The Top 100 Games Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jared Petty
Counting down the top 100 video games of all time! Host Jared Petty and a series of guests travel through the history of classic gaming and take a close look at the most important contributions to electronic entertainment over the last 50+ years.
It's another week of Dungeons & Dragons mayhem with AshiSaidHi and the majestic Eye of the Beholder!
Folks, we are horny on main this week. Jessica Cogswell of Gamespot joins the show to talk about the naughtiest mainstream RPG of them all, BG3.
Nominally, Seth Macy and I talk about Turtles in Time, but in reality, we just rant about all kinds of stuff for almost two hours. Enjoy.
Brian Shea of Game Informer arrives to stir the pot with memories of plastic instruments, late night jam sessions, and the greatest cooperative experience in gaming.
We are BACK, baby! Mike Drucker returns to talk about the D&D game that paved the way for Baldur's Gate 3 a quarter-century before we were all lusting over Astarion.
Happy New Year! We return with Audi Sorlie of Digiital Foundry and the puzzle-platforming-storytelling-adventure classic, Another World!
It's a very special episode this week with guests Seth and Casey as we dare to ask: what if The Game Awards were GOOD?! Hear our picks for important categories like Best Dog and Weirdest Loot Drop at the MOST REAL AWARDS EVER.
Well, it finally happened. Somebody picked it. Join us under less-than-optimal audio conditions with a live audience at Long Island retro Expo as we discuss Rare's, dare we say it, 3D platforming classic?
We are finally back.
Join Rebecca Stone and I talking about Undertale, the RPG that dares to ask: what if fonts? It's a time warp episode recorded several months ago, and more are coming!
Alex Aniel brings chaos in his wake with a dark horse pick: the Dreamcast's Resident Evil original.
It's finally time. Minnmax's Ben Hanson is here to travel the trail. Dysentery optional.
Writer Stephanie Minor is here to drop a bomb on The Top 100 Games Podcast with, dare we say it, the most controversial pick so far?! Find out what makes The Legend of Dragoon magical!
Cameron Hawkins is here with Sora, Donald, and Goofy to talk Disney + Square Enix = Greatness.
Jirard Khalil the Completionist is here! Let's FINALLY talk about Mega Man on the Top 100 Games Podcast.
Invading the Top 100 games podcast stream: it's a special episode of Pockets Full of Soup, the storytelling show. Join Mel Ramsden who tells us about the wonderful way she experiences the world.
Mat Paget of The Nuclear Fridge visits for a VERY long talk about Castlevania and yes we do eventually get to Rondo of Blood.
We're back! Not even COVID and a broke butt bone can stop the Top 100 Games Podcast! Join Jared Petty and guest Suzi Hunter as we wax poetic about the Capcom classic, Resident Evil Remake.
Danny Peña of Gamertag Radio is here to talk PSO and those halcyon days of the Dreamcast!
The youth vote has arrived. Tucker Hazell is here to tell the olds why Super Mario Odyssey is a groundbreaking work of art and entertainment.
Get ready to cheer! In this VERY long, VERY informative, and VERY delightful episode, Chris Kohler arrives to tell us the story of Elite Beat Agents' Japanese predecessor... Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan. It's the latest episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty!
Spyro! Purple dragons land on the latest episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast with guest Mel Ramsden!
Holy crap we've done 50 of these. We mark the halfway point in the Top 100 Games Podcast list with a VERY special guest... Jeremy Parish of Retronauts, one of the OG video game podcasts (and still going strong 15 years later!). Jeremy's done good stuff at EGM, 1UP, IGN, USgamer, and now he's making great things happen at my favorite publisher, Limited Run Games. And he's here to talk the platformiest of all platformers, Bionic Commando!
Game creator John Stanley is here to talk all about the wonderful world of Street Fighter IV.
John Phipps is here to talk about the biggest, baddest SNES RPG of them all... Final Fantasy Vi.
My friend, your friend, everybody's friend Xavier Woods/Austin Creed joys the geekiest episode ever to talk about the greatest 7.9 of all time. Fran was wrong.
It's a podcast cross-pollination extravaganza! Belinda Garcia joins Jared Petty for the first Pockets in a LONG time. Let's talk about the magic of Disneyland and just what it means to be a kid.
Dark horse! Our guest Youssef Maguid brings the PS2 launch library into the Top 100 with Summoner!
Chris Plante of Polygon is here to talk Wii Sports! Let's get set for a discussion of, dare we say it... the greatest pack in of all time?! It's happening this week on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty!
Strawfoot, Monster Hunter loremaster extraordinaire, joins u to talk Monster Hunter World on today's episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Nadia Oxford visits The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty to talk about the game that put the "vania" into "Metroidvania..." Castlevania: Symphony of the Night.
The Comedy Button's Ryan Scott and your friendly host Jared geek out about DuckTales for 90 minutes.
Brian Shea of Game Informer joins Jared Petty to talk about Lock On Technology, Blast Processing, and all things Genesis on this week's episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast. .
It's time to navel-gaze with a special retrospective on where teh list is so far, with special guest Jonathon Dornbush of IGN. Plus we answer your reader mail.
Riana Manuel from G4 is here to talk about the lootiest shootiest game of them all... Borderlands 2!
It is time to catch them all with guest Rebekah Valentine! Pokemon Crystal is this week's pick on the Top 100 Games Podcast.
Jess Howard of Uppercut and other places visits The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty to put mascot platformers in their proper place.
Welcome to Kabukicho! The most weird, wacky, and sincere of series arrives on the Top 100 Games Podcast with special guest Walt Williams!
