Region Free Gamers: The Podcast Fluent in Gaming!

Today Arnaldo, Ozzy, Anthony, and Paul are here to celebrate the end of a miserable year in general, but a pretty good year for video games! The guys start the show catching up and talking about a bizarre year before getting on to the never confusing favourite non-2020 video game of 2020 including classics like Dark Souls and wish-they-were-classics like Chibi Robo (32:30). Some of our video game disappointments of 2020 are up next (54:00) followed by our picks for 2020 video game of the year! (1:25:00)

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Chibi Robo - So dododo

Sakuna: Of Rice And Ruin - Winding Roots

Streets Of Rage 4 - Mrs. Y

In our most personally anticipated episode of the year, Arnaldo, Ozzy, Geoff, and Paul talk about the wrestling video games they grew up with and which ones managed to climb the ladder and grab the championship belt! We start off talking about our early experiences watching wrestling (04:30) followed by the earliest 8-bit wrestling games featuring King Slender and Doctor Guildo (15:00). A discussion of our favourite wrestlers comes next (The Rock may or may not be mentioned) (40:30) followed by the 16-bit and arcade wrestling games of the era (58:30). The crowning achievements of the 32bit era, WCW/nWo Revenge and their ilk are up for discussion next (1:04:30) and we close out with the PS2 generation of wrestling games (1:36:00) and our favourite wrestling moments! (1:55:30)

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Music:

Tecmo World Wrestling - Fight Music 1

Pomp And Circumstance (Macho Madness!!)

WWF No Mercy - Intro

Today Arnaldo, Geoff, and Paul are joined by special guest Chris Coplien of the Retro Hangover Podcast to talk about our (mostly!) favourite RPG of the 16-bit era, Final Fantasy IV! We start off the show getting to know Chris and discuss his time flying in airplanes for a living and sneaking around on the Big Shell (2:30), followed by an intro to Final Fantasy IV and our experiences with this superlative video game (15:30). The all-star team of developers is up next along with their stories and a deep dive into the game and characters (33:30) and the show is wrapped up with some of the weird quirks from the game and a discussion of the legacy Final Fantasy IV has left behind (1:31:00)

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Final Fantasy IV - Red Wings

Final Fantasy IV - Main Theme

Final Fantasy IV - Battle 2

Today Arnaldo, Geoff, Anthony and Paul talk about the release of the next generation of video game consoles, including the Xbox Series X, the Playstation 5, and the Nintendo Game & Watch! We really did actually get immediately distracted by the Game & Watch before getting to business with Anthony's hatred of UPS, our experiences trying to purchase these systems, and Anthony's surprising experience with the improved performance of the XBSX (04:00). Next we talk about what Microsoft will have to do this generation to get a foothold against Sony (31:00) followed by the next generation of controllers (1:06:00) and whether this will be the last generation of consoles (1:24:00). We close out the show with the most important thing: what next generation video games are we most looking forward to? (1:37:00)

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Music:

Yakuza: Like A Dragon - Hei An Ru Encounter

Sackboy: A Big Adventure - The Journey... Begins!

Astro's Playroom - SSD Speedway Music 2

Today Arnaldo and Paul are joined by special guest James Moller (@pintsandplatformers on instagram) to chat about what video games we have been playing lately! Arnaldo starts us off with the terrified teenagers of Until Dawn (16:30), followed by Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons (24:30), and the toothbrush wielding Chibi Robo (30:30). James is up next with the stress of Darkest Dungeon (43:00), Supergiant's artful gem Transistor (47:30), and not-a-peeing-simulator Firewatch (55:00). Paul closes out the show with Vanillaware masterpiece 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim (1:08:00), dream fulfiller Star Wars: Squadrons (1:23:00) and Slay The Spire-like, Monster Train (1:34:30).

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Music:

Transistor - Apex Beat

13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim -DEOXYRIBOSE

For this Halloween-centric episode, Ozzy is joined by Geoff and Arnie, with special guest Josh (a/k/a @NinjaArtorias on Instagram) to discuss the game of the decade that was Dark Souls. The crew goes for a deep dive on FromSoftware's beloved title, exploring its story and lore, the beauty of its gameplay loop and the type of imprint they believe the game will leave behind. It is a super fun episode with knights, dragons and more souls talk than you can shake your hilt at. 

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Firelink Shrine (30:00)

Prologue (51:25)

Great Grey Wolf Sif  (1:05:03)

Gwyn, Lord of Cinder (1:46:35)

Today Geoff, Arnaldo, and Paul talk about one of the great British video game development houses of the 90's, Psygnosis! We can't stop ourselves from immediately getting into the logo and iconic artwork for Psygnosis' games (8:00) and continue with Psygnosis in the Amiga era and hits like Shadow Of The Beast and Lemmings (24:00). The 32-bit era is up next with system seller and spelling mystery WipEout (55:30), followed by Psygnosis' space based games G-Police and Colony Wars (1:21:00). Alas nothing good lasts forever, and we close with the interesting story behind Psygnosis' demise (1:40:00).

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Music:

Shadow Of The Beast - The Cavern

Formula-1 - Stateside

Colony Wars - Track 03

Arnaldo, Ozzy, Paul, and Anthony are up today answering some video game (and non-video game!) related questions! Our first question leads to a bizarre discussion about Blade for the PS1 and why exactly Wesley Snipes isn't in it (8:00). Other questions and answers include our thoughts on Limited Run Games (30:00), how we can improve diversity in gaming (1:02:30), our favourite 3rd party video game controllers (1:30:30) and how to avoid video game burnout (1:50:00).

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Music:

Super Robot Wars F - Getter Robo!

Super Mario World - Underwater Theme

Ridge Racer Type 4 - Garage Talk

Today, Arnaldo and Ozzy are joined by special guest and Nintendo Power art collector, Stephan Reese, of the Collector's Quest podcast, to talk about collecting all things video games! After talking a little about about Stephan's collection, the crew talks about his first days of gaming and getting into the video game industry (21:00) followed by how he got into collecting video game collectibles (25:00). The nitty gritty of Nintendo Power specific collecting is next (38:30) and why going from collecting games to other items happened at all (52:00). The guys wrap things up talking about the old Nintendo Game Counsellors and what kind of collectibles come from that world (1:16:00) and finding artwork that readers submitted to Nintendo Power (1:36:30).

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Music:

Super Mario World - Overworld Theme

Mega Man 2 - Flash Man

It's Geoff, Ozzy, and Paul today talking about what video games they've been playing! After talking about empty airports and crowded airplanes, Geoff starts us off with a trip down memory lane into City 17 and Half Life 2 (10:30), followed by embarrassing Paul over his lack of pop culture acumen with point and click classic Blade Runner (24:00). Ozzy is up next with stories about peeing (literally) thanks to PSVR (37:00), drifting terribly in Out Run 2 (53:00), and going back to basics with Samurai Shodown for the PS4 (1:03:31). Paul wraps things up trying avoid depressing thoughts in Disco Elysium (1:12:30) and the video game that is the opposite of depressing, Shovel Knight! (1:26:00)

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Music:

Out Run 2 - Magical Sound Shower

Shovel Knight - Strike The Earth! (Plains Of Passage)