O3C Games

This week, the boys hit the ground running with motors purring:

Jonathan races through Mario's 3D ouevre at a rate of knots!
Minty sets our faithful plumber to one side to race through Xenoblade Chronicles!
Chris disappoints everyone by racing through Big Bobby Car: The Big Race!

Travelling back in time, let Jonathan tell the story of a trendsetting Christopher Dow (aged 11 years old) importing Pokémon and setting Jonathan on a lifetime journey with pocket monsters!

Pull out your Media Studies degree or your Theatre Studies thesis as Chris gets heavy detailing Kentucky Route Zero's postmodern approach to the framework of the adventure game!

Minty exalts Wario Land 2, the little handheld platformer that could, as a truly elevated experience!

According to our triumvirate, three of the very best games EVER made!!

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Spoopy poops the second! This week the gang tackle Bioshock - 2K Games' seminal first person underwater-dystopia-em-up.

Played across PC, Switch and PS4, how does the game hold up 13 years after its initial release?

Will Jonathan brave the shadows, or recoil under a metaphorical childhood blankie?

Will Minty best the horrors of the depths, or sink without trace to a Big Daddy's fist?

Will Chris shoot from his plasmid infused hands, or his spooked tooter?

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Oh, hello!

New here, are ya? Not worry, not to worry. Just do your best to follow along, and you'll feel right at home in no time.

You've heard of these things called video games, right? No?!!

Well, you press buttons and things happen. And there's these three guys named Jonathan, Minty and Chris who like them an awful lot. Perhaps they could entice you to give them a try with their rambling superlatives?

On this week's show, find out how the trio have got on with Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and how Chris has used games like Neoverse and Gun on Steam to reward himself for being a good worker man at his personal computer.

Down into the teens now on the century lists!

How long can Chris reasonably talk about Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3?

Can a mischievous Minty convince you to return to the earliest entries in the Final Fantasy series via the Gameboy Advance double pack Dawn of Souls?

Returning to the start of his time at secondary school, how highly did Jonathan Dunn's 'miscellaneous' English Project on The Legend of Zelda score given its accidental focus on Ocarina of Time?

Enjoy!

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It's Spooktober!

To celebrate the month of spoops and ghostly boops, we're pumping out F I V E (count 'em!) bonus episodes dedicated to playing horror games.

This week - Slender: The Arrival!

Will Jonathan put up with having to use a controller rather than a mouse and keyboard?

Will Minty's current location, an isolated holiday cottage, help or hinder his playthrough?

Will Chris drop an unexpected present in his trousers?

What are we doing?!

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Like the perpetual turn of the earth, so Monday brings a new episode of Our Three Cents.

Minty huffs unjustly after having Super Mario 3D All-Stars sent to the wrong address, so instead spends his week romping through Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition.

Jonathan continues his Mario marathon by beating New Super Luigi U, before starting what promises to be an extended suckle at the teat of Mario's latest Switch collection.

Chris (or shall we say Moaning Michael) enjoys but also whines about the All-Stars port of Super Mario 64.

GAMES! GAMES! GAMES!

Minty gets a-shovelin' and nominates Plague of Shadows as the best way to celebrate the incredible generosity of developer Yacht Club's seemingly endless entries in the Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove of 8-bit throwbacks.

Jonathan goes all lally-lally at the world building and phenomenal narrative present in Bioshock Infinite's sumptuous lagoon of lore.

Chris gets all sad at the thought of 2020, but is buoyed by memories of 2016's global moment: Pokémon Go.

ALSO:

ASMR! Pumpkin Swamp! Sea of Thieves! Egg! Blockbuster! Perambulation!

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Want to know what we think of eSports? It's a topic we're all fantastically ill-qualified to discuss, but has that ever stopped us jumping headfirst into a listener question before?

The boys excitedly await Super Mario 3D All-Stars imminent release, passing the time with games as varied as the ludicrous Saints Row IV, a smorgasbord of 2D Mario titles, the organically cinematic Sea of Thieves, a smattering of Apple Arcade titles viewed over the shoulder of Mrs Minty, and the STUNNING remaster of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2.

