Bucket List Gamers

Ho Ho Ho and a very Happy Holidays to all our listeners! We hope you're currently sitting with your feet up, a nice beverage on the go, watching some festive telly and getting ready for Santa to call! Our present to you is this... the 2023 Bucket List Gamers Awards! Unfortunately our recording platforms present to us was to not use the correct microphone during our last session, therefore Jay soun...

It's almost Christmas, but it's still business as usual here at Bucket List Gamers, and this episode we're looking at R-Type (41) from 1987. Join us as we discuss the notoriously difficult, coin-gobbling, bullet hell space shooter and why it deserves to be so high on the Retro Gamers List! We also discuss the morally bankrupt decision to release broken ports of 11+ year old games at a premium pric...

This episode we are begrudgingly looking at SEGA's arcade classic Outrun (22) and Williams Electronics equally classic arcade game Defender (99). Not the most easily discussable games on the list, but we give it a good go anyway. We also talk Hogwarts Legacy on the Switch, the latest offering from everyone's favourite publisher Game Mill, and there's even a bit of Bluey for the dads... erm, I mean...

This week we're taking the train to Black Mesa to talk about Half Life 1 (39) and Half Life 2 (20), the first two instalments of Valve's wildly successful FPS. Half Life may have changed the game when it came to first person shooters, but does it deserve the lofty praise it receives? Join us as we find out, then talk about Five Nights at Freddys and the much anticipated GTA 6 trailer! Enjoy! *If y...

This week we take a trip down memory lane as Jay and Eddie take a look at Bubble Bobble (34) and Rainbow Islands (66), two arcade classics ported to home consoles in the 80's! What's more, Jay fills in the second half of the show with talk of obscure Commodore 64 games from his childhood, including a plethora of British Kids TV themed titles, a trip back to school and the heroic adventures of an E...

Hello Bucket Listeners! As you've probably figured out from the title, Eddie wasn't well last week and we were unable to record anything. Fortunately we had an episode recorded that we planned on binning, as it was time-sensitive and it didn't get edited as quickly as we wanted it to be... so here it is! In this one we DON'T talk about any of the games on the list, and instead discuss what is set...

It's Episode 4 of Bucket List Gamers DLC, and this time we're discussing N64 games completely at random! Why? Because we couldn't think of anything else to do. Hopefully it's still quite entertaining though! Please note, this was recorded a while ago when Jay was full of cold and likely hopped up on flu medication, so please excuse the weird voice. Enjoy! ** This was initially a Patreon Timed Excl...

Muahahaha! It's the Bucket List Gamers Halloween Special! Hello all our bucket kicking ghosts and ghouls, and welcome to our very special Halloween episode! Our obligatory Retro Gamer list pick for this one is Silent Hill 2 (79), but we're also talking about some of our other favourite horror games, and discussing what makes a horror game truly horrifying. The Trick or Treaters will all be in bed...

This week we're getting Speedball 2 Brutal Deluxe (45) out of the way quickly so we can talk about more pressing matters! For the first time in… well, probably forever two OG gaming legends released ‘classic’ game versions in the same week. But which is better... Sonic or Mario? We discuss Sonic Superstars and Super Mario Brothers Wonder, and ponder over whether they are worth their £50-60 price t...

This episode we're jumping in our X-Wings and taking to the skies to look at Star Wars The Arcade Game (63) and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (52)! Does an arcade game from 1986 score as poorly as its 80's counterparts Pacman and Tetris? Can you play Knights of the Old Republic on a Steam Deck? Is Eddie recording in the middle of an active war zone?  All these questions, and more are answe...

Sharpen your unfeasibly large swords and get the cement mixer going so you can style your hair, because we're looking at an unprecedented SIX games on this week's show! Secret of Mana (70), Chrono Trigger (33), Final Fantasy 6 (37), Final Fantasy 7 (7), Final Fantasy 9 (95) and Final Fantasy 10 (76) are all under the microscope in this bumper JRPG episode, packed full of teenage angst and fake lau...

A week later than planned the Bucket List Gamers are back and looking at an absolute SNES classic; The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (6)! Join us as we venture into the Dark World to investigate what makes Nintendo's 1991 smash hit such a success, discuss the one major mis-step in it's sequel A Link Between Worlds, and give our thoughts on FC 24 and Starfield (again!) Plus Jay has a big surp...

