Game/Life Balance Australia

As 2020 dawns upon us, AC and Rob take a look back over the past decade of gaming to highlight some of their favourite games from the era! Each host chose 5 games that came out during this eventful decade that they dearly love, proving once and for all that this show IS somewhat about modern games! ***** If you love geeky stuff like this dumb podcast I have good news for you: we're part of a whole freaking network of geeky podcasts! So head on over to the Gonna Geek Network at www.gonnageek.com and you'll be sure to find a weird geeky podcast that caters to your particular brand of geekdom. ***** And to mourn over the corpse of our sister show in the USA please visit www.gamelifebalance.us ***** Intro music: Anamanaguchi – Video Challenge ***** Outro music: Anamanaguchi – Fast Turtle *****

This week AC and Rob review a Japanese import legend: Tetris Battle Gaiden! This game came out in 1993 for the Super Famicom (for the uninitiated, that's the Japanese SNES), but was never released outside of Japan. Could this be the best competitive Tetris game ever made?! ***** Also in this illustrious episode we discover three shocking facts: Sausage sizzle is better than hot dogs, AC has been playing with his N-Gage again, and Rob thinks that Sonic the Hedgehog is owned by Nintendo. ***** If you love geeky stuff like this dumb podcast I have good news for you: we're part of a whole freaking network of geeky podcasts! So head on over to the Gonna Geek Network at www.gonnageek.com and you'll be sure to find a weird geeky podcast that caters to your particular brand of geekdom. ***** And to mourn over the corpse of our sister show in the USA please visit www.gamelifebalance.us ***** Intro music: Anamanaguchi – Video Challenge ***** Outro music: Anamanaguchi – Fast Turtle

This week AC and Rob do something different and discuss a game that (A) came out recently and (B) that they are actually qualified to review - Bubble Bobble 4 Friends! The boys are huge Bubble Bobble fans with a lot of nostalgia for this franchise so you can be sure they will be looking at this game with a microscope! **** Also in this nostalgic episode, Rob's been playing another remake of a 1980s video game, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, which was recently released on Steam! And AC has been playing the Game Cube classic, Super Mario Galaxy! **** If you enjoyed our show and you're keen for some more of the same, head on over to the Gonna Geek network at www.gonnageek.com to check out all the other awesome geeky shows! **** And to check out our sister show in the USA please visit www.gamelifebalance.us **** Intro music: Anamanaguchi – Video Challenge **** Outro music: Anamanaguchi – Fast Turtle ****

Episode 92 is here and we're reviewing the Indie sci-fi darling, FTL. Did AC manage to master the controls of a starship? Of course not, he got Rob to do all of that work while he folded his arms and barked orders! ****

Also in this groundbreaking episode - Rob's 4 year old daughter has developed a witty high-brow sense of humour, while AC has developed a hankering for an original Japanese Sony Walkman from the 1980s. Plus there's a fun quiz about the lore in science fiction video games! **** If you love to hear geeks like us nerding out over our geeky obsessions, there’s plenty more of that kind of thing going on at the GonnaGeek Network, your home for geeky podcasts. Or is it *the* home for geeky podcasts? Regardless, head on over to www.gonnageek.com and check out all the other awesome geeky shows! **** And for our sister show in the USA, check out their werbsiet at www.gamelifebalance.us **** Intro music: Anamanaguchi – Video Challenge **** Outro music: Anamanaguchi – Fast Turtle ****

This week your hosts AC and Rob discuss Samurai Western for the Playstation 2, our featured game for the week, as well as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, Total War:Empire, solitude, Gameboy games, and what went wrong with Mario Maker 2. Plus Rob reports back on his experiences in the darkest of Darkest Dungeons, and AC has been slogging through The Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams on the Nintendo Switch. ***** If your kink is listening to geeks like us talk about our geeky obsessions, there’s plenty more of that sweet sweet action over at the GonnaGeek Network. Just open your browser in incognito mode and head on over to www.gonnageek.com to fulfil your dark desires. ***** We have a sister show in the US of A which is also definitely worth a listen, and you can find their stuff at www.gamelifebalance.us ***** Intro music: Anamanaguchi – Video Challenge ***** Outro music: Anamanaguchi – Fast Turtle *****

