:03,040 kids and families that are going through cancer treatment and 285 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,480 even staff of hospitals that work in those wards or in those 286 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,720 areas of the hospitals. Research went into creating 287 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:12,200 these games of like what what they could do with it, how they 288 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,920 can connect with these kids and these families and these staff. 289 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:17,720 And it's called remission, that's what it's called. 290 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:24,040 And the description is the player controls Roxy who is a 291 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:28,560 nanobot that is designed to be injected in the human body and 292 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:33,680 fight particular types of cancer and related infections like non 293 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:37,000 Hodgkin's lymphoma and leukemia at the cellular level. 294 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,960 So you are a character going through the human body and 295 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:45,160 they're basically teaching you how these medications and things 296 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:46,920 like that would work in your body. 297 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,440 And I'm like, that's such a great idea and on it. 298 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:52,720 Sounds like an episode of Magic School Bus. 299 00:15:52,720 --> 00:15:55,280 It it oh, yeah. I mean, if Magic School Bus 300 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:00,280 handled cancer, yes, that's what it would be if they if they went 301 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,040 to that level. But yes, they do do that. 302 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:04,160 They go in at least one of the episodes. 303 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,440 The blood. Yeah, the blood screen, the 304 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:08,800 blood stream and everything. Yeah, there's one all about the 305 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,480 white blood cells and all that kind of stuff. 306 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:13,560 Absolutely. Also, perfect example of a show 307 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:16,480 that I grew up with that I absolutely love. 308 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:17,680 Magic School Bus. That's great. 309 00:16:19,480 --> 00:16:23,320 On top of that, the another reason why this is great is 310 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,200 because there are 20 levels that they made. 311 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:29,440 So it's not a small game. It's not like, hey, just here's 312 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:31,320 a demo and go for it kind of thing. 313 00:16:32,080 --> 00:16:36,800 They distributed over 200,000 free copies of this. 314 00:16:37,560 --> 00:16:41,080 So they brought it to hospitals, They gave it to families, they 315 00:16:41,080 --> 00:16:42,680 gave it to kids, They gave it to staff. 316 00:16:43,040 --> 00:16:46,200 And they did it through a nonprofit and distributed 317 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:51,160 200,000 discs that had these two or three games called Remission 318 00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,960 on it. And like RE Dash Mission. 319 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:57,040 And I'm like, you know what? That's awesome. 320 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,680 You know, I we just talked about a little bit of a heartwarming 321 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:01,120 thing with some of these documents that that's 322 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:02,480 heartwarming to me. I love it. 323 00:17:02,480 --> 00:17:06,720 I I had to mention that because I think that like they again, 324 00:17:06,839 --> 00:17:09,480 similar to what like Sesame Street did just to get started, 325 00:17:09,800 --> 00:17:11,680 this company put research into it. 326 00:17:11,880 --> 00:17:16,240 They actually did studies in North America and Australia to 327 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:19,200 find out the best ways to make this, you know, effective and 328 00:17:19,200 --> 00:17:21,240 all that. And I'm like, I love this stuff. 329 00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:25,599 I I eat this stuff up. It's so I'm such ASAP, man. 330 00:17:25,599 --> 00:17:27,599 I'm such ASAP. I love it. 331 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,280 Immediately think like a place like Elmo's Letter Adventure. 332 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:34,440 Maybe it does. You're in the bloodstream and 333 00:17:34,440 --> 00:17:36,520 it's like. Grab the cancer and it's like. 334 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:46,160 Grab 3 cancers. Oh my God. 335 00:17:47,040 --> 00:17:51,240 Now that you say that, I mean, even if it was, I don't know, 336 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,960 even if it was, I just thought that was a cool little sort of 337 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:57,320 Side Story, so. That's funny. 338 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,040 Anyways, that's basic. Yeah, it's a little, little sort 339 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:03,600 of side note, has nothing to do with Sesame Street or Elmo's 340 00:18:03,600 --> 00:18:07,080 letter adventure or or number journey. 341 00:18:07,080 --> 00:18:08,560 Yeah, number journey. I always get them mixed up. 342 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:12,960 OK, that's our little sidetrack, our little bit of a development 343 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,840 history. Let's talk about the game 344 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:19,920 itself. I want to play a little bit of 345 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:21,920 what it sounds like. How's that sound? 346 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:23,240 We're gonna try that. We're gonna try that. 347 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:24,760 Sounds. Perfect. 348 00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:29,280 Sounds perfect. OK, this is how I believe this 349 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:32,320 is this number journey. I think this is. 350 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:34,200 I think this is this. Is number journey, yeah. 351 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:35,520 This is how this one starts. Welcome. 352 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:40,360 To Sesame Street I'm almost so happy to see you. 353 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,200 You picked the perfect day to visit. 354 00:18:43,040 --> 00:18:44,600 Let's go and look for some numbers. 355 00:18:49,160 --> 00:18:51,960 Those smell like the best cookies ever. 356 00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:56,360 Did Cookie Mart Just save one for Elmo? 357 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:02,480 No, we can go to cookie world to get more. 358 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:07,120 Cookie World sounds like fun. Anyways, that's how it starts. 359 00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,640 Oh my gosh. It's excellent, isn't it? 360 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:12,600 It's just so good. It's. 361 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:16,360 So excellent. So let's let's talk about the 362 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:17,600 games. Let's, let's get into it. 363 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:22,120 Two games, yeah, two games here. One based on letters or spelling 364 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:25,080 and the other one based on basic numbers. 365 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,000 It is strictly a learning experience for younger kids 366 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:33,920 that's that's just gist of how this all works here so go for it 367 00:19:33,920 --> 00:19:35,560 man. Would would would you start with 368 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:37,080 would you think what was the you know? 369 00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,280 So I started with Letter Letter Journey or letter adventure, 370 00:19:41,280 --> 00:19:42,360 whatever it is. I don't know. 371 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:43,840 I don't know. I'm going to get the titles 372 00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:47,000 mixed up like 20 times. So I'm really glad. 373 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,520 I just want to say I'm really glad we decided to do both of 374 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,680 these at once because I was, you know, I was kind of just, I was 375 00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:56,120 under the impression these were two totally separate games and 376 00:19:56,120 --> 00:19:58,440 they just made one later, you know, oh, I see. 377 00:19:59,120 --> 00:20:02,880 But these are, they honestly could be one game. 378 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:05,960 They they are the same. They have. 379 00:20:06,720 --> 00:20:10,200 Literally the same intro, except Elmo says he's looking for 380 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,880 letters rather than numbers. That's literally the difference. 