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Geek History Lesson

409: Best Superhero Video Games with Brian Tong

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Tv & Film, Arts, Film History, Visual Arts

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

After years of underwhelming video games based on people’s favorite superheroes, Super Hero Video games have finally become awesome. We're going to pick what we think are the Best Superhero Video Games with special guest Brian Tong (https://twitter.com/briantong). Don't forget to check out Brian's awesome Youtube channel too -- https://www.youtube.com/user/briantong  Huge thanks to Podcorn for sponsoring this episode. Explore sponsorship opportunities and start monetizing your podcast by signing up here: https://podcorn.com/podcasters/ You can purchase signed copies of Jason & Ashley's books like JUPITER JET here: https://www.jasoninman.com/store GHL RECOMMENDED READING from this episode: http://geekhistorylesson.com/recommendedreading Follow the show on TWITTER - https://twitter.com/GHLPodcast Visit our Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/geekhistorylesson You can find Ashley at https://twitter.com/AshleyVRobinson and Jason at https://twitter.com/Jawiin. Thanks for showing up to class today. Class is dismissed!

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0:00.0

Whether it's a simple fight-em-up, a customizable role-playing game, or an open-world adventure,

0:06.5

we finally live in a world of great superhero video games, and we're here to tell you which

0:11.5

ones we think are the best, because Yorkie Kistory lesson is now in session.

0:30.9

Hello, and welcome to Geek History lesson. I'm Jason Powerup in men.

0:35.8

I'm Ashie Victoria Robinson. Welcome to your mind university, because you have stumbled onto

0:40.8

the podcast where we take one character, construct, or video game from popular culture and teach you

0:45.9

everything you need to know about them in about an hour, except this week, because it's a list

0:49.5

episode. That's right. It's a list episode, but everybody loves our list episodes, and you might

0:53.5

be saying yourself, well, what is this list tying into in terms of SEO and pop culture? Well,

0:59.2

if my friends, there's a little movie out there called Sonic the Hedgehog, too. I know he's

1:03.2

not a superhero, but he's appeared in superhero comic books. I would argue he's a fair point.

1:07.6

So we are. That's our tie-in for the best superhero video games. Look, I know it's Lucy Goosey,

1:14.1

but just go with it. But I'll tell you someone who is not Lucy Goosey. That's our guest.

1:19.3

You know him for tech geek and culture on YouTube. You've seen him on DC daily. You've seen him as

1:25.8

the host of this year's consumer electronics show. You've seen his smile on Instagram. He is

1:31.0

Brian Tongue. Welcome to the show, Brian. Woo! What an introduction, y'all. Oh my gosh. Look,

1:36.5

we have we have two generations of DC hosts here. Oh, that is crazy. Oh, that is crazy.

1:42.3

It is crazy. I didn't think about that. Brian is a guest. We wanted to have one for a long time,

1:46.0

so we're super excited because if you've ever watched me play a video game on the internet,

1:49.2

I'm terrible. It's an honor to be here, guys. And the other thing is that, you know,

1:55.4

Wondercon happened and that's, I think, where we actually, the three of us first physically met

2:00.8

for the first time in person. So I thought about that when I was there. We didn't see each

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