Fun Fact: the Galaga ship is the best assist trophy in Smash Ultimate. It also happens to be the ‘ultimate’ arcade game. At least it is via one co-host’s ranking. Because this week, the LtS crew….

Hop into the Way Back Machine and take a tour of their all-time favorite arcade games!

Then they spring forward to review Ready Player One (the movie)

Discuss VR and the future communal gaming.

But could any video game future be as immersive as our ever-lovin’ arcade nostalgia?!

Special shout out to the musical stylings of Mr. Panu Talus, whose soundtrack from The Way Remastered fuels this episode. Check out the tracks yourself here: https://panutalus.bandcamp.com

“Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You’d think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase ‘Paku-Paku,’ which means to flap one’s mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.” – SP

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