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Forty years of playing video games (Patreon)

Published:
2025-10-28 07:01:01
Imported:
2026-06

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As of this week, both of The Resties have entered their 40s. What's it like growing older alongside video game culture? Frushtick and Plante reflect on the four different gaming eras of their life.

Speaking of walking corpses: the pair shares their thoughts on the latest version of Frankenstein!

Stuff discussed:

UGO.com

Electronic Gaming Monthly archive

GamePro archive

GameSetWatch on the Gamasutra network

1990 Nintendo World Championships NYC

Thrill Kill

Frankenstein (2025)

Comments

Daveyzones

I turned 42 this year. From Atari 2600 to high end PC games, It has made me stop and look back at the time invested in this thing we love. It's hard to find games that still evoke that childlike wonder and imagination that makes you disappear into the game experience, and I'm always delighted to find out it can still happen! ☮️❤️🕹️

Bret Scofield

I just wanted to say, I always enjoy these types of episodes when they come up. Resties has a nice mix of other interesting games to discuss, or other side commentary about games. Keep sprinkling it all in.

Goositrous

While I’m sure we’re all deeply apprehensive about the future of absolutely everything else, I’m actually really confident games are only going to get better. Most of our favorites haven’t even been made yet. 40 years of $5 besties is only $2,400, that’s not bad at all- I’ll be here as long as you are!

Andy Goergen

45 here, almost 46. I loved this episode, it parallels my journey. My first home gaming machine was the Commodore 64 but I remember being introduced to them mainly via arcade games at local restaurants, a phenomenon that no longer exists. I would love to hear a little bit more about how the podcast evolved from being an official product of Polygon to what it is today. The story of Besties as a podcast is not like many others.

Little Mel

Wait.. is Griffin surrounded by Scorpios?? Justin and Travis are Scorpios, are Russ and Chris as well?

dummy bunny

Aww you guys break my heart with your cuteness at the end. It's beautiful to see you guys share this awesome relationship you all share with the rest of us ❤️

Dan Brown

I'm 32 now. I'm the youngest of four so much know all about backseat gaming, however, my neighbor was an only child with every system from Atari and PC to GameCube, and you bet I brought the big brother energy over to his house.

Evan

👾🎮🕹️

Christopher Floyd

If you want to compare with someone who is very nearly 50: * First games were almost certainly at the arcade. I can't say what was first, but I remember Tempest and Galaga and Ms. Pac-Man. And Dragonslayer! * First home games were on a TI-99/4a, which had games on cartridges. Must have been about 82. A year or two later I had an Apple IIe, which I gamed on until 1990. My first game on that was a game about driving a rabbit through a maze, but soon after, an older friend brought me a cracked version of Karateka! Absolutely seminal. * I also remember my uncle showing me Zork on his first-run Macintosh, so that must have been before the Apple II. A couple of my friends and I would obsess over Infocom text adventures and Sierra games. * I got an NES about the time it came out. Besides Mario and Duck Hunt, I bought Excitebike and Castlevania, and borrowed Metroid from a friend. We'd rent games if we wanted to play something different. * Got a PC at the start of high school and then I was a PC gamer primarily for the rest of my life. (Speaking of magazines, I got a PC Gamer subscription in college.) * Didn't own another console until I got a PS2 right about the time the PS3 was released. I've basically followed that pattern with Sony consoles ever since--get the old console when the library is huge and you know what the classic games are. * In 1999, I started working in the games industry. One of the reasons I bought a PS2 was because the MMO company I started at pivoted to console games, and I had very little understanding of that world. * Now I play almost entirely indie games! In fact, this week I am judging games for the Independent Games Festival competition (along with hundreds of other devs and journalists), which I've been doing for about five years. Last thing, and I can't believe I have to tell this to a person who worked there: Gamasutra was the website of Game Developer Magazine. They are still around: They rebranded to gamedeveloper.com. Great episode, gents!