381 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,360 And two different characters that are. 382 00:20:14,360 --> 00:20:17,560 On and two different not even. There's three characters in each 383 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:20,840 game that you interact with and two of them are different 384 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,880 between the games. Ernie is in both games. 385 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:24,960 I. Don't understand that. 386 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:28,040 I don't know. Why Cookie Monster and Grover 387 00:20:28,440 --> 00:20:34,280 replace each other and Big Bird and the Count replace each other 388 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:39,120 and I? Yeah, so starting with Letter 389 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:40,120 Journey. And yeah. 390 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:45,800 Starting with Letter Journey, there's basically like, is it 391 00:20:45,800 --> 00:20:48,320 three different games? Yeah. 392 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:51,440 So there's three in each. That's basically that's that's 393 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:52,480 what it is. Yeah. 394 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:54,840 But I'm wondering, I I'm trying to remember if the letter 395 00:20:54,840 --> 00:20:57,960 journey, if two of them are the same or similar. 396 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,720 Oh yeah, OK, OK. This reminds me. 397 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:05,000 OK, so in the letter journey you have, when you talk to Ernie, 398 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,920 you basically you talk to each character and you get a mini 399 00:21:06,920 --> 00:21:07,640 game, right? Yeah. 400 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:09,760 And they give you a letter. And they just give you a letter, 401 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:11,760 yeah. Yeah, and they're like, find the 402 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,600 letter Z likes happening right now on screen and you talk to 403 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:17,640 Ernie and you're basically, you're scuba diving. 404 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,720 Yep. And you just go in and you just 405 00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:26,480 move around and kind of navigate to a letter and press a button. 406 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:27,800 Doesn't really matter what button. 407 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:32,080 Essentially almost any face, any face button essentially like AB. 408 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,000 Or a right side of the controller, you press it, you're 409 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,840 good and the hit box for it is insane. 410 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:44,520 You can you can be about, I would say in the game like 5 411 00:21:44,520 --> 00:21:46,600 feet away from a number and hit the button you. 412 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:48,440 Just have to be in the in the vicinity of it. 413 00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:50,680 Yeah, yeah. So they make it pretty easy. 414 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:56,680 But my experience with this is, well, it works. 415 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:58,960 It's definitely geared toward little kids, so I can't 416 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:01,280 complain. It works and it's it looks 417 00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,920 visually kind of appealing sometimes. 418 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,680 I mean, Elmo himself looks pretty good. 419 00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,720 Like this scuba thing looks really interesting. 420 00:22:08,120 --> 00:22:09,480 I can't complain about the graphics. 421 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,000 They're actually not too bad. Yeah. 422 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:12,960 I think they could, They could have done more. 423 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:15,240 That's my my disappointment with it is that I think they could 424 00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:18,000 have made it either. Either it's more characters or 425 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,840 whatever. I think they could maybe maybe 426 00:22:19,840 --> 00:22:21,560 done more. I know it's not not that easy 427 00:22:21,560 --> 00:22:24,000 and you don't want to like flood the screen with a bunch of stuff 428 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,920 if really you're supposed to be focusing on the letters and 429 00:22:25,920 --> 00:22:27,880 numbers. But I agree. 430 00:22:27,880 --> 00:22:31,360 I think that like the character models at least look look pretty 431 00:22:31,360 --> 00:22:35,120 decent, like why not, I don't know, get get some more lighting 432 00:22:35,120 --> 00:22:36,640 in there or something. I don't know, whatever. 433 00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:38,680 But anyways. Yeah, they definitely could have 434 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:45,360 done more, but so you play through a mini game and they're 435 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:46,480 fine. They're. 436 00:22:46,800 --> 00:22:49,800 You sound so excited. In the letter adventure, it's 437 00:22:49,800 --> 00:22:52,240 just walk. It's basically just move around, 438 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:56,360 grab a letter. Yeah, you essentially will be in 439 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:58,600 an environment, whether you're scuba diving, which you might be 440 00:22:58,600 --> 00:23:01,480 seeing on on YouTube, version of the show of the episode right 441 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:06,400 now, or you're walking in a garden or somewhere else, I 442 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:09,520 can't remember where. Else Rovers is in space. 443 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:11,160 Oh, in space. Right, so and. 444 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,120 Actually, that's pretty cool. It actually does look kind of 445 00:23:13,120 --> 00:23:14,080 cool. Yeah, we'll get we'll, we'll, 446 00:23:14,120 --> 00:23:19,600 I'll pop that up in a SEC. But you are like just moving. 447 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,440 There's no looking up, looking down. 448 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,680 There's no vertical to the game whatsoever. 449 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,720 It's just walk with the joystick and press one of the face 450 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:29,800 buttons like you said. All you have to do is be in the 451 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:34,400 vicinity of the letters, you press those buttons and 452 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:38,200 depending on what difficulty you play, you either collect. 453 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:42,000 I think it's like 5-7 or 10 letters. 454 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,880 Yeah or some are. Some are close to that and you 455 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:50,280 have less opportunity to fail and pick the wrong letter is 456 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,920 really what the also the difficulty is. 457 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:53,440 So this is easy, medium and hard. 458 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:56,360 That's that's it. That's really the difficulty for 459 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:58,080 us. Not such a big deal. 460 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:02,200 I can understand why for kids it's it's a basic setup so. 461 00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:05,640 Yeah, so, So just like, piggybacking off of that, I just 462 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,880 felt like I needed to describe the gameplay before I gave what 463 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:10,760 happened and how I experienced it. 464 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:14,760 But I went into this immediately. 465 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,880 Immediately, I'm like, well, I'm going to put this in hard 466 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:18,120 because it's an educational game. 467 00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:19,320 Like whatever. Me too. 468 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:21,560 Me too. And I went in and I walked in 469 00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:23,840 the garden and I was like, will this ever end? 470 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,160 And I was. It just kept going. 471 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,640 And it just took forever. And then I beat it. 472 00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:30,840 And then it tells you to press one of the face. 473 00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:32,960 You have to wait for it to finish what it's saying. 474 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,040 It's just press. If you want to play again, press 475 00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:38,320 one of the face buttons that are highlighted here. 476 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,200 And then it pops up the controller with the buttons, 477 00:24:40,200 --> 00:24:42,040 right? And then you wait a little bit 478 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:44,800 and then it says, if you want to go back to Sesame Street, press 479 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:46,840 the start button. So I did. 480 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:48,760 I press the start button. By the way, I failed 481 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:50,840 intentionally to see what would happen if I failed. 482 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,080 And Elmo, it just ends and you can just go back to Sesame 483 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:54,880 Street. Oh, I see. 484 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:57,720 OK. But I. 485 00:24:58,120 --> 00:25:00,000 Did I'm such a good speller. I didn't. 486 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:03,560 I didn't fail. I went, I went through and I did 487 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:09,200 the first row on hard like you see so 12345678910 you got to 488 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,520 get 10 letters for each each row. 489 00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:14,760 So essentially what happens is you play the mini game and then 490 00:25:14,760 --> 00:25:16,400 it gives you the option to play again. 491 00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,080 What it doesn't tell you is if you play again, you actually get 492 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:21,160 a different stage with that character. 493 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:23,080 So each character has two stages. 494 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:26,160 I didn't know that. So I played one stage and I'm 495 00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:27,520 like, well, I'm not going to do that again. 496 00:25:27,520 --> 00:25:30,120 And then I left, and then I went and did another character to see 497 00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:33,280 what the difference was. And they were all similar but 498 00:25:33,280 --> 00:25:36,880 different. Grover's, I think big birds in 499 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,120 this particular one was the worst because it was just slow 500 00:25:40,120 --> 00:25:41,720 walking. And then you kind of smack a 501 00:25:41,720 --> 00:25:46,000 number or smack a letter. I mean, Grover, you you get in a 502 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:51,000 little Mars Rover and you're on, you're on the moon or something 503 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:52,360 like that. Ride around. 504 00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:54,560 And that's what reminded me of Power Rangers, for sure. 505 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,160 Oh, that one. OK, OK. 506 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,560 Yeah, because I was riding and I was like, wow, the environment 507 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:00,520 kind of looks exactly like Power Rangers. 508 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:02,400 Yeah, it's the one where you sort of like walking around in 509 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,440 like the space area. And you're in a vehicle too, so 510 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,600 it's like, oh man, it's like double whammy. 511 00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:12,560 And also for me, see the Power Rangers reminder is that like 512 00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,800 sadly, this is another knock against the Power Rangers game 513 00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:21,320 is that this game is just as complicated, if not more so. 514 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,840 Because in this game at least, you have to press another button 515 00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:29,720 to survive some of those stages. In this game or in in Power 516 00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,440 Rangers, you could get through some of the levels without 517 00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:33,440 pressing any buttons. In this you at least have to 518 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:35,640 press A or B to select something, yeah? 519 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,320 Yeah. And you could do, yeah, yeah, 520 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,360 yeah, for sure. And it requires a little bit of 521 00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:41,160 thought. Yeah. 522 00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:43,680 Especially if you're of the age that is meant for, yeah. 523 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:50,000 Yeah, yeah, it it it's just so simple, so mad. 524 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:51,320 But it's simple. It works. 525 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,920 It works for what it does, and the 2nd iteration of mini games 526 00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:58,480 tend to be better. I would say the second, The 527 00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:01,520 second Rover one is like you're actually on a rocket, like 528 00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,440 flying in space, and it's all colorful. 529 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,000 It's like Rainbow Rd. That's exactly what I was like. 530 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,880 This is Rainbow Rd. I It would be kind of cool if, 531 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,120 like, it made you follow the path. 532 00:27:11,120 --> 00:27:14,080 You can actually just kind of cut through everything because 533 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:17,760 essentially one of them is like usually a very narrow hallway 534 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,560 sort of thing. So like the one that we're 535 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:21,920 watching right now, which is the one on the moon with the Rover, 536 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:24,760 you just have walls around you and then letters in different 537 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:27,000 areas left, right. Maybe it's just off to the side 538 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:29,720 or something like that. But really you have no control 539 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,600 over the camera. It's always just behind you. 540 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:34,240 So as long as you're looking in the general direction of where 541 00:27:34,240 --> 00:27:37,520 the letter is or number that you're looking for, you're going 542 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,600 to find it this one. Honestly the the camera worked 543 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,680 really well. It was. 544 00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:43,320 It was totally fine. You can see everything at all 545 00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,280 times. It never, it was never caught on 546 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,760 anything. Like, the fact that it doesn't 547 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:50,440 need to be controlled is actually totally fine because it 548 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,480 just adds to what you need to focus on if you're a kid of this 549 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,280 age that you need this for, look for the letters, look for the 550 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:57,320 numbers. That's it, right? 551 00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:58,880 You don't have to worry about these other things. 552 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,920 It feels maybe a little bit disappointing as like an adult, 553 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:03,600 'cause you're like, oh, I wish I could do more. 554 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:06,960 But then I kept telling myself, well, this isn't meant for me, 555 00:28:07,360 --> 00:28:10,400 you know, and that and that's OK and that's totally OK. 556 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,360 So I think it succeeds in that and that it actually just, it 557 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:18,640 gets the job done, you know? Yeah, it gets the job done. 558 00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:21,400 It's, it's it's a kids game. It's an educational game. 559 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,040 So I don't know what to expect out of it. 560 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,600 But I will say there's there's one thing like I I was, I was 561 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:31,440 satisfied as far as like checking my boxes, like graphics 562 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:32,880 are decent. Like look at this environment. 563 00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,600 This is a very interesting environment. 