Gamer Era

You mean the Walkman guys?! Okay, good luck… Sam invites on fellow Nintendo community alum Dylan ( @DekuDeluxe ) to chat all things PlayStation, and specifically the golden age of creativity in the PS2 days. There’s examinations on Team Ico, Japan Studio, the EyeToy, and big-name executives “doing backflips down the corridor”. There’s also lamentations on what the hell Sony have become in the year...

The truth is out there… waaaaay out there. Our newest guest, Lucy (@fortunekookiekrisp), is released from the lamp to share the most secret treasures of the venerable Shantae series, before David gives the debrief on some of the world’s oddest cryptid myths, coloured by the tale of the even stranger developer behind the X-Files tie-in game on PS2. It’s all brought together by perhaps the most inex...

Sometimes, the greatest fears come from within… sometimes, you have to know when to stop looking. Join us, on our most noble of expeditions, as we whack through the metaphorical forest brush in search of segment gold. David sticks a big combat knife into the table as he details the acute difficulty in devising a segment (while accidentally creating [REDACTED]), before Sam swoops in to relay the co...

You’re a kid now - you’re an arachnid now?! SOMEHOW, David has returned... and he brings along tales woven of “spiders-men” and “played stations”. It’s as much of a celebration of the web-slinger’s chequered history as it is a classic rant, true believers! Sam also invites experienced splatmate Kit (@ kitenby.bsky.social ) aboard the good ship Era to talk about the slippery world of Splatoon and t...

WOAH-SHI - it’s a double Yoshi exploshi! David’s taken a step out for this episode (something about “unfinished business”...?), so Sam calls in long-time friend and resident Yoshi expert Muz (@MuzYoshi) to run through all things Munchakoopas. There’s a particular focus on his N64 outing, but we also take the time to run through all the attempts to follow it up in the years since - and where we thi...

When I was a young boy, my father took me into the city… to see the marching band… or rather, “vaguely aspirational hero characters from the mid-aughts that were marketed to boys of about our age”. Cough. Plenty of deep cuts this ep: David frames a discussion on the titular Action Man in musings on plastic capitalism, while Sam beams a computer-generated spotlight at the BBC’s long-buried kids’ mu...

It was a day like no other - the winds of trouble blew into my office like a bad dream, and it’d take one hell of a pinch to wake me. The case was double dutch all the way down; pages and pages of total nonsense. Our first informant, Sam, re-briefed us on one hell of a bad memory from ‘93 - the disastrous alliance of the Philips and Nintendo families. Then, the vigilante David turned the tables -...

Monsters? In MY pocket? It’s more likely than you think... United under a Pokémon flavoured theme, our brave hosts both venture into strange new lands this week; while David toils in the mines of touchscreen-flavoured mediocrity, Sam takes a flight of fancy through the real-world Japanese legends that inspired the beasts. Includes a whole-ass bumper quiz segment!! Goodness! Find us at: https://gam...

“The name’s Games. James Games…” Your mission, should you choose to accept it - infiltrate the European Games Manufacturing Complex and retrieve valuable secrets from a family shrouded in secrecy. Agents Sam and David will be your local guides, but take great care. Beyond this point, few have returned… Find us at: https://gamertime.online/ Games discussed: NCIS 3D (3DS), James Bond 007 (GB), James...

A capsule containing such power... Gamer Era continues into its sophomore offering as David extols the virtues of "Shrek Treasure Hunt" for the PlayStation (and its deeply troubled developer) and Sam continues the handheld love with an ode to Panic's Playdate. All this as decade-old social media drama and the looming presence of a revered Nintendo fantasy series threaten to derail the very structu...

A podcast you can hold in your hands! Join Sam (@sammycrow) and David (@fewbat) in this inaugural edition of "GAMER ERA" as they invoke handheld gaming guilty pleasures, puzzling over the Evercade's insanely niche appeal and a carefully curated selection of licensed paff for the Game Boy Advance. All this and more wrapped in unexpectedly violent public domain newspaper cartoons, truly toe-curling...

Since the dawn of time, humanity has tried to establish just what it is about gaming that draws us in, shapes us, drives us to greater things. Whether it be the simple pleasure of Mario, the complex twists and turns of Master Chief, the beauty of Chuckie Egg, we have all been defined by what we play, in a way, wouldn't you say? No? OK, well, look you could've just -- this is ad copy, you could've...