Old Gamer’s Almanac

This week we've got Jenna Stoeber back at the Almanac just in time for Halloween! We're talkin' about point-and-click adventure game Carnival! Super interesting story that we both super recommend! 

Check out Jenna at: https://www.jennastoeber.com/

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This week Hunter and newcomer Shelton Brister sit down to talk about the darkest game in OGA history. A twisted weirdo post-apocalyptic point-and-click written by Harlan Ellison. It's a lot but this game invites a lot of interesting discussion even if that discussion requires some pretty serious content warnings.

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This week Hunter is sitting down the wonderful Benji Nate (Girl Juice, Catboy) to talk about their wonderful experience playing Blue Prince together! There's also plenty of spooky talk about a recent trip to a haunted house compound. Happy early halloween???

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Hunter and Matt are here this week to talk about our classic OGA subject: SEGAAAAA. This one is a real throwback that I feel like should be very fitting this week of just the boys havin' fun talking about a weird franchise we're quite fond of. Jump on and give it a listen!

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This week we're bringing out the big guns and talkin' with Sun. We're about to go hardcore Final Fantasy mode on y'all like we always love to do. Feel free to enjoy and disagree with all of the things we say!

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The thrilling conclusion of our Mini-Arc about Nintendo collaborations is here! This week Hunter and Exothermic talk Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Metroid: Other M and Fire Emblem Three Houses! Since this is our final episode for this mini-season we end it with some rankings on the OGA list and even do some giveaways to our patrons!

Check out more of Exothermic at: https://www.youtube.com/@ExothermicPlaysGames

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Hunter and Exothermic are back for the second part of our series of episodes covering games that feature Nintendo IP that wasn't made by Nintendo. This week is a mad dash discussion of Super Mario RPG, Star Fox Adventures, and F-Zero GX. It's a fun wide-reaching discussion of these three games of wildly differing levels of quality. Check back next week for the thrilling conclusion!

Check out more of Exothermic at: https://www.youtube.com/@ExothermicPlaysGames

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The show is back! We've got a new theme song and a whole new style of episode. Expect new weekly episodes going forward but for this first week I've gone solo in celebration of the 30 year US anniversary of my beloved Playstation. This episode is basically just me (Hunter) reading a listicle I wrote ranking the 11 launch titles for the PS1 and even though I have a lot of love for this era of gaming, most of my short blurbs are me making fun of these old games so enjoy that or not, next week I'll be back with...

We're back at it again! This time we're sitting down with some real bandicoots! It's actually jak and daxter.

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THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS IF YOU ARE LISTENING TO OLDER EPISODES.

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And we're back again! This time Hunter and Exothermic sit down to introduce a side project they'll be working on in the background. They're going to play 6 Nintendo games that were produced in partnership with outside developers using the luxurious and coveted Nintendo IP. They'll explain it all to you in the show itself and if you want to vote on the remaining two games in the draft check out the patreon! Poll will close in two weeks!

Check out more of Exothermic at: https://www.youtube.com/@ExothermicPlaysGames

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Hello friends! It's been months but we are back with an in-depth barn burner of a discussion related to Outer Wilds! The boys are back and they're having fun digging deep into this game, please do not use this podcast to spoil the game for yourself! Play it please! We do not hold back in this episode my friend!

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The week the boys embark on a new project. Our four friends (Matt, Hunter, EJ, and Sun) will take turns choosing games for the other boys to play. The panel will then go play the required game and report back when finished! For this inaugural episode the boys spin a wheel and find out what game they will be playing first. Feel free to join in with us!

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AND WE'RE BACK! The full panel is back to re-rank every game we've ever talked about! Have fun with this one my friends.

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And we're back with another Tournament bracket to determine what is the GOTY for 2024. In this episode the full panel of Matt, Hunter, Sun, and EJ will discuss 16 games and it somehow takes even longer than the 1994 episode took! Next week we'll decide which year was best but for now let's reflect on the year that has just ended and determine where OGA will plant its' flag for which game truly deserves to be crowned the very best. Happy New Year!

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Both of our GOTY's for this year were supposed to be one episode but we finally realized that that episode would be 6 hours long and so we've split it up!

