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Scandalous Games
Scandalous Games is a video game history podcast that takes a closer look at video game related controversies. Every episode, historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story about a scandalous event from gaming's past to his friends who offer commentary on moral panics, ill-advised advertising campaigns, unusual figures, and any and all topics related to video game scandals and how they shaped the medium. New episodes drop on the first and third Tuesdays of every month! Check out more info, including show notes and sources, at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.
Episodes
82 episodes
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas "Hot Coffee" Mod Remastered, Part 1: Here we go again
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Elford Stephens, Phil Thomas, and Ryan Weaver. We're taking December off for the holiday, so to help you through the season (and hopefully soften the blow of...
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Episode 74
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1:00:03
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Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 4: A BADD end
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Matt Shoemaker, whose new book, Gathering of Gamers: Dungeons & Dragons and Other Games Through Gen Con, is available now through Play Sto...
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Episode 73
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1:04:21
Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 3: Klaatu, barada, nightly news
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Phil Thomas, and Matt Shoemaker, whose new book, Gathering of Gamers: Dungeons & Dragons and Other Games Through Gen Con, is availab...
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Episode 72
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53:31
Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 2: Pat Pulling begins
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and recently-published author Matt Shoemaker, whose new book, Gathering of Gamers: Dungeons & Dragons and Other Games Throug...
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Episode 71
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42:52
Pat Pulling and Bothered About Dungeons & Dragons, Part 1: William Dear's dungeon quest
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and Phil Thomas. We are also joined by a special guest: Matt Shoemaker, who is a game designer, librarian, game historian, and autho...
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Episode 70
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44:54
Uwe Boll's Postal 2, Part 2: Uwe Troll with musical guest: Uwulous-B
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Andy Hunter. We finally wrap up our look at legendary (?) video game movie director Uwe Boll's attempt to make a sequel to his 2007 adaptation...
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Episode 69
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52:26
Uwe Boll's Postal 2, Part 1: The little Kickstarter that could (but didn't)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Andy Hunter. Having learned about Uwe Boll's 2007 adaptation of Postal, we pivot into his attempts to make a film sequel to Running w...
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Episode 68
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1:21:13
Uwe Boll's Postal, Part 2: Uwe's critical disagreement
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Andy Hunter. We wrap up our discussion of Uwe Boll's 2007 film Postal by examining the film's critical and audience reception at the ...
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Episode 67
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30:48
Uwe Boll's Postal, Part 1: Uwe gotta be kidding me
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Andy Hunter. For our first episode coming off Scandalous Games Summer, we stick around the world of movies and take a closer look at Uwe Boll'...
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Episode 66
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51:03
Super Mario Bros. (1993)-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri usually shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends. However, we're taking a few months off for the second annual Scandalous Games Summer, where we offer syncable audio commentaries for video game relat...
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2:00:21
The Wizard-Mentary (Scandalous Games Summer)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri usually shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends. However, we're taking a few months off for the second annual Scandalous Games Summer, where we offer syncable audio commentaries for video game relat...
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1:47:57
John DeCamp, Part 2: A journey from Oklahoma City to Columbine to Qanon
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Andy Hunter. We bring you the thrilling conclusion of our look at John DeCamp, the disgraced former politician/conspiracy monger who sued the ...
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Episode 65
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1:15:58
John DeCamp, Part 1: The conspiracy-pilled lawyer who sued the games industry over Columbine
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. As a new wrongful death lawsuit levied against a video game company looms, we take a closer look at Sanders v. Acclaim, ...
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Episode 64
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1:10:19
Jack Thompson's A Modest Video Game Proposal (Scandalous Games Theater)
In today's installment of Scandalous Games Theatre, Dr. Kevin Impellizeri, PhD, recites Jack Thompson's "A Modest Video Game Proposal," delivered via open letter on October 10, 2005, in which the self proclaimed "only certified sane lawyer in t...
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8:38
2024: A Year of Controversies, Part 2: A year of Pokémania
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Phil Thomas, and Elford Stephens. We finally wrap up our look back at the year of controversies that was 2024. This time around, we look at a who...
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Episode 63
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38:34
2024: A Year of Controversies, Part 1: Helldive, Defend, Depose
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Phil Thomas, and Elford Stephens. We continue looking back at the previous year that was with a sample platter of gaming related controversies th...
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Episode 62
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46:45
2024: A year of layoffs
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch, and Phil Thomas. For our first recording of 2025, we share our favorite gaming experiences from 2024 and take a look at the tumultuo...
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Episode 61
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1:13:41
Postal 2 Remastered, Part 2: The earliest MAGA video game?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. Part Two (of two) of our remastered edition of our deep dive at Postal 2 (Running with Scissors, Whip...
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Episode 60
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1:17:25
Postal 2 Remastered, Part 1: We're doing what with cats!?!?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. We're taking a month off for the holidays, so enjoy part one of a two-part remastered version of our episode o...
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Episode 59
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1:00:33
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 8: A victory lap for college athletes (and college video games)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. We reach the thrilling conclusion of our deep dive into the history of college sports video games and why there...
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Episode 58
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57:51
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 7: Hit sticks and head injuries
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. On Elford's triumphant return, we start looking at the state of college football during the 2010s that led to t...
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Episode 57
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59:42
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 6: Won't somebody please think of the dictators?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and Phil Thomas. Today, we dive into the legal battle over video game likeness rights and how some experts argued the name, image, a...
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Episode 56
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53:38
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 5: The Legend of Jon Dowd
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and Phil Thomas. We've focused a lot on how college sports brings in billions of dollars while the athletes have seen little to none...
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Episode 55
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58:38
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 4: Wherein Kevin ruins college sports for everyone
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. As we get to the bottom of why it took 11 years to get a new college football video game, we take a closer look at how schools an...
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Episode 54
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1:11:28
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 3: A history of college sports video games (1992-2013)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. We start actually talking about video games by diving into 20 years of college sports themed video games and how everybody seemed...
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Episode 53
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1:18:05