Back

Explore every episode of the podcast Telling the Tale

Dive into the complete episode list for Telling the Tale. Each episode is cataloged with detailed descriptions, making it easy to find and explore specific topics. Keep track of all episodes from your favorite podcast and never miss a moment of insightful content.

Rows per page:

1–50 of 138

TitlePub. DateDuration
Talking Telling the Tale30 May 202403:24:23

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

Next week, we'll -

The Walking Dead: The Final Season: Ep 4: Take Us Back - TtT14323 May 202401:56:46

Thank you for listening.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

Next week, we'll unpack the last three years and see how we feel. Please join us.

Batman: The Enemy Within: Ep 4: What Ails You - TtT13507 Mar 202400:45:11

Look. This episode (of the show, not the game) is genuinely our worst one. Severe technical issues, de-syncs, bad conversation even. We're putting this one out there for completion's sake. Sorry, but you know, it's a free show. Try paying us, see this episode get better in real time.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week when we'll continue playing Batman: The Enemy Within!!

The Walking Dead: Ep 3: Long Road Ahead - TtT04323 Feb 202202:11:22

We're sad this time.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the fourth episode of The Walking Dead, Around Every Corner.

The Walking Dead: Ep 2: Starved for Help - TtT04216 Feb 202201:33:07

The Walking Dead keeps being good, but look. This episode is gross. So, buyer beware. Still, like I said, it's good. Your call.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the third episode of The Walking Dead, Long Road Ahead.

The Walking Dead: Ep 1: A New Day - TtT04109 Feb 202202:16:12

This one's perrty gurd.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the second episode of The Walking Dead, Starved for Help.

Jurassic Park: The Game - TtT037-04003 Feb 202202:26:01

We're back! And we're beautiful! WE'RE EXQUISITE! WE ARE OPULENT PICTURES OF PERFECTION AND GRACE! I LOVE US. OH MY; WHAT AN HONOR TO BE US. WE ARE SO GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODDDDDDD

...Sorry. This is Jurassic Park: The Game. We've decided to do all four episodes of the game in one large podcast episode for reasons we go into in the episode itself. Again, I'm sorry about earlier. I got carried away.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the first episode of the highly acclaimed The Walking Dead Season 1.

Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 5: OUTATIME - TtT03629 Dec 202101:42:57

HITTING NEW WEIGHT RECORDS HOLY CRAP SO HEAVY

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about Telltale's efforts in the Jurassic Park franchise!

NOTE: We'll be taking the month of January off to recharge and do some planning, so the first episode of Jurassic Park will release some time between late Jan/early Feb. Please understand.

Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 4: Double Visions - TtT03522 Dec 202101:21:15

HEAVY AS HECK

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the final episode of Back to the Future: The Game, "OUTATIME" and give our thoughts!

Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 3: Citizen Brown - TtT03415 Dec 202101:34:14

INCREDIBLY HEAVY

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the fourth episode of Back to the Future: The Game, "Double Visions" and give our thoughts!

Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 2: Get Tannen! - TtT03308 Dec 202101:23:28

SO HEAVY

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the third episode of Back to the Future: The Game, "Citizen Brown" and give our thoughts!

Back to the Future: The Game: Episode 1: It‘s About Time - TtT03201 Dec 202101:38:32

HEAVY

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the second episode of Back to the Future: The Game, "Get Tannen!" and give our thoughts!

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (cases 4-5) - TtT030-3124 Nov 202101:12:11

Too much! We've gone too much full boar. Dustin and Wolfe are each ENTIRE boars. Fully. We're actually talking about CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. We have thoughts! This time, it's more!

This episode of the podcast covers the last two of the five cases contained in the game: "Rough Cut" and "The Big White Lie." Notably, the PS2 version of the game contains one more case, but that case is a preview of this game's sequel, CSI: Hard Evidence, so we'll cover it when we get to that game.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the first episode of Telltale's follow-up to the classic film series Back to the Future: The Game, "It's About Time," and give our thoughts!

Batman: The Enemy Within: Ep 3: Fractured Mask - TtT13429 Feb 202401:36:41

The Brave and the Bold? More like "The Bruce is Now Cold"!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week when we'll continue playing Batman: The Enemy Within!!

CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder (cases 1-3) - TtT027-2917 Nov 202101:14:52

We're doing it. We're going full boar. Dustin and Wolfe are each boars. Fully. We're actually talking about CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder. We have thoughts!

