Pit-Fighter.  The name alone evokes such lucid imagery; shurikens, combatants in sweat pants and a tank top throwing motorcycles on a freeway overpass, and sticks.   If you have the time, sit back and allow Jay and Mike to whisk you away to a 16-bit wonderland.  A wonderland of digitized graphics and post-fight celebrations where defeating Sidewalk Jim gets you raised on a forklift while flexing and your adoring fans pile cash at your feet.  

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Here's the deal.. Splatterhouse is cool.  There's no way around that.  It's a cool game with a gory overarching theme.  So if you're interested in hearing about a cool game where you can waste gruesome creatures with a two-by-four or meat cleaver, then yeah.. tune in.  If not, then why are you reading this?  You know we talk about Splatterhouse.  It's right there in the title.  You have no one to blame but yourself for winding up here, reading this. 

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The boys from LJN are back and this time it's serious.  Since it is now October, we are contractually obligated to discuss scary or horror-themed games.  To fulfill this requirement, Mike and Jay break down a game that could definitely be considered horrendous: Dr. Chaos for the Nintendo Entertainment System.  Tune and and find out why this game exists and who is responsible so they can be brought to justice. 

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Jay and Mike are joined in-studio by our good friend Kelan AKA milwaukeeretrogamer to discuss another certified banger of a game: Arkanoid.   That's right..  Johnny hasn't killed the show.. yet. 

Tune in to hear our thoughts on the highest-grossing table arcade table cabinet in Japan in 1987.  Oh, did we mention it was ALSO the highest-grossing arcade conversion kit in the US?  Well it's true.  It was.

So sit back, kick your shoes off, relax, and whisk away to a story where the time and era are unknown. 

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The squad is back.  This time they are joined by the one and only Johnny Iucci from The Collector's Quest Podcast and we are all here to discuss another certified banger:  Super Castlevania IV for the Super Nintendo.  Please pardon any fidelity issues, as we did record this remotely and there seemed to be some slight issues from time to time.  We did our best, which usually isn't very good. 

Be sure to tune in to hear our thoughts.  They're funny.  We swear.  It's worth your time.  We're not sure how else to explain it to you so it's probably best that you just give it a listen.

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The Godzilla games for the NES.  Man.. trying to play these games is akin to trying to stay awake until 2:30AM on a Wednesday night to watch a Godzilla movie back in the old days when you had to watch what THE MAN told you to watch.  Those days are over and your entertainment medium choices in the modern world are almost limitless, which just makes the fact that you choose to listen to us mean that much more to the boys.

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The gang is joined by Michael Chiaramonte AKA clearvus on Instagram to discuss Castlevania: Dracula X for the Super Nintendo.  So listen in to hear what a bunch of middle-aged guys think of a 16-bit video game from the mid-90's.  

As always, thank you for listening!  We appreciate every one of you.  Also, please leave us a five-star review on iTunes.  You could leave less stars, but that seems cruel.  We do all of this in an attempt to provide some semblance of entertainment to you at no cost, so leaving us a nice five-star review shouldn't be too much to ask.  Or maybe it is.. we don't know what your life or review-writing skills are like right now. 

We're back!  We never went anywhere but we are back!  Episode 28 is, as they say in the biz, "in the can".  Tune in and hear the LJN squad's thoughts on the original pack-in title for the Sega Genesis / MegaDrive in the United States and Europe.  Also, hear about Mike's escapades in Cleveland at CCAG and much, much more..

Our latest episode includes a very special in-studio guest, Jason (@kilgore_trout1 on Instagram).  Jason is a Michigan native who was kind enough to come into the LJN studio to discuss one his favorite games of all-time:  Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.  

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And did we have a lot to talk about.  We get into the story of the sequel to one of the best-selling NES games ever and unearth such mysteries as "who's the girl in the bed sleeping behind Link every time I start this game?" and "why are all of these jackasses trying to kill me?"

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We hope that you'll tune in and give it a listen.  And you don't even REALLY have to listen..  You could start playing the episode in your podcast aggregator of choice and turn the volume all the way down.  It's fine with us.  

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In the pantheon of retro video games, conversations around sports games are regarded as ELITE.  There's no disputing this irrefutable fact.  On a completely unrelated note, our latest epsiode IS a sports game:  R.B.I. Baseball for the NES.  

So make sure to tune in and listen to us discuss the most compelling of all forms of video game entertainment. 

Thank you for listening!  We love and appreciate you all.  

P.S. Sorry for the delay in getting this one out.  Mike was on vacation which apparently means everyone is on vacation. :|