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S3E6 (A) Power Glove Creator Chris Gentile interview
Chris Gentile started off designing nuclear power stations, then joined his brothers' company to design holograms for action figures. It was here he was tasked with turning the $9,000 Data Glove into…
S3E5 Power Glove Tramp Stamp
The boys all get together in person to record their progress. Adam shares his results of scraping the entire edit history of Wikipedia articles about the Power Glove, and his correspondence with…
S3E4 Frosties or Fingies
Evan tracks down Grant Goddard, one of the people incorrectly credited as the creator of the power glove along with Samuel Cooper Davis. We find out just how the two came to be credited in the first…
Cat-Butt
The boys dig deeper into the Wikipedia archives and find an additional person credited with creating the Power Glove. Evan tries to track him down while Drew goes after Chris Gentile, who recently…
S3E2 Glove, Actually
Adam looks up the patents for the "optical flex sensor" and the "data glove" - the core technology behind the power glove, and in so doing finds several key people who could be called the rightful…
S3E1 Oil Can Boyd
The boys embark on an all new adventure, to find the TRUE inventor of the Power Glove! Evan heard from a friend of a friend that he added his own name to Wikipedia as the inventor of the power glove…
Baleeted
The boys recreate the road trip from 25 years ago where they first discovered "Trog." Over the course of week they drove across the country from California to Chicago, stopping in Nevada, Colorado,…
S2E25 The last 1%
After a long hiatus, the boys circle up the wagons to find a path forward.
S2E24 Cowboy Game Completionist
The boys discuss the Konami run-and-gun games Mystic Warriors (1992) and C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa(1992) and which is the true successor to Sunset Riders. The conversation meanders around lofty topics…
S2E23 Tommy Westphall Universe
The boys discuss whether a cross over between between TMNT and "Friends" would be possible and whether or not they exist in the same universe according to the Tommy Westphall theory. They also…
S2E22 Zeino's Paradox
X-Men producer Masahiro Inoue holds the patent for multi-screen arcade cabinets, but on a recent trip to Tokyo, Adam finds a machine with THREE monitors that predates X-Men by 5 years! The boys get…
S2E21 Brothers helping Brothers Part Deux
Adam makes some forward progress by contacting the Blaustein brothers - Jeremy who worked as a voice director and localization director at Konami in Tokyo, and Michael who was a producer at Konami in…
S2E20 The Fukami Probability Wave
The boys celebrate Andrew's birthday in true "Searching for Grog" style with M.Bison and Rhinox. Adam gets a surprising email from composer Kenichiro Fukui, and the boys employ the classic search and…
S2E19 Double Agent Wall-Clock
Adam talks to the X-Men developers to figure out why the credits are such a mess, why Lethal Enforcers director Y. Hatano is thanked in the credits, and the back story behind the classic line…
S2E18 Devourer of Worlds
The boys circle the wagons to check in on their progress. Norton has another swing and a miss, Brandon hears back from Bill Archer, and Evan regales everyone with the extreme, possibly illegal…
S2E16 Pixel Master Asano Yuji
Adam sits down to talk with Asano Yuji, the artist behind Konami's arcade classics X-Men and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They discuss his past as an animator, the process of creating pixel art in…
S2E15 The Roar Heard 'Round the World
At MAG Fest, the Colossus roar has become a battle cry and a sort of secret-handshake that reverberates through the hallways of the festival. Evan and Adam go in search of the story of this MAG Fest…
S2E14 Da Bears, Da Bears, Da Bulls!
The team divides and conquers - Evan follows up on a lead with a former Konami employee, Andrew chases down a sound producer/talent agent, and Brandon gets in touch with the possible sound engineer…
S2E12 Welcome to "DIE PIGS!"
Evan digs through old Konami games and finds a surprising link between X-Men and Lethal Enforcers. Adam goes down a different path and uncovers some unexpected clues through the world of professional…
S2E13 MAGwest: whiskey socials and DDR
The boys check out MAG-West, the sister festival to the long-running MAG-Fest where the Colossus Roar has become its own cultural meme. Nostalgia abounds with Mario Kart competitions, Dance Dance…
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