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This episode's brought to you by aura frames and shady rays, but we'll tell you about that later. What's up, everybody? Welcome to the Kind of Funny Games cast for Thursday, November 13th, 2025. I'm one of your host, Greg Miller, alongside Christmas in November. Joey Noel. It's me. Getting so close to real Christmas. We're getting very close. And, of course, making a rare games cast desk appearance is the boss baby, Barry Courtney.

I feel like I've been on this shit. Well, God. Jesus, great. We've been out more than Tim this week. I've been on the show, I think, more in the last month than ever. We need you, you know what I mean? That's the people, the kids, the children, they yearn for more Barrett. How are you, baby?

I'm doing well. Had a little bit of a funky morning. I think it's the weather, the rain. Funky, like, emotional? Yeah, yeah. So, you know, trying to get back into it, drink some coffee. That's what we got to do. That's going out with you too.

It would be great. It should. pairing for sure. Well, I'm excited because it's going to be a fun one. Of course, the trend as you know has been 10 games to know me, know us. And we have gone through and done a whole bunch of kind of funny folks and you enjoy it so much that today we're

to do Joey, Barrett, and Cool Greg to find out what are the 10 games to know them. But before then remember that this is the kind of funny games cast each and every weekday we run you through the biggest topics in video games, whether they be reviews, previews, or just things we need to talk

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list, Barrett's list, Cool Greg's list. What are the 10 games that define them? And of course, I stole it from I want you to percolate on this one. Because I stole it from the Reddit. But someone over there said, what are the 10 games that define kind of funny? And I will, we will be doing

that as a game's cast in the future. Probably when it gets a little bit slower around here. But I want to do that. Is that one where we build the list live? I think so. Yeah. I think we all come together and argue what version of Nidhog because what Nidhog's got, Knitog too, it's got to be Nidhog too

even though I prefer one. You're a man of taste. I like the simple art style. I get being gross and weird and stuff, but that like pixelated art style, I think, kicks ass. Yeah, I agree with that too. All the different weapons. Lightning reacts.

Ooh. Save it. Everybody, we'll get there eventually. Husky, before you remember, we're all about live talk shows. You already got kind of funny games. today covering PlayStation's Horizon MMO RPG. It won't be coming to PlayStation 5 though. Don't worry about that.

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Do I give away a steam deck in it? I do. Thank you to our Patreon producers, Carl Jacobs, Omega Buster, and Delaney the Somme twining. For now, let's begin the show with what is and forever will be topic of the show. As I said, even more, 10 games to know us.

If you missed this, it is a social media trend out there in the cyberverse where people put up a photo themselves. I'm just going to keep staring at bare with 10 games on them and define them. What are 10 games to know you? What does that mean? We've all had our own definitions about that. And today we've come to figure out for Joey, Barrett, and Cool Greg what those games are.

Joanna? Oh, I'm getting a full government name today. This is a serious topic. It's funny because I almost went Joseph. No, that's not. Joey isn't short for Joseph. Joanna. My entire college friend group, when I'm like in trouble or whatever, and they full name me, it's always Joseph.

Really? And then mom's Boanna. Oh, when I'm bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She doesn't happen very often these days, I guess. Maybe when I get more tattoos, she gets mad. Joanna, for you, how do you define 10 games to know me? I took this list as over the course of my lifetime games that, like,

changed my view on video games or changed my taste significantly. Okay. Or, like, even if we're going younger ones, I think a lot of it has changed my initial conception of what video games are. Because I feel like growing up as a girl with video games, especially in the time period that we did, it was like very much branded for a very long time as like a boy thing. So finding those like nuggets and games that I'm like,

oh, this can be for me too. And whether it's like finding out different types of games that I like just based on exposure or the different ways that you can connect in games. Okay. So it is like, I will give you that it is a list of like decades worth. Yeah, yeah, I love that. I love that. That's how it should be, but it's whatever you want it to be.

Barrett, how did you define it when you tackled your list? Very similarly, I would say like, I looked at my list as defining moments and time, right? Of like, similar to Joey of like, oh, this changed my perception of what video games can be. This is important to me because it changed the trajectory of, you know, how I view a piece of art or storytelling and all that, because what really brought me into video games was what it can do differently as a storytelling medium. So I thought a lot about that as well.

So not necessarily 10 favorite games of all time, but definitely those moments of like, oh, this is either bringing me back into video games or this is opening me up to a new genre that maybe people know me for loving now and stuff like that. So that's how I tackled it. Okay. So let's crack the nut that is Joey Noel.

I feel like there's a lot of easy gets, right? I got four locks. Yeah, that's my thing. But I also worry, I don't worry, there's the enumerations, which version of this are we picking? Right? Because like, you know, for predictions for me, it's going to go obviously Animal Crossing.

Yeah. New Horizons. Yeah, it's got to be, right? Because I'll tell you, as the world's greatest detective. People that have, two of the people who probably understand my Animal Crossing journey significantly and were there for so much. The only thing, like I obviously, I remember New Horizons. I remember begging Nintendo for two codes. So Joey and I could tackle it.

We did and we had so much fun. And I want to say, and I don't tell me yet, but I want to say that that was like, I forget what your history with Animal Crossing had been. But I don't feel like you had a deep one. unless I'm wrong about that. But what throws me is she has a coaster now for the DS Animal Crossing. And I'm like, shit, did I get it wrong? It wasn't, but I want to say that. Because I, because, yeah, stick with me here because this will also be a second guess is I feel

like the big turning point in these type of games. Forgey. For Joey was starting out. Yeah, exactly. That's a second lock right there. Yeah, I agree. That's on the short list as well. But yeah, maybe I'm misremembering as well in terms of.

