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Power Button - Episode 383: All New For 2024! More Updated Re-Releases! (Part 2)
April 24, 2024 16:00 - 55.3 MBFollowing on from last week, back in 2018 we did a two-part look (Episodes 269 and 270) at video games remade with new or changed features such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening gaining a color expansion as Link's Awakening DX. I don't know if you've noticed, but video game publishers are still doing this sort of thing six years later, so it's time to take another look at the topic. This one is so large that we're breaking it into pieces; Part 1 was released last week and this is Part ...
Power Button - Episode 382: All New For 2024! More Updated Re-Releases! (Part 1)
April 18, 2024 16:00 - 76.4 MBBack in 2018 we did a two-part look (Episodes 269 and 270) at video games remade with new or changed features such as The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening gaining a color expansion as Link's Awakening DX. I don't know if you've noticed, but video game publishers are still doing this sort of thing six years later, so it's time to take another look at the topic. This one is so large that we're breaking it into pieces; Part 1 is available right now with Part 2 coming next week. Download this we...
Power Button - Episode 381: Dangerous Blake In "Copyright Infringement"
April 12, 2024 18:09 - 100 MBI sent my international buyer, Blake Grundman, overseas to acquire some rare gaming antiquities for me. That is, he picked up some fairly priced amiibo and games that are hard to find and not so fairly priced here. This leads into a discussion on how else to play retro games whose corporate ownership has turned to dust over the decades, and that's how we get into hacking devices to run emulators. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTune...
Power Button - Episode 380: Yakking About Llamasoft
March 18, 2024 18:06 - 59.1 MBWe were fortunate enough to get advance access to the new Digital Eclipse Gold Master series of documentary releases, Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story, so for this week's episode of the podcast we discuss the title, its interactive exhibits, and the 42 games and light synthesizers included. From Attack of the Mutant Camels to Hover Bovver to Tempest 2000, there's quite a collection of history here. Join us and find out what all the fuss is about. Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story is available ...
Live Service Multiplayer Spider-Man Trailer Revealed
March 12, 2024 12:49Developer Insomniac Games suffered a data breach last year that exposed much of the company's upcoming plans and scrapped ideas, one of which was the existence of a live service multiplayer Spider-Man game for the Sony PlayStation 5 in which five players each take on a character from the Spider-verse such as Venom, Silk, or Spider-Gwen to bash the Sinister Six. The project, entitled Spider-Man: The Great Web, was cancelled, but today a trailer for the game was posted online. There's discussio...
A Brief History Of Mario's First Film
March 11, 2024 14:142023's The Super Mario Bros. Movie was a real "local plumber makes good" story that the media loved to frame as making up for the 1993 film loosely based on happenings in the Mushroom Kingdom, but if you weren't around back then, you may not understand what all the fuss was about. That's where Dan Larson steps in. Digging into what made Super Mario Bros. such a troubled production is a very deep rabbit hole, but Larson condenses the key points down to a half hour tale of discarded drafts, ine...
Princess Peach's Regrettable Cake Comes To Life
March 05, 2024 19:10My wife has a knack for baking special birthday cakes. In the years we've been together she's made me a Triforce cake, a Kirby cake, a Borderlands vault symbol cake, and a special cake for Homer Simpson to ruin on Maggaggie's birthday. This year she outdid herself though. Taking inspiration from @giganticbuddha's famous comic about Princess Peach telling Mario not to come to the castle, my wife baked a real life version of the princess's terrible cake. This is about as in-jokey as it gets bec...
Power Button - Episode 379: Hack Pack
March 04, 2024 20:00 - 95.4 MBWe're strolling on the shady side of the tracks this week as we focus on some favorite retro ROM hacks and the baked-in achievements that go with them. All of this talk of emulation inevitably leads us to touch on the Nintendo/Yuzu Switch emulator lawsuit, too. Join us and bring your ROM patching tools for some new takes on old fun. ROM Hacks Mentioned In This Episode The Real Ghostbusters Remastered Sonic 3D Blast Director's Cut Mega Man X3 - Zero Project Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 Color...
