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This episode, your hosts are back to discuss some of the biggest announcements in video game history! Join us for an insightful discussion as we uncover Matt's past as a Nintendo fan, reminisce about giant enemy crabs, and debate the future of the F-Zero franchise!

HowLongToBeat forums – ⁠https://howlongtobeat.com/forum⁠

Discord – ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk⁠⁠

Email – ⁠⁠hltbpodcast@gmail.com⁠⁠

Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental)

Graphic design – M4thew and Matt

0:00:00 - Intro

0:01:48 - Beaten

0:19:55 - Retired

0:25:35 - Playing

1:26:49 - Memorable Game Announcements

2:18:36 - Collections Game

2:35:11 - Goodbye!

Games Mentioned:

Diallo: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (PC), Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse (PC), UFO 50 (PC)

Lia: Wordle, Murdle, NHL 22 (PS5), Just Dance/Fitness Boxing (Switch), Yoshi's Island

Matt: Bird on Bird (PC), Don't Stop, Girlypop! (PC), Ridge Racer Type 4 (PS1), Gold Miner [2003] (PC), Gran Turismo 4: Spec II (PS2), We Were Here Forever (PC), Small Saga (PC)

Roy: Ridge Racer Type-4 (PS1), Wordle (PC), League of Legends (PC), Tabletop Simulator (PC), Slay the Spire 2 (PC)

On this episode of the How Long To Beat podcast, the hosts discuss character creators in video games. Why are certain hairstyles always so wonky? When are we finally gonna get bladder size sliders? And how many possible combinations does the LEGO Racers figurine designer actually have?

In addition to these burning questions, there will also be talk about the decline of Windows default games, the meanest character in all of Tetris, the quality of ice rinks in modern hockey games, what it’s like playing Virtual Boy games without the peripheral, and a Wordle milestone for word puzzle enthusiast Roy!

And if you stick to the end of it all, you will even find out why Matt owes former podcast host Abatage a jar of Vegemite.

HowLongToBeat forums - https://howlongtobeat.com/forum

Discord – https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk

Email - hltbpodcast@gmail.com

Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental)

Graphic design – M4thew and Matt

00:00:00 - Intro

00:01:29 - Beaten

00:49:38 - Retired

01:00:19 - Playing

01:52:14 - Discussion: Character Creators

02:25:30 - Really Handsome Shepard

02:26:23 - Discussion: Character Creators

02:32:40 - Collections Game

02:46:02 - Goodbye!

Games Mentioned:

Lia: click to ten (PC), Tennis Clash (Mobile), Tennis Manager (Mobile), Top Seed Manager (Mobile), Hockey Legacy Manager 26 (Mobile), Chess Force (Browser), Selenewrecked (Browser), Wordle, Murdle, Spyro the Dragon: Reignited Trilogy (PS4), Sokpop S04: capy hoky (PC), Galactic Pinball (VB), Golf, The Mansion of Innsmouth (VB), 3D Tetris (VB), Red Alarm (VB), Teleroboxer (VB), Virtual Boy Wario Land (VB), Yoshi’s Island (SNES), Quetzal (Mobile), Superstar Hockey (Mobile), Hockey All-Stars ‘24: 2026 Season (Mobile), NHL 25 (PS5), NHL 22 (PS5)

Matt: House Hunting (Browser), Pee Man - The Game (Browser), The Last Piece of Cake DX (Browser), Drop Cannon (Browser), Playing With Fire 2 (Browser), Frank’s Adventure 1 - 3 (Browser), Old School Rally (PC), Leons Identität (PC), Kami 2 (Mobile), Super Bombliss DX (GBC) via Tetris Forever, Hotshot Racing (PC), Alien Hominid [2002] (Browser), Bubble via Microsoft Solitaire Collection (PC), Small Saga (PC)

Roy: Selenewrecked (Browser), Wordle (PC), Tabletop Simulator (PC), Gravity Blocks (PC)

This week the podcast goes into the past with Flash, everyone's favorite old internet game platform. What were our favorite Flash games and the sites where we gathered to play them on? Were any of these actually Javascript or Macromedia? Did we actually go out to purchase any retail versions of these masterpieces? Which games are we hoping to get revisited in the future by us or some other dev that decided to dig into the past themselves?

Come along on a journey of very few games, what bathroom behavior has got Matt all excited, what ball sports have captured Lia's interests, and what game just didn't want to work for Roy.

HowLongToBeat forums - ⁠https://howlongtobeat.com/forum⁠

Discord – ⁠https://discord.gg/v5F26Dk⁠

Email - ⁠hltbpodcast@gmail.com⁠

Music – Ian Edward (intro/outro), Abatage (incidental), call me lethargy. (incidental)

Graphic design – M4thew and Matt

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:39 - Beaten

00:25:40 - Retired

00:26:50 - Playing

00:51:24 - Discussion

01:35:40 - Guess the Game

01:45:03 - Goodbye!

Games Mentioned:

Lia: Wordle, Murdle, NHL 22 (PS5), Hockey Super Squad (PC), Matchpoint (PC), AO Tennis 2 (PC), RV There Yet? (PC), Elder Scrolls Online (PC), “Mahjong” games (Browser, [games.amny.com](http://games.amny.com)), Superstar Hockey (Mobile), Tennis Clash (Mobile), Tennis Manager (Mobile),Top Seed Manager (Mobile), Hockey Legacy Manager 26 (Mobile), Hockey All-Stars ‘24: 2026 Season (Mobile)

Matt: Birds Organized Neatly (PC), Skate Story (PC), Deep Sleep Trilogy (PC), Flash Games: Murder Taylor Swift, School Escapist, Chess Force, WallGame, Watching Someone Pee Simulator, Watching Someone Pee Simulator 2, Watching Someone Pee Simulator Versus, Preventing Someone Watching You Pee via a Shotgun Simulator, Watching Someone Pee Simulatoria, Old School Rally (PC), Data Wing (Mobile), Don’t Stop, Girlypop! (PC), We Were Here Together (PC), Pokémon Sapphire (GBA), Pokémon Ultra Moon (3DS)

Roy: Soulcalibur VI (PC), League of Legends (PC), Wordle (PC), Tabletop Simulator (PC), Chess Force (PC)