I think it's got to be new harassed. I got, it's got to be new arrests. Joey drinking or water. I think that's locked. Then you go, again, and she did a great job of setting it up here, of, like, games that have changed for her. We got to toss destiny on this list. But is it Destiny 2? And I think, because I think it is.

I think it's Destiny 2. I feel like that's for a lot of people. Like, the sickos stuck with Destiny 1, but Destiny 2, like, took over a lot of people's lives. And I remember, like, she was a sicko. Yeah. And that was, even for myself, I remember jumping in. And, like, I remember Joey being there kind of early on in Andrea and, like, you and all that stuff. So I feel like Destiny 2 was really kind of a.

a big moment for a lot of people who hadn't really been a part of that kind of game before. Then, you have a fourth lock. What's your fourth lock? Well, that wasn't even one of them. So my two locks so far that we've talked of the four, or Stardue and Animal Crosse. So my third one in a similar vein would be Fortnite of the social kind of aspect of hanging around doing missions and enjoying a battle royale. But he was upset. The evolution of Fortnite, especially in the work from home era, like it was her and Kevin.

almost every night on Fortnite. So I would say, like, that's got to be on there. Okay. And then if we're thinking about decades, the history of one, Joey Noel, the one that I know that she was, she was excited for this sequel for a very long time. Fuck, Pokemon. Snap. That's a great one, Barrett.

That's a great one. Outside of that, that's where I start to get lost a little bit. My, I... I got to pull up my list to figure out what you guys haven't guessed. Animal Crossing New Horizons, Startero Valley, Destiny 2, Fortnite, Pokemon, Night, Pokemon Snap. Those are five games we've got pulled right.

That's a great one, very one. The one I would float that I'm not confident in and I think is too recent would be Diablo. And I don't, I'm not actually putting that on the list.

But I know Joey love Diablo. But again, I think she loved Diablo four. I don't remember if she was ever into Diablo three. I think, again, this was a new shade of Joey that had come from the destiny,

come from the multiplayer, come probably from the Fortnite. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, I mean, you go back, we got to go way back, right? So it is that, she's talking about decades. And so what was a break, is Pokemon Snap the breakout game for Joey, where it isn't just for boys, that she's able to let her gamer flag fly? Okay.

I don't know. Everybody's talking about to Sims. Yeah, I was just about to say Sims. But I don't know, like, I know, you know, her and Michael talk about Sims. every once in a while. And just like talk about like the idea of falling like really back into Sims falling down the rabbit hole. Yeah. I could I could see Sims. What's the most recent one? Three, four. Four. Four. What's the one everybody still plays? It's a four? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I could see Sims four be.

Because that's the one with all the packs, you know. So many packs. So many. So many. So many DLCs. Now here's one I'll toss out there. We're talking to my decades. Joey learning. about herself exploring being a gamer I don't think I mean if you needed to know Joey you need to know she hates Mario Party do you put it on there just be like I hate this fucking game

it's all I've almost quit the company over being forced to play this game it's floating it out there that it would be I like that floater that's a good floater another one to float around someone else said it in the chat overcooked

was it you and Alyssa that were like really into trying to beat all the overcooks levels for a while. Restar everything. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's also that time.

There's that infamous. Yeah. Yeah. It's really a miracle that Andrea and I are as good of friends now. Because we are after that. Like that is really overcoming something in friendships. You screwed around that one. I did.

Unintentionally. All right. So right now the list that we are, we get less confident. as we go again. Animal Crossing New Horizon at Sardy Valley, Destiny 2, Fortnite, Pokemon Snap. Then, yeah, Sims 4, overooked, Diablo,

Mario Party, PowerWash Simulator. Oh, PowerWall. I don't, that is not a real throw. But again, you could see. She's been playing a lot of those type of sim games. When I said, I see a lot of Sims in the chat, I meant people were tossing out Power Wash Simulators, some of the

simulator. I know Joey is our simulator person. What was the cinema simulator? Yeah, that was really fun. I have three or I have four screens. We got a lot of movies. Nice. I have to kick people out for being on their phones.

Did you have? That sounds like fun. It's real fun. It's really stressful. Did you ever play Game Dev Sim back in the day? No, but the chat while I was playing cinemas. All those games are so good. I should play that one.

Game Dev was so good. Would I like the cinema simulator? Can I play with the controller or do I got to play with the mouse keyboard? I don't know. I pretty much play all sim games with mouse and keyboards. I don't know. If you enjoy telling people off in the movie theater when they're on their phone.

You know I do? Oh no, you don't tell them off. You just slap them. Good. The more fun option. Is there a little fucking baby named Nick Scarpino who doesn't have your back? You know what I mean?

Not specifically. Will your friends have your back? Well, there you go. Nick doesn't. You know what I mean? He's all tough. Take off your shoe, you old man. All right.

I think we have enough to dive in because you know that there's going to be ones we've not never heard you talk about but like, oh, you know, here's this. Really hard pulls. Yeah, yeah. Lion King.

I don't know. There were some of those. I feel like I compiled a list because at first when Tim asked me to do this, I was like, do I have 10 games? Because like there got a lot of games that I play and I like, but I feel like I dabble so much more casually than everybody else. Yeah. And then I started making the list.

I was like, oh, I have way more than 10 games. And then how to start cutting. Love that. So let's start with what was number one on your list? Animal Crossing. Animal Crossing. Nailed it. Of course it is. Well, let's throw up the, do we have an image.

