Gamers on the Go
78 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 months ago - ★★★★ - 10 ratingsGamers on the Go: A podcast archive of handheld games old and new
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GOTG Review: Astria Ascending
December 31, 2023 07:30This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. There’s a phenomena about robots you’ve probably heard of before. It’s called the uncanny valley. The idea is the closer a robot looks and acts like a human, the more its inaccuracies are scrutin...
GOTG Review: Wasteland 3
December 05, 2023 02:57This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. The first big choice you make in Wasteland 3 is selecting your initial two characters. You can pick from a handful of pre-made pairs (according to the guides I read after the fact, you should rea...
GOTG Review: Pokemon Emerald Rogue
October 23, 2023 19:00This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. Pokemon is a series that is near and dear to me, but since X & Y, it feels like the direction Game Freak has gradually taken the franchise in a direction that diverges from what I want out these ...
GOTG Review: Hypnospace Outlaw
September 28, 2023 19:00This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. Both of my parents were educators at my elementary school (they’re retired now.) Mom was a 3rd grade teacher and Dad taught gym. They both would stay after classes were over to work on lesson pla...
GOTG Review: AI: The Somnium Files and Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir
September 06, 2023 21:21This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. Not every game on the Backlog Roulette wheel is going to be a winner, and they’re not meant to be. Many are games I curiously picked up on a sale or remembered from an old tweet or offhand commen...
GOTG Review: Gunpoint
August 10, 2023 00:16This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. I always thought Gunpoint was cool. A puzzle-platformer with heavy stealth elements that saw you bounding up buildings with Superman-like leaps and hacking into electronics to sabotage the guards...
GOTG Review: Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.
July 17, 2023 16:01This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. If you know me at all, you know I love Intelligent Systems. They’re a developer who has made some of my favorite games and franchises of all time — Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Pushmo, WarioWare, P...
GOTG Review: Mutant Year Zero
June 09, 2023 23:52This is the next game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. I can’t remember the last time I shouted “oh, fuck off” as often as I did during my last Mutant Year Zero play session. Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, the 2018 breakout turn-based tactical sho...
GOTG Review: Echochrome
May 02, 2023 19:01This is the fourth game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. You want to hear something super lame? Echochrome is all about your perspective. OK, maybe I should explain why that’s lame. Echochrome is literally a game about perspective. You rotate a cam...
GOTG Review: Opus: Echo of Starsong
April 20, 2023 03:06This is the third game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. Video games can be anything — from a complex web of interactions in something like Crusader Kings, to the twitchy, fast-paced action of a Call of Duty, even to the chill vibes of A Little To The...
Chase Koeneke’s Top 25 Game Boy & Game Boy Color Games
April 14, 2023 19:00The final part in GOTG’s GB & GBC Top 25 coverage, make sure you check out my good friend Giggy’s list, as well as the shared list we made together on the most recent episode of the podcast. While the NES was my very first brush with video games, it wasn’t until the Game Boy that I truly fell in love with gaming. For a kid who got taken on a lot of long car trips, it was a godsend (both to me, but probably even more so to my parents, who could drive in relative peace). I dumped hundreds of...
Matt Giguere’s Top 25 Game Boy & Game Boy Color Games
April 12, 2023 19:00Ed. note: Thanks to “Giggysan” for joining on GOTG’s GB & GBC Top 25 episode. The following list are his personal top games for the system, which include none of the restrictions we used in our shared list. 25. Boxxle 24. Shadowgate Classic 23. Balloon Kid 22. DuckTales 21. Super Mario Land 20. Shantae 19. Kwirk 18. Metroid II: Return of Samus 17. Final Fantasy Legend II 16. Kirby’s Dream Land 15. Warlocked 14. Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land 13. Wario Land 3 12. The Legend of ...
Gamers On The Go’s Top 25 Game Boy & Game Boy Color Games
April 10, 2023 23:19On the off chance you don’t have 2.5 hours to listen to a podcast where Chase Koeneke and Matt “Giggysan” Giguere debate and deliberate over our shared GOTG list of the best Game Boy and Game Boy Color games of all time, here’s the ordered list of 25 we came up with. Same criteria we used in previous lists: One game per series (only one Super Mario Land No ports (so something like Dragon Warrior III didn’t count) Total remakes were allowed (is DK'94 a remake? Who knows?) Only official...
Episode 94: The Top 25 Game Boy & Game Boy Color Games
April 03, 2023 17:19Subscribe to the show and listen here. Chase and Matt “Giggysan” Giguere have one final era of Nintendo handheld consoles to rank, and it’s the ones that started it all. Listen in as we run through our favorites and build our list of the best 25 games you can play on these portables. Same rules as before: Straight ports are frowned upon (sorry Dragon Warrior III), only one game per series and only official US releases were considered. We’ll post the list of 25 later this week, then be on ...