This episode of the podcast covers the first three of the five cases contained in the game: "Pictures at an Execution," "First-Person Shooter," and "Daddy's Girl."

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about Telltale's cases 4 and 5 of CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder give our final thoughts!

Sam & Max: The Devil‘s Playhouse: Episode 5: The City that Dares Not Sleep - TtT02631 Oct 202101:51:45

Happy Halloween and thank you Sam & Max. This is The City that Dares Not Sleep.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about Telltale's first batch of CSI games, CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder.

Sam & Max: The Devil‘s Playhouse: Episode 4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls - TtT02527 Oct 202101:42:53

Dagnab ol' puppets. What's good about puppets? Lie-fueled lumber production? Actually, I guess that's pretty cool. Did you know that in the Disney movie Pinocchio, the whole nose-growing thing was only in it for like one scene for a very small amount of time? It wasn't even a thing about him; it was something the fairy was doing TO him. And then, pretty much any time Pinocchio is referenced in pop-culture, it's the nose thing! As if that's his main thing! Dude was an actor. He had dreams... Well, anyway, this is Beyond the Alley of the Dolls!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the final episode of The Devil's Playhouse, The City that Dares Not Sleep!

Sam & Max: The Devil‘s Playhouse: Episode 3: They Stole Max‘s Brain! - TtT02420 Oct 202101:11:58

We use our brains for so many little things. Like, you just read that. That was your brain! Intense, right? Unfathomable, haha. Yeah, just... just wild. H-yep... Well, anyway, this is They Stole Max's Brain!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the second episode of The Devil's Playhouse, Beyond the Alley of the Dolls!

Sam & Max: The Devil‘s Playhouse: Episode 2: The Tomb of Sammun-Mak - TtT02313 Oct 202100:58:21

Ever been to Egypt? Follow up question: ever watched a movie? Well, anyway, this is The Tomb of Sammun-Mak.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the second episode of The Devil's Playhouse, They Stole Max's Brain!!

Sam & Max: The Devil‘s Playhouse: Episode 1: The Penal Zone - TtT02207 Oct 202101:04:45

Damnnnnnn, it's funny to say "penal zone." One of the funniest things thus far, I'd wager. Well, anyway, this is The Penal Zone.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the second episode of The Devil's Playhouse, The Tomb of Sammun-Mak!

Puzzle Agent 2 - TtT02101 Oct 202100:55:05

Look how short that title is! That's amazing! All of our episode titles so far are WAY too long. This one? Mwah. Short and sweet.

Who's on the moon, gang? Is it gnomes? Probably gnomes. Well, anyway, this is Puzzle Agent 2.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about the first episode of Telltale's final season of Sam & Max, The Penal Zone!

Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent - TtT02022 Sep 202101:37:40

In the entirety of Telltale Games' 14-year-long existence, they only made one series of games with a wholly original, non-adaptation story. What happens when the President of the United States runs out of erasers? Something to do with gnomes? Aww buddy, I super think it's gnome related. No? Well, anyway, this is Nelson Tethers Puzzle Agent.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about this game's sequel, Puzzle Agent 2, next week!

Strong Bad‘s CG4AP: Episode 5: 8-Bit is Enough - TtT01915 Sep 202101:27:27

Video games, you know. We like video games. Dustin draws stuff from them. Wolfe pretends to work on them. Video games. Strong Bad likes video games too. Like Stinkoman 20X6, Peasant's Quest, Snake Boxer 5, Lade Crate Ape, Mista Fixit, Math Kickers feat. The Algebros, Space Circus Catastrophe, Thy Dungeonman, Gel-Arshie's Pro Fruitboarder... Anyway, this is 8-Bit is Enough.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for our next episode where we'll talk about Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent next week!

Strong Bad‘s CG4AP: Episode 4: Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective - TtT01808 Sep 202101:16:01

Wolfe and Dustin are having just the swellest time with Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, and this episode is ridiculous. Pure bananers. Have you ever played a movie? Have you ever watched a game? This is sort of like both those things, but also Dangeresque is there and he's got to get the formula. You know, the formula that makes plants grow good? And also he has to get the rocket's launch codes back from Perducci. And also, he's gotta find Sultry Buttons in Paris. Or maybe it was Tokyo? Or Cairo? Maybe Ireland? And also he's gotta rescue his partner Renaldo. And also he's gotta fight Uzi Bazooka on the sun. And also... Anyway, this is Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the final episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, 8-Bit is Enough, next week!

