Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we gotta ca...pture them all in Pokémon Snap! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest James Batchelor of GamesIndustry.biz as we try to get the very best photographs we can in this 1999 photography game for the Nintendo 64. Next Episode: New Ghostbusters II (NES) with Peter Willington! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! Smashing Bricks now has a Discord server! Follow this link to join our com...
Sep 15, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we get repeatedly crushed by a boulder in Crash Bandicoot! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Anthony LaBella as we run, jump, spin, and CRASH our way through the jungle in this 1996 3-ish-D platformer for the Sony PlayStation. Next Episode: A Mystery Game with a Mystery Guest, to be announced on Discord and Instagram soon! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! Smashing Bricks now ...
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, Shigeru Miyamoto works at Square and Mario comforts a crying Bowser. What?! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and long-awaited guest Jason Fanelli as we explore the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond in an entirely new way in the 1996 role-playing game, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars. Next Episode: A mystery game and mystery guest! Keep an eye on Instagram and Discord for the reveal! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through wit...
Jul 15, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we ask (among other things), "What do these levers do?" in Myst! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Kyle Stallock as we we seek to uncover the mysteries of the 1993 point-and-click adventure game, MYST. Next Episode: A mystery game and mystery guest! Keep an eye on Instagram and Discord for the reveal! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! Smashing Bricks now has a Discord server! ...
Jun 15, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we join an international martial arts competition in Street Fighter II! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Mark Besada as we punch, kick, hadoken, and flash kick our way through the Street Fighter II series for the Arcade...and beyond. Next Episode: Myst, with returning guest Kyle Stallock! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! Smashing Bricks now has a Discord server! Follow this ...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 30 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, it's fun in the tropical sun in Super Mario Sunshine! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Sadie Flayeh as we clean up Isle Delphino in 2002's Super Mario Sunshine, a water-powered 3D platformer for the Nintendo Gamecube. Next Episode: Street Fighter II for the Arcade (and everything else), with returning guest Mark Besada of the Board Game Barrage Podcast! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the...
Apr 13, 2023•1 hr 36 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we become 00 Agents in GoldenEye 007! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Anthony LaBella as we...bond...over Rare's classic Nintendo 64 first-person shooter from 1997. Next Episode: Super Mario Sunshine for the Nintendo GameCube, with returning guest Sadie Flayeh! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! You're also invited to drop us a line on Instagram or Twitter or via email—smashi...
Mar 15, 2023•1 hr 38 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we get pulled into the pages of our own comic book in Comix Zone! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest Kyle Stallock, a friend and colleague from the good ol' GamerNode days, as we tear through the pages of Comix Zone, a 1995 beat-em-up for the SEGA Genesis!! Next Episode: GoldenEye 007 for the Nintendo 64, with returning guest Anthony LaBella! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! You're also...
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, it's a particle acceleration experiment gone wrong in Another World! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest Neilan Naicker from the Board Game Barrage podcast as we die repeatedly in Another World, a cinematic action-adventure platformer originally released for the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST in 1991! Next Episode: Comix Zone for the SEGA Genesis, with guest Kyle Stallock! Make sure you get your hands on the game and play through with us befor...
Jan 16, 2023•2 hr•Season 1Ep. 11
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we must stop Count Dracula and his minions in Castlevania for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest Mark Besada from the Board Game Barrage podcast as we storm Dracula's Castle in Castlevania, a 1986 action side-scroller for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Next Episode: A mystery game and a mystery guest! (To be revealed soon via Instagram!) Once I reveal the upcoming game on Instagram, make sure you get y...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 15 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, it's Wibbley Wobbley Sword! Wait, what? Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest Brian Brandes as we venture into the Forest of Elrond to rescue The Princess held captive at Castle Ironspire in Wizards & Warriors, a 1987 action-adventure platformer for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Next Episode: A mystery game and a mystery guest! (To be revealed soon via Instagram!) Once I reveal the upcoming game on Instagram, make sure you get your ha...
