Sometimes going the wrong way is a good thing…
Just ask Douglas Groce Corrigan, a pilot who decide to fly in the ‘wrong direction’, and we’re celebrating National Wrong Way Corrigan Day on July 17th. It was on this day, back in 1938, that Corrigan didn’t follow his submitted flight plan, from New York to California. With a dream in his heart and the thought of Charles Lindbergh’s flight to Paris in his head, Corrigan left heading east after encountering heavy clouds and managed to make it to Dublin, Ireland on July 18th. While his license was suspended, Corrigan received a hero’s welcome, complete with ticker tape parades and movie contract to play as himself about his transatlantic flight (“The Flying Irishman”). He still states that “… I got mixed up in the clouds, and I must have flown in the wrong way.”
On this week’s episode, we’re discussing video games in which things went the wrong way: a pet in a creepy mansion, a wayward Paladin charging into a rookery, and a livestream gameplay that went incredibly south. We’re playing tracks from these games along with their covers.
Prepare yourself to go the wrong way…
“The Adventures of Wrong Way Corrigan”
Twitch Plays Pokemon (Bulbapedia)
Track Listing
“Edison Family” – [Maniac Mansion (NES)] – composed by George Sanger
“Maniac Mansion (Edison Family’s Theme)” – covered by Lame Genie
“A Call to Arms” – [World of Warcraft] – composed by Glenn Stafford and James Hayes
“A call to arms HEAVY METAL (World of Warcraft soundtrack)” – covered by Charlie Parra
“Wild Pokemon Battle” – [Pokemon Red] – composed by Junichi Masuda
“Pokemon Red Blue Yellow WILD BATTLE” – covered by ToxicxEternity
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