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The Video Game Required Reading List: 1985-1989 [The Resties]

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

The Resties Required Reading List returns! Our goal is to curate and contextualize a "must play" list of 25 games released between 1980 to 2020. This week, we've selected games from 1985-1989. Join us as we time travel to the premieres of mega-franchises like Mario, Zelda, Metroid, and Tetris. Let us know what you think of the series and your personal reading list at @thebestiespod on Twitter.

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, my name is Chris Bertamas Plant.

0:11.8

My name is Ross Frostek.

0:13.2

Welcome to the Resties, where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.

0:19.0

This week we are talking about the Resties required reading list.

0:25.0

We might have remembered our first episode in this series.

0:29.0

We're back in this time.

0:31.0

We're talking about video games between 1985 and 1989.

0:36.0

And before you run off, before you hit pause and delete this episode,

0:40.0

because you're like, those videos are...

0:42.0

If he loses the list of the podcast right now, I think we've got him.

0:46.0

He wants to go back in time?

0:48.0

Yes.

0:49.0

And he wants to go back in time.

0:51.0

This is the reason that he wants to do that.

0:53.0

And we, the resties, are collecting a list of 25 games from Pac-Man to modern days.

1:00.0

That's 1980 to 2020.

1:02.0

Each episode will focus on five years of video game history.

1:06.0

85 to 89 is actually five years.

1:08.0

It kind of breaks your brain because you think it's 85 to 90.

1:11.0

But it's not.

1:12.0

It's 85 to 89.

1:14.0

Each of these episodes, we will pick between one to three games from each kind of section.

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