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It's 1996. You wake up, rip off your Space Jam bed sheets and get ready for school while Power Rangers plays in the background. Normally, this is a drag but today is special. Today is Scholastic Book Fair Day. You walk into your classroom with a ripe $5 bill that your mom handed you like it's a Get Out Of Jail Free card. You walk into the gymnasium to find a Moroccan street market of books and oth...

Too often we've witnessed countless whirlwind romances take flight atop the Empire State Building and have watched too many supervillains blow up the Golden Gate Bridge. It's time for other lesser-known American cities to get their time in the spotlight. And so the head engineers at Debate This! Games, Ltd. are designing some of the cities in which we've lived into the next greatest AAA video game...

Get ready to get Fully Immersed. If there is one thing that we love to do here at DT! HQ, it's reboot old shit that nobody asked for. And so it stands to reason that VR games were bound to eventually get that treatment. Excited to get an 1800s-era poop disease in Oregon Trail VR? Or how about experiencing a lifelike barrel roll in Star Fox 64 3? No? Well then maybe reading low-poly books in a new...

The MCU's Phase 4 is still shrouded in mystery as we stare down the proverbial barrel of major releases of the standalone Black Widow movie and Disney Plus's first streaming series The Falcon and The Winter Soldier. Also Sony is doing a Morbius movie that no one asked for. And we'll be ending 2020 with WandaVision and The Eternals Starring A Very Steamy Kumail Nanjiani. Today, we're going to take...

Wow, Episode 50, huh? Here we are...a little bit older, a little bit collectively balder, and most likely a lot closer to death! So what better way to celebrate two years of pouring through the recesses of fan wikis then to return to the greatest fan Wiki ever: Sonic The Hedgehog . Time to set that "Days Without Talking About the Sonic Comics" timer back down to zero. Debate This! is a dumb show w...

With DC's Birds of Prey And Then Harley Quinn Is Here Too hitting the Box Office this month with the sound of a thousand missed opportunities, we thought it would be a good time to reflect on the history of the series. And by that, we mean 2002's cancelled The WB drama, "Birds of Prey." And by that, we mean actually just pitch adaptations of other, better franchises to get their own sexy teen prim...

Three grown men spent Valentine's Day together watching a children's movie about Sonic the Hedgehog, and now we're going to talk about it. But here's the thing you guys...this movie is legitimately GOOD. Like, not even so-bad-it's-good like The Room . We actually enjoyed ourselves just about the entire time through this thing. Todd enjoyed it so much that he went to try and recreate that biker bar...

With the decline in cable TV viewers (and a few notorious legal "uh-ohs") comes the inevitable decline of the glory and majesty that is the television pitchman. To to inject some new life into this fading empire, we're calling in some A-list superheroes and also Paste-Pot Pete to hawk their latest and greatest Made For TV products. Special thanks to Randy Hardenbrook from Canned Air for joining in...

Once Sonic heralded in the 1990s with his cool-guy, take-no-shit attitude, game companies across the world were racing to find the next raddest platforming mascot. And boy were there a lot more misses than hits. With the help of David Flamm from Left Trigger Right Trigger, we rifle through some of the best of those misses and attempt to breathe new life in these needlessly horny misfits. Check out...

SPOILER ALERT: This episode will spoil the story and ending to the first season of Netflix's The Witcher. But if you haven't played the CDPR games yet, don't worry! The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt takes place several years after the events of the books and therefore is its own storyline.  It was bound to happen. As soon as someone uttered "...place of power, gotta be" on this show, it was destined that w...

Coming at you HOT here in 2020, we here at Debate This! are the only ones brave enough to discuss the toughest questions life throws at us. Who are we? Why are we here? How does Southwest actually determine who gets priority seating? But there's one question that has plagued humanity for centuries...which of the Tetris pieces is the best Tetris piece? One of those questions definitely gets answere...

Kyle found a "like new" set of plastic drums on Facebook Marketplace so we're taking this week off to workshop our new Debate This! Rock Band rock band. And since we'll be knee-deep in practicing Green Grass and High Tides , we wanted to give you all a quick update and preview into some of the new stuff you can expect from the show in 2020. Thanks for listening, nerds!