I made a fun video. Oh my God. Oh, my God. I was, I had asked everybody. I was like, how did you guys make these? Because I have no Photoshop skills. And so then I was like, oh, I can probably use Canva for this. So I did that.

And then I sent it to my friend Lauren who works at Canva. She was like, and it was just like a white background. And she was like, you can make it more fun. So I added the fun sparkles and then the background. Nice. Okay, we did pretty good here. You guys did really good. You nailed like half of these.

Yeah, yeah. And I feel like the half of these. you didn't get are a tough pulls. I thought about neopets yesterday because I was like trying to think of your list because like that is such a like everybody like played neopets like around that time. Like that was even one that for Alyssa who didn't play game. Totally. Like that was everybody was on Neopets.

Damn you did like Diablo three. Yeah. Eva Penaata. How could I forgot? You asked about it all the time. Every time there's an Xbox event. I'm always like, when are we getting mold? Viva Pena.

I feel very, very dumb about not getting Viva Penaena. It's fine. All right. So, Joey, for the listeners who are driving their UPS trucks right now, run us through your, just one to 10 right now. No ranked order. No order. And then we'll double back and talk about why.

Yes. So we've got where in time is Carmen San Diego, Pokemon, Snap, Destiny 2, Viva Penaata, dance dance revolution. I picked Extreme 2. It could be a toss up between a few different DDRs. Okay. Fortnite, Neopets, Animal Crossing, Diablo 3, and Stardue Valley. Great list.

That's the list I came up with. I feel like the first one on this list was where in time is Carmen San Diego. That's a point-and-click adventure, PC, like old school game. I feel like I don't even really know how I got it, why I got it. Like I wasn't a big Carmen San Diego fan necessarily before this. So did you get this or was this like on the family computer? This was on the family computer, but it must have just been for me because it wasn't my parents. Like if my dad's on the PC, he was playing Quake or something like that.

And my mom is like not a gamer by any means. So like it must have been a present. Okay. Or maybe we were walking. My dad and I used to love walking around Comp USA just looking at stuff. Oh, God. Yeah. And I feel like I probably would have been very easily able to get him to buy me this.

But I feel like not that many people talk about where in time is Carmen San Diego. I feel like people talk about the location based one. Yeah. Like where in the world is the one. Yeah. And this is like your. going to different like history things and trying to solve all these things to figure out where she is and stuff like that.

And this was one that I played over and over. Did you, so you say you don't really know where it showed up, it was just there, whatever. It was like this and kid picks. That was the other one. Did it click right away or did you have to, was it like you had to get into it a few tries? I feel like it took me a few tries.

It's such a funny time to think about in hindsight because it's like, it's not like there were guides or like not at least that I knew of particularly. so it was a lot of just like trial and error for a lot of these like puzzles and stuff like that because that was like kind of my only option yeah of course back of the day yeah you got the game that's what you got it's your game now you got to figure it sucks too bad make your own game exactly there's still like a power puff girl like game boy color game that I was like I don't know if I ever beat the like second level like I think it just kept beating the first one fair enough but yeah and then that I think led me to like the TV show and stuff like that now I love

I played the game that came out last year. Did you play the most recent one? I played like probably like a couple hours of it. I got a code but I never. Is it the same type of vibe or is it? Yeah it's definitely like point and click adventure. Okay. Kind of stuff.

I feel like Ben is probably not that far off of that. Okay, I like that. Like it's definitely a kids game. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the first one. I like that. Pokemon Snap is a funny one particularly because like I don't really have any other history with Pokemon other than Snap.

Like, I've never really been into the TV show. Like, I've seen, like, random episodes and stuff. Like, my best friends growing up had a bunch of binder full of cards. And, like, they were really into that. But this just came with the N64 that I got for my birthday one year. And I was just like, and it's the very much of the thing of, like, comes with the game, you're playing the game. Is this, you know, I, my Pokemon Snap knowledge was always at Michael

Brian's brother, who was smaller than us. We were in high school. He was in, you know, third grade or whatever. He had it. We'd occasionally, we'd have to take it out of the N64 to get to the wrestling games or whatever. Yeah. Is Pokemon Snap the one that came with the blue in the Pikachu N64? And is that the one you got?

Okay. Okay. So yeah. So this was in 1990. It came out in March 99, which means that I got it that year for Christmas or my birthday. Got I got it. So I was like 10 or 11 at that point. You just love taking pictures.

I just, and I like, the Pokemon were so cute and you had to do all the things with the apple and the fluid. Like, it was a very fun. mechanic and it didn't require like a lot of hard gameplay because at that point I didn't really have like controller skills other and like would pick it up occasionally with like Mario party or Mario Kart but that was like at my house I had Pokemon Snap and I had Tony Hawk Pro Skater that was it if we went to my best friend Brittany's house she had everything 64 she had Mario Party she had all the like party games for the most part. Talk to me. I know we demanded forever and then it finally came. I don't, do we ever get a review from you for

Pokemon Snap on Switch? Like what was the vibe on that one? I don't remember what your temperature was. It's fun. Yeah, yeah. Like, it's more Pokemon Snap. I think that like with the evolution of games, the like on Rails kind of thing. Sure. Kind of hold you back. And like they do let you deviate, make more choices and stuff like that. I had fun. I never like 100% of it and stuff like that. But I did play through to the end. For me, it's always just about like, which Pokemon do I think are the cutest. And there's something like, not quaint, but there's something nice about like the on rails thing that gives you kind of that like theme park kind of feeling for it as well. Yeah. Yeah. It was something that like I never played Snap growing up. But whenever, you know, whenever we pull up footage for it, I was like, oh, this is like going to a nice little Pokemon theme park. Yeah. And now we can with not even animatronics, but weird little statues. Just a little statues. It'll be fine. You'll have a great time. Don't worry about it. There's something about it too where it's like cool. I. am constrained controls-wise to this like one track which means like I have to be able to do the thing that I want to do and it's just then figuring out how do I do it. So there's that.

