Episode #79 - Fear and Loading in Las Vegas

About this episode

The episode explores surreal gaming experiences related to gambling in various video games.

When was the last time you took a drug-fueled surreal road trip to Las Vegas with your attorney to chase the American Dream? If the answer is never then welcome to bat country because we are about to take you on a ride. Oh wait, did you think we meant ACTUAL Las Vegas? Sorry but we only like to place bets in casinos of the pixel and polygon variety. In today's episode we are going full method Johnny Depp and talking poker, slots and roulette in games from Sonic, Fallout and Cuphead just to name a few.

People in this episode

Hosts: Dan, Nick

Topics covered

• drug-fueled road trip
• Las Vegas
• American Dream
• poker
• slots
• roulette
• video games

Keywords

• Las Vegas
• poker
• slots
• roulette
• Sonic
• Fallout
• Cuphead
• video games
• American Dream
• drug trip

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Sonic, Fallout, Cuphead

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