That Guy's a Maniac...: Recent Episodes
Richie + Farley
The maniacs are in class this week. RE:Class. You know, religious education classes? No? Okay, well we talk religion in video games sort of and cover the thrilling topic of reclassing. Very exciting. There may also be some dog talking.
The maniacs are back for their fifth season of video game podcasting. This season we’RE RE:Visiting, RE:Mixing, RE:Classing, RE:Troing. RE. The gimmick is RE words. We introduce to the world new game Character, Item, Level. Have a new skit (that doesn’t get any better readers). Richie enters a new era post-WOW and it’s a weird one. Cunzy plays some indie games where you go right (and sometimes left).
Season 4 is over but we have one last episode for you! Throughout the series we have been asking eash other questions from the ?Ultimate? Video game questions trivia pack, and for this episode we fire a few more of these at each other!
All good things must come to an end, and here comes our final episode of Season 4!
We talk Destruction and about digital conservation, and we discusss the more memorable sequences in games
Stay tuned for cheatcodes!
And we will be back in the Autum with Season 5!
Get your mind out of the gutter, in this episode we talk the games that get your heart racing and games that suck.
In this weeks extended podcast we discuss the "pokemon killer" Palword, but we also chat through each of the Pokemon generations' starter Pokemon and create our definitive 3 pokemon starters and out rationales around them
We talk some of the games we have recently been playing, including Deathtroopers, Splatoon 3, World of Warcraft: Season of Discovery.
Season 4 Episode 20
We get all psychological and existencial and... Just kidding we talk about the discovery and emergent gameplay in games, as well as the concept of self, roleplaying a character etc. in videogames!
Season 4 Episode 19
The Music Episode We delve into some of the Music we love and discuss it!
Previous Music Episodes:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Music-Banter---Part-1-e1qrm0j
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Music-Banter-Part-Deux-e1rt5fm
With thanks to the original work from:
Streets of Rage 2: Yuzo Koshiro/Motohiro Kawashima.
Jackbox 5 - Patently Stupid: Andy Poland/Mike Finney
Slay the Princess: Brandon Boone
Splatoon: Toru Minegishi
Season 4 Episode 18
Every season we have an episode dedicated to our memories from a specific gaming system. And since our gimmick this season is DS, its only fitting we talk about our faves on the DS system!
Almost all the Pokemon Games, Diamond, Pearl, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Ranger, Platinum, Black, White, Black 2, White 2... And many of the other spinoffs.Along with that we talk some other games, Resident Evil Deadly Silence, Chrono Trigger. Final Fantasy 3, Phoenix Wright, Professor Leyton, Animal Crossing Wild World, Big Bang Mini, Guitar hero on tour, Advance wars, and much more!
Season 4 Episode 17
In Pokemon throughout the generations there are always clones of Pikachu little electric mammals, in today's episode we round them up and rate them! We also chat the mechanics of games with cameras or mechanics around cameras!
Season 4 Episode 16
Squestions an Dancers, return of an older segment where we pose questions at each other!
Season 4 Episode 15
2024 is upon us and we talk our resolutions in games for 2023, what did we do or not do, and what are we going to do in 2024
Season 4 Episode 13
This episode we discuss all the pokemon we like begining with D and S!
Season 4 Episode 12
Video Games that are Board Games, and Board Games that are Video Games!
Season 4 Episode 11
In past seasons we have gone back to a particular year and reviewed the happenings in games, and this season is no different! We take you back to the canonically 2014-style days of 2014!
Season 4 Episode 10
...are in your area now.
This week we talk about those gamnes that remain standalone in their series, or ones that do deserve a sequel!
Season 4 Episode 9
Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode's "randomly" selected words are Deluxe and Sleep
We chat the latest updates to Mario Kart Deluxe, Pokemon Sleep, some post-halloween horror games, such as Layers of Fear and Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed and House of the Dead: Remake/
Love and Hugs X
Season 4 Episode 8
We talk some of the game we have been playing, including Diablo 4, Super Mario Odyssey and One Piece Odyssey
In this episode we get spooky, we chat with an AI to for its creepiest redition of a Halloween poem (with video games in it)
Season 4 Episode 6
October 21st is St Ursula's Day
Nary a day goes by where we dont think about the striking similarities between Saint Ursula and Video Games. Join us while we take you on pilgrimage to discuss the holiest of tenous links, chatting Saint Ursula herself and 11,000 video games.
Season 4 Episode 5
This episode we talk double in games, Double dragon and doppelgangers, and Stars in games astral bodies and of course S.T.A.R.S
Season 4 Episode 4
This week we talk Dwaynes: Micro Machines, and the body of work from Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson , we also talk Sisters in games, asking the hard hitting questions like "Are Peach and Daisy related?"
