Boop
214 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 126 ratingsScott and Brian cover indie gaming and more every week!
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SPECIAL: A conversation with Chris Metzen
November 11, 2022 20:05 - 1 hourSPECIAL: A conversation with Chris Metzen: I really think you’ll all enjoy this interview. A lot has happened since we last had this opportunity, and we talk about it all. And yes, even the Blizzard stuff you have questions about. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PLAY RETRO 03: The Donkey Kong Arcade Series
January 18, 2022 00:07 - 1 hourToday, it's all about a monkey named Donkey, and a little guy named Jump Man, and how the biggest shift in character-based gaming was about take a HUGE leap right under our noses. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PLAY RETRO 02: Phantasy Star IV
January 11, 2022 00:14 - 1 hourPhantasy Star IV: The End of the Millennium is a role-playing video game developed and published by Sega for the Sega Genesis. It was released in Japan in 1993 and Europe and North America in 1995. It is the fourth and final game in the original Phantasy Star series, concluding the story of the Algol Star System. And we are here for it! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
PLAY RETRO 01: Joust
January 04, 2022 00:38 - 1 hourThe first episode is here! And there's a lot in here, including a deep loving look at Joust, and why it might be the greatest arcade game of all time. We also talk about playing retro games in VR, how Scott grew up with arcades in his basement, Guess Our Game remains, and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 313: Retroactive
November 30, 2021 00:07 - 1 hourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 312: We'll Need More Ninjas
November 23, 2021 00:01 - 1 hourHalo and drugs are quite the combo. What is Ridley Scott thinking? This week's release news! Scott reviews Cyber Shadow. Brian reviews Undungeon. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 311: Ugly but Fun!
November 16, 2021 23:59 - 1 hourLots of stuff to talk about today, including getting into driving games again, and playing Stranger Things puzzle games. Scott reviews Dungeons of Edera. Brian reviews Recipe for Disaster. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 310: A lot to Unpack
November 08, 2021 23:53 - 58 minutesWe look at this week's releases, plus a few more indie stories! Scott reviewed Unpacking. Brian reviewed Despot's Game. Guess Our Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 309: A lot to UNPACK
November 01, 2021 22:58 - 1 hourQuick stuff about the state of Rogue Legacy 2, and Brian trying to find the real Bucky O'Hare. This week's new games include Unpacking, To The Rescue, and Giant's Uprising. Scott reviews Let's Make a Zoo, and Brian reviews They Always Run. Guess My Game, new emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 308: Demon Handed Bathtub
October 25, 2021 23:11 - 1 hourLots of stuff today! New games this week and next! Scott reviews Inscryption. Brian reviews Into The Pit. Guess My Game, and your emails too! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 307: Defend THIS Tower!
October 18, 2021 23:01 - 1 hourGames coming this week: Lumione, Into The Pit, and They Always Run. Today Scott reviewed Big Farm Story. Brian reviewed The Riftbreaker. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 306: Someone Scan The Arcade
October 12, 2021 22:44 - 53 minutesDusting off the Saints and Imagine Earth. Messing with the Vanias. New games this week. Scott played Mind Scanners. Brian played Arcade Tycoon. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 305: Doing Ninja Stuff
October 04, 2021 23:18 - 1 hourHey! It's October and time to talk about the scary games we wanna play. Not only that, but we go through new releases and upcoming indies! Also, Scott reviews Aragami 2, while Brian reviews Potion Craft! Emails, Guess My Game, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 303: Reset The Customers
September 21, 2021 23:13 - 1 hourStreaming when you don't wanna. PS Now for Brian? New releases and upcoming games! Gas Station Sim is Scott's game. Brian plays Flynn: Son of Crimson. Guess My Game. Emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 302: The Cute Spiders
September 13, 2021 23:07 - 1 hourBack to Spiritfarer! And was Path of Neo actually good? The weeks new and upcoming releases! Scott reviews Car Mechanic Simulator. Brian played Lake. We stump each other with Guess my Game, and do your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 301: Scratch It
September 06, 2021 23:21 - 58 minutesWhat to do with all your minis. Also, the games hitting right now and this week! Plus Scott reviews Song of Iron, while Brian reviews Greak: Memories of Azur. Guess My Game, and your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 300: You've Ruined my Banners
August 23, 2021 22:56 - 1 hourMobile games that take your day over. 12 Minutes and it's weird endings. Lots of new games out this week and next. Scott played Banners of Ruin. Brian played Dreamscaper. Guess My Game! Your emails and lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 299: Rustle Up Some Game Grub
August 17, 2021 23:14 - 1 hourBeing a Dwarf again! Halo don't play like that! Lots of new and upcoming indie releases to talk about today. This week's games: Scott played Rustler. Brian played Atrio: The Dark Wild. Guess My Game, your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 298: Eat the Meat, Save the Barf
