The Very Exciting Podcast

Carmichael Jones
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Two old friends, a bunch of games, and a ton of tangents. The Very Exciting Podcast is a gaming podcast with a heavy lean toward retro, where we play, rank, and argue about the games we grew up on. Every week we talk about what we're playing, tell stories from our gaming past, and run a book-club-style Retro Game Club: we pick a game, play a few hours, and meet back to talk about how it made us feel. Play along and join the discussion in the comments. Hosted by Carmichael Jones (that's Shaun, with a U) and Andy T.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Our Top 5 Games of the Last 10 Years (and Tomba! Part 2) | The Very Exciting Podcast Ep. 3

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! We’re back in Tomba! for Retro Video Game Club, we count down our top five games of the last ten years, and a stranger at the barcade decides Carmichael is her long-lost son. Carmichael Jones (Shaun w/ a U) and Andy T. talk about a very strange Halloween at the barcade, the Fallout pinball launch party, and our top fives: Doom Eternal, Hades, Cyberpunk 2077, Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, Balatro, Subnautica, Outer Wilds and Red Dead Redemption 2. Back in Tomba!: lava caves, bamboo cage traps, biting a parrot, a monkey who wants juice, and the go-kart we still can’t drive. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome to Episode 3 (Retro Video Game Club: Tomba! part 2) 2:00 Halloween at the barcade 3:00 “You are my son”: the abuela at the bar 7:15 The ugly pumpkin couple 9:24 Fallout pinball launch party 11:45 What we’ve been playing: Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 14:50 Fatal Frame and why ghosts aren’t scary 17:31 Top 5 games of the last 10 years 18:10 #5: Doom Eternal 21:00 Hades 23:26 #4: Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty 25:23 Red Dead Redemption 2 26:21 #3: Kingdom Come: Deliverance II 30:37 Balatro and Pokémon TCG on Game Boy Color 33:26 #2: Outer Wilds 37:12 Subnautica 39:32 #1: Red Dead Redemption 2 and GTA talk 42:39 Honorable mentions 50:33 Tomba! check-in 51:51 Haunted Mansion doors and mood mushrooms 55:19 Lava caves and flying pigs 58:20 Jungle cage traps and biting a parrot 1:02:22 The monkey who wants juice 1:04:24 Blanka-coded Tomba and the raft 1:06:02 The mermaid, the old men, and fast-travel bells 1:08:05 The Earth pig, mouse villagers, and the go-kart 1:09:44 Backtracking and PS1 fatigue 1:13:17 Homework for Episode 4: six total pigs 1:14:41 The umbrella and the fire pants 1:17:19 Sign-off Join the club: catch up to six evil pigs in Tomba! and tell us how far you got. After that, we’re going for the ending. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-very-exciting-podcast/id6824251631 Spotify: https://tr.ee/SS7dDpz6Hn Or search “The Very Exciting Podcast” in your podcast app. The Very Exciting Podcast is a gaming podcast with a retro lean. Each episode we talk about what we’re playing, dig through gaming’s strange past, and work through a retro game together in our Retro Video Game Club. #TheVeryExcitingPodcast #Tomba #RetroGaming #Top5Games

  2. Oct 26

    Old Gaming Magazine ads were Ridiculous + Tomba Check in Part 1 - The Very Exciting Podccast - Ep 02

