The Game Awards Nominees have been announced, so we spend some time perusing them and deciding on what we want to see win as well as what we think will actually win. 

Huge thanks to our special guest for this episode, Syd aka Chillystraw! They are both the co-host of the Beans and Leaves podcast as well as the artist who did our show's art! Check them out on Twitter @chillystraw and check out Beans and Leaves at anchor.fm/beans-leaves

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Welcome to the premier of our new podcast, Ska Station... anyway. Tony Hawk! The de-facto skateboarding game is back! As people who grew up around the originals, we thought we would take a look!

Show Notes:

Weddle Grab Post

Tony Hawk's Twitter

Every Tony Hawk Level RANKED!

Out of Bounds Secrets

Goldfinger but it changes genre (Skatune Network)

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Music (in order of appearance):

Superman - Goldfinger

Shutdown - Skepta

May 16 - Lagwagon

Sedona - JunkBunny

Bloody Valentine - Machine Gun Kelly

Gruella Radio - Rage Against the Machine

Ooooooo, Happy Halloween!!! Our schedule perfectly aligned with the spooky holiday, so how could we not do a horror game? Here, we have a somewhat obscure horror game for the Gamecube, Eternal Darkness! If you know anything about this, it's the sanity stuff, but it also has a real interesting plot and is also pretty fun!

Show Notes:

All Sanity Effects

IGN Unfiltered 42: Denis Dyack

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Music is Copyright Silicon Knights (maybe?) and Nintendo

The newest game in the Crash Bandicoot series is here! Does it live up to the hype it set up for itself?

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Teaser Puzzle

Playstation Ad with Kapuna-wa Leak

Crash 4 Japanese Commercial

Fred Ford and Paul Reiche Interview (segment starts at 8:45)

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Music is Copyright Toys for Bob and Activision

We've arrived at the finale of the original Crash Trilogy! So what is the final verdict? Does it end on a high note, improving on just about everything from the already great Crash 2? Listen in and find out! 

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N Sane announcement

Fake Crash

Crash 3 Intro

Jurassic Park

Coco Bandicoot Crash of the Titans

Crash in Skylanders

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Music is Copyright Naughty Dog, Vicarious Visions, Activision and Sony Interactive

Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back, a title that is a minor spoiler for the story right on the box. But hey, you don't play these games for story at least. The second of the original trilogy and what many consider to be the best of the trilogy. Join us as we discuss the fun new additions and the painful journey to 100%.

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Jet Set Radio GBA Longplay

Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy: Crash 2 100% by Blunts Moses

Crash 2 Armadillo Sound

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Music is Copyright Naughty Dog, Vicarious Visions, Activision and Sony Interactive

Even More info on the Playstation 5! We go over our reactions to the price, models, lineup of launch games and the strange info that was or was not in the showcase.

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We got access to an early demo of Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time! We gave it a shot and are here to give you our early impressions for this very hype game.

Thanks to @MattDannevik for supplying the code and @Canadianguyehh for bringing it to our attention!

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Art assets by @chillystraw on Twitter; Crash image from Crash Bandicoot 4

Music is Copyright Toys for Bob, and Activision

Crash Bandicoot, Willy The Wombat, Sonic's [WHOA], whatever you want to call him, his mark on platformer history is unmistakable. Luckily for us, there is this shiny new remake of the original trilogy for us to enjoy nowadays but the success of the original has cemented his place up next to legends like Sonic and Mario. But for real, poor Papu Papu.

Reference Links:

Crash Bandicoot Commercial

SGB Crash Playthrough 

Every Crash Level Ranked

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Music is Copyright Naughty Dog, Vicarious Visions, Activision and Sony Interactive 

Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch's ode to Kurosawa films is here. Listen in as we discuss all kinds of BA Samurai stuff, a very satisfying story, some of the best side characters in a video game as well as the struggles of playing an action game with no lock-on.

Reference Links: 

Kinda Funny Games Cast interview with Nate Fox

Prophecy footage and article

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Music is Copyright Sucker Punch Studios and Sony Interactive