The hosts let loose with their inner Florida Man to discuss the quintessential Florida game – Daytona USA. Let’s go away to the land of alligators, bath salts, and bike weeks and explore how Sega ended up creating the most… Read more
Continuing our annual tradition, we’ve once again watched all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 93rd Academy Awards so you don’t have to! A global pandemic has obviously made a giant mess of the Oscars this year, but… Read more
April 30-May 6: Garth Brooks gets banned, Christopher and Paulie Walnuts get lost in the woods, Forest Whitaker has a rage in Harlem, Michael Keaton is one good cop, Osama bin Laden gets got, Mel Gibson has fun with puppets,… Read more
We’ve just passed two important Mortal Kombat milestones: the 10th anniversary of the franchise-revitalizing Mortal Kombat 9, and the release of a new MK movie that doesn’t suck. To celebrate, Anthony Abatte joins us for a look at five of… Read more
The formerly PlayStation-exclusive MLB The Show is now on Xbox, which is… kinda weird, right? Almost as weird as finding out that developers now owned by Sony used to make games for competing platforms, which is what we’re delving into… Read more
April 23-29: Die Hard in a boys’ school, Sylvester Stallone does comedy and race-cars, Warren Beatty is hard to deal with, Liv Tyler seduces everybody, Winona Ryder visits Friends, Thomas Jane chases the home-run record, and we say goodbye to… Read more
It’s time to gas up the Ferraro Testabossa, select our favorite synthwave radio station, and feel the wind in our hair as we take a drive with Sega’s OutRun. Join us as we take a ride through Yu Suzuki’s career… Read more
The San Francisco Bay Area is home to two-thirds of the VGA crew (along with a big chunk of the games industry), and it’s been re-created in a handful of games over the years – so now that our episode… Read more
April 16-22: Demi Moore has mortal thoughts, we identify the weakest link, French cannibals open a delicatessen, Crocodile Dundee returns, Jane Eyre gets spooky, Reese Witherspoon gets water for elephants, and the Trailer Park Boys move in. All that and… Read more
April 9-15: David Spade has a mullet, Judy Davis stalks Hugh Grant, Paul Giamatti takes it to the mat, Rio takes kids to the favelas, Happy Endings has a happy beginning, Nancy Reagan isn’t so nice, and Josie and the… Read more
Thankfully, we’re long past the point where every unforgiving game gets compared to Dark Souls. What we’re talking about this week, with special guest Leif Johnson, are our favorite Souls-likes – that is, games that consciously borrow parts of Dark… Read more
Warning: Listening discretion is advised. We hold a serious discussion about the first truly controversial arcade game – Death Race. What led Exidy to release this death simulator upon an unsuspecting public? How did something so outrageously graphic make its… Read more
The 3DS turned 10 this week, so let’s grab friend of the show Micah Seff and celebrate the revolutionary, unassailable, beloved powerhouse of a handheld… by looking back at five ways it nearly dropped the ball in its first few… Read more
April 2-8: Sparks fly between Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger, Helen Mirren is the prime suspect, Morgan Freeman hunts a killer, the president gets a sitcom, Danny McBride and James Franco get high, Russell Brand makes either the best or… Read more
We love ourselves some long lost subgenres, and film subgenres don’t get much deader than the Erotic Thriller. As premium cable mainstays of the 80s and 90s, many of us grew up with sneaky late night HBO screenings as our… Read more
There’s something about the arcade experience that’s tough to capture at home – especially for games that involve ridiculously bespoke hardware that would be impractical to set up in a living room. This week, we welcome back Dan Amrich for… Read more
March 26-April 1: Jake Gyllenhaal is unstuck in time AGAIN, Robert Townsend’s in a band, gay marriage destroys everything — or doesn’t, Patrick Wilson is the no. 1 scream king, Pierce Brosnan is a bad spy, Russell Brand goes like… Read more
It’s time for another Arcade Obscura where each of the hosts pitch their choice of underrated or underappreciated sports-based arcade game. PastBlaster serves up a gorgeous attract mode, but may not deliver on the gameplay. Mr. SNK comes out of… Read more
