Abject Suffering
Why are you doing this to us?
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 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.
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Episode 404: Timecop
May 24th, 2021 | 36 mins 57 secs
Timecop was created out of necessity once someone realized "Time" and "Crime" rhymed.
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Episode 403: Rescue: The Embassy Mission
May 17th, 2021 | 35 mins 38 secs
This cinematic game for the NES is slightly divisive between us, as it awkwardly fumbles to be Rainbow 6 before Rainbow 6 was possible on hardware.