Batman: The Enemy Within: Ep 2: The Pact - TtT13322 Feb 202401:28:24

Mr. Freeze is in this episode and he's really silly.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week when we'll continue playing Batman: The Enemy Within!!

Strong Bad‘s CG4AP: Episode 3: Baddest of the Bands - TtT01701 Sep 202101:38:27

In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, only the rockingest may thrive. Do Wolfe and Dustin have what it takes to win a battle of the bands? Absolutely not. Wolfe plays trumpet. That's an automatic DQ. Ooh, DQ. Dairy Queen. Haven't been there in a while. They used to have one near me, but it hasn't been there for like a decade. It's not like there aren't ice cream places, but DQ had some specific things like that chocolate drizzle that hardened as soon as it touched the ice cream cone. How did that work? I can never get my chocolate to stick like that. Anyway, this is the Baddest of the Bands.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the penultimate episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, next week!

Strong Bad's CG4AP: Episode 2: Strong Badia the Free - TtT01625 Aug 202101:46:31

War is hell. War is human. War is Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People. This is Strong Badia the Free.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the third episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Baddest of the Bands, next week!

Strong Bad's CG4AP: Episode 1: Homestar Ruiner - TtT01518 Aug 202101:57:12

Wolfe and Dustin love just one thing. 1: Enjoying a cool one at the bar after a hard day's work, 2: expanding our professional networks in satisfying, fulfilling ways, and 3: talking about Homestar Runner. Now, we get to do that third thing. So, join us as we FINALLY get to talk about Homestar Ruiner, the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the second episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Strong Badia the Free, next week!

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 5: What's New Beelzebub? - TtT01411 Aug 202101:21:45

Piss and hell, baby. This one's about hell! Join us for this episode of the Telling the Tale podcast, where we'll talk about the final episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, What's New Beelzebub?!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Homestar Ruiner, next week!

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 4: Chariots of the Dogs - TtT01304 Aug 202101:22:19

Temporal paradox detected.

Please back away from the pod bay doors.

Space.

These aren't the droids you're askin' me about.

Danger, Will Robinson.

Star Trek quotes.

Get out of mah swamp!

...where we talk about the penultimate episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Chariots of the Dogs!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the Telling the Tale feed for the final episode in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, What's New, Beelzebub, next week!

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 3: Night of the Raving Dead - TtT01228 Jul 202101:16:36

Welcome vamps and tramps to this week's episode of Telling the Tale. We've come a long way since we covered Culture Shock three months or so ago, but check it: we're zombies. We've been zombies the whole time. Did we just blow your gourd? I know, right!? It's wild! Dustin and Wolfe (more like "were"wolfe, am I right?) have just been shambling around, sucking brain and feeling no pain. We haven't been shuffling on the mortal coil for a fat minute.

Is that spooky? Is that a scary thing to think about? I bet it is, you lifer [editor's note: "lifer" is a highly derogatory term zombies use for the living. we apologize for its cavalier use in this podcast description]. I bet your timbers are thoroughly shook. Well, if you do have the constitution to read this far into this spooky summary, maybe, JUST MAYBE, you'll have the guts to listen to this episode, where we talk about the third episode of Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Night of the Raving Dead!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for the next episode in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Chariots of the Dogs, next week!

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 2: Moai Better Blues - TtT01121 Jul 202101:14:05

Hmm! Interesting! This is it? This is the episode? Huh! Neat! Well, is it the whole... it is? Cool, I think. It's... hmm! on Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for the next episode in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Night of the Raving Dead, next week!

Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space: Episode 1: Ice Station Santa - TtT01014 Jul 202101:44:33

Wolfe and Dustin, after their poker and Bone vacation, are now eager to jump back into Sam & Max. 'Tis the season, you might say. Because it's the Christmas episode! Sam & Max has a Christmas episode, we love these. How will Sam & Max's second season (also known as "Beyond Time and Space") fair against the highs of season one? We'll take a look at its first episode, Ice Station Santa, right here, right now, on Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for the next episode in Sam & Max Beyond Time and Space, Moai Better Blues, next week!

