Recorded waaaaay back in February but finally getting released now, listen in as I talk to Patrick Hickey Jr. about his new book The Minds Behind Adventure Games , the writing process, having an excuse to talk to cool people, the giant chore it is to decide what games get into his books, and future books that may or may not be an excuse to get to talk about all of the games he loves to talk about. You can find Patrick on Instagram @patrickhickeyjr , Twitter @reviewfixpat , and of course his pers...
Jun 14, 2020•41 min
Future tech heavy police states where still a thing of the future when we recorded this episode I swear. Can we please go back to simpler times where almost everything in Ghost in the Shell was fictional instead of just the tech? Listen in as Billy from CommanderCast joins the show and through the power of recording way ahead of time we blissfully think that there’s no way that Ghost in the Shell could ever actually be happening in the real world. Please tell me we were right about that, even if...
Jun 07, 2020•40 min
Alright, I can’t do this anymore. I need to be making this podcast. So it’s coming back! To answer a few questions right off the bat: We still aren’t in the new house. I blame…….everything………. I miss talking to people about this stuff I do talk about other things over at Caffeine and Spite now as well so if you want to hear more from me you can do that there Patreon is about to maybe get some more stuff thrown their way that you can only get there I love all of you and miss all of you and all th...
May 31, 2020•8 min
One of the things I like about comics is that there is such a history to everything. And inevitably that leads to someone hating certain iterations of a character, or with the “real life” identity of the character. Good thing Dan McMahon from DC SuperSons has some feelings on the matter. Listen in as we discuss why Hal Jordan sucks. Learn such things as: Which Green Lantern is the best? Why does Hal get a pass on so much? What’s a dumber weakness between wood and the color yellow? And so much mo...
May 01, 2020•36 min
You know who knows about wrestling? Not Chris. Like at all. Except that it’s had some video games of various quality levels put out about it. But you know who does know a lot? Charlie Davis from The Young Ones In our second Patreon First bonus episode I’m talking to Charlie about wrestling and why I should like it and why all the comics people I follow on Twitter like it. Learn such things as: Who some people are Why the different “leagues” exist Is this stuff even real? And so much more! If you...
Apr 01, 2020•49 min
No special messages this time or anything, the show is simply going on a break. Not sure for how longs. I know that sounds ominous, but it's really not that bad. Kayleigh and I are going into hyperdrive in our quest to get the house we're going to die in. Not that I think the death part is going to happen anytime soon but I'm sick of moving. Part of this though means that I'll have to take the time that would normally go towards getting the podcast ready to instead get the house ready to sell. Y...
Mar 08, 2020•6 min
Hot take: the X-Men are a bit popular and were back in the 1990s and early 2000s as well. Shocking, I know. So it’s not a surprise when an X-Men related game comes out at all. Listen in as Anthony Sytko from Capes on the Couch joins the show to take a look at X-Men Mutant Wars for the Game Boy Color. Learn such things as: Which character was the obvious favorite when making it? Where did they pull these bosses from? Why did they worry about timing this with a home video release of a movie? And s...
Mar 01, 2020•44 min
No, your eyes aren’t deceiving you. Although there might be something more than meets the eye about another Transformers game based on Beast Wars that came out not too long before the subject of the last regular episode. The Maximals and Predacons are at it again, or something like that since time gets screwed up all over the place here. Listen in as Jeremy Dennis from TransMissions joins the show to help us take a look at Beast Wars Transformers for the PS1 and we we try to figure a lot of thin...
Feb 23, 2020•39 min
Luke Herr from Exiled, Multiversal Q , and RPG Pals Club comes by the show to talk about his comic Super Slasher. Luke is great and I really love everything I’ve seen from him and I don’t expect Super Slasher to be any different. If Super Slasher sounds like something you want to get your hands on then go visit the Super Slasher Kickstarter and give him your money. I already did so you can’t pressure me with the same tactics. You can find Luke over on Exiled, Multiversal Q , and RPG Pals Club . ...
Feb 22, 2020•39 min
Welcome to the first, and free preview, of a Patreon first bonus yet unnamed series where I talk to people about things that are tangentially related to the show. Like this one, where Luke Herr from Multiversal Q and RPG Pal’s Club (as well as the recently ended Exiled) comes to tell us who The Eternals are. Learn such things as: Wait, what? Are you serious? No, that’s just insane. For real? And so much more! If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show pag...
