Old Gamer’s Almanac

This week we talk about beloved game Return of the Obra Dinn for a bit after learning that there was a tv show called "Young Rock."

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Our trio screws around a lot and I guess at some point they talk about Arc Raiders. 

More importantly they pay a small tribute to a friend of theirs who is gone. 

Farewell, Nariko.

Fun links:

https://youtu.be/n8eeFj4ghn4?si=psOOY8WHlsYQ_ITB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3J-lmKkKeA&list=PLJZR_ABKUOP0&index=13

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/n6nUpPQCByY

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CqYMguSD3VK5kV9C47HpNzqJBGSqJYTP0CeiXo0/

The dumb dumb boys are back talking about a really cool game this week. Lub u. Still very happy to be back.

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What? Yeah we're back, AGAIN.

This time Hunter, Jamie, and Aaron are talking about BIG WALK. A game that they love deeply.

Also it's good to be back!

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Guest Host Exothermic drops by the feed to talk about a Kirby game for the Game Boy you might have never heard of! Speaking of which, what is this show now? Maybe you'll find out more once I finish my move to NYC.

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Hey friends sorry the feed has been extremely inconsistent as of late, I'm sorta going through a time of great upheaval! But I feel like once the dust settles I'm going to be able to provide you with a much better version of this show. This week Hunter and Jamie sit down to talk about an old favorite in order to get some new perspective on a Sega Saturn masterpiece. Also Jamie talks a lot about the new Mario Galaxy movie.

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Hey we're going to be a Monday show for a while! I've been working on some format changes in the background for both OGA and SCPT so that's been causing delays and other things but we're gonna be switching our release days since I don't have anything that comes out on Mondays and tbh it's just better for me this way. This week Me, Jamie, and EJ talk about Slay The Spire 2 which is essentially going to ruin productivity in this country once and for all! Also we talk about Heavyweights again.

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Hunter and Jamie are back on the couch to go on kind of a lot of wild tangents, prepare yourself for that kind of episode. We do talk a lot about Mega Man though, generally and then also specifically MM X3 so check it out! Also sorry about the lack of episode last week I've been having a weird time in my life!

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Jamie Carbone is back on the couch with Hunter and we're talking about a bunch of games that were demo'd this week at Steam Next Fest. Fun discussion if you're interested in getting a bunch of impressions on a wide selection of new games. We actually found a lot of good things I sincerely think you should play. Chapters are marked so you can skip to what you want to hear about!

Games Discussed (With timecodes):

00:00 Pre-Show Banter
05:30 Twilight Imperium Digital and Next Fest Overview
08:00 Vampire Crawlers
16:30 Wild Blue Skies
23:40 Denshattack!<...

Sorry it's been a minute since you got more content that I know you crave but Hunbun got the flu so his butt was out of commission. This week I've got EJ over and we're talking about three different games that are all about climbing, climbing is the new jumping. Jumping is dead. 

Come see Hunter headline Sisyphus Brewing in Minneapolis!

Hunter Donaldson Comedy (Featuring Jamie Carbone) Feb. 27th and 28th

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The boys are back in town. This week EJ, Sun, Jamie, and Hunter plop right down to decide what exactly was the best game released in 2025. If you were mad about our 1995 coverage this is guaranteed to continue the madness! Feel free to comment everywhere about all the problems you have with all of this.

Come see Hunter headline Sisyphus Brewing in Minneapolis!

Hunter Donaldson Comedy (Featuring Jamie Carbone) Feb. 27th and 28th

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Music...

This week the boys are back in the zone, they've done their homework and it is time. Today Hunter, Matt, Shelton, and Alex (Exothermic from ExothermicPlaysGames) sit down to choose their favorite game of 1995. There word will be definitive and I can't wait to find out WHAT THEY'RE GONNA PICK. Jk I already know because I was in the episode, it's me Hunter.

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Jamie Carbone is back on the couch with Hunbun, this time we're going to talk about games we're excited to play in 2026! Obviously take this all with a grain of salt, games never actually come out when they are announced to.

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This week we're back with our most anticipated games of 30 years ago! This year we get to talk about some big ones!

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We took a week off for the holidays but actually Hunter, Shelton, and Chris Felton (Who you will remember from the Space Ghost episode) met up to record a way too long sendup of one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. In this episode we rank every David Lynch feature and each season of Twin Peaks in chronological order! Obviously this doesn't have anything to do with video games but hey don't worry about it, consider this an unasked for New Year's day present!

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Hunter and Exothermic are back in the saddle talking about Blizzard's foundational RTS classic, Warcraft 2!!! There's also a fair bit about the Supreme Court of the United States and also the Game Awards. I guess you could say this podcast has a little something for everyone.

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Hunter was able to talk Ernest Jernest into coming right back to talk about one of the biggest games of the century, Hollow Knight: Silksong. Apologies that we're not exhaustedly discussing sparse details of this game in a hotel room in Indianapolis but we thought maybe we'd do it justice this time. ;) 

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Matt has returned to Hunter's couch to talk about that green egg laying dyno we all know and love! A classic OGA discussion of feeling pretty alright about a video game. Cold open discussion is all about the Analogue 3D that both the boys recently unwrapped as early Christmas gifts from Santa!

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Hunter and EJ sit down this week TO EAT AN ENTIRE CRATE OF BANANAS.

At some point the new Donkey Kong game for the Switch 2 is spoken of but I'd just chill with it.

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This week Hunter and Shelton are in the monkey zone in our first of two weeks of Donkey Kong centered talks!

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The boys are back in town! We've got the Sanders Brothers and Jamie Carbone back to draft our favorite games of 2025. Feel free to play along with us while we work to determine which game is truly the GOAT of 2025.

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This week we have a special episode for you all! Today Hunter, Matt, Shelton, and Alex (Exothermic from ExothermicPlaysGames) sit down to draft their favorite games of 1995. They will then spend the next two months playing the entire draft of games and then meet back for a final GOTY ranking to find the best game of 1995. Feel free to play along!

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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!

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THIS...

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!

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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!

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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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