March 5-11: Look Who’s Talking comes to TV, Judd Nelson has an third arm, Robert De Niro has 15 minutes, Christopher is a made man on The Sopranos, Michael J. Fox learns The Hard Way, Mars Needs Moms and maybe… Read more
If you haven’t commandeered a car by jumping to it from your own speeding whip, can you really be said to have commandeered it at all? This week, we celebrate five games that let us accomplish the impossibly awesome feat… Read more
It’s a little late, but just in time for the Golden Globes, Laser Time’s annual TV wrap up is back for another year-end wrap-up. Life outside took a big hit, but streaming services thrived as everyone became of the Scrooge… Read more
Feb. 26-March 4: The Gulf War gets ugly, David Arquette is dumber than a dog, the LAPD are under fire, The Lone Gunmen are right about something, Buffy and the Sopranos confront death, Matt Damon gets adjusted, the Taliban are… Read more
Everyone loves a good revenge story, so this week we’re joined by Mike Williams of PCMag to take a look at five of the most gripping stories of single-minded, systematic payback produced by videogames. Then we’ll explore Bravely Default 2,… Read more
It’s our 37th episode (in a row) and we’re crashing the net with our most requested sports game – NBA Jam. We break down all the boomshakala basics and dig deep to uncover some little known facts with the help… Read more
Feb. 19-25: Charlie Sheen has tiger blood, Woody Allen is trapped in a mall, Kurt Russell is Elvis AGAIN, Kevin Bacon is in the he said she said bullshit, Elton John has an unlikely duet, Disney makes travel in California… Read more
With Persona 5 Strikers – the Dynasty Warriors-flavored sequel to the original P5 RPG – out this week, we’re joined by special guest Emmett Watkins of VGU.TV for a look at five sequels that switched to a new genre, forever… Read more
Abrupt heel-turns are always fun, especially in fighting games where a goody-two-shoes hero gives in to the Dark Power within and becomes a corrupted, evil version of themselves (usually with cooler moves). This week, we welcome Anthony Abatte to help… Read more
Feb. 12-18: Dan Aykroyd causes Nothing But Trouble, Baby Jane is still happening, Roseanne kills on SNL, we say goodbye to The Intimidator, Keanu and Charlize have a month, Chris Rock is a white guy, Debbie Reynolds and Liz Taylor… Read more
It’s time to hit the links with maybe the best arcade golf game, but definitely the best Neo Geo golf game – Neo Turf Masters! We put skin in the game by exploring the Major Titles that led up to… Read more
Los Angeles is the setting of roughly 500% of all motion pictures, and yet relatively few games have tried to turn its sun-baked sprawl into a game world. So this week, let’s grab PNB‘s TL Foster for a look at… Read more
Feb. 5-11: Hamlet kills Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, Julia Roberts is sleeping with the enemy, Jerry Seinfeld’s got a new jacket, Pete and Pete go on adventures, Jack Black loves Neil Diamond, Justin Bieber is in 3D, Channing Tatum… Read more
Train levels are a well-worn trope by this point; start at the caboose and fight your way up to the engine, all in a linear, narrow environment that allows for some variety as you move from car to car. As… Read more
Jan. 29-Feb. 4: Ed Begley is a giant bug in Meet the Applegates, Richard Dreyfuss goes Once Around, Futurama has Amazon Women in the Mood, Community’s D&D game gets banned, felonies are fun in Green Card, Natalie Portman is the… Read more
Better late than never, our annual tradition of picking out the best films of the year has arrived, if not without a COVID shaped caveat. But a pandemic can’t keep cinema down, even if is keeping cinemas closed. There was… Read more
It’s (somehow) our first Nintendo episode! And just like real life we wait until our mid-thirties to get into Nintendo games. We talk about a sports game way before its time – Punch-Out!! How did a company directive to use… Read more
Jan. 22-28: Anjelica Huston is grifting, Kuwait is on fire, a crazy story of bad dogs, Whitney Houston rocks the anthem, Oliver Reed has a drink, bank-robbing cheerleaders, Macbeth vs. McDonald’s, major bummers with Ryan Gosling and Nicole Kidman, and… Read more