564 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,200 I think if all the world's had that level of care, would look 565 00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,000 really cool. Yeah, this is the if anyone's 566 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,160 not watching, it's it's the space one that we were just 567 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:43,320 talking about that reminds us a little bit of Rainbow Rd. 568 00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,400 There's there's just describing. There's planets in the 569 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,280 background. There's stars coming across the 570 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:51,640 screen. The road, like I said, like we 571 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,200 said, looks a little bit like Rainbow Rd. 572 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,040 You're driving a spaceship that has like stuff flying out of the 573 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,840 back of it and stuff it. It's cool. 574 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:03,160 That's cool. Yeah, and and yeah, it's it's 575 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,320 checking, you know, quite a few boxes. 576 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,640 I don't remember the music. It wasn't anything memorable, 577 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:10,080 but it was certainly wasn't bad when. 578 00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:10,960 Why don't? Why don't we? 579 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:12,920 Why don't we listen to it for just a second? 580 00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:15,280 Let's see. Because not all of it is Sesame 581 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:17,440 Street music. Some of it is just sort of like 582 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:20,360 stuff that was created for this. Or maybe it is recognizable. 583 00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:34,260 So yeah, let's see. Yeah, yeah, when you finish and 584 00:29:34,300 --> 00:29:36,380 it's good. And it's got the voice acting, 585 00:29:36,380 --> 00:29:39,300 which is cool. Every character is voiced by the 586 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:43,740 people that voice the characters in the in the show, which is, 587 00:29:43,740 --> 00:29:45,900 which is great. You know that everyone was on 588 00:29:45,900 --> 00:29:49,360 board to do this, so technically this game is fully voice acted, 589 00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,400 which you can't say for a lot of games. 590 00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:57,320 The only thing about it, and it's only in letter adventure or 591 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:02,000 letter journey, whatever it is, it's because there's they're the 592 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,360 same, but one's about numbers and one's journey and the other 593 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,760 one's about letters and the other one's. 594 00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:06,720 Adventure. I'm with you, man. 595 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,040 I'm with you. I'm confused too. 596 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:11,280 I Yeah. Sometimes I would. 597 00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,000 So you go up to a character, you you initially start out on 598 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,920 Sesame Street, you have to walk up to a character and you stand 599 00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:18,640 in front of them. And then the dialogue just kind 600 00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,280 of starts when you're after you stand there for a couple 601 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:24,120 seconds. What happened to me was the 602 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,560 character started moving and animated and we're clearly 603 00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,920 saying something, but I heard nothing. 604 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,440 And then Elmo would respond with what, like in response to what 605 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:37,640 they said. So like for example, you go up 606 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:45,440 to Ernie and then he's like it's quiet and then Elmo goes see the 607 00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,880 carnival. And that would be interesting. 608 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:50,000 OK, I didn't run. More than once. 609 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,320 OK, I didn't run into that. That's interesting it. 610 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,320 Only happened in letter. In letter, whatever. 611 00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:57,160 Oh. In letter whatever. 612 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,160 Yeah there's oh here. OK, so that reminds this is a 613 00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:03,800 note that I put in one of the the known. 614 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:06,240 I guess it's it's probably a bug. 615 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,880 I guess you could call it is that in Letter Adventure on 616 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:16,880 Sesame Street there's no music. It's just not it's not in it, 617 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:24,280 but on on in Number Journey it is in there so that could be 618 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,520 part of it. Maybe it's a a related bug in 619 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:31,360 the in the game of that. So like you go walk through 620 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,080 Sesame Street like you said, there's a little bit of 621 00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:36,120 background music in in the number one, but in on letter 622 00:31:36,320 --> 00:31:38,440 adventure it's just not there. You just hear sound of like 623 00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:40,760 street noise and some kids in the background and stuff like 624 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,240 that, which also I think is a little nice little added 625 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,120 feature. It's not just like dead air, you 626 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:47,440 know, like even if there wasn't music, at least you got 627 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,560 something that feels like you're actually quote UN quote, you 628 00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:51,680 know, in in Sesame Street or on the street. 629 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:53,160 Yeah, I think it's a nice little added touch. 630 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:54,560 It's not necessary, but it's there. 631 00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,320 So yeah, so that's interesting. I didn't run into any of that. 632 00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:01,360 Maybe it's related, I don't know because it was in the same game. 633 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:03,400 I don't know. Yeah. 634 00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:12,120 And then I I think, yeah, I mean the the gameplay is the same 635 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,240 pretty much across both, like you said, like it's it's really 636 00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:19,480 just the same game. You just have numbers or letters 637 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,200 and that's kind of it. I would say though that we. 638 00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:28,120 Yeah. Let me mention because they have 639 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:30,400 two distinct bonus stages. Oh. 640 00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,440 Yeah, that's right. Yes, that's a big difference. 641 00:32:33,120 --> 00:32:40,400 And the in the letter one it's you have to like walk, you walk 642 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:43,960 target to target looking for the letter for to complete the word. 643 00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:49,120 So like for example they show Ork Ork and they say complete 644 00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:51,280 the word and then you have to walk to the target that has an F 645 00:32:51,280 --> 00:32:55,880 on it and complete it and then flip flop. 646 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,280 I guess we just move over to number Journey, right? 647 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,440 Yeah, yeah. Move over to number, yeah. 648 00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:02,360 Move over number journey, which is the better one? 649 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:06,600 It's so it's so cool. OK, this one I definitely have 650 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,560 to play the sound for because there's one particular sound 651 00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,800 bite that he has. I don't know if it's going to 652 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,080 pop up here. So he threw. 653 00:33:13,360 --> 00:33:17,160 OK, so let's describe what it is first and then I will find the 654 00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:19,440 sound. So what? 655 00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,840 Is it the the bonus game? Yeah, the bonus game for the 656 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:22,840 number one. Yeah. 657 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:28,440 So the the bonus game for the number one is it basically it 658 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:34,760 pops up a number and it says 5 and then or or math I guess and 659 00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,000 it whatever. And it just says like, throw a 660 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:40,600 certain amount into the mouth of this thing and you just go to 661 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:44,360 the basket and you throw. Or I was going to say Mario Elmo 662 00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,080 throws baseballs into the mouth of this creature. 