Maximum Utcast - 17 - Lovish-ing the Journey to the West

About this episode

The episode explores the kusoge game Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken and features an interview with developer Matt Kap about his game Lovish.

On this jam packed episode of Maximum Utcast we're digging into the kusoge Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken, a Famicom game based on the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West that is sometimes known as the ultimate crappy game. Along the way we discover secret vaginas and penises that have infiltrated games for dozens of years. Later, Jonathan talks with Matt Kap (Castle in the Darkness 2, Astalon: Tears of the Earth), developer of Lovish about his love of little blue knights. We get a little extra information about Jonathan's experiences with Love Eternal (SPOILER WARNING!) and in the post-show, Daniel practices some vocal warmups. 0:00:00 - Air Bud Returns 0:09:24 - The Clairvoyance of Rutherford B. Hayes 0:10:45 - Kusoge - Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken 0:25:17 - Vagina Today, Vagina Tomorrow 0:29:14 - All is Full of Lovish with Matt Kap 1:01:30 - Special Thanks, Jonathan Holmes 1:08:04 - A Quick Love Eternal Update 1:11:10 - Wrap Up/Plugs/Thanks Patrons! 1:19:23 - Vagina 1:21:04 - Vocal Warmup LABS Website: http://www.mattkap.net/labs/ Matt Kap on Twitter: https://x.com/MattKap1 Zoey on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/adzuken.bsky.social Jonathan on Bluesky…

People in this episode

Hosts: Zoey, Jonathan, Daniel

Guest: Matt Kap

Topics covered

• kusoge games
• Journey to the West
• game development
• interview
• video game history
• Love Eternal
• vocal warmups

Keywords

• kusoge
• Ganso Saiyūki
• Journey to the West
• Matt Kap
• Love Eternal
• video games
• interview
• vocal warmups

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Castle in the Darkness 2, Astalon: Tears of the Earth

Books & works: Ganso Saiyūki: Super Monkey Daibōken, Journey to the West, Love Eternal

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