Beat of the Month: Video Game Podcast

With Metroid Dread approaching, the Beat of the Month crew decide to take a look at where the series all began. We dust off our NES controllers (OK not really...we played on Switch) and take a journey through Samus' first expedition to foil the space pirates' plans. We talk about the good, the bad, and the Ridley as well as how revolutionary this early NES game was and the impact it still has. We...

It's a big, open world out there with lots of games to be played. But sometimes, a decision has to be made. The Beat of the Month crew run down their Favorite Top 3 Open World Games of all time (with a few cheaters adding in honorable mentions). Where do your favorite Open World Games fit within our list? We also round out the episode with some Open World trivia. Think you can guess the names of t...

The Beat of the Month crew have entered the next phase of the fighting game tournament - choosing our top 3 favorite fighting games! Sure you can expect some Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter games to show up on our lists, but some other games may surprise you more than a fart from a little orange dinosaur (if you know, you know). As always we wrap things up with a little fighting game trivia where...

This week we've got a hodge podge of content from the Beat of the Month crew! We start by discussing what video game world we would want to live in for 30 days and bring back all the spoils (but hopefully not get killed). Then we change it up to an old favorite - Murder, $*%@, Kill. We pick 3 game characters and decide which we want to wed, which we want dead, and which we want to...well you get t...

The beat of the month crew take an expedition to one of the most highly anticipated games of 2021 - Outriders! We cover the weapons, the enemies, the shooting, the looting - it’s all here! We also take a deep dive in to the story, so if you haven’t played and are worried about spoilers - you have been warned! So grab your gear, mount up, and join us on this trip to a brave new world.

Here at Beat of the Month we like games, so what better way to spend an episode than playing a game about games? We play some rounds of classic 20 questions where we try and guess what game the other person is thinking of by asking a series of Yes or No questions. Think you can figure it out before we did? Play along and find out!

Close your eyes…take a deep breath…count to 3… For this episode we each take a look at our top 3 relaxing games of all time. With a full crew of 8 people, 3 games each, and a bunch of honorable mentions - that’s a whole lot of relaxation! We cap things off as usual with some trivia about relaxing games. So dim the lights, get the scented candles out (or your VR headset), and join the beat of the m...

The Beat of the Month Crew run down our Top 3 puzzle games of all time - falling blocks and cryptic adventures await! I'm sure we'll mention some of your favorites, maybe some you've never heard of, and maybe you know if some we've never heard of. Send us an email at beatofthemonth@gmail.com and let us know what we missed! And as always, we've got some trivia to cap things off. Does the crew get s...

The beat of the month crew take a T-Spin through the puzzle games we played in May. There is a whole lot more than just Tetris to unpack here (although we talk about Tetris a lot, too). Stacking, Little Nightmares, Tetris Effect, Crystal Crisis, Moss - and more! Plus we get into some Resident Evil 7 and 8 discussion. Hey, those have puzzles - right?

Half the crew sit back and take a depressing trip through the lowlights of the most disappointing games we've ever played. These aren't necessarily the worst games ever, but when we played them something didn't quite click with us. Or some people think Super Mario 64 was disappointing and might need a mental evaluation. As usual we have some trivia, and this time we guess the worst reviewed games...

Ever wonder what the Beat of the Month crew chat about before an episode? Well, you’re about to find out! This episode we look back on some random clips from our pre-recording banter. Insightful, deep, thought-provoking...you won’t find that here. Discussion on how we can get Vernon Davis to follow us on Twitter? That we’ve got covered. And most importantly - Echigoya, where have you hidden?

The Beat of the Month Crew stampede their way through the best dinosaur games of all time! There are more to dinosaur games than just Jurassic Park (although there are a lot of those as well...) Did your favorite dino game make the list?  We also run through a game of Real or Fake with Jurassic Park games. Is Jurassic Park 3: The DNA Factor a real game? Listen in to find out!

This episode we go back in time to when dinosaurs ruled the earth, and this time they ruled our televisions! Games this week include Jurassic World: Evolution, Dino Crisis, Rugrats: Search for Reptar, and more! Yes, that cartoon show from the 90s. There's also a random assortment of other games we played over the month of April like Outriders and Broforce. If YOU would like to suggest a theme for...

King Hippo don't have nothing on the Beat of the Month Crew! This week we talk about our time in the ring with Super Punch Out!! for the SNES (which doesn't have King Hippo...) BUT - it does have a boxing clown, a martial artist who smacks you with his cane, and an arsenal of other wacky boxers looking to knock you out! We discuss our thoughts on the game and also touch base on Punch Out!! for the...

The beat of the month crew play the original Punch Out!! Will they beat Mike Tyson or be flattened by a bull charge? Gather your stamina and come join us for a look at one of the best Nintendo games ever made!

The Beat of the Month crew is still floating around in orbit and talking about their favorite space games of all time. From Star Fox to Star Wars and everything in between we touch on a slew of games. And some tough trivia at the end!

The Beat of the Month Crew blast off to outer space! We take a look at the Space games that we played which run from Lunar Lander to Halo Reach to Dead Space...and more! If you're like Melbro and don't care about space there's more games we talk about as well that we played over the last month. Stay tuned next week for our Top 3 Space games of all time!

The Beat of the Month crew assemble to show our respects (and unfortunately, some disrespects) to a great man - Mario! On March 31st the Super Mario 3D All Stars Collection and Super Mario Bros. 35 will be removed from the eshop forever. We decided to mark this momentous occasion to look back at Mario's life and the memories we had with the famous Italian plumber. So please join us as we take a tr...

The Beat of the Month crew retroactively celebrate Valentine’s Day by looking at our favorite love games. What is love anyway? A peck on the cheek between an Italian plumber and a Princess? Something more...explicit? Join us and find out as we run through our favorite love games of all time and what we’ve been playing in February.

Disclaimer: The episode you are about to listen to has poor audio quality. If this episode audio turns you off, please give us another shot! To be honest... our first 50 episodes or so don't sound great - but we did improve the audio issues eventually! Might I suggest our deep dive on Dragon's Dogma (#118) or our Dreamcast Interview Special (#77)? If those don't do it for you, I apprec...

Spoilers ahead! The beat of the month crew take a deep look at the mind bending game Control. Does it live up to the hype of its 2019 game of the year accolades? Listen in and see what we think! And if you haven’t played it - Control was recently released on Gamepass and is available on all systems including a recent cloud version for Nintendo Switch.

How did these 8 crazy guys meet each other and come up with the beat of the month? Where did these names like Spiral, Muff, and Bash come from? Listen in to find out! We also go over the games coming out in 2021 that we are looking forward to.

We've made it to the end of 2020 - and we played a lot of games along the way! Join the Beat of the Month crew as they run down the games played in December and look back on all the games they played in 2020. What games did we think were the best? What games surprised us? What gaming moment made us want to blow our brains out? It's all here in this jumbo sized episode! In 3 weeks we'll be back for...

The Beat of the Month crew have been locked up, and the only way to escape is to work together! We take a deep look into the game ‘A Way Out’ - a unique two player only story driven action game. Muff and Darkside compare their experience with Melbro and Brian throughout every step of the game - with spoilers! And we’ve got some prison based video game trivia at the end as well.

It's a must listen mustache episode! For No Shave November, the Beat of the Month Crew explore games we've played where the main characters haven't shaved as well - Mario games galore...and more! Who else in gaming has a mustache? Listen in to find out! As always we go through our top 3 favorite games in the theme and whatever else we played last month. Wrapped up with some trivia served up by Mel...