All four are back, the name has been trimmed, and nobody can agree on how many hours make "a couple". Rich, Lee, Ross, and El return for narrators with god complexes, football games that have quietly turned into slot machines, and a £40 handheld that has apparently fixed gaming forever. We've dropped the 'Continue' because Rich couldn't remember it. So this is Ready Player 2, episode 4. Or episode 102, if you're feeling pedantic. Rich finally plays The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, roughly a decade late, and falls hard for its lilting narrator, its forty-odd endings, an achievement for not playing for ten years, and a bucket he point blank refuses to explain. Ross wades into FC26 (formerly FIFA, now a card-pack gambling machine with football attached), where the base pack costs 100,000 coins, the FIFA licence has wandered off to Netflix, and saying "GG" earns you a torrent of abuse from teenagers with better strikers than you. El champions The Drifter, Powerhoof's stunning 2D point-and-click of conspiracies, time-travelling agents and a genuinely awful bit with a lake, then digs out the bargain-bin brilliance of Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive. Lee has bought a TrimUI Brick second hand off eBay, declared gaming fixed, and now carries it everywhere to play The Minish Cap in car parks. His long-awaited Retroid Pocket 6 shipped the same day. It may never leave the drawer. Along the way: what actually counts as retro, the slow death and quiet survival of the point-and-click adventure, Rich's stint writing for the Australian Nintendo Magazine System (and the final issue that was never printed), why old gaming mags were quite so unpleasant, and an update on Lee's hacked Discord — the servers are back, the members came with them, and Discord even gave him his money back. Ross finishes with Happy Side of Par, a golf game with no microtransactions in it whatsoever, which in 2026 counts as a plot twist. Games discussed: The Stanley Parable Ultra Deluxe, EA Sports FC26, The Drifter, Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, A Link to the Past, Dispatch, Disco Elysium, Monkey Island, Broken Sword, Day of the Tentacle, Discworld II, Path of Exile 2, Arc Raiders, and a whole lot more. We're only 37 subscribers deep, so every single one genuinely counts. Subscribe, comment, and let us know what you've been playing. Swears included. Obviously. GAMES DISCUSSED The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1703340/The_Stanley_Parable_Ultra_Deluxe/Official site: https://stanleyparable.com/ EA Sports FC 26https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26Ultimate Team features: https://www.ea.com/games/ea-sports-fc/fc-26/features/fc-26-football-ultimate-team The Drifter (Powerhoof)https://store.steampowered.com/app/1170570/The_Drifter/Developer: https://www.powerhoof.com/ Don't Escape: 4 Days to Survive (scriptwelder)https://store.steampowered.com/app/611760/Dont_Escape_4_Days_to_Survive/Don't Escape Trilogy: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1070550/Dont_Escape_Trilogy/ The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Caphttps://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/Games/Game-Boy-Advance/The-Legend-of-Zelda-The-Minish-Cap-267486.html Dispatch (AdHoc Studio)https://store.steampowered.com/app/2592160/Dispatch/ Happy Side of Parhttps://happysideofpar.com/ HARDWARE TRIMUI Brick — official sitehttps://trimui.pro/brick/Official store: https://trimui.net/collections/trimui-brick NextUI (the custom firmware on Lee's Brick)https://github.com/LoveRetro/NextUIDocs: https://nextui.loveretro.games/docs/ Retroid Pocket 6https://www.goretroid.com/US store: https://goretroidusa.com/retroid-pocket-6/ MAGAZINES Fusion Retro Books — publishers of the relaunched CRASH, ZZAP! 64, ZZAP! AMIGA and Amtix CPChttps://fusionretrobooks.com/ Amiga Addicthttps://amigaddict.com/ Lee @MoreFunRetro Rosshttps://bsky.app/profile/therossbell.bsky.social ElSearch for EscapingIRL Rich @newbe5 but he wont see it for 5 years
