Matt Giguere and Zach Fleeman are back again to discuss our favorite handheld games of 2015.

This is the first part of our three-part 50th episode blowout and covers each of our personal games of the year. Part 2 will be released on Thursday and the final part comes out on Saturday. These will cover our favorite handheld games of all time on non-nintendo and nintendo handheld systems respectively.

Please bear with us on some of the audio issues. This wasn’t originally going to be a three-parter, but I wasn’t going to put you through a four hour podcast.

And lastly, we will also be posting our lists in text form. Check back in all this week and next for those. The first one goes up tomorrow.

Thanks for sticking with us for 50 episodes. Looking forward to delivering more to you in 2016 and beyond.

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Gamers on the Go frequent flyer, Zach Fleeman returns to the podcast to talk about the best game on Sony’s PlayStation Portable: Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker.

Zach is currently very early in his playthrough of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, so if you’re worried about spoilers for that game, fret not. The rest of the titles in the series are all fair game, but we mainly stay focused on Big Boss related topics.

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Chase met Happy Badger Studio’s Carol Mertz at the St. Louis-based game festival PixelPop last month (a fact that is definitely not mentioned on this episode a few hundred times), and played her new card game, Pass The Buck: A Game of Corporate Responsibility Management. It was so fun, we brought her on to tell you about it herself.

We talk about the game’s passive aggressive Facebook post origins, what it takes to run a Kickstarter campaign and the difficulties of people not reading the instructions.

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Chase and Rick are joined by the Head Designer at BlitWise Productions, Mike Welch, to discuss Pocket Tanks, a game that released well over a decade ago, and is still going strong today.

We cover the origins of Pocket Tanks and the artillery strategy genre, how Mike was ahead of the curve in terms of mobile game trends and just how it’s possible to keep updating the same game for such a long time.

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Josh Barnard (aka josh-shmosh) comes to GOTG to talk about his experience in modding video game hardware, specifically the Nintendo Game Boy! Josh’s newest design is a Splatoon-themed Game Boy with Jackson Pollock-esque paint splotches and a bevy of other modifications. They’re loving named SquidKids, and you can buy them right here. Chase has one, and you should too!

In addition to the ins and outs of hardware mods, Josh and Chase also dissect the 1990 GB classic, Balloon Kid. And of course a discussion of Joust, Balloon Fight and even Flappy Bird happens at some point.

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MIT educated, Latin enthusiast and, most important of all, the man behind Patchwork Games, Patrick Rodriguez joins the podcast to talk about his 8 Bitty Games series: a collection of eight games built to be played on the original Game Boy.

We chat about how the project got started, what challenges arise when you’re building for a piece of tech from 1989 and opine about the virtues of the oft-forgotten Game Boy Printer.

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Pierce Courchaine returns for his fourth appearance on GOTG, this time to discuss the 4th generation of Pokemon games: Diamond & Pearl.

Despite being a veteran of earlier Pocket Monster games, this is Pierce’s first time playing through a DS Pokemon game. And we decided to mix things up a bit by taking the Gym Leader challenge. What does that entail? You’ll have to listen to find out!

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If it feels like forever since our last episode, that’s because it kind of has been. But no longer! GOTG is back with New York’s finest, Ty Frahm, to discuss Pokemon Conquest.

It really is a little hidden gem of the crammed DS library and well worth playing if you can stomach some inelegant menu design.

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Doubling up on our alliterative “B” games, East Coast Correspondent Matt Giguere returns to chat about HAL Laboratory’s eShop-only puzzler, BOXBOY!

Since it’s also about that time, we get into some E3 predictions/dreams. You didn’t think we could fill two hours with monochromatic puzzle game talk, did you?

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