The DS is just The Best. Caroline Liddick of Limited Run Games is here to talk Ghost Trick on the Top 100 Games Podcast!
Can you dig it? Leah Jewer of Girls on Games joins the Top 100 Games Podcast this week to talk about the greatest survival/creative/single-player/multiplayer/simple/complex game of them all, Minecraft!
We're back after a break and ready to talk games. Today, it's Final Fantasy IX with Terri Schwartz of IGN. Enjoy a PlayStationtastic retrospective on a game that's ALL about that high-fantasy style. It's all happening on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Twitch's Ray Apollo joins Jared on the Top 100 Games Podcast to talk about the most CRPG to ever CRPG.
Jake Decker of GameSpot visits the show to talk about Mass Effect on this week's episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast.
Kallie Plagge of Gamespot joins the Top 100 Games Podcast to talk about the Harvest Moon legacy... Stardew Valley.
Comedian and video-game person Mike Drucker joins The Top 100 Games Podcast to talk about the most sublime horror game of them all: Silent Hill 2. Hosted by Jared Petty.
Just one of the greatest RPG's ever made. Mitch Dyer and Jared Petty sit down to talk about a game that's just too good.
Only WEAKLINGS use the bar! It's time to talk DDR and turn-of-the-century arcade glory with Pink Gorilla's Kelsey Lewin on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
IGN's Khalilah Alston visits the show to talk about the brawliest of brawlers... Streets of Rage!
The spectacular Naomi Kyle joins us to talk about the most whimsical game that ever whimsied... Luigi's Mansion 3. This week on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty!
We're back! IGN's Miranda Sanchez visits the show to talk about a very new classic! Get set for a journey into The Outer Wilds on The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty!
Who says Sonic was never good? Not B.B.C. Garcia! Time to talk Sanic the Fasthog on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
It's time to pass judgement. Jared Petty and IGN's Jonathon Dornbush spend an hour reviewing the first 21 selections on the Top 100 Games Podcast for what we got right, what we got wrong, and what we got weird.
GET HYPE. Tim Gettys of Kinda Funny arrives to declare The Brawl to End Them All one of the greatest games of all time.
Oh man. We're in so much trouble.
The esteemed Elyse WIllems of Funhaus drops an atom bomb on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty. Link, please forgive us.
TOO LOW?! Find out! IGN's Mark Medina has played 2,000 hours of Mario 64, and he's here to talk about why it's one of the all-time greats. Welcome to this week's episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty!
Mario and company get Squarified in one of the neatest (and ugliest) RPGs of the sixteen bit era. Special guest Gaj Kulasingham dares to wish upon a star road in the week's Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Dudes in muscle shirts. Space aliens. The Konami Code. The Maine Man Seth Macy of IGN is our guest as we talk Contra on The Top 100 Games Podcast.
It just got real. One of the all time greats. Final Fantasy IV (or II for you casuals)! Meghan Sullivan of History N' Games visits The Top 100 Games Podcast to talk about all things DRAMA.
Bioshocking! Lucy Games of Gamespot comes to The Top 100 Games Podcast and CALLS OUR Barrett Courtney. Ok no that doesn't really happen.
WE LIVE AGAIN! The Top 100 Games Podcast returns from hiatus with Big Twinfinite's Yami Avendaño joining Jared Petty for a look at the progenitors of the AIs that will one day rise up and destroy us.
Regular episodes of the Top 100 Games Podcast will be back VERY soon, but today, please enjoy this recorded gathering of four idiots talking about toast for an hour and a half. You'll also find this on the Pockets Full of Soup feed if you prefer to listen there.
We're back from the break with Kinda Funny's Blessing Adeoye and our first racing gaming: the arcade-style symphony of destruction that is Burnout 3. Plus we talk Soulcalibur, Chu Chu Rocket, and more on this week's episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Janet Garcia of IGN joins Jared Petty to discuss the PlayStation 2 classic from Naughty Dog, Jak 2 on this week's Top 100 Games Podcast.
Humble's Connor Bridgeman brings a terrifying controversy into the studio: can a mod be one of the all-time greatest video games? Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Johnny D (that's IGN's Jonathon Dornbush) drops in like a tetromino to talk about musical VR puzzle sensation Tetris Effect on the Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
It's a Thanksgiving spectacular, (or disaster) when Angie stops by to shout about the Crossfire board game, Baby Yoda, and incidentally discuss Thomas Was Alone on this week's episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
IGN's Zach Ryan visits to talk about an underrated Square Enix gem and why he's so wrong about The Oregon Trail on this week's Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Alexa Ray Corriea talks puberty, jerks, and your dad during an in-depth discussion of Final Fantasy X on this week's Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
Barrett Courtney of Kinda Funny resurrects the oft-played, little-mentioned sequel to Bioshock II in this week's Top 100 Games Podcast with Jared Petty.
The RTS genre never deserved to die. Evil Overlord Brendan Graeber of IGN visits the fifth episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast to tell Jared Petty about the joys of Imps, Vampires, mayhem, and torture in Dungeon Keeper 2.
You knew this day would come. Greg Miller of Kinda Funny drops in on the fourth episode of the Top 100 Games Podcast to tell us why DC Universe Online rocks.
Casey Defreitas of IGN brings the heat with The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. It's the third episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast!
Prepare to get angry at Jon Ryan! The most special of special guest stars is back for the second episode of the Top 100 Podcast with the most controversial of choices... MGS2!
The debut episode of The Top 100 Games Podcast guest stars Lucy O'Brien of IGN, who joins us for a spooky discussion of both the terrific remake and OG classic versions of RE2.