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This week on the podcast, before the MCU there was MUA: It's Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Drawing from their experience on from making X-Men Legends, the team decided to expand the idea by adding all your favorite Marvel superheroes like Captain America, Iron Man, Captain Marvel, the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man and so much more. The game is a heavily Diablo influenced action RPG set in the Marvel universe. You battle Dr. Doom and his coterie of supervillains in this romp. Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast and check out the complete Endless List (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're playing Firewatch. It is a video game and we're adding it to the Endless List of games.

This week on the podcast we added our 24th film to the list of video game movies: It's Dragon Quest: Your Story on the podcast. This fantasy romp tells the story mainly of Dragon Quest V which is a much beloved entry in the franchise. It was distributed in the US by Netflix for some reason when it was released in 2019. It is only our 4th animated feature on the list of video game movies. Where did it land?  Find out on the podcast or check out the complete list (linked here).

ANOTHER arcade classic from 1982 is added to the list this week, it's Moon Patrol! You're a space buggy. You must defeat evil space pirates, rocks and jump over gaping holes in the ground. There's five levels! We have so much to talk about on this episode! Let me tell you what you'll learn: A LOT. And next week... we're TALKING ABOUT A BANGER MOVIE SO KEEP SUBSCRIBING FOR THE LOVE OF GOD. Endless List Link!

Have we run out of games? Did we really have to add an unreleased video game to the Endless List? Hell yes is the answer my friends. We are adding this week the unreleased NES game made in conjunction (maybe?) with Reebok: It's Drac's Night Out. It's an arcade-y yet also Zelda-y game that somehow incorporates Reebok licensed footware for some reason. Find out where it landed on our Endless List (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we fill that massive Kirby-sized hole when we add the first ever Kirby game to the Endless List. It's Kirby's Dream Land this week. This original Game Boy game was released in 1992 and brought a great bite-sized platformer to the portable console. Where did the game land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete Endless List (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're diving into the Silent Hill universe with the first movie from the franchise. Director Christophe Gans brings the cinematography to this film along with a weird side plot involving Sean Bean. We're entering the liminal space between reality, purgatory and a hellish nightmare that is Silent Hill. Where does it rank on our list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete list.

This week on the podcast we add another notable franchise to the Endless List as we add Battlefield 4 to the list. As mentioned on the podcast the Coors Light to the Bud Light of Call of Duty, this multiplayer focused first person shooter brought 64 player matches and outrageous moments. Vehicles, a wide variety of weapons, levels that change with destruction, what's not to love? Where did it land on the list? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete ranking.

This week on the podcast, we're adding our first survival game to the list: It's Don't Starve. This indie game came out in 2013 from Klei Entertainment and has been very well supported since it's release. Riding the crafting wave from Minecraft, this survival game does everything a survival game does: obscure mechanics! revealing gameplay through player action! and much more! Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast and check out the complete list.

This week on the podcast, we take a look at what is known as one of the best of all-time platformers: It's Donkey Kong Country. This game released in 1994 has you taking the role of Donkey Kong and trying to get your banana horde back from the evil Kremlings. Why are they evil? I didn't write this game but they also kidnapped Diddy Kong, your little buddy. Rare certainly did deliver a classic in this one. But where did it land on the list? Check out the complete rankings linked here!

This week on the podcast, we're adding our 22nd movie to the list of movies based on video game properties, it's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie, Daniel Craig, the guy who played Jorah Mormont, the guy who lopped off Jaime Lannister's hand and one of the guys from Red Dwarf star in this action movie. What do you get when you combine Batman with Indiana Jones? It's Angelina on wires! Angelina on a swinging log and much much more! Find out where this landed on the list in the podcast. Or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we talk about what is commonly known as a contender for the best video game of all time, it's the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. Released originally in 1991 in Japan, this game basically perfected what Nintendo introduced in the original Legend of Zelda and added a ton of features to improve/add depth to the experience. This game would introduce many tropes of the series going forward and still holds up well today. So where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

Wow 200 episodes! What can I say we've done some podcasting. This week we're taking a look at the Endless List and re-ranking a handful of games. There's arguments. Feelings were hurt. We laughed. We cried. Someone got stabbed. There was a randomizer involved. But overall, we promised entertainment and we gave it to you. Where did the list end up? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete Endless List (linked here).

The NFL season is here and we're adding yet another pro football game to the Endless List, it's the arcade classic NFL Blitz. We talk about how Midway wanted to make this game much more violent than it ended up being, it's addictive gameplay and most importantly: where it ranks on the Endless List. Where did it end up on the list? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This is a momentous occasion for the Endless List as we add our first visual novel: It's Doki Doki Literature Club. Do not listen to this podcast if you intend on playing this game! There's a lot of spoilers! To steer clear of spoilers, this game is about joining a literature club in high school and creating poems for girls in your class. You decide who you want to romanticize and will you become the best member of the Literature Club? Or will you BECOME TRAPPED IN THE ENDLESS VOID THAT IS NOTHINGNESS. It's on the Endless List. You can find it linked here. Check out the full list too!

This week on the podcast, we add the ship captain simulator roguelike, FTL, to the Endless List. You play the role of the captain of a spaceship bringing critical data on the enemy flagship to your fleet. You must survive a voyage through many different systems and countless enemy foes. You have at your disposal: An endless array of weapons, a motley crew of different aliens and many different ship systems. The possibilities are endless in this game but it's placement on the list will not be. Find out where it ranked on the podcast or in the link here.

Our 21st entry on the list of video games movies, this week we're adding Rampage to the list of video game movies. Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson is a loner and someone who loves Gorillas in this kaiju movie about a giant alligator, albino gorilla and a wolf. Lizzie is MIA for half the movie, George is underpowered and Ralph is OP as this blockbuster cast including the Rock, Noamie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jake Lacey and Joe Manganiello take on big boy animals in a fight to the death. Where did this land on the list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or check out our complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're starting off a run we're calling Oops All Bangers! as we add Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic to the list. This has been a game we've thought about doing since the very start of the podcast and we're finally adding it to the list. You play as an amnesiac who is trying to figure out their own path through a universe torn apart by a war between the Republic and the Sith, a mysterious dark faction who rose up during the Mandalorian Wars. The story is notable for it's choice based progression system, it's great story and unique combat. It would go on to influence a wide array of video games, but where did it land on our list? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

ATTENTION The earth has been taken over by machines. Remain on your moon base sanctuary as our brave YorHa androids make the earth safe again. Glory to mankind! It's Nier: Automata. What is existence? What is a ranking? Did we kill god? Find out on the podcast.

This week on the podcast, we're adding one of the most infamous games from the 2010s on to the Endless List: It's Mighty No. 9. This game developed by Comcept with the help of Inti Creates and led by Keiji Inafune tried to bring back the Mega Man style of action platform type games. It failed. Miserably. And we're here to talk about it. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we take on yet another Uwe Boll classic and our third entry in his canon on the list of video game movies: It's Far Cry! This Till Schweiger led vehicle introduces the podcast to the concept of a German production English language movie filmed in British Columbia. Why did this happen? Well, tax credits, Uwe Boll seems somewhat unhinged and more! Find out where it landed on the List of Video Game movies by clicking on this link!

This week on the podcast, we're adding another one towards the bottom of the list: It's 1992's Spider-Man Return of the Sinister Six. One look at the box art and you'd think yes I want to spend my money on this game. One look at the gameplay and you'd immediately know you've made a huge mistake. Definitely one of those games that benefit from the time before the internet and when rentals were booming. This is an avoid at all costs game that you'll love hearing about as we add it to the Endless List of Video Games. Where did it end up? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete list (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding the 2nd Batman Arkham game in Batman: Arkham City. A much improved game to the already pretty good Arkham Asylum, this game brings Batman to an entire district within Gotham which has been converted into a prison (for some reason). All the Batman villains are here: Joker, Catwoman, Penguin, Mr. Freeze, Poison Ivy, the Riddler, Two-Face and more! Where did it land on our Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings here.

This week on the podcast, I once again forgot to record and we started speaking for 5 minutes before we realized: It's the Secret Island of Dr. Quandary. By listener request, we added this game to the podcast. We felt powerful David Lynch vibes and got lost in the edutainment. Is this a good game? (LarryDavid.gif) Is it a bad game? Find out on the podcast or check the complete rankings linked here.

This week on the podcast, we're adding our first Japanese produced live-action movie to the list of video game movies with Yakuza: Like A Dragon. This movie was a totally unknown quantity for the entire crew on the podcast. We also had done very little research before watching it so we had no clue what to expect. Turns out the movie is pretty good and keeps to the Yakuza-style quite well. It even pulled off the wild antics of Goro Majima and was able to showcase some of the wilder side stories from the game series. Where did it land on our list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or click here for the spoiler.

This week on the podcast, we add another all-timer to the Endless List: It's Portal. We're thinkin with Portals now as we rank this FPS puzzle platformer about shooting portals to solve puzzles and save your companion cube. This game largely helped to popularize the notion that FPS games aren't just about shooting anymore. You can do other things with those types of games! Where did end up on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings which are linked here.

This week on the brocast, broing down on some Broforce as we add it to the brolist. You play as a parody of a 80s/90s action movie star in this action platformer inspired by Spelunky and Contra. Play as Brommando, Rambro, the Brode, Brochete and many many more as you kill terrorists, aliens and other nonsensical things that Americans in the 80s/90s loved. Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast as we rank another game in our Endless progression through playing every game ever. And check out the complete list (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we add another AKI wrestling game to the Endless List of Video Games: It's Virtual Pro Wrestling 2. This game sits at an interesting point in the development of the AKI N64 wrestlings games. This is directly between Wrestlemania 2000 and WWF No Mercy. Only released in Japan, it has the All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) license but cleverly features reskins of wrestlers from a wide variety of pro wrestling and MMA promotions including NJPW, FMW, Pride and so much more. The game was a cult classic among importers and some say it's the best wrestling video game ever. Where did we rank it on the Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or click here to see the full list of games.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the man who made Final Fantasy, decided he wanted to create a CGI studio and make a final fantasy movie. In the early 2000s, when Final Fantasy VII was one of the best games of the last decade and the JPRG franchise was becoming a massive cultural hit they decided to make a "Final Fantasy" movie with zero Final Fantasy references! This movie ain't great folks! Where did we rank it? Find out on the podcast or check the complete rankings (linked here).

This week we play a much maligned NES game in Top Gun in anticipation of the new arrival of the new movie in the franchise, Top Gun: Maverick. You play as a fighter pilot who could or could not be Maverick. Your mission is to go on four missions with the ultimate goal of destroying the enemy's space shuttle(?). We ask the questions: Is the landing too hard? Is this game fun? Where does this game go on the Endless List of Video Games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast we're adding another oddball: It's Video Poker. There was much internal debate as to whether or not this is a video game and yes we deemed it to be both using Video and a Game thus it is a video game. How does one rank a game where you bet money that a random sequence of cards will produce a result that yields you money? Are you ranking the format or the game or maybe both? Find out on the podcast and view the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding not only an action-adventure game but also a shoot'em up (or shmup if you will) all in one handy-dandy package: it's The Guardian Legend. This game developed by Compile crossed two genre's in one. It's kinda like Zelda + Blaster Master + Zanac but way more generic than all of those! You play as a woman who turns into a spaceship that shoots things! It's great. Where did it end up on the Endless List of Video Games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding an iconic 3D platformer to the Endless List of games: Banjo-Kazooie! You're bear and a bird on a mission to stop Gruntilda and save Tooty. This game features a plethora of movement options and nine full worlds to explore. It also features some of the strictest standards for collectibles in any platformer! You have to get over 90% of them in order to have any chance at beating the final boss who has four phases?! Where did this go on the list of all lists? Find out on the podcast or check out the full list (linked here!).

This week on the podcast, we're adding another movie from the 2000s and Timothy Olyphant's summer in Bulgaria: It's Hitman! The movie based on the franchise of the same name is about a dude named Agent 47. Agent 47 is a bald guy who's been trained from birth to be a Hitman. He gets involved in a conspiracy with the Russian government. It's a whole thing. The actual plot of this movie is confusing as fuck and involves the assassination of the Russian leader's body double(?), Desmond from Lost, the Organization(who are they?) and a subplot with a Russian prostitute that literally makes no sense. This week we're solving the mystery of where it goes on the List of Video Game Movies. Find out where it landed in the complete rankings.

This week on the podcast, we're adding the Presidential Election simulator from 1992: Power Politics! This game pitted you against computer or human foes as you a run campaign for the President of the United States. Run as a Republican like George Bush, Ronald Reagan and more or a Democrat like Paul Tsongas, Bill Clinton and Michael Dukakis. Or create your character. Then you pick where you want to campaign and plot out the activities. Then find out who won the election! We pick only the niche-est of niche games. Find out where it landed on the podcast. Or check out the complete Endless List (linked here).

After an over 100 episode break from adding racing games to the list, we're adding a fan favorite game in Cruis'n USA to the Endless List. Drive through California and California and California and California and then Arizona! and the Midwest? and Washington? Is this all of the United States of America? Or is Cruis'n USA lying to me? Where is the South? Where is New York City? Where is Texas? Where is our beloved Massachusetts!? Not here! Thanks Midway games! Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out our complete rankings! (linked here)

This week on the podcast, we play a game from two of Chris' perfect game categories: Wii games and hidden gems. We've combined them together for the ultimate Chris game experience as we added Sin and Punishment: Star Successor to the Endless List of games. This rail shooter is basically what if they made a Star Fox Wii game and it's pretty fucking good! Did Mike end up throwing the Wiimote across the room? (no!) Did anyone waggle suggestively? (no?) Did Mike like a Wii game? FIND OUT ON THE PODCAST. Also check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're adding yet another movie to the list of video game movies: It's Sonic the Hedgehog. This movie starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden and Jim Carey brings the blue blur to life in his own live action story. And it is shockingly somehow a good movie which is fucking wild considering the trajectory of this franchise. Against all odds, they pulled off something they shouldn't have! And we're here for it. Where did it land on the list of video game movies? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings!

This week on the podcast, we're adding another Max Payne game to the Endless List. It's Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne. This game came out only a few years after the first one and it shows! This feels like almost a Max Payne 1.5 but it features tighter level design, improved storytelling and overall better game design. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we're going down the deep dark well as we play and add Downwell to the Endless List of Video Games. This Devolver Digital published and Moppin developed game puts you in the gunboots a person who wants to make to the bottom of a well. It's a fun, well-designed and infinitely replayable. But where did it land on our Endless List? Check a look on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we add our second ever edutainment game, it's Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets! You are the Super Solver! It's your duty to solve the puzzles, find the items and put together a spectacular racing vehicle to take on Morty, your archnemesis. You must have an understanding of simple logic and the ability to overcome the Cyber Chimps, Morty's ferocious right-hand men. Can you do it? Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here)!

This week we actually went to the movies and saw Uncharted. Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg enter and shenanigans ensue! In production for over a decade, had a revolving door of attached directors, unproven writers, lots of budget! What could possibly happen! Where did it land on the list of video game movies? Find out on the list and listen to the podcast!

Just like the game, this week we have an exhausting conversation about where Dark Souls ranks on the Endless List. Yes, this game is very good and yes it's highly influential but we spent literally 30 minutes talking about the ranking. This is the week of Elden Ring so of course we just had to rank a soulsborne game. And we ranked the soulsborne game, the one that really made the whole soulslike genre popular (yes, I realize Demon Souls also did some work but this is where it really popped off).  Find out the ranking on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we talk about an edutainment game. It's a game where you learn about fractions and also frogs and everyone has a very good time. The frogs are nice and the math is completely legit. It's true. Don't look it up and don't ask questions. Just listen to the podcast please. Find out the ranking in our complete rankings listed here or listen to the god damn podcast.

This week for our 150th entry to the Endless List, we're adding one of the games we first podded about: PUBG: Battlegrounds. This newly eligible game to the Endless List, brought our group of friends together with it's giant maps, huge player counts and wide variety of weapons. It innovated a genre that is one of the most popular in existence today. Where did it land on our Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings, linked here.

This week on the podcast, we're adding the first Pokémon movie with Pokémon: The First Movie to our definitely going to end list of video game movies. We join our heroes Ash, Brock and Misty as they are waiting out a storm when suddenly they are invited to a battle by a mysterious Pokémon master. Does this old up in our age addled minds? Does nostalgia prevail in our ranking on the list? Find out on the podcast or on our complete rankings (linked here!).

This week on the podcast, we added Actraiser to the Endless List of video games. It's a city-builder and an action platformer? What the what!? Made by the Dragon Quest people and put out in the early days of the Super Nintendo. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out our complete rankings.

This week on the podcast, we're adding one of the greatest sports game of all time to the Endless List in NHL '94. Depending on where and when you grew up, this might have been a staple in your gaming repetoire in the '90s. The game brought improvements like one-timers and full goalie control to the NHL series. It was also the first time the NHL series had both the NHL license for teams and the NHLPA license for players. And there was one of the all time sports video game characters: Jeremy Roenick. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete Endless List here.

Some people have asked if you're going to cover every video game then you have to include gacha games. Well here we are, this week it's Chris's most requested game, Fire Emblem Heroes. This ain't your mama's gacha game (it really is but I'm trying to make this exciting). Bringing together the lore of all the Fire Emblem games while also providing an addictive gameplay loop and being generous in it's free-2-play design, Fire Emblem Heroes has it all! Where did it land on our Endless List?  Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we add the fifth out of six live action theatrically released video game movies released in the 1990s as we add Double Dragon to the list. Starring Alyssa Milano, Mark Dacascos, Robert Patrick and Scott Wolf. We dive into the action, the writing, the acting and so much more. This movie is really bad! But Abobo is really good (in some really bad ways!). Watch as we discuss how this movie apes so many movies prior while providing really terrible writing and direction! Join us as we add the Double Dragon movie to the list!

This week on the podcast we continue our annual Christmas traditional of adding every Home Alone game to the Endless List as we add Imagineering's Super Nintendo and Game Boy take on the franchise. We also talk about where the Endless List currently stands as we look at some key stats behind the list. We also show the world what our favorite games of 2021 have been. Where did Home Alone land on the list? Find out on the Endless List! (click here).