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Similar topic explored in videos from a friend of mine I call the "Adventure Game sommelier," because he's played so many of them and can recommend you one for precisely your needs. The first

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOPiSYUSrQ0

and the second, which is one of my favorite videos of all time (if you only watch one, I'd pick this one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMVl5U3SlS0

I think he mentions Old Man Murray's piece in the second!

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Sierra's Thexder haunted me for years, because I couldn't understand the tinny Japanese at the start of it at all or even tell what language that was, but I remembered the sound from playing it on an Apple ][ GS as a kid despite that.

Just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si_iveNrUPo

And tell me if you can hear "Siera ga ookuri suru Thexder" (Thexder presented by Sierra) there. Even now, at most I can make out Sierra and a distorted bit of Thexder, even knowing how Thexder is rendered into katakana.

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