A Beginner's Guide to Video Games

Triple Click

Maximum Fun

Jason Schreier, Arts, Society & Culture, Video Games, Maddy Myers, Technology, Kirk Hamilton

4.5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

What's a video game? Let's explain! On this very special episode of Triple Click, produced as part of Maximum Fun's Block Party, hosts Kirk Hamilton, Jason Schreier, and Maddy Myers give you a beginner's guide to gaming: the good, the bad, and the pixelated. First, a few definitions of what a "video game" actually is. Then, some recommendations for games you should play if you're just getting started. And finally, our regular bonus segment, One More Thing.

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0:00.0	I'm Maddie Myers, I'm Jason Shire, and I'm Kirk Hamilton, and if you've stopped by
0:08.3	our spot at the vlog party well, grab a controller because we're glad you're here.
0:13.1	Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you.
0:15.4	Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you.
0:18.2	Welcome to TripleClick, where we bring the games to you, all of you, whether you listen
0:21.8	to the show from the start or this is your very first episode, let's get into it.
0:30.0	Hello, and welcome to TripleClick's Maximum Fun Block Party episode, which is kind of like
0:35.6	a regular episode of TripleClick, only it's for Maximum Fun Block Party, which you probably
0:41.0	know about, and maybe you don't know about.
0:43.2	Maybe you're just a TripleClick listener, and you're like, Block Party, what's happening?
0:46.6	This is just the video game podcast that I listen to every week, or maybe you are a new
0:50.6	person who's visiting this show because of Block Party, because that is the idea Block
0:55.3	Party is going on this week, the week of October 11th.
0:59.4	And the idea, I guess, is to treat all of Maximum Fun, the whole network, like it is a big
1:05.7	Block Party, with a bunch of separate houses, and each house has its own theme.
1:09.7	And we all walk out into the street.
1:11.6	Exactly.
1:12.6	Shake hands with each other, and somebody brings hot dogs, and somebody brings pasta salad,
1:16.5	et cetera.
1:17.5	Right, definitely.
1:18.5	There's good social distancing going on if you've had any Block Parties in your neighborhood.
1:21.6	Of course.
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