663 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,560 Like a carnival game. Like a carnival. 664 00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,880 Yeah, it's a little carnival, but it's not it's you don't 665 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,840 target, you don't anything, you just tap A and you can't like 666 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,120 hold it or multi tap. It's literally just like he 667 00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,400 throws one at a time. It's very. 668 00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:04,280 Slow it's it's it's slow. But he has something to say in 669 00:34:04,280 --> 00:34:05,000 between, right? So. 670 00:34:05,040 --> 00:34:06,720 And then when you're done, you ring the bell. 671 00:34:06,720 --> 00:34:08,280 You ring the bell. Does have something to say? 672 00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,920 So, so that's what I wanted to play is like, let's see if he 673 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:12,719 says it in this first section here. 674 00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:17,280 Hold on. Yay, To get a ball, go to the 675 00:34:17,360 --> 00:34:19,760 bucket and press one of the option buttons. 676 00:34:20,679 --> 00:34:22,880 Ring the bell when you have the right number. 677 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:26,080 If you want to take back a ball, hunt the horn. 678 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,239 Yeah, good tune, right? Three. +1 So how many? 679 00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:32,120 Balls. Then you throw the amount of 680 00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,280 balls. But then he says something every 681 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,360 time you throw it. Goal. 682 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,000 Oh, I returned that one for some reason. 683 00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:40,719 I don't know why you. Didn't know. 684 00:34:41,199 --> 00:34:45,880 The mechanic yet There it is from downtown. 685 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,440 Yeah, I didn't say that quite a bit. 686 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:51,280 Swish. Swish. 687 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,520 So anyways, I thought that was, I thought that was charming and 688 00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,640 I was like, that's cool. That's, you know, is it, is it, 689 00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:01,440 you know, making or breaking this game at all? 690 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,080 No, it's not. But at least it's different. 691 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,960 At least, I mean, I guess it has to be different, but instead of 692 00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,160 putting the letter at the beginning, you're just doing 3 693 00:35:10,160 --> 00:35:14,160 plus 1/3 plus one, throw 4 balls in and then the number changes. 694 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,960 And I think it depends on what difficulty you are made. 695 00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:20,440 Change how like what words you get and then what number you 696 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:22,320 have to add up to. I don't know for sure but. 697 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,920 So the reason why I was thrown off that yours had math, mine 698 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:29,760 did not, because I played this uneasy. 699 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,760 OK, so I did. I did Medium for most of the 700 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,880 playthrough of it. Yeah, I did hard initially in 701 00:35:35,880 --> 00:35:37,280 the letter one, but it just took forever. 702 00:35:37,280 --> 00:35:39,120 So I was like, I don't need to do this, I'm just going to do 703 00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:40,680 easy. So I did easy. 704 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,080 So I just had a number. It just said four. 705 00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:45,800 And so I just had to throw 4IN and count to four. 706 00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,560 OK. But so that's an interesting, 707 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,600 that's why I was like I don't remember doing math, but that's 708 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:52,200 probably why. Yeah, yeah. 709 00:35:52,640 --> 00:35:54,600 So mine was just like a simple addition. 710 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:58,680 So now, flipping the script, this is the best mini game in 711 00:35:58,680 --> 00:36:00,000 the game. The. 712 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,120 The. The two. 713 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,080 The two Cookie Monster ones. Both of them. 714 00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,800 Are the best ones. They are the best ones. 715 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,520 So I wanted to point these out too, because first, Cookie 716 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:16,120 Monster starts with you riding up a river of chocolate, which 717 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,720 is hilarious. And also. 718 00:36:17,720 --> 00:36:19,680 I'm wearing my Conquer shirt. It's not Pooh, though. 719 00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,880 It's not. And conquer. 720 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:25,000 It would be cool if conquer showed up, but you're you're 721 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,480 basically just instead of going down like just walking through. 722 00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:30,400 The collaboration I didn't know I wanted. 723 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:34,320 Oh my God, could you imagine? He like, you pick, You pick a 724 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,120 number and Elmo's just like it smells like shit. 725 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,440 Damn it, Cookie. Monster and Sesame Street, 726 00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,320 they're all going down and then all of a sudden you whip out a 727 00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,880 couple a KS and eat lead mother buzzer. 728 00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:53,400 I mean, let's do it. Or or Conker's just smoking a 729 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,760 cigar with Oscar the Grouch. Yeah, if anyone's going to do 730 00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,040 it, it's going to be him, right? For sure. 731 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,600 Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. 732 00:37:00,600 --> 00:37:02,800 So this one is still. So the first one we're on like a 733 00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,040 jet ski, basically looks like one of the wave race vehicles 734 00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,160 and you're just going and collecting the numbers. 735 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:11,320 But at least it looks kind of interesting. 736 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,920 I think it looks kind of cool. It's fast though. 737 00:37:13,920 --> 00:37:16,320 Like you move pretty fast and it's it's cool. 738 00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:18,880 You go over the little jumps and he does the little handstand. 739 00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:24,280 I totally did not expect any kind of movement or reaction or 740 00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:26,760 what or anything from Elmo. And then you go to the snow 741 00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:30,880 level and you're snowboarding and he literally does like grabs 742 00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,880 and flips and stuff. Little tricks. 743 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,520 Yeah, it's awesome. And you're not. 744 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,880 You're not doing anything. You're you're just still 745 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,200 pressing forward. It's still basically doing the 746 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:40,920 speed and everything for you like it does in the other 747 00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:46,040 levels, but like at least there's some sort of interaction 748 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,680 sort of speak, I guess you could call it makes it more 749 00:37:48,680 --> 00:37:50,720 interesting. It was it was much more fun just 750 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,200 for those reasons, I think. So I agree, these were the best 751 00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:54,960 ones. Yeah, they're they're fun. 752 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:57,160 They're fast. They're, you know, simple and 753 00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,880 they work. But the rest are basically just 754 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,800 little walking Things hit the target. 