H Is For Horse And Other Hodge Podge
February 27, 2024 15:19When we were recording our podcast this week, Blake Grundman described our grab bag of topics as a hodge podge. That phrase knocked loose an old childhood memory of a Commodore 64 game called, fittingly enough, Hodge Podge. A quick Internet search found that it's been archived and you can play it online in a browser. Hodge Podge is a primitive educational vocabulary game created by Leonard Bertoni & Rich Scocchera for preschool children that maps each key on the keyboard to a specific related...
Power Button - Episode 378: More Grab Bag Goodies
February 26, 2024 16:00 - 108 MBWe have a hodge podge of smaller topics for you on this week's podcast as we touch on the recent Nintendo Direct, Microsoft taking select Xbox games to other platforms, retrogaming emulation made easy, the Borderlands movie trailer, and much more. Join us for another reach into the grab bag! Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS feed into your podcast aggregation software of...
Rare Classics Come To Nintendo Switch
February 21, 2024 15:30Nintendo released a batch of unexpected classic video games from developer Rare this morning for the suite of Nintendo Switch Online apps in North America. Subscribers can now enjoy Snake, Rattle, & Roll and R.C. Pro-Am for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Killer Instinct and Battletoads in Battlemaniacs for the Super NES, and the underrated Blast Corps for the Nintendo 64. This is the first time many of these games have been re-released at all. I'm happy to see them back, particularly Blas...
Next Nintendo Console Supposedly A Year Away
February 19, 2024 19:16I'm not a fan of video gaming rumors anymore. A product is released when it's released, and I have enough going on in my life that I can wait for it. Do I want to play the next Super Mario game? Absolutely. Do I have other things to do in the meantime? Also yes. That's why I'm not that disappointed when I read a report from Kyle Orland at Ars Technica indicating that Nintendo is now targeting the first quarter of 2025 as a release window for its successor to the Switch. He cites a number of s...
Dance Between Interwoven Mario And Donkey Kong Themes
February 13, 2024 15:15Of all of the Nintendo Game Boy Advance games that could be remade for Switch, I really didn't expect 2004's Mario vs. Donkey Kong, but here we are twenty years later and the game is due out at the end of the week. Previews so far have focused on the new levels and the two-player mode, but I'm excited about the soundtrack. The GBA version sported some fun music that was held back by hardware limitations, but now, on the Switch, the orchestra can run wild. Consider the game's title theme, for ...
Lost Satellaview <i>F-Zero</i> Tracks Return
February 10, 2024 19:00It's time for a brief history lesson. Back in 1994, Nintendo began creating video gaming content for the BS-X Satellaview satellite modem add-on for the Super Famicom. This device connected to the console's AUX port and allowed players to download games and other content via satellite. Much of the content was recycled from retail Super NES releases, though some of it (such as an Excitebike sequel featuring Mario or a remake of the original The Legend of Zelda) was brand new. Curiously, some o...
Lost Co-Op Mode For <i>Mega Man 10</i> Discovered
February 08, 2024 18:35Capcom took Mega Man back to his 8-bit roots for Mega Man 9, structuring the game based on the features and abilities seen in Mega Man 2. By the time Mega Man 10 was in development, the team at Inti Creates had a little more freedom to experiment and iterate upon some interesting concepts. While the finished game has some new material including adding Bass as a playable character, a series of recently recovered early versions of the game for Microsoft Xbox 360 shows that there was a lot more ...
The Many Faces Of Sonic The Hedgehog
February 07, 2024 19:55The original Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis has to be one of the most ported games of all time alongside arcade hits like Pac-Man. For what was meant at one time to be a console exclusive, Sega has sent Sonic out to as many devices as it can. Over at Fanbyte, De'Angelo Epps has chronicled many of those ports (the list stops short of appearances over the last decade; the article is dated December 1969 so I do not know when it was written) and denotes the little technical details that ...
