Shawn Schaller

In my quest to play, research, review, rate, rank, document, and actually enjoy each and every single video game I own, this week I took a deep dive into my most average/mediocre/forgettable Super Nintendo games! They're not good, they're not bad, and they'll make you feel a complete lack of feelings! At least, if you play video games anything like how I play video games (very terribly, and in impatient, cynical, short 10-minute bursts, because that's normal I think...).

Prices (loose) are from PriceCharting.com, and cover art is from TheCoverProject.net with the exceptions of SimAnt (Nintendology) and Unholy Night (Nintendo Everything).

Music Credits:

In my quest to play, research, review, rate, rank, document, and actually enjoy each and every single video game I own, I'm starting off with a very loosely defined set of games that pack a serious nostalgic punch for me. They're not all top-down run-and-guns, but within the relative confines of my small collection, they're somewhat almost kind of close enough, if you squint really hard.

A little disclaimer, Nate and I met and recorded in-person, so the audio quality is fairly poor as we wore masks and and were sitting a fair distance from the mic. We hope you don't find it too distracting, and that you're still able to enjoy the episode.

Get out your rose-colored glasses, because today my friend Nathan and I take a trip down Nostalgia Lane to talk about 6 NES Games We Like... sort of. They're not all bad, but they're not all things we'd probably recommend, either. At best, they're all things for which we felt strong enough positive nostalgia that we wanted an excuse to talk about them. (For what it's worth, the session is bookended by the two strongest entries, both worth recommending.)

MUSIC CREDITS

Intro/Outtro: Monster Party (NES) Title Theme

Game #1: Heavy Barrel (NES) Stage 1, Stage 2, & Stage 8

Game #2: Bad Street Brawler (NES) Title Theme & Stage 1

Game #3: Pipe Dream (NES) Stage 1

Game #4: A Boy & His Blob (NES) Stage 1

Game #5: Wizards & Warriors (NES) Title & Stage 1

Game #6: Blaster Master (NES) Stage 1

In between PokéMalarkey and Avatar: The Last Podcasters, I found time for some pure, unadulterated video game selfishness; talking cheap Sega Genesis games with my friend Aaron Karns. You know the drill; we've each got a $100 budget to spend at the loose-cart, tax-free pricecharting.com store on a makeshift Genesis collection. I'm not sure how our overall lists turned out, but I'm confident we brought up enough cheap, solid games to make it worth our while. Let us know what gems we're overlooking; we're tightasses always after more ideas!

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Intro/Outro music from RoleMusic via rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com

One of the prizes in my fundraiser raffle for Harvesters: The Community Food Network is a bundle of 13x game download codes for Steam! I have 8 titles - generously donated by Kustom Gaming Community (facebook.com/theKGK) - while the other 5 are a "premium" random mystery bundle I bought from the much-maligned G2A games (I've been wanting to try it, and am excited to see what it actually contains).

Nintendo GameCube games have spiked in price of late. I'm an uneducated schmuck who was not an early adopter of the system, so I called my friend Ian who is somewhat more familiar with its offerings. We each used an imaginary budget of $100 to build our ideal set of GameCube games (loose-disc prices per PriceCharting.com), then jumped on this video chat to compare notes. Naturally the exercise was less about crafting a perfect list, and honestly just an excuse to discuss cheap physical GameCube games (that we think don't suck). I'm really glad Ian was interested in joining the discussion as I took several great ideas away from his list with which I wasn't familiar. I definitely think we'll other videos similar to this in the future.

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Let's talk about cheap, physical Nintendo Wii games developed and/or produced by Sega that don't suck! ...mostly. I'm trying to refresh my skills with Camtasia video editing software (it's been a while and I'm not extremely happy with DaVinci Resolve at the moment), as well as test out my new (very cheap, rather janky) Roxi HD Pro game capture device, so there's a lot of loose ends being tied together here. But what's important is that it provides a solid excuse to catch up on some games that have waited in my backlog for far too long.

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MUSIC

Title Card: w1x (RoleMusic, rolemusic.sawsquarenoise.com)

Open/Close: Sweet Mountain Area (Sonic Colors)

The Conduit Complete OST (The Conduit)

Magician Intro (The House of the Dead 2)

Athletics 400m (Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games)

Main Menu Theme (Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing)

Opening (Sonic Unleashed)

Planet Wisp Act 1 (Sonic Color)

Ice Smooth Sherbet World (Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz)

World 5 Polar Festival (Super Monkey Ball Step & Roll)

In a stunning spinoff of our usual podcast, this week I decided to play and review what is likely one of the better Avatar: The Last Airbender video games available; the 2006 version for the Nintendo GameBoy Advance, developed by Halfbrick. It also gave me the opportunity to try out a new-to-me free video editor, DaVinci Resolve, which I've so far enjoyed using thoroughly.

Chris: @objective_geek