GOTG Review: The Last Guardian
February 15, 2023 21:00This is the second game in my Backlog Roulette series, where each month I spin a wheel to randomly select a game on my massive backlog that I must play (though not necessarily to completion). These wheel spins occur on the monthly preview episodes I co-host with my friends on The Casual Hour podcast. I’m trying to remember the last time I felt genuine emotion for a character in a video game. Fire Emblem comes to mind. It is my favorite franchise after all. The idea of building up a roster o...
GOTG Review: Legend of the River King
January 12, 2023 19:30In 2023, I’ve decided to make a real effort in clearing out my massive and ever-increasing backlog of games. To assist with this I built something I like to call Backlog Roulette. Each month I’ll spin this wheel during the monthly preview episodes of a podcast I co-host called The Casual Hour, and I will play whichever of the 90+ games Lady Luck selects for me. I don’t have to finish every game chosen, but I do need to give them “the old college try.” You can watch me explain the concept a...
Chase Koeneke’s Top 10 Games of 2022
December 21, 2022 02:39I think in general, I found myself wanting in 2022. While new games in some of my favorite franchises saw releases, very few lived up to the expectations I had for them. I also just completely missed games that would almost assuredly make this list (Hardspace Shipbreaker, Immortality, Pentiment, Coromon, Chained Echoes, the list goes on). But what did make the list? Let’s find out. 10. Digimon Survive Look, I promised myself this would be my token tenth slot, and it’s not because it deser...
Episode 93: Playdate (Week 1-2)
May 15, 2022 18:01Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud Matt Giguere and Bobby Pease join GOTG this time as we’re all excited about Panic’s new yellow fun dispenser, the Playdate. We cover our overall impressions of the hardware, the first two weeks of official games for it (including Whitewater Wipeout, Casual Birder, Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure and Boogie Loops) and some of the software we’ve sideloaded onto the system. Look forward to future episodes where we’ll cover the other games in ...
Matt Giguere’s Top 25 GBA Games
April 01, 2022 17:01Ed. note: Thanks again to “Giggysan” for joining on GOTG’s GBA Top 25 episode. The following list are his personal top games for the system. 1. Metroid Fusion It’s weird to think 20 years ago the Metroidvania genre was barely a blip on the gaming landscape, containing just a handful of titles. Metroid Fusion (along with Zero Mission and the Castlevania GBA series) helped solidify the genre while also extolling the virtues of making them portable handheld experiences. Today, it still ranks...
Chase Koeneke’s Top 25 GBA Games
March 09, 2022 18:00There’s an argument to be made that the Game Boy Advance is where handheld gaming peaked. Its successor, the DS, represented a massive shift, with its two screens, accelerometer and touch capabilities. In contrast, the GBA is simple and pure. It’s a Game Boy, just…well, advanced. And the games also had a simple purity to them, pushing pixels and innovation within the games themselves, not relying on hardware gimmicks to keep players’ attention. Don’t get me wrong: I love the DS (read my top ...
Gamers On The Go’s Top 25 Game Boy Advance Games
March 07, 2022 18:00Matt Giguere and Chase Koeneke spent nearly three hours narrowing and ordering this list of titles (you can hear the deliberations here) for Nintendo’s pinnacle of Game Boy technology. We did have a few ground rules: One game per franchise. No ports, such as the Mario Advance games (Final Fantasy V was given an exception since it was the first decent way to play that game), but ground-up remakes like Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land were considered. And we only accepted official North American...
Episode 92: Top 25 Game Boy Advance Games
March 02, 2022 18:00Download this episode or listen on SoundCloud Matt “Giggysan” Giguere is back for another ranking of handheld games, this time for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance. From scrolling shooters to turn-based strategy games to…whatever you call WarioWare, we look back on a console packed with incredible games and try to narrow down to the best of the best. We’ll post our full list in text form later, along with our personal lists, so stay tuned for that. Show Notes: We do set a couple ground rules ...
Episode 91: Analogue Pocket (And Game Boy Baseball, Tennis & Golf)
February 01, 2022 19:30Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud Co-host of The Casual Hour Johnny Amizich returns to GOTG as we talk about a very cool new piece of tech for fans of handheld gaming: the Analogue Pocket. We give our early impressions of the hardware and talk about the possibilities it represents for portable retro gaming. And since we also wanted to talk about some actual games, we’ve dug into the well to play three of the Game Boy’s earliest sports titles - Baseball, Tennis and Golf.
