This week we play video games featuring failed video game mascots. Matt rocks with the bigity Buck Bumble in Buck Bumble. Cody shows no love for the glove in Glover, and Nikki is a lizard man in Gex: Enter the Gecko!
This week we play Simpsons games! Matt gets molested by Smithers in Bart’s House of Weirdness. Nikki shoves it, and honestly that’s rude, in Simpsons Skateboarding. Lastly, Cody gets a hole in fun, in Itchy and Scratchy: Miniature Golf Madness.
This week we play games featuring our names! Cody uses a knife to carve up a roller blader, just like I’m sure most adults in 1991 would’ve loved to do, in Street Fighter 4! Matt figures out whether justice is blind or not – spoiler, it is – in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects! And Nikki solves a crime using only a cell phone and some bananas in Phoenix Wright: Justice for All!
This week we play western games! Nikki slams her face into a cactus in Cowboy Kid, Cody fights video games’ official 10,000th giant spider battle in Gunman Clive 2, and Matt gets revenge for his dead wife and my giant gorilla arms in Outlaws.
This week we play games by LJN. Matt gets kicked to death, just like his grandma always said he would if he didn’t stay in school, in the Karate Kid. He also drowns a cat in the ocean, just like his grandma also said he would, in T&C Surf Designs! Cody sends a gorilla on a quest for white imperialism in T&C Surf Designs 2: Thrilla’s Surfari! And Nikki TRIES TO SAVE ILLYANA FROM MEAT CONTINENT in the Uncanny X-Men! All this and Super Mario Maker 2.
This week we play baby video games: BETAS! Cody follows leash laws, maybe now he can start picking up after that horrible two-tailed monster he drags everywhere in Sonic Crackers! Nikki shows us that sexy legs don’t always make a good video game, unlike the delectable gams on Crash Bandicoot, in Quik: The Thunder Rabbit! And Matt throws Captain America into an abyss in Marvel Super Heroes War of the Gems!
This week we play simulators! Matt experiences the horrors of late stage capitalism and making new friends in his 30’s in Animal Crossing: New Leaf! Cody is shrewd enough to sell you your own hat in Job Simulator! And Nikki ensures there will never be any more video games ever again in 18 Wheels of Steel: American Long Haul!
This week: it’s RACING GAME WEEK! Matt tries to drive off a cliff like his hero Thelma in Rock ‘N Racing Grand Prix! Finally video games about old people! Hey, Mortal Kombat, when can I decapitate my grandpa? Cody plays Coffin Dodgers! And Nikki is an anthropomorphic car just like in my Cartridge Blowers fanfiction and in Stunt Race FX!
This week we play video games you have probably never heard of! Nikki takes on Sex-Dungeon Magneto in Mace: The Dark Age. Watch a shark fight an alligator in Utah, because that’s apparently a thing, when Cody plays Animelee. Finally, Matt proves Hawk is unmanly, but we already knew that, in Best of Best!
This week we play Tom Clancy games! Matt infiltrates a terrorist den with the help of the most dangerous animal of all: Grenades! Cody shoves his enemies into submission in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. And Nikki is a big flying Hawk, in HAWX!
