Nitro Game Injection #335: Paper to the Face (Paperboy Special)

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NES Paperboy is 30 years old this month, so it’s time to celebrate with a surprising number of Paperboy remixes, covering both the NES and C64 versions!

Radio OverCoat #257 (2018-05-06): More Brickwall Than Metal Gear Solid 3

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You can barely see Snake there, thanks to Carpenter Brut’s new album, Leather Teeth [Bandcamp, €8 or more], which came out in February of last this year, and it’s about as loud and as good as you’d expect! I also played a lot of assorted VGM and EDM goodness. Read on for the full playlist:

Nitro Game Injection #315: MSX Tricky (MSX 35th Anniversary Special)

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An entire show dedicated to the 35th anniversary of a Japanese computer standard that’s fairly obscure to most of the western world? That’s how we roll here on Nitro Game Injection! Of course, we’ve got your Konami classics like Metal Gear and Gradius, your Falcom hits like Ys and Sorcerian, and tons more!

Molehill Mountain Episode 102 – EA’s E3 Conference Sucked

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E3 is off to a rough start.  On the other hand, we weren’t expecting anything different from EA’s press conference. 0:15 – We discuss EA’s tepid E3 press conference 1:02:41 – Valve is not interested in quality control or curation for Steam 1:28:04 – We discuss the cool movie trailers we saw this week

Nitro Game Injection #305: Spring on a Thing (Spring Special)

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It’s spring in the Northern Hemisphere, so Kyle celebrates both the season AND the elastic tension device with this bouncy and blooming edition of Nitro Game Injection!

Molehill Mountain Episode 87 – Publishers and Politicians

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It’s like they’re trying to piss us off. 0:00 – Monster Hunter World’s DLC is grossly overpriced. 10:18 – YouTube’s recommendations algorithm sucks. 28:38 – Game developer uses malware as DRM. It goes about as well as you’d expect. 41:34 – ESA doesn’t want you to enjoy anything it can’t make money off of, bemoans …

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Nitro Game Injection #300: Get Fused (Jazz Fusion Special)

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It’s a 300th episode celebration as EVERYTHING gets fused with jazz, including Turtles in Time, Wave Race 64, Mega Man Zero 4, Undertale, and more!

Molehill Mountain Episode 81 – No Rush For Gravity Rush 2

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Why pay full price for a video game when you can pay full price for HALF a video game? 0:15 – We start the show! I played the Dragon Quest Builders demo and EZK watched The Punisher on Netflix 28:37 – Half of the new BlazBlue game’s characters will be paid DLC 36:41 – Sony …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 70 – DLC You In Hell

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Sorry I’m so late posting this but I spent all week editing a new YouTube video.  Anyway, in this episode (the title of which I’m immature enough to be super proud of!) we discuss the evils of DLC in all its most insidious forms from microtransactions to loot boxes. 42:15 – IGN buys Humble Bundle. …

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Molehill Mountain Episode 54 – Atari’s Back!!!

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By request, we’ve kept our pre-show banter in the video version of the podcast (linked below).  You can skip ahead to the start of the show proper (or another topic) with the timestamps below.  In the show’s final half hour, Andrew and Zachary discuss the future of AR games the cost of living in San …

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