You guys nailed it with Destiny 2. Oh yeah. Yeah. This was you a Destiny 1 person? No. I had never played Destiny 1 at all and I don't remember exactly what it was. I think it was at this at the time like my like core group of girlfriends most of them met playing Destiny. too. And then Lauren and I kind of came into that group and like Lauren had never played with them, but she had played a lot. So I was like the only one that hadn't played. Got it. And this was after I had like solidly spent a lot of time in Fortnite. So I felt way more confident about my shooter skills. And I was like, I can get into this. And then it was the hooks that got me in. I really give a lot of credit to the kind of funny destiny community in its many

different forms for being so welcoming. And I feel like destiny in general, I feel like destiny in general, like they want more people to play. They understand how overly complicated the game is and how not friendly it is for new people to come in. And so they're really, really helpful, at least in my case of like, okay, here are the things. We can shepherd you through these raids and stuff like that.

And I feel like it, this was the first time I ever played a game. I feel like where I had like a bigger group of people that I could like ping at any point and jump in with and stuff like that. And it was one of those things where I was like playing very similarly to Fortnite like every single day. I was like I do want and the store and the shaders and all these things like all of the cosmetics and learning how to play games in a class and using abilities was like not anything I had really ever done other than Diablo, but I feel like it's a little bit different. Gameplay wise.

In Destiny when you're kind of way more reliant on the rest of your party and figuring out those mechanics and stuff like that. Viva Piniata is definitely where the Sim game bug started. I think to like I didn't have an Xbox so this was one that like one of the guys that I was friends with in college like had in a box among like other things and like we would go over and like my like college roommate Brooke and I would go and they'd be like we need two more people to play for and it would be like HALO or something and it'd be like okay I guess we're going to play because that's what they're doing and then I'd be like we'd be like staring at the wall and they'd be like where are you? We have no idea. So they very quickly learned like okay maybe Halo's not the thing and then I was like what's this? this is colorful, this looks fun. Look at these cute little characters. And then that was just the bug where I'd come over and be like, what are you guys doing? They're like, oh, we're like working on this predecessor name.

Okay, well, I'm just going to be over here. Don't worry about me. Let's breathe some more. Yeah. I was like, they're so cute. All the little noises are so fun. So I feel like that was the, yeah, the starting point for really being into sim games,

which obviously doesn't evolves as we get through here. Also, why have we not gotten another view of? It's been so long. It is. It does feel wild. You think with everything else but they've brought back and done, I mean,

I know we had Viva Penaata too, but you'd think there'd be a modern Viva Penaata they would have done something for. Rare's just busy, you know. I definitely don't think it'd be rare making it. Yeah. It can only be them.

Oh, oh shit. Yeah. But they're busy with it. That's part of the contract when they got bought by Microsoft. Like we can have us, but we only us ever.

We only touch it. Viva Penaenaata. Yes. Dance Revolution. Let's talk about the PlayStation 2. Let's do it. I got a PlayStation. PlayStation 2, to this day, I don't know how or why.

I was not like asking for it. I think it was just that my dad wanted one and he used me as an excuse. He's like, I want to watch a DVD. Please buy a PlayStation 2. So it came with some pack in a TV game that I've never once touched in the entirety. I was like, I'm here for two things and two things only. One being DBR. Was it Smugglers run?

No. DDR and Guitar Hero 2. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. It was like definitely a toss up between those two games. of what I put on here. But that was, I feel like, the party game and the peripherals era of video games, I feel like was so fun.

And like, I just remember summers of like my neighbor Emily coming over and us just laying through every possible track and just not realizing that video games didn't have to include a controller. Or like had different forms of controllers. Obviously, like, I grew up playing duck hunt and stuff like that. So I knew it from that level. but to have something that was like fun and interactive, I feel like that's where like my love of like random like 90s year old club music comes from

because that's like the entirety of what it is. And then the fact that you could also go and like play in arcades and stuff like that, it was a fun like multi-location kind of realization that games could be different. I was never the biggest DDR person, but for some reason our middle school in the gym that we had, like the like there's a weight room and they had like a janky it might have just been like the PS2 like set up for DDR yeah and our go-to for my friend felix and I we would always because we you'd rotate every station um and so whenever we go to to the DDR station we would always pick

girls just want to have fun yeah yeah i never ATV off road fury thank you MAs I never when you said ATV I was like I see a cover but I don't know yeah me too yeah yeah I can do that part Yeah, DDR, I, man, I reviewed one at IGN and I reviewed it with the D-pad. Like, I never actually used it. I just sat there and did that. What? That's crazy. I eventually did something, but like, I remember Roper walking my desk.

Be like, what the fuck are you done? Yeah, that's the guy. That's ATV. And then, yeah, I didn't have an arcade culture or whatever. You know what I mean? So it was one of those, I remember going to Mizzou and at the student union in the basement, they had a couple arcade machines and one of them was DDR. And yeah, people would just fucking line up.

