welcome to T H E I N T E R N E T Chris and Minty, two cool-kid millennials recount their time on the early mainstream web. Flash! Neopets! MUDs! Optimism! Klik 'n' Play! Discworld! Pickles! Listen to the boys feel warm and fuzzy in remembrance of the wave of positivity that accompanied the dial up internet, and then share in their crushing sense of despair when considering how the web has splintered and become polarized some 20 years on. www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — — — — — — Massive thanks...
Dec 21, 2020•44 min
Chris was a Sega kid, and Minty was a Nintendo kid. Two childhoods characterized by conflict; the blood and sweat of frontline fighting in the console wars. Can the boys sell one another on the consoles they weren't conscripted to support as wee'uns? Chrissy-Wissy presents Minty with a veritable platter of Mega Drive classics in Streets of Rage 2, Rocket Knight Adventures and Toejam and Earl. Boothy-Toothy suggests Chris sample the delights of Super Nintendo treats, A Link to the Past, Chrono Tr...
Dec 14, 2020•41 min
The Chris and Minty Adventure Month begins NOW . Whilst Jonathan rears an actual human child, Chris and Minty get together to discuss what they've been playing and their favourite digital babies. In the first of a mini-series of episodes some are calling “a little bit silly”, and “a stark departure from the show's usual format”, the Our Three Cents B-Team do their best to entertain, inform, and discuss infant excrement and its many potential colours. www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — — — — — — M...
Dec 07, 2020•33 min
Minty yonders around, well, Yonder, as well as the Pokemon DLC. Chris beats Yonder, and blasts through a few stages of The Master Chief Collection. Jonathan has a baby. -- Jonathan bigs up a pocket-rocket of a Zelda adventure in Oracle of Ages, one half of Capcom's Gameboy Color duology. Minty flashes back to The Binding of Isaac's initial release. Chris points in the direction of Full Throttle, a mid-90s adventure game that just clicked . www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — — — — — — Massive than...
Nov 30, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 40
J. DUNN has some STRONG opinions on GLASS MASQUERADE and multitasks Mike Bithell's SOLITAIRE CONSPIRACY when he OUGHT TO BE WORKING! C. DOW draws near the end of YONDER, takes a bunch of SILLY PICTURES and plays the SONY PLAYSTATION VITA in his BED! M. BOOTH also begins his journey through YONDER and questions the VALUE of his POTATOES! And then… Hear about crafting, resource management, and ancient history in Minty's 12th favourite video game of all time, Pharaoh! Hear about invincibility, subv...
Nov 23, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 39
To celebrate seven full rotations of the earth, we've prepared a new podcast. About video games. For you! The quiz delivers a cruel twist… (CRASH!) Chris picks up Yonder, a soft pillow of a game… (BANG!) Minty vanquishes Xenoblade… (WALLOP!) Jonathan gives a seasonal update on Animal Crossing… (WHAT A VIDEO GAME!) Unlucky number 13? Nah, mate… All killer! Did you know that Jonathan's number 17, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, has inadvertently become Minty's number 13 or that Minty's number ...
Nov 16, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 38
Oh my golly gosh, would you wrap your ears around this WHOPPER of an episode! Jonathan masters Resident Evil Revelations, is undone by the architectural malaise of Doom 3, enjoys Pokémon's recent DLC drop, hypes himself into the ionosphere with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity's demo, bumbles around as a Part Time UFO, AND STILL finds time to dump a million hours into Pic Pic on the DS after Chris' recent glowing review! Minty lists the names of many Galarian Pokémon that Chris hasn't heard of, ...
Nov 09, 2020•59 min•Season 2Ep. 37
Today you're going to hear about some good games. I mean, last week's games were good, sure, but these are a whole week's worth of good better! ...but before we do that... Why not let us tell you little bits and pieces about our weekly efforts through Super Mario 64, Tetris 99, Mario 35, Pokémon Sword and/or Shield, and a wee snifter of Resident Evil! Let Minty tell you just how good Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader is! Let Jonathan tell you just how good The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is!...
Nov 02, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 36
WHAT ARE YOU BUYIN'?! WHAT ARE YOU SELLIN'?! As Spooktober draws to a close, the gang tackle a veritable moaning horde of Resident Evil titles! Will Chris surpass his previous, pathetic efforts to stomp through Resident Evil 4? Will Minty enjoy his first exposure to the series with its earliest canonical entry, Resident Evil Zero? Why has Jonathan thrown the towel in with Resident Evil Remake and leapt head first into the more modern Resident Evil Revelations? No more scary games, please. (can y...
Oct 31, 2020•30 min
Trials and tribulations in the quiz, perchance? Jonathan has a busy work week, yet still finds some time to drown in Hades' extended lore, and evolve a shiny Charmander in Pokemon Go. Minty chugs along with Xenoblade Chronicles, making his way to the Mechonis, mopping up sidequests in the wake of his relentless forward progress. Chris revisits two old favourites, the minimalist platformer Love, and the explore-em-up Submerged. List entries this week! A handheld logic puzzler no one has even hear...
