The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast

The Classic Gamers Guild Podcast

A Point & Click Adventure Game Podcast, Classic & Modern- New episodes every other Tuesday!

Episodes

November 11, 2025 78 mins

This week Anna and Paul played Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire and as per the rules of podcasting, they're going to talk into microphones, at you, for quite some time—largely staying on topic while occasionally wandering into a narrative side quest, as to create a more layered listening experience for you, the listener. I have no idea what I'm even saying at this point, Mangia!

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out n...

Mark as Played

Anna hits the floor at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, or as she and her late friend Roberta always called it, the PGRE. It’s a weekend overflowing with nostalgia, laughter, and the kind of serendipity that only happens when you pack decades of gaming history under one roof.

This episode brings you the voices and moments that defined the show: Al Lowe sharing stories from his Sierra days, Lori and Corey Cole reminiscing about Quest...

Mark as Played

This week Anna and Paul are joined by Michael aka YakWaxLips! We're discussing the new Adventure Game Merch Store, the state of modern adventure games, how to market adventure games and support devs, the legacy of LucasArts in modern adventure games, and his opinion of Gabriel Knight, as a LucasArts mega fan. Mangia!

 

Shek out YakWaxLips on Youtube

Grab a Phantom Fellows shirt or mug at AdventureGameMerch.com !

 

Play our adventur...

Mark as Played
September 30, 2025 224 mins

This week Anna and Paul are joined by OneShortEye and they go on the deepest of dives into The Dagger Of Amon Ra! OneShortEye has just concluded a proper digital archeological dig on the game for his upcoming documentary and he brought all of the weird and wonderful finds to share with us. Mangia!

 

Shek out OneShortEye's Youtube Channel

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

Mac...

Mark as Played
September 16, 2025 84 mins

This week Anna and Paul played say it with me, Echo Quest! Paul enjoyed it whereas Anna didn't appreciate the message citing "our flat earth is clean enough!". Okay fine she didn't. But she does say other things MANGIA!

Grab a Phantom Fellows shirt or mug at AdventureGameMerch.com !

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

Mac App Store

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQue...

Mark as Played
September 2, 2025 81 mins

This week Anna and Paul are reunited and they kick things off with some story time about where Paul has been, thennn they get into the 1991 Jim Wall's adventure "Blue Force". It's one of those games a lot of us flagged as "one day I'll play that" knowing very well that day will never come, so press play and let them walk you through it instead. Mangia!

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

F...

Mark as Played

This three-part BONUS episode honors our friend Roberta Vaughan and celebrates the upcoming live debut of Error 47—a tribute band performing all together for the first time this fall.

Part One features Jackie, Sarah, Jon Paul, Erik, and Mick, some of the members of the band, as they reflect on Roberta’s legacy, how the project came together, and what it’s like preparing for a live show as a group of longtime friends, collaborators,...

Mark as Played

This week on the Classic Gamers Guild Podcast, we step into the afterlife, but not the peaceful kind. Anna, one half of the CGG Podcast, sits down with Rubén López, one half of Aruma Studios, to talk about their upcoming point-and-click adventure Shadows of the Afterland. If their debut Intruder in Antiquonia was about memory and resisting modernity, this one’s about being dead before you’re even born, and trying to change your des...

Mark as Played
August 5, 2025 54 mins

This week, Anna runs a solo mission straight into the fog, Fogtown, that is. She’s joined by Sean Parker, the puppet-wrangling, genre-bending mastermind behind Fogtown, the only detective story brave enough to ask: what if a puppet version of Sherlock Holmes had imposter syndrome, a spatula sword, and a head that occasionally falls off?

We talk about how the pandemic turned a scrappy puppet TV show idea into a fully modular FMV gam...

Mark as Played

This week Paul played Sierra's black sheep, what some call the rite, or maybe right, of passage for the clinically obsessed adventure gamer... it's Codename: Iceman. He's gonna walk you through it so you don't have to play it, while switching vehemently between 'you should play it' and 'you absolutely should not'- it's quite a rollercoster of confused emotions and misguided angst. Honestly, I think he... I think he actually had FUN...

Mark as Played
July 8, 2025 66 mins

This Week Anna talks about non-adventure games that feel adventurous, and Paul is a cynical bastard about each one them, the entire time. Mangia!

