How Did This Get Played? is an audio podcast that follows Heather Anne Campbell and Nick Wiger as they review the worst and weirdest video games of all time.[1]
Each episode focuses on a particular game and includes a guest, often people from the comedy world who also have an interest in video games. The co-hosts, producer Matt Apodaca, and guest(s) play the game ahead of the episode, then talk about the experience, the community and context surrounding the game. The hosts and guest(s) give their reviews of the game, and read contrary reviews of the game found online. Each week 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 the discussion as podcast network Earwolf's How Did This Get Made?, a podcast celebrating bad movies.[2] 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.[3]
