PISODE NOTES — Mount Rushmore of Video Games

This week we take it back — way back — to the golden era of GameStop runs, memory cards, split-screen trash talk, and staying up way too late when we had school the next day.

Following last week's Thanksgiving Food Mount Rushmore, we open with a recap of our holiday plates and then move right into the sensory overload of Black Friday — inbox explosions, online deal chaos, and the nostalgia of walking through a packed mall like it was 2005 again.

That trip to GameStop? It sent us down a memory rabbit hole.

We realized how fast video games have evolved — from PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 to the endless combinations of consoles today — and how the games we grew up on shaped entire eras of childhood, friendship, and identity.

In today’s episode we discu ...