755 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,720 I mean that's that's it for the rest. 756 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:09,400 But I will say that I did like the count in the number 12, not 757 00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:11,920 the first one. So he so he goes, oh, let's go 758 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,160 to my castle, do you want to go to my castle? 759 00:38:14,640 --> 00:38:17,680 And I'm like, that sounds really creepy, but all right, I guess 760 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:18,640 we will. Sure, dude. 761 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:22,520 Elmo's like 3 or 4. Whatever he is, he's he's he's a 762 00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:24,560 preschooler. He's little, right? 763 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,520 And this creepy old man invited him to his castle, his dark 764 00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,240 castle. He's probably like 400 years 765 00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:36,040 old, not four years old. Yeah, and we we go to his garden 766 00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:37,720 1st. And at first I was like, this is 767 00:38:37,720 --> 00:38:40,520 not his castle. And I was legitimately mad 768 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,520 because I wanted to see the castle. 769 00:38:42,880 --> 00:38:45,840 I was like, this is stupid and he's like, this is my garden. 770 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:48,880 And I'm like, I don't give a crap about your garden, man. 771 00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,640 I want to go see your castle. But then, you know, you beat 772 00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,640 that first, that first walking one and then he does take you to 773 00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:57,680 his castle. And I was totally right. 774 00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,960 It was more, it was way more interesting. 775 00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:02,760 It was visually interesting to walk around his castle. 776 00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,640 And I kind of want to go back because when I was collecting 777 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:10,680 all the numbers, I started hearing these clanking noises 778 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:12,400 right here. Let's. 779 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,440 And then see if it. Yeah, you like hear these 780 00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,640 clanking noises. Got it. 781 00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:26,480 You hear the bats, but you hear that it's almost like a 782 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:29,760 thundering noise. OK. 783 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,680 So I started hearing that and then I I turned a corner and 784 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,720 then there was, there was like a pathway that led me down and it 785 00:39:37,720 --> 00:39:41,920 turned and I got the last number on that pathway, but I didn't 786 00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,400 get past it. So I wanted to know what was 787 00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,640 past it. I was like. 788 00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:47,680 I didn't get past it either. I know exactly what you're 789 00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,320 talking about. What if we find the torture 790 00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:55,440 chamber? Do you ever see, do you ever see 791 00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:57,160 the. This is great for listeners. 792 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:58,360 You got to look it up on YouTube. 793 00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,200 It's so funny. They took the count when he's 794 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:06,400 singing about numbers and he's like, I like to count the bats 795 00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:08,440 on the wall, right? He's just singing. 796 00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:11,760 They censor it every time he says what he's counting. 797 00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:18,640 So, so he's like, I like to count the on the wall, I like to 798 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,160 count the in the hall and it's so funny. 799 00:40:23,160 --> 00:40:25,480 It just sounds suggestive. Yeah, all you have to do is put 800 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:29,480 that beep in there, yeah. Yeah, it's so funny so. 801 00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,080 Funny, but like there's but that is so that that's The thing is 802 00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:34,960 like there's glimpses of like, yeah, that music sounded pretty 803 00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:36,880 good to me. The background, you know, like 804 00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:38,680 you said the crashing, the lightning sort of thing, the 805 00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,640 bats. That's there, that's cool. 806 00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:44,360 And, you know, again, the focus isn't that in a game like this, 807 00:40:44,360 --> 00:40:48,040 it is get the kid from point A to point B, pick the number that 808 00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,280 it gives you or the letter. And that's what your focus is. 809 00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:53,600 And at least there's some small touches. 810 00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:57,680 You know, I think that, like, it's it's kind of strange how, 811 00:40:57,680 --> 00:40:59,880 like when you're walking with Elmo, like the way he is here 812 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:03,560 that we're seeing, he's not even really moving. 813 00:41:03,560 --> 00:41:06,120 Like his feet kind of just shuffle a little bit. 814 00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,400 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 815 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,280 Jiggy's doing a great dance. Please, everybody, please watch. 816 00:41:11,840 --> 00:41:13,720 It's great. He's going to do it again. 817 00:41:20,000 --> 00:41:21,880 It's and that's And that's all it is, right? 818 00:41:21,880 --> 00:41:24,400 So it's weird how, like that's how he walks. 819 00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:26,640 But then you put him on a snowboard and the guy's doing 820 00:41:26,640 --> 00:41:29,880 like, you know, these huge, these tricks where he's doing 821 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,520 grabs, like toe grabs and and tail grabs, and he's spinning 822 00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:37,200 around doing a 360 and stuff. It's just, you know, it it feels 823 00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,920 inconsistent. But I I just kept telling myself 824 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:43,320 like, whatever. Elmo, professional snowboarder, 825 00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:45,800 but Elmo, not professional Walker. 826 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:55,440 Elmo says. Yeah, I it's, look, I I, yeah, I 827 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:57,200 just kept telling myself, like, it's fine. 828 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,680 It's a kids game. It doesn't need that depth or 829 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:04,680 whatever, right? So ultimately, you know, does 830 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,960 anyone need to play this game if you're older? 831 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:09,760 No, I don't. Stop, stop, stop. 832 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,920 Yes, yes they do. And they need to make this a 833 00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:20,240 drinking game, and I think that's the way to play it and do 834 00:42:20,240 --> 00:42:27,640 it every time, Elmo says Elmo. And you play like 1520 minutes 835 00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:31,720 of these games a you're going to beat it, but you'll be laughing 836 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:34,560 so hard, it's just so silly. I'm I'm with you. 837 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:38,560 There's there's something there. You can have silly quick fun 838 00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:39,560 with this. Like that's the other thing I 839 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:43,000 was going to say is like, even whether you should play this 840 00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:45,560 game or whether you should experience these games or 841 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:49,200 whatever, however you do it, it's like one of the games. 842 00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:51,200 I think the letter one is even shorter. 843 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:55,120 I think it takes 20 minutes, half an hour, the other 1/2 an 844 00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,480 hour, 40 minutes. Like in an hour. 845 00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,120 You can get through both of these if you don't play on hard. 846 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,960 Just don't play on hard because it's it's not, it's not 847 00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:08,400 necessary because like you said earlier, it just takes longer. 