How Did This Get Played?
How Did This Get Played? is an audio podcast that follows Heather Anne Campbell and Nick Wiger as they review the worst and weirdest video games of all time.[1]
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Language | English |
| Updates | Weekly |
| Length | 60–120 minutes |
| Production | |
| Production | Matt Apodaca |
| Audio format | MP3 |
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| Original release | June 24, 2019 – present |
| Provider | Earwolf |
| Website | www |
Each episode focuses on a particular game and includes a guest, often people from the comedy world who also have an interest in video games. The co-hosts, producer Matt Apodaca, and guest(s) play the game ahead of the episode, then talk about the experience, the community and context surrounding the game. The hosts and guest(s) give their reviews of the game, and read contrary reviews of the game found online. Each week opens with a theme song by engineer Devon Torrey Bryant that remixes music of the game from that week's episode into the show's theme music.
The show takes the same tone of the discussion as podcast network Earwolf's How Did This Get Made?, a podcast celebrating bad movies.[2]
Segments
The show has several featured segments in each episode, including:
Review Crew
In 'Review Crew', the hosts and guests each take turns sharing a positive comment about the game, as well as their own verbal review summary, and a numerical score on a scale from zero to 1 million.[3]
Maybe We’re Wrong
In the 'Maybe We're Wrong' segment (stylized as "Maybe _We Were_ Wrong" in the audio introduction to the segment), the hosts and producer take turns reading positive reviews of that episode's game.
The Question Block
In The Question Block, the hosts read questions from viewers (culled from Twitter) and give their answers, inviting the guest to answer as well.
Episode list
2019
| No. | Episode title | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Sonic 06 with Jordan Morris" | June 24 |
| 2 | "Superman 64 with Adam Conover" | July 1 |
| 3 | "Hatoful Boyfriend with Mano Agapion and Betsy Sodaro" | July 8 |
| 4 | "Dragon's Lair (w/ Magic Tavern)" | July 15 |
| 5 | "Vroom in the Night Sky with Ify Nwadiwe" | July 22 |
| 6 | "Michael Jackson's Moonwalker with Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna" | July 29 |
| 7 | "Series: Your Story Universe: Vanderpump Rules with Sean Clements" | August 5 |
| 8 | "Night Trap with Christine Nangle" | August 12 |
| 9 | "Technocop with Arin Hanson" | August 19 |
| 10 | "Leisure Suit Larry with Eva Anderson" | August 26 |
| 11 | "Quest 64 with The Go Off Kings" | September 2 |
| 12 | "Seaman with Jon Gabrus" | September 9 |
| 13 | "Duke Nukem Forever with Colton Dunn" | September 16 |
| 14 | "Mass Effect: Andromeda (w/ Mark Rennie)" | September 23 |
| 15 | "Zork with Lindsay Katai and Kelly Nugent" | September 30 |
| 16 | "Friday the 13th (w/ Matt Gourley)" | October 7 |
| 17 | "Back in 1995 (w/ Oscar Montoya)" | October 14 |
| 18 | "The Typing of the Dead (w/ Haley Mancini)" | October 21 |
| 19 | "Eternal Champions: Developer's Commentary (w/ William Kier)" | October 28 |
| 20 | "Untitled Goose Game (w/ John Hodgman)" | November 4 |
| 21 | "Shaq Fu (w/ Jason Concepcion)" | November 11 |
| 22 | "My Horse Prince (w/ Erin Whitehead)" | November 18 |
| 23 | "Custer's Revenge (w/ Joey Clift)" | November 25 |
| 24 | "Blues Brothers 2000 (w/ Zac Oyama)" | December 2 |
| 25 | "Oh...Sir! The Hollywood Roast (w/ Cirocco Dunlap)" | December 9 |
| 26 | "Mutant League Football (w/ Carl Tart)" | December 16 |
| 27 | "Christmas Nights (w/ Ashley Esqueda)" | December 23 |
| 28 | "WarioWare Inc. (w/ Alex Berg)" | December 30 |
2020
| No. | Episode title | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | "Minecraft: Story Mode (w/ Dan Harmon)" | January 6 |
| 30 | "Death Stranding" | January 13 |