Chase’s Top…However Many Games of 2021 (kinda)
January 13, 2022 01:39Is it too late to do one of these? It feels too late to do one of these. Maybe the reason this is so late is that these are becoming a little harder to do. 2020 was so odd that I ended up changing the format of GOTG’s GOTY show and didn’t do a top 10 list at all. And 2021 doesn’t really feel any less odd. The pandemic is still in full force and many games are still being delayed. And it doesn’t help that it’s harder than ever to define what a “handheld game” is these days. Apple Arcade gam...
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November 22, 2021 19:07videogameads: POKÉMON RED AND BLUE Nintendo Game Boy 1996
Episode 90: Metroid: Samus Returns
October 08, 2021 16:03Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud Happy Metroid Dread day for all the 2D Metroid fans in the house. To celebrate, Matt “Giggysan” Giguere joins as we look back on Nintendo and MercurySteam’s previous foray into the series - Metroid: Samus Returns. Is it the best remake of Metroid II? Does it inform us about anything that Metroid Dread might have in store? Does Chase like Metroid now? Tune in to this episode for answers to all these questions and more. Show Notes: Mark Br...
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October 01, 2021 23:06gameandgraphics: Super Game Boy 2 box art - Super Famicom, 1998 Released only in Japan, its main feature compared with the first device was the addition of a link port for two-player mode connection.
nintendometro: The Game Boy Camera never lies.
August 13, 2021 23:16nintendometro: The Game Boy Camera never lies.
Episode 89: Pokemon X & Y
July 26, 2021 18:06Download the episode here or listen on Soundcloud. Co-host of The Casual Hour, Bobby Pease joins Chase to talk about the first mainline Pokemon games released on the Nintendo 3DS: 2013’s Pokemon X and Y. From the French-inspired Kalos to the brand new Wonder Trading and everything in-between, enjoy this mega-evolved episode! Show Notes: We didn’t get deep into the post game, but if you want to learn about everything that opens up to you after beating the story, here you go. For more from...
Episode 88: Her Story
June 15, 2021 15:00Download the episode or listen on SoundCloud In this episode six years in the making, Pierce Courchaine joins us to talk about the mysterious and innovative 2015 game Her Story. We compare notes, discuss its calculated writing and attempt to uncover the truth. Note that we do spoil the hell out of the game eventually, but there is quite a big of spoiler-free talk at the beginning, as well as a clear warning before we get into the finer details. And because the universe is weird, turns out...
Matt Giguere’s Top 25 DS Games
February 27, 2021 16:01It’s strange to think Nintendo, once again, had to prove themselves in the handheld space after the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance handily served every bit of competition it faced. Yet in 2004, the Nintendo DS faced an uphill battle to show that having the best and fastest hardware wouldn’t necessarily result in the best sales. 16 years and 154 million units later, the legacy of the DS is strong, evident in the deluge of smartphone and mobile games that rely on a touch interface. It’s a shame...
Chase Koeneke’s Top 25 DS Games
February 26, 2021 16:00The DS was a fascinating system. It was the first salvo in Nintendo’s pivot to more innovative and oddball gaming, priming an audience for the Wii console that was about to come. It was easy to laugh at this thing. How the hell were you supposed to pay attention to two screens at once? And yet, developers found interesting new ways of using the dual screens to create a slate of awesome and original titles. I haven’t played every DS game. Hell, I haven’t even played all the ones I’ve wanted t...
The Top 25 DS Games
February 24, 2021 16:50If you’re not jazzed by the idea of a meandering, three-hour podcast detailing the lifespan of the Nintendo DS, perhaps you’ll enjoy this stripped down, no frills, top 25 list of Matt Giguere and Chase Koeneke’s favorite games for the handheld. Only one game from a given series was allowed, and while full remakes (like Final Fantasy) were allowed, remasters/ports (like Chrono Trigger) were not. Look for our personal top 25 lists (with no restrictions on ports or series limitations) coming s...
Episode 87: DS Retrospective & Top 25 Games
February 24, 2021 15:56Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud We had so much fun doing the 3DS Retrospective with Matt Giguere, we decided to bring him back to do the same with the Nintendo DS. From the hardware revisions to the best “DS” subtitle, we dive deep into this weird and wonderful system and the games it inspired. And then, of course, we spend way too much time debating the top 25 DS games of all time (with the caveat that there’s a ton of games we haven’t played for the system). We’ll post ...
Episode 86: GOTY 2020
December 19, 2020 18:39Download this episode or listen on SoundCloud It’s time for Gamers On The Go’s annual end of year wrap up, and that means East Coast Correspondent Matt Giguere is back. But with 2020 being such a weird year, we’re doing things a little differently. Instead of ranking games and picking a definitive winner, Matt and Chase just have a chill discussion about some of the best and/or most interesting games they played this year.
