Let's Place!

This episode starts off already off the rails as new guest Gorge calls in from... his car, while he drives around town. He's joined by returning guests Mike, Ty, and Tal to help Luke discuss Playstation 2 baseball games, decentish mobile ports, terrible virtual card games, obscenely late PSX games, and our unapologetic bias towards games where you play as a dragon. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Astral Tournament, for PC; All-Star Baseball 2002, for Playsation 2; Dynamite Jack, for PC; Dora the Explorer: Barnyard Buddies, for Playstation; and Hoard, for Playstation 3. See the full list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace, and follow @SSJSpeedRacer on Twitter to suggest games to rank and have a chance to be on the show!

this podcast was a mistake. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Armada, for Dreamcast; Monty on the Run, for PC; Scooby-Doo: Unmasked, for Playstation 2, GameCube, and Xbox; Big City Adventures: Sidney, Australia, and-- YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Sonic Adventure, for Dreamcast; Sonic Adventure 2: Battle, for GameCube; Shadow the Hedgehog, for GameCube, Playstation 2, and Xbox; Sonic Heroes, for GameCube, Playstation 2, and Xbox; and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006), for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. You can find a complete, up-to-date list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace. Follow @SSJSpeedRacer on Twitter for show announcements, and you might have an opportunity to guest on this awful, awful show!

Remember when this show used to have short, sort quiet three-person episodes? This episode starts off like one of those and... rapidly deteriorates into something else. Luke starts off joined by newcomers Ben and Jordan, but then their party is crashed by another newcomer, Sean. Then Ben's internet craps out, so we replace him with third newcomer Mike Blais, who gets up and goes to the convenience store in the middle of the friggin' recording! So THEN we have to bring in veteran Placer Tal, and somehow newcomer Elaro gets brought in as well. And amidst all of that, we place two of the most critically acclaimed video games of all time. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Shadoworlds for PC; F-14 Tomcat, for PC; Avatar: The Last Airbender, for PC; The Last of Us, for Playstation 3; and EarthBound, for Super Nintendo. You can find the complete, up-to-date list at bit.ly/letsplace. Be sure to follow @SSJSpeedRacer on Twitter for show announcements and you might be a guest on the next Let's Place!

I'm joined this week by Zack, Matt, Mike and Ashley, and if they can SHUT UP long enough for me to get on with the show, we'll discuss Jeff Minter's early obsession with drug-fueled quadrapeds, the barren wasteland that was Xbox Live Indie Games, the... classic? Spy vs. Spy franchise, the power of bigoted jokes to completely destroy an otherwise entertaining product, and one of the most influential and divisive games of the last decade. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Advance of the Megacamel AKA Attack of the Mutant Camels, for Atari 8-bit and PC; Who Did I Date Last Night?, for Xbox 360; Spy Vs. Spy 3: Arctic Antics, for PC and Atari 8-bit; Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger VS Darkdeath Evilman, for PSP; and Dark Souls, for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. You can find the up-to-date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace. Follow @SSJSpeedRacer on Twitter for show announcements and you might be a guest on the next show!

Okay, look. LOOK. This episode was RIDDLED with technical problems. It might be the single most technically fraught episode of Let's Place yet, and I'm including the one where I had to re-record the audio for over half of an episode. It was just a mess. Don't use Discord to record podcasts! It does a bad job. Anyway, if you can bear with us, we talk about seminal RTS games, terrible PC shovelware, morally dubious Atari games, awesome wrestling games, and we finally decide between Final Fight and Final Fight Guy. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Command and Conquer: Red Alert, for PC; Splash, for PC; Battle of Shiloh, for PC and Atari; Tecmo World Wrestling, for NES; and Final Fight, for SNES. You can find the complete up-to-date list of games at bit.ly/letsplace. Be sure to follow @SSJSpeedRacer on twitter for show announcments. You might be a guest on the next Let's Place!

WE'RE BACK. After a break that's been long enough that we're now averaging less than one episode a week, Let's Place has returned for Season 2! We got a new website, a new method for sourcing guests, and a new logo! Also I'm gonna stop writing these descriptions in the third person so I hope that's cool. Anyway, I'm joined by longstanding guests Tal and Dina, along with previous guest Tyler and a brand new friend, Fionna! Tal's attempt to be more positive is immediately destroyed by a bad Professor Layton knock-off, we learn how to LIVE FAST and DIE WET, Fionna MOCKS ME INCESSANTLY FOR THE PERFECTLY NORMAL WAY I PRONOUNCE "CRAYON," we get into some straight up Spongebob talk, and for the encore, we return to one of our favorite topics: horrifying children's games. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Laura Jones and the Gates of Good and Evil, for PC; Dead in the Water, for Playstation; The Fabulous Screech, for PC; Nickelodeon's Spongebob Squarepants: Spongebob's Truth or Square; and Elsa Dentist Surgery Simulator. You can find the up to date list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace. Follow @SSJSpeedRacer on Twitter to suggest games for us to rank and to have a chance at guesting on the show!

It's that time again, everyone. Luke is joined by Sam, Tal, Jason and Graham to talk about pre-Flash Flash games, dubious Scottish ancestry, iPhone poetry, Japanese highway fireworks, and the last piece of our Pokemon puzzle (no relation to Pokemon Puzzle League, a game we have not yet ranked). The spectre of the deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia casts a ghostly pallor over this episode, and when Sam is forced to leave early he leaves behind a rift in the border between the natural and the supernatural, and Jason's demo reel for Comedy Bang Bang couldn't be happier about it. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Anvil Awareness, for PC; Kaze no Oka K?en nite, for Playstation; Poems By Heart, for Mobile; and Kanshaku tamanage Kantar? no T?kaid? Goj?san-tsugi, for Famicom. You can find the up-to-date list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace

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Let's just get this out of the way: the audio in this episode is ROUGH. Luke and Tal are joined by a new guest, Tyler, who unfortunately had some technical difficulties on his end that makes this episode sound like someone farting into a French horn. But that doesn't stop us from talking about subpar train simulators, the progenitor of Asteroids, the progenetor of Duck Hunt, Indiana Jones adventure games, and god-awful Sonic the Hedgehog knock-offs. Also it turns out that Tal is a duck. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Trainz Railroad Simulator 2006, for PC; Space Wars, for... let's go with Arcade? Qwak!, for Arcade; Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, for PC, and Time Dominator AKA Socket, for Sega Genesis. You can find the up-to-date list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace