The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, oh no, I'm stuck. Let's check out Eri—Bomberman '93 as it returns to the TurboGrafx-16. We talk about how Bomberman brings us together and how the Wii truly changed the future of emulation for the better.

This week on The Free Cheese, press the dedicated pill button. Everyone is after us and there's only one way forward. We return to Remedy's roots and celebrate Christmas in New York.

This week on The Free Cheese, a fireside chat—hold the fire. We share some of what video games have made us grateful for and just hang out for a bit.

This week on The Free Cheese, my Shepard. We're putting a team together to save the universe, wanna come? BioWare's sequel to Mass Effect sends us around the known universe to gather a ragtag group of heroes willing to fight to the end to stop the Collectors.

This week on The Free Cheese, everything is always wet. Even if they took Sega from the title it can't stop us from celebrating the history on display in this 2012 kart racer. We share our favorite Sega moments from the game, discuss what Nintendo could learn for its next Mario Kart game, and lay our sights on some new Sega franchises.

This week on The Free Cheese, avoid going outside when it is raining. Grab your coffee and get ready to take a drive across town as we investigate a strange murder in a small town. We're playing and ranking Deadly Premonition after finding it to be quite the surprise title on our list.

This week on The Free Cheese, we only come out at night. Happy Halloween! We take a break from our usual game ranking episodes this season and focus on the greatest holiday of the year with some topic questions and mini games for the panelists. Questions asked this week: What is the best horror video game film adaptation? Have you ever dressed as a video game character for Halloween? What video ga...

This week on The Free Cheese, get on your mask and kill.  On its tenth anniversary, we're revisiting Dennaton Games' Hotline Miami and ranking it on The List. Does the blood-soaked, neon glow of a ten year old indie hit still punch as hard? Tune in to find out.

This week on The Free Cheese, there's zero escape. Wake up, it's time to die. You're in a room and it's filling with water. There's no way out but there are a bunch of keycards. Maybe they mean nothing, maybe they mean everything. We revisit a DS classic this week and rank it with the rest of our games this season.

This week on The Free Cheese, bad crystal combo.  We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Blinx: The Time Sweeper by adding it to The List. We also talk more about the launch of the Xbox and the games that made it. Article referenced at the top of the show: The Alternate Timeline

This week on The Free Cheese, we're going backwards. After ten years of this podcast, we have a lot of memories to share. We look at some of our favorite episodes and ahead at what we hope for in the future.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're driving up a wall, apparently. Midway brings us one of the final games from Boss Game Studios and it's not surprising that this team would eventually build the beginnings of the Forza franchise. We explore some of its contemporaries and check in with what nostalgia can truly do to your memory.

This week on The Free Cheese, stick your tongue out. We're playing one of Nintendo 64's many 3D platformers in the form of Chameleon Twist 2. We compare it to the original title and see how it lines up with other games of the era.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're fighitng ourselves! Let's reach back to an era where superheroes were all the rave and dreams of seeing our favorite comic book characters on the big screen were becoming a reality. No, the time before that. Yeah, the one before that. We play and rank 1995's Genesis exclusive X-Men 2: Clone Wars. Despite its licensed contemporaries that often left us wishing for...

This week on The Free Cheese, 2007 is gonna be a weird year. Nintendo's not-so-trapped-in-Japan-any-longer collaboration with Treasure makes its way onto our list this week. Sin and Punishment explores a dystopian future through the journey of two characters fighting to save it. At times evocative of Metal Gear Solid and Evangelion , this shooting game sure did have a lot to say in 2000.

This week on The Free Cheese, the Midway Knuckle®. How do you reinvent an arcade game for the end of a console generation sitting right on the edge of always-online gaming? Midway Studios San Diego attempted with 2005's Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. Playing as one of the four core classes from the original Gauntlet, we play through several stages fighting waves of enemies, destroying the generators of...

This week on The Free Cheese, oh, I get it. We add another shooting game to the list with Konami's parody of its own Gradius. We talk about how other games were born from the Parodius series and wonder why there has yet to be a modern collection. We weigh the difficulty of enjoying an arcade game both on a console and for ranking on a weekly podcast, and dream of new characters for an inevitable A...

This week on The Free Cheese, there's like, a hole in your head. Just in time for QuakeCon 2022, we add Quake to The List. While we've all been into id Software games and have played a range of games inspired by Quake, we've yet to play all the way through the original campaign. This episode changes that as we learn the secrets within, revisit the history made with Quake, and learn how to rocket j...

This week on The Free Cheese, we should always fear shrimp. What happens when the Ace Combat team makes a Star Fox game? We take on the Aparoids to save the galaxy as Team Star Fox in the Namco-developed Star Fox Assault. We talk about the history of Star Fox games and how many reboots the series has endured so far, and of course wonder where it will go next.

This week on The Free Cheese, time to check the list! We break our list of games from this season into 4 categories and reflect on the choices we've made so far. As we revisit each game, the chance of the list changing entirely rise. Will the list look different in the end or did we get the rankings right the first time?

This week on The Free Cheese, it tastes different than Sprite! We return to an age of mascot platformers with one of the most recognized of the era. Then, we wonder what happened to all of the mascots. Finally, we design video games for mascots who never got the green light.

This week on The Free Cheese, let's save daddy.  Take to the skies and space as Lucia steals a ship and races off to rescue her kidnapped father. This once relic of Mega Drive obscurity is now readily available and it's time we rank it.

This week on The Free Cheese, is that a gnome on your desktop? We celebrate the joy of random satisfaction in Peggle, comparing its multiple releases and sharing experiences we've had with other games like it.

This week on The Free Cheese, get Diddy Kong in the back there for a giant banana. We add another GameCube game to the list and our first kart racer. How does the change to gameplay hold up for Mario Kart all these years later? Does this game have the best course list in the series? Find out the answers to those and more, and be sure to listen in for Matt's eSport Tips® for dominating every track.

This week on The Free Cheese, we need to find the car keys. Stranded on a strange planet, we take control of three lost adventurers and a fleet of tiny creatures to discover cell phones, trash, and delicious fruit. We revisit Pikmin 3 for the Wii U, talk about how it's changed on Nintendo Switch, and of course, rank it with the rest of the games this season.