Abject Suffering
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About the show
This is a podcast that's nominally about bad games. In reality, it's about the horror of daily life, GameFAQs Gold, strange combatants in the battle of Good vs. Evil, and a singular patriarch known only as Crick. Every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross choose a game at random from the titles submitted by listeners, play it, and venture off on a freeform discussion that winds between the topic at hand, and the absurd.
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Episodes
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Episode 356: Receiver
June 29th, 2020 | 57 mins 21 secs
An indie game with a simple premise: highlight how much regular video games make using a gun look easier than it actually is.
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Episode 355: Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars
June 22nd, 2020 | 40 mins 21 secs
We really got cheated when it came to extreme sports. It's all just crotch hugs, with very few robots in sight.
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Episode 354: Popeye (ZX Spectrum)
June 15th, 2020 | 43 mins 31 secs
The Popeye universe is more vast and more pointless than we initially imagined.
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Episode 353: Ninjabread Man
June 8th, 2020 | 34 mins 31 secs
We stretch the concept of "concepts" to the limits.
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Episode 352: Rock Star Ate My Hamster!
June 1st, 2020 | 49 mins 5 secs
We were excited to play a band simulator, but all we got was Lemonade Stand plus puns.
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Episode 351: Mega Man X7
May 25th, 2020 | 46 mins 57 secs
From one of the best games of all time, to an unmitigated disaster.
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Episode 350: Calvin Tucker's Redneck: Farm Animal Racing Tournament
May 18th, 2020 | 42 mins 20 secs
Episode 350 introduces a beloved character that will endure for decades to come.
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Episode 349: Top Gun: Fire at Will
May 11th, 2020 | 46 mins 18 secs
How has Top Gun remained a cultural touchstone for all of these years?
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Episode 348: Mystic Towers
May 4th, 2020 | 44 mins 14 secs
We stumbled into a gross one. Sorry, folks.
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Episode 347: The Coin Game
April 27th, 2020 | 45 mins 3 secs
Get ready for us to be effusively positive about an extremely strange and nostalgic experience.
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Episode 346: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
April 20th, 2020 | 31 mins 5 secs
Take a good book and make a wonderful movie out of it, then wait 30 years and make a terrible movie and somehow a worse game of that movie.
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Episode 345: Silent Service
April 13th, 2020 | 44 mins 20 secs
Talk about submarine life segues abruptly into the dismal dystopia of Cameo.
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Episode 344: Bad Boys: Miami Takedown
April 6th, 2020 | 40 mins 20 secs
These bad, bad, bad, bad boys don't make us feel so good.
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Episode 343: Dreams to Reality
March 30th, 2020 | 26 mins 33 secs
This very bad 3D platformer has you playing as Anthony Kiedis in a surreally meaningless empty void.
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Episode 342: Road Trip Adventure
March 23rd, 2020 | 45 mins 41 secs
Before you head to the polls to vote for the next car president, remember my campaign slogan: Cars are cars all over the world. Similarly made, similarly sold.
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Episode 341: Danger Girl
March 16th, 2020 | 48 mins 24 secs
The 90s really were the pits, weren't they?