August 09, 2021 23:06 - 1 hourToday Scott and Brian kick it off with some discussion around controller matching. Then we dive into the latest indie releases. And THEN Scott goes hard on Lawn Mowing Simulator. Brian is all in on Death Trash. We play Guess Our Game, and finish things out with some emaily things. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 297: Back Bones and Elbows
August 02, 2021 23:39 - 1 hourScott got a Backbone, and Brian got a HOTAS. We also played The Last Campfire and The Ascent. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 296: Maybe Healing Him will Help
July 26, 2021 22:54 - 1 hourWhy some weird MMO's actually work. How many He-Man games were there? Upcoming releases and news. Scott played Death's Door. Brian played Imagine Earth. Guess My Game! Emails! And loads more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 294: Head In The Clouds
July 19, 2021 23:04 - 1 hourDoes Scott actually like cooking sims? Does brian like Bears? Some news of new games, and then Scott played Crash Drive 3, while Brian played Black Skylands. Guess Our Games, and your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 294: Your Own Stories
July 05, 2021 22:54 - 53 minutesWhat you play on the road to see family. Cleaning up your codes! Doki Doki, Fermi, and Wonder Boy in news. This week we review, Wildermyth and Hellpoint. Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 293: Stay a while, and avoid the puppets
June 28, 2021 23:11 - 1 hourWant more metroidvanias in your life? Good news! Teardown makes things easier. Alex Kidd is back and on your TV. THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: Traveller's Rest and Hello Puppets: Midnight Show. Guess Our Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 292: Up Thru Hell
June 15, 2021 23:19 - 1 hourLots more indys at E3 this week, and we talk about em. Also, Tunic is still real! LOADS of xbox demos now up. Disney loosens up a little for indy devs. Scott played and reviewed Rising Hell. Brian played and reviewed Until We Die. Guess Our Game, your emails and lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 291: Building Decks and Climbing Hills
June 09, 2021 00:51 - 1 hourWe look at the big stuff that came out of the Guerrilla Collective Showcase. Plus, our games this week: Tainted Grail, For The Warp, and Insurmountable! Plus Guess My Game, and lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 290: Dodge This Ball
May 25, 2021 22:54 - 1 hourEA Dodgeball, Days Gone, Netflix is getting into games? Wanna get new Silent Hill games? King of Seas too. Scott played Voxel Tychoon. Brian played The Wild At Heart, and LOTS more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 289: Devolving into Billions
May 18, 2021 22:59 - 1 hourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 288: Doin' that 80 12, baby!
May 04, 2021 23:16 - 1 hourAll the Golf. Waiting for that Xcloud invite. MS giving a better cut to devs. Legend of Keepers is OUT of EA. Turnips are really popular on Steam right now. Hot deals! Skeletal Avenger. We Are The Caretakers. Guess My Game. Your emails. A new contest and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 287: My Bullets Go Around
April 27, 2021 23:00 - 59 minutesWe get into it this week right away, with the Evercade VS, Mona, and Instruments of Destruction! Scott played and loved Orbital Bullet. Brian played and loved Rain on Your Parade. We have a great music discussion and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 286: Cloud Monsters
April 20, 2021 23:18 - 55 minutesScott has his head in ESO hard, and Dun away did NOT get his Xcloud invite. Also, we hit some breaking indie news, and then got to some sweet games this week. Scott played American Fugitive on Switch, and Brian played The Slormancer on Steam! Guess My Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 285: Set your Grove on Fire
April 13, 2021 23:03 - 1 hourPut in the Italian Sub! Also, Cozy Grove is rad. Wildfire is also rad. Your emails are rad. Our Guess My Game competition is pretty rad. And loads more! Including what game we wanna see resurrected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 284: Romantic Dorfs
April 06, 2021 23:04 - 56 minutesRock Runners is going strong! Still can't stop with these life sims. Bite the Bullet provides twitch fun. Scott played Dorf Romantik, and Brian played Narita Boy. Guess My Game, emails and MORE! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 283: Check it twice, that game is nice!
March 30, 2021 23:07 - 1 hourLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 282: Scratching that cyber itch
March 23, 2021 22:59 - 1 hourScott decided that everyone should give Mankind Divided another shot because the game is rad and will fill your Cyberpunk void. Brian thinks the way to go is some dark fantasy turn-based business with King Arthur: Knight's Tale. Plus some Guess my Game, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Frogpants Plays: Special Interview with Chris Metzen
March 23, 2021 18:18 - 1 hourScott and Chris have a sit-down and chat up up about his new big project, plus lots of great insights into development of this kind of project vs something like a major game release at Blizzard. Here’s a bit more about the project. Auroboros: Coils of the Serpent is a 5E campaign setting by Chris Metzen and Warchief Gaming. The first release in this universe, Worldbook: Lawbrand, is based on the roleplaying campaign that Chris ran with his childhood friends in the eighties and nineties, ...