| 31 | "Shadow the Hedgehog (w/ Jordan Morris)" | January 20 |
| 32 | "Katamari Damacy (w/ Shauna Baker)" | January 27 |
| 33 | "Catherine (w/ Shaun Diston)" | February 3 |
| 34 | "Postal (w/ Jacob Wysocki)" | February 10 |
| 35 | "Kitten Squad (w/ Siobhan Thompson)" | February 17 |
| 36 | "Surgeon Simulator (w/ Will Hines)" | February 24 |
| 37 | "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (w/ Paul Rust)" | March 2 |
| 38 | "Leisure Suit Larry Goes Looking for Love (in Several Wrong Places) (w/ Eva Anderson)" | March 9 |
| 39 | "Garfield Kart (w/ Joey Clift)" | March 16 |
| 40 | "Panty Party (w/ Ify Nwadiwe)" | March 23 |
| 41 | "The Stanley Parable" | March 30 |
| 42 | "Ace of Seafood (w/ Cirocco Dunlap)" | April 6 |
| 43 | "Waterworld" | April 13 |
| 44 | "Everything (w/ Jon Gabrus)" | April 20 |
| 45 | "Animal Crossing: New Horizons (w/ Zach Reino)" | April 27 |
| 46 | "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (w/ Sodapoppin)" | May 4 |
| 47 | "Doki Doki Literature Club (w/ Mary Laws)" | May 11 |
| 48 | "Bart vs the Space Mutants (w/ Bob Mackey & Henry Gilbert)" | May 18 |
| 49 | "Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City (w/ Dave Schilling)" | May 25 |
| 50 | "Street Fighter: The Movie (w/ Jason Mantzoukas & Paul Scheer)" | June 1 |
| 51 | "Inside" | June 8 |
| 52 | "Maneater" | June 15 |
| 53 | "Wattam (w/ Anne Lane)" | June 22 |
| 54 | "The Last of Us: Left Behind" | June 29 |
| 55 | "Hardcore Mecha (w/ Brodie Reed and Cody Ziglar)" | July 6 |
| 56 | "The Last of Us Part II" | July 13 |
| 57 | "Star Wars Episode I: Racer (w/ Lauren Lapkus)" | July 20 |
| 58 | "James Pond: Underwater Agent (w/ Matt Gourley)" | July 27 |
| 59 | "Return of the Obra Dinn (w/ Eva Anderson)" | August 3 |
| 60 | "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (w/ Shaun Diston and Scott Aukerman)" | August 10 |
| 61 | "Undertale (w/ Zac Oyama)" | August 17 |
| 62 | "Deadly Premonition (w/ Oscar Montoya)" | August 24 |
| 63 | "Fall Guys (w/ Jon Mackey)" | August 31 |
| 64 | "Battletoads (w/ Jordan Morris)" | September 7 |
| 65 | "Zombies Ate My Neighbors (w/ Adam Stein)" | September 14 |
| 66 | "Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2" | September 21 |
| 67 | "Ring Fit Adventure (w/ Mary Laws)" | September 28 |
| 68 | "The Twilight Zone (w/ Win Rosenfeld)" | October 5 |
| 69 | "Maniac Mansion (w/ Kelly Nugent)" | October 12 |
| 70 | "Carrion (w/ Arnie Niekamp)" | October 19 |
| 71 | "Among Us (w/ Nick Rutherford)" | October 26 |
| 72 | "Hideo Kojember - Metal Gear" | November 2 |
| 73 | "Hideo Kojember - Snatcher" | November 9 |
| 74 | "Hideo Kojember - Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (w/ Jacquis Neal)" | November 16 |
| 75 | "Hideo Kojember - P.T." | November 23 |
| 76 | "Hideo Kojember - Death Stranding (Part 2) with Gene Park" | November 30 |
| 77 | "Frog Fractions with Mano Agapion & Betsy Sodaro" | December 7 |
| 78 | "Hypnospace Outlaw with Sonja Reid & Aaron Bleyaert" | December 14 |
| 79 | "Bible Adventures with Paul F. Tompkins" | December 21 |
| 80 | "The 2020 How Did This Get Played Game of the Year Awards" | December 28 |
2021
| No. | Episode title | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| 81 | "Yo! Noid with Danielle Radford" | January 4 |
| 82 | "Super Meat Boy with Alex Berg" | January 11 |
| 83 | "What Remains of Edith Finch with Will Hines" | January 18 |
| 84 | "70 Minutes in Gaming Heaven" | January 25 |
| 85 | "Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Joan Ford" | February 1 |
References
- "How Did This Get Played? podcast on Earwolf". www.earwolf.com. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- "'How Did This Get Played' examines the world's most confusing video games". Midroll. May 2, 2019. Retrieved August 10, 2019.
- "How Did This Get Played Scores Chart". Retrieved October 16, 2019.