Pocketoid 166: Streets of Rage 4 and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Your dad is gonna be a Dad!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to be a love/anxiety affair.
•  Final Fantasy VII Remake still continues to delight and surprise.
•  Metal Slug is good and you should play it more.
•  Streets of Rage 4 is the kind of game we do this show for.
•  Dragon's Dogma is still stupid and still wonderful.
•  Gun Crazy is a fun, cheap Treasure like game!
•  Slayin 2 is a great follow up to a great indie game!
•  Gamers are oppressed, because we can't buy Muscle March anywhere legally.
•  Why ARE those streets so full of rage??

Intro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu
Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 165: Final Fantasy VII Remake and Animal Crossing/Maker Maker 2 updates!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Your boys are back and kinda sad so please be nice!
•  Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is the cheapest way to kick your friend's ass.
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons is still just where we live now.
•  Addison is on the Picross train as always.
•  Addison is playing Final Fantasy VII Remake and Jordan has a lot of opinions.
•  Mario Maker 2 has a big new update!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons has a big new update!
•  We cover the eShop's upcoming releases!
•  The Xbox handheld that never was (but pretty much was because it just would have been the Nvidia Shield).

Intro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu
Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 164: Flip Grip creator Mike Choi Part 2: Peripherals and Accessories!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We are joined by designer, hacker, musician, and Flip Grip creator Mike Choi!
•  The Airflo controller finally gets its day.
•  Kids today will never understand the Game Gear TV Tuner.
•  Is the Super Game Boy a console or a peripheral? 
•  We all sell our Poke' Walkers for a million dollars.
•  Bring back the Game Shark PLEASE.
•  Nintendo Labo is going to save the world.
•  Lego Mario is going to burn the world down.
•  The Nintendo Switch is kind of the peripheral dream!
•  Thank you so much to Mike once again! Go check out the Flip Grip, one of our FAVORITE peripherals!

Intro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu
Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 163: Flip Grip creator Mike Choi Part 1: Animal Crossing and Flip Grip's Creation!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We are joined by designer, hacker, musician, and Flip Grip creator Mike Choi!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons is getting us out of bed everyday.
•  Mike Choi doesn't timeskip and neither should you.
•  Our favorite and least favorite villagers and the struggle to get them.
•  This goofy game is showing some cracks, but maybe we're all playing it too much lol.
•  Fishing Tournament kick's Bunny Day's ass.
•  Mike discusses the story of the Flip Grip from conception to production!
•  Thanks SO much to Mike for joining us this week and look forward to Part 2 next week!

Intro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu
Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 162: MORE Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Cat Girl Without Salad!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Egg!
•  Egg. Egg egg egg!
•  Jordan egg and egg egg egg, but egg!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to be egg.
•  Cat Girl Without Salad is pretty egg!
•  Nintendo 64 games still egg with a lot of egg, but even egg can egg once in a egg.
•  We answer your eggs!
•  Egg!

Intro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu

Pocketoid 161: One Step From Eden, Bubble Bobble 4 Friends, Panzer Dragoon, and More!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Tons of great new games and news this episode!
•  Stop cheating I swear.
•  Jordan fixed his CRT and talks Sega Genesis S-video!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to be a reason to roll out of bed.
•  Bubble Bobble 4 Friends is a fun, if brief arcade game!
•  One Step From Eden is a sight to behold!
•  Doom Eternal is not quite cutting it...
•  Panzer Dragoon has a ways to go.
•  We recap all the news from March's Nintendo Direct Mini!
•  Give us an Animal Crossing arcade!

