Sorry for the delay in getting this one up! Between old DOS game emulator weirdness and questionable capture software weirdness, I had to re-record some sections and then fight with the video edito...
2024-02-04 15:41:48 +0000 UTC View Post
First LP of the new year!
Em from Abnormal Mapping<...
Can you have a favorite game that you haven't played in nearly 30 years? I think so. But this month we put it to the test and return to a game that is probably the most reinstalled and replayed gam...
2023-12-21 15:35:51 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I know I said that this month we'd be doing Eric the Unready by Legend Entertainment, but I got halfway through and the vibes were just off. It was a long month leading up to November, which wa...
2023-12-01 01:48:02 +0000 UTC View Post
¡Feliz Día de Muertos!
Amusingly enough the amount of difficulty I had both with this game having catastrophic glitches and the sheer volume of clips making exporting a touch-and-go proces...
20 years ago my computer crapped out and nuked my save files while I was in the middle of this game. I was so close to the end of the game (apparently) but I refused to replay the game up to the ma...
2023-10-01 05:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we head on down to BONETOWN to discuss SKELETONS and how good SKELETONS are and gosh there sure are a lot of SKELETONS in this world.
2023-09-22 13:59:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Is Edo the real monster? Or is the deranged Frenchman pulling our leg? Who is this nightmare child? How many episodes will it take for Sumio Mondo to finally leave the hotel? Will he ever be a morn...
2023-09-18 13:57:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After exhaustion and big robots taking up all of our time, Trevor and I return to Lothric to track through a poisonous swamp filled with slugs and weird swamp people and giant terrifying swamp peop...
2023-09-16 04:08:16 +0000 UTC View Post
ICMYI: I got invited to talk with Em & Jackson from Abnormal Mapping about one of my favorite bad 80s OVAs -- Demon City Shinjuku!
2023-09-16 04:01:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Code came after the embargo, so I spent the past two weeks playing catch-up with everyone else's reviews. The last time an Armored Core was current, not only was I not active in the game space, I w...
2023-09-16 03:58:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone!
There's a new BONUS episode of the FSR LP with Em! As mentioned in the last episode, we decided to sit down and read the entire guidebook in one big whack rather than piecemeal ...
2023-08-30 18:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
A Haunting in Lospass. Let's do a fashion shoot with a pink alligator in an Italian chair with a German camera. Mysteries abound, and lost items are found. There's math and wonder, and calamity! We...
2023-08-28 04:24:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I wanted to write about the second of this month's installments of Adventure Gamers' Clubhouse, but every time I sit down to think about Code Name: Iceman I just become more and more irate. 2023-08-28 04:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
EcoQuest is a game that I've been meaning to revisit for close to a decade now. I just never had a good excuse to sit down and breathlessly play it from start to finish in one long weekend whack th...
2023-08-20 20:38:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Trevor is back, so we dive right in to the Cathedral of the Deep! This episode is a classic "podcast" joint, where we go deep in mycelium and Arthuriana as we make new enemies and meet old friends ...
2023-08-20 08:59:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that Gabriel Knight 2 is done, Em and I are moving on to our next adventure game!
After falling wildly in love with Suda51's millennial anxiety visual novel 2023-08-14 21:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's time to bid farewell to Gabe, Grace, and the many Boyfriends of Germany. There's theatrical hijinks as Grace tries desperately to pull off a secret Wagner opera, catch the Black Wolf's latest ...
2023-08-14 21:44:31 +0000 UTC View Post
We start out with one of the purest Dark Souls invasion moments I've ever experienced, and then the episode quickly unravels in a staggering number of deaths, full tilt surliness, and eventually we...
2023-08-04 18:34:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we conclude our time in the Caribbean fantasy of Monkey Island with the beautifully animated, CD-ROM third installment of Monkey Island. A freshly demonic'd LeChuck and a golden girlfrie...
2023-07-31 03:17:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
Just wanted to let you all know I published a new piece over on Paste.
It's my review of THE BANISHED VAULT, a punishingly brutal space survival management sim from Bit...
Hey! It's the latest episode of our Gabriel Knight 2 LP!
This week Em and I become prisoners to Grace Nakamura's wildly inconsistent moods as we explore the depths of Jane Jensen's Comp...
2023-07-25 04:03:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This week we interrogate why we find this swamp so boring, and then we merc the hell out of the boss. Also, there's a tower.
No Cartridge Patreon: 2023-07-21 15:56:19 +0000 UTC
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Happy Derby Day!
This week Trevor and I return to do the second half of The Road of Sacrifices. We talk about baseball and baseball games, wetland taxonomy, we spin off on various lore tagen...
When a new murder darkens Munich, Gabriel must apply his rakish American charm to brute force a friendship with Der Kommissar...
And that's just before all the business with the cuckoo clocks...
2023-07-03 17:04:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back!
This week, we have zero technical difficulties, and Grace begins her deep dive into the werewolf goings-on in Rittenberg, home to Gabriel Knight's Shattenjager family histor...
2023-06-27 04:06:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Adventure Gamers!
We're back with the sequel to the inimitable Monkey Island!
This time Guybrush is in vivid VGA graphics, a robust score built on the powerful and innovative ...
2023-06-25 17:52:22 +0000 UTC View Post
This week Derby demolishes a tree. Derby makes a new friend! And our thief returns with a long-lost surprise... What could it be? You'll just have to watch and see! Which you can do because this we...
2023-06-15 16:34:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Welcome to the first episode of the Adventure Gamer's Club House, the new $1 tier where I'll be revisiting classic adventure games of personal significance and diving into treasures (or trash) that...
2023-05-31 14:45:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Em and I return to München to guide Gabriel Knight through his continued investigations into the Werewolf Murders!
We bamboozle Tomas, we mail a letter, we visit our lawyer a half doze...
2023-05-29 14:33:20 +0000 UTC View Post