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That Quiz's a Maniac QuadQuiz

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Fourth part of this mini feature, we pose questions at each other and babble on for a long time... Sometimes we reach a conclusion We are available on: Google: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84ZjYyYzM0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/that-guys-a-maniac-dot-dot-dot Castbox: https://castbox.fm/ch/2836225 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/briawruf Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/that-guys-a-maniac-WaOw0M Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0o9OXgrEHvlEUJXRdN4D6F Apple: By searching for us on iTunes Love and Aural-Hugs, Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1

OPERATION LAST BUS HOME DIARIES: Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness

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Once again we continue our journey to save 'em all. We're hoovering up all the unique pokémon in the main series games going all the way back to Pokémon Sapphire. Here's the introduction to the series , clearing out Fire Red and last time Pokémon Colosseum .  Although initially billed as a completely different game to Pokémon Colosseum , Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness is essentially Colosseum with a series of, for the most part, improvements and a wealth of extras. In addition to the new story focussed around the game's cover star, a Lugia called XD001, XD featured nearly twice the number of pokémon to snag than Colosseum, filling many of the pokédex gaps across the other third generation games. The game is set five years after Colosseum and edgelord Wes who bombed about the Orre Region in a post apocalyptic metalAF hover bike is replaced by Michael who bombs about in a much less edgy hover-moped. You'll revisit a lot of the locations of Colosseum albeit with new cha...

The WoW Episode

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Richie talks at Farley about WoW, the current state of the game, new stats and what the future holds... We are available on: Google: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84ZjYyYzM0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/that-guys-a-maniac-dot-dot-dot Castbox: https://castbox.fm/ch/2836225 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/briawruf Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/that-guys-a-maniac-WaOw0M Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0o9OXgrEHvlEUJXRdN4D6F Apple: By searching for us on iTunes Love and Aural-Hugs, Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1

OPERATION LAST BUS HOME DIARIES: Pokémon Colosseum

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We continue our mission to save'em all, that is hoover up all the unique pokémon from the third generation games onwards. You can read about Operation Last Bus Home here and the first instalment, clearing out Pokémon Fire Red , here.  One of the things I've always loved about the pokémon series is the evolution of the games building on and tweaking the fundamentals set down in the earliest Game Boy games. For those who aren't fans of the series or those only looking back over the series from today's viewpoint it can be difficult to appreciate these tweaks to the formula. Superficially, you catch, train, battle and trade pokémon in all of them but each game added something new. Some of these tweaks became permanent features. Others were limited to one or two titles and then superseded by something else. Pokémon Colosseum and Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness, released for the GameCube in 2003 and 2005 respectively, have a cult following but were far from perfect games. Bot...

Whaddaya Playin' - Hard Games

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We have a flavoured Whaddaya playing today, hard games, we chat Elden Ring, Biped, Pokemon Arceus, and Undertale... We are available on: Google: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84ZjYyYzM0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/that-guys-a-maniac-dot-dot-dot Castbox: https://castbox.fm/ch/2836225 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/briawruf Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/that-guys-a-maniac-WaOw0M Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0o9OXgrEHvlEUJXRdN4D6F Apple: By searching for us on iTunes Love and Aural-Hugs, Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1

OPERATION LAST BUS HOME DIARIES: Pokémon Fire Red

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Welcome to the first game in our self-appointed mission to save them all in Operation Last Bus Home (OLBH), the briefing for which you can read here .  2004's Game Boy Advance games  Pokémon Fire Red and Pokémon Leaf Green are an interesting pair of games in the series. Although in the series chronology they came out after Pokémon Ruby and Pokémon Sapphire, or to use the community taxonomy, the first mainline third generation pokémon games, I've decided to start OLBH here because there's much less to do in Fire Red, so I thought I'd give myself a bit of an easy start. Mark those words.  Looking back at the series, I can understand complaints that those first three Pokémon generations were a little bit derivative. Pokemon Green, Red, Blue and Yellow were all slightly different versions of the same game set in the Kanto region which brought us the first 151 pocket monsters. Pokémon Gold , Silver and Crystal introduced 100 more pokemon to the world and the first half o...

X-Over

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This week we talk games with crossovers! We are available on: Google: https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84ZjYyYzM0L3BvZGNhc3QvcnNz Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/that-guys-a-maniac-dot-dot-dot Castbox: https://castbox.fm/ch/2836225 Pocket Casts: https://pca.st/briawruf Radio Public: https://radiopublic.com/that-guys-a-maniac-WaOw0M Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0o9OXgrEHvlEUJXRdN4D6F Apple: By searching for us on iTunes Love and Aural-Hugs, Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1