Eight And A Half Bit

Military Men in karts, Mario in Karts, monkeys in kart, more things in karts! I CAN'T STOP KARTING! Well I can stop for a while to discuss Battlefield Hardline and our first instalment of Cheapskate Gamers Club with "You Have To Win the Game". Crowd Funding Picks Simone: Together: Amna & Saif James: Tomb of Tyrants Ben: Tic Toc: Time is Your Sandbox Paul: Dark Deception Next Cheapskate's Games Club: Card Hunter

What's new is old is new again in this fresh but familiar episode.Next week: Top 5 Villains in Video Games

Kirby sucks a glorious amount in this most wondrous of episodes.  Sadness has returned and it's as confusing as ever. While we're talking about confusing things how about PadDefender? Is it like a Frog Fractions thing? Is life as we know it just an elaborate Frog Fractions publicity stunt? Bugs. We're all very confused. Icarus Proudbottom saves the day though and we get to tap a chicken.Crowd Funding Pick: Icarus Proudbottom: Starship Captain (Four way tie)Cheapskate's Game Club: You have to win the game

On today's show we make a lot of enemies. Next Week: Top 5 - Retro Throwbacks

What treasures lay within the friendship mine? Soulcalibur: Lost Swords, Scram Kitty and His Buddy on Rail, Kinectless Xbone and some amazing crowd funding projects just for starters.  Also Friends. The mine is full of happy friends.   Crowd Funding Picks: Ben: Witchmarsh Simone: Perish James: Witchmarsh Paul: Superhot

Sometimes you get a thing and it comes with another thing! Here's a list of times that such a situation has occurred with a videogame. THRILLING DESCRIPTION! Next Week: Top 5 - Things we hate about the video game industry

Do you want to kiss? Do you want to Joust? DO YOU WANT TO BE HIT IN THE HEAD WITH A LEAD PIPE?! Tex Murphy, Lococyle, Sportsfriends, Realistic Kissing Simulator, Don't Starve, Sunset overdrive, disability in gaming and yes even some crowd funding! James is late though.  Late as in the late James Bowling? It's a sort of threat you see. I've never been terribly good at them myself but I'm told they can be terribly effective. Crowd Funding Picks James: The Way Simone: Buck Ben: Mr Fiskers Paul: Kingdom

Oh, give me land, lots of land under starry skies above.Don't invisible wall me in. Next week: Top 5 - Included Game Bonuses

Paul is a little hung over but he still loves him some Child of Light. Simone is deep in debt to Tom Nook in Animal Crossing: New Leaf and James loves yelling in Space Team.  New Call of Duty, TV on XBone, a bunch of crowd funding and a little headless puppet to cap the whole bundle off.   Crowd Funding Picks: James: Dieselstormers Simone: Axethrower: The Great Axe Ben: The Old City Paul: Pann the game

If you ever do something wrong, just say it’s a parody and no one will judge you. In our family we never used the word accident. I was always my parent’s little parody. Next Week: Top 5 – Open World Games

Paul is back from the wilderness after defeating all of the nature and he is mad as hell!  Also he played the smooth synthetic tones of FRACT OSC while Simone got down and dirty with Portal 2 Thinking with Time Machines Mod and James gets it on with Hitman Go.  Not to mention that the landfill of ET cartridges has finally been uncovered, Mario Golf World Tour, Snoop Dog, The Great Ace Attorney and much more including another great week of crowd funding projects.   Crowd Funding Picks Simone: The Universim James: Imagine Earth Ben: OMORI Paul: Hover

Questions! Answers! Some of them correct! Ben tests the crews gaming knowledge in the first 8.5bit Quiz Show. Are Simone and James a match for Ben's mighty Wikipedia skills?!

Paul is off climbing a mountain or something, so this week Ben takes the reins as host! Simone joins us again to talk about her iron-fisted management in Prison Architect, and all the genderly ambigious green dinosaurs you can handle with Yoshi's New Island. James says some stuff about Elder Scroll Online again, and totally didn't throw up when riding a virtual Hoverboard in Hill Valley. Kickstarters, mystery sounds, this episode has it all! Except Paul. There is very little Paul in this episode. Crowd Sourcing Picks:  James: No. 2 GameSimon: Hearth Forth, AliciaBen: Salvaged

I thought there was a party here tonight? Oh there is. Did everyone leave already?  Can I stay? Actually.. umm I have to be somewhere else. Thanks though. Looks great.   Next Week: Top 5 Parody Games

Welcome to Eight and a Half Bit 101. In today’s lesson we will cover James going on about Elder Scrolls Online for some reason, Paul’s history with the Mercenary Kings and Ben’s well documented obsession with Kinect Sports Rivals.  We’ve got demos for Tex Murphy: Tesla Effect and Chaos Reborn plus SOE announces a DayZ competitor and we would be amis if we did not also mention the amazing underwater exploration in Subnautica, Smash Bros news, a new Borderlands and a partridge in a pear tree! Crowd Sourcing Picks Ben: Pixel Noir James: Prisonscape Paul: Outcast Reboot HD

Having a partner is like having a friend except 30% better because your shame is their shame. Next Week: Top 5 Multiplayer Games that never found a community

100 episodes in and we’ve decided to celebrate by talking about video games! What a treat!  We get into some Goat Simulator, Monument Valley, the Amazon Fire TV, April Fool’s Day, a bunch of other stuff and maybe some cake? (Spoiler: There is no cake involved) Crowd Funding Picks Ben: The Breakout James: Dead Years Paul: Four Sided Fantasy

What treasures are there to be found hidden in the depths? Perhaps an abandoned copy of this podcast someone sealed away for future generations to enjoy! Next Week: Top 5 games to play with your partner

Facebook bought Oculus Rift this week for $2 billion.  That’s weird. Also James gets into Titanfall, Simone gets into some pixelated piracy and Paul revisits Little Big Adventure.  Lots more game talk and some rocking crowd funding projects await those who dare to listen Crowd Funding Picks Ben: Serpent in the Staglands Simone: Cosmochoria James: Choice Chamber Paul: Still Alive

If you love something set it free... and then promptly forget about it. I don't even remember what I was doing in the first place. Next Week: Top 5 - Mining Games