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Bubbles are back, baby. Everyone's talking about them, not least of all Chris and Ashley who are this week playing the OG bubble blaster, Bubble Bobble on the Sega Master System. It's a game that's got it all: dinosaurs, bubbles, dragons, more bubbles, questionable pickups, and still more bubbles. But is it any good? Listen in and find out!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, s...

Cartoon Cartoons make a welcome return this week as Chris and Ashley discuss Dexter's Laboratory: Deesaster Strikes on the Game Boy Advance! There is gloom and doom while things go boom in this isometric puzzle-platformer based on the OG 90s cartoon - listen in to find out what we make of it. Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you...

Normally, Chris and Ashley only ever gotta go fast when they're hanging about with sketchy blue spiny mammals, but this week, just like Markus Zuckybug instructed, they're using cars to proceed quickly and smash stuff in Burnout Revenge! Like a big boy's version of a kart racer, the player is tasked with forcing other racers off the road, into walls and over cliffs so that they can be victorious....

It's Hallowe'en so we're celebrating all things that go bump in the night by visiting MediEvil on what is its 25th anniversary! This 3D platforming-action-hack 'n' slash hybrid was enjoyed by Chris immensely back in the day so join us as we exhume it for a post-mortem.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTub...

Ahead of the imminent arrival of its sequel, Chris and Ashley are taking another look at Cities: Skylines, a game Ashley has been playing on and off for many years (and first discussed back on episode 19). Will Chris finish up with the city-building bug, or will his dream of a town of one's own go up in flames? Listen in to find out! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, sub...

Chris shows Ashley Constructor this week, a game that he may or may not have actually played. A man-sim in which you acquire land, build facilities on said land and then build houses to shelter tenants to work in the factories on said land, its 1997 sensibilities seem a little outdated. Listen in as we tuck into Constructor and deduct whether it sucks or not.   Come join us on all the usual social...

Ashley is once more bucking the system and fighting the power to bring a brand new game to our retro gaming format. Sea of Stars deserves its place as an exception to the general rules of the show, or so Ashley says. Listen along as Chris gets an earful all about just how exceptional Sabotage Studio's gem of a JRPG really is! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe,...

Because of the mad hubbub around the third game in the series, Chris and Ashley venture back to where it all began with the original Baldur's Gate. Standing tall among a litany of D&D computer game adventures, this 1998 classic captured millions of imaginations in its day. But can it do the same for our hosts? And will they find the aforementioned gate? Or Bal anyone's dur? Listen in to find o...

Can a game that started with just the name be any good? That's the question we're asking this week as we take a look at Syphon Filter, an action espionage thriller type affair that feels like what you'd get if you smooshed Tom Cruise into a PlayStation. What did we think? Listen in to find out! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if yo...

This week, we go medieval in Golden Axe, everyone's favourite 1989 side scrolling fantasy-themed beat 'em up! Join us for a flagon of ale, a ride on a chimera and a battle against some giants - just watch out for those pesky magic-stealing elf creatures on the way.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube In...

If you can't read, write, or type, then Read, Write & Type may be just what you need! Chris and Ashley take on the challenge to play more than ten minutes of what, even by the standards of its day, must surely have been a tedious and uninspired attempt to gamify the art of typing. Why has Chris done this, we hear you ask! Well, listen along and find out! If you fancy giving Read, Write & T...

We roll with the punches this week in our first PlayStation 2 title, 2005's We Love Katamari! This game where you control a little guy rolling things up into a ball that gets progressively larger, it got Ashley through the hangover after his eighteenth birthday. Join us as we ramble on about this special time, self-consciously wacky games and a very unusual console with a crank. Come join us on al...

If you're looking to beat Nintendo at their own game, they say you can't go too far wrong inviting Mickey Mouse along to help you. That's exactly what happened with the Sega Mega Drive in 1990. It might not have been Mickey's first foray into video games, but it's certainly considered one of his best. To mark the release of Illusion Island this week, we go back to where it all began in Castle of I...

In stark contrast to last week's dirt-laden bloodfest, we are taking a look at the cosiest of cosy cleaning games, Chibi-Robo! A proper gem on the Nintendo GameCube, the player stars as the titular robot, tasked with cleaning up the house and straightening out the lives of the Sandersons along the way. Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all tha...

Who wants Worms? Because we've got plenty this week, and they're the most disposable kind! Yes, Team 17's seminal annelid death simulator is under the microscope and we're digging down deep into what makes this particular patch of dirt tick. Come join us for a cosy, slightly squishy, and very explosive chat! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and a...

Link's at it again, but this time, he's got company! And a prosthetic arm. Is it prosthetic? Grafted? Yeah, let's go with that. A posse and a grafted arm. And batteries! Can't forget the batteries. Oh, and the Kinder(TM) Surprise(TM?) capsules full of useful goodies to build a whole fleet of ridiculous contraptions. Is that it? Of course it isn't! There's so much more to talk about with Tears of t...

We journey way back to 1977 this week to visit Zork, a text-based adventure game that laid the foundations for what the adventure genre evolved into. With nowt but white writing to fuel our imagination, will Zork be a corker or will it make us balk?  Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook...

Are you looking for the kindest characters in gaming? Well, look no further than Undertale! Despite its pixel art aesthetic and comical chops, this experience manages to offer some of the most well-rounded characters in gaming, along with gameplay that subverts the usual tropes. Come join us for our first forays into the Underground! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, sub...

A game based on the story of the Old Testament's Noah might not float everybody's boat at first contact but, far from sinking like a stone, Chris and Ashley find a lot in this NES platformer  to keep the conversation buoyant. Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook Music for this episode is...

Chris takes Ashley to the World of Balance this week for Final Fantasy VI, a sprawling sprite-filled SNES sensation that Chris played as a PlayStation port instead of the original. Its steampunk sensibilities and cracking gameplay mean it's incredibly well-regarded by critics and fans alike so we were really buzzed to try it - find out how we got on! Chris mentioned a Kotaku retrospective during t...

This week, Chris and Ashley hit the wall with Incredible Crash Dummies, a game that was inexplicably part of a much larger cross-media franchise that people were apparently buying enough of to make a game of it. People aren't really talking about it anymore. Find out why on this week's episode! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if yo...

Have you ever wanted to be a horde of monkeys trained to take out any and all balloons that float by using absurdly accurate dart-throwing skills? Haven't we all wanted to be that at some point? Well Bloons Tower Defense lets us all fulfil that very widespread power fantasy, and then some! But how does it rate? Listen in to find out! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, sub...

Ashley has been enjoying Rayman Origins of late, so he takes Chris down memory lane to see the second game in the series - 1999's Rayman 2. A 3D platformer starring the little chap with no limbs, this game was very well received 'pon release. Listen in to see how it holds up! Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter Y...

At the same time as he was putting the glad in Gladiator, Disney's Hercules was also attempting to put the play in PlayStation! This week, Chris and Ashley venture back to Ancient Greece to see how well Hercules, Phil, Meg and the rest fare at doing just that!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube Instagr...

We're going back to the roots of a gaming giant this week as we take a look at Game and Watch Gallery Advance on the Game Boy Advance. A celebration of all things Game and Watch, this compilation of both classic and modern takes on the earliest Nintendo games is a feast for anyone interested in the history of gaming. But is it fun too? Join us to find out! Come join us on all the usual socials - f...