Retronauts Micro 050: Fester's Quest

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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If you lived through the NES era, the words "Fester's Quest" likely make you break into a cold sweat. (Sorry about that.) A few years before Raul Julia and Christopher Lloyd danced the Mamushka, kids of the '80s mostly knew The Addams Family via Sunsoft's 8-bit hit and its absolutely unforgiving difficulty. On this episode of Retronauts Micro, join Bob Mackey, Chris Antista, and Henry Gilbert as the crew works through their shared trauma, and uncovers the fascinating history of this odd little game. Be sure to visit our blog at Retronauts.com, and check out our partner site, USgamer, for more great stuff. And if you'd like to send a few bucks our way, head on over to our Patreon page!

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0:00.0	Hello everybody, welcome to a super special spupi edition of RetroNots Micro. I say spupi because it's not actually scary. It's silly and spooky at the same time.
0:18.0	I'm in the laser time bedroom studio who's here with me.
0:21.0	Henry Gilbert, how do you do?
0:23.0	Oh, Gomez Antista.
0:26.0	Gomez Antista, that's a fine Spanish style mustache you're growing there Chris. It's Henry.
0:31.0	Yes, so by the snapping and you know the cover aren't the title of this podcast, you probably realize we're talking about the Addams Family.
0:40.0	But more importantly, we're talking about Festers Quest, which is the first, I believe the first Addams Family game, pre-movie.
0:47.0	2013 Chris and Brett and I maybe Ray was there too. We did a podcast about two LGN games, party the 13th and draws.
0:56.0	This is kind of a sequel. This is our holominiish episode. Festers Quest isn't scary, but it's kind of bad scary.
1:02.0	So I wanted to do an episode about this game because I've got problems with it. It's just astonishing though.
1:09.0	It is. It's really interesting. I mean, for as much as I don't enjoy playing it, I find it a very interesting game to talk about and read about.
1:16.0	I'm trying to find an analog for someone younger than me. Kids, that's like if somebody made a game, a PlayStation 4 game, at a family matters and it's hard Carl Winslow.
1:27.0	That's what else can it say? It's like, it's like, it's like, that's...
1:30.0	This is what... Nobody's favorite character is Uncle Festers.
1:33.0	Well, you know what? It's weird. He would go on in two years after this game to be the center of the movie.
1:39.0	They're finding him in the first movie. Yeah, but he was like the central character, I think.
1:44.0	I guess so. Instead of the play, it was plot-based.
1:46.0	But the timing of it, too, is all off because there wasn't a movie.
1:51.0	Yeah, there wasn't. There wasn't those reruns of a 30. At that time, 25-year-old TV show.
1:57.0	Crazy. And I'm on here primarily because I don't... I was asking you what this game's legacy is. I played it. I got frustrated. I put it down and I never walked.
2:06.0	That was weird. I don't need that in my life. But you were talking about how notorious it was. I am here to make up for Henry.
2:12.0	You did a laser time with us recently about horror comedies.
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