Fallin‘ Thru Plotholes

In the final part of this miniseries, Alex and Michael talk about the announcement of the Xbox One, the leadup and fallout from E3, and maybe one of the most unfortunate soundbites in video game history.   Youtube version:  https://youtu.be/uT2xC1UL2Dw   Like this episode? Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review! Fallin' Thru Plo...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about the leadup to the Xbox One, from "Always Online" to a new Kinect, bad social media posts and every other way Microsoft shot themselves in the foot.   Youtube version:  https://youtu.be/4PJcETnEddM   Like this episode? Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review! Fallin' Thru Plotholes upda...

In this episode, Alex and Michael take a break from plotlines to discuss the time Microsoft decided that instead of having a cool video game console, what if they decided to torch it all instead? Youtube version:  https://youtu.be/z2-qh5_QMuk Like this episode? Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review! Fallin' Thru Plotholes updat...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about the final 3 years of Destiny, as they discuss The Dark Below, The House of Wolves, The Taken King, and Rise of Iron.  Sadly, only one of those is actually any good.   Like this episode? Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review! Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every week with a new minise...

In this week's episode, Alex and Michael dig into the plot (or lack thereof) of Destiny.   Like this episode? Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review! Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every week with a new miniseries covering various ridiculous video game plots. Let us know what the dumb name of our ghost would be (or whatever othe...

In this episode, Alex and Michael decide to tackle Destiny, the MMO from Bungie that asks the question "what if we stripped out the plot at the absolute last minute?"   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridiculous video g...

In this episode, Michael unfortunately spent 35 hours or so playing Starfield, and had a lot to say to Alex about its pretty terrible writing.     Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridiculous video game plots.

In this episode, Michael tries to convince Alex that the Double Dragon Movie is actually pretty alright as they talk about its plot.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridiculous video game plots.

In this week's episode, Michael gaslights Alex by talking about Double Dragon, the Technos-developed beat-em-up that reached sky-high popularity in 1990 only to suddenly reveal he actually meant Double Dragon: The Movie.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week wit...

In this episode, Michael basically just gushes about Mafia III, a really well done revenge story that features some familiar faces, and maybe the best version of a terrible person in John Donovan.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries cover...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about the plots of Mafia (2002) and Mafia 2, as we learn about what life is like the Mafia if told via plot elements from other 90s mafia movies.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about the development of the Mafia series, the Czech-developed and 2k-published series that tries to tell a Mafia movie story in a videogame format.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering vario...

In this episode, Alex and Michael finish up the Twisted Metal series, by talking about the series' dark turn with Twisted Metal's Black, Head-on, and TM 2012.  Oh, and Small Brawl is there too for some reason.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new min...

Seriously, I barely understand what they were thinking with Twisted Metal 4.   ...Ahem, In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about Twisted Metal 1 through 4, a series that starts out edgy and then ends with a tone that wouldn't be out of place on Cartoon Network in the year 2000.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by lea...

In today's episode, Alex and Michael talk about Twisted Metal, the car combat series that got its start on the Playstation in 1995 and would go on to be remarkably influential in spite of itself.   Sony's E3 2010 presentation of Twisted Metal (2012):  https://youtu.be/AJcJJjCkF1U   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leavi...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about Secret of Evermore, a game where a mad scientist somehow creates a world out of whole cloth before being foiled by his robot butler.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridicul...

In this episode, Michael takes a break from preventing his apartment from catching fire to tell Alex about Secret of Evermore, the Squaresoft RPG made by Americans for Americans.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridicu...

Back from GDQ and completely exhausted, Alex and Michael talk about the plot of the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie, a movie that I assure you didn't have 9 screenwriters and isn't a jumbled collection of scenes that don't make sense.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every...

Michael is on vacation in Minneapolis, so in this episode he and Alex talk about the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie, learn about why you should have creative control over your IP, and maybe how they shouldn't have gotten the guy known for The Killing Fields to do a kid's movie.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about Mega Man Battle Network's 5 and 6, finishing the series off with an explosion-proof old man, and the wisdom of making a niceness program and putting it in charge of military weapon systems.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates e...

In this episode, Alex and Michael do their best to not talk about Kingdom Hearts as they discuss the plots to Mega Man Battle Network 3+4.  They fail miserably.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new miniseries covering various ridiculous video game pl...

In this episode, Alex and Michael talk about the plot of Mega Man Battle Network, a series that quickly escalates from kids having fun on the internet to immediately getting irradiated by other sad children.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new minis...

In today's episode, Alex and Michael talk about the development of Mega Man Battle Network, a series that starts out weirdly-prescient about the internet and quickly escalates to the question of if it's ethical to put your dead son in the computer.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Ploth...

In this week's episode, Alex and Michael battle power outages to talk about how the Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) even came about, discussing e-mail leaks, Nintendo's business practices, and North Korea for some reason.   Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week wit...

In this Episode, Alex and Michael talk about their recent trip to the movies as they discuss the The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023), a fever dream of colorful imagery and involving surprising amount of daddy issues. Like this episode?  Remember to subscribe on your podcast service of choice, and let us know how we're doing by leaving a review!  Fallin' Thru Plotholes updates every  week with a new...