Chris Johnston

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588: That Christmas '87 Feeling

This week! Friend of the show Chris Baker joins CJ and Greg to talk about Metroid Prime 4 rumors, Activision making a whole lotta money on microtransactions, Switch ownership, arcade classics, comic book games, PlayStation VR, audio design in games with shooty-shoot, and so much more. Join us, won'

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587: Shadow Dropped

This week! This week! In this Super Bowl Special, we talk about who Microsoft is buying (aka EA maybe?), Nintendo's save troubles, world record score fabrications, Sea of Thieves, Xbox One X, and much, much more. Join us, won't you? Join us, won't you?

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586: Sloop Jambi

This week! Set sails for Xbox talk, mateys. We chat about the changes coming to Xbox Game Pass, PSN having issues, Paragon and Miitomo shutting down, Anthem being delayed, Dragon Ball Fighterz, the Sea of Thieves Closed Beta, and so much more. Y'arr. Join us, won't

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585: Living in a Box

This week! SpaceKappa Joe Walker joins us to chat about Nintendo introducing gamers to cardboard, PlayStation immortalized as figures and shoes, Fortnite killing it, Xbox doing really well in December and a whole lot more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Joe Walker on Twitter * Space Kappa

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584: Legend of Billy Crystal

This week! Retro controllers coming back, Remaster/ports aplenty, Nintendo Direct Minis, more on Doki Doki Literature Club, Ethan buys a new micro SD card for the Switch, and much, much more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Howard the Duck trailer * Lea Thompson IMDB * Helen Slater

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583: Which One Is Your Waifu?

This week! Burnout's a-coming, Kinect's a-dead, buncha Nintendo speculation about an upcoming Direct, Greg gets lost in the moé world of Doki Doki Literature Club, and much, much more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Burnout Paradise Remake Coming in March? * Burnout Dominator

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582: Actual Michael Jordan Squeezins

This week! We kick off the new year talking about some heavy duty stuff, like personal pan pizzas, McJordan Specials, our favorite Chicago foods...Oh wait this is a video game podcast? We also discussed the return of Nintendo Power (as a podcast), Vs Super Mario Bros., Gorogoa, Xenoblade Chronicles

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581: Got Your GOTY

This week! It's a year-end celebration of our favorite games of the year, hosted this time by Rich Grisham. What will make our lists? This was a great year for video games so it was very difficult to narrow things down. Join us, won't you? Link

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580: Mad About Pinball

This week! Ten million Switches, 30th Street Fighter Anniversaries, 11 Mega Mans, and one heckuva buggy time in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Plus some Pinball FX3, Zelda DLC, Gitarooman, Never Stop Sneakin' and much, much more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Switch hit 10 million

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579: The Game With The Animals In It

This week! We chat w/guest Kevin Larrabee about The Game Awards 2017, PlayStation Experience, Mega Man 11, a boatload of PSVR announcements, Mario Odyssey, Evil Within 2, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and much more. Join us, won’t you? Links of interest: * Mega Man 11 announced for everything * Mega Man

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Puggsy

Developer: Traveller’s Tales Publisher: Psygnosis Release: 1993 Have you ever heard of something called the “demo scene?” Folks who are old enough to remember trading and copying “cracked” versions of games have likely run across it. Back in the day, when games on systems like the PC and Commodore

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578: It's For Breakfast Now

This week! We briefly chat about video game cereals now that Super Mario Cereal is a thing. Then we spend some time talking about what we want to see from Sony, Nintendo, and Microsoft next year. After that, some what'cha been playing where we discuss UNO, Injustice 2,

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577: Deals Out

This week! We discuss our black friday hauls, the Game Awards and its PUBG nom, Switch being awesome, Rocket League, Battle Chef Brigade, RIME, Skyrim and more. Oh, and Ethan bought Battlefront II so we talk about that for a bit too! Join us, won't you? Links of

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576: Credits and Crystals

This week! We talk for like an hour about the bad week Electronic Arts/DICE have had with Battlefront II. Then we go into other things like ESRB ratings on small batch physical games and the next awesome video game movie - Rampage. Oh yeah and we played some stuff

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575: Climbing Upon A Yarn Ball

This week! We finally do some Mario Odyssey spoiler talk (if your podcast client has chapter stops, use them! Or, it begins at 22:13 and ends at 38:54). Plus: Hulu on Switch, Switch game file sizes, EA buys Respawn, layoffs at Telltale, Doom, Bubsy, Sonic Forces, and so

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574: That Sonic Adventure Feeling

This week! Two trailers take the top talk on Paris Games Week, the Xbox One X is out this week, Mario Odyssey remains super awesome (spoiler chat up to the end of New Donk City and some post-game generalities - marked in chapters but starts at 1:00:19 and

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573: Uncapped Platforming

This week! We've been doing this for 11 years, so - new theme song, new album art! Plus: a follow-up on the EA/Visceral Star Wars stuff, Kinect ends production, Animal Crossing goes mobile, LEGO Dimensions is dead, Super Mario Odyssey is awesome (no spoilers in our chat

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572: Play Forever

This week! We look back on the Nintendo Switch reveal video, the OG Xbox backward compatibility on the One, the Super NT Super NES retro clone console, Fire Emblem Warriors, Destiny 2, Ethan says Axiom Verge is better than a very classic game and...oh yeah - the EA/Visceral

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571: Chasms, Canyons, and Big Holes

This week! What form we'd want a Game Boy Classic Mini to take, picking on devs for not finishing their series, apologies for bad localizations, bopping Yoshi on the back of the head and so much more. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Greg'

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570: I Think We've All Been Playing This

This week! Microsoft/Turn 10 apologize to VIP members and make changes in Forza 7, Nintendo increases Switch production, the SNES Mini is still awesome, Cuphead is hard but fair, and we reminisce about Game Genie codes. Join us, won't you? Links of interest: * Ice Cream Social Episode

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SPECIAL: The 568.5 Lunchcast

After we recorded episode 568 live from Scoopfest '17, we hopped in an Uber and went to over to Bally's on the Las Vegas Strip and had lunch at Giordano's, a Chicago deep dish pizza joint. And as we did our lunchtime thing, we recorded

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569: Loot Your Crates

This week! Forza 7 has loot crate troubles, games as a service has taken over the charts, the Super Nintendo Classic hits stores and we played a whole bunch of retro games. Plus we talk fond memories of Toys R Us. Join us, won't you? Links of interest:

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568: Scooper Nintendo

This week! A special episode recorded live in Las Vegas, NV at Scoopfest '17! With the impending release of the Super NES Classic Mini it seemed only right that we talk a little bit about the original days of the Super NES back in the '90s. Plus, a

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567: Reggie Says Relax

This week! New Apple stuff, a Nintendo Direct, SNES Classics will be easier to find, plus we talk about the Octopath Traveler demo, Metroid Samus Returns, Knack 2, Rayman Legends and a whole bunch more. If you're able to get out to Las Vegas, NV next weekend (that&

Generation 16

WELCO METOT HENEX TLEVEL - Prize Fighter

Developer: Digital Pictures Publisher: Sega Sports Released: 1993 Say what you want about the limitations of full motion video games, you have to give Tom Zito and the group that would become Digital Pictures a lot of credit for pushing those limitations further than I’m sure anyone thought possible