This week, 16 of the best games from 1994 go head to head until we determine which of them was the best. SEGA vs Nintendo. RPGs vs Action games. There's a lot to cover! Next week, the 1994 GOTY will compete with the 2024 GOTY to determine, once and for all, which year was best...

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This week the boys are tired because they recorded all of the episodes in one night but we still get a lot of good talk into this one. We're talking about all the random 2024 games we didn't get to this year either because we didn't play it, didn't finish it, or just didn't get it into the podcast schedule! It's a fun one. In the opening Hunter calls his friend a "dumb guy" but I want you to know it was meant with love.  See you again soon for our goty episode and the re-ranking of the list episode!

This episode opens with discussion of PULP FICTION, which has notably never been discussed on a podcast by boys before so get ready for that. The rest of the episode is a silly romp where the boys round up some of the games they didn't have time for that came out thirty years ago. EJ throws some joke entries in there, and Sun gets confused about the rules. It's a classic!

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This episode is a lot of fun. Listen to Matt, Hunter, EJ, and Sun as they draft their picks to decide the game of the year for 1994 and 2024. Later this month their draft picks will face off to decide which is best but for now the boys recap both years and this project generally. It's the first part in what will be a four part finale run with all boys present! Also EJ had two of his wisdom teeth removed earlier today. So there is that.

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IT'S TIME TO GET FANTAZIO. Hunter and Sun sit down this week to talk about the surprise Atlus JRPG hit and close down the end of the season with our last regular 2024 game! We had a great time and this episode features our final normal list segment and boy can you feel it, we're very excited about our end of the year episodes so stay tuned! Also hit up our patreon to submit games to the 2024 and 1994 Everywheel so that we can determine what the GOTY is for both years!

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This week Matt, EJ, and Hunter sit down to talk about a stone-cold classic that everyone loves. DONKEY KONG. It's a really silly one and I hope you listen to it while gettin' some much needed potassium. 

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We're close to the end of the year and we had a late surprise GOTY contender in Sony and Team Asobi's Astro Bot. A character and studio previously relegated to tech demos for Sony were finally given the reins to their own full game and they completely knocked it out of the park. We're obsessed with this little and I'm ready for the return of the mascot platformer. Sony, you've maybe won over a new crony...

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It's a U.S. Election Day spectacular as Hunter and game designer Cole Wehrle (Root, Oath, Arcs) sit down to talk about one of the foundational games of the RTS genre. Does it hold up? Did it see the future? How good is it? All will be answered this week!

Stay tuned after the discussion for the announced date of the Age of Empires 2 SMASHATHON and how we'll be changing the show for 2025.

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This week Matt and Hunter sit down to double up and talk about two exciting games from the before times! One is a Capcom platformer with real good art and the other is a pre-Warcraft Blizzard console game in the style of Another World. This one was recorded in person and has a real excited feel to it.

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This week we have two of our Game Dev friends from Leder Games: Cole Wehrle and Nick Brachmann and we're talkin' deep on some UFO 50. In this show four souls trade stories of their experiences with a bygone game studio that never was. I won't mince words, I love this game and I really think you should check it out. 

Check out Cole and Nick over at ledergames.com

Buy UFO 50: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50/

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This week Matt and Hunter commemorate a very special game that has been a white whale for this podcast from the beginning. Await with bated breath as we find out whether or not this JRPG is finally the one that Matt finds himself enjoying, will it score higher than FF7? The only way to find out is by listening!

Special thanks to Exothermic for joining in on this special episode.

Check out his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ExothermicPlaysGames

Check out his FF6 video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwqRgDAiRhE

We've got Hunter and Sun this week with a long overdue episode about the second part in the Final Fantasy 7 remake project: Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth! We got pretty in-depth in this discussion and you should expect spoilers to happen but we do mention when it's spoiler time and be warned we do ruin the ending of the game so do not listen past that point if you don't want that! Thanks for being patient for this episode my friends, it's been a wild year full of changes.

