<p>In this brief introduction episode, we go over the format of the show, announce our first miniseries and discuss our gaming and academic backgrounds a bit.</p>

Mode 7 is a podcast taking a deeper look at your favorite gaming franchises and trying to find the meta stories and messages within. In our series, we will ask questions like "Is the Mother series about the strength of the human condition?", "Can a game be deemed obsolete with the rise of a superior sequel?", and "Is Sonic an anarcho-socialist icon?".