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Our lovely guest Lewis from Episode 033 ("Death in the Pac-Family") is looking to take SEGADriven to the next level - do consider pledging your support!

Also some inside baseball for the fun of it: when this was originally recorded in May, we had to do a retake on E32 at short notice due to similar file issues - so we recorded that, this, and then E33 (the Skip feature!) all within about... 3 or 4 days, I think? Like a cold pod-splash to the face!

SURPRISE!!! This one sat in the furnace for a good while but was immensely fun to guest on, so so glad it's out. Quite excited to listen back to it, oddly! Please do go check out the full NintenDormant channel as well - lots of incredibly deep pulls and the whole concept is wonderfully creative.

People should listen to our show. Good episodes on things like Donkey Kong, ChuckleVision, games award shows, and a lot of Bruce Forsyth talk

And that closes Season 3 of Gamer Era! We're gonna take another break before we kick back off again - not certain on the timing just yet, but within a couple months for sure. In the meantime though, why not leap into our considerable backlog? Slay that dragon, as the kids say! gamertime.online

Carl Yoda podcast. BOOM

Album art for Gamer Era Episode 36: "The Showman's Bluff" - with a tagline of "Let's Get Quizzical!". Episode art features a background recreation of the logo to "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?". In the foreground are Anne Robinson, low-poly Wii versions of Howie Mandel, Jasper Carrot and Vernon Kay, as well as Noel Edmonds holding a phone, and Chris Tarrant holding a Wii Remote. There is an image of a pensive-looking Yoda wearing some kind of Hawaiian shirt in the middle. Additional box-outs read "Play Along At Home!" and "Season Finale!".

NEW EPISODE: Riddle me this! What's crisper than a dollar bill fresh out the 'barrow? Why, it's Gamer Era's latest quiz-crossed instalment, of course! @wokejohnwayne.bsky.social joins us in the hotseat for this round. Fingers on buzzers, please...
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Today's new episode will be another late-evening drop! Been an exceptionally busy fortnight and I gave myself a slight headache with the audio design on this one so it needs a little longer to "cook", as it were. - Sam

Cover art for Gamer Era Episode 35 - Death in the Pac-Family. Image depicts the extended family and associates of Pac-Man in the pews at his funeral, all teary-eyed and wearing dark, formal funeral clothing. (The attendees from left to right are: Jr. Pac-Man, Blinky the Ghost, Miru from "Pac & Pal", Chomp-Chomp, Pac-Mom, Baby Pac-Man and Professor Pac-Man.)

Are you READY to LAUGH?! Well, you better not be, because a certain ravenous yeller feller just keeled over and carked it. We're serious! So humble up and join us (+ @sonicyoda.bsky.social!!) for a bittersweet Pac-Man special. Pay your respects at: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

Ten days since the ep came out and I only JUST remembered to pin it. Ohh, it's too hot today.

Cover art for Gamer Era Episode 35 - Death in the Pac-Family. Image depicts the extended family and associates of Pac-Man in the pews at his funeral, all teary-eyed and wearing dark, formal funeral clothing. (The attendees from left to right are: Jr. Pac-Man, Blinky the Ghost, Miru from "Pac & Pal", Chomp-Chomp, Pac-Mom, Baby Pac-Man and Professor Pac-Man.)

Are you READY to LAUGH?! Well, you better not be, because a certain ravenous yeller feller just keeled over and carked it. We're serious! So humble up and join us (+ @sonicyoda.bsky.social!!) for a bittersweet Pac-Man special. Pay your respects at: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

Cover art for Gamer Era Episode 27 - No Country for Old Kongs. The Rare era of Donkey Kong Country designs are seen colliding with early 2000s depictions of the DK Crew on a banana-like background.

Plus - as a companion piece to both this ep and today's Bananza blowout - check out our Donkey Kong feature episode from February! Pretty immense to think of how much has shifted since then: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

Cover art for Gamer Era Episode 34 - Flight of the Polygon. The Star Fox team (and Croc) stand valiantly on a cosmic background, as the polygonal visage of Andross from the original Star Fox looms large behind them.

NEW EPISODE: All aircraft report! It's time to suit up and scope out Argonaut Software, the Super FX Chip, and the maiden voyage of Star Fox! Oh, and uh, the "Nintendo Switch 2" or something. Lock your nova blasters to: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

Episode 008 – Eight-Legged Freaks (ft. Kitenby) | Podcast Episode on RSS.com You’re a kid now - you’re an arachnid now?! SOMEHOW, David has returned... and he brings along tales woven of “spiders-men” and “played stations”. It’s as much of a celebration of the web-slinger’s ch...

