How Did This Get Played?

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How Did This Get Played?
Presentation
Hosted by	Heather Anne Campbell Nick Wiger Matt Apodaca
Genre	Comedy
Language	English
Updates	Weekly
Length	60–120 minutes
Production
Production	Matt Apodaca
Audio format	MP3
Publication
Original release	June 24, 2019 (2019-06-24) – present
Provider	Earwolf
Website	www.earwolf.com/show/how-did-this-get-played/

Get Played is an audio podcast that follows Heather Anne Campbell, Nick Wiger and Matt Apodaca as they discuss and review video games, usually focusing on weird or bad games.

Each episode either focuses on a particular game or features general discussion about gaming. The former usually includes one or more guests, often people involved in comedy who also have an interest in video games. The hosts and guests play the game ahead of the episode, then talk about the experience, the community, and the context surrounding the game. The hosts and guests give their reviews of the game, and read contrary and often comedic reviews of the game found online. Each episode opens with a theme song by engineer Devon Torrey Bryant that remixes music of the game from that week's episode into the show's theme music.

The show takes the same tone of discussion as podcast network Earwolf's How Did This Get Made?, a podcast celebrating bad movies.^[1] The show was originally conceived of as a Star Wars podcast, and a pilot episode on that theme was recorded, before it was decided to focus on video games instead.^[2]

Segments[]

The show has several featured segments in each episode, including:

70 Seconds in Video Game Heaven[]

In "70 Seconds in Video Game Heaven", generally one of the three hosts establish what their week in video games has been that they were enjoying.

Review Crew[]

In "Review Crew", the hosts and guests each take turns sharing a positive comment about the game, as well as their own verbal review summary, and a numerical score on a scale from zero to 1 million.^[3]

Maybe We Were Wrong[]

In the "Maybe We Were Wrong" segment, the hosts and producer take turns reading reviews opposite of their own opinions.

The Question Block[]

In "The Question Block", the hosts read questions submitted by listeners and give their answers, inviting the guest to answer as well.

Heather's Hole[]

In the "Heather's Hole" segment, Heather Anne Campbell reaches into the deep, gaping maw that is her video game collection, and retrieves a lesser known title to discuss. The sheer size and nature of Heather's Hole is staggering, it is unlike any segment in broadcast history.

Opening Catchphrases[]

The show's opening begins with a string of catchphrases that developed from several video game encounters and humorous inside jokes that resulted in the show's canon.

Hello Everyone[]

Early in the show, Producer and now Host Matt Apodaca would start the show simply saying "Hello Everyone." For reasons unknown, the audience would become very upset if he did not say "Hello Everyone" precisely this way every time.

Hello Everyone and Welcome Back Bucket[]

After Matt Apodaca would say "Hello Everyone," Heather Anne Cambell would parrot Matt Apodaca because it's fun. After playing "Wattam" and being tickled by the phrase "Welcome Back Bucket," Campbell decided it was too wholesome not to repeat at the top of the show.

Edge[]

During the beginning phases of the show, Nick Wiger became jealous of Campbell and Apodaca with their rein over catchphrases at the top of the show and implored the audience to give him a good idea for a catchphrase. He used the example "Heather and Matt are Cool." The audience subsequently trolled Wiger by suggesting "Heather and Matt are cool" over and over again. Shaun Diston was on the TMNT episode with Scott Aukerman. At some point in the episode, Shaun brings up his previous appearance for the game "Catherine" and how the game will yell "Edge!" during the puzzle portions of the game, much to the gamer's annoyance. Shaun suggested this be Wiger's catchphrase and thus began the start of Wiger's catchphrase.

Episode list[]

2019[]

2020[]

2021[]

References[]

External links[]

• Official website