Kirsty

Really appreciated this episode - such a lovely chat! I didn't grow up playing games, but I'm a similar age and grew up in what sounds like a kinda similar culture to Chris (albeit on a different continent). His comments about feeling that enjoying specific forms of art was kinda taboo really resonated with me, especially the point about this feeling being largely a matter of self-policing. For me it was reading, and even though I now *literally work in a field in which I spend most of my time being publicly enthusiastic about books* I still feel that prickle of embarrassment when talking about texts I love, because I was so scared to do that when I was a teen for fear of being judged - even though I think, with hindsight, that there was nothing really there to be scared of. I'm still at what I would call a very early stage of learning about games, and the conversations on Besties/Resties are such an enjoyable guide. Thank you!

Josh

Really loved the episode this week, guys! I hope no one gives you any grief about sharing your personal histories. Because for me, so long as you guys are into it, I quite enjoy getting to hear the personal side of things. Especially when it’s about things like your introduction to gaming and your pathway into the industry etc. Thanks so much for sharing.

Gobblurrito

Great episode. Also: Play Darkwood for Halloween! It's the scariest game.

Evan Grossman

Loved this episode!! Thank you!!!

Nick Robinson

I don't know about the rest of y'all but I am a patron exclusively for the Resties episodes. The battle brackets are a nice bonus to be sure but the main force for me are the resties. No such thing as testing the limit of my patronage don't worry lol

a

that magazine with the April fools orb was GAMES magazine. will shortz was its editor before becoming the new york times crossword editor! a bunch of back issues of it is on Internet archive, that specific one might be available

Bryan Roman

Any chance we can get Resties in the ad-free feed?

Chris

All of the comments this week are filling my heart! Thank you all so much for being part of this weird little video game book club! ~Plante

Jesp

I'm a relatively young listener in my mid-20s, but I super relate to both the tinkering parents (my dad basically built our family computer) and the younger sibling (hesitantly giving suggestions while watching my older brother play on the PS1). Loved this episode and your perspectives growing up with games, and appreciate both of you!!

William Jon Shipley

I just turned 56 and am still gaming away. When I was a kid I assumed kids grew up and stopped gaming — boy was I wrong.

Justine Mann

just started right now. chris’ kid telling them that they can’t be ghosts but instead must be human parents is extremely powerful. slay kid

Justine Mann

it’s so interesting hearing about the experience for boys growing up, because for girls in the 90s (i was born in 89), video games were not a super communal thing and not really a cool thing to talk about. none of my girl friends knew anything about video games or had consoles, i only got them because i loved gadgets and my dad would take me to best buy and circuit city every weekend to just look at things. i eventually started eyeing games when i was 7 or 8 and would ask my dad for them. my childhood best friend’s mom co-founded Brøderbund so there was a lot of Myst around, but I was the only girl I knew with a playstation or a gameboy. not to be an nlog, it was just very isolating. when I was a pre-teen, my friends would play sims and nancy drew with me, but I was so obsessive and bossy I don’t think it was very fun to play with me lol. and no boys wanted to talk video games with me and i didn’t want to talk about their games because i thought they were lame. i’m pretty sure i was the only kid in my grade who played pokemon and people were sick of hearing about crash bandicoot. it wasn’t until my 20s that i started connecting with other people about video games, and i had missed what sounded like so many shared, traditional experiences people had with video games. i didn’t start playing co-op games or multiplayer anything until my 30s partially because i didn’t have this foundational language everyone else seemed to have, even though i’ve been playing games since i could read the word playstation lol, and partially because being a woman online is a hell lmfao. anyway thanks for letting me share, i’m loving this episode. i love to hear how other people grew up with games!

Daxlein

Guys, help me. I’m listening to the new episode on the main feed, but I keep missing like, 30 seconds of the cold open.

Kieran O'Brien

I know you mentioned a hesitancy to have too many personal conversations on episodes, but this was one of my favourite episodes in a long time. I listen for the games, but most of all I listen for you guys, your knowledge and the stories you have to tell!

Rachel Leigh

Love the library shoutouts! Some libraries even carry video games to borrow which is super neat. Thanks for sharing about your lives and relationships with video games, great episode!