"Sammy did you mean to post this on main"
NUH-UH!!! COLLECT MY EIGHT PODCASTS
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THIS IS CRAZY WHAT DO YOU MEAN

Obviously duty-bound to say this about every episode but this one is really bloody good. If you've ever mourned the loss felt since Nintendo stopped funding all these bespoke little eShop-exclusive experiences, this is a must-listen! 🌈

Cover art for "GAMER ERA EPISODE 33 - Art, Code, Love". A series of abstract symbols from the Art Style and Bit Generations series are depicted in front of a hazy, Frutiger Aero image of condensation on a white background.

NEW EPISODE: With a hop, Skip and a jump - it's a deep-dive on the Art Style / Bit Generations series (with @middlethought.bsky.social)! Spread the happiness at: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

I was sick during this so you can’t give out to me about how absolutely off the chain I am in it

Cover art for Episode 32: Electronic Entertainment Exposition. A number of industry figures are depicted in monochrome on a red background, in the style of the album art for The Beatles' "A Hard Days' Night".

NEW EPISODE: For The Gamers! A reflection on E3 1995 and everything that's brought us here since. There will be blood. Catch the drop at: rss.com/podcasts/gam...

The cover art for Episode 31 of the "Gamer Era" podcast: "Down the Rabbid Hole". Rayman is seen bursting out of a wall into the foreground, as various other Raymen and Rabbids from series history accompany him.

Doing what we in "da biz" call "da Engagement Push" for "da most recent ep"!! Plus - look at that lovely cover art! Really makes you loathe Ubi all the more. rss.com/podcasts/gam...

Also - thank you for the recent wave of support, holy cow!! We've got some real good eps cookin', very excited to share them. 👨‍🍳 - Sam

PSA: After five wonderful years, the Friendly Mush site will unfortunately be going down as of next week.
The network lives on in spirit, but we'll naturally be updating a lot of old links! No changes to regular service otherwise (big thanks to @rss.com for helping facilitate a smooth transition).

we have returned. i am sorry to say we talk about the Rabbids. Such a thing will never happen again. Listen up!

NEW EPISODE: After an age of Ubisoft-adjacent teasing, at long last - a #Rayman franchise blowout! We dug real deep for this one. No plum left unturned!
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A low-poly toilet filled with urine

HELLO GAMERS. After much delay, Season 3 (which we are affectionately branding "The Incredibly Cursed and Fucked Up Season from Hell") resumes THIS WEDNESDAY, May 7th!!
That's six more episodes of laffs, loves and lives! Here's a trio of teasers for what you can expect...

NintenDormant episodes - YouTube A weekly podcast where we discuss Nintendo games that have been left on the shelf.

Gaming podcasts! Please get in touch! We run a weekly Nintendo podcast and I’d love to chat to more folks running gaming shows too. Please repost this if you’re happy to - and if you see it, tag any other gaming podcasts you might follow too. ❤️ #gamersky youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The Doctor and Amy stand in the middle of six bubbles, each holding an image from a Doctor Who-themed video game. The text reads: GAMER ERA, WIBBLY-WOBBLY GAMEY-WAMEY, EPISODE EIGHTEEN: A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME AND SPACE

A group of images from Doctor Who video games are clustered together. The text reads GAMER ERA, EPISODE THIRTY: THE MOBILE INVASION OF EARTH

Hello gamers! Celebrate the return of #DoctorWho by listening to both of our episodes with @podtorwhocast.bsky.social! friendlymush.com/podcast/game... and friendlymush.com/podcast/game...

We have no solid timeline on a return date, but we're hoping it'll be sooner rather than later! We'll let you know when we do! Once again, thank you very much, and as always - keeeeep gaming! - Sam & David

Gamer Era | Podcast on RSS.com Since the dawn of time, humanity has tried to establish just what it is about gaming that draws us in, shapes us, drives us to greater things. Whether it be the simple pleasure of Mario, the complex t...

In the meantime, once again - if you're new to us, thank you very much for following (and thank you to @pixelsandpolygons.net for the bump!). We would love for you to check out our extensive back catalogue, either at friendlymush.com (or via rss.com/podcasts/gamer-era)! There's plenty to sample!

Also - we're taking our customary mid-season break as of next week, but the hiatus will be a little longer than anticipated. Prep for the next six eps of Season 3 is still underway, but life is very much happening for our hosts and it's gonna take a bit longer to pull it all together.