Garbage Game Night

The gang explores the furry world of Fur-Fun, the remnants of an abandoned Kickstarter project. Was there a pearl of an idea among this game, did the spiritual successor title of Banjo-Kazooie go to the wrong title? We explore platforming and cough up a few furballs as we dive in. 

As a 30th episode extravaganza, the gang does a table read as we play through the KFC advergame ILYCS:AFLGDS . Will we be able to woo the legendary Kentuckian? Will we graduate culinary school? We put on our best voices to explore this bizarre offbeat advertisement for chicken and mashed potatoes. 

Frank hosts a double header of kart racing games starting with the wii port Calvin Tucker's Farm Animal Racing followed by Renzo's Racers. What makes a good group game and what happens if you ignore what makes Mario Kart good?

Reskin X-COM2 in the Narcos universe, it'll be white gold they said. We discuss how slightly tweaking game mechanics can ruin a game as well dopplegames and the most iconic families in video games.

A western samurai tomato, mad scientist cucumbers, horrible textures... We get surreal with one of the strangest low-budget games on Steam. From the mind of one Ukranian, Tomato Way is perhaps the most surreal games on Steam, and we try to make sense of it.

Only the 3rd game to be rated AO for violent content and banned from twitch: The garbage gang checks out Hatred - a game often referred to as a mass murder simulator. We discuss how games earn their ESRB rating and the ethics of creating something that pushes the player toward ultraviolence.

You are a commando. You have a knife. Humvee's are magnetically attracted to you. Can you survive? The garbage gang hunts down one of the lowest rated and lowest quality games of all time: Alpha Zylon. 

The Garbage Gang faces off against Lovecraftian horrors in this 2015 co-op survival game as well as technical issues. We talk Lovecraft, lovecraft-inspired games and more technical issues! Special guest Grace steps in to experience the unimaginable mind-rending terror of Cthulu and we talk our scariest game experiences. 

A Russian game developer making a Devil May Cry hack n' slash with tomb raider inspirations and no pants, a recipe for success? This week we check out X-Blades, a 2009 game with a lot of metal music but even more cheeks. 

It's Dark Souls but you're a secret agent guinea pig. The gang checks out the film tie-in to the 2009 classic, G-Force. After a quick refresher on the plot from Frank, the panel tackles their toughest mission yet, fighting waffle-irons. 

What happens when you take the splinter cell, cut out most of the features along with half the AI's brain and drop it into WW2? Velvet Assassin! This week we discuss stealth mechanics along with ARG promotionals as we use...morphine to... enhance our performance?

We recount franchises that have been nearly ruined by bad entries and examine what happened with this spiritual successor to everyone's beloved Road Rash series, with Chris, Tom, Frank, Hunter and Carley

A surprising hit franchise in the vehicular combat genre takes a nosedive into the worst reviewed games of all time. Hunter, Tom, Frank and Chris compete and destroy to see who can become the 'flatout'? Episode streamed live on Twitch!

A game too-hot-for-steam, tackling the concerns about veteran mental health care and crooked cops turned into an on-rails FPS, what could go wrong!? Guest hosted by Frank, the Garbage Game Night crew takes on the plot of Rambo 1-3.

We take on the 2012 apocalypse and collect crystal skulls in our first 4-player co-op game that is definitely not a reskin of Left 4 Dead. Try our hand at the campaign, deathmatch and eat so, so many Mayan hearts. Can Chris, Tom, Hunter and Frank forestall the impending cataclysm? Nah, we gave up. 

The famous bad gift from 2009 gets put to the test. We discuss puzzle games, what makes them good and what makes this bad as we review the poorly aged yet fascinating game 'Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge' with Carley, Hunter, Tom and Chris. 

Who doesn't want to hear Mickey Rourke curse at commies for just under 2 hours? Probably Commies. This week we review Bethesda's stumble into the spec ops genre with Rogue Warrior. What transformed this game into a team-based spec ops shooter into this film-length vulgarity? We discuss wrestling plot-lines and more with Eddie, Tom, Hunter and Frank.

A game so dangerous it was banned from the Playstation marketplace. GGN takes on the cringey world of Super Seducer, a pick up artist training game. We're joined by our significant others to judge the guy's seduction skills as well as whether this is based in any sort of feasible reality. With Chris & Mattea, Tom & Grace, Carley & Hunter, Frank & Dayana!

Is one of the most notoriously bad video games of all time actually not that bad? We give it a second chance and discuss the blunders of development in this viral edition of GGN with Tom, Hunter, Frank and Chris. 

Playing remotely, we brave the metro transit system on a bus, but have to figure out how to turn it on first as we talk all about sim games. For GGN's first double header, we experience the pallet cleanser of Autobahn Police Simulator, a free and yet costly simulator for Hunter, Carley, Tom, Frank and Chris. 

Dragon's Lair, a 1983 Coin-op Game that has had 73 releases has also bravely faced a series of bad reviews from modern times. We take a dive into the history of this bizarre and innovative game in our first 'viral' edition, we are playing online, that totally wasn't forced upon us by a pandemic. Join Carley, Hunter, Frank and Chris as we save Daphne the Princess with quick-time-events.

In a dystopian future of mechanical spiders and blatant ad placement, you are the Pre-Crime officer, John Anderton. You can stop any murder except...the one you're going to commit? Only one way to find out, race to the crime scene with Bob, Steven, Tom, Frank and Chris. With a 5-minute film breakdown of the film Minority Report. 

A game about a show about celebrities at the turn of the millennium. How badly could it possibly age? Tom, Hunter, Frank and Chris check out the 2003 classic Celebrity Deathmatch and create the first ever character tier system for this bargain bin classic.

It's Land of the Lost meets Gears of War and a dash of Call of Duty meets Dinosaurs. This  week the gang plays Jurassic: The Hunted and leaves a dino bodycount in the thousands. 

Can the movie's supporting role of Meatloaf carry the game of Fight Club? Victor, Tom, Frank and Chris fight their way around the world to see all the Gary's Mod style cutscenes this plot has to offer.