Blaseball: The New National Pastime
September 17, 2020 00:30Blaseball is my favorite game to come out this year so far, and that’s kind of an odd thing to say considering Blaseball barely feels like a game at all. Blaseball is a splort in which 20 teams compete under the Internet League Blaseball organization, day and night, rain or shine, and at the behest of us fans who vote to remake the league in our own image. That’s what the Blaseball FAQ says anyway. Less cryptically, Blaseball is a browser game — a massively multiplayer one at that — in wh...
GOTG Review - Banner of the Maid
August 28, 2020 23:59Banner of the Maid (Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PC) Release Date: PC - May 27, 2019 | Console - August 12, 2020 Developer: Azure Flame Studio, CE-Asia Co., Ltd. Banner of the Maid is a strategy RPG cribbing a lot from classics of the genre like Fire Emblem and Final Fantasy Tactics. But it also has a lot of interesting ideas of its own that prominent SRPG developers like Intelligent Systems should absolutely learn from and incorporate into their future games. Banner is set during an a...
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July 20, 2020 06:39nervespike: bernardcapulong | teal/clear/white glow in the dark AGS-101 GBA SP
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July 16, 2020 15:44it8bit: Nintendo Game Boy Art by Sergio Ingravalle || IG
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Episode 85: Pushmo, Crashmo & Stretchmo
June 29, 2020 16:01 - 87.9 MBDownload this episode or listen on SoundCloud The Casual Hour’s Johnny Amizich returns to the show to push, crash and stretch our knowledge of Intelligent System’s string of the 3DS and Wii U puzzle games. While we mainly focus on “the good one,” that being the original Pushmo, we do take a look at the entire franchise. Plus, we talk about the much more accurate European and Japanese names for each game in the series.
nintendometro: A cutscene from ‘Donkey Kong 94′ on the Game...
June 15, 2020 01:57nintendometro: A cutscene from ‘Donkey Kong 94′ on the Game Boy.
Matt Giguere’s Top 25 3DS Games
May 29, 2020 16:02Nine years after a harsh release and changing landscape, the Nintendo 3DS ended up to be the little handheld that could. In a time when standalone handheld systems were out of vogue if they couldn’t multitask, Nintendo managed to release a beast of a portable device and packed it with some very impressive and unique technology such as glasses-free 3D and the wonderful StreetPass software. While it was not as powerful as the PlayStation Vita or ubiquitous as the iPhone, the 3DS managed to sta...
Chase Koeneke’s Top 25 3DS Games
May 27, 2020 23:08The fun thing about doing lists for the best handheld games each year since 2013 is that you can compare your opinions then to what they are now and see what holds up. Some things have decidedly shifted over time. For example, Monster Hunter Stories has dulled a bit since I named it my 2017 game of the year, whereas repeated playthroughs of Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia have given me new appreciation for this entry in one of my favorite series. Even more interesting: 2013 claims th...
The Top 25 3DS Games
May 25, 2020 17:00On the latest episode of Gamers on the Go, Matt Giguere and Chase took a look back at the 3DS and its best games. On the off chance you’re not up for a nearly four hour recording, here is our final list of the top 25 3DS games ever. Note that we didn’t include any remasters, Virtual Console games or ports from previous systems, and that only one game per series was allowed. Let us know what we missed (or if Pocket Card Jockey is too high on the list, which it is). 25. Kid Icarus: Uprising ...
Episode 84: 3DS Retrospective & Top 25 Games
May 23, 2020 18:28 - 308 MBDownload the episode here Or listen on SoundCloud Matt “Giggysan” Giguere is back this episode to help us pay tribute to the 3DS, a system that has all but finished its run as Nintendo’s last dedicated handheld console. We’ll take a look back at the machine and its features, its successes and failures, its quirks and its lasting legacy. And then we’ll brave the monumental task of cherry picking the 3DS’ 25 best games (with a fair amount of rules to keep things interesting). If you’re not...
nintendometro: One of the original ads for the original Game...
May 21, 2020 13:24nintendometro: One of the original ads for the original Game Boy. Picking it up is the easy part.
oldgamemags: Fully loaded with the Handy Boy for the Game Boy!...
May 09, 2020 00:47oldgamemags: Fully loaded with the Handy Boy for the Game Boy! Fully Loaded. How amazing is it that there was a company called STD? And “We can help you win”? Crazy in retrospect. Follow oldgamemags on Tumblr for more awesome scans from yesteryear!
Episode 83: PAX East 2020
March 12, 2020 22:51 - 152 MBDownload this episode Or listen on SoundCloud Matt Giguere is back for our annual recap of PAX East. Matt was at the show and played a ton of games (and went through a ton of hand sanitizer), and he’s ready to report on which ones should be on your Switch eShop radar. We also chat about wrestling card games, Mario speed runs and the abundance of video game documentaries coming out these days. Show Notes: To catch Matt outside of GOTG, you can often hear him on the Abstract Japan podcast.