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Scandalous Games
Scandalous Games is a video game history podcast that takes a closer look at video game related controversies. Every episode, historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story about a scandalous event from gaming's past to his friends who offer commentary on moral panics, ill-advised advertising campaigns, unusual figures, and any and all topics related to video game scandals and how they shaped the medium. New episodes drop on the first and third Tuesdays of every month! Check out more info, including show notes and sources, at http://scandalousgamespodcast.wordpress.com.
Episodes
70 episodes
John DeCamp, Part 1: The conspiracy-pilled lawyer who sued the games industry over Columbine
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. As a new wrongful death lawsuit levied against a video game company looms, we take a closer look at Sanders v. Acclaim, ...
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Episode 63
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1:10:19
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Jack Thompson's A Modest Video Game Proposal (Scandalous Games Theater)
In today's installment of Scandalous Games Theatre, Dr. Kevin Impellizeri, PhD, recites Jack Thompson's "A Modest Video Game Proposal," delivered via open letter on October 10, 2005, in which the self proclaimed "only certified sane lawyer in t...
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8:38
2024: A Year of Controversies, Part 2: A year of Pokémania
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Phil Thomas, and Elford Stephens. We finally wrap up our look back at the year of controversies that was 2024. This time around, we look at a who...
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Episode 62
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38:34
2024: A Year of Controversies, Part 1: Helldive, Defend, Depose
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Phil Thomas, and Elford Stephens. We continue looking back at the previous year that was with a sample platter of gaming related controversies th...
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Episode 61
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46:45
2024: A year of layoffs
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch, and Phil Thomas. For our first recording of 2025, we share our favorite gaming experiences from 2024 and take a look at the tumultuo...
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Episode 60
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1:13:41
Postal 2 Remastered, Part 2: The earliest MAGA video game?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. Part Two (of two) of our remastered edition of our deep dive at Postal 2 (Running with Scissors, Whip...
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Episode 59
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1:17:25
Postal 2 Remastered, Part 1: We're doing what with cats!?!?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. We're taking a month off for the holidays, so enjoy part one of a two-part remastered version of our episode o...
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Episode 58
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1:00:33
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 8: A victory lap for college athletes (and college video games)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. We reach the thrilling conclusion of our deep dive into the history of college sports video games and why there...
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Episode 57
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57:51
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 7: Hit sticks and head injuries
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Elford Stephens, and Phil Thomas. On Elford's triumphant return, we start looking at the state of college football during the 2010s that led to t...
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Episode 56
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59:42
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 6: Won't somebody please think of the dictators?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and Phil Thomas. Today, we dive into the legal battle over video game likeness rights and how some experts argued the name, image, a...
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Episode 55
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53:38
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 5: The Legend of Jon Dowd
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, Andy Hunter, and Phil Thomas. We've focused a lot on how college sports brings in billions of dollars while the athletes have seen little to none...
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Episode 54
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58:38
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 4: Wherein Kevin ruins college sports for everyone
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. As we get to the bottom of why it took 11 years to get a new college football video game, we take a closer look at how schools an...
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Episode 53
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1:11:28
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 3: A history of college sports video games (1992-2013)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. We start actually talking about video games by diving into 20 years of college sports themed video games and how everybody seemed...
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Episode 52
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1:18:05
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 2: The Scandalous Games Bowl presented by Scandalcoin
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. We've covered the early history of college sports and the creation of the NCAA. Now we look at how college football became a mult...
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Episode 51
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1:04:11
The NCAA Video Game Lawsuits, Part 1: The Grim Reaper Smiles on the Goalposts
Hooray for our 50th episode! Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. It's the start of the college football season in America, and we are weeks into the launch of EA...
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Episode 50
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54:45
Monster Hunter-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Phil Thomas, and Kate Lynch. We're still in the midst of Scandalous Games Summer as Kevin prepares for another exciting series of video ...
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1:55:06
Street Fighter-mentary (Scandalous Games Summer)
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends, but this month we're celebrating the start of our third year and the end of our 14-part (!!!) series on Dave Grossman with something we're calling "Scandalou...
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1:55:41
"Killology" "Expert" Dave Grossman, Part 14: All conclusions are bastards
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch, and Phil Thomas. At long last, we have finally made it to the final episode in our extremely deep dive into the self-proclaimed "kil...
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Episode 49
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1:06:10
"Killology" "Expert" Dave Grossman, Part 13: The level-headed trainer of America's cops
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Kate Lynch, and Phil Thomas. This time around, we finally start wrapping up our deep dive into Dave by learning about his career as a police trainer an...
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Episode 49
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47:58
"Killology" "Expert" Dave Grossman, Part 12: You can't spell "discredited research" without "research"
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch, and Phil Thomas. We continue looking at what Dave has been up to over the past decade and how the self-proclaimed killologist may be...
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Episode 48
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57:07
"Killology" "Expert" Dave Grossman, Part 11: An extended rant about police-branded coffee
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch and Phil Thomas. We leave the quirky little town of Harvest to continue our look into the self-proclaimed "killologist" Dave Grossman...
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Episode 47
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57:07
Interview with Aarno Malin ("The Harvester Show")
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends. This time, we wrap up Harvester with an interview with Aarno Malin, host of "The Harvester Show" and the Harvester Facebook page. Aarno graciously shared his...
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29:22
Harvester, Part Three: What if you threw a controversy and nobody came?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter and Kate Lynch. Today, it's the thrilling conclusion to our look into the over-the-top PC game Harvester (DigiFX, Merit Stud...
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Episode 46
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52:48
Harvester, Part Two: The "The Birth of a Nation" of Video Games?
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter and Kate Lynch. This time, we continue our deep dive into the wild horror themed point-and-click adventure game Harvester (DigiFX,...
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Episode 45
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29:38
Harvester, Part One: The Violent Computer Game Inspired by Roadrunner Cartoons
Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Andy Hunter, Kate Lynch, and Elford Stephens. This month, we take another break from the "killologist" to take a closer look at the wildest 90s PC game you m...
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Episode 44
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58:16