Episodes

  • Frontier: Elite II

    Frontier: Elite II
    Aug 29 2025
    With Earthworm Jim previously and Planetfall up next, you could say we're on a bit of a space-themed streak here. But while those games have lots of other things going on, the Elite series puts the vastness of outer space absolutely front and centre. When the original Elite came out in 1984 the sheer scale […]
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    2 hrs and 24 mins
  • Earthworm Jim

    Earthworm Jim
    Aug 9 2025
    "It's a day like any other. A crow is chasing a worm, a worm named Jim. Today the worm escapes to safety and the crow eats dirt. Jim looks left, then right. It seems he has given the crow the slip. Jim returns to his normal daily life, cruising about avoiding crows and doing other […]
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    1 hr and 57 mins
  • Loom

    Loom
    Jul 4 2025
    "Rise, son of Cygna. It is the dawn of your seventeenth year. The Elders await you in the sanctuary." If you didn't listen to the 30 minute audio drama first, you'd have no idea what's going on when you first play Loom (1990, Lucasfilm Games). And if you did listen to it, you probably weren't […]
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    2 hrs and 41 mins
  • Revisiting DOOM

    Revisiting DOOM
    Jun 16 2025
    Florian has been counting all of our regular "one game a month" episodes, and it turns out we've hit 100 of them! We started this club back in March of 2017 with the first DOS game that came to mind, which happened to be DOOM (id Software, 1993). In hindsight this was a bit of […]
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    2 hrs and 12 mins
  • Ultima Underworld

    Ultima Underworld
    May 26 2025
    We're back with a big one, in more ways than one! Normally we do a different game every month, but between December and February we've focused on Ultima Underworld for three months in a row. This was mainly done to give ourselves a chance to catch up, as we've been lagging behind with the podcast […]
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    3 hrs and 11 mins
  • Subwar 2050

    Subwar 2050
    Apr 22 2025
    We've featured a lot of different kinds of sim games over the years. We've piloted fighter jets, space ships, a ww2-era bomber and even giant mechs. But never before have we gone under water! In a lot of ways, 1993's Subwar 2050 by Particle Systems and MicroProse could be described as "aquatic Wing Commander". But […]
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Heretic

    Heretic
    Mar 26 2025
    The Serpent Riders have made the kings of Parthoris their puppets and their undead legions are swarming the land. Only you, the Elf Corvus have the power to - you know what? The story probably isn't one bit more important than it is in DOOM, the masterpiece that this month's game is based on. Heretic […]
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    1 hr and 41 mins
  • Beneath a Steel Sky

    Beneath a Steel Sky
    Feb 20 2025
    UK studio Revolution Software might be most famous for their "Broken Sword" series of adventure games, but before they released those they had found quite some success already. After their first game "Lure of the Temptress" in 1992 did well, they had higher ambitions for their second game: "Beneath a Steel Sky". Working together with […]
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    1 hr and 54 mins