The Best Video Game You’ve Never Played: Recent Episodes
thebestgameyouveneverplayed
What video game do you love, but you know nobody else has played? What cult classic lingers in the realm of obscurity, or what major hit is way better than anyone says? On ”The Best Game You’ve Never Played” stand-up and improv comedian Lewis Dunn plays video games that his guests think are the best he’s never played, and discusses their merits, flaws and unusual histories with them.
Ever feel like you're just working through the day, slowly decaying in a harsh environment that both doesn't care about you and wants to exploit you?
OK but how about that's also a sci-fi video game?
Matt Storm: https://linktr.ee/dj_stormagedddon
Lewis Dunn: https://t.co/AQ6WL64qUg
In the darkest corner of space the nastiest creature in existence is waiting. In a vent. Maybe. actually it might be in this cup- OH GOD IT'S BEHIND ME!
Tom Neenan bring a sci-fi horror classic to the show and suggests that Alien Isolation is The Best Video Game You've Never Played.
Tom Neenan: https://www.tomneenan.com/ and https://twitter.com/TNeenan
Lewis Dunn: https://linktr.ee/lewisdunn
A terrifying game about that most horrifying of things - living in a small apartment. Could this (banned) game be the best you've never played? Sam See, international stand up comedy superstar, certainly thinks so!
Sam See: Link Tree
Lewis Dunn: Link Tree
Just make paperclips. It'll be fine. How could making paperclips be anything other than fine? Anna Thomas joins Lewis to discuss capitalism, A.I, the end of the world and paperclips.
Lady Bigfoot: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001nl8h/lady-bigfoot
Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
Summon the Gods and brace for an epic war! Lewis and Edy Hurst come to blows over this strategic classic, but will the Gods show favour or rain down their anger! This podcast was recorded so long ago it too has become something of a myth!
tanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
One day, Lewis Dunn woke up, and realised he needed to play a video game. "I know" thought Lewis, "I'll go ask Tom Mayhew what sort of a game I should play". And so off he went. And Tom Mayhew suggested he play Party Time with Winnie the Pooh. Would it be The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynp
Tom Mayhew Edfringe show: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/tom-mayhew-this-time-next-year-we-ll-be-millionaires
Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
Hi there, you look like you could use a podcast that will really help explain the universe to you! Well valued customer, why not download this episode of The Best video Game You've Never Played podcast, with esteemed guest David K Barnes, loud host Lewis Dunn as they discuss The Outer Worlds, a game that's sure to get your brain thinking and your trigger finger pumping! (Please note podcast may cause sudden thudding realisation that we live in a world designed to make us miserable for the sake of a graph that has no feelings. side effects may include dizziness, nausea and an overwhelming sense of dread. Please listen responsibly).
Cry Havoc! Ask Questions Later: https://rustyquill.com/show/cry-havoc/
Wooden Overcoats: https://www.woodenovercoats.com/
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynpStanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
Well it's a beautiful day here at Lewis' home ground of the best Video Game You've Never Played podcast, but can the rival team of James Cook score an unlikely victory with this strategy based management sim. it's a game of two halves, one ball, and about 800 spreadsheets. Will Championship manager 2001/02 Season take home the silver of The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynpJames' Cook: Anonymously Viral: https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/james-cook-anonymously-viralBoard Game Smackdown:Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
Ready to go, with another episode of magic, wonder and dragonflies. Just... hundreds of dragonflies. This week's guest is the fantastic Joz Norris, Mr Fruit Salad himself, here to try and convince Lewis that this RPG classic is the Best Video Game You've Never Played! Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynphttps://www.joznorris.co.uk/Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrichAny Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
What's 0.05 mm, has a moustache and is ready to save the world? Zack Sizer returns to the podcast to find out whether or not Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door is The Best Video Game You've Never Played.
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynp
The Silliad: https://edinburgh.justthetonic.com/event/88:3310/
Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrich
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23
Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
The truth will out, especially if you force it by confronting people, and ESPECIALLY if those people are real live action video actors! This week we're joined by Alasdair beckett-King who dares to bring on a game from a genre that gasps died 20 years ago?!
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynp
ABK's UK Tour 2023: http://qr1.be/8C3J
Montgomery Bon Bon: Murder at the Museum: http://qr1.be/H7JH
Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrich
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23
Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
We're back! Steffan Alun is here to take us on a creepy, bizarre and hilarious time travel adventure so we can finally answer the question - who is that weird impish guy that keeps bringing me back to life?
Steffan Alun's Twitter - @StAlun
Patreon: patreon.com/tbvgynp
Stanley Brooks - I Can Make Me Rich bit.ly/jttrich
Any Suggestions, Doctor? The Improvised Doctor Who Parody - bit.ly/asdfringe23
Suggestions of Unexpected - bit.ly/jttsou
Ho ho ho! Have a special episode i nwhich I sit down with Chris for nearly 3 hours as we go over all the games that have been on the podcast and rank them! It's a list! Lists are great!
In the beginning, there was nothing. Does it get nay better? I make Ed play a game i remember being better.
Sun, sand and swiss bank accounts await as Jack Bernhardt joins the shows to chat about the dictator themed Tropico 5!
https://www.thefootballbookclub.com/
https://anysuggestionsimprov.co.uk/
Ambush! You'll never see it coming, when Lewis chats with Zack Sizer about Persona 5!
The Silliad can be found @TheSilliad on Twitter and Instagram
Any SUggestions, Doctor? The improvised Doctor Who Parody is on tour! Find details here
Gather coal, gather food, but most importantly, gather round as Lewis sits down with Stand-Up comedian Glenn Moore as he tries to pitch the idea that there's no food or energy as a great way to spend an evening! Is Frost Punk The Best Video game You've Never Played?
Glenn Moore's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/glennmoore
Any Suggestions Doctor: The Improvised Doctor Who Parody is now on tour! https://anysuggestionsimprov.co.uk/
This week we CRACK on with an EGGciting game all about how being an egg is no YOLK when you need to roll far enOEUF to get to your FRYING PAN! Gareth Waugh brings on Lost Egg to discuss whether it’s The Best Video Game You’ve Never Played!
Gareth Waugh’s Twitch: https://twitch.tv/GarethWaugh
Any Suggestions Doctor: The Improvised Doctor Who Parody is going on tour! https://anysuggestionsimprov.co.uk/
Lewis is taking life into his own hands this week, after writer, comedian and critic Louise Jones joins the podcast to suggest that The Sims 2 is The Best Video Game You've Never Played (though technical issues means that it's actually mostly about The Sims 4).
Any Suggestions Doctor: The Improvised Doctor Who Parody is going on tour! https://anysuggestionsimprov.co.uk/
Rev up yer hog and get ready to hit the open road! But first let's click on everything in this bar. Comedian Tom Crowley joins Lewis to find out who murdered the head of Corley Motors as we take a look at Full Throttle. Is it The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Crowley Time can be found at: https://pod.link/1438849221
Any Suggestions Doctor: The Improvised Doctor Who Parody is going on tour! https://anysuggestionsimprov.co.uk/
Season 2 is about to kick off! Enjoy this teaser trailer that hints at what is to come!
Here's about 15 minutes of stuff cut out of the Tearaway podcast because it got wildly off track but also it's quite funny so enjoy. It's mostly about Pokémon and Vita games.
It makes absolutely no sense that we're covering the most beloved game ever made but here we are.
Twitter: @GameNeverPlayed
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Chris returns to fold, cut, stick and yell his way through a perfect paper PS Vita classic.
Twitter: @GameNeverPlayed
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
It'd been a while since I'd seen him, but also it felt like no time at all had passed. Charles Deane regarded me with weary eyes, as he held up a small, thin green box.
"This," he said, his voice heavy with the knowledge of a man who had been into the darkness and back "this is what you made do."
It reminded me of a Stephen King novel.
