This Game Where

One more from the vaults, this week's episode sees Chris treat Ashley to a bit of Pipe Mania, a game developed by The Assembly Line who were, at the time of this game's release, also working with The Bitmap Brothers. Not on this, though. This was entirely their own fault. Listener's Note: This episode was recorded some time in Summer 2020 and sounds a bit different to recent episodes as a result....

We're kickin' it Jackie Chan this week with Kung Fu, a Shigeru Miyamoto-helmed project based on Jackie Chan joint Wheels on Meals, a game that just so happens to be the first beat 'em up. Will it knock Chris and Ashley's socks off? Listen in to find out!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube Instagram Fac...

Another game brand new to the pair gets a slightly mixed reaction from Chris and Ashley in this, the sixtieth episode of This Game Where! Is Phantasy Star IV an RPG for the ages or a low-level cellar rat? Listen in to find out!   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 episod...

It was always just a matter of time until Chris forced Ashley to confront his fear of survival horror games, and turns out Resident Evil wasn't quite as harrowing as Ashley was expecting. But is it a winner? Listen in to find out!   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 epi...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a kart racer in second place must be in want of a red shell or some such other device to blast their way into first, and that all started with Super Mario Kart! Join us as Ashley takes Chris for his first laps around some of the most iconic racetracks in gaming.   Come find us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and al...

For gamers of a certain age, Wakka conjures up not everybody's favourite Blitzball player, but of arcade's earliest and biggest success. Pac-Man 99, the latest in Arika's run of battle royale reinventions, is an attempt to build on the legacy of one of gaming's greatest heroes, the diminutive little puck man himself. So listen along and find out how they have done!   Come join us on all the usual...

Having taken the plunge with Subnautica thanks to Sony's Play At Home game giveaway, this week Ashley takes Chris for a deep dive into what makes it so great and why he's not been able to put it down since downloading it, along with more than a smattering of deep sea creature chat.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: T...

NNNNEEEEYOOWWWMMMM! That's the sound of fast cars going round fast tracks real fast (no, it is. It is. Go on, read it out loud. See!). It's a sound you hear A LOT in Gran Turismo which, despite having a pretty good soundtrack, ruins it by tacking on a racing game. Neither of us were into it. Listen in to find out why!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate,...

It's a big one today, as Ashley attempts to put across the finer points, both good and bad, on not just Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, but the series as a whole! Listener's note: Hannah makes her first vocal appearance of the show in this episode!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook Musi...

When the team behind the Game Gear version of The Jungle Book heard the Bare Necessities, they might have taken it too close to heart. Thankfully, there are other versions of the game and Chris and Ashley play many of them for this episode! Listen in to find out which is the best, as well as a good lot of other stuff!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate,...

Populous is the first game from developer Bullfrog, it's the progenitor of the entire God game genre, and it's also This Game Where's first Super Nintendo game. We know, we're not sure how we went so long, either, but it's happening now. Does Populous deserve to lead the charge for such an illustrious machine? Listen in to find out! Plus, Chris finally reveals the truth behind why video games have...

It appears Chris and Ashley's idea of kicking something off with a bang differ slightly, as Chris has 'kicked off' the second lot of fifty episodes with this, King of the Monsters. It's a kaiju wrestling game set in some kind of Neo-Tokyo which, when you put it like that, actually sounds pretty great! But is it? Listen in to find out!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share,...

Fifty episodes! Who thought we'd get this far? We certainly weren't banking on it. But we're here nonetheless, and we're talking about another game neither of us had played until this week - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. An absolute classic that had somehow passed us both by, we remedy that here and then let you know whether it was worth bothering (it was!).   Come join us on all the usual s...

The story of Marble Madness has a fair few interesting tidbits to it, many of which we discuss in this episode. What, you want one now? Okay, well it was one of the first games designed by industry titan Mark Cerny, before he went on to be the architect of Sony's PlayStation family of systems. Another? The dev team use ray-tracing tech to build the levels, a technology that is only now at the fore...

It's Valentine's Day again and Chris and Ashley are having a proper conversation about the place and treatment of love in games, including a look at Florence, a little indie that aims to present the workings of a relationship for the gaming crowd. Listen up and find out whether it manages it!   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if yo...

Chris continues with his delusional insistence that "Sonic is okay, really" this week, bringing us a second slice of Sonic The Hedgehog (The Game). It's the second of three iterations of the blue blur's original outing he's made Ashley play, with only the Master System version outstanding. Something tells us if that ends up on the podcast there's going to be serious words had between the two of th...

If you've played Denki Blocks then you know why we're talking about it today. It's one of a vast array of excellent games that made the Game Boy Advance a compelling and worthwhile console to have, and the studio behind it (named after the game itself) was founded by four leading lights of DMA Design, the studio behind GTA and Lemmings, among many other gems. The studio itself, one of the UK's mos...

Whatever IS The Secret of Monkey IslandTM? By an incredible stroke of luck, it turns out Chris was one of the very few people Ron Gilbert shared it with and he shares it with everyone in this week's episode! Come join us for a chat about swashing, buckling and all that piratey stuff.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please:...

What's that? Chris and Ashley are talking about Final Fantasy VII, arguably the first ever Triple A development in gaming? And Ashley attempts to reframe Jenova as not that bad, actually, but fails spectacularly? Might be worth a listen, so give that play button a press.   Come join us on all the usual socials - follow, like, share, subscribe, rate, review and all that, if you please: Twitter YouT...

A brand new year and Chris has mandated that we bring it in with a bit of Lego. Listen in to find out why, as well as Ashley's hopes for the future of Lego games.   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 by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find...

It's the final day of 2020 and our final episode of the year - and we are going out with a bang! Join Chris and Ashley as they each give a rundown of their top five games of 2020. Saying anymore would spoil the surprises, so just press play now! MINOR SPOILER WARNING: There are some VERY MINOR spoilers for some of the games in this episode, though nothing terrible.   Come and find us on all the us...

Hello everyone and happy Christmas! Join Chris and Ashley in a celebration of games that are all kind of winter or Christmas themed. Find out which games have the best snow, which ones are the Christmassiest (that IS a word!) and which ones use snow and ice in the most frustrating ways possible.   This was edited in Google Chrome Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook And remember to follow, like, sha...

Ashley likes to treat people at Christmas, and what better way than to share with them a few thoughts on one of the best games in one of the best series to exist on any platform? Join Chris and Ashley as they explore the darker side of Link's adventures. LISTENING NOTE: Ashley sounds a bit muffled for the first few minutes of this. It's because he's wearing a mask like a numpty. Bear with him. If...

Merry Christmas, everyone! This week, Chris and Ashley chat about Crusader of Centy (known as Soleil in Europe), a game Chris received for Christmas 1998, and one that blew his tiny twelve-year-old mind with its weighty ideas and fantastic gameplay. Come listen in to find out why! If you fancy coming over and wishing us and everyone else a Merry Christmas, you can find us on the links below: Twitt...

'Tis the season for getting all those closest to you something special to make them feel spoilt and loved. Whether you're buying gifts for the gamer in your life, or you're the gamer, we've got a jam-packed guide to gifts that should go down pretty well!   If you can squeeze it in between the Christmas shopping, please do give us a follow over at: Twitter YouTube Instagram Facebook And remember to...