Bone: The Great Cow Race - TtT00907 Jul 202101:09:30

bonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebonebo

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode where we'll return to the world of Sam & Max with the first episode of their second season with Telltale: Ice Station Santa!

Bone: Out from Boneville - TtT00830 Jun 202101:25:09

While Sam & Max is where Telltale Games first acquired its fame within the industry, it was not their first attempt at the adventure game genre. That would be Bone. On this episode of Telling the Tale, Wolfe and Dustin will be covering Bone: Out from Boneville, the first of Telltale's two Bone game episodes. Technically these aren't episodes? They were marketed as their own full games. But they're clearly episode-length. Also technically, it's "Bone... Out from Boneville" with a big space after the word "Bone." But it's WAY more fun to say "bone out from boneville" as if "boning out" is a cool skateboarding trick and a "boneville" is a cool skateboarding ramp. Always go with what sounds good over what is technically correct. That's writing 101.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on this game's only released sequel, Bone: The Great Cow Race!

Batman: The Enemy Within: Ep 1: The Enigma - TtT13215 Feb 202401:17:17

This John Doe guy is starting to look REAL familiar.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week when we'll continue playing Batman: The Enemy Within!!

Telltale Texas Hold'em - TtT00723 Jun 202100:58:06

Here on Telling the Tale, we're not necessarily covering all of Telltale's work in release order. We want to go roughly chronologically (i.e. starting with mostly older things and graduating to mostly later things), but we've reserved the right to hop around back and forth. This, then, is a very special episode as we are covering Telltale's very first game, Telltale Texas Hold'em. It's about poker! It is so very much about poker. It's not about very many other things! Do we, two humble gamespeople who don't know much about poker, have the ability to record a full hour podcast about poker? There's only one way to find out!

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on the Telltale's first adventure game, Bone: Out from Boneville, next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 6: Bright Side of the Moon - TtT00616 Jun 202101:43:08

It's a Max, Max, Max, Max, Max, Max world on this week's episode of Telling the Tale. Wolfe and Dustin have wrapped up their playthroughs of Sam & Max Save the World and at least one of them has a lot of feelings on the secret identity of the season's villain. Is it super problematic? Is it super problematic, but that's okay? Is it super problematic and not okay, but we shouldn't really be the voices on it as two straight, white men? We don't know; we're two straight white men.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on the Telltale's first ever game, Telltale Texas Hold'em, next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 5: Reality 2.0 - TtT00509 Jun 202101:22:21

"We heard you like video games so we put a video game in your video game." - Ed Hibition on this week's episode of Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on the exciting finale of Sam & Max Save the World, "Bad Side of the Moon," next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 4: Abe Lincoln Must Die! - TtT00402 Jun 202101:14:00

It's time for a very special political episode. Watch us bob and weave through Bush-era-specific presidential humor and emerge without a scratch. This episode marks an increase in episode-scope at the ol' Telltale factories, and Wolfe and Dustin definitely have some thoughts about what that means for the future of Sam & Max. All that and more in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on Episode 5 of Sam & Max Save the World, Reality 2.0, next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 3: The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball - TtT00327 May 202101:14:14

Check it out: mob stuff. This is the mob episode! Sam and Max can't GET enough mob style hijinx going on. All your leaning on folks, whacking folks, playin' cards, and general mobliness: all in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on Episode 4 of Sam & Max Save the World, Abe Lincoln Must Die! next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 2: Situation: Comedy - TtT00220 May 202101:14:38

Boy howdy, that there sure is a lot of colons for the name of a video game, huh?

Sam & Max break out into television stardom, so of course Dustin and Wolfe have some thoughts. More than last week, the 2006-ness of Telltale's first season of Sam & Max is starting to show. How do each of the hosts feel about that? Find out in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on Episode 3 of Sam & Max Save the World, The Mole, the Mob, and the Meatball next week!

Sam & Max Save the World: Episode 1: Culture Shock - TtT00112 May 202102:00:35

Wolfe and Dustin kick off the podcast by talking about Culture Shock, the first episode of Telltale's early flagship game, Sam & Max Save the World. How does it hold up in 2021? Is it a good first kick into the mainstream for Telltale? Do children understand what Swiss cheese is? These questions and more are sort-of-answered/sort-of-dodged in this week's episode of Telling the Tale.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And subscribe to the feed for our episode on Episode 2 of Sam & Max Save the World, Situation: Comedy next week!

