Episode 202 – Link: The Faces of Evil (1993)

This week in Your Parents Basement, we’re dealing with janky gameplay and kitschy animation coming to a claysic game series! From 1993, we’re playing Link: The Faces of Evil by Animation Magic for the CD-i.

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TIMESTAMPS

• 0:00 – Intro, which features some of the bizarre audio clips from the game.
• 29:30 – Todd has reasons why this is… The Most Best Game of All-Time! Followed by our usual, fun segments.
• 44:45 – Emails!
• 58:00 – Snifferoo. Next week… DAAAYYYYYYTOOONNNNAAAAAA!!!

SHOW NOTES

• During the show, we mention a cutscene compilation on YouTube. You can find it here.
• Nintendo Life has actually done a good job of covering the Nintendo-Phillips collaboration attempts. They’ve done articles on the (small) rise and fall of the system, and also re-publicized this really in-depth interview with the creator of the games.