The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, gotta go wide open. This is the first episode where we are ranking something that not one person nominated but rather we all enjoyed together and felt like the game deserved its own episode. Sonic Team created something special for the Hedgehog's thirtieth anniversary. Where does it stack against other Sonic games and more importantly, where did we feel it ranked agai...

This week on The Free Cheese, no the other one. We check out 2000's Metal Gear Solid for Game Boy Color and see how Konami was able to translate its PlayStation counterpart into an alternate sequel for the MSX original.

This week on The Free Cheese, run to the hallway. Did you know the PlayStation 2 had a headset? Did you know there was a game where the headset was your controller? Join us and Rio as we scour the hallways of a space hotel in search for aliens and weak spots. Can you hear us? Are you there...?

This week on The Free Cheese, Congratulations. The October Labor Lottery is complete. Your name was pulled.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're making another list. It's our first ranking of consoles episode where we have 6 minutes to discuss and place each console entry on a list.

This week on The Free Cheese, a trench coat and a baseball bat. We're going wrestling outside of the ring with WayForward's Game Boy Color answer to the Attitude Era.

This week on The Free Cheese, one to a party. After years of thinking this game isn't for us, we learn the truth. We play and rank Undertale after we each take a different path to its ending.

This week on The Free Cheese, SquisherZ are really cool. Go to sleep and browse the internet while we patrol your nightmares. We revisit our 2019 Out of Time Award winner, finally giving this game the attention it deserves.

This week on The Free Cheese, what does yours say? It's time for your and our favorite episode of the year. Hang out with us and look back at what we thought might happen in 2022, then hear what we think is coming in the next year.

This week on The Free Cheese, the end is the beginning is the end. Join us for the final episode of Season 10 as we look back on the 45 games we played and ranked this year. We reflect on 2022 and the games we played and loved the most. Finally, we take one last look at The List ahead of our next season and where every game ended up.

This week on The Free Cheese, it's about what's on the inside. Our final game of Season 10 started out as Final Fantasy VII and turned into something entirely on its own. Let's head to New York City and help Aya Brea to stop the end of humanity before it's too late.

This week on The Free Cheese, oh no, I'm stuck. Let's check out Eri—Bomberman '93 as it returns to the TurboGrafx-16. We talk about how Bomberman brings us together and how the Wii truly changed the future of emulation for the better.

This week on The Free Cheese, press the dedicated pill button. Everyone is after us and there's only one way forward. We return to Remedy's roots and celebrate Christmas in New York.

This week on The Free Cheese, a fireside chat—hold the fire. We share some of what video games have made us grateful for and just hang out for a bit.

This week on The Free Cheese, my Shepard. We're putting a team together to save the universe, wanna come? BioWare's sequel to Mass Effect sends us around the known universe to gather a ragtag group of heroes willing to fight to the end to stop the Collectors.

This week on The Free Cheese, everything is always wet. Even if they took Sega from the title it can't stop us from celebrating the history on display in this 2012 kart racer. We share our favorite Sega moments from the game, discuss what Nintendo could learn for its next Mario Kart game, and lay our sights on some new Sega franchises.

This week on The Free Cheese, avoid going outside when it is raining. Grab your coffee and get ready to take a drive across town as we investigate a strange murder in a small town. We're playing and ranking Deadly Premonition after finding it to be quite the surprise title on our list.

This week on The Free Cheese, we only come out at night. Happy Halloween! We take a break from our usual game ranking episodes this season and focus on the greatest holiday of the year with some topic questions and mini games for the panelists. Questions asked this week: What is the best horror video game film adaptation? Have you ever dressed as a video game character for Halloween? What video ga...

This week on The Free Cheese, get on your mask and kill.  On its tenth anniversary, we're revisiting Dennaton Games' Hotline Miami and ranking it on The List. Does the blood-soaked, neon glow of a ten year old indie hit still punch as hard? Tune in to find out.

This week on The Free Cheese, there's zero escape. Wake up, it's time to die. You're in a room and it's filling with water. There's no way out but there are a bunch of keycards. Maybe they mean nothing, maybe they mean everything. We revisit a DS classic this week and rank it with the rest of our games this season.

This week on The Free Cheese, bad crystal combo.  We're celebrating the 20th anniversary of Blinx: The Time Sweeper by adding it to The List. We also talk more about the launch of the Xbox and the games that made it. Article referenced at the top of the show: The Alternate Timeline

This week on The Free Cheese, we're going backwards. After ten years of this podcast, we have a lot of memories to share. We look at some of our favorite episodes and ahead at what we hope for in the future.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're driving up a wall, apparently. Midway brings us one of the final games from Boss Game Studios and it's not surprising that this team would eventually build the beginnings of the Forza franchise. We explore some of its contemporaries and check in with what nostalgia can truly do to your memory.

This week on The Free Cheese, stick your tongue out. We're playing one of Nintendo 64's many 3D platformers in the form of Chameleon Twist 2. We compare it to the original title and see how it lines up with other games of the era.

This week on The Free Cheese, we're fighitng ourselves! Let's reach back to an era where superheroes were all the rave and dreams of seeing our favorite comic book characters on the big screen were becoming a reality. No, the time before that. Yeah, the one before that. We play and rank 1995's Genesis exclusive X-Men 2: Clone Wars. Despite its licensed contemporaries that often left us wishing for...