Telling the Tale - Teaser11 May 202100:03:51

On September 20th of 2018, things were looking good for the employees of Telltale Games. They were nearly finished with the final season of their award-winning episodic video game series, The Walking Dead, and their next-scheduled game, this one based on the show Stranger Things, was primed to be another in their long line of successes. Over the years, they acquired the licenses to make narrative-focused, episodically-released games in a ridiculously large number of franchises. They made games for Homestar Runner, Game of Thrones, and Jurassic Park. They gave Minecraft a “Story Mode.” They managed to get both DC and Marvel under their belt. And, perhaps most impressively, Universal let them make what is essentially Back to the Future 4 with Christopher Lloyd reprising his role as Doc Brown.

In an industry where licensed games, episodic games, and games in the narrative adventure genre were all pretty far away from the image of a typical blockbuster, Telltale Games were an aberration. They filled a niche, but they were the kings of that niche. Counting each episode they released as its own game, Telltale had put out over 130 video games in less than 15 years of being active. That’s a staggering statistic, and the machine showed no signs of slowing.

On September 21st, however, the studio closed for good. Employees were shocked by the news that, not only was Telltale Games apparently NOT doing excellently, but also that they had just 30 minutes to leave their offices. A titan in narrative video game development for nearly a decade and a half: gone in a half hour.

What happened? Was it a major investor suddenly getting cold feet? Was it a culture of work crunch, steadily draining developers of their spirit over the course of years? Was it regular old poor management?

-Dude, I don’t know.

I’m Mitchell Wolfe and I am a game developer, but I never worked at Telltale Games, so I don’t know what happened. What I do know is what happened next. Many of Telltale’s games suddenly disappeared from online retailers. They kind of had to, Telltale was gone. Who would you pay for the game? Where would you download it from? Some titles were saved by groups who were able to purchase their rights from the auctioning off of Telltale’s assets, one such group even acquiring the name “Telltale” and using it to rebrand themselves. Still, not every one of their games survived. If you’d like to play that Back to the Future game with actual Doc Brown, good luck finding it. Video game preservation is in such a difficult spot these days that something as simple as being delisted from Steam or the Playstation Network might be enough to bury a work of art in time forever.

The real tragedy of the fall of Telltale Games is the employees losing their jobs. Especially considering that they were living in the Bay Area [yeesh, that's expensive]. A secondary tragedy is the loss of their work. 

I can’t tell you what happened at Telltale that led to the events of September 21st 2018, but I can tell you about how they spent the previous 14 years. They were making games, and we’re going to talk about every single one of them.

Join my cohosts and me every week on Telling the Tale as we rifle through a collection of games spanning the traditional and the unique; the childish and the grossly mature; the Threepwood and the Strongbad. Every episode of the podcast will cover a different episode of a Telltale game episode that we don’t want to see be made irrelevant by the passage of time. Please point and click on your favorite podcasting app and subscribe to Telling the Tale.

Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2: Ep 5: Above and Beyond - TtT13108 Feb 202401:39:15

I misse Jesse.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week to start Batman: The Enemy Within!!

Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2: Ep 4: Below the Bedrock - TtT13001 Feb 202401:09:01

I really think this episode is some of our best work. That's not even a joke, I just feel really good about this one. The conversation was smooth, the game was interesting, we stay on topic. Good stuff, I think.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week to finish up Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2!!

Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2: Ep 3: Jailhouse Block - TtT12925 Jan 202401:08:02

We get extremely sidetracked on this one... sorry I guess.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week with more Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2!!

Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2: Ep 2: Giant Consequences - TtT12818 Jan 202401:06:02

Maybe Jason Momoa isn't doing this actually.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week with more Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2!!

Minecraft: Story Mode: Season 2: Ep 1: Hero in Residence - TtT12711 Jan 202401:19:08

Jason Momoa is going to do so good at this.

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we come back next week with more Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2!!

Guardians of the Galaxy: Ep 5: Don’t Stop Believin - TtT12621 Dec 202301:16:58

"It sucks that space is this cold! Frick! Frick!!" - Dustin Cornelius Jackson

Mitchell Wolfe on Twitter: @TheWolfeFM

Dustin Jackson on Twitter: @AmazingDJDustin

And please subscribe so that you can catch us when we return in 2024 with Minecraft Story Mode: Season 2!!

© My Podcast Data