This week we pick games for each other! Cody fights the eternal evil that is the user interface of System Shock. Matt makes a mascot do a cuss and a murder in Shadow the Hedgehog, and Nikki gets 52 games for the price of her dignity in Action 52!
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 HALLOWEEN GAMES! Matt refuses to buy anime despite the end of the world in Death Road to Canada! Nikki eats up green goop like it’s greasy grimy gopher guts in Haunting Featuring Polterguy! And Cody sucks – but we knew that already – in Luigi’s Mansion!
This week is all about games featuring skateboards. Matt eats a coupon which is… not what coupons are for in Wonder Boy Returns. Cody makes and elephant scared, as per usual, in Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure. And Nikki skates or dies, but mostly dies, in California Games II: The Californianing!
This week: Kemco Games. Cody gets balls in his face in Snoopy Magic Show. Nikki is the ultimate klutz in Kid Klown’s Krazy Chase. And Matt takes on the ultimate shitty game challenge in Batman: Dark Tomorrow.
This week we indulge our guilty pleasures. Nikki battles consumerism the only way she knows how – by kicking – in Christmas Shopping Simulator 2: Black Friday! Cody eats a fruit and hits a wall and that’s not very fun at all in Pac-Man World Rally! And Matt has to stop Dr. Wiwy, so go get da eviw enewgy Megaman in Megaman 8!
This week on Cartridge Blowers, it’s Non-Sports Sports Games! Nikki does it Datto style – which is poisoning people – in Blitzball from Final Fantasy X. Matt does flash kicks in a car to get points in soccer when in real life doing flash kicks in your car gets you points on your drivers license in Rocket League. and Cody gnarfles the garthok and flip flops the bleep bloop because England in Quidditch World Cup!
This is Nick Arcade Challenge Week! We play lots of video games and complete tiny challenges up in em! YAY!
This week it’s all about corporate mascot games! Matt fails to find that button assigned to tasting the rainbow in Darkened Skye, Nikki delves into the deep and long-lasting pizza gremlin lore that swept America in Yo! Noid!, and Cody wants to find his one true sugar vagina in Tony and Friends in Kellogg’s Land!
In this episode, we play games we love! Cody pumps Petey with his liquid lovin’ in Super Mario Sunshine, Nikki breaks the game – seriously, you gotta see this – in Super Mario Bros. 3, and Matt goes for the world record, assuming that the world is his room, in Super Mario World.