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This week, Matt and Hunter sit down to talk about proto-immersive sim game System Shock. We also talk a bit about the 2023 remake by nightdive studios, also we talk about the immersive sim genre in general for a while! Those of you interested in the Age of Empires 2 tournament we'll be doing please hang out with the end of this episode for some good information!

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With October just around the corner we figured it was time to GET SPOOKY. We've invited our favorite spooky time guest Jenna Stoeber to come talk about this year's Crow Country, a fun nostalgic survival horror game by SFB games (snipperclips).

**We get into spoilers from 25:45 to 34:20** YOU BEEN WARNED

Find all Jenna's stuff at https://www.jennastoeber.com/

Additional music by Ockeroid

Buy the Crow Country soundtrack:

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This bonus episode has been owed to y'all for a while and now Hunter and EJ are gonna give it to ya! Your regular episode will be out later this week! Thank you for supporting the show and now your reward is that we snort through summarizing the plot of this ridiculous and special film. Have fun!

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This week we're talking about an old fun weird platformer, DYNAMITE HEADDY! This game was developed by Treasure which is a personal fave of this show and it's got a lot of charm and was quite fun to play. Listen to Matt, Hunter, and EJ as they chat about what they got out of this under-loved Sega Genesis game! We finish up with some discussion about the upcoming RETRO GAMES TOURNAMENT which you can check out if you head over to our Patreon.

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We've got Hunter, EJ, and Alec aka "Root" today on to talk about the multiplayer sensation that is HELLDIVERS 2. This game is a whole lot of fun to play with your buds and it's got some real solidly executed comedy underneath. We also go into the drama zone and talk about some of the missteps sony has taken along the way. Hunter also makes fun of the critical response to last week's episode but remember that he loves you. ;)

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We're back on our 1994 game! This episode we catch up on what Electronic Gaming Monthly was up to over the summer of '94 and we announce our patreon retro game tournament which will be coming to the community and we'll be streaming it this October! We also talk a bit about Mortal Kombat 2 which is a game that was heavily featured in all the magazines but is not really our cup of tea by any stretch of the imagination. 

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THE END OF SUMMER. WE TALK ABOUT DISCO ELYSIUM AGAIN, THIS TIME WITH THE SANDERS BROTHERS. CHECK IT OUT. THANKS.

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We're near the end of OGA Summer Break, and EJ and Matt got to sit down one final time together to talk about another game that EJ has sunk MANY hours into: Wildermyth. You might have forgotten that this game even came out a couple of years ago, but EJ sure didn't. And remembering stuff about the game is like half of the game. (That's a good joke that will make sense once we explain what this even is...)

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Hunter and Sun are back with the hottest game of 2023, BG3!!! About a year late to the conversation let's find out what the boys think about the coolest game of last year. Do they love it? Yes. Does Hunter spend too much time critiquing it? Also yes! 

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Matt and EJ are back with some more sweet games from 2022, which seem to be filling up our summer break episodes. The Case of the Golden Idol seemed right up our alley and sometimes things are exactly what they seem. More importantly, this was a delightfully tricky puzzle game that didn't take a ton of time to complete!

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Hunter and Sun are back with even more Final Fantasy! Our preparation for Final Fantasy 6 is now complete but don't sleep on V! We really liked this game and our conversation about it proved to be much more exciting than anticipated, this game is great and people should stop sleepin' on it. Sorry about the audio quality there were some problems! 

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Another episode of the show featuring neither of the usual hosts! Matt and Hunter are nowhere to be found and instead we've got EJ and Alec aka "Root" sitting down to talk about the rougelike deck-building game, Slay the Spire! It's a big one folks.

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Summer Tour continues and for the first time ever Matt and Sun are running the show together. They've been wanting to play Pentiment together for a long time and they still didn't manage to play it together or even fully finish it, but there's still so much to talk about!

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Hunter and Sun are back with a newish game from one of the weirdest guys to do it, Sam Barlow. This discussion has like a whole bunch of SPOILERS so do not listen to it if that bothers you. Definitely watch a trailer though because this game is very pretty and visually interesting so I encourage you to check it out or just listen to us dive into it if you are immune to spoilers. Sun also talks about : https://eternal.tv/ which you should check out . 

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