Welcome to the Fantasy Zone – get ready! For this show we delve into the multi-coloured eye-bleed world of Opa-Opa (so good they named him twice). This game plays a tad like Defender – but is it better? No. In fact, is it better than anything at all? Join us and find out.

I could use this bumf at the start to subliminally recruit my evil horde of biscuit thieves, seeing as no one cares about what I write here.STEAL LOADS OF HOBNOBS AND SEND THEM TO VICTOR AND SHAUN.But don’t tell anyone we told you to do so. Oh and play some arcade games, there’s a good chap / chapess.

Blah Blah Does anyone even read this? Biscuits.Two podcasters not wearing underpants talking about playing games standing up in front of wooden boxes with TVs inside them. Buttons. Joystick. Thrills!I may need help…
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At last! Another stone cold classic that has taken ages to get to – but are the listeners united in our thoughts or are the ‘features’ just too much to take? LAIR OF THE HATEBEAKS!!! SKRAAAWR!New biscuit song!

Meoww! Cat paws, fish and magical balls are all in the podcast this time around! Shaun and Victor have been away for the weekend at the Revival Retro Event in Walsall, somewhere in the middle of the UK.Bonus SkyCurser Pre Production review after it’s UK debut at The Revival retro Event.

This is a slightly different podcast recording – we did it together at chez Victor, had a walkround of the garage arcade and did the rest of it in a Swedish airport! Live walkround (well, we were alive) at Hey Stockholm as well as most of the usual stuff. Many thanks to Peter Koskimaki for making the Stockholm trip happen.

Busty, busty, busty – we’ve all been busty. Hold on –  BUSY. We’ve been BUSY playing arcade games and writing about them, then yapping about them. Oh joy! This time around we’ve been in the garden and been blasting pesky centipedes with our disembodied head, while watching out for 8 legged mother flubbers. Diagonal poopers! Spin that trackball and listen to the ten pence arcade.

We’ve been tasked with rescuing our tiny Kiwi friends from an evil walrus!No, we’ve not been hallucinating – we’ve been playing The New Zealand Story from those crazy dudes at Taito. Flying about on balloons and magical geese while lobbing bombs at mean teddy bears and er, spiky things. Lots of spiky things. Too many spiky things perhaps.More world records for our friends Charlie Far (David) and Pete Hahn (former GG gamer of the year)

Take one hero out of a posse of 4 and rescue the prisoners! This hero is a bit stabby & shooty though!It’s all good clean pixelly arty fun with over the top action and some MASSIVE GUNS, and, er slugs?We’ve had a month ‘off’ of arcades* and we’re raring to get back into it!All the usual stuff, plus more usual stuff. We like stuff, here.
Enjoy! – Oh, and get to the outhouse and have a BEEF DROP!

We visit Timewarp Arcade, Bridgwater Somerset in March 2017.

‘Cor blimey guv’nor – it’s old Nick ‘imself chuckin’ dahn lightning bolts and thems gargoyleys lobbing unearthly stuff at’cha!
Listen to the podcast to see what the above actually means! A hellish game to review – do the Ten Pencers get posessed? Will they join a black cult and start listening to dark music (one already does) But it’s good old fashioned arcade fun at the end of the day – don’t worry!
Some poor unfortunate from ‘Down Under’ gets an 1800s battering from the Victorian insulters.

Solomon’s Flea?, Solomon’s Pea?, Solomon’s Brie? No! SOLOMON’S KEY!Where is it? Why does he keep losing it? Why doesn’t he have it on a chain around his neck – the silly wizard!Shaun talks to Craig Turner about the upcoming Revival event.

Mazes! Apes! Pigs! Er, Paint Rollers? We look at an old ‘paint ’em up’ and discuss all things arcade, including one of us recently going to the EAG corporate show. Someone gets an insult Victorian stylee and a loved listener even gets a bit of a song by Brucie himself…

Oh, it’s a merry jumbo holiday season podcast.  Some could even call it a bumper edition! We have an old mate on for some arcade chat and to tell us about his usual awesome pickups.  Also an interview with our man in Austria -Hannes Slanec - talking about the arcade warehouse raid he did!
Strap in! – It’s a long one! 😀