Pocketoid 187: Nintendo Switch OLED, E3 2021, Demos, Void Bastards, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Jordan's mic broke! Hooray!
•  We discuss the new Nintendo Switch OLED!
•  Jordan also played some retro games! Who would have thought!?
•  Addison gives his thoughts on Balan Wonderworld. Oh boy.
•  Addison likes Doki Doki Literature Club! Don't let your kids play it.
•  Addison checks out Zombie Rollerz!
•  Jordan's trying very hard to finish Monster Hunter Stories!
•  Jordan really likes Part Time UFO!
•  Jordan also REALLY likes Void Bastards!
•  Monster Hunter Stories 2 has a demo!
•  NEO: The World Ends with You also has a demo!
•  The boys discuss some cool stuff they liked from E3 2021!
•  See you guys next time!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 186: New Pokemon Snap, The Longing, There Is No Game, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Jordan has just a Super Bad week!
•  Jordan got a Nintendo Switch Lite and he likes it!
•  Jordan also played some retro games! Who would have thought!?
•  Addison gives his thoughts on Person 5 Strikers!
•  Addison has been playing the Dragon Quest V mobile port!
•  The boys sure do like that dumb video game Resident Evil Village!
•  Addison reviews The Longing!
•  Addison reviews There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension!
•  Both Jordan and Addison review New Pokemon Snap! It's very good!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 185: Nintendo Indie World, Fantasian, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Monster Hunter Rise still good.
•  Addison reviews Fantasian for Apple Arcade!
•  Jordan's CRT video game Twitter is exhausting! @CRTpixels!
•  We cover the Nintendo Indie World from April!
•  Wario is anti-vax.
•  Really sorry for how late this one was. It's been a pretty awful month, but hopefully things have calmed down now. We'll have another episode for you guys this week so just consider this one a bonus!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 184: Monster Hunter Rise, Tesla Force, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  NFTs are stupid lol
•  Sell me Atelier Ryza. Just let me buy your video game.
•  Addison discusses some new Apple Arcade releases like World of Demons and Fantasian!
•  Addison reviews Tesla Force for the Nintendo Switch!
•  Jordan's CRT video game Twitter continues to be a nightmare! @CRTpixels!
•  Jordan owns a 3DO for some reason!
•  Jordan and Addison review Monster Hunter Rise!
•  Mad Katz should have been jailed for war crimes in the early 2000s.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid Bonus: Wayforward's Marble Knights with director Austin Ivansmith!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We interview Marble Knights director Austin Ivansmith from Wayforward Technologies!
•  Marble Knights is an action/adventure game available on Apple Arcade!
•  Marble Knights influences and inspirations!
•  Other games that Austin worked on including Duck Tales Remastered and The Mummy Demastered!
•  We discuss the work culture and production process at Wayforward!
•  Marble Knights' multitude of local multiplayer minigames!
•  What is it like to make games in a pandemic?
•  What is it like publishing a game for Apple Arcade?
•  What's new and upcoming for Marble Knights?
•  We finish up talking about what may be in the future for 3D games at Wayforward!
•  Thanks so much to Austin for coming on the show!

