On this Doki Doki Panic podcast: four Mario games in one episode plus kaizo game design, Lost Levels, and SMB2’s contributions to Mario canon.
Mage Cast
On this Famicom podcast: translation vs localization, NES vs Family Computer, and your favorite imports that you’ve yet to play!
On this Armored Core VI podcast: differences between AC and Souls, positive difficulty, and an analogy for Hawaii in Rubicon.
Critics, scores, rage reviews, and the N64 collide! Tune in when memes attack with Quest 64 and Quest64Official!
(Re)Introducing MageCast X, the newly rebranded podcast for conversationalists, feat. the Well-Red Mage and CriterionX!
On this Breath of Fire II podcast, how Capcom’s classic Super NES JRPG proved to be such a formative title in our education and career.
On this Monster Hunter Tri podcast: a triumph of video game preservation restoring lost content from the 2013 online server shutdown.
On this King’s Quest podcast, revisiting the icon that pioneered so much; how to do adventure games in the internet age; childhood curiosity.
On this Total War: Warhammer II podcast, the difference between strategy and tactics, macro and micromanaging, and more!
On this Marvel vs Capcom 2 podcast, our 3 picks, your 3 picks, and the psychology behind those picks and how we play fighting games.
On this TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge podcast, pudding pies, action figures, comic books, and the lasting appeal of the 4 shell-heads.
On this Harvest Moon podcast, the fate of the old series, getting career inspiration from video games, and the 1st farm sim ever!
A randomized single-screen permadeath shmup roguelike with a stalker enemy, top-down overworld, and RPG elements,…
On this Crystalis podcast, ties to Nausicaa and Laputa, retro inventory management, and the method of NES storytelling.
On this DDR Mario Mix podcast, rhythm games as timing games, the death of DDR, Super Mario and classical music.
On this Elden Ring podcast, two worlds collide: a Soulsbornekiroring noob sits down with two veterans of the source material!
On this Link’s Awakening podcast, all the elegance, wistfulness, whimsy, sadness, loneliness, and haunting qualities of the 4th Zelda.
On this Radical Dreamers podcast, how the forgotten Satelliview text adventure relevantly connects Cross to Trigger.
On this Stranger of Paradise podcast: a game with combat that slaps harder than the Oscars but a story too stupid to ever win one.
On this Abzu podcast: mythology, walking simulators, environmental storytelling, and sexuality without sexiness.
On this Spider-Man podcast: the reason for the wacky controls in early Spidey games as well as a conversation on relatability and retro.
On this Command & Conquer: Red Alert podcast, war as entertainment, time travel in video games, and cheesy FMVs with great actors.
On this Final Fantasy VI podcast, pixel remaster anticipation, character development and why Kefka works, and Uematsu’s master works.
On this Yoshi’s Island podcast, the superficial coloring book world gives way to a wealth of complexities, nuance, and masterful design.
On this Octopath Traveler podcast: the grind, passive characters, HD-2D, and more than you ever wanted to hear about Slash.
On this Mortal Kombat podcast, violence and the ESRB, differences from Street Fighter, and the best video game movie theme song.
It’s a GoldenEye 007 podcast, shaken, not stirred. We’re talking Bond games, Bond films, and screenpeeking.
On this Hollow Knight podcast, retro influences, going deep and dark, and how to get games as creative as this.
On this Metroid Dread podcast, the difficult conversation of difficulty vs accessibility and challenge vs fairness.
An open journal about everything that happened in my tumultuous life in 2021, PLUS announcing our 2021 GOTY winner!
