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We're joined once again by Johnny Branchfield for a wee indie games roundup, where McCormick gets 80s DnD vibes from Skald: Against The Black Priory, Mick contemplates life's absurdity in The Friends of Ringo Ishikawa and Johnny gets his tentacles into The Last Case of Benedict Fox
Mick helps root oot counter-revolutionary bourgeois dissidents in "KGB" on MS DOS (1992), Andy Mac takes on heavy metal cinematic platformer "Blacthorne" on the SNES (1994) and McCormick plays auld N64 classic "Jet Force Gemini" (1999) which causes us to use the bleep button a record number of times.
Mick controls an unwieldy hillbilly in "Bubba 'n' Stix" (1994) for the Mega Drive, Andy Mac meets Joe Musashi's dug in "Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi" (1990), also for the Mega Drive, and McCormick ponders the Islamic Golden Age in "Defenders of Oasis" (1992) for the Game Gear.
We also have a re-telling of the opening story of One Thousand and One Nights, featuring a surprising amount of cuckoldry.
Andy leathers zombie Karl Marx in Nightmare Creatures, Mick survives a house of horror in Sweet Home and McCormick solves human-dolphin relations with the help of drugs in Ecco the Dolphin: Defender of the Future
We rank all of the levels from Sonic 1, 2, 3 'n' Knuckles to find the ultimate zone
Reuploaded for copyright reasons.
We've got a wee listicle episode to tide you over - Mick and super-sub Leo Glaister discuss their tap 5 secret characters in video gaming.
McCormick murders death kills his way through MDK, Mick takes on the mantle of Big Shamrock in Shaq Fu and Andy gets up to some monkey business in Ape Escape
Classic Dynamite Neddy action, including the beloved segment "Andy's Curry Hoose Reviews".
Mick has a 90s nostalgia moment with "X-Men" (1993) on the Sega Mega Drive, McCormick ponders sci-fi feudalism with "Phantasy Star III" (1990) also on the Mega Drive, and Andy Mac schools the ancient Greeks on "Hercules" (1997) on the PS1.
Mick saves some souls in SS Lucifer, McCormick confronts Mecha Hawk in Pilotwings 64 and Andy meets up with his sleep paralysis demon in Final Fantasy IX
This week we're shining a light on the support acts of computer games and your Auld Das are bringing you oor tap 5 first bosses.
There's discussions of frogs, pterodactyls, cowboys, barmen and of course, the Greenock Abu.
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