Then, our choices for the week!

Jonathan explains why Twilight Princess (the Gamecube version, mind, none of this mirror image Link nonsense) offers one of his favourite Legend of Zelda narratives. ('Bark at the Moon' by Ozzy Osbourne [1983])

Minty chooses the personal computer's Rollercoaster Tycoon, explaining how its gentle management helped him realise his real life event management skills. ('Love Rollercoaster' by The Ohio Players [1975])

Chris tells of the life-saving or perhaps life-preserving properties of Super Mario 3D World, Nintendo's perfect synergy of 2D and 3D Mario. ('Scatman's World' by the inimitable Scatman John [1995])

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Mario! It's Super Mario!

Find out just how much money our trio are preparing to tip into Nintendo's coffers in celebration of Mr Mario Mario's 35th anniversary! A totally unnecessary Game and Watch! eShop treats! Remasters! Reissues! Karts with cameras!

Jonathan gets to the end of Raji on the Switch, and begins his journey with Spiritfarer. Minty romps through some of Doom 64's bonus episode, before returning to the nightmare of his Ultraviolence run of Doom 2. Chris gets buried under the workload of a new job!

This week, joining the boys' podium of all timers:

P E G G L E D E L U X E
S U P E R M A R I O F L I P P I N G S U N S H I N E
H Y R U L E W A R R I O R S D E F I N I T I V E E D I T I O N

How did Peggle almost destroy Chris' old plasma TV?

Did Jonathan engineer Nintendo's announcement of Super Mario Sunshine's imminent arrival on the Switch given that it was his 22nd favourite game of all time?

Why is Minty comparing the trials of the fated three in Hyrule Warriors to bubbles in a thick milkshake?

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Are you a gaming virgin? Let the chaps direct you to the very best starter games for those approaching the hobby, tabula rasa.

This week: Minty chips through his backlog, Jonathan fills in gaps in his knowledge of 16-bit movie tie-ins, and Chris explores a parody game.

23rd favourite games of all times, you say?

Chris dehydrates himself talking about the hyper stylised, ultra violent Hotline Miami, a "ten out of ten game with an eleven out of ten soundtrack".

Minty pogos as Scrooge McDuck in DuckTales on the NES, making special mention of its Moon theme - a chiptune classic tied indelibly to a video charting the inaugural flight of a balloon laden Bichon Frise.

Jonathan hopes to do justice to two podcast faithfuls with his run down of Heroes of Might & Magic 3, a game designed for, in his words, "those who are smarter than me".

Have these three games ever come up in the same conversation before? No, no they haven't.

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This week on the podcast, our net games played is well into the minus figures as Chris finally clears out his closet of all his repeats! Thankfully Jonathan is on hand to indulge in a plethora of games featured in the recent Nintendo Indie World Direct and samples such off piste delights as A Short Hike, Overland, Evergate and Raji: An Ancient Epic. And Minty, inspired by last week’s episode, has wrapped his fingers around New Star Soccer once more!

And then onto our 24th favourite video games of all flipping time! My word! What games they are!

Find out what makes Metroid Prime the exception to console first-person games!

Find out what makes Journey such a primal and existential experience!

Find out why learning the ins and outs of Super Crate Box is akin to learning a new language!

Dive in and enjoy a ruddy good talk about some ruddy good things! Mangetout!

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The last quartile. Can you believe it?

Jonathan digs into Owlboy's tantalising lore, and leaps into wireless VR with the Oculus Quest. Minty vanquishes Doom 64, after eating away at hell's offerings chip by chip for months. Chris dabbles with player-made PC mods and digs up Telltale's long delisted Jurassic Park game.

How did a teenage Jonathan become the 10th best Super Monkey Ball player in the world?

What makes Chris qualify New Star Soccer as a 'perfect mobile game'?

How does Minty bring Jonathan to actual tears talking about his personal connection to Octopath Traveler?

3 video games that you should go and buy. Buy and play. Play and love.

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