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Episode 62: The Best Racing Games

Racing fever is in the air and we've both got a need for speed this week so Deucy and I are sharing some of our favorite racing and driving games! Both of us have played a lot of racing games over the last...35 years.. and we've rounded up some classics like R.C. Pro-Am and some more modern games like Forza Horizon and Split/Second that had us glued to our seats for hours. I definitely lean more on the arcade racer side and Deucy moreso on simulation racers so we've got a pretty awesome episode no matter what you prefer. Strap in for the ride and then let us know what some of YOUR favorite racers are!
 
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Episode 61: Bond Games Finale - The Rise and Fall of 007 (2001 - 2012)

We're concluding our Bond anthology and covering 007's final decade in the gaming world. EA undertook a huge task trying to follow up Goldeneye after it set  the console gaming on fire and they actually made some great games! Deucy and I revisit the last of the Bond games starting with 2001's arcadey-but-still-awesome Agent Under Fire which led to the best games Bond would ever see with Nightfire, Everything or Nothing, and From Russia with Love - but things got really interesting when the Activision era started with Quantum of Solace. We cover the tumultuous history of Bond games, especially leading into the final near-disaster that was 007 Legends.
0:00 - Episode start and what we've been playing
24:18 - Topic start
 
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Episode 60: Goldeneye (N64) - Changing Console Gaming Forever (with Vito and Randy)

We covered the first era of James Bond games in Episode 57 and there's no way we couldn't dedicate an entire episode to Goldeneye! We invited Vito and Randy to revisit one of the N64's most legendary and influential games. Goldeneye is synonymous with console gaming and multiplayer and we talk about how it started off as a Virtua Cop-like rail shooter before it evolved into one of the most iconic first person shooters in history.
 
0:00 - What we've been playing and Switch 2 preorders
23:33 - Goldeneye start
 
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Episode 59: WWF & WCW Wrestling Games on the N64 and PS1 (with Mike)

FINALLY, we have come BACK with another wrestling episode! Wrestlemania has passed and we thought we'd go on our own road to nostalgia and cover all of the PS1/N64 WCW & WWF wrestling games. We're go through 14 games released between 1996 and 2000 start with WWF: In Your House and WCW vs The World to the truly legendary and hall of fame worthy WWF No Mercy on the N64.  Not everything we talk about today is a slobberknocker, but the three of us had a great time talking about the foundations of today's wrestling games and everything good and bad about wrestling during the late 90's.
 
Join us in two weeks as we invite our friend Vito to talk about one of the most important console games EVER - Goldeneye!
 
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Episode 58: 007 James Bond Games Anthology (1982 - 2000)

We've decided to anthologize all of the James Bond games and this week we're covering releases from 1982 until 2000. Goldeneye on the N64 was the first major 007 game for many people, including us, but Bond had almost 15 years of games before that. We start with the 1982 U.K. only release of 'Shaken But Not Stirred' and all the way through the Twisted Metal/Driver-inspired 007 Racing for PS1 in 2000.
 
Goldeneye is such a massively influential game that we'll be doing a whole deep dive episode - keep an eye our for that in early May and we'll later cover the rest of the Bond games too!
 
0:00 - Intro and what we've been playing and Switch 2 News21:10 - Topic Start
 
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Episode 57: Street Fighter II - The Greatest Fighting Game Series Ever (with Randy & Juan)

Street Fighter II recently celebrated its 34th anniversary and it's one of my favorite series of all time. I grew up with fighting games and none made more of an impact at the arcades and fighting games than Street Fighter II. We invited our friends Randy and Juan to talk about the origins of fighting games, the original Street Fighter and each version of its iconic sequel. SF2 lead to a HUGE boom of fighting games and the four of us share our memories and why this series is still going strong after over 35 years. This game is a special one for all of us so enjoy!
Opening: What we've been playing lately
Main topic: Starts at 15:15
 
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Episode 56: The DEFINITIVE Mario Kart Ranking (with Vito)

Super Mario Kart on the SNES was an instant classic that spawned an iconic series that's spanned over 33 years at this point. Deucy's birthday wish was to rank all of the Mario Kart games and we invited our friend, the 8BitBarrister Vito, to join us! We go through each game in chronological order and share our individual ranks before we total them to score the DEFINITIVE Mario Kart ranking. It's a really fun episode on one of the most beloved series of all time - let us know your rankings are!
 
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Episode 55: Beat 'Em Ups Strike Back

Beat 'em ups have had a huge resurgence in the last five years or so. The genre was at its peak in the early 90's until it slowly fizzled out over the last couple of decades, partly because there wasn't a whole lot of innovation. What's old is eventually new again and we're celebrating "Beat 'Em Ups Strike Back" in this episode as we dive into three games that all have their own legacies from the past - Streets of Rage 4, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Rita's Rewind! SoR4 and TMNT particularly injected new life into the genre and Rita's Rewind is the newest game that went back to it's early 16-bit roots. If you want to revisit our past episode that covered each of these series, check out the list below!
 
Episode 27: Mighty Morphin' Power RangersEpisode 40: The NES TMNT TrilogyEpisode 43: 16-bit TMNT Games + Tournament FightersEpisode 51: Streets of Rage Trilogy
 
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Episode 54: The Most Influential Games.. of ALL TIME (with Randy)

We've got a big episode this week for your (hopefully) long Valentine's weekend! We invited our friend Randy to put together a list of the Most Influential Games... of ALL TIME! The three of us made a list of 15 games each that we thought made a significant impact on gaming decades after they were released. Lots of outlets have done their own lists with some choices that we wouldn't include so we thought we'd 1-Up them in this episode (Sorry Fortnite, we're not going to thank you for FOMO, Battle Passes, CEO's desperate to chase live service games, and microtransactions).  We've got a wide variety of games here and we make a case for why each of these should be on anyone's list and how they've spawned entire genres or continue to influence games decades later. Of course, if you think we missed something or think we made the wrong pick - let us know!
 
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Episode 53: Onimusha: Warlords (PS2) - The Ninja Resident Evil

This week is all about demon-slaying samurai! We were very excited to see Capcom announce Onimusha: Way of the Sword and wanted to give everyone a primer on the original Onimusha: Warlords. Onimusha was an early PS2 game released in March of 2001 (just six months after the U.S. launch of the system) and was originally named "Sengoku Biohazard" as it was a ninja themed Resident Evil game. Deucy and I talk through its development history as a N64 and PS1 game before it shifted to the PS2 and dive into the game itself and how it holds up nearly 24 years later! I've had plenty of experience with this one but this was Deucy's first play so he's got some fresh impressions from the 2019 Remaster.
 
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