848 00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,240 That's really all it is. And then the mini game at the 849 00:43:11,240 --> 00:43:15,600 end for the letter one at least, it's just a different word, like 850 00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,840 a longer word, but you're still just picking one letter. 851 00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:21,560 It's not a huge difference and it's not going to take a lot of 852 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,440 your time, so it's OK that it exists. 853 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,920 You know, I think it's good that things like this are out there 854 00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:28,400 for kids. I didn't know this existed. 855 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,840 So I was like, you know what? This is nice. 856 00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,880 At least this is here. Yeah, it it's cool for kids. 857 00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:35,520 It's it's cool for. Kids, that's the verdict. 858 00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,280 Yeah, that's. And all I have to say is it it 859 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:42,280 does make me want a 3D platformer fully going through 860 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:44,560 Sesame Street. That would be sick. 861 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:47,800 Hopping over the the buildings and stuff and. 862 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,000 Yeah, it would be so much fun, right? 863 00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,120 And you could have worlds like this where he's is going in and 864 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:56,880 yeah, it just seems really cool. Yeah, there's ideas here. 865 00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,160 There's different environments. It's nothing fancy, but that's 866 00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:00,760 OK. It doesn't have to be. 867 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:06,640 And yeah, Elmo's letter adventure and number journey, I 868 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,360 think I got this right. That is the one. 869 00:44:09,360 --> 00:44:12,160 That or the exact opposite. Or the exact opposite. 870 00:44:12,360 --> 00:44:16,760 Either way you'll find it, these two back-to-back games if if you 871 00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,640 don't have a ROM of them or a way to play them that way, you 872 00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,880 can find it for pretty cheap because they're just kids games 873 00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:25,480 and stuff. But you know, hey, having these 874 00:44:25,480 --> 00:44:28,800 things on hand when you have a kid that is, I don't know, four 875 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:30,440 years old, that's picking up five years old. 876 00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:33,400 Whenever you're comfortable with them playing video games for the 877 00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,440 first time, this is a great starter. 878 00:44:35,560 --> 00:44:37,960 I think this is a really good you know, they're learning their 879 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,120 letters and numbers in in early school. 880 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:41,760 Why? Why not? 881 00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,360 Why not let them just press forward and backwards on the 882 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,280 joystick, press 1 button. They can get through it. 883 00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,560 You can sit with them if you have to, like you know, if they 884 00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:52,360 need some help and stuff, but nothing wrong with that. 885 00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:53,720 You know, I think that's pretty good. 886 00:44:53,720 --> 00:44:57,160 So that's about it. I I don't know if we score this 887 00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,680 these games. I don't know if there's like a 888 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,960 way to score them because they're not really those types 889 00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:05,240 of games, but well, well, I guess we. 890 00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:10,920 Can we can score them on a scale of edutainment? 891 00:45:11,120 --> 00:45:12,880 Yeah, an edutainment scale. That's. 892 00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:17,440 An edutainment scale, and we're going to make this scale up to 893 00:45:17,440 --> 00:45:22,360 the letter D OK, but it starts at 3:00, so. 894 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:26,080 Wait, oh, it starts at 3:00 but ends at D Is that what? 895 00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,840 We're taking a number journey into a letter adventure. 896 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:31,160 Yes. OK. 897 00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:36,200 All right then I. Would so so it scores an X3 for 898 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:40,880 me. All right, I'm going to give it 899 00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,760 AAW 7. That's high I. 900 00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:47,720 Don't I don't know. Is that high. 901 00:45:47,720 --> 00:45:50,360 I I have no idea. Well, that's so high, is it? 902 00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:51,560 OK I. Don't know it's a low. 903 00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,880 D as you can get. It's a low letter, so I don't 904 00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:58,400 know this impromptu scale. I don't know how this shit works 905 00:45:58,400 --> 00:46:01,840 anywhere. I like it though. 906 00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:06,000 I like it little in universe Radiance scale. 907 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:09,400 I like it exactly. Oh my God. 908 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:10,360 Can't. Count. 909 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:13,400 Yeah, well, we can now. We played this game. 910 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:17,600 We can now. OK, so. 3 numbers, yeah, that's 911 00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:19,760 all you ever collect. Yeah, that's true. 912 00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,240 You know how to differentiate the number 3 from everything 913 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:24,800 else, but you don't know what everything else is. 914 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,720 Although if you do go back into the stages, they'll give you a 915 00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:29,960 different letter and a different number. 916 00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:31,360 It's not always exactly the same. 917 00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,600 But that's funny. That was not my experience. 918 00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:34,760 Oh. Really, it was for me. 919 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,840 Oh yeah, I got it was letter F for Big Bird. 920 00:46:37,840 --> 00:46:40,440 I left, came back. It was still letter F. 921 00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,480 Oh, OK wait, did you finish the stage though, or did you like 922 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:46,560 did you get all the letters before you exited? 923 00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:51,800 I think I I think I failed it first and then I left and then I 924 00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:53,200 came back. Yeah, So that's why. 925 00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,600 So maybe that's why. Yeah, so one time what I did was 926 00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,160 I didn't collect the last one and the level like ended for 927 00:46:58,160 --> 00:46:59,400 some reason, I don't remember why. 928 00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,920 And then I went back. In there's end spots, there's 929 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:04,000 like endings to each like pathway. 930 00:47:04,000 --> 00:47:05,480 Yeah, if you get too far forever. 931 00:47:05,520 --> 00:47:06,560 Yeah. I think. 932 00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:07,680 That's it'll. It'll just end. 933 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:08,800 That's what happened with a count 1. 934 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,080 When you go down those like stairs, you go to the end. 935 00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,160 If you didn't catch them all, then you have to go back. 936 00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:15,600 That's what it is. Yeah, that's what I did. 937 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,040 So that's what happened with me with that one is I had the 938 00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,160 number 5. I went into that. 939 00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,040 I must have missed one or whatever. 