Worth the Wait | TWIVGH Ep 38 (Oct 5 - 11)

<p>Nintendo dreamed up Metroid Dread around 2005, then shelved it. Fans waited sixteen years to play it. This week, we&#39;re asking whether the wait makes a game better, starting with the Mario sequel that wasn&#39;t really a Mario game.This week we&#39;re covering October 5th through October 11th, and almost every game on the list comes with a wait attached.**Super Mario Bros. 2** finally reaches America, and it&#39;s hiding a secret. **Mortal Kombat** hits arcades and helps give us the ESRB. **Doom II** takes id Software&#39;s shareware sensation to store shelves, and **Final Fantasy III** (yes, it&#39;s really VI) gives the West a villain for the ages. **Jedi Knight** puts a lightsaber in your hand, **Viewtiful Joe** slows down time, **The Orange Box** packs five games into one, **Dishonored** lets you play it your way, and **Alien: Isolation** gives fans the terrifying Alien game they&#39;d been waiting for. And we close on the longest wait of all: **Metroid Dread**, sixteen years from the drawing board to your Switch.Then three deep dives: how **Doom stopped being free**, how Nokia&#39;s **N-Gage** became &quot;the taco phone,&quot; and how a **student project** became **Portal** and stole the spotlight from Half-Life 2.Some things are worth the wait. Some things really aren&#39;t. Save your game, nerds.**📅 Week of October 5 – October 11****Games this week:** 🕹️ Super Mario Bros. 2 — NES (1988) 🕹️ Mortal Kombat — Arcade (1992) 🕹️ Doom II: Hell on Earth — MS-DOS (1994) 🕹️ Final Fantasy III (VI) — Super Nintendo (1994) 🕹️ Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II — PC (1997) 🕹️ Viewtiful Joe — GameCube (2003) 🕹️ The Orange Box — Xbox 360 / PC (2007) 🕹️ Dishonored — PS3 / Xbox 360 / PC (2012) 🕹️ Alien: Isolation — PlayStation / Xbox / PC (2014) 🕹️ Metroid Dread — Nintendo Switch (2021)**Deep dives:** 🎙️ Doom Goes Retail — Doom II leaves shareware behind (Oct 10, 1994) 🎙️ The Taco Phone — Nokia&#39;s N-Gage (Oct 7, 2003) 🎙️ The Cake Is a Lie — from student project to Portal (Oct 10, 2007)— Artwork by MizTink. Music by Shane Mandani (Twitch &amp; Spotify). Written, produced, and hosted by Doug Coleman.👉 Subscribe on YouTube, and follow on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. #VideoGameHistory #RetroGaming #GamingPodcast #MetroidDread #SuperMarioBros2 #Doom #portal Chapter Markers00:00 -- Cold Open — &quot;Was it worth the wait?&quot;02:23 -- Theme by Shane Madani02:40 -- Intro — welcome + this week&#39;s lineup04:54 -- Timeline Intro05:10 -- Timeline: S