The Childish Terror of Wizpig -- Designing For Nostalgia

Designing For is a series which looks at a level, boss, or theme in gaming and analyzes the core message of it. In this episode, we break down the final boss of Diddy Kong Racing, Wizpig, and how such a stupid villain manages to be scary, challenging, and invoke the simple joys of growing up and facing challenges as a kid that we all faced, invoking his own, weird, but special brand of nostalgia.

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Director/Writer/Voice Over/Footage: Tommy Eyler/Pyrrhickong (  / pyrrhickong  )

Video Editing/Additional Direction/Script Editing: AuthorMan (   / authorman  )

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Also check out our full breakdown on Diddy Kong, and how the little guy went from a video game nobody to a headliner of the whole video game world, and how time's made that all come crashing down again -    • The Forgotten Heroism Of Diddy Kong  

Or our episode on Crash Team Racing Nitro Fueled, and how its new tracks toy with and improve upon the previous game's deeper mechanics -    • Crash Team Racing: Nitro-Fueled's Twilight...  

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