David Crane Reflects On Bringing The Ghostbusters To The Commodore 64
February 06, 2024 15:01One of my very first computer games was Ghostbusters for the Commodore 64, and being a fan of the animated The Real Ghostbusters (at age six, I hadn't seen nor did I even know there was a movie yet!), I eagerly played the game to completion many times over the years until my parents sold the C64 in favor of a Windows 3.1 PC from Gateway 2000. It's a tightly structured game that allows players to start their own Ghostbusters franchise and is just as much about money management and inventory th...
Power Button - Episode 377: The Best That 2023 Had To Offer
February 05, 2024 19:13 - 125 MBAnother year done, so it's time for us to look back for our annual Game Of The Year episode. There are some surprises on this year's list as we each have a Top 6 that we're counting down, plus there's honorable mentions and a separate list for best remastered releases of the year. Join us for a supersized show! Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS feed into your podcast agg...
Power Button - Episode 376: 2023's Biggest News Revisited
January 29, 2024 16:44 - 102 MBNow that the dust has settled and 2023 is in the books, it's time for our annual look back at the video gaming industry's biggest news of the year, and folks, I hate to say it, but it's pretty dire. Lots of bad news came out of last year including layoffs, leveraged buyouts, and lesser quality games at higher prices. We're going to revisit it all over nearly ninety minutes, so get comfortable and settle in. It's going to be a bumpy ride. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen ...
Power Button - Episode 375: The Future Of Law Enforcement
January 22, 2024 19:02 - 89.8 MBListen to this week's podcast or there will be... trouble. We're focusing on RoboCop: Rogue City for the Sony PlayStation 5, Microsoft Xbox X|S, and PC this week, discussing all of the ways that it honors the original films and how much of an asset Peter Weller is to the RoboCop characterization. Minimal spoilers for this one, so if you're planning on playing it, it's a safe listen. If you're on the fence about it, hopefully I can persuade you. I recommend a making-of documentary about the or...
Flashback: Satoru Iwata's 2004 Comments On Nintendo DS
January 08, 2024 18:57Stephen Totilo recently found an old interview tape from 2004 in which he interviewed Nintendo's Satoru Iwata about the upcoming Nintendo DS and how Sony's new PlayStation Portable seemed poised to steal away the handheld gaming market from the world of Game Boy products. Totilo has published the recovered audio and transcribed some of the more interesting parts of the interview for us to enjoy. I know hindsight is always 20/20, but I found this to be an interesting window into Iwata's though...
Power Button - Episode 374: Welcome Back, Super Mario RPG
January 08, 2024 16:11 - 83.8 MBWe're back after an extended medical hiatus, and this week we're focusing on the recently released remake of Super Mario RPG for the Nintendo Switch. Marvel as Blake Grundman explains where he hit the wall with this game and had to bail out, plus I annoy him by explaining the unexplained convoluted path to opening the hidden casino and earning the mysterious Star Egg item. I also explain where I've been in my recent medical struggles and tell the story behind my recent hospitalization over th...
Power Button - Episode 373: At Long Last Spider-Man
November 14, 2023 16:00 - 81.2 MBWay back in 2019, Blake Grundman started playing Marvel's Spider-Man for the Sony PlayStation 4 and couldn't wait to finish it. We said we would revisit the topic once he had, and he finally just completed it last week. Better late than never! And so this week we're finishing that conversation originally started in Episode 289 as well as going to the Miles Morales sequel that he also finished last week, and along the way I slip in some thoughts on Spider-Man 2 which I finished while Blake was...
Power Button - Episode 372: The Mario And Sonic Wonder Superstars
October 31, 2023 15:50 - 129 MBWe have a special supersized double-length episode for you this week with lots to talk about. First, I visited Verse, an augmented reality experience that uses the Microsoft Hololens to allow players to explore a surreal garden of animals and the outer reaches of our solar system. Next, Blake tackled Sega's recently released Sonic Superstars with his son and just had a terrible time of things. Third, I spent a weekend with Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. Wonder and smiled the entire time. Finall...
