Episodes

  • Empire

    Empire
    Jun 3 2024
    You start out with a single city on a map that's mostly covered in a fog of war. Use the city to produce units. Use the units to explore the map, seize more cities as you grow your army and eventually conquer the map by beating the AI. Sounds familiar? Before Sid Meier's Civilization there […]
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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • Dungeon Keeper

    Dungeon Keeper
    May 21 2024
    Do you ever feel the world is just too... nice? If so, perhaps Dungeon Keeper scratches that itch, because even though it's a classic game of heroes vs demons, in this case you are the demon! Dungeon Keeper was a big hit for Bullfrog Productions back in 1997, but by no means their first. After […]
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    2 hrs and 20 mins
  • Lemmings

    Lemmings
    Apr 10 2024
    Can you believe we're 90 episodes into this show and still haven't looked at Lemmings? Lemmings! What a classic! When Lemmings (by DMA Design, published by Psygnosis) arrived on the scene in the early 90s it was an instant hit. Everyone's played this game, apparently over 15 million copies were sold over the span of […]
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    2 hrs and 10 mins
  • Karateka

    Karateka
    Mar 30 2024
    We've done Prince of Persia, we've done The Last Express. So when The Making of Karateka was released in late 2023, we figured this was the perfect opportunity to have a look at Jordan Mechner's very first published game. Originally released in 1984 for the Apple II, the PC got a port of this game […]
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    1 hr and 48 mins
  • Realms of the Haunting

    Realms of the Haunting
    Feb 13 2024
    For the Halloween season we try to pick suitably scary games, so back in October (welp) we took a look at Realms of the Haunting (1996, Gremlin/Interplay). This game ticks a lot of boxes: haunted mansion, ghosts, scary monsters, but also... Time travel? A psychic partner? Interdimensional portals? Building a bong?? It's no exaggeration to […]
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • The Secret of Donkey Island

    The Secret of Donkey Island
    Jan 26 2024
    Everybody know The Secret of Monkey Island. But few people have ever heard of Donkey Island. This game was made by two Czech teenagers on their school computers in 1994 and ended up being the first commercial game to be developed and published in Czechia. Besides a sub-par and, frankly, weird German translation, this game […]
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    1 hr and 24 mins
  • Jazz Jackrabbit

    Jazz Jackrabbit
    Dec 22 2023
    There is one game that showed everybody that the PC was starting to become as viable a gaming platform as any console on the market. While DOOM was an entirely new experience, Jazz Jackrabbit replicated the experience players had on their SNESes and Mega Drives. Its protagonist even became a mascot for PC gaming at […]
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    2 hrs and 13 mins
  • The Aching

    The Aching
    Nov 13 2023
    You're in some sort of cave. A red light eminates from the northern wall, while a green light pours in from the cave's exit. This is Azra, a strange far away world where many dangers loom. You are an acolyte of the Scarlet Lady's Red Court, and have no memory of how you ended up […]
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    1 hr and 56 mins