Factory Sealed Video Game Podcasts

We play The Sims and in the process create a pseudo podium polisher, a bizarre pool torture chamber, and an adult with awkward incontinence issues, proving once and for all that we can’t care for anything more complex than a potato.

Despite a spectacular late arrival from Tom the Technophobe, the whole crew unites to annoy Eric by arguing that all games are RPGs. Also, learn how to be a good parent, gain more knowledge about Megaman X than you could possibly ever need, and enjoy the briefest celebration of Zelda’s 30th anniversary you’ve ever heard.

Eric and Dan partner up to deliver a very intimate two man Valentine’s Day show filled with brooms, hobs, aubergines, and the possessed farts of a doomed mudoken from Oddworld: Abe’s Exoddus.

What what tally ho old bean! Put on your monocle, get your upper lip as stiff as possible and listen to us talk about Grim Fandango, the death of guides, and Eric’s gradual transformation into a cyborg.

Even a broken collarbone can’t stop Eric from making a triumphant return to talk nonsense with the crew! Highlights include finishing Paper Mario, an extended discussion of toilet etiquette, and a good dollop of Final Fantasy Explorers/Final Fantasy XV chat.

Perhaps foolishly, Jess and Tom go AWOL and let Dan and Eric man the show. As a result, we discuss British pinky etiquette, inexplicably sexual gaming adverts of yesteryear, the beautiful simplicity of Paper Mario and FFXIII’s Lightning’s new career as a fashion model.

Although we Have No Mouth and Cannot Scream, we still manage to achieve new levels of stupidity and talk about baked bean cultural differences, Eric’s lottery-winning ambitions, and sexism within 60’s fiction.

Christmas happened! We reveal our top games of 2015 (with an FS twist), Tom reveals his in-progress Eric impression, and we all debate the technicalities of punting.

To the amazement of the crew, everyone (yes, including Jess) manages to finish a game, Eric purchases a Wii U and has his heart melted by wooly dinosaurs, and Beneath a Steel Sky proves to be perhaps the most sexual-reference-filled game in existence.

The Galaxy is explored in a pirate ship in Rogue Galaxy, everyone denounces Wipeout 64 as clearly inferior to the Playstation version, and Eric falls madly in love with running over cows in a truck equipped with drills.