Follow Austin Ivansmith! @IvanDashSmith

Check out Marble Knights, available now!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 183: Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, Nintendo Direct recap, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Vaccine boys let's gooooo!
•  Jordan's CRT video game Twitter is a nightmare! @CRTpixels!
•  Addison discusses Vanillaware's 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim!
•  Addison gives his first impressions of Wayforward's Marble Knights!
•  Jordan's Game Boy problem continues.
•  The Dinosaur Planet beta leaked!
•  Jordan and Addison review Anodyne 2: Return to Dust!
•  We recap the recent Nintendo Direct and give our reactions to some of the bigger announcements!
•  Enjoy folks!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 182: Dicey Dungeons, Super Mario 3D World + Bower's Fury, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We're back finally!
•  Jordan has a problem and it's name is the Nintendo GameBoy
•  Jordan built an RGBPi!
•  Go follow Jordan's new CRT and game art centric Twitter! @CRTpixels!
•  Addison played some video games!
•  Dicey Dungeons is a cute and great little dungeon crawling card game!
•  Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is Mario! So it's good!
•  Gex's Crazy Castle Starring Gex the Gecko and Austin Powers
•  We'll get to Cyber Shadow next time lol
•  Enjoy!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 181: 2020 Games of the Year!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  2020 was a great year with nothing bad happening at all!
•  Game Boy games are crack
•  It's our 2020 Games of the Year! 
•  We answer all of your great questions!
•  I dunno probably some other stuff I'm so tired guys enjoy the episode
•  See you soon!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 180: Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Ikenfell, Fuser, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Jordan has a baby!
•  What the hell IS HBO Max??
•  Yakuza: Like a Dragon is the best Dragon Quest game this year!
•  Spider Man: Miles Morales is busted.
•  Fuser is a fantastic addition to the Switch's rhythm game library!
•  Moonlighter is a great game! And now on mobile!
•  Jordan plays a lot of Resident Evil!
•  Some hot, spicy CRT talk!
•  8bitdo CAN make good controllers! Who knew!?
•  Ikenfell joins the ranks as one of the Switch's very best JRPGs!
•  Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity is... more Hyrule Warriors! And that's good!
•  What game console would we carry in the wasteland??
•  Sorry it's been a while guys! Hope to see you again soon!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 179: Pumpkin Jack, The Red Lantern, If Found, and Cook Serve Delicious 3!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  MY WIFE!
•  Halloween doin a spook!
•  Hades is STILL extremely good!
•  Apple Arcade is still one of the best deals in video games.
•  If Found is a touching story about friends, family, and space!
•  Cook, Serve, Delicious! 3!? is yet another fun and stressful food service sim!
•  Monster Hunter: Stories is still great!
•  The Red Lantern is chock FULL of very good dogs!
•  Pumpkin Jack is a spooky, polished, and perfect for the season!
•  Baby is coming literally today so we're on a bit of a break! See you soon!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 178: Hades, Fight Crab, Hotshot Racing, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Baby coming and it is going to mess up our schedule even more! Sorry guys!
•  Tony Hawk misses us.
•  Mario 35 is pretty fun! Why is it going away in March?
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons has Halloween stuff now!
•  Fight Crab is a wild and completely accurate crab fight simulator.
•  Hades is extremely good and hot and fun!
•  Hotshot Racing is nearly the perfect throwback arcade racer!
•  Kirby Fighters 2 let's Kirby kick all kinds of ass and is a wholesome good time!
•  Monster Hunter: Stories is an extremely good video game we should have played sooner!
•  We discuss more about Nintendo's lacking Virtual Console solutions, but also... It's fine guys.
•  Enjoy the episode! See you soon!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 177: Going Under, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, Nintendo Partner Direct, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Online preoders bad!
•  The Thing is a game for your PlayStation 2!
•  A lot of video games are here!
•  Going Under is one of the the best ways to kick capitalism's ass.
•  Super Mario 3D All-Stars is a fun collection of good games no one has any hot takes about!
•  We recap the Nintendo Partner Mini Direct!
•  MONSTER HUNTER
•  There's more but I forgot to take nots while editing so enjoy the surprise!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market

Pocketoid 176: Mini Motor Racing X, Super Punch Patrol, Takeshi and Hiroshi, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Ubisoft bad!
•  We do a drink.
•  Hyrule Warriors is back babyyy!
•  Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 is the best remake of the year!
•  Left for Dead 2 has some uhhhhh mods
•  Spiritfarer is STILL amazing, important, and extremely good.
•  Mr. Driller: DrillLand is a great little arcade game you should play!
•  Takeshi and Hiroshi is a cute little stop-motion game about family!
•  Jordan gives his hot impressions of Ratchet & Clank.
•  Pocky & Rocky is back babyyy!
•  Super Punch Patrol is a fun, if straightforward, little beat em' up!
•  Mini Motor Racing X is a fantastic arcade racer with a TON of content both old and new!
•  Weird games we played at the dentist.
•  See you next week!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions
Outro: Hut By The River (Pokemon Snap) - Sound Market