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 420: Pringles: The Game
September 13th, 2021 | 44 mins 13 secs
This is a labor of love, made only out of enthusiasm for those pressed salty shavings.
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Episode 419: Heroes of Might and Magic: Quest for the Dragon Bone Staff
September 6th, 2021 | 48 mins 35 secs
An episode where, admittedly, neither of us can remember a specific aspect of the Heroes of Might and Magic universe... but it doesn't matter, because this is actually just King's Bounty!
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Episode 418: I.Q.: Intelligent Qube
August 30th, 2021 | 33 mins 7 secs
This is actually a good game, but we couldn't pass up the opportunity to talk about Forbidden Cubes.
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Episode 417: What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed
August 23rd, 2021 | 38 mins 1 sec
This week we talk about an experimental indie adventure game that seems fine, we just weren't in the mood for it at the time. So we talk about proper marshmallows, letting 'er rip, and pepper spray.
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Episode 416: The Toxic Crusaders
August 16th, 2021 | 35 mins 21 secs
Troma decided to take the disgusting and disturbing Toxic Avenger series and adapt it... for kids!
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Episode 415: How Do You Do It?
August 9th, 2021 | 32 mins 21 secs
This week has us looking at a fun little indie game about a young girl trying to use her dolls to figure out how people have sex.
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Episode 414: Toilet Tycoon
August 2nd, 2021 | 32 mins 41 secs
The good news is that this episode doesn't get as gross as you'd expect.
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Episode 413: JFK Reloaded
July 26th, 2021 | 32 mins 51 secs
Remember when conspiracy theories were fun?
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Episode 412: Pass the Pigs: Let the Good Swines Roll
July 19th, 2021 | 34 mins 39 secs
There was no reason for them to digitize this simple dice game, but they did it anyway, and gave it one crackerjack title.
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Episode 411: Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hands
July 12th, 2021 | 38 mins 6 secs
Do you have fond memories of this? Sorry! It's pretty bad!
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Episode 410: Knuckles' Chaotix
July 5th, 2021 | 48 mins 39 secs
The only game that could possibly embody the sheer awkwardness of the Sega 32X.
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Episode 409: Chaos Legion
June 28th, 2021 | 42 mins 19 secs
A divine agent has gone rogue, taking the sacred texts with him and throwing the whole world into chaos. It's up to you to find him and stop the crisis in the most mind-numbing way possible.
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Episode 408: The California Raisins: The Grape Escape
June 21st, 2021 | 32 mins 59 secs
Dried fruit almost had a home in the NES in this mediocre platformer published by Capcom.
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Episode 407: Mystery Stories: Mountains of Madness
June 14th, 2021 | 35 mins 25 secs
And the award for "most obscure Lovecraft game adaptation" goes to...
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Episode 406: Celebrity Deathmatch
June 7th, 2021 | 57 mins 27 secs
It's basically the Super Smash Bros. of cramming as many sexual predators into a game as possible.
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Episode 405: F-18: No Fly Zone
May 31st, 2021 | 37 mins 11 secs
This game is nothing, but it's also a reminder of a forgotten era of Windows 3.1 aesthetics and production values.