Feb 16, 2020•51 min
Transformers isn’t a new thing. They’d been around since the 1980s. They’d had games come out in Japan. They’d had games come out on computers in America. But somewhere this is the first console game they got over here. Why? This makes no sense? Josh Garvey from the internet (ooooooh) comes by the show to take a look at Beast Wars Transmetals and to help catch me up on Transformers things since watching the cartoons is pretty much all I’ve ever done with them. Learn such things as: The fluidity ...
Feb 09, 2020•40 min
This is what the rest of the Capcom fighters focusing on Marvel characters was all leading to. One of the greatest fighting games ever made. The reason to own a Dreamcast. The epic mashup of two legendary companies that has no reason to exist in this world but does anyway. Listen in as Trent Seely from Continuity Nod comes to talk about what is possibly one of the best games every made. Period. End of discussion. Learn such things as: Seriously, is this game really as good as everyone says? How ...
Feb 02, 2020•45 min
Does anyone else think it’s weird that I got an American guest last time to look at Judge Dredd, a British comic that’s clearly riffing on American ideals? I kind of think it was, even though I wasn’t thinking about that at all the first time around. Listen in as real life British person Andrew Young from 4 Panel comes on the show to give us a more nuanced perspective on where Judge Dredd comes from and what makes it something worth exploring today. Learn such things as: How bad can a Judge Dred...
Jan 26, 2020•43 min
Spawn is still cool. There’s no denying that at all. And he hit at the perfect time. But what happens when you get this character who has literally emerged from the depths of Hell into the scariest environment known to man: early PS1 3D gaming? Listen in as Andrew Reiner from Game Informer and the new show The Spectacular Comic Book Podcast comes on the show to help take a look at Spawn the Eternal for the PS1. The game exists, and that’s all I’m going to say about that. Learn such things as: Wh...
Jan 19, 2020•28 min
You know what’s always fun? Dinosaurs. Seriously, who doesn’t like dinosaurs? Crazy people, that’s who. So if you can get dinosaurs and aliens and giant guns and it all actually makes sense? How cool is that? Listen in as Billy who sometimes writes for Commander Cast comes to talk about Turok 2 Seeds of Evil. And cool guns. And the fun of having a comic property published across about a gazillion different publishers. Learn such things as: What did Billy admit to doing that’s probably going to g...
Jan 12, 2020•49 min
As will become tradition here, the last episode of the year is a giant thank you to people who need to hear it. I certainly don’t mention everyone who deserves to be talked about, but I try. <h4>People Mentioned in this Episode</h4> Jay and Miles X-Plain the X-Men The friends I’ve made over there. You need your line here because while we met because of Jay and Miles, we’re friends because of you Paul Csomo from Varmints Matt Hocker from The Matt Hocker Show and Coo Gaming Megan Hesse...
Dec 22, 2019•11 min
Aliens. It’s not just a meme, it’s an entire government cover up spanning years and years of extra terrestrial interactions and communications. Or it’s a giant load of crap. I don’t know, I’m not a fancy science guy with a fancy security clearance. That’s where Chris and Cody from Believer Skeptic Podcast come in. Listen in as these two experts (or at least much more of an expert then I am) in the paranormal come on the show to talk about Men in Black, and a bit about men in black. Learn such th...
Dec 15, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Spencer Scott Holmes from Old Man Orange comes by the show to talk about his comic Pizza Boyz. Hear about the inspiration behind it and a bit about his process. And if I hadn’t been an idiot you could have heard it before the Kickstarter campaign was over. That one’s totally my fault. Good news though, there’s always Pizza Boyz on Comixology so you can still read it if it’s something that you’d be into. And since you’re listening to this podcast I’m pretty sure it’s something you’d be into. You ...
Dec 15, 2019•40 min
A common ghost story I hear is that the spirit can’t pass on because of unfinished business. Which is insane because we all have that, but we’ll roll with it. Imagine if instead you came back in a corporeal form to get revenge on the people who had done you wrong. Oh yeah, and you’re basically immortal until the job is done? Justin Williams from SuperTangent comes by to look at that exact situation in The Crow City of Angels. And no, you didn’t miss an episode for the first movie tie in game sin...
Dec 08, 2019•1 hr 36 min
I know, one of the problems with the show is that the handheld versions of games exist. And that if there’s a console version I tend to just ignore the hand held ones because, let’s face it, are they ever better than the console version anyway? Especially with a series like Turok that’s built around being a first person shooter on a screen that can show really good colors that’s also bigger than 2 square inches. That’s like 5 square centimeters for all of my listeners not in the US. Blair Farrel...
