Show Notes This time in A Theater Near You, the team watched a double feature of Road House and Road House, followed by dinner at Texas Road House! How did it all go? Let’s find out!
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On this week’s podcast, Dan and Kris bring you this month’s Alphabet Soup-er Series! It was Kris’s pick for the letter U and he went with UN Squadron for Super NES. This classic Capcom shoot em up was quite different from its arcade counterpart, and is often cited as one of the best Super NES games around. Does it live up to its reputation? Let’s find out!
Then, in Week Old News, Activision delivers some grimy AI slop, but also gives the world more old Tony Hawk games. Plus, Acclaim is apparently back, Nintendo Switch Online gets one of the best games ever made, Suikoden comes to mobile phones, and more!
Finally, Dan still can’t really play as many games as he wants, and Kris has had a headache for the last 3 weeks. But Paper Mario is great, as is the new Daredevil show! Enjoy!
There is a long history of adapting video games to movies, but this might be the first where the director of the game is also the director of the film. So the obvious question is does the film ape the star-studded FMV in the games?
On this week’s podcast, Dan and Kris hop aboard the cartoon express for another classic episode of Mega Man. This one is Bot Transfer, an episode about Mega man and Snake Man switching bodies. It’s got terrible evil plots, spacious airplanes, very large hotel doors, and some “memorable” one-liners. How does it stack up to Zelda and Darkstalkes? Let’s find out!
In Week Old News, a Retro-Bi translator has some weird defenses for plagiarism, Tetris Forever gets two more games, Warner Bros. closes some studios and lays off a bunch of people, and more.
Finally, Dan gives us an update on his health situation, Kris gets courted by local politicians, the guys try the new Neo Geo game Vengeance Hunters, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
The Star Wars CD-ROM 5-Pack (1990s) Top 10 Unresolved TV Cliffhangers (my old video)
On this week’s podcast, Dan and Kris bring you the February 10 20 30 40 for 2025, and it’s a doozie. Some truly barren release schedules are saved by some fun mispronunciations on Kris’s part, as well as some genuinely great months for some handhelds, and the end days of the 16-bit console wars. Just how bad did things get during the US video game crash? Let’s find out!
In Week Old News, Switch games prove to be more fireproof than anyone expected, more industry layoffs make everyone sad, but then Devolver Digital released a trailer for a game called Shotgun Cop Man, and smiles returned. Also, Nintendo sued the crap out of a company for ripping off Pokemon, so that was fun.
Finally, Dan got himself a new car, we read some excellent listener mail, define the term “guilty pleasures,” discuss the ending of Stray, and a whole lot more. Enjoy!
On this month’s episode of This Week’s Episode, Kris takes us to a galaxy far, far away with the first season of Star Wars - Skelton Crew. Evan swings in with the new Spider-man cartoon, Angie is still catching up with From and Karen watches kids beat the crap outta each other on Cobra Kai. All this and so much more!
Show Notes This time in A Theater Near You, the team watched Quigley Down Under, a movie where Tom Selelck plays a cowboy in Australia, with some wildly inconsistent tones. And a really cool sniper rifle! Enjoy! Useful Links
On this week’s podcast, Dan’s pick for the Alphabet Soup-er Series was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, a game that Kris has surprisingly never played. How does it hold up? Is the game as good as its soundtrack? How many dumb skateboarding terms can Kris conjure to make it sound like he know what he’s talking about? Let’s find out! Then, in Week Old News, Sony hit us with a rather impressive State of Play, including fresh looks at Monster Hunter, that new Shinobi game, and more. Plus, Jeff Minter reimagines yet another Atari arcade classic, the creator of Dadish is back with an emotionally unstable cactus, PSN’s outage raises preservation questions, and more. Finally, Dan still hasn’ tbeen able to play much since his hands aren’t working all that well, and Kris got hit with a snow day, so his playtime was truncated as well. But he did get to see the new Captain America movie, which was pretty rad. Enjoy!