PowerWash Simulator Goes Back To The Future
October 27, 2023 13:20I wouldn't have expected to enjoy PowerWash Simulator as much as I do, but it's become one of my favorite games of this generation because it's just so relaxing. I turn on a podcast or an audiobook and wash the hours away with mindless fake accomplishment. Sure, I could go outside and wash my real fence, but I'm much too sick for that anymore, and my recliner is a lot more comfortable and dry. There's a new expansion coming to PowerWash that I think I may have willed into existence somehow, a...
How To Make Spider-Man Look His Best
October 23, 2023 18:02A few years ago I upgraded my aging television that could "only" output up to 1080p and replaced it with a larger 4K 120Hz unit, but even with the Sony PlayStation 5 hooked up to it, I never felt that I was truly getting everything out of it. Now here comes Spider-Man 2 from Insomniac Games and it has a number of visual options for high-end displays that I can finally turn all the knobs up past 11, but how do I know if I'm really getting the best image for my screen, and just because it's the...
Power Button - Episode 371: Grab Bag Goodies
October 17, 2023 15:13 - 87.6 MBThis week's podcast is a hodgepodge of smaller topics that don't have the structure needed for a full hour of discussion, so it's a lot more easy-going and breezy than the average show. Join us as we flit around for 75 minutes through Sea of Stars, Magician Lord, Starfield, simulators for mowing lawns, simulators for power washing, and whatever else is on our minds as we clear out some mental baggage. Also, I have an important update about my health and how it will impact the recording of upc...
Power Button - Episode 370: September 2023 Nintendo Direct Recap
September 25, 2023 11:07 - 102 MBNintendo saw fit to release a new Nintendo Direct presentation this past week, showcasing a variety of games for the Switch for the rest of 2023 and into the summer of 2024. On this week's podcast, we're discussing the announcements that interested us the most from remakes of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and Mario vs. Donkey Kong to, um, remakes like Luigi's Mansion 2 HD and Super Mario RPG, and... hey, Princess Peach: Showtime and F-Zero 99 are new games! Join us for nearly ninety min...
Power Button - Episode 369: September 2023 Catch-Up
September 11, 2023 14:56 - 76.8 MBWe've been playing a lot of games lately as we come out of the summer season, so before the holidays hit with all of their big new releases, we're spending an hour discussing what we've been playing lately as we clear out the backlogs and sample new releases. Blake Grundman and I both have some harsh words for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge DLC, I finished the World Tour storyline in Street Fighter 6, Blake is on his way in Starfield, and I'm just setting out in Sea ...
Listen To Me Discuss Classic Nintendo Comic Books From Valiant On The Retronauts Podcast
August 31, 2023 21:20What it says on the tin, folks! Recently I was invited to the popular Retronauts podcast to discuss my affinity for the old Nintendo Comics System comic books published by Valiant in 1990-91. I still have all of my old issues of Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Captain N: The Game Master, and Game Boy! So many happy memories, so little time. Join host Nadia Oxford as she leads me and Daniel Kaszor through a fascinating discussion of these strange little stories. I had a blast talking a...
Power Button - Episode 368: The Making Of Karateka
August 29, 2023 12:12 - 75.7 MBJordan Mechner was a man with a dream: a dream of making a game for the Apple II about a karate man who punches and kicks his way past minions to save a princess. Forty years ago he created Karateka, and now Digital Eclipse has partnered with Mechner to create The Making of Karateka for modern platforms. This digital documentary exhibition features video interviews, design document scans, and playable prototypes of Karateka as well as a modernized remake. On this week's podcast, we spend an h...
Power Button - Episode 367: Thinking About Strength In <i>Street Fighter 6</i>
August 21, 2023 14:22 - 104 MBLately I've been thinking about strength, mostly because when playing Street Fighter 6, the game won't let you forget about it. Capcom has found a way to modernize the classic series and add some new tricks to the experience, and on this week's podcast episode I convince Blake that he needs to play this game. It has an RPG mode now! Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS feed...
RiffTrax On The Absurdities Of Mortal Kombat
August 11, 2023 19:34The guys who make movies funny - Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy of RiffTrax (and before that, Mystery Science Theater 3000) - skewered 1995's big Mortal Kombat movie a few years ago, but it's only now that they've released their post-movie panel discussion about the film to viewers outside their Patreon bubble. Start your weekend listening to a discussion on the absurdities of Shang Tsung's wild tournament when translated from arcade game to film, pick up on some interesti...