Season 4 Episode 3
Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode is about Double Dragon and Scarlet
We chat what we have been playing, Pokemon Scarlet, Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise Of The Dragons, Mortal Kombat 1 and Cats hidden in paris, Cats hidden in Italy, Cats hidden in Bali
Season 4 Episode 2
Our theme this season is DS, choosing a subject around games with the letters D and S. This episode is about Ducks and Super games
We chat duck stuff like, Edd the Duck on the C64, Duck hunt, Pokemon Ducks, Quack shot and Howard the Duck. We define "Super" and chat from the plethora of super games of, Super Micro Maniacs, Super Empire Strikes back, Super Return of the Jedi, Super Pang, Super Turrican, Super Mario Kart
We are back with the first episode of our new season, Season 4! This season is DS themed around the letters D and S from the titular Nintendo console.
We talk Dinosaurs in video games, including, Tomb Raider, Dino Crisis, Turok and Deathtrap Dungeon games from the Jurassic park Series!
We also talk Spiders from games such as Deadly Creatures, Resident evil, Devil May Cry, It Takes Two and Limbo
Season 3 draws to a close, but fear not as we will return in the fall of 2023!
Enjoy some of our ramblings about what are endings in games.
Peace out!
In this weeks "Current" Whataya Playin we chat Nintendo store pickups before it went down, Pokémon Crystal, Resident Evil 4, and Untitled Goose Game.
This week we discuss 1999 and all the games, culture and shenanigans that happened that year
In this whaddaya playin' we chat Vampire Survivors, Scorn, Kirby's Super Stars, Cat Burglar, Powerwash simulator
What is death? What are lives? Why does Mario just start an episode again when he falls down a hole? All these questions, and more questions in this questionable episode...
We chat what we have been playing, Switch emu games Congo's revenge, immortal, Mario Golf, and we also chat DnD Dark alliance and Turtles: Shredders revenge.
Huzzah its part 2 of our new mini feature segment thing where we throw questions at each other
Devoid or any inspiration we decided to see if we could make a whole podcast about the Moon and how it features in games... we were so preoccupied with whether or not we could that we didn't stop to think if we should.
We get lost in nostalgia for old PC games! We talk what defines a PC game, and the games that "define" the platform
In this weeks episodes we discuss the games of last year and match it up with last year's episode on the games we were looking forward to in 2022, along with a discussion on the games we are looking forward to in 2023!
Last years Episode: https://anchor.fm/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Happy-New-old-Years-e1c9rn3
We try and recount any xmas memories we have around video games... with marginal success
Our regular spot "whadaya you playing" where we discuss the games we have been playing most recently, spoilers its Pokémon and WoW
We talk things Scottish and Andrew related and Richie does a Burn's style poem about Super Mario Kart
Richie Pretty much gets schooled on how hard it is to define the third in a games franchise
This week we talk video game endings... to coincide with the end of season 2.
All good things and all that...
Farley went on a spree, for some reason bought a bunch of games with some lovecraftian vibes...
Fourth part of this mini feature, we pose questions at each other and babble on for a long time... Sometimes we reach a conclusion
Richie talks at Farley about WoW, the current state of the game, new stats and what the future holds...
We have a flavoured Whaddaya playing today, hard games, we chat Elden Ring, Biped, Pokemon Arceus, and Undertale...
In this weeks episode we chat our experiences with Pokémon Legends Arceus, the Pokémon day events, and some wild theories about what could happen in the Sword and Shield Pokémon games
Next part of this mini feature we pose questions at each other and babble on for a long time again... Sometimes we reach a conclusion
This week, we have a rant at Wordle, and then we chat about the Megadrive games that we used to play!
Next part of this mini feature we pose questions at each other and babble on for a long time... Sometimes we reach a conclusion
This episode we delve 20 years back into the past and chat about the games we played in 2002!
In this mini feature we pose questions at each other and babble on for a long time... Sometimes we reach a conclusion
We chat Final Fantasy VIII, Darkest Dungeon, Gris, Mario Party Superstars, and Mario Rabids... As well as our usual shenanigans
We take a look at the year gone by, and the year coming up in games, take stock, be thankful, auld lang synes and resolutions it up, etc.
Happy new years folks!
Its the most wonderful time of the year, made even more wonderful by your hosts Richie and Farley as they talk rather cynicistically about games with heavy branding tie-ins... Joy to the world
In this weeks episode we talk some of the more poorly rated games throughout the history of games!
We talk (eventually) on the games we have been playing, including Marvels Guardians of the Galazy, and some of the sexier Snes/Genesis/N64 games on the Switch online service... and the Ru Paul's Drag Race mobile game?
