It's Halloween again, and you know what that means! Yes, it means nobody on the podcast aside from Alex will nominate anything even remotely spooky on our spooky special episode.

Other things happen:

• Steve bails on yet another pod but almost makes up for it with a delicious pun in his phoned-in entry
• Simon hears a ghost (that didn't come out in the recording... or did it?)
• Alex steals Rob's pick
• Simon tries to remember a TV show to do with sexy animals or something
• The Shagger returns
• Andy Cole leaves Newcastle for a British record £7m fee, that has even less context than this when it comes up on the pod

Go now to @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky to vote in the poll/like the post of the ghosty game you want in the HOF!

Send emails to videogamehof@gmail.com but STOP BEING MEAN TO SIMON. First one to send us an email where they say something nice about Simon gets to nominate a 16-bit game for the next episode of the pod. I mean, it might not get in but you gotta shoot your shot.

This is an absolutely mad episode. Loads of fun was had, and we're sure you'll have fun too. Alex does maths. Steve does sailors (again). Rob really wants to stroke a dog. Simon celebrates a birthday.

We also induct four previous poll losers directly into the Hall of Fame, set up all the categories for the next 9 episodes, and answer an email from a new listener. You can email us too! videogamehof@gmail.com

To help select the category we nominate games from in a couple of episodes time, all you need to do is go to @vg_hof on Twitter and/or @vghof on BlueSky and vote for it. See you next time for our Halloween special!

This should be right in our wheelhouse, eh? Well, to make sure we definitely hit our nominations out of the park, we enlisted Sega Mania Magazine creator, Tim Hugall, as a special guest!

Because he's so good at making our words into amazing pages, we let Tim nominate three Sega games, with the rest of us voting one directly into the Hall of Fame.

There's the usual four nominees for you to vote on as well, though. Just head over to @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky and vote in the poll/like the post of your desired winner respectively.

Send emails over to videogamehof@gmail.com as we'd love to have some nonsense to read in next episode's bonus induction special.

Head to www.sega-mania.com to pre-order your copy of Sega Mania Magazine issue 9. We wrote it!