Ep. 5 - Harvester

Playing Dread

On this episode: Lamont and Adrian discuss violent video games, generational warfare, political propaganda and hegemonic attitudes of gender/sexuality/race as depicted in mainstream media, the nature of art itself, and more. Oh, and Harvester. We also talk about Harvester.

Hosted by Adrian Sandoval & Lamont Williams

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Sources, references and more:

Save Your Game Ep. 18: Duck Detective and Harvester w/ PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp:

https://zencastr.com/z/jHA2YyD8

Game Grumps Harvester playlist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wp1pHyP9h4&list=PLRQGRBgN_Enpcr5DxbIhwHt3A5_Nlg9SH

Harvester Dev interview/Dread XP:

https://www.dreadxp.com/interview/youre-still-a-kidder-steve-michael-napadano-looks-back-on-harvester-at-26/

Harvester dev interview/Austin Gilbert:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/715113205773615/

The full 1993 video game violence hearing/CSpan:

https://www.c-span.org/video/?52848-1/video-game-violence

The Digital Antiquarian Analysis of the Senate Hearings:

https://www.filfre.net/2021/04/the-ratings-game-part-1-a-likely-and-an-unlikely-suspect/

That Mortal Kombat Ad:

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1d88omy/so_real_it_hurts_mortal_kombat_arcade_print_ad/

Wikipedia page for Ken Park (Sorry for what you're about to read - Adrian):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Park

Sega Genesis 'Bully' Ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vjv5LKrOq8&pp=ygUVc2VnYSBidWxseSBjb21tZXJjaWFs

Actual bullying PSA for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_j5TZZnxJE

Troma Entertainment/Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troma_Entertainment

Dartmouth Libraries - Exploitation Films explainer:

https://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/filmgenres/exploitationfilms

I realized I had the opportunity to coin the phrase 'pretensploitation' in this episode when discussing Ken Park and Harvester and missed my window. Dang it.