Destroy All Children

This is it! The end of the most celebrated video game/Star Track/gremlins-focused podcast in existence. With all our enemies dead, we celebrate our victory and discuss The Matrix Resurrections. Then, the final Retro Corner: The Pagemaster for the Sega Genesis. Look, I don't know, it seems anticlimactic to me too, but George seems to think it makes sense. It subverted your expectations, right? That means it's good! 

Be on the lookout for the return of Stand and Deliver: A JoJo Podcast, which you can find and subscribe to here: https://anchor.fm/sadjojo

Outro music: Neverending Story 3 Rammstein remix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DHBlfXtH9E

It's time for our annual celebration of the best video games of the year! In addition to the main Gizmos, we also name our Best Re-Make/Re-Models, and Best New Characters. Next week: THE END.

Link to Gremlins 3: Dawn of Desmond: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fnwXgLbjeA

Outro music: "Here Comes the Gremlin Man" by Nick Lutsko ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE3DEAHbsqk )

Before we get to the Golden Gizmos next week, it's time to clear out the trash... The really rapey, gross trash... The Golden Gremmies are for the worst of the year, and oh boy, there was a lot of bad stuff in 2021! So sit back and... Enjoy? As we run down the Worst Games, Worst Developer, Worst Publisher, and Biggest Shitstorm of 2021. 

Outro music: "I'll Still Destroy You" by The National

Halo Infinite is out! I've played it! The green boy is back in town! Anyway that doesn't matter, because we also watched Star Track: First Contact (1996), which takes up most of the time in this episode, and in Retro Corner, George is knocking out all da Marios: Super Mario All-Stars, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Island. It was released as "Super Mario World 2" here, but we all know that's horseshit. It's like when they decided Edge of Tomorrow should be titled Live Die Repeat now. Nobody actually calls it that. Or remember when they renamed Lady Ghostbusters to "Ghostbusters: Answer the Call"? Dumb.

Anyway, the Deus Ex video referenced often in this episode is Deus Ex: The Recut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfZZbrXVAw

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: "Opium Tea" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

With no new games out this week, I've continued my retreat into 2015's Mad Max game, and I'm gonna talk about it! Because fuck you! We also talk about Spiders-Mans (George was wrong about its release date, BY THE WAY), Stars Wars, and other assorted bull crap. The Sega Saturn version of Symphony of the Night, that's another one. Uhhhhhhh, probably something else. It don't matter. In Retro Corner it's all Mario, all the time, with Super Mario Kart, Mario RPG, and Yoshi's Story! Yoshi's Story contains no Mario, actually, so I think it's kinda bullshit that it was included in what are SUPPOSED to be Mario games. Whatever. I am airing my grievances here because George actually reads these, for reasons I cannot begin to comprehend. 

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: Main title theme from Super Mario Kart

Not much to talk about this week, other than the new Beatles doc on Disney+, but there is some news about the fate of this show... If you've been listening this long, don't worry, you don't have to deal with us for much longer! But that doesn't matter: in Retro Corner, it's a Rare bonanza! Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, and Donkey Kong 64! All fantastic games that we love with all our hearts. Every one of them. All great. 

Theme song by David Cassel

This week, we take a brief foray into the News, because we've unfortunately willed a Chrono Cross remake into this bitch of an Earth. Betty White, meanwhile, continues to live. Anyway, I give some brief thoughts on Call of Duty: Vanguard, we get a bit deeper into Shin Megami Tensei V, and then in Retro Corner, George talks about an all-time classic: VICE: Project DOOM for the NES. Then he also talked about Sonic the Hedgehog: Pocket Adventure, for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color. That shouldn't surprise anybody.

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: "Jam it in the Hole" by Electric Six

God, it's been a long week. Last time we recorded, the freakin Grand Theft Auto Definitive Trilogy wasn't out yet. What a mess. But you know what else is out, and... Mostly not a mess? Shin Megami Tensei V! It's finally here! Then in Retro Corner, George briefly talks about Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3, but instead we mostly sort out the release timeline of the Shinobi series. It's a mess. 

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: "Wasted" by The War on Drugs

This week, we're basically both waiting for Shin Megami Tensei V to come out, but in the meantime, I've been playing Forza Horizon 5, and I finished The Forgotten City. George finished Metroid Dread and Far Cry 6, and in his Retro Corner, he's gonna take you back to the past: the years Chrono Trigger and Ocarina of Time came out, to be specific. Are these shitty games that suck ass? Y-- no? Well. Look, I have my own views on OoT... Chrono Trigger, though, that's a game. There's a frogman in it! 

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: "I Got the Six" by ZZ Top

We're back from a week off, with the return of the NEWS SEGMENT, apparently! I was not consulted on this, but here it is! Is it simply filling time because George did not plan a Retro Corner? Possibly! But at least I played some games, like Guardians of the Galaxy and Marvel's The Forgotten City. George also manages to squeeze out a Retro Corner, about Sunset Riders and Wild Guns, which we've possibly talked about before, but neither of us can remember because we're old men with brain damage. 

Theme song by David Cassel

Outro music: "Wild West End" by Dire Straits