Dec 01, 2019•55 min
Spawn was an interesting character for me growing up, and I’ll bet I’m not the only one. I could recognize him no problem. I’m pretty sure I knew that he was a comic character. But I couldn’t have told you anything about him besides things that you could guess from his appearance. Listen in as Adam Higgins from Odd Dad Out comes to reminisce about a childhood idea of Spawn and the hilarity of having an E rated Spawn game. Learn such things as: How do Adam and Chris and basically everyone Chris w...
Nov 24, 2019•42 min
Alright, so we’ve looked at a lot of Batman. Like a lot . So let’s take a look at future Batman. Except not Bruce because it’s the future and Bruce is old and tired, you know, all the other things that old people are. Listen in as Dan and Jake McMahon from DC Supersons come on the show to talk about Batman Beyond, the future of super heroing, and fuzzy good boys. Learn such things as: How much sleep does a super hero need anyway? Do people really think that the same person has been Batman for al...
Nov 17, 2019•52 min
The 1990s were a fun time in comics. A lot of the indie comics from the 80s had either run their course or were brought into one of the major publishers. But the indies still existed, and Scud the Disposable Assassin was one of those that came out. Listen in as Brandon Cruz from Interdimensional RSS comes to talk about how a comic that not a lot of us have probably heard of have lead to (what he and tons of other people have told me) what is one of the best animated things in existence. Learn su...
Nov 10, 2019•1 hr 6 min
Oh, you thought that we were done with Dragon Ball related stuff did you? Or that the manga ending meant that the anime would end too. Well jokes on you because there’s a whole different anime series that was only inspired by the manga and of course we got a game to go with that too. Like it or not. Listen in as Eli Sirota from The Not So Crazy Podcast of Blizzard the Wizard and Eli comes by to look at Dragon Ball GT Final Bout and give us another dose of why the Dragon Ball franchise is so well...
Nov 03, 2019•39 min
Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were the introduction to anime for a ton of people my age. So imagine how cool it must have been to finally have a game of it? And a fighter at that! What could possibly go wrong? Listen in as Luke Herr from Multiversal Q, Exiled, and RPG Pals Club comes on the show to talk about the first Dragon Ball Z game made that came out in North America, but not the first one that came out in North America. Don’t worry the craziness is just getting started. Learn such things ...
Oct 27, 2019•52 min
The Marvel cinematic universe might have only existed since 2008, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t Marvel movies before. And I’m not talking about that quack of a Howard the Duck movie either. Listen in as TJ Johnson from Voice from the Underground and Lakers Fast Break comes to talk about the awesomeness of Blade, being a fractional vampire, and the joys of early 3D gaming. Learn such things as: What does this game, no doubt about it, do better than Dino Crisis? Wasn’t that the guy from Grou...
Oct 20, 2019•46 min
Imagine a world with dinosaur and man existing together except there's also modern weaponry and plasma rifles and, well, if you're not convinced now that it's awesome I'm not sure what's wrong with you. Also it's not the Savage Land. Listen in as Patrick Hickey Jr from Review Fix comes by to talk Turok Dinosaur Hunter and really delves into some of the production behind this classic N64 shooter. Learn such things as: Turok has been around for how long as a comic? Why can't people just call dinos...
Oct 13, 2019•50 min
I figured it was time to get some questions answered, so here’s a rather unedited take on that. Frequent guest Karrington Martin from Real Dudes Podcast graciously agreed to host the show so that you could hear something besides me asking myself questions because let’s face it, that could get kind of weird. A big thanks to the following people for sending in questions: Kate from Ignorance was Bliss Derek from Rolling Misadventures The Chrises from Chrises on Infinite Earths Matt from Nooks and C...
Sep 29, 2019•36 min
Blair Farrell from Comic Gamers Assemble comes by the show for another Creator Talk episode to talk about his book The Web of Spider-Man Games: The Amazing and the (Not So) Spectacular. We also talk more in general about comic based games and what other books he might write in the future. You can find Blair on Twitter @Blarcade , his website Comic Gamers Assemble , or the Comic Gamers Assemble Facebook Page . You can find The Web of Spider-Man Games on the US Amazon , Australian Amazon , Canadia...
Sep 22, 2019•37 min
Have I told you yet that in the 1990s you couldn’t escape the X-Men if you tried? Because you couldn’t. They literally were everywhere. And there was nothing we could do about it. Listen in as Devin Warner from Multiversal Q and Exiled comes on the show to talk about the first X-Men game for Game Gear. Learn such things as: Why does it have the same name as the classic Genesis game? Just kidding we don’t know that either. What little concept did they actually do well with when picking characters...
Sep 15, 2019•32 min
