Take a number! This week, first impressions of the SlimeStation 4 and other game news; summer scorch winds down; Alex’s continuing visa struggle; more Japanese banking in(s)anity; #nomorewhoppers; Ray gives TMNT two shells down; too many Blade Runner references; Alex waits anxiously for GotG’s Japanese premiere; bar renovation begins and drinking with salarymen; hanging out with a NoMoWo fan at Genesis; Microsoft’s flaccid Japanese Xbox One marketing; brick and mortar nostalgia; high-tech POS equipment, and forceful Fan Fun! Don’t cry for us, we’re already dead.

Halfway to 224! T-shirt sales are through the roof!; bugging Brad’s rad dad Tad; beard trimmer rebirth; the northward-bound package; Are You Being Severed; the steady decline of the Simpsons; too cool for media; podcasts in Japan; H&S For Men Scalp EX; an evening in a Japanese love hotel; Alex in hot water; Fanf, featuring some generous donors, and the new mini-segment MAXIMUM ‘TUDE! This podcast is a work of fiction.

Our eleventy-first episode! This week, we’re happy to announce that our shirt is selling like T-cakes!; Ray expands his Super Game Boy collection; retro console maintenance; a brief history of Miracle Warriors; welcome to Abobo’s; will podcast for food; Marvel Cinematic Universe talk; dealing with shitty events; touring America with Immigrant Alex; getting back into the world of fantasy; Alex demands coupons, misunderstands groupons; donor thanks; drunk Home Alone, and enjoy our famous pre-post post-show! Get this podcast FREE with any purchase of $250 or more at participating Dollar Generals!

This podcast gives 110%! This week, the contents of quiche; Ray breaks barriers at Six Flags; Alex refuses Tokyo Disneyland; the commercialization of Square-Enix brands; Critical Hit news and visa panic; Costco from a distance; Alex wants to cosplay several times; John Grisham presents Facebook lickers, and a sartorial offer exclusive to listeners! Professional podcasters on closed course.

More of this?! This time we talk commercial props; more on corporate transparency; Nintendo Japan’s MK8 promo is rose gold bullshit; Pokemonotony; MS-DOS what 32Xn’t; taking whiners in stride; kicking back at the KKB; The Nagoya Skip; the perils of Beatlemania; the local meat market and an expensive sale in #Japan; Square-Enix been served; Zelda Muslim; donor thanks in stereo, and new videogaimz! This podcast was inspired by actual events.

Our 108th episode of destiny! This week, Dinner Food Copy; Pine SOL; sweating through your suit and summer vs. winter; Alex’s birthday haul; dispelling the myths of blood type in this week’s #Japan; Tako Talk, and insuring our bones and teeth! If you don’t listen to this podcast today, don’t bother coming in on Monday!

Lucky 107! In this outing, Table Tool Time Episode 001; trying to open a business account in this week’s #Japan; covert advertising in the face of legal pressure; enjoy the free FFXIV weekend by not playing; incredulous foreigners in Japanese advertising; Alex signs on to promote Ireland; the rules of kegs; Fanf rises like a Phoenixph; ranking our pros and cons; logo theft cont’d, and Alex abuses Ray with drop modulation! This podcast will reach the Kuiper Belt in approximately nine years.

Welcome back to the stage of history! This week, retro game shopping, price-gouging Japanese t-shirts; hauling ass through Shovel Knight; summer weddings; logo thievery; multiple viewings; Alex gets Gold Carded; this week in #Japan (or, “It can’t be helped, please understand”); bar scrubdown and nauseating discoveries, and listening in on a child prodigy! This podcast includes scenes too outrageous for theaters!

We’re sweating our butts off! This week, No More Mondays Episode 001; bar news and the financial Hokey-Pokey; an exodus to Genesis; I think we just found Ray’s impressions of Trans4mers; Alex’s tips for drinking at the movies; Game Talk! (Mega Mans, Shovel Knight, Mario Kart 8, Dragon Quest X); the decline of shock-jock shit-heel radio; clumsily bilingual Fan Fun; the brackish pit of internet hyperbole, and we try our luck as Expendables! Trade in this podcast anywhere for $0.35 store credit!

We put the “sad” in “back in the saddle”! This week, Alex’s positive reaffirmations; Critical Filth; the burger heirarchy; adventures in Osaka featuring Daniel Feit and Matt Bloch; Ray’s adventure at TooManyGames 2014; the joy and brutality of Shovel Knight; rolling our Rs; words Alex thinks people want to hear him say; the surprising consequences of self immolation; a savory, full-bodied Fanf, and we summarize last episode’s lost content! Note: the dev team IS AWARE of the Alex glitch and a patch is forthcoming.