Intro & Outro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu

Pocketoid 160: Animal Crossing: New Horizons and More!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  A special extra long Animal Crossing episode!
•  A special social distanced episode!
•  Murder By Numbers is still great!
•  Doom Eternal rips and tears!
•  Saints Row IV: Re-Elected is exactly the kind of dumb we need right now.
•  Resident Evil 3 and Trials of Mana have really solid new demos!
•  Doom 64 is the very best Doom game you never played!
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons is finally here and oh man we need this right now
•  Stop cheating or we're CALLING THE POLICE

Intro & Outro: Bubblegum K.K. (Remix) - Qumu

Pocketoid 159: Murder By Numbers and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  The world is on fire, but we're here to help!
•  Animal Crossing is still coming and we would like it to be here now!
•  Retro games!
•  Jordan played beat Castlevania 64 or some bullshit I dunno.
•  Mario Day!
•  Addison gives his first thoughts on Murder By Numbers!
•  Pokeball Guy keeps it tight.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 158: Bloodroots, Kunio & Double Dragon Bundle, Metro Redux, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Everything's great!
•  Happy 3rd Birthday Nintendo Switch!
•  Double Dragon & Kunio-kun: Retro Brawler Bundle is WILD y'all!
•  Metro: Last Light Redux is ALSO a great new port on the Switch!
•  The boys are playing a LOT of retro games!
•  Play Castlevania 64.
•  Bloodroots lets you slay your enemies with a raccoon and we like that sort of thing!
•  We create video games we're angry aren't real...
•  The future of Final Fantasy according to your dads and more questions!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 157: Animal Crossing Direct, Metro 2033 Redux, Devil May Cry 3, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Animal Crossing is all we can think about.
•  Jordan is going hard in the retro games!
•  Devil May Cry 3 is a retro game now...
•  Metro 2033 Redux has a great new port on the Switch!
•  Jordan gets back into retro game collecting!
•  Addison is drowning in Double Dragon & Kunio-kun!
•  Jordan edited out the Dragon Quest XI spoilers just for you.
•  We unpack everything from the Animal Crossing Nintendo Direct!
•  We are just extremely excited for Animal Crossing you guys...
•  Go down. Go on in.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 156: Sonic the Hedgehog: The Motion Picture, Dragon Quest: Your Story, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Sonic's got out.
•  Don't read your high school Xanga.
•  Pokemon Home is out and everyone is being very naughty.
•  Jordan gets back into retro game collecting!
•  The boys turn into garage sale grandpas.
•  Jordan gets Ring Fit Adventure and dies!
•  We spoil the shit out of Sonic the Hedgehog: The Motion Picture in theaters now.
•  We also spoil the shit out of Dragon Quest: Your Story - A Netflix Original Movie.
•  Buy us a Pokemon Snap Blockbuster printer kiosk.
•  Have "fun" guys!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 155: Kunai, Phantasy Star Online 2, Skellboy, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Late episode because Pete Buttigieg delayed the results.
•  Long episode because we felt like leaving in our big discussion at the end.
•  Dragon Quest XI is still fantastic! Who knew!? (minor mid game spoilers)
•  Ring Fit Adventure is still murdering Addison.
•  This Night Slashers port does not leave a good first impression.
•  Person 5 Scramble has a Japanese demo!
•  Phantasy Star Online 2's closed beta is WILD.
•  Animal Crossing: New Horizons adopts some Tom Nook-esque behavior.
•  Skellboy is here and... Eh.
•  Kunai is the best game about and iPad with a katana!
•  The cast of Brother Bear joins Animal Crossing.
•  We are here to yell about the way you consume media.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 154: February's eShop releases, Dragon Quest XI end game, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Donut County is our new Switch Game of the Month!
•  Addison is really enjoying Ori and the Blind Forest!
•  Risk of Rain 2 is a good game to play with good friends.
•  Byleth release for Smash Bros. Ultimate!
•  Asphalt 9: Legend should really not be free to play...
•  We played A LOT of Dragon Quest XI!
•  Doom got a nice update with some cool new features!
•  We discuss February's upcoming eShop releases!
•  Birdo does a big smooch.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 153: 2020 Games We're Most Excited For!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Sorry for the late episode!
•  Squidlit is a nice little time!
•  Fight'n Rage is still great!
•  Sonic 3 is a good video game who knew.
•  Jordan has played a LOT of Final Fantasy XIV.
•  Ring Fit Adventure continues to kick Addison's ass!
•  Hot take: Streets of Rage 2. Also a good video game.
•  Control has a plot!
•  We discuss which video games we're most excited for in 2020!
•  No time for questions this week guys since our 2020 discussion ran long! We'll get to them next week!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 152: Super Crush KO and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Omg we had a time getting this one started...
•  Luigi's Mansion 3 is still just lovely!
•  SCP Foundation makes Jordan want to play Control
•  Katana ZERO is making Addison angry and anxious. In a good way!
•  Give us Animal Crossing already.
•  Fight'n Rage has a great game hidden somewhere behind all the tiddies.
•  Hit us up if you've played Penguin-Kun Wars.
•  Do you like bullets? Danmaku Unlimited 3 has you covered.
•  West of Loathing is EXHAUSTINGLY funny.
•  Super Crush KO is fantastic and perfect no matter what Addison says.
•  Portable Shenmue and Madden. Coming soon from SEGA.
•  Bowie is a Nintendo YouTuber.
•  Gooigi takes over your body and makes love to your wife.

