In this week’s podcast, the maniacs take on the challenge of defining Retro Games. What is a retro game? Are there handy definitions that can be pinched from fashion,music or wider culture? Is it a console generation thing? Can it be defined technologically? Chronologically? They also pick the Definitive Top 3 Retro Games of All Time. May be some d…

The maniacs are in class this week. RE:Class. You know, religious education classes? No? Okay, well we talk religion in video games sort of and cover the thrilling topic of reclassing. Very exciting. There may also be some dog talking.

The maniacs are back for their fifth season of video game podcasting. This season we’RE RE:Visiting, RE:Mixing, RE:Classing, RE:Troing. RE. The gimmick is RE words. We introduce to the world new game Character, Item, Level. Have a new skit (that doesn’t get any better readers). Richie enters a new era post-WOW and it’s a weird one. Cunzy plays some…

Season 4 is over but we have one last episode for you! Throughout the series we have been asking eash other questions from the ?Ultimate? Video game questions trivia pack, and for this episode we fire a few more of these at each other!

All good things must come to an end, and here comes our final episode of Season 4! We talk Destruction and about digital conservation, and we discusss the more memorable sequences in games Stay tuned for cheatcodes! And we will be back in the Autum with Season 5!

Get your mind out of the gutter, in this episode we talk the games that get your heart racing and games that suck.

In this weeks extended podcast we discuss the "pokemon killer" Palword, but we also chat through each of the Pokemon generations' starter Pokemon and create our definitive 3 pokemon starters and out rationales around them

We talk some of the games we have recently been playing, including Deathtroopers, Splatoon 3, World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery.

Season 4 Episode 20 We get all psychological and existencial and... Just kidding we talk about the discovery and emergent gameplay in games, as well as the concept of self, roleplaying a character etc. in videogames!

Season 4 Episode 19 The Music Episode We delve into some of the Music we love and discuss it! Previous Music Episodes: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Music-Banter---Part-1-e1qrm0j https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Music-Banter-Part-Deux-e1rt5fm With thanks to the original work from: S…

Season 4 Episode 18 Every season we have an episode dedicated to our memories from a specific gaming system. And since our gimmick this season is DS, its only fitting we talk about our faves on the DS system! Almost all the Pokemon Games, Diamond, Pearl, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Ranger, Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2... And many of the ot…

Season 4 Episode 17 In Pokemon throughout the generations there are always clones of Pikachu little electric mammals, in today's episode we round them up and rate them! We also chat the mechanics of games with cameras or mechanics around cameras!

Season 4 Episode 16 Squestions an Dancers, return of an older segment where we pose questions at each other!

Season 4 Episode 15 2024 is upon us and we talk our resolutions in games for 2023, what did we do or not do, and what are we going to do in 2024

Season 4 Episode 14 Merry Xmas and welcome to our Christmas special

Season 4 Episode 13 This episode we discuss all the pokemon we like begining with D and S!

Season 4 Episode 12 Video Games that are Board Games, and Board Games that are Video Games!

Season 4 Episode 11 In past seasons we have gone back to a particular year and reviewed the happenings in games, and this season is no different! We take you back to the canonically 2014-style days of 2014!

Season 4 Episode 10 ...are in your area now. This week we talk about those gamnes that remain standalone in their series, or ones that do deserve a sequel!

Season 4 Episode 9 Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode's "randomly" selected words are Deluxe and Sleep We chat the latest updates to Mario Kart Deluxe, Pokemon Sleep, some post-halloween horror games, such as Layers of Fear and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and House of the Dead: Re…

Season 4 Episode 8 We talk some of the game we have been playing, including Diablo 4, Super Mario Odyssey and One Piece Odyssey

In this episode we get spooky, we chat with an AI to for its creepiest redition of a Halloween poem (with video games in it)

Season 4 Episode 6 October 21st is St Ursula's Day Nary a day goes by where we dont think about the striking similarities between Saint Ursula and Video Games. Join us while we take you on pilgrimage to discuss the holiest of tenous links, chatting Saint Ursula herself and 11,000 video games.

Season 4 Episode 5 This episode we talk double in games, Double dragon and doppelgangers, and Stars in games astral bodies and of course S.T.A.R.S

Season 4 Episode 4 This week we talk Dwaynes: Micro Machines, and the body of work from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson , we also talk Sisters in games, asking the hard hitting questions like "Are Peach and Daisy related?"

Season 4 Episode 3 Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode is about Double Dragon and Scarlet We chat what we have been playing, Pokemon Scarlet, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons, Mortal Kombat 1 and Cats hidden in paris, Cats hidden in Italy, Cats hidden in Bali…

Season 4 Episode 2 Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode is about Ducks and Super games We chat duck stuff like, Edd the Duck on the C64, Duck hunt, Pokemon Ducks, Quack shot and Howard the Duck. We define "Super" and chat from the plethora of super games of, Super Micro Maniacs, Super E…

We are back with the first episode of our new season, Season 4! This season is DS themed around the letters D and S from the titular Nintendo console. We talk Dinosaurs in video games, including, Tomb Raider, Dino Crisis, Turok and Deathtrap Dungeon games from the Jurassic park Series! We also talk Spiders from games such as Deadly Creatures, Resid…

Season 3 draws to a close, but fear not as we will return in the fall of 2023! Enjoy some of our ramblings about what are endings in games. Peace out!

More Questions posed at each other

In this weeks "Current" Whataya Playin we chat Nintendo store pickups before it went down, Pokémon Crystal, Resident Evil 4, and Untitled Goose Game.

A (dated) whaddaya playin where we chat what we have "recently" been playing

In our questions segment again we pose... questions at each other. Enjoy!

This week we discuss 1999 and all the games, culture and shenanigans that happened that year

In this whaddaya playin' we chat Vampire Survivors, Scorn, Kirby's Super Stars, Cat Burglar, Powerwash simulator

What is death? What are lives? Why does Mario just start an episode again when he falls down a hole? All these questions, and more questions in this questionable episode...

We chat what we have been playing, Switch emu games Congo's revenge, immortal, Mario Golf, and we also chat DnD Dark alliance and Turtles: Shredders revenge.

Huzzah its part 2 of our new mini feature segment thing where we throw questions at each other

Devoid or any inspiration we decided to see if we could make a whole podcast about the Moon and how it features in games... we were so preoccupied with whether or not we could that we didn't stop to think if we should.

In a new segment we pose gaming themed questions at each other

We get lost in nostalgia for old PC games! We talk what defines a PC game, and the games that "define" the platform

In this weeks episodes we discuss the games of last year and match it up with last year's episode on the games we were looking forward to in 2022, along with a discussion on the games we are looking forward to in 2023! Last years Episode: https://anchor.fm/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Happy-New-old-Years-e1c9rn3…

We try and recount any xmas memories we have around video games... with marginal success

Our regular spot "whadaya you playing" where we discuss the games we have been playing most recently, spoilers its Pokémon and WoW

Second part of our dive into the videogame music we love!

We talk things Scottish and Andrew related and Richie does a Burn's style poem about Super Mario Kart

Our first impressions of the New Pokemon games

We chat and listen to the music from the games we love!

This week we talk Cyberpunk and Pokemon go!

Richie Pretty much gets schooled on how hard it is to define the third in a games franchise