940 00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:24,840 And then I went and talked to him again and went back in and 941 00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:27,280 it was the same number. And then I tried it on a 942 00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:29,880 different difficulty, and maybe that's part of it too. 943 00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,440 I went on like the easy difficulty or the hard one, and 944 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,560 it was a different number, even though the stages are the same. 945 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:36,880 Yeah, so. I like to believe, though, that 946 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,400 that room, it doesn't end. It ends because you're not 947 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,440 supposed to see it, but because it goes past, right? 948 00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:44,200 And then he does have a torture chamber. 949 00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,320 And then every character that you don't see in this game from 950 00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:49,680 Sesame Street is in that torture chamber being tortured. 951 00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:51,880 And there you go. That's how I will end. 952 00:47:52,000 --> 00:47:54,160 That Snuffaluffagus is down there 100%. 953 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:56,440 Like, where else would he be if he's not with Big Bird? 954 00:47:56,840 --> 00:47:58,680 They're besties. Like they're besties. 955 00:47:58,680 --> 00:48:01,440 Where else would he be? So it is what it is, you know? 956 00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,960 Hey, it's just the reality. We're just, we're just doing our 957 00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,560 part, investigating and bringing kids games to the forefront. 958 00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,880 So it's all good. We're doing the hard work, we 959 00:48:09,880 --> 00:48:14,040 did the homework, like I said, so, all right, so that'll do it 960 00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:17,640 for these games. It's good, quick, educational 961 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,400 stuff for kids and that's pretty much the gist of it. 962 00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,520 But jiggy, where can everybody sort of keep track of all the 963 00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,080 awesome stuff 'cause you got some pretty damn great videos in 964 00:48:27,080 --> 00:48:30,160 the last few weeks? And honestly few months. 965 00:48:31,360 --> 00:48:33,040 Thank you. Thank thank you. 966 00:48:33,360 --> 00:48:36,920 Yep. YouTube Jiggy back all one word. 967 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:39,160 YouTube. You'll find me. 968 00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:41,080 Jiggy look back. Lots of good stuff. 969 00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,960 Lots of stuff around. Rare Donkey Kong. 970 00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:46,760 Check it out everybody. It's it's, it's popping off. 971 00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,120 Honestly, with or without this show, that thing, that stuff is 972 00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:52,280 popping off and it's great. So really, really good stuff. 973 00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,640 Remember 64 across the board on YouTube. 974 00:48:56,160 --> 00:49:00,880 Remember 64 show on all of the social media apps. 975 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:03,920 I'm not going to name them all because they all seem to change 976 00:49:03,920 --> 00:49:05,720 names and it's honestly a pain in the ass. 977 00:49:05,720 --> 00:49:08,320 So although that description took just as long as mentioning 978 00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:10,360 all of them, so maybe I'll revise that next time. 979 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:14,600 And then of course patreon.com/remember 64 show. 980 00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:19,320 You can find all of the episodes early, some extra content and 981 00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:21,880 also going to be adding some free stuff as well. 982 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,360 Some videos and some write ups about games that I've been 983 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,800 playing that are not N64 related, maybe some gaming news 984 00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,840 that I've been, you know, reading and writing about, all 985 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,160 that kind of stuff. I'm just going to sort of start 986 00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:33,560 bolstering a little bit more on Patreon. 987 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,360 It's going to kind of be like a one stop shop kind of thing so. 988 00:49:36,640 --> 00:49:38,760 The pre show chats were were pretty good. 989 00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:43,680 I I I got into the Patreon and I was a a little vain. 990 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,400 I was listening to myself because he told me about the pre 991 00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:50,400 show chats. No he did not tell me about the 992 00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:51,600 pre show chats. I did the. 993 00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,320 Previous time, but not that time. 994 00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:55,120 Yeah, I forgot to. Yes, and. 995 00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:59,680 So I was like wait a pre show chat and I was like this is me 996 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:04,000 and I was like what did I say? And so I went back and like it 997 00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:05,800 was listening. It was just, it was great. 998 00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:08,400 It it actually was awesome. We talked about the one. 999 00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:12,480 We talked about the Nintendo Power with the Donkey Kong 64. 1000 00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,680 Weird cover. Yeah, weird cover. 1001 00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,320 That was like a misprint or something. 1002 00:50:17,320 --> 00:50:19,120 Something couldn't figure. Out what it was. 1003 00:50:19,120 --> 00:50:21,760 It was really cool. I talked a little bit about me 1004 00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:25,040 playing Boulders Gate 3, which is pretty funny with my friends. 1005 00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:27,280 How tall? How tall the Donkey Kong crew 1006 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:28,480 is. Or short they. 1007 00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:31,040 Are how tall, how tall the DK crew is. 1008 00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:32,920 Yeah, that was pretty, pretty enlightening. 1009 00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:35,840 It's pretty cool. But yeah, that pre show chat was 1010 00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:38,880 totally, totally fun. Yeah, and that stuff's available 1011 00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:41,840 for at the at the lowest, lowest tier for Patreon and stuff. 1012 00:50:41,840 --> 00:50:45,360 So that stuff we're going to keep doing and keep keep doing, 1013 00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:48,520 keep bolstering stuff on there. It's going to be free and and 1014 00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,120 Patreon paid stuff. So a mix of everything going to 1015 00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:53,080 be a good spot to kind of find a bunch of stuff, so. 1016 00:50:53,720 --> 00:50:55,040 Yeah. And you just put like a dollar 1017 00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:56,120 down. Is that the minimum? 1018 00:50:56,440 --> 00:50:57,520 Like, you just put a dollar down. 1019 00:50:57,520 --> 00:50:59,560 You pay a dollar a month. It helps support the show. 1020 00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:03,640 It helps support Dave, we can, you know, do cool stuff, raise 1021 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:08,080 production value, get other guests on, like just go support. 1022 00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:11,000 It just shows support. And hey, even if you don't want 1023 00:51:11,000 --> 00:51:13,360 to do that, that's cool, but share it. 1024 00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:15,520 Yeah, yeah. Yeah, right. 1025 00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:17,200 Sharing. It is caring. 1026 00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:22,560 Sharing it is carrying it. Sharing it is carrying it and 1027 00:51:22,560 --> 00:51:25,200 Elmo tells you to share it. Doesn't he? 1028 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:27,360 He always he's. He's such a nice guy. 1029 00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:29,320 He's so nice. Support us. 1030 00:51:29,320 --> 00:51:32,840 Support. Elmo Sesame Street is awesome. 1031 00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:37,000 All right, everybody. Jiggy, thanks for coming along, 1032 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,520 this adventure and this journey. There we go. 1033 00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:43,160 Which one is which? I always forget again, even 1034 00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:44,760 though we've been talking about it for for a while. 1035 00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:47,520 Other than that, Everyone, thanks so much for listening. 1036 00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:49,960 Jiggy, thanks for being here. We'll see you next time on 1037 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,000 Remember 64. Ciao everyone.