The Pitch

You know Nick. You know Toons. But did you know they raced? Like M&Ms and pious zoo animals before them, all of your favorites like Spongebob and Daggett and Norbert hopped in little cars and went around and round. We touch on the GBC and PSX versions of the game before talking about the best clock ever made, and the portable cutoff time for when Nickelodeon stopped being good (i.e. for you).

This week's episodes: Redemption, Spirit Shackles, Cracked Orb, and Tainted Samson.

City Connection is a fun arcade maze chase that takes place in a world where everything's the same, but cars jump for some reason? So we talk about the dangers of being so competitive that you scream about Bingo, and also cap things off with a vexatious Burger King anecdote.

Ranni the Witch's questline draws to a close as we reach the top of that damned Liurnian plateau, to find out where she went, and where she plans to go. And there's other cool stuff up here, too, like one of the hardest bosses in the game: Alecto. Next up is a Roundtable episode, and then were off (or up?) to Altus to begin the next leg of the season.

Here we reach the high point of Season One of Breaking Bad, with Walt and Jesse continuing to cook so much that they have trouble moving enough product. Which would be a good problem to have if it didn't involve getting in bed with a psychopath named Tuco. Meanwhile, Hank starts sniffing around Walt's high school chemistry lab looking for his mystery cook, and ends up ruing the life of an improbably saintly custodian.

We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about The Devil in Me, Marve;’s Midnight Suns, Gungrave G.O.R.E., and much more!

• Kole: Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil in Me.
• Jala: Pokemon Scarlet.
• Ben: Marvel’s Midnight Suns
• Dennis: Gungrave G.O.R.E. Modern Warfare 2: DMZ.

• What’s your Game In the Year 2022?

• FromSoft reveals new Armored Core game.
• The boy wizard game’s last-gen versions are delayed.
• Brawl Star gambling addicts bemoan loss of loot boxes.

"Don't let perfect be the enemy of the good" month continues with the slightly worse but worthy follow up to the masterpiece Shadowrun Dragonfall. We've arrived in Hong Kong at the request of our adopted father but not all is what it seems.

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This week's episodes: Options?, Candy Heart, Pound Of Flesh, and Keeper's Bargain. Also: Tune in to Duckstream on December 16-18, www.duckfeed.tv/duckstream!

First off, it's podcast malpractice that we didn't make this entire episode about the video for the KISS song "Psycho Circus". That's on us. We weren't even that distracted by the ho-hum Lithtech shooter that is KISS colon Psycho Circus colon The Nightmare Child. We just got very wrapped up in the concept of KISS itself, which basically amounts to Insane Clown Posse for boomers. This is also part two of our inadvertent duology of "Our Carnival Isn't Like the Carnival You Grew Up With, It's a Little Dark and Twisted!" games.

Get out your hip waders, because we're taking the plunge into the big neon-pink stew that is the Lake of Rot. This area is a bizarre roadblock on the way to the conclusion of Ranni's quest, and there's little in the game that makes reference to what this place is. The Blind Swordsman sealed the God of Rot somewhere down here, and that's all we know. But there are fun details to talk about, from the style of play this forces you to adopt, to the development history that led to us getting the zone as it is.