The Video Game Hall of Fame Video Game Hall of Fame

It's everyone's favourite episode type - the one where democracy dies! That's right, we're once again going back through the previous batch of episodes since episode 20 to each pick one game that didn't win a listener poll and just lob it straight into the Hall of Fame because it's ours and we can.

Following that, we do a lot of admin where the next nine episodes are all laid out and the categories are set. There are going to be some crackers in the future, lads.

Normally, that would be it, but during this episode it emerged that the legendary Grant Kirkhope had helped Alex and Banjo-Kazooie take control of the 3D platformers poll which eventually garnered over 4000 votes. The anger of the rest of the lads is genuine GOAT podcasting.

Go vote on the topic you want us to pick from next @VG_HOF (gonna be a short one for a quick recording turnaround), email us at videogamehof@gmail.com and apologies for Steve's audio. It shit the bed and randomly turned itself to as quiet as possible, so he broke his brain trying to fix it and it's the best we could do. Won't happen again xx

As we approach the Big 3-0 we go 3D with that most quintessential of all late-'90s gaming genres: 3D platformers!

There's also an email that has us deciding on which pod member's entire catalogue of inducted games we'd most like to delete. You can email us too! videogamehof@gmail.com

Vote for the game you want to be inducted into the Hall of Fame over @VG_HOF on Twitter.

It's not GOTY season anymore... except here! This episode, our nominees all come from the pool of games that have won a Game of the Year award at an event or ceremony. They're all listed here if you want to play along: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_of_the_Year_awards

Vote for the game you want in the Hall of Fame over @VG_HOF - the poll should be up soon after the episode dropped.

Please rate/review us on your pod platform of choice and we'll see you next time around for 3D Platformers!

This episode's subject was the result of a random generation of a year in the 90s to pick games from. Now, full disclosure, we were initially rolled 1992 but realised how many games from that year we'd already inducted, so we did another one and got 1996!

1996, as it turns out, was a year that some incredible things happened, and some iconic franchises were born. You can be sure we nominated a lot of those for the Hall of Fame.

There's also a really thought-provoking question from Steve, two decent emails, and one from Shagger that ruined everything. Emails will never be the same again.

Go vote for the game you want in the HOF over @VG_HOF, tell your mates to do the same, rate/review on your pod platform of choice, and tune in next time for Game of the Year Winners!

That's right, we're fighting for the underdog this episode, as we're all nominating only games that scored 79 and under on Metacritic. 7/10s, or 'hidden gems', have become a huge part of games media in recent years, and we're getting in on the act to stick one of them in the Hall of Fame.

We've got loads of honourable mentions and a discussion on what exactly a 7/10 game is, plus the obligatory offensive email from Shagger. We don't know how he keeps outdoing himself.

Go now to @VG_HOF on X and vote for the game you want in the Hall of Fame. Please rate/review on your pod platform of choice too!

We're selling our souls for those sweet license deals this episode, as we nominate four games that license IPs from outside the gaming sphere (not sports, though).

Despite having something of a bad rap, there are a huge number of great licensed games, and we cover as many as we can here. Go vote for the one you want in the Hall of Fame over @VG_HOF.

Of course, stay tuned for some more incredible emails from that bloke who upstages all of us at the end, or ruins the pod, depending on your tolerance for smelly tents. videogamehof@gmail.com if you fancy adding to the madness!