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! In Episode 2 we report back on Tomba! for our Retro Video Game Club, flip through 2005 PlayStation magazine ads, and somehow spend ten minutes on pinball. Carmichael Jones (Shaun w/ a U) and Andy T. talk about the first three hours of Tomba! (evil pigs, rotating camera angles, and a LOT of backtracking), a trip to the Pinball Expo, ridiculous Official PlayStation Magazine ads (a body spray with a "foreign relations" warning card, 3D glasses for the PS1, and Blockbuster's guide to being a better gamer), plus Blockbuster and Hollywood Video war stories and one coworker whose lies never stopped getting bigger. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome to Episode 2 (Retro Video Game Club: Tomba!) 1:29 Pinball Expo in Chicago and the new Fallout pinball 3:28 Pinball leagues: old machines vs. new machines 5:01 Stern's 50th anniversary panel (and the free cake) 5:37 Bon Jovi pins, Pokémon pins, and angry pinball guys 8:07 What we've been playing: Fallout Pinball, Outer Wilds DLC, Rocket League 9:45 Bon Jovi pinball price check ($12K!) 10:18 Pinball Maps, shady token pricing, and Rocket League 11:39 Old PlayStation magazine ads 12:47 The TAG body spray ad (and Bod spray in a Windex bottle) 16:52 The PS1 3D glasses ad 18:31 Blockbuster's "How to Be a Better Gamer" ad 22:15 Blockbuster vs. Hollywood Video: dot matrix receipts and command-line rentals 25:18 The prolific liar at the video store (karate, snake pits, one limp) 28:18 Tomba! homework check-in 29:31 Rotating perspectives, loading screens, and backtracking 31:48 Metroidvania basics: the golden egg and the 1,000-year-old man 33:28 Biting dwarves and David the Gnome vibes 35:03 Pink hair, a feral child, and a monkey who wants bananas 36:55 The first evil pig (and the door you'll never find) 39:29 The never-ending torch quest 42:34 The laughing and crying mushrooms 44:30 Stormy Mountain and the piranha plants from hell 46:02 Why the PS1 era was so experimental 47:20 The farting plants 48:19 Homework for Episode 3: catch the third evil pig 49:55 Pig bags and chest colors (100, 1,000, and 10,000-year-old) 51:57 Are we 100% completionists? (Kingdom Hearts 2, Outer Wilds) 53:40 Boss fight talk and where to play Tomba! today Join the club: play the first three hours of Tomba! with us, then tell us how far you got. Next episode's goal is the third evil pig. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-very-exciting-podcast/id6824251631 Spotify: https://tr.ee/SS7dDpz6Hn Or search "The Very Exciting Podcast" in your podcast app. The Very Exciting Podcast is a gaming podcast with a retro lean. Each episode we talk about what we're playing, dig through gaming's strange past, and work through a retro game together in our Retro Video Game Club. #TheVeryExcitingPodcast #Tomba #RetroGaming

  3. Oct 18

    Camping out for a Wii - The Very Exciting Podcast - Ep 01

    Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Listen and subscribe here! Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-very-exciting-podcast/id6824251631 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Sb9mnf0wxZE6DOCppUvis?si=2a50acb6c7e2482a RSS Subscription Link: https://media.rss.com/the-very-exciting-podcast/feed.xml Episode 1 of The Very Exciting Podcast! Carmichael Jones (Shaun w/ a U) and Andy T. settle on a name, go down a Boy Throb rabbit hole, trade what they're playing, and kick off a retro game club with Tomba on PS1. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome + how we landed on "The Very Exciting Podcast" 1:57 Boy Throb: is this band real? (Nathan Fielder theories included) 5:15 The Hulk casting story 7:38 The house-flipping convention that felt like a megachurch 10:30 What this show is about (games, mostly retro, plus life) 13:50 What we're playing: Outer Wilds (no spoilers) + the DLC 18:55 Fatal Frame, Fallout: New Vegas, and NBA 2K21's shutdown 23:33 "Ball and gun gamers" and liking all kinds of games 25:21 Favorite retro games: Sega, Streets of Rage, the Nomad, and the Duke controller 28:24 The night we camped out at the mall for a Wii (and lost) 34:20 Bricking consoles: Wii and PS3 jailbreak disasters 35:55 Metal Gear Solid talk 37:16 Retro Game Club kicks off: Tomba (PS1) 42:56 AI game mashups (Call of Duty Zombies x NHL 2K) 44:12 Does Carmichael Jones sound like DSP? 1:00:06 Wrap-up + homework RETRO GAME CLUB Play Tomba on PS1 until you capture the first evil pig (about 2-3 hours), take notes, and join the discussion in the comments. Then start thinking about a game to suggest (nothing 60 hours long, please). GAMES MENTIONED Outer Wilds, Fatal Frame, Fallout: New Vegas, NBA 2K21, Tomba, Spice World, Metal Gear Solid, Streets of Rage, Heavy Rain, Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

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Two old friends, a bunch of games, and a ton of tangents. The Very Exciting Podcast is a gaming podcast with a heavy lean toward retro, where we play, rank, and argue about the games we grew up on. Every week we talk about what we're playing, tell stories from our gaming past, and run a book-club-style Retro Game Club: we pick a game, play a few hours, and meet back to talk about how it made us feel. Play along and join the discussion in the comments. Hosted by Carmichael Jones (that's Shaun, with a U) and Andy T.

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