Power Button - Episode 366: Microsoft's Active Visions
July 31, 2023 14:23 - 77.1 MBMicrosoft's purchase of Activision Blizzard is becoming more and more likely by the day, so on this week's show we discuss what that means for the video game industry. We also dip into the Activision Blizzard catalog and talk about some forgotten games that Microsoft could do well with reviving once they own them. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS feed into your podcast ...
Nolan North Appears On The Jim Cummings Podcast
July 28, 2023 10:55The voice of Nathan Drake himself, Nolan North, is the guest on this week's episode of Toon'd In featuring Jim Cummings, a man who for entire generations is the voice of Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and of course Darkwing Duck. While North doesn't talk much about Uncharted, he does tell stories from his career as a voice actor as the two legends swap tales of auditions, replacing other actors only with permission, almost taking over as the new Mickey Mouse, and creating the right voice for the ri...
Power Button - Episode 365: Forty For Famicom
July 17, 2023 14:30 - 114 MBWe're celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Nintendo's Family Computer in a big way on the podcast this week with a supersized discussion about the history of the console, its unique accessories, special games, and fun facts. Don't you dare say it's the fortieth anniversary of the Nintendo Entertainment System! We're not doing that episode until 2025. Also, there's more to say about Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality from last week. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with t...
Power Button - Episode 364: Duplicates And Dragons In The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom
July 10, 2023 18:31 - 81.3 MBWe're blowing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom wide open on this week's episode with total spoilers including the game's key story twist and ending, so please join us when you're ready to hear all about it. Before we get into that though, we dip into a little bit of Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassin and the difficulty of buying Steam gift cards. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts...
Sonic Goes Underground
July 07, 2023 18:41Sonic the Hedgehog has enjoyed quite the run in animation over the years, spanning Saturday mornings to weekday syndication to streaming exclusives and beyond. It can be difficult to keep all of the shows straight. Which show was slapstick comedy and which was darker and serialized? Which one had Sonic's human friends? Wasn't there one where Sonic was a prince and in a band with his brother and sister? Say what? Yes, that last one happened for forty episodes in 1999 in which Sonic, Manic, and...
Power Button - Episode 363: Nintendo Direct June 2023 Recap
June 30, 2023 17:53 - 54.1 MBNintendo wowed us with some exciting announcements in its most recent Nintendo Direct showcase including a remake of Super Mario RPG, a new adventure for Princess Peach, amiibo for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and the highly detailed Super Mario Bros. Wonder. On this week's episode, we're breaking it down and discussing the announcements that intrigued us the most. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Po...
Power Button - Episode 362: PlayStation Showcase June 2023 Recap
June 08, 2023 18:27 - 96.3 MBWith Not-E3 in full swing for the summer, all of the big publishers are holding digital events to debut new trailers and announcements, so on this week's episode of the podcast we turn our attention to Sony's recent PlayStation Showcase. Yes, they showed Spider-Man 2, but did you notice everything else? We'll take you through the items of interest. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, find us on Stitcher, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, an...
A Tale Of Two Link Commercials
June 06, 2023 17:13Time is making fools of us all again as Nintendo's Game Boy classic The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening turns thirty years old. Thirty! How on earth did that happen? The gaming community is celebrating, of course, and as part of the discourse, a pair of commercials for the game have reappeared. If you want to know how different the culture was between Japan and the United States in 1993. just watch these two advertisements. The Japanese commercial features a peppy song and the game's cast a...
Legendarily Bad Nintendo Game Finally Coming To Switch
June 02, 2023 14:00We don't often hear about Nintendo releasing a bad game, but if the online grapevine is speaking the truth about the just-announced Everybody 1-2 Switch due out later this month, we could be looking at a rare bomb from the famed publisher. See, it all goes back to 2017 when the Switch had a tiny library and people were caught up in that fever of buying lots of stuff for a new console. The Switch was the new kid on the block, everyone loved it, and games were bought rather they were good or no...
