Let's Place!

Luke is once again joined by 2 new guests! Dina comes in to make him feel bad for supporting the latent misogyny inherent in the premise of Bionic Commando (2009), while David comes in to make him feel bad for all those borderline racist things he said about the Danish in past episodes regarding other Danish guest Lau! When they're not making him feel bad, they talk about statutory rape, Russian strategy games, bad light gun games, super old flight combat simulators, and video game cult classics. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Vitamin X: We Are Super Supriment Boys, for PS2; Sudden Strike: Resource War, for PC; Dino Stalker, for PS2; The Dam Busters, for PC; and Deadly Premonition, for Xbox 360 and PC. You can find the up-to-date list of ranked games at bit.ly/letsplace

Luke is rejoined by Dave and Zack (the war criminal, not the thought criminal). This time around, they discuss The Price is Right, The Shining simulators, squandered horror potential, and the overwhelming power of Bob Barker's naval tactics. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: The Price is Right Decades, for Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and Mobile; SM Word, for PC; Harpoon 3 Pro, for THE MILITARY AND NOT YOU; Silent Hill: Book of Memories, for PS Vita; and Metal Arms: Glitch in the System, for Xbox, GameCube, PS2, and Xbox 360. You can find the up-to-date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

Let's Place hits its first major landmark this week as we rank our 100th game! Luke is joined by returning guests Jason and Tal, to talk about pop idol RPGs, simulated Latvian chess masters who share a name with one of us, sugar-infused Japanese platformers, the decline of the Guitar Hero series, and that most loathsome children's anime franchise, Digimon. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Final Fantasy X-2, for PS2, PS3, and PS4; Pop'n Twinbee Rainbow Bell Adventures, for Super Famicom; Chess System Tal II, for PC; and Guitar Hero: Van Halen, for PS2, PS3, Wii, and Xbox 360; and Digimon World, for Playstation. You can view the up to date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

It's an episode of dualities this week as Luke is rejoined by former guests Alex and Ty to discuss mid-'90s interactive porn, mid-'80s interactive porn, strategy in the western theater of WWII, naval combat in the eastern theater of WWII, and a pretty good video game based on a pretty abysmal film. Along the way, they pitch their idea for Serial (Cereal?) Season 3 and discuss the prolific career of legendary actor Rushfer Berlin. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Man Enough, for PC; Swedish Erotica: Bachelor Party, for Atari; PT Boats: Knights of the Sea, for PC; Rush for Berlin Gold, for PC; and Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, for GameBoy Advance. You can find the up to date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

Zack persists through the burning wreckage of last episode, but thankfully this time he's counterbalanced by Tal, the show's emotional and moral center. Luke is also joined by two newcomers, Jordan and Greg. They talk about how Cap'n Crunch protects us in our lowest moments, Zack tries to turn the episode into a backdoor pilot for his own game-ranking podcast, everyone buys a weird dragon RPG game out of spite for one another, and the gang talks about MIGHTY DUUUUUUUUUUUUDES. EDITOR'S NOTE: due to some technical difficulty, Greg occasionally sounds like he is podcasting from deep within the Minotaur's Labyrinth on the isle of Crete. This sort of thing is bound to happen from time to time given the show's commitment to cycling through a large number of guests, many of which don't have any previous podcasting experience. Please bear with us! YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Sorcerer's Castle Adventure, for PC; Conker: Live and Reloaded for Xbox; The I of the Dragon for PC; Sunrise: The Game, for PC; and DemolishFist, for Arcade. You can find the up to date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

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Luke is joined by returning guest Sam, as well as Tal, who is such a frequently recurring guest that he's really more of a co-host that misses some episodes. They discuss games that look like they were made in RPG Maker even though they weren't, arcade pornography, games about aliens that are not Aliens games, and Luke foreshadows his weird irrational hatred of everything Warhammer. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, for Famicom, Sega Genesis, and PC; Miss World '96, for Arcade; Aliens, for Atari ST; Warhammer: Mark of Chaos, for Xbox and PC; and Frozen Freefall, for Mobile. You can find the up-to-date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

Luke is joined by Molly and Bob, which means we've now exhausted all possible combinations of Molly, Bob, and Tal in these last three episodes! They discuss low-fi cowboy adventures, really terrible ideas for old video games, THE DOPEST CAR GAME EVER OH MY GOD YOU FIGHT A MONSTER TRUCK WITH YOUR SPORTSCAR, the importance of historical accuracy in your historical video games, and weird, cutesy Japanese platformers. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: The Wild West, for PC; The Vanishing Maze, for PC; Ray Tracers, for Sony Playstation; Pearl HArbour, for PC; and Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa, for the Famicom. You can view the full, up-to-date list at bit.ly/letsplace

Luke is joined once again by Tal, and new, clapping-impaired guest Bob. They discuss the potential verisimilitude of kid-friendly Las Vegas simulators, the degree to which they <3 the music of the 1980s, playing weird simplistic flash games in the early 2000s, bizarre narratively driven variations on Minesweeper, and one of the greatest endings in all of video games. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Las Vegas Tycoon, for PC; Lips: I <3 the 80s, for Xbox 360; WebWar, for PC; Trolls (1993), for Atari ST; and The Conduit 2--sorry, I mean just Conduit 2, for Wii. You can find the up-to-date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace

After a needlessly climactic intro, Luke is rejoined by returning champions Molly and Tal! They discuss virtual petz, Luke and Molly are way too enamored with the concept of blinking lights, and all of them are disgusted at blatant plagiarism. They also talk about a bizarre and inexplicable meta-management game, made entirely with stock Poser models. YOUR GAMES THIS WEEK ARE: Dogz, for Gameboy Color; Quix, for PC; Quakeblox, for PC; Universal Boxing Manager, for PC; and Yars' Revenge, for Atari 2600. You can find the up-to-date ranked list at bit.ly/letsplace