Oct 26, 2020•40 min•Season 2Ep. 35
DOOM 3 then, eh? A game initially defined by being built around the question 'VISION or AMMUNITION?', today's modern suite of ports retools the vanilla game as a pretty straightforward horror-themed action title. Has this been a week of all guns blazing, demon popping pow pows? Or has the game retained elements of its early 2000s spook factor with its soupy shadows and shambling hordes? Find out by piping our words and thoughts into your ears and brains! www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — — — — —...
Oct 24, 2020•22 min
Urghh, Mario!? They're not still playing Mario are they? This week, we're going interactive with our blurb! ——— 1) Please answer the following questions by selecting the appropriate answers from the well below. [3 Marks] What's Jonathan finished or started this week? What's Minty gone back to this week? What's Chris got running in a window behind Powerpoint on his laptop this week? (Hades / MO:Astray / Book of Demons / Doom 2 / Among Us) ~~~ 2) Given the number of entries remaining across our li...
Oct 19, 2020•51 min•Season 2Ep. 34
Three men sit; crumpled, folded. A door opens purposefully. A figure enters and takes a seat across from the trio. The group's eyes meet. There is measured silence. Words fall softly into the room. "Tell me about… Amnesia." The first man shuffles in his chair before speaking with quivering voice. "The digital dark has made me fear the literal dark". The second interjects ."It's a Lovecraftian nightmare, truly." The third resident, speaks with reserve and distance. "Oppressive. Relentless. Good."...
Oct 17, 2020•25 min
This week, the boys hit the ground running with motors purring: Jonathan races through Mario's 3D ouevre at a rate of knots! Minty sets our faithful plumber to one side to race through Xenoblade Chronicles! Chris disappoints everyone by racing through Big Bobby Car: The Big Race! Travelling back in time, let Jonathan tell the story of a trendsetting Christopher Dow (aged 11 years old) importing Pokémon and setting Jonathan on a lifetime journey with pocket monsters! Pull out your Media Studies d...
Oct 12, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Spoopy poops the second! This week the gang tackle Bioshock - 2K Games' seminal first person underwater-dystopia-em-up. Played across PC, Switch and PS4, how does the game hold up 13 years after its initial release? Will Jonathan brave the shadows, or recoil under a metaphorical childhood blankie? Will Minty best the horrors of the depths, or sink without trace to a Big Daddy's fist? Will Chris shoot from his plasmid infused hands, or his spooked tooter? www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — Massive...
Oct 10, 2020•18 min
Oh, hello! New here, are ya? Not worry, not to worry. Just do your best to follow along, and you'll feel right at home in no time. You've heard of these things called video games, right? No?!! Well, you press buttons and things happen. And there's these three guys named Jonathan, Minty and Chris who like them an awful lot. Perhaps they could entice you to give them a try with their rambling superlatives? On this week's show, find out how the trio have got on with Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and ho...
Oct 05, 2020•52 min•Season 2Ep. 32
It's Spooktober! To celebrate the month of spoops and ghostly boops, we're pumping out F I V E (count 'em!) bonus episodes dedicated to playing horror games. This week - Slender: The Arrival! Will Jonathan put up with having to use a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard? Will Minty's current location, an isolated holiday cottage, help or hinder his playthrough? Will Chris drop an unexpected present in his trousers? What are we doing?! www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — Massive thanks to ou...
Oct 03, 2020•15 min
Like the perpetual turn of the earth, so Monday brings a new episode of Our Three Cents. Minty huffs unjustly after having Super Mario 3D All-Stars sent to the wrong address, so instead spends his week romping through Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. Jonathan continues his Mario marathon by beating New Super Luigi U, before starting what promises to be an extended suckle at the teat of Mario's latest Switch collection. Chris (or shall we say Moaning Michael) enjoys but also whines about ...
Sep 28, 2020•1 hr 2 min•Season 2Ep. 31
Want to know what we think of eSports? It's a topic we're all fantastically ill-qualified to discuss, but has that ever stopped us jumping headfirst into a listener question before? The boys excitedly await Super Mario 3D All-Stars imminent release, passing the time with games as varied as the ludicrous Saints Row IV, a smorgasbord of 2D Mario titles, the organically cinematic Sea of Thieves, a smattering of Apple Arcade titles viewed over the shoulder of Mrs Minty, and the STUNNING remaster of ...
Sep 21, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Mario! It's Super Mario! Find out just how much money our trio are preparing to tip into Nintendo's coffers in celebration of Mr Mario Mario's 35th anniversary! A totally unnecessary Game and Watch! eShop treats! Remasters! Reissues! Karts with cameras! Jonathan gets to the end of Raji on the Switch, and begins his journey with Spiritfarer. Minty romps through some of Doom 64's bonus episode, before returning to the nightmare of his Ultraviolence run of Doom 2. Chris gets buried under the worklo...
Sep 14, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 29
Are you a gaming virgin? Let the chaps direct you to the very best starter games for those approaching the hobby, tabula rasa. This week: Minty chips through his backlog, Jonathan fills in gaps in his knowledge of 16-bit movie tie-ins, and Chris explores a parody game. 23rd favourite games of all times, you say? Chris dehydrates himself talking about the hyper stylised, ultra violent Hotline Miami, a "ten out of ten game with an eleven out of ten soundtrack". Minty pogos as Scrooge McDuck in Duc...