It's DLC time again! This episode we're joined by one of the HitGrab Inc team to talk about gaming on Facebook, and specifically Mousehunt, which has been going strong for a number of years now. Jay played Mousehunt religiously so there's a decent amount of fanboying in this episode, as Eddie sits back in awe and lets it happen. Huge thanks again to Giorgio for joining us and letting us in on some...

That's right, for our 30th Episode we've decided to SMASH the format of our show to celebrate a couple of big milestones! Instead of talking about a game on this list, this week we're discussing September's Nintendo Direct, and all the interesting announcements that were made! That includes remakes of two Super Mario franchise games, a brand new outing for the Mushroom Kingdom's favourite Princess...

This week we're donning our stupidly long red bandannas, pulling out our silenced pistols and plugging our controllers into port 2, as we look at two games in the Metal Gear Solid franchise! Metal Gear Solid (15) from 1998 and Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (97) from 2004 are our main targets, but we also talk Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear 5 too for good measure! Hideo Kojima...

Fus Roh Dah! This week we're dragon shouting about number 17 in the list, Bethesda's perennially released Elder Scrolls entry; Skyrim! Is it full of bugs? Yes. Is it worth playing anyway? Definitely! Skyrim has been around for an unbelievable 12 years now, and with multiple versions released across a vast array of consoles, there's a reason people keep buying it! We also take a look at Starfield,...

Take your armies out of your sleevies because we're back (a little later than usual!) and we're looking at 3 Real Time Strategy games... kind of. This week we put Command and Conquer (80), UFO: Enemy Unknown (65) and Lemmings (46) under the microscope to see how the RTS genre evolved. We ponder questions such as; why did this originally get made for consoles, why did this get ported to consoles an...

It's time to fuel up your Kart, grab your Banana Skins and drift into Pole Position! This episode we're looking at Super Mario Kart (12), Mario Kart 64 (72) and Sega Rally (67). Join us as we Power Slide down memory lane to discuss Sega's 'Arcade Classic', the unlikely creation of Super Mario Kart and how it evolved into the game we know (and mostly love) today! As well as your Banana Skins and Gr...

It's Bucket List Gamers 25th Episode, and we're discussing two action-adventure classics in the original Tomb Raider (38) and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves(77)! Join us as we head back to a time when Lara Croft wasn't some whimpering teenager, and instead provided a badass female protagonist for gamers everywhere to admire and aspire to. Oh, and back to a time where she ACTUALLY raided tombs... Then...

In Episode 24 Jay & Eddie go 1 on 1 to discuss arcade classic Street Fighter 2 (13) and its many variations, ports, re-skins and so on! We also discover Jay's inner sweet summer child, as he instinctively chooses to believe the best of 80's and 90's Mexican arcade vendors, even in the face of damning evidence against them. Not content with discussing just one 1 on 1 fighter (mainly because the...

It's episode 23 and the Bucket List Gamers are looking at The World of Warcraft (90)! And for the first time in the main series we've invited a guest along to BLG HQ, partly because we haven't got a bloody clue about the game, but mostly because Austin knows his stuff and adds an air of professionalism to our usually chaotic recording sessions! If you're a Warcraft affectionado you can take a stro...

It's time for another DLC episode! This time we talk about the three latest Nintendo consoles, and how they spanned from generation-traversing success, to abject commercial failure... and back again. This was initially a Patreon Timed Exclusive, but now it's available here for your listening pleasure! If you want to hear DLC episodes as soon as they come out, head over to our Patreon and sign up n...

In episode 22 of the Bucket List Gamers we return to the Mushroom Kingdom to take a look at 1985's Super Mario Brothers (40) and Super Mario Brothers 3 (11), before jumping into Miracle World to talk about Alex Kidd (92)! Super Mario Brothers is the quintessential side-scrolling platform game, and if you believe the hype it single-handedly rescued the dying console gaming market after Atari's disa...

Episode 21 sees Jay and Eddie dip their toes into the nefarious underworld of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series, by taking a look at three of the biggest hits... and one cowboy outing for good measure. Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (25), Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (85), Grand Theft Auto V (31) and Red Dead Redemption (71) are all under varying degrees of scrutiny this week, as the Bucket List Ga...

Grab your tricorn hat and your pieces of eight, strap on your eyepatch and wooden leg, and make sure your wit is as sharp as your cutlass, because for episode 20 of the Bucket List Gamers podcast we're setting sail to Monkey Island! The Secret of Monkey Island (19) and Monkey Island 2: Le Chuck's Revenge (35) to be precise! Journey back with us to the 90's, where point and click games were all the...