Ep. 192 - July 4th Best British Games Spectacular, with Bennett Foddy and Mathew Kumar
Added 2021-07-05 10:28:01 +0000 UTCHappy Canada Day (at time of recording)! To celebrate, Brandon and Frank (American) along with writer, designer and Insert Credit regular Mathew Kumar (Scottish) and legendary game designer Bennett Foddy (Australian) determine the greatest British video games of all time.
THE LIST (in order of discussion)
- Sonic R (05:51)
- Lemmings (09:02)
- Pipe Mania!! (12:03)
- Burnout Paradise (15:20)
- Alien: Resurrection (17:29)
- Elite (21:27)
- Damocles (25:34)
- Where Time Stood Still (29:46)
- TxK (33:40)
- Skool Daze (37:56)
- Wizkid (42:20)
- Batman: Arkham Knight (45:52)
- The Chaos Engine (50:11)
- Head Over Heels (54:12)
- Populus (58:35)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (01:02:35)
- WipEout 2097 (01:06:55)
- Sensible World of Soccer (01:10:32)
- Deus Ex Machina (01:16:27)
- Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk (01:20:11)
THE INSERT CREDIT 20 BEST BRITISH GAMES OF ALL TIME:
20. Where Time Stood Still
19. Sonic R
18. Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk
17. Pipe Mania!!
16. Alien: Resurrection
15. Skool Daze
14. Populous
13. Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II
12. Deus Ex Machina
11. The Chaos Engine
10. Burnout Paradise
9. Damocles
8. Sensible World of Soccer
7. Wipeout 2097
6. Grand Theft Auto IV
5. Head Over Heels
4. Batman: Arkham Knight
3. Lemmings
2. Elite
1. TxK
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Charity shops
- Sonic R
- Lemmings
- Benefactor
- Troddlers
- GameCenter CX
- Pipe Mania!!
- Frisky Tom
- Burnout Paradise
- Alien: Resurrection
- Alien: Resurrection (1997)
- Alien: Isolation
- The making of Alien Resurrection PSOne
- Elite
- Elite: Dangerous
- Frontier: Elite II
- Zarch
- Damocles
- Outer Wilds
- Midwinter
- Lords of Midnight
- Where Time Stood Still
- Hardcore Gaming 101 on Where Time Stood Still
- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- The Great Escape
- TxK
- Jeff Minter
- Skool Daze
- Bully
- Grange Hill
- Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II
- Batman: Arkham Knight
- Renegade
- Batman: Arkham Asylum
- The Chaos Engine
- Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
- Gods
- Magic Pockets
- Head Over Heels
- Knight Lore
- Light Crusader
- Syndicate
- Populous
- Magic Carpet
- WipEout 2097
- Sensible World of Soccer
- Kick Off
- Deus Ex Machina
- The Graveyard
- Dizzy: Prince of the Yolkfolk
- Wonderland Dizzy
- Fantasy World Dizzy
- Treasure Island Dizzy
Comments
I think we were all surprised!
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2021-07-12 17:32:52 +0000 UTCno rare there is a real shock
initfo
2021-07-12 13:48:19 +0000 UTCCreative Assembly really has the sim genre locked down. Also, they're now owned by sega, so who can stand against them really!?
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2021-07-09 22:51:32 +0000 UTCit's right
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2021-07-07 19:17:44 +0000 UTCmy first exposure to dizzy was a quatro adventure nes cart by codemasters (bought secondhand at funcoland) and i wouldn’t have it any other way. great ep btw!!!
syswivv
2021-07-07 13:56:52 +0000 UTCWRONG
Alex Jaffe
2021-07-07 13:47:58 +0000 UTCGood list! My personal addition would be the original Shogun from Creative Assembly, a damn good game!
2021-07-06 22:45:49 +0000 UTCP.S. I love how many "unplayable today" games made it on the list.
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2021-07-05 19:37:58 +0000 UTCP.S. did you know that John Philip Sousa's music is terrible
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2021-07-05 18:56:09 +0000 UTC(this is brandon) yeah, I had Sonic 3D Blast on there, and frankly a lego game would've been good too, but I decided to cut my losses since they'd all wind up being at the bottom. Jon Burton's videos are really what made me decide yes, I can put this forth as a british game (though the others had a point about yasuhara doing the maps). At least I got one in! But I could've made a whole slew of British Sega games with Outrun 2006 and Virtua Tennis. Ah well - hopefully people will play Alien Resurrection now.
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2021-07-05 18:42:31 +0000 UTCI hate to side with Brandon, but Sonic R probably deserves to be higher. The YouTube channel "Coding Secrets" dives into some really interesting programming techniques that made me appreciate it a lot more. He also has videos on Sonic 3D Blast and non-Sonic games too. Nobody seems to like those two, (which, let's face it, they're actually better than recent, non-Mania, Sonic games), and I think their unique gameplay and coding wizardry shouldn't go overlooked. Also, Dizzy games suck. Just because two young British guys made it doesn't make those games worth putting on a pedestal. The English are blinded by nostalgia and one day I hope they gain independence from the Oliver twins and their terrible games.
Andrew O.
2021-07-05 15:50:41 +0000 UTC