Power Button - Episode 361: Wandering Hyrule In <i>The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom</i>
May 24, 2023 13:11 - 99.7 MBLink and Princess Zelda are back in Hyrule for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the Nintendo Switch which means that so are we, and we're spending this episode's discussion talking about my time spent wandering around Hyrule seeing the sights and checking out whatever interests me without accomplishing any of the story which means there are no spoilers in this episode. We'll circle back to the meaty stuff later. This week is all exploratory fluff. Download this week's episode dir...
<i>Ghostbusters: Special Edition</i> Hack Adds New Characters And Surprises
May 02, 2023 15:00The famed Ghostbusters franchise has spawned many video games over the years ranging from the original 1984 business simulator from Activision to last year's Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed for modern platforms, but one of the games that tends to be forgotten is a 1990 title for the Sega Genesis developed by Compile. Titled simply Ghostbusters, the game is a basic action platformer featuring an original story in which players can choose between Peter Venkman, Egon Spengler, and Ray Stantz to ...
Power Button - Episode 360: Metroid Prime Revisited
April 24, 2023 18:00 - 81.2 MBAfter twenty long years I have finally completed Metroid Prime from Nintendo and Retro Studios, so with the game now back for another encore on the Switch, let's spend an hour discussing it. We'll also cover another 2002 hit, Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection, if we have time, but we won't have time. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, find us on Stitcher, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS feed int...
Power Button - Episode 359: Movie Mode: <i>The Super Mario Bros. Movie</i>
April 17, 2023 15:08 - 96.8 MBWe When Nintendo makes a movie, it's basically required that we go see it, so on this week's podcast it's time to spend ninety minutes discussing The Super Mario Bros. Movie. Break out the spoiler warning for this one because we cover our thoughts on the plot, casting, soundtrack, potential sequel, and so much more. Download this week's episode directly from PTB, listen with the player below, find us on Stitcher, subscribe via iTunes, Amazon Music Podcasts, and Google Podcasts, toss this RSS ...
Link Gains New Abilities In <i>The Legend of Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom</i>
March 28, 2023 14:31Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma took to YouTube today to show off some of Link's new abilities in the upcoming The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for the Nintendo Switch. Following on from Link's skills in Breath of the Wild, Link will now spend more time crafting weapons and vehicles thanks to his new power to combine objects. Fuse a weak tree branch with a standard boulder, for instance, and wield a mighty makeshift hammer. Combine logs with some wind emitters to create a basic boat. The whol...
Farewell To Wii U And 3DS eShops
March 27, 2023 16:50Nintendo is taking both the Wii U and 3DS eShops offline today, ending the ability to purchase content from those digital storefronts. It's always sad to see a digital shop go, but Nintendo delisting content in this manner always seems to hurt a little more because we never know if some of it will be back. Sure, Super Mario Bros. 3 isn't going anywhere; in fact, it's already possible to play three different versions of it on the Nintendo Switch provided you pay the subscription fee instead of...
Power Button - Episode 358: This Game Must Be Terrible
March 21, 2023 13:30 - 96.8 MBWe all make snap judgments from time to time, and sometimes those quick decisions take us in the wrong direction. On this week's podcast, we're discussing games that we immediately dismissed for one reason or another and then later tried only to discover that they are actually fantastic. Would you believe that we initially passed on such classics as Mega Man, BioShock, and Sly Cooper? There's plenty more where those came from in this supersized episode. Download this week's episode directly f...
1993's <i>Super Mario Bros.</i> Movie Wasn't That Bad
March 15, 2023 15:30With the new Super Mario Bros. film from Nintendo and Universal on the horizon, it's the season for looking back at the original Super Mario Bros. film from 1993 starring Bob Hoskins that bombed at the box office and has been held up for decades as a terrible film. The thing is, watching it as an adult with fresh eyes, it's not so bad. Yes, it has problems and is very far from a faithful adaptation of the source material, but there's some fun stuff going on in it, and Joe Ramoni at Hats Off E...