 

Shek out Emil's awesome, new old-school FPS Reverend!

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

Mac App Store

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest!

The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)

 

 

Shek ou...

Mark as Played
June 24, 2025 33 mins

This Week Anna and Paul ask themselves "Would You Rather..." and of course it's based on Adventure Game whatevers. Tropes or characters or something idk, look the microwave just went off and I can smell my food so naturally I've lost interest in writing this. MANGIA!

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

Mac App Store

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest!

The Phantom ...

Mark as Played
June 10, 2025 78 mins

This Week Anna & Paul played Freddy Pharkas Frontier Pharmacist and when you listen to them talk about it, you're gonna be like wow, they sure did. MANGIA!

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

Mac App Store

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQuest!

The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)

 

 

Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspo...

Mark as Played

This Week Anna & Paul played Quest For Glory! And honestly, I can't focus on writing this because I've got that song in my head that's all 🎶 I NEED A HERO Something something into the night 🎵 And he's gotta be fast and it would nice if he was strong and I'd really just like someone who would listen to me about my day  🎵 Anyway it's something like that. But also, we played this game and now we're gonna talk about it. MANGIA!

...

Mark as Played
May 13, 2025 51 mins

This Week Anna & Paul are combing through the Yearbook from Point 'n Click High, and deciding things like: Who had the best hair? Who's the class clown? Who has the most punchable face? Who had the best death animation? 

It kinda starts as more Yearbook trope kinda questions and then transforms into general award-show style questions but it's a good time, you'll see, you'll all see. Or I guess hear- whatever, MANGIA!

 

The Phan...

Mark as Played

This Week Anna & Paul are like, here lemme just give you an example, this is the episode:

Larry Laffer vs Roger Wilco - Who are you choosing to babysit your kid?

Gabriel Knight vs. Indiana Jones - Who's the best smooth talker?

Laura Bow vs Grace Nakamura - Who figures out a supernatural mystery faster?

 

It's a lotta that. And it's a lotta fun, MANGIA!

 

The Phantom Fellows Players Companion (Guide to Must-See Moments!)

 

Play ...

Mark as Played
April 15, 2025 138 mins

This week Anna & Paul are talking—wait, is that a good name for the episode? I was kinda thinking "Pixels and Personas" but that sounded kinda vague, but maybe it's more mysterious which I think you want for catchy episode titles. Whatever. This week they're talking about Archetypes—first they lay out the different archetypes using pop-culture and words, then they assign the most iconic adventure game characters atheir fitting ...

Mark as Played
April 1, 2025 81 mins

This week Anna & Paul are talking about the most adventurous adventure games! The ones that aren't just an adventure by genre but that make you feel like you're on a grand adventure! They've broken it down into categories such as globe trotting/grab your passport adventures, adventures that take place over one crazy day, and more! So grab some gummy bears and rice cakes and mangia!

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQues...

Mark as Played
March 18, 2025 60 mins

This week Anna & Paul are talking about non-adventure games, for some reason. Oh, Paul was supposed to say, for his first pick, "Astro Chicken" and he formally regrets forgetting this very so-so joke. See cos, that's in an adventure game and so it represents his hesitation to embrace anything outside of the adventure genre. 

I'm glad I explained it, it's for sure funnier now. Mangia!

 

The Phantom Fellows Pin/Magnet by CanvasQu...

Mark as Played
March 4, 2025 45 mins

This week Anna & Paul are talking about patches, mods, things and stuff! 

 

Come for the things, stay for the stuff. Mangia!

 

Play our adventure game! The Phantom Fellows is out now!

GOG 

Steam 

itch.io

Fireflower  

 

Shek out our friends in the Adventure Game Hotspot Network:

Space Quest Historian's The 7th Guest and The 11th Hour - do they deserve better?

Adventure Game Geek's My Games of the Year 2024 (feat. Paul & The ...

Mark as Played

Popular Podcasts

    I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!

    Ruthie's Table 4

    For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com

    The Joe Rogan Experience

    The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.

    The Breakfast Club

    The World's Most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, With DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, And Charlamagne Tha God!

    Stuff You Should Know

    If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.

Advertise With Us
Music, radio and podcasts, all free. Listen online or download the iHeart App.

Connect

© 2025 iHeartMedia, Inc.