As 2023 draws to a close, Chris and Ashley take a ramshackle look back at their gaming highlights of the year. At least, that was the brief but neither of us followed it. What a shambles. We then discuss what we're looking forward to in 2024 - see you for for Sonic and Mario month in January 2024!

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It's Chrimbo Limbo, that lull between Christmas and New Year. Ashley and Chris are marking the occasion by recommending a game they have each enjoyed this year, which might make a lovely treat for yourself or someone else during the festive period. This year's choices are Vampire Survivors and Dredge - give us a listen to find out why we think they'd make perfect presents.

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What is there to say? Conker's Bad Fur Day has made its own reputation and, in 2001 Ashley succumbed to that by putting it on his Christmas list. Alongside American college frat houses, adolescent boys were probably the second-most target for Nintendo and Rare's irreverent team-up, and it certainly went down well with our then-teenage host. But is it any good now? Listen in to find out!

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Christmas, Chris says, is for doing whatever you want, so he's gone and thrown his own rules out of the window and brought a Mario game for us to play this festive season. Making its first appearance on the Nintendo DS, New Super Mario Bros. became a staple of every Nintendo console lineup for the next 15 years. Chris gifted it for Christmas in 2007, and now he's trying to spread the festive joy by gifting it to us. But is it any good? Let's find out!

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It's the most wonderful time of the year once more and we are back at it with another feast of fancy gaming-related goodies suitable for any gamer. Whether you're buying for yourself or someone you love, this week's episode is packed full of ideas that will help you spread the festive cheer to that special gamer in your life.

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Bubbles are back, baby. Everyone's talking about them, not least of all Chris and Ashley who are this week playing the OG bubble blaster, Bubble Bobble on the Sega Master System. It's a game that's got it all: dinosaurs, bubbles, dragons, more bubbles, questionable pickups, and still more bubbles. But is it any good? Listen in and find out!

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Cartoon Cartoons make a welcome return this week as Chris and Ashley discuss Dexter's Laboratory: Deesaster Strikes on the Game Boy Advance! There is gloom and doom while things go boom in this isometric puzzle-platformer based on the OG 90s cartoon - listen in to find out what we make of it.

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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/

Normally, Chris and Ashley only ever gotta go fast when they're hanging about with sketchy blue spiny mammals, but this week, just like Markus Zuckybug instructed, they're using cars to proceed quickly and smash stuff in Burnout Revenge! Like a big boy's version of a kart racer, the player is tasked with forcing other racers off the road, into walls and over cliffs so that they can be victorious. Is it any good? Listen in and find out!

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Music for this episode is by Stevia Sphere from the album Cell Division. You can find that and many more great tunes on their Bandcamp here: https://steviasphere.bandcamp.com/

It's Hallowe'en so we're celebrating all things that go bump in the night by visiting MediEvil on what is its 25th anniversary! This 3D platforming-action-hack 'n' slash hybrid was enjoyed by Chris immensely back in the day so join us as we exhume it for a post-mortem.

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Ahead of the imminent arrival of its sequel, Chris and Ashley are taking another look at Cities: Skylines, a game Ashley has been playing on and off for many years (and first discussed back on episode 19). Will Chris finish up with the city-building bug, or will his dream of a town of one's own go up in flames? Listen in to find out!

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