Sep 07, 2020•58 min•Season 2Ep. 28
This week on the podcast, our net games played is well into the minus figures as Chris finally clears out his closet of all his repeats! Thankfully Jonathan is on hand to indulge in a plethora of games featured in the recent Nintendo Indie World Direct and samples such off piste delights as A Short Hike, Overland, Evergate and Raji: An Ancient Epic. And Minty, inspired by last week’s episode, has wrapped his fingers around New Star Soccer once more! And then onto our 24th favourite video games o...
Aug 31, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 27
The last quartile. Can you believe it? Jonathan digs into Owlboy's tantalising lore, and leaps into wireless VR with the Oculus Quest. Minty vanquishes Doom 64, after eating away at hell's offerings chip by chip for months. Chris dabbles with player-made PC mods and digs up Telltale's long delisted Jurassic Park game. How did a teenage Jonathan become the 10th best Super Monkey Ball player in the world? What makes Chris qualify New Star Soccer as a 'perfect mobile game'? How does Minty bring Jon...
Aug 24, 2020•53 min•Season 2Ep. 26
As the weeks go by, And our thoughts grow stronger, Much as we may try, Our show grows longer. A quiz, with cheers, The games we've played, A selection of memories, That will not fade. Bugs, a PC, a pirate's knell, An awakening, body horror, and a blue shell. www.ourthreecents.co.uk — — — — — Massive thanks to our Patreon subscribers Andy Smith, Gene Limbrick, CJ Anderson, Debbie Booth, Guy Lochhead and Jasper Blacketer. Watch our video content on YouTube: https://bit.ly/3dZ2gmg Subscribe to our...
Aug 17, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Season 2Ep. 25
Bloomin' 'eck it's been hot, hasn't it?! Find out what the boys think about the recent Nintendo 'Gigaleak' courtesy of a listener question. Then hear of the chaps' gaming efforts for the week. Paper Mario, Alice, Forager: DONE! Carrion: STARTED! Slay the Spire: REVISITED! Tales of Vesperia: SEGUED SEAMLESSLY INTO A LIST ENTRY! Vesperia is Minty's 27th favourite game of all time! Eternal Darkness is Jonathan's 27th favourite game of all time! OutRun 2 is Chris' 27th favourite game of all time! Th...
Aug 10, 2020•54 min•Season 2Ep. 24
This week Jonathan Dunn sails towards the end of his time with Paper Mario: The 'Orange Army' King lumping high praise on Mario's latest papery adventure. Minty Booth swings back towards loving rather than loathing the same title, allowing it to leap frog the inconsistent Colour Splash in his hypothetically revised list. Christopher Dow nears the end of Alice: Madness Returns, and revisits Deadly Premonition for some Lynchian spooks. Want to know our 28th favourite games of all time? Minty garde...
Aug 03, 2020•47 min•Season 2Ep. 23
This week: Chris attempts to chip through his backlog, SMASHING through Thumper with the highest possible ranks, MEANDERING through the middle third of Alice: Madness Returns, RESETTING and RESTARTING Forager, one of the trio's favourites of yesteryear. Minty YO-YOs between loving and loathing the new Paper Mario and the Origami King, praising some of the changes to the series wider design whilst resigning himself to finally accept that Mario's 'Story' may have finally been retired. Jonathan esc...
Jul 27, 2020•55 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Knowing me, the writer of this O3C episode blurb, knowing you, our humble listeners. Aha! We've played a lot of games this week. Oh boy have we played a lot of games! Super Mario Maker 2! American McGee's Alice: Madness Returns! The NES de-make of Pacman Championship Edition! The Last of Us! God of War! Superliminal! Probably others! Some very, very good games, and yet… AND YET… none of these games place on our collective lists! Games that ARE reserved for list placement this week: The dreamy, s...
Jul 20, 2020•57 min•Season 2Ep. 21
THIS WEEK: Minty has popped back to Skyrim's Tamriel as a man with magic mitts. Chris has popped Super Mario Maker into his 3DS, and found what is perhaps the only 'hidden gem' in the core Mario franchise. Jonathan has popped between Animal Crossing and the Last of Us, seesawing between glorious climes and azure waters, and bleak, post-apocalyptic ruins. ALSO THIS WEEK: Chris goes biblical with his description of Thumper, a dreadful, visceral 'rhythm violence' game best experienced in VR. Jonath...
Jul 13, 2020•45 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Kick off this week's festivities with a 'double pointer' quiz question! Then journey with Jonathan to the Isle of Armor, before commiserating with him as he throws in the towel with first person shooters on console; share in Chris' excitement as he watches his brother dominate a 20+ year old handheld football game; and sit patiently with Minty as he 'potters around, enjoying his life' as he anticipates the release of the new Paper Mario. Then three VERY list-worthy games. Jonathan goes deep on S...
Jul 06, 2020•43 min•Season 2Ep. 19