Is Alan Wake The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @GameNeverPlayed
You're in a space station. Something unfathomable has happened. If you don't act quickly everybody on board the space station will die. Most have already. Also, you are the space station. Mungo Tatton-Brown returns to discuss the terrifying and unusual Observation.
Twitter: @GameNeverPlayed
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Cowabunga, D'oh and so on and so forth, it's The Simpsons Game! No, not Hit & Run, The Simpsons Game! That's what it's called! It is a bad name you're right! Chris Booker is here to discuss/justify it's existence, and it's a fun time.
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Let your voice carry your spirit this week, as Lewis has a chat with Emma Gadsdon about the 2018 Indie game and all round joyful delight that is Wandersong. Is it The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Hm, quite a puzzling little game this week. Perhaps sitting down with a pot of tea with James Gamblin will make sense of it all. Is Professor Layton and Pandora's Box The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Woah dude, ready for some totally radical ROLLERBLADING!!!! Joby Mageean is, like, throwing down this totally sick suggestion of play Jet Set Radio and seeing if it's The Best Video Game You've Never Played dude! Tubular! 90s cool reference!
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Need more podcast m'lord. Needs Paul Savage as a guest m'lord. Need to determine if Stronghold HD is The Best Video Game You've Never Played m'lord.
Savage Comics: https://www.savagecomic.com/
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Do you have the black disease? Ed Greenwood is here to check, by bringing on this very underrated and unknown classic. Is The Black Line The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
In the first of what will hopefully be a few special episodes, Cieran Douglass RETURNS to the show to give us his take on Gone Home! Will it be The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Now please rise as we talk for an entire hour about a game where you must survive as a young queen despite the fact the world is unpredictable, unfair and quite generic. Luke Malkin (Presiding from the very non-fictional country Bolivia) brings forth a game with blue blood and the manners of a 14 year old. Is Long Live the Queen The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Language Connection Podcast: https://languageconnection.com.bo/podcast/
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Open up a tab here at TBVGYNP because we're drinking into the night. Mungo Tatton Brown has brought a game that's dark and stormy, with graphics that might look a bit Old Fashioned but it has a soundtrack Tequila for. Is The Red String Club the best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Put on one of various hats and get ready to yell colours at children as this week Queers Gone By's co-host Caitlin Powell puts on a space ship careening... somewhere. Is Among Us The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Queers Gone By: https://pod.link/1476391790
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
In the spirit of the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, here's a free update based on the fact I actually finished the game.
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
Toss a coin to your podcast host, as Lewis pours oil all over his sword like it's a good idea before taking the contract to play this huge action RPG from his guest, host of the Infinite Deer podcast, Sam Went. Is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Infinite Deer: Find it here!
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
Time Stamps to Avoid Sensitive Topics 34:51 - Discussion about the miscarriage/abortion plotlines
43:15 - End of this Discussion
1:00:40 - Sex, Sexuality and Politics
1:17:38 - End of Discussion
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
(I am aware you have played this video game. I hadn't though.)
Whey anchor and hoist the mainsail, we're on a boat! A boat full of dead people! And we have to find out how they died! For insurance purposes! This week IGN, Guardian and BBC contributor Alysia Judge brings forth a game designed for those of you with extensive thinking cap collections. Is Return of the Obra Dinn The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Cieran brings a game to get lost in, and die, and then get lost in, and die, and then get lost in, and die. But you know, it's kinda chill. Is Outer Wilds The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Lewis is joined by fellow improv comedian Charles Deane to discuss shooting fascist in Italy with pin point accuracy and revealing that they are all secretly skeletons. Is Sniper Elite 4 The Best Video Game You've Never Played?
Twitter: @TheBestVideoGa4
The Best Video Game You've Never Played is presented & produced by Lewis Dunn, with title theme by Bennet Kavanagh.
Join stand-up and improv comedian Lewis Dunn as he is talks to a new guest each week to try and find The Best Video Game You've Never Played!