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 151: 2020 CHANGES! January Pokemon Direct, West of Loathing, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We had to rerecord this one...
•  Oops All Housekeeping!
•  Big changes come to Pocketoid! More dads! Less reviews!
•  Our new Pocketoid Game of the Month Club!
•  Luigi's Mansion 3 is just lovely!
•  Control might as well be directed by David Lynch.
•  Risk of Rain 2 made Addison use tilt controls!
•  Hand of Fate 2 should probably have less loading.
•  Batman: The Enemy Within is WILD.
•  West of Loathing making Jordan lol.
•  We cover Nintendo's Pokemon Direct!
•  PLAY HAMMERIN' HARRY!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 150: Games of the Year 2019!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Extra long Game of the Year episode (skip to 16:45 to get straight to it)!
•  Addison talks about Ring Fit Adventure!
•  Jordan gives his thoughts on A Short Hike and a few other indies!
•  Jordan reviews Drawngeon: Dungeons of Ink and Paper!
•  5 of our Game of the Year honorable mentions!
•  Our Top Ten Games of Year 2019!
•  Our Game of the Year 2019!
•  BIG changes are coming to Pocketoid in 2020! We're very excited and thank you all for sticking with us! We hope you'll look forward to everything we have planned!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 149: Demon Pit, Tamashii, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, and More!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We did a Christmas!
•  Our favorite Christmas presents!
•  Star Wars was... really bad you guys.
•  Jordan reviews Tamashii!
•  Addison reviews Call of Jaurez: Gunslinger!
•  Jordan reviews Demon Pit!
•  More adorable stories about sick day video games.
•  We're on break next week so we'll see you guys after that for our Games of the Year 2019 episode!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 148: Dandy Dungeon, Immortal Planet, Sea Salt, and more!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  Addison yelled at me...
•  Jordan's been playing Eternum EX and loves those old school arcade vibes!
•  Addison's playing Katana Zero and it's... a trip.
•  Addison reviews Gensou Skydrift!
•  Jordan reviews Sea Salt!
•  Addison reviews Dandy Dungeon: Legend of Brave Yamada!
•  Jordan reviews Immortal Planet!
•  Don't skip school to play Pokemon in the bathroom.
•  Get wine drunk and play Castlevania.
•  Some of our favorite Switch indie games!
•  Enjoy guys!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops

Pocketoid 147: Jamestown+ and Indie World December 2019!

In this episode of Pocketoid:

•  We're joined by friend of the show Dan/apolii90!
•  We went to a bunch of arcades!
•  Addison's finished Pokemon Shield!
•  Jordan is still playing Pokemon Fire Red with all 809 Pokemon! Come join us!
•  Jordan and Addison review Jamestown+!
•  We recap Nintendo's Indie World presentation!
•  Play Metal Slug on a treadmill.
•  Join us next time for a bunch of new reviews!

Intro: Time Trials - Hyper Potions - GameChops

Outro: One For Kapp'n - Grimecraft x Maxo - GameChops