We're baaack! After what seems like a million years but is in fact about 8 weeks, your pals from down under are back in fine form to talk rubbish and maybe video games for an extra-rambly Stream of Nonsense episode! It's a great chance to catch up on all the stuff that's happened since we last talked, including the passing of the late great scholar Bernard Lewis, Rob's journeys in American Truck Simulator, AC and Rob's Friday night man date where they went to an 80s bar and got hit on by girls who weren't alive in the 80s, AC's adventures on Koholint Island, Rob went to a wedding, AC went to a sporting event, and Rob finally took a holiday for once in his gosh darn life. ***** If you loved this show then you probably have very low standards, in which case I have a podcast network JUST FOR YOU. It's called the Gonna Geek network because it's a network of geeky podcasts, just like this one except the others are slightly better than ours! Just head on over www.gonnageek.com and check out all the podcast treats that abound!! ***** Also there's two guys in the United States of America that have a podcast eerily similar to our own, called Game/Life Balance US. It's actually pretty good for something so clearly derivative, so go on and give them a listen won't you at www.gamelifebalance.us ***** Into music and outro music for this episode was lovingly handcrafted by Anamanaguchi. Old fans may remember this was our original intro and outro music back in the day - I brought it back for old time's sake. Anyway they are good music people, go give their stuff a listen or maybe buy it or whatever people do these days because their music helped make this episode rad. *****

This week the boys played a certified classic - Mario Kart Double Dash!! for the Nintendo GameCube. Does the tag-team kart racer still hold up in 2019? Tune in to find out! ***** Also in this rambunctious episode - Rob played Flintstones pinball and Rayman Legends, while AC has been digging into his handhelds with Bubble Bobble Revolution on the DS and Inspector Gadget for the GBA, as well as checking out Everybody's Golf on Playstation VR. And we wrap it all up with a quiz about the Nintendo Switch library! ***** For other geeky podcasts made by geeks, for geeks, check out the Gonna Geek Network at www.gonnageek.com ***** Musical musics were music'd by Me and My Shadow: meandmyshadow.bandcamp.com ***** And for more of that delicious Crumbly Pete and Smash Mouth content that you simply can't get enough of, check out their website at www.gamelifebalance.us *****

Grab hold of your sports almanacs and don't forget your towel because it's episode 88 of Game/Life Balance Australia and that means it's time for the Back to the Future special - so live long and prosper as Back to the Future superfan Andrew "AC" Yoshimura and Back to the Future sort-of-fan Robert Bailey talk about the only good Back to the Future game ever made -- Super Back to the Future II for the Super Famicom! And may the force be with you!! ***** Also in this delightful episode - Rob's been playing Vlambeer's sepia-toned shooter Luftrausers, AC has been playing Mario Maker on the 3DS, and there's a fun quiz about time travel in video games! ***** For other geeky podcasts made by geeks, for geeks, check out the Gonna Geek Network at www.gonnageek.com ***** Musical musics were music'd by Me and My Shadow: meandmyshadow.bandcamp.com ***** And for more of that delicious Crumbly Pete and Smash Mouth content that you simply can't get enough of, check out their website at www.gamelifebalance.us *****

It's episode 87 of this illustrious podcast and that means we're going to be talking about the Ghostbusters game for the Mega Drive from 1990. What else would you expect? Also in this episode: Rob's been playing more Darkest Dungeon, AC's been playing more Mario Maker 2, and it's the return of the beloved Simpsons or Simcity quiz! **** For other geeky podcasts made by geeks, for geeks, check out the Gonna Geek Network at www.gonnageek.com **** Musical musics were music'd by Me and My Shadow: meandmyshadow.bandcamp.com **** And for more of that sweet sweet Brody Broff and Jonnington Smartston content that you simply can't get enough of, check out their website at www.gamelifebalance.us ****

Fast food is great and there is nothing at all wrong with it, either ethically or morally or even for your health, it is truly beyond reproach. And so, in honour of the modern miracle that is fast food, AC and Rob reviewed not one but TWO video games from Japan about some very popular Japanese fast food restaurants: the curry house Coco Ichibanya and the beef bowl joint Yoshinoya. How much fun is it to play a video game where you work in a fast food restaurant? You'll have to tune in to find the answer to that little conundrum! ***** Are you a geeky nerdy geek? Of course you are, because you wouldn't even bother reading the show notes if you weren't a freaking smelly losery nerd. So, you frickin' nerd, go and check out other podcasts made for nerds, by nerds, at the Gonna Geek Network: www.gonnageek.com ***** The music for our show fell from the heavens courtesy of the godly Me and My Shadow: meandmyshadow.bandcamp.com ***** And for the Probely Proff and Grimbleston Crump content that you ache for with every fibre in your being, why not swing by this illustrious woobsite: www.gamelifebalance.us *****