It's the Annual Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Season! And what better way to celebrate than to shower each other with more unnecessary and very non-recyclable plastic goods? For our second year, the Debate This! boys are gathering around the Winter Solstice Plant and are bringing more of the most ridiculous gaming peripherals. Ever want to play driving games with an iPod click wheel? How about...

Earlier this year, we birthed an office-based MMORPG from our terrible mind-holes, complete with stereotypical office jobs mapped onto traditional RPG roles. And since it's now a legal requirement that every registered podcast in 2019 record a D&D session, allow us to present to you an office-based D&D campaign. Who wants boring old swords and magic when you can fight your enemies with timelines a...

Following the announcement that Sakurai and his team are releasing more DLC characters for Smash Ultimate in 2020, everyone out there has been speculating who they think the next additions will be. We could certainly do that for you, but it takes a much bolder team of content creators to instead tell you who they think will NOT be the next DLC characters in Smash Ultimate. And God help us if they...

During this year's Portland Retro Gaming Expo, we polled the crowd with a very important question: Which classic arcade game deserves a gritty modern-day RPG? The top 3 of the 4 choices we polled during the weekend are all in play, so it's totally not our fault that now you won't be able to stop thinking about breeding giant ostriches and hunting Q-Bert: The World Eater. Debate This! is a dumb sho...

Do you think the people at Marvel back in the 80s would ever have thought that their one-off concept of "make everyone fight each other on an alien planet" would go on to be the single most important thing to happen in the Marvel universe? And that this one storyline would be the thing that retconned, redefined, and completely undid multiple series more than 15 years in the making? This week's FLA...

The release of Pokemon Sword and Shield is just days away. And, instead of adding to the controversy, we are doing what we usually do and avoid confrontation altogether. So instead, we decided to mash up the worlds of the WWE together with Pokemon to give you the all-new Professional Pokemon Wresting League. Ground Rules: No Legendaries and no Fighting Types. Special thanks to our guest, Will Gran...

One half of our podcast really likes The Witcher and the other half is Matt and Kyle. So for our final stop on 2019's Spooktacular Express, we are going to explore the absolute horror that is living as a greasy villager in the Witcher universe. Andrew roleplays as the insufferable person who "read the books first," Kyle unleashes the hounds of hell, and Matt cobbles together puns on puns on puns....

Five Nights at Freddy's. The Internet sensation that started as a simple game about creepy mascots and jump scares has spawned no less than 8 games, 3 novels, and an infinite amount of YouTube videos conjecturing its very complicated story. There are a lot of people out there digging through the games' code and trying to tie together every piece of dialog and bring meaning to every (seemingly) mea...

Before Nic Cage donned the flaming skull of Ghost Rider, the Spirit of Vengeance has inhabited many bodies, dating all the way back to the Stone Age. Since we didn't want the goofiest iteration of Ghost Rider to be a boy on a wooly mammoth, we decided to mash this universe together with Mario Kart to bring you some flaming skulls with your red shells and your banana peels. Todd pitches a Parakoopa...

CNN told us not to see Joker this weekend, so instead we're diving back into the spooky, scary well that is video game creepypastas! This year, we're bringing you two more stories curated from the best of amateur creative writing on the internet. First up is a story about a game called "Misfortune" hidden inside other classic Game Boy cartridges. After that, a tale about a Super Mario World rom ha...

For the first stop as part of this year's Spooktacular Express, we're going to visit the delightful and whimsical world of Animal Crossing, where everyone is always happy, smiling, and certainly not murdered. So imagine our surprise when our passengers' visit was cut short by the news that Mayor Tortimer's dead body was found floating in the river covered in stab wounds. And it's up to us to find...

Metal Gear Solid is a very silly game. Please bear that in mind while we explain the premise of this week's episode is that the military has decided that it's somehow up to us to stop all the biggest, baddest bosses of the MGS series by unleashing a single Kirby to lead us to victory. So now instead of a flame crown or ice breath, Kirby is going to acquire psychic powers, four tentacle arms, and a...

With Tony Stark gone, Captain America having Back-to-the-Future'd himself, and Spider-Man facing off against the villainy that is the Sony Pictures Legal department, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about to undergo some massive changes. Following the recent announcements during San Diego Comic-Con and Disney's D23 Expo, the boys felt it was time to regroup and talk about those reveals and what we...