BOOP 281: Tiny Town Everywhere
March 16, 2021 22:51 - 50 minutesScott has a town building problem today. Brian got an early birthday present. We talk at length about Nebuchadnezzar, while Brian goes in deep on Rogue Heroes, Guess Our Games, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 280: One More Loop
March 10, 2021 00:10 - 1 hourWe go from monitor buying options, too much time in Valheim, and then, this week's games! Loop Hero for Scott, and the final release for Curse of The Dead Gods for Brian. Guess Our Games, emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 279: Just Be Millionaires.
March 02, 2021 23:39 - 50 minutesWaiting for Shipbreaker patches. System Shock demo play9ing. The Touryst is really fun and on Gamepass. Ultimate Adom: Caverns of Chaos is out. Guess my Game, your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 278: Val Heeeeem!
February 24, 2021 00:05 - 1 hourWe get down to business this week with a little more about Scott's stream play of Little Nightmares II, and how Arcanium got a nice update! His game this week is Blasphemous! Brian's is Valheim, and we both played a load of that. Guess My Game, emails and more! Oh, and what happened to Game Genies and Game Sharks! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 277: Naked Rust Guy
February 16, 2021 23:42 - 47 minutesScott plays Legend of Keepers, and brian plays Little Nightmares II, and we also play Guess my Game, and we also read and answer emails. What else could you ask for? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 276: The One With All The Animals
February 09, 2021 23:49 - 56 minutesWe talk about cool homebrew arcade stuff, the fact that we are only a few days away from more Mario Goodness. Scott played Arcanium: Rise of Akhan. Brian played Ratropolis. We had a great chat about CRT displays and what leg you have to sell to afford one, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 275: How many spiders?
February 02, 2021 23:49 - 51 minutesScott is still breaking ships, Dunaway wants to sell his Stadia controller. Scott reviews Kill it With Fire. Brian played Encodya. Guess My Game! Your emails and more! And when should you remove your old 8bit console from your TV. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 274: Like Ultima but Not Like Ultima
January 27, 2021 23:56 - 57 minutesScott keeps going back to 2015 and playing Invisible Inc. Brian picked up a big new Samsung display finally. Scott played Fort Triumph this week and really quite liked it. Great if you like your Xcom-style gameplay, and Might and Magic world management. Brian ran all the runs in Skul the Hero Slayer, a rogue-like with some special sauce to be sure. Guess my Game, your emails and maybe some good Ultima-likes in 2021. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 273: Can You Hear This Show In Space
January 20, 2021 00:17 - 1 hourScott played a LOT more Shipbreaker over the weekend. Brian got a shiny new monitor! And Everspace 2 had a great new start! Brian got deep in Skellboy and talks about what he say. We play a little Guess My Game, and read your emails about comfort games! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 272: The Sun is Crying
January 12, 2021 23:41 - 47 minutesWe play Crying Suns, buy Series X controllers, play Unto The End, Guess our Game, what survival games are worth your money and lots more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 271: Raid It In Space
January 06, 2021 00:00 - 53 minutesWhy Scott needs more mechs in his life, and when GOG2 gets even better. Space Raiders in Space is Scott's game of the week, Brian talks up Visage while he poops himself. Guess Our Games, your emails and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 270: Sometime before the ashes
December 29, 2020 23:38 - 48 minutesScott finally discovered why everyone loves Monster Train so much. Little Nightmares 2 is coming to Brian's house! Chronos: Before The Ashes, Monster Sanctuary, Guess Our Game, and loads more to end the year of 2020! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
BOOP 269: Box full of Cloudy Punk under the tree
December 23, 2020 00:00 - 59 minutesIt's our CHRISTMAS show, with lots of great talk including our BOOPIES awards for 2020! Plus a deeper look at CloudPunk, El Hijo, our go-to holiday video games, and why sometimes you just need a match three game to get the job done. THE BOOPIES! Scott Top 3 BOOP Show games of 2020: Star Renegades, Cloud Punk, & Fury Unleashed. Early Access Game he loved: Shipbreaker. Brian Top 3: Carrion, Evergate, & As Far As The Eye. Early Access Game: Phasmophobia Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...
BOOP 268: Erik is the worst
December 15, 2020 23:50 - 52 minutesNew show with lots of great stuff! Why your controller's blutooth might suck. Scott played the 4 player combat blast GUNTASTIC, and Brain finally went hard with Dragon Quest II. Guess Our Games! And your emails to end things out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices