It’s our 2024 Wrap-Up episode! We talk about our BEST GAMES OF 2024, including some runners-up and some older games that we played this year and fell in love with.Also, about this intro, all we can say is we’re sorry. The views and opinions of Elmo do not represent those of your hosts, Matt Aukamp and PushingUpRoses. We do not endorse Elmo and we’re sorry for platforming him in this way. You can read all three of our full Notes App apologies on Hanson Swansen’s Xanga page. Hanson Swansen wrote one, too, but we’re not sure why. He mostly just uses it to talk about S.E.O. and AI-driven engagement metrics.Games Mentioned: Nightmare Frames PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo Dave the Diver Strange Horticulture Disco Elysium The Last Door Hobb’s Barrow Dreams in the Witch House The Abandoned Planet Lorelei and the Laser Eyes Tactical Breach Wizards Is This Game Trying to Kill Me? INDIKA The Operator Lil Guardsman Death of the Reprobate Duck Detective: The Secret Salami Phantom Fellows Loco Motive Prim Crow Country English Haunting Thank Goodness You’re Here! Fields of Mistria Crimson Diamond Botany Manor Loco Motive The Rise of the Golden Idol 1000xResist ANIMAL WELL
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Episode 42 - CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA!!!
PushingUpRoses and Matt Aukamp welcome you into their trans-dimensional Christmas cabin to play a bunch of holiday-themed games with them and their amazing guests. We play a cat game with Crimson Diamond's Julia Minamata! We play an obnoxious boy game with Alasdair Beckett-King. We play a creepy depressing game with Francisco "Grundislav" Gonzalez. And wrap it all up by playing a demon game with Party of One's Jeff Stormer. There's also talk of nog, window-jumping, wassail, and much much more fun!Happy Holidays, everyone! We hope you had fun and enjoyed this extra-long episode and we'll be back early 2025!Email us! [email protected]: https://www.juliaminamata.com/Alasdair: https://www.abeckettking.com/Francisco: https://www.grundislav.games/Jeff: https://www.partyofonepodcast.com/Games Mentioned: Christmas Nightmare Lonely Christmas Crimson Diamond Milo and the Christmas Gift Milo and the Magpies Watch Over Christmas Scribblenauts Rosewater Last Christmas Still Life
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Episode 41 – Wrath of the Gods and Pearlmania500
This week, we’re playing a game that made us so angry, we had to yell about it. And to do this, we brought in the internet’s best angry yeller: Pearlmania500.Comedian Alex Pearlman hangs out to tell us a bit about politic and then the 1994 “edutainment” game Wrath of the Gods. Matt talks a bit about Loco Motive, Roses talks a bit about Kings Quest 8, and we rank a few adventure games.Pearlmania500 Linktree:https://linktr.ee/pearlmania500Wrath of the Gods:https://www.wrathgame.com/Email us! [email protected] Mentioned: · Stardew Valley · Minecraft · Skyrim · Outer Worlds · Vampire Survivors · Kings Quest VII · Hoyle Card Games · Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? · Oregon Trail · Loco Motive · Wrath of the Gods · Legend of Zelda · Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator – Case 1: In Search of the Skunk Ape · Tangle Tower · Madness of the Architect · Lifeless Moon · Secret Doctrine
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Episode 40 – Virgin River and Crow Country
We’ve got a high-energy, Smirnoff Ice-fueled shorter episode here for you to kick off the month of December. There is some good news and bad news about the December schedule you won’t want to miss. Roses played a terrible mobile game out of spite. Matt played a rad PS1 throwback game.Then, we get some really good rolls on the Ranking segment. Games Mentioned: Virgin River the Mobile Game Crow Country Spider-Man: Miles Morales Curse of Monkey Island Prim Escape from Monkey Island The Dark Crystal The Cat Lady Erica
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Episode 39 - Case and Rise of the Golden Idol
Happy American Thanksgiving, everyone! This is absolutely our yuckiest, most disturbing intro ever. And in the last episode, we talked about piss-proof toilet decals! And we are thankful you let us into your lives with this filth.This week Matt and Roses talk about two of the best Storiented™ mystery-puzzle games ever made, Case of the Golden Idol and Rise of the Golden Idol, by Color Gray Games. We use our ancient, magical artifacts (microphones) to find all the words and put them in the exact right order and make this podcast for your ears to listen to.Then we continue ranking every adventure game ever and try very hard to forget that we ever came up with a movie called Yucky Princess Swap.Email us! [email protected] Mentioned (*BRIEFLY): Case of the Golden Idol Rise of the Golden Idol Crypt Custodian* Tactical Breach Wizard* Bo: Path of the Teal Lotus* Chicken Police: Into the Hive* Crow Country* Arco* Nine Sols* Loco Motive* The Journey Down Grim Fandango The Sexy Brutale Myst Return of the Obra Dinn Duck Detective: The Secret Salami The Slaughter: Act One SSTR Dallas Quest The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles Long Count Missing Since January Chants of Sennaar
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