Nov 25, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we once again enter the world of survival horror in Resident Evil 2! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and guest Jeffrey Matulef as we explore the Racoon City Police Department and all its dark secrets while avoiding zombies and other biological horrors in this multiplatform game originating on the Sony PlayStation in 1998. (This episode brought to you by the word "amazing.") Next Episode: Wizards & Warriors for the Nintendo Entertainment System...
Oct 24, 2022•1 hr 29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we become Space Hunters for the Galactic Federation in Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Anthony Gnagnarelli as we traverse the maze-like subsurface of the planet Zebes in search of the Metroids, a potential bioweapon that threatens the entire galaxy! Next Episode: Resident Evil 2 with Jeffrey Matulef. Get your hands on the game and play through with us before the show airs! You're a...
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, we jump aboard the Marvel hype train and revisit multiple X-Men video games of the early 90s, for two rival 16-bit consoles. The mutant superheroes dispatch waves of evil-doers in X-Men (SEGA Genesis), X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (Super Nintendo Entertainment System), and X-Men 2: Clone Wars (SEGA Genesis). Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Anthony Gnagnarelli as we team up with Cyclops, Wolverine, Gambit, Beast, Psylocke, and Night...
Apr 16, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Hey retro gamers! On today's episode of Smashing Bricks, one of the original videogaming icons barrel-blasts his way into the 90s in the groundbreaking platformer, Donkey Kong Country, for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)! He's the good guy this time, and will run, jump, roll, climb, swing, swim, and fly through 40 lush levels built with Rare's cutting-edge Silicon Graphics technology! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and returning guest Anthony Gnagnarelli, as we defend the jungle from Kin...
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Hey retro gamers! Get ready for 42 rounds of exciting boxing action in the World Video Boxing Association! Today we lace up the gloves for Punch-Out!! (or Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!). Will Little Mac's hard work and rigorous training pay off, 34 years later? Find out on this episode of Smashing Bricks: A Retro Gaming Podcast! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and my guest George Brandes, as we fight our way up the ranks and vie for the championship belt against towering opponents who definitely make our her...
Jan 16, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Hey retro gamers! Dive into the deep blue sea to play an adorable dolphin game on the SEGA Genesis...or is Ecco the Dolphin more than meets the eye? Find out on this episode of Smashing Bricks: A Retro Gaming Podcast! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and GamerNode veteran Anthony LaBella (yes, a different Anthony this time) as we experience revelation after revelation about this game's story, gameplay, history, and influences. It's...out...of...this...world! Next Episode: Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! for the...
Dec 16, 2021•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Hey retro gamers! It's 80s ninja action on this episode of Smashing Bricks: A Retro Gaming Podcast! We're running, jumping, climbing, and slashing our way through one of the most foundational ninja videogame classics, Ninja Gaiden for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and my old friend, first-time podcast guest, the self-proclaimed biggest Batman fan you'll ever meet, a gamer since he was three years old, Anthony Gnagnarelli, as we travel the globe and rise to the ...
Nov 16, 2021•1 hr 33 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Hey retro gamers! Get excited, because this is the premiere episode of Smashing Bricks: A Retro Gaming Podcast! What better game to revisit, explore, and discuss as we kick this thing off than Nintendo's storied sequel for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), Super Mario Bros. 2?! Join me, Eddie Inzauto, and my first esteemed guest, former Big Red Potion Podcast host, former Joystiq UK Editor, and current PR Manager for Yu-Gi-Oh!, Sadie Flayeh, as we go on an adventure back in time and into ...
Oct 15, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Season 1Ep. 1
The introductory, proto-episode of Smashing Bricks: A Retro Gaming Podcast. Welcome! I'm Eddie Inzauto, and I plan to play a lot of classic games with you and my guests over the course of the years ahead. This is a brief episode in which I just lay out the basic premise of the show and let you know which game will be first on the list. (Hint: It's Super Mario Bros. 2) Thanks for joining me on this adventure! I'll see you next time, in Subcon. Check out the links below for more content as I creat...
Sep 13, 2021•2 min
