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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579: M&M’s Beach Party
October 15th, 2024 | 36 mins 18 secs
M&M’s Beach Party for the Wii is one of the more anemic minigame collections we’ve covered, and we’ve already done deep dives into M&M’s lore… So this week we pitch a new M&M’s character: a grey M&M with a cashew sticking out of it, named Hercules PoundClit. He’s a sensitive, masculine man who exists to make the ladies swoon.
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578: Faselei
October 8th, 2024 | 37 mins 17 secs
The word “faselei” means “babble” in German, which is a better description of this podcast than this game. Faselei!, our first Neo Geo Pocket Color game, is actually kind of neat… a turn-based tactics game with a very unique action system. The problem is, it’s about mechs… about which we have little to say. So instead we talk about inhalants, that wonderful feeling of finally identifying a half-remembered game from your childhood, and the bizarre ceremony of hockey games.
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577: Drac's Night Out
September 30th, 2024 | 38 mins 32 secs
If I mention Reebok’s Pump shoes, I know only one image comes to mind: Dracula. Specifically, Dracula having the time of his life, on stairs. No, I’m not on too many or too few drugs… This is an actual game that was almost released. We talk about it a little bit, before talking about shoes that give you superpowers and K’s recent trip to the Ohio Renaissance Festival.
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576: V.I.P.
September 25th, 2024 | 33 mins 21 secs
Pamela Anderson was everywhere in the 90s, as a sex symbol and an object of ridicule. And none of her projects is more forgotten than V.I.P., the show where she bumbles into starting a bodyguard agency for the stars. And now, you, can fulfill your lifelong dream of playing a barely interactive video game adaptation of her adventures!
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575: Wonder World Amusement Park DS
September 17th, 2024 | 38 mins 14 secs
If you go anywhere used games are sold, you’ll see shelves choked with DS and Wii shovelware. And this week’s game, Wonder World Amusement Park, is emblematic of everything about that phenomenon. But of course, Gary picked this game to have an excuse to talk about his trip to the Oregon State Fair, which featured a real life reenactment of The Zoo Race.
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574: X-Perts (Genesis)
September 9th, 2024 | 35 mins 10 secs
Gonna be honest, it’s weird to record an episode that stays on topic like this one does. Everyone remembers the Eternal Champions, right? A franchise beloved enough that it got two character-specific spinoffs before Mortal Kombat got even one? X-Perts (unrelated to the X-Men) is in the running for one of the worst beat-em-ups we’ve covered for the show, which is really saying something.
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573: Cabela's Dangerous Hunts
September 2nd, 2024 | 34 mins 58 secs
Behold, the Nega-Bear. It exists within and without our dimension. Do not try to shut your eyes, as the Nega-Bear moves faster when it is not perceived.
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572: Power Blade (NES)
August 26th, 2024 | 42 mins 25 secs
I hate to say, but sometimes you just have to respect somebody with that many muscles.
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571: ESWAT: City Under Siege
August 19th, 2024 | 39 mins 14 secs
Now to play a nice relaxing game where cops beat up... the incarcerated. Hmm.
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570: Between Heaven and Hell
August 12th, 2024 | 46 mins 7 secs
Here is a list of your sins: You never used that coupon. Your wallet smells funny. You don't clean your phone.
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569: Forklift Load
August 5th, 2024 | 39 mins 55 secs
Well, I don't see why the devs had to make it sexual.
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568: Shining Nikki - Fashion Makeover
July 30th, 2024 | 38 mins 34 secs
I... I'm told this is a fashion game, somehow?