Episode 475: What If They Built a Dark Tower and Nobody Came?

Peter Fenzel, Mark Lee, Richard Rosenbaum, and Matthew Wrather are joined by special guest Zack Johnson of Asymmetric, whose new game, West of Loathing, is a comic single-player RPG set in the Old West. Appropriately enough, the panel examines another travesty of the Old West, the film adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series, which stars Idris Elba and Matthew McConaughey. The movie is not good, but the conversation is!

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• The Dark Tower (film): IMDb, Wikipedia
• The Dark Tower Novels on Wikipedia
• “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” Wikipeida; the poem [pdf]
• “Infocom’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy playable for free online” form Engadget
• Bureaucracy from Infocom and Douglas Adams
• Zapcon Arcade and Pinball Convention
• Radio Free Midworld podcast

Episode 475: What If They Built a Dark Tower and Nobody Came? originally appeared on Overthinking It, the site subjecting the popular culture to a level of scrutiny it probably doesn't deserve. [Latest Posts | Podcast (iTunes Link)]