This week we talk gaming accessories all them controllers and whatnot for your PC and consoles. Should be fun right?
Boom chicka wow wow!
Your sexy maniacs are thumbing it into your ears today, talking the girthy topic of sex in games, strap yourself in and adopt the position, while we work our magic.
When last we left Richie in Azeroth he was about to embark on his journey to Outlands... What has he been up to? What misadventures has befallen our no-longer-a-paladin hero?
Oh and some N64 stuff
In our Halloween episode we decide to talk about ghosts in games... Because you know... Spooky!
We return for Season 2 (yay), but What are you Playin' remains a stable rambling for us...
We chat just a few of the games we have been playing in our hiatus (FYI its not just WoW)
That's all for now folks! This episode we talk Fuser, Collectable Card Games and much more.
We are taking a break for the Summer, but we will be back with Season 2 in the Autumn!
Man we have been playing a lot of stuffs!! We talk Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Bubble Bobble 4, and also a brief foray into the upcoming titles, Pokemon Snap and Shadowman.
Well get another in our slew of Whataya playin' episodes, this week Cunzy and Richie talk... Well... Square Games, and the trials of PC games... We definitely don't talk WoW... much?
This week we talk DC comics, games and movies, we of course meander through this and pretty much end up talking Marvel too (and whatever comic publisher does Spawn?)
Well anyway, enjoy...
Well.. 50 Episodes We couldn't have done it without you readers... Actually we can, and did... You guys really need to start pulling your weight a little more.
On this Weeks special episode we have some very special Guests!
This week we talk the WoW expansion, Classic TBC, Retro Siberia, Borderlands 3 and other non-current/relevant games!
Donning our flux capacitors we take a look into our crystal ball(s) and make some predictions of what games will be like in the future.
The second part of our two part insular interview of each other and the games we would take to a Desert island... This week Richie's Turn to tell us all about the games and why, and maybe reveal a bit to much about his inner goings-on!
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This week we set an imaginary set of rules for what 5 games we would take with us to a Desert Island, and we call it Desert Island Disks, see what we did there, we added a "k", we are definitely not ripping anything off! This week Farley spots on about his 5 DiD games
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We listened to what you wanted!
Listen to our stone-cold take on a game from 17 years ago
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Back once again, and this time we bring you a feature which discusses the more strange, odd, or creepy stories or lore around video games this week we talk Resident Evil canon and the grizzliness in World of Warcraft
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This Week We talk the Nintendo Switch Demos of Hyrule Warriors, and Monster Hunter Rise... And Richie talks WoW Classic... Again
And we are back again and we don our skateboards, backwards caps and zimmerframes as we head back to the 90's and talk Gameboy Shiz
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Back once again, and this time we bring you a feature which discusses the more strange, odd, or creepy stories or lore around video games this week we talk the video game multiverses of Pokémon, and the ever popular theory from Final Fantasy VIII, Squall is dead!
Squall is dead: https://squallsdead.com/
Pokemon Multiverse: https://youtu.be/VxEjr4eiSNg/
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One desperate question on our readers lips... "What have you guys been playing?" Well lucky you... Stick this in your Earholes
Today we fill your ears with our incessant ramblings on Lego games... drop truth bombs, and generally bring down the system from within, or maybe just the Lego thing, listen and find out!
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We bring to you a list of what we consider the best of 2010 to 2020... Games that is...
Love and Aural Hugs,
R+C XXX
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Tis the season for Xmas specials, and not to worry the staff at TGAM towers have got you covered for your obligatory dose of Xmas fayre.
We bring you Poems, quizzes and expletives!
Merry Xmas,
Love and Aural Hugs
Santa Richie and Helper Elf Cunzy1_1
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More of what we have been playing recently!
We talk, Pokemon Quest, Bloodrayne, Diablo 3 and much more
Love and Aural Hugs
Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1
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Recorded from that fateful night at the Gammies, the second greatest movies with videogame references award ceremony!
Love and Aural Hugs
Richie + Farley AKA Cunzy1_1
www.thatguys.co.uk Hey do you still care what our favorite Pokémon are and Why? No? Oh then best to skip this one too...
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Hey do you care what our favorite Pokémon are and Why?
No?
Oh then best to skip this one...
In a return to our old format we chat what we have been playing, which is pretty much limited to WoW and Pokemon!
Enjoy!
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Games are Expensive... or are they!!!
your fantabularific hosts ramble on about this.
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Too little too late, your beautiful hosts have decided to do a belated Halloween podcast, and its the form of a Quiz! We quiz each other with trivia from 1998's Resident Evil 2 game... and we even add some listener questions in there too!!
Its Spooky. Woooooo
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This is it the big one, the big debate! Are games art? Do they deserve place in Museums and Galleries??!
Who better to shove that debate in your ears other than your beautiful thatguysers.
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So in this weeks episode we talk spaceships! and the games they are in! Not Space games, no sir, that's different.
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A return to chat about what we have played, this time apparently we discuss:
- Valkyria Chronicles.
- Tony Hawk 1 + 2.
- Final Fantasy Crystal Cronicles.
- Mario 3d Allstars.
- Subnautica.
- And House Flipper?!?!?
Enjoy and catch us on all social medias @thatguysamaniac
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We talk WoW and Pokémon and in a shock move... we also talk OTHER GAMES!!!
So, both your exasperating hosts had Amiga's, and of course only used them for playing games. We take a a quick stint down memory lane as we discuss the games Amiga had (Bonus: Mortal Kombat not mentioned)
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Cunzy likes, or thinks he likes the Donkey Kong games... so lets ramble on about it!
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Richie felt the fever for the flava of some Diablo 2 action! And confesses all to Cunzy1_1
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2 white middle aged men talk about their favorite female characters in video games, its not creepy, we promise...
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We blabber on again about the games we have been playing, spoiler its WoW and Pokemon, and add a smattering of a chat about The capcom beat em up bundle.
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We challenge each other with Pokemon Questions... basically in a pissing contest about Pokemon. Play along at home if you want... Its not really worth it as the scoring is awful.
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This week we talk non-Violent games... Yah know the ones without the whole shooting hookers etc..
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The Pokemon expansion, The Isle of Armor, could definitely benefit from the team at thatguys rambling on about it... So for your aural pleasure... Enjoy
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This time we chat the Racial Equality bundle from itch.io, and we have a little go at Mobile games.
And FYI the tool we used for searching was: https://randombundlegame.com/browse
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On this episode Cunzy springs a Pokemon relationship compatibility test on Richie. This does not mean relations with Pokemon.... I think...
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Richie likes fighting games... He is not very good at them, but we talk about them and how they have influenced how we play games, We coin a new phrase UK version of "Basement Kings". And We definitely talk about Soul Calibur III
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Definitely episode 11!!
For this weeks show we return to and break the cycle of whataya playin'... We discuss Mk11 Aftermath, Snow games, Tomb Raider/Uncharted , Ramble on about WoW and Richie realises he may just be a walking advert for the Epic Store.
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On this episode Richie and Cunzy delve into Pokemon: Lets Go! the Pokemon spin off game that revisits Kanto for the 19th time and adds Pokemon GO mechanics.
Did anyone ask for this game? Is it the best Pokemon spin off game? Who is the hottest Gym Leader? All there questions and more answered here!
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Nep nep ¬.¬
This episode we cover playing the Neptunia series, we discuss boobs, fanservice, waifus, and reflect on otaku culture, all done in the best possible taste!!!
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Finally we bring this whataya playin shenanigans to a kind of close, and on this episode we talk around everyone's favorite genre, Free to play.
Love and Aural Hugs
Richie and Cunzy X
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Your fabulous hosts Cunzy and Richie get stuck-in and in these tough times we tackle the hard hitting issues of... "couch co-op" a dying breed of game?
Note: Audio gets out of sync towards the end, blame Cunzy, he does all that stuff... really.
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More Drivel and Pish from Richie and Cunzy, this time hitting the hot topics of Super Mario Galaxy 2, Mortal Kombat 11, Star Fox Guard and Pokemon Go
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Well, there you go, yet another episode of what we are playing (whataya playin'), this time we talk driving games, and yet somehow Richie still manages to talk about WoW?!
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Following on from our last rambling of the games we have been playing we continue, this time chatting about indie titles and blockbusters that we haven't actually played. We talk "walk 'em ups", and having absolutely no authority to talk on the titles we do talk about
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We talk about the games we have been playing, including Resident Evil 3, Dragon ball Z: Kakarot, and Axiom Verge
No Youtube this week as in a break form tradition we are doing and audio only podcast
Audio for Richie is terrible and he has been warned that any future quality issues will be met with swiftly and with the full extend of the upside of his head.
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Richie and Cunzy play Super Mario World, Richie talks about Super Mario Bros 3 and Cunzy dies a lot, Very little in the way of progress is made.
Youtube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwfE5CXiGwk
Audio for Richie is terrible and he has been warned that any future quality issues will be met with swiftly and with the full extend of the upside of his head.
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The first of our Podcasts, in this episode, Richie persuades Cunzy to Make a WoW character.
Also available on our Youtube Channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56M18EelExs
Blog post here:
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