Welcome to another edition of Protuckus Split Screen, the show where we tackle video games, one very specific topic at a time.

I will be your host today.

I am Ash Parrish, and I am joined by my always and ever co-host, Nathan Grayson.

Say hey, Nathan.

Hey.

Today we have a special guest.

We have John Walker, who is summing in for Fahey, who unfortunately does not feel well today.

We hope you get better soon, Fahey, but we have replaced you with someone who has just as nice

as speaking voice as you are and who is old and knows every little video game that has ever been

made. Say hi, John. How you doing? Hello. Glad to have you. I know this has been something we've

been talking about internally, not with you around for a long time, so I'm glad you're here.

I've been long plotting phase down for so I could take his position.

Kotaku can only have one person with a cool voice on staff at time.

So, you know, you guys have to fight it out.

Yeah.

So speaking of fighting it out, today's topic will be discussing survival,

as in survival of the fittest and survival mechanics in video games and general survival games just in general.

I do not play a lot of survival video games, but I have, some of them I like, some of them I don't.

Some of them I think are survival video games that probably wouldn't pass the sniff test on that, but I'm just going to classify them that way because I can and you can't tell me I can't.

So we're going to start our podcast discussing the history of survival video games, like where they came from and how did they originate?

Nathan, I think you have a list. There's a list somewhere, I'm told.

I do have a list. I painstakingly compiled it last night because sometimes during the pandemic,

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