Welcome back to another episode of Spawnpoint! Keza is back from visiting the Nintendo museum in Japan, while Patrick is playing a familiar game: allergies or cold? What they have in common, though, are children who are obsessed with Astro Bot, but they’ve struggled with playing the game in different ways. Plus, while Keza isn’t high on the new Zelda, her children are having a blast. We also talk about the weight jobs and careers have on being a parent, and how ours have impacted our kids.

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Timestamps:

* 00:01:00 — Allergies or sick?

* 00:04:30 — Nintendo’s new museum

* 00:07:30 — Getting into Pokémon cards

* 00:15:00 — Astro Bot + Zelda mania in the house

* 00:36:34 — It’s a Mario Party party

* 00:42:07 — The big question: careers and children

* 00:55:33 — Mailbag

It’s time for another Spawnpoint bonus episode exclusively for Crossplay subscribers, in which Patrick and Keza sit down to discuss one of the few very long video games they’ve played and finished this year, Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma 2. We’re both parents, but why did we prioritize finishing this over, say, any other game? Being a parent means picking and…

Spawnpoint returns, with Patrick Klepek (Crossplay) and Keza MacDonald (The Guardian) mulling over Turkey recently banning Roblox, increasing regulatory scrutiny over video games, and a growing panic among world governments about social media, to ask a seemingly simple question: what do we want them to do about? In the mailbag, we sympathize with a father simply trying to help his kid make reasonable purchases on an Xbox and having to fight through a load of red tape.

Crossplay subscribers get access to episodes early at https://crossplay.news

Timestamps:

* 00:01:05 — Family vacations are complicated

* 00:10:08 — What today’s kids think of the games we played as kids

* 00:30:00 — The Big Question: What do we want governments to do to help us?

* 00:51:30 — Mailbag