It's just fun And like to watch somebody who's really good at DDR It's definitely way more fun than playing Yeah exactly yeah I can I can hang in my living room Playing in public a different beast for sure Uh Everybody's freaking out in the chat

I would have used the pad at some point But I remember using the controller It was Dance Dance Revolution X Reviewed it a 2008 at IGN My subhead Yep can I'm I'm still making these. Perfect.

Perfect. What do we have next? Fortnite. The game changer. Whoa. Kevin's running the show. Yeah, Fortnite was the first shooter I had really ever played or cared about. Obviously, I got pulled into like random stuff like in high school.

But that was like definitely not. That was like I'm kind of being forced or they need another person. Not because I'm like actively wanting to play. But I think it was after. It must have been an E-Thither. at some point. And I remember the fun house crew is walking around and they had gotten all these like free V-Bucks things.

They're like, we don't play Fortnite. And I was like, it looks real colorful and fun. And all these characters look cool. I'll try it out. I will take them. So all of the free people. For the timeline, right? Yeah.

Fortnite came before Destiny 2. Correct. So is this the seeds, I guess, being planted of you having a multiplayer crew and all the stuff? Yeah. Fortnite, I will give the utmost credit to everybody who played Fortnite. Fortnite with at the beginning. This is even like pre-kevin. This is like Morin.

This is Harv. This is Eddie. People that played Fortnite with me when I would get down to constantly, I think over like maybe the first like six months that we played, I got a combined like three kills. Like I had not figured out two stick shooting like at all. And God bless them because we just had fun. They didn't like it was a crew of people that were kind of a line where it's like,

we just want to like hang out and play. Like we don't really care about winning necessarily. to a degree or at least they downplayed it for me. God bless you. So, yeah, that was the first time. Definitely took some time. And then, yeah, by the time Kevin and I started playing, it was like a every night we're playing.

We're maxing out the battle pass. Like, what are all of our day? Like all of these things and just really locked in for it. Plus you have all of the fun cosmetics, all the holiday skins. And then like obviously now they've evolved into like so much more. Yeah. Do you ever kick the tires anymore?

Do you come back? So Lauren texted me like a week ago. It was like, new four nights or new fun. So I haven't downloaded, but I haven't played probably in a year maybe. I think I've logged in occasionally to like pick up skins and stuff that I want. I haven't gotten the K-pop D&100 ones because I forgot. So I am still missing those and I still want those. But I feel like that's one that like I could pick up tomorrow and have.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. A low barrier to reentry. Five days until you get that free Fortnite crew with Xbox Game Pass. Is that really a thing? Kevin's really excited about. $30 a month for that. And more dollars, though. It's cheaper than getting that.

I'm kidding around. I love it. What do you got next? We've got neopets. Yeah. This one, DDR and Carmen San Diego were the ones that I was like, those are going to be like really hard. I feel like for somebody to try and guess right off the bat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, look at these fun animations I added to mine. Only through Canva. Only through the power of Canva. Not sponsored, but if you're listening to Canva, why not? Yeah, Neopets was definitely the first, like, online game I played. I feel like every generation has one. There's the club penguins.

There's the Webkins. Like, they all kind of exist. But it's the combination of message boardy kind of type interactions. Then you have all of the mini games that are in there. And then there's, like, the lore pieces. too of like the great omelet and all of these things that like I still could not really give you probably like a cohesive story of like what neopets is um but going in and like picking out what kind of like neopet you wanted and then the colors and all of these and the accessories

and the magical paintbrushes and all of these things I feel like definitely was another different seed of the sim game category but just because I had never played like a web based game versus like something console. I don't even know what else you want to how else you would categorize it. But yeah, the mini games and stuff like that. I feel like this is the first one too with like where I had to keep track of like scheduling and timers because you could only do things or were like access things and stuff like that.

So I feel like this is the one that like brought me back to the PC that I had to keep up with more regularly. This made you the PC gamer you are. Yes, exactly. All my mouse and keyboard skills came from eopets for sure. Nitrogen mustard said Joey had to have played with Tomogacchis as a kid I was so serious about Tomogacchi's my dad went

on a business trip to Japan right at the very beginning of it and brought one back for me and it was pink and I thought I was the coolest person ever and then my mom was so mad at me because I would make her watch it while I was at school and she was like it's not dying on my watch like this is a lot of pressure so

it's a touchy subject in the Takagami household I have a feeling that's when Boanna got thrown around a lot. Oh, probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Definitely. And then, yeah, we have Animal Crossing New Horizon. New Leaf I had dabbled in. I feel like I had played, but I had missed that like initial when it was this like geist. Yeah. Yeah. So I played it later and I really liked it. But I, it was definitely, I mean, Animal Crossing New Horizons is such like an interesting game and time period to talk about of like,

we got it. Right. It was one of the last, the review was one of the last thing was recording. before COVID. And then we were at home all the time. Everybody was excited in getting their switches. And even if you weren't excited for Animal Crossing, I feel like because we were all quarantined for the most part. It was the social hub for such a long time that year in particular. Yeah.

It's how you hung out with your friends. The thing and the way that people used it so creatively, obviously like Gary Whittah, with animal talking and all of these different things. I feel like it just became such like a core memory. I still think to this day, like, it's the most amount of video game I've played in, like, the shortest amount of time. Because I played for solidly six months, I remember. Outrageous. I think I played a little bit.

I played some of the holiday stuff after, but I think I got so burnt out because I played like 800 or almost 900 hours in those six months. So I was playing this like it was my full-time job. And so I think I burnt myself out on it. But I've gone back to it. Like, obviously this year we streamed with Gia and got her on the time. train and stuff like that. Are you stoked about the January 15th update? Yes and no. I guess it'll kind of, we'll see when we get there how into it I'm feeling. What's the added content besides like, oh, it looks better on Switch 2?

Oh, they're doing a bunch of stuff. Yeah. There's a hotel now over on the dock that you can go in and they're going to have you make, you know, you design the hotel rooms on themes or whatever. Then there's going to be dream islands. So, you know, rather than you can't make a new island because it's your island. You have to delete your thing. Now you can go to this dream space and make islands again there. They're both in. Like, now I want to make a city one. Now I want to do. You know what I mean? Build it up that way.

And there's a bunch of bells. There's Zelda outfits and stuff now with amoeboes and whatnot. Yeah. They opened up multiplayer, right, to be more people. Yeah. I mean, but multibular sucks. Yeah. I'll worry about that.

No, not on Nintendo game. I have like this like, I have a little flame where I'm like, oh, I could go for more Animal Crossing. I keep thinking. I'm like, don't turn it on until that day. Let's turn it on there. Let's go in. Let's see if we're actually going to redo our eyes.

Let like the year restart Your kind of palette as well So yeah So that's the Animal Crossing thing The New Leaf coaster is just that Cool Greg saw it in like some video game store And he bought it for me He was like I know you like Animal Crossing

So I love it and like New Leaf is the other one that I've put Hours into I haven't made any of the other ones Diablo 3 You were close on here I just couldn't remember Yeah yeah yeah So did you come to Diablo with like Reaper Souls when it was like

peace or I'm going to jump to console. No. So really probably what I should have put on here that I didn't is Minecraft Dungeons in this lot. We had so much fun. But I feel like they're very similar and I think Minecraft Dungeons definitely put me on to Diablo and then that's kind of where I really was like, oh, this is a genre that I've never played.

That I really like. But just like dungeon crawling and this along, I feel like this was fundamental in helping me understand destiny of like classes and ability. Yeah, yeah. And then, yeah, I am blessed with a lot of really good friends in my life that play a lot of games. God bless you, Lord, for walking me through this entire game because she had, like, platinum and played every class and, like, maxed out everything.

Yeah. So I feel like I had, like, a really good experience because I think otherwise some of these games you walk into and you're like. If you don't have a good guide for. If I've never played this before, I need help. So, yeah, Diablo. And, like, obviously. One that I wouldn't have necessarily gravitated to as I was like showing the girls my thing.

They're like, it's so funny that your entire thing is like so bright and colorful and you have Diablo and desks. Yeah. It's like these anchors on the side. So clearly it's the fun and sparkle and the colors that really drag me in. But if you have good gameplay, then like. That's what I love about you, Joey. Demon Hacker in the chat goes, Joey is the casual gamer representative for kind of funny. All companies need them.

I don't agree. I mean, yes and no. Like, again, Joe. Joey didn't dabble in Diablo or dabble in Destiny. Like Joey was all in and Minecraft. Again, these are talking about, I define this as the games that make up your gamer DNA. But you get into all sorts of stuff that are like real games.

Like, whatever. I kind of get what they're saying, though, because there's so many casual gamers we know that, like, they have those couple where they just, they fucking dive into, like Alyssa has hundreds of hours in StarCraft 2, which was like something I didn't learn until like a couple years into data here. I was like, oh, I didn't realize that.

I think your final one. In my final one, Stardu Valley. This was like the first one when I came, what I call like came back to gaming. Like this is, for me, this is always your precursor to Animal Crossing. A hundred percent. Where I was like, oh, she's going to eat up a new Animal Crossing. Yeah. It was just like the indie darling.

I don't, I think, I don't even know why I picked it up. It must have just been that like people were talking about it. And I had known from NioPets from Viva Penaata that like I was probably going to like this. But this was definitely the most intense version I had ever played. played of a sim game with like the time management and then you have a dungeon crawling versus like it just had so many things still to this day I've never done any of the relationship stuff in there in my hierarchy of activities in a sim game I'm always just like I don't necessarily care about these people like let me let me make my farm let me design my farm um go you're

for the minds. I do. I truly do. And yeah, it's the one that, like, I think I've bought the most... I've bought it on, like, every single console, every platform. I have it on everything. I have so many different farms that, like, just depending on, like, the vibe that I want, I kind of do different things. So it's, I feel like that's the one that, like, all of these obviously are like, well, actually I don't necessarily think that, but that's definitely, like, a desert island game. And there's so much end game stuff. that I've never touched.

Like, I, like, they've added, like, even more farm styles and stuff, right? It's crazy to me that it's, like, developed by such a small team. I think now. That's working on another game now, too. Exactly. Yeah, like Concerned Ape has really supported this for a lot longer than I think anybody expected. Yeah. And I know that there's a lot of depth to it that I have not reached and probably never will, probably, to go back and, like, we do this.

I guess so. A desert island where I happen to have like my switch and a charger and power. Yeah, problem. But yeah, that's the, that's a great list, Joey.

Thank you. In the super chats, memo in the notebooks says, hell yes, Joey with the neo pets on there. Six fuck, lull. A great list there,

Joey. Thank you for doing that and sharing that with us. I'm always happy to have you on gamescast, have you on the streams. You're doing a great job. I have fun. Yeah.

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And I don't want to waste a lot of time guessing because I know Barrett's going to be. both predictable and unpredictable. So like on my list I had bully. I had Batman Arkham Asylum. I had persona 5. And then I put Donkey Kong 64. Yeah.

But I'm not, it's like I don't, where's the meme start and end? Where's the truth end and the meme begin? You know what I mean? I feel like there's definitely maybe Assassin's Creed representation. Exactly, exactly.

Some kind of skate thing. Whether it's skate or Tony Hawk, I'm not even shamed. I feel like there'd be something there maybe. Okay. But I'm ready to see this. All right. Throw it up.

Pull it up. Ah, SpongeBob. I talked myself out of SpongeBob. And I meant to say fucking psychonauts. So I would have lost that because of your list here, Grim Fandango. Barrett, real quick for the audio listeners. Tell them what's on the list. Yeah.

So in no particular order, we've got Batman Arkham Asylum, Grim Fandango, Spongobb, Square Pants, Battle for Beacney Bottom. bully, Cuphead, Donkey Kong 64, Chrono Trigger, The Legend of Zelda, a link to the past,

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Persona 5. This is a list of games, Barrett. Where do you want to start? Where do you dive in? I think we have to dive in at the beginning,

which would be not that one. Kevin will tell you were to diving. Chrono Trigger. This was a shout out to Brian and Jennifer, who were the younger

siblings of my dad's girlfriend at the time. And my dad and his girlfriend at the time were both like waiters and the restaurant business. So they were busy a lot of the time. So I would hang out with her younger siblings who introduced me to a lot of things very early on in life. They're the reasons why I watched Akira at five years old. Okay. Maybe a bit more.

Interesting timing. Yeah, exactly. But also like spirited away and introduced me to, we'll talk about it in a little bit as well. Legend of Zelda and Brian was particularly into JRPGs and so it was kind of between Chrono Trigger

and Final Fantasy 10 because those were both experiences that he shared with me and like we would play through together and you know that was one that was like the first inklings of me getting into our like turn base RPGs

but it was really the stories that grabbed me from from both of those unless so the gameplay being that young, right? But I remember the story for Krono Tigger really stuck with me and it was one of those a game that I was debating

on having here that I ended up not having on here was Red Dead Red Dead redemption in a similar fashion of where Red Dead goes in terms of storytelling and how it does some really fascinating things in terms of character perspective and changing perspectives. That was an early one for me for Krono Tigger

and where that story goes and then also like that was an early one for me of like having like actual animated cutscenes that were you know it was all like the I'm blanking on his name the the artist who does like Dragon Ball

and Sandland and stuff like that why am I blanking on his name right now Google for you but I'm not going to be well but like that was that like seeing that art style and like that being something like I didn't really connect of like oh yeah and this looks like Dragon Ball

but it was one of those like everybody else I knew was like into that kind of stuff so there's a little bit of like anime kind of like inspiration bringing me in there as well um and so that was one that like I really adored because it kind of at a very young age kind of showed me what stories could be in video games alongside final fantasy 10 like I you know like some of the like the cut scene after you face the main antagonist in final fantasy 10 will kind of be seared into my brain forever insane with a very pivotal moment with Krono in Krono trigger. So that's a very early one. And in the similar vein, The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past. I knew it was Zelda had to be on here, but it was like, you know, I love all of the future ones, but like a link to the past was very much the beginning of this obsession with this series for me, more so than Ocarina of Time. Like, you know, Ocarina of Time early on was, you know, playing around in the

the jungle gym areas and staying as like kid link but a link to the past was very much of being obsessed with actually progressing to get to the dark world and going on this like big adventure that design wise as a kid like you feel like you're going out on this like big adventure making your own decisions but it's smartly guiding you through this thing that makes it feel like your own and uh with both of those games too that like really cemented my love for like pixel art And like whenever we get to see that stuff, like live today and like the HD 2D kind of stuff. And that's why it's like bring Chrono Trigger back, you know. Another one shocking that they haven't done more with that.

Yeah. Yeah. Link to the Pass is insane. This is Dionysus. I disagree. Link to the Pass. Every Zelda game after Link to the Pass is just trying to do Link to the Pass again. Ocarina of Time.

Just a 3D. Well, I think you met it positively. Leith to the Pass is insane. So is Prono Trigger. this list. Like it's like it's a great game. Dianicest it's a fucking fight. What did you think just as an aside?

For me, a link to the past, I'd played and didn't appreciate when I had my clamshell GBA because I was such an ocarina Majora fan. That's where I entered it. But stick with me.

This isn't even the question. I need to go back and replay it probably. But what did you think of link between worlds? Because I really loved that, but I didn't have the love for past. I adored link between worlds. when it came out. And then when I revisited it for Zelda in review,

I was a little bit cooler on it, but I think the design of link between worlds in terms of, I think that is the kind of first big stepping zone for us to get to Breath of the Wild and going back to kind of the design ethos of the original legend of Zelda, of choosing whichever dungeon you want in whatever order.

Once you get to that, like after you get past those like first three dunes, And then it really opens up. Like I thought that was a really smart way to make that style feel fresh. And obviously like the art style. I really adored for the 3DS. But yeah, Link to the Past like that that is one that's just like I love that world. I love that story.

Like I also still own the link to the past comic, which to me is like in my brain, even though Link doesn't have a personality, he has no voice like that. Link is like what I think of when I think of Link. Like a true like. kind of like Luke Skywalker interpretation of Link what's like this kind of apprehensive hero type of situation. Okay, sorry, I didn't mean to sidetrack. Yeah, and so to go from there, honestly, I think we got to go grim fandango next. And this is another like big important story and world situation that like really brought me into like appreciating fun and goofy stories.

and art styles, right? This pulled me in because of the almost like Nickelodeon Cartoon Network vibes that it had and obviously having no idea who was made by not knowing the history of the point and click adventure games and how insane they get with their puzzles. Like this is one as a kid. I definitely, if I ever finish it,

I don't have a clear memory as like a kid. Like I definitely went back when it got remastered and it really cemented like going back it's like one of my favorite games of all time. But if I ever finish it, it must have been with Brian or Jennifer and they're helping me with like some of the puzzles and probably on my own. I'm stuck in that like first level, which is the, what is it like the Day of the Dead kind of celebration.

But there's just like such a great vibe and like writing style that always pulled me in even as a kid of just like some of the just like nonchalant humor and then like the music as well just like so cool and just like um paying homage to like the what's like those kind of like like 1930s like 40s like movies yeah um yeah like noir yeah like new R type of vibes and just like how creative and weird they got with like all of their stuff which is why like being a kid who grew up with Nickelodeon Cartoon Network in like the 90s and 2000s that's another aspect of what really pulled me in and then it's funny yeah like not knowing that this was Tim Schaefer directed and lead and all this stuff

and then years and years later, falling in love with psychonauts and psychonauts too. I like that connection. I like that DNA. Yeah. And that was one where the first time I met Tim Schaefer, I was working at IGN and we were doing a we did a series where

Alana would interview directors of games while they would play the game and talk about level design and, you know, inspirations and all that stuff. And I remember we had like Bruce Australian to play a little bit of Last of Us won, and then Tim Schaefer came in for psychonauts. And this was before I was even into psychonauts.

But at that point, I had learned, like, oh, this is the guy who made Grim Fendango. I was outside afterwards. And he was waiting for his Uber. I think I was coming back from, like, lunch or something like that. And I got to say, like, hey, I'm big fan of Grendeng, Fandango. Thank you so much for making that game. It's like, oh, cool, man. See you later.

And I still get... Now we can call whenever we want. Yeah, and I still get chills whenever I see him because I've met him a couple of times since then. I remember being very nervous to ask him to sign my Psychonuts to art book like a year or two ago whenever he was last in office. So then we go from there to Donkey Kong 64. Of course.

That's a memory seared into my brain, similar to the Pokemon snap. Expansion pack included. Oh, that was a big deal, Joe. Similar to the Pokemon Go having the blue N64 with the Pokemon, Pokemon, memory seared into my brain was getting the C-through translucent green N-64 with this game

for Christmas. Bring back translucent technology. We need. A hundred percent. And this is like, this is a game that you know, like my dad also like loves Nintendo games. This is one that we still like go back to and talk about all the time and you know

I gave him like he has my old Wii U because that's like the one way you can just play Donkey Kong before now. We just love like that world and the vibes that I know technically probably banjo is probably the better games or whatever.

This is what we add. We're talking about your DNA. This was my Grant Kirkope's soundtrack, right? Like this was, these were our characters, like the worlds that you went into for all of these levels and the goofy enemies that you would fight. Like that was a special shared love

between my dad and I that we still shared to the same. I wouldn't talk about, you know, how great the blueprint design is where you have to find all these blueprints for the final level, the more blueprints you have, Joey, the longer time you get to beat the final level. The best blueprints, you have like only 10 minutes to beat that

final level before the final boss. And then the final boss being this boxing match with King K Rule, which might have been paid homage to in a recent game, right? And so yeah, I love that group of characters. It is a meme, but it is also very much like a shared love of

recognizing not the best designs. game, but I truly adore it. Then skipping ahead, you know, I was always kind of like, I felt like behind on stuff. And I think the PS2 generation, because like I had a super Nintendo while the N64 was popping off. I don't think I got that Donkey Kong 64, N64 until the GameCube had already been out for like a year or so, right? And so the PS2 was the first generation where I was actually like playing stuff as it

was coming out. And so I had SpongeBob Square Pants Battle for Bikini Bottom kind of be my big representation for not just IP games, but like just things I was into. Like your Star Wars Battlefront, uh, too, but also kind of your Tony Hawks. Like this was an era of me as a gamer where I wasn't playing video games because I liked video games. I was playing stuff that like, oh, I like this show. I like this IP.

Oh, we skateboard all the time in our neighborhood. And now there's like a skateboarding game. where we can do a bunch of insane tricks and stuff. And so that's another one where that's like kind of all encompassing of an era for me, but also I think cemented of like after your DK64, cementing of like my love of 3D platformers, which is like grown and grown and grown ever since then. And going back to Battle for Bikini Bottom once it got its remake back in like 2020

of just like, yeah, man, I love this. I love exploring Bikini Bottom, you know, having that kind of interconnected hub world. Yeah, and go into all of these iconic locations. Like, yeah, I truly adore that. So that's kind of that big representation there. And then bully is, you know, like, that's, that's

my rock star game. I'm not into a lot of rock star games, honestly. But like, especially like growing up with like being a huge Harry Potterhead as like a kid, you always wanted that experience of like being able to play a game where like you have like the full school experience, right?

boarding school had like such like a lure to it I'm like probably wasn't that great but you romanticize it for yeah oh 100% so much fiction did yeah yeah and like that just like and that's one that I've appreciated more like growing up this is like it making fun of like all of these different groups of like the greaser's kind of making fun of like that era of like movies and like kind of making fun of different eras of like high school

centric movies and tropes and yeah that just kind of being like this