Garbage Game Night

Are you ready to KICK SOME BRAIN? Dexter the Dinodroid has crash landed on earth and needs our help to stop floating brains from zombifying dinos and bringing them into the 1940s. Does Frank know enough dino trivia to win this 1992 CD-i game? Frank, Hunter, Carley and Chris check out this bizarre FMV adventure.

Happy Holidays! It's GGN's inaugural Garbage Gift Night! We got each other steam gifts under $5. How did we do? Crypt of the Necrodancer, Framed, and more. Did we find some gems or some coal? We talk through 6 different short game experiences that were gifted and discuss whether we'd recommend them and if they have caused lasted trauma that Chris will be sued for in 15 years.

On the 20th anniversary of the GTA3 Rockstar Games has brought 'The Trilogy' into a new engine kicking and screaming, and oh my god what happened to that characters neck? This week we talk about unfinished games, the bias of nostalgia and who asked for these games to be remastered?

On this 53rd episode spectacular the gang unwinds while we play some Powerwash Simulator, discuss the traumas inflicted upon us over the past 52 games, and try to wash it all away with a pressurized jet stream. Master of brevity, Frank, summarizes each game we've tackled, one by one. We have crunched the data on who enjoys and hates games more, and we announce the winners of this 53-episode-period...

It's poker. You can't screw that up, right? Brought to you from the folks who did the episodic The Walking Dead series, Tell Tale Games... GGN takes a look at their first foray into the gaming world which was later built into the successful Night at the Inventory games. Original Characters, witty banter, dangerous backstories, in this episode the gang faces their own casino royale and put it all o...

In 1987 an ambitious project was embarked upon for Hasbro utilizing a new video game platform ends up a premiere feature of congressional hearings on violence in video games. How did a game intended to run on VCRs end up being pulled from shelves? We dive into the 1992 SegaCD release NIGHT TRAP

Is there such thing as 'The Room' for video games? A game with such bizarre writing and pacing, a game that is so terrible it's good? That's exactly what Jim Sterling has said about Deadly Premonition, the game with the specific honor of being more divisive survival horror scored game. We take a deep look at the plot of this game and wish we hadn't in this spooky episode. 

The classic retro franchise Bionic Commando has been given the gritty reboot treatment! The gang GRAPPLES with the new super power of a bionic arm, tries to get a HANDLE on the web-slinging, and tries to GRASP the subtle plot twist. Were the critics wrong? or were they all RIGHT. He's got a bionic left arm, if that's not clear, but he's also got a bad attitude. We discuss how to ruin a super-hero...

A game series about political espionage and stealth takes a turn to the... fence construction genre? This week we do a deep dive into this Kojima-less entry into the Metal Gear series, we talk series plot, what makes a good survival game, and try out the co-op live!

This week, we embark upon a mysterious reboot of a game with 2016's 'The Ship: Remasted'. We discuss social deduction games, cruise ships and micromanagement. Did the developers gambit of including 2016 candidates pay off? Or was it a sloppy remake of one of the earliest social games on Steam? Chris, Tom, Frank, Bob and Fredo dive in.

In 2006, we take a look to the distant future of... 2016... where we find out in... 2046 that the sun will turn red giant on us and cook earth? Can we defeat the sun? What is the AX corporation up to with this vaccine? Why is our protagonist so blood thirsty? We tackle all these questions in this episode w/ Chris, Frank and Tom

The Demon Rush: Legends Corrupt is a little known video game by a small canadian company with a lot of potential. We do a table read of the first hour of gameplay, discuss the graphic choices and grapple with the metric ton of lore and angsty characters thrown our way. 

A government-sponsored game about going to the moon and repairing astroid damage to your base all while going far slower than you ever thought possible? Sign us up! We talk about government and moon games, but mostly just about this amazing text-to-speech function. Chris, Tom, Grace and Frank try to save the lunar colony in this week's episode.

No Man's Sky has had one of the more notorious launches in video game history, and yet, the developer and many members of the community, never gave up. This week, the gang blasts off into the unknown and is overwhelmed with the depth the experience offers as they discuss the game's development, gameplay and reception.

The Rock was tied to a SpyHunter movie that was never made... and yet... there is a game for it? The Rock takes SpyHunter franchise in a new direction by stepping out of the car, but there's NOWHERE TO RUN (except through half of the game). We take a look at this anomaly of a game and see if he can suplex his way out of the garbage valley. 

In a double-header, the gang tackles two games from 1994 that fuse ROCK N' ROLL with video games. First, we take a look at a 3DO game called 'Virtuoso' in which 'Our Hero', a rockstar, uses a virtual reality headset to escape the fandom you experience every moment of every day. With absolutely nothing at stake, we explore the power of the 3DO, discuss what the hell a 3DO is, and doom-clones in our...

Marlow Briggs and the Mask of Death is a game starring Marlow Briggs and a mask of death. It is difficult to summarize the self-awareness and joy that this game finds in it's niche of over-the-top action and absurdity. With it's God of War style mechanics, it's excellent tone and startling apt graphics, this may just be the most enjoyable (but lowest critic reviewed) game we've found on Garbage Ga...

It's Guess Who, but it's got a sexually implicit name and is maybe a commentary on capital punishment? Frank hosts this 2015 game by the team who brought you Super Meatboy and The Binding of Isaac is... a game... We discuss the difficulty of discerning what things are 'not gross' in this art style, kill a lot of people, Frank gives us stats on capital punishment and we meander into talk about Invi...

This week we dive back into the 90s childhood of Apple II games, among the Oregon Trail's and Number/Word Munchers, you might have played a business sim called DinoPark Tycoon. This very early theme park managing game taught children the value of income and expense as well as the inevitable failure of owning your own business. Were we better at this game as kids? Why the hell is it so difficult? A...

From 2009 - can fantasy games work without being Tolkien Based? Chilean developer ACE Team thinks so. In their 2009 game Zeno Clash they have created a world full of unsettling creatures and mysterious plot. Plus, you can punch it all in the face then kick it while it's on the ground. The gang checks out this PC/XBLA release a decade later. 

This week we take a run at running a slower life, the life of a modern day farmer. Will this simulator give us the pure unadulterated farming experience? Or is it another one of those farming sims that give you a manufactured bells and whistles experience. Join us as we salute the heartland heroes by plowing a field for 35 minutes and doing farm puns.

In 2003 our favorite Slovokian Republic game developer, Cauldron, created a massive epic story that might have slightly been based on Total Recall. You are Chaser, or are you? and you are trying to figure out why you're being hunted, or are you? We try to unravel the plot and get some help from Frank as he explains the plots of Total Recall and Face/Off.

In 1992 (or maybe 1993) Mario-mania was sweeping the nation. The educators wanted to get kids interested in learning again, and what better way to trick them then using the Mario Brothers. But enough spotlight on Mario, why don't we make Luigi the star? The gang explores this Edutainment game released on DOS and ported to NES and SNES. Does the plot make sense not particularly. Are the facts corre...

In a special Valentines Day episode, Carley Hosts our second dating sim, targeting the most dangerous animal, dad. We play through the first couple hours of the game reading characters and learning about the creation of this... experience. Will we be able to seduce a dad? Is the game about a lot more than dating? Lets find out. Joining us: Scott, Moe, Richard, Kristen, Frank, Chris, Hunter, and Ca...

What is an Ibn Battuta? This Saudi developer Semaphoor is on a quest to tell us. In their first full-fledged game using an episodic approach in 2013's Unearthed: The Trail of Ibn Battuta. The gang tries their hand at tomb raiding and killing so many people who just don't want you to be destroying historical artifacts. We talk Indiana Jones trivia, Uncharted and how this game exists and what's in i...