Video Games
Season 3 Episode “Digital Estate Planning”
After Pierce’s father passes, Pierce assumes the inheritance will go to him completely, however a bump in the road named Gilbert (Giancarlo Esposito) informs the study group that Pierce’s father wishes Pierce and his friends to play a long-developed video game, first to win gets all the inheritance.
16-Bit graphics, NPCs with limited personalities, enemies based on a bigot’s perspective of the 70s and Abed hacking the game’s code, finding all the trinkets and easter eggs to help win the game are all here, in a homage to Super Mario World, The Legend Of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, Metroid and many Nintendo Entertainment System games.
Fans of the show have spent years coding a version of this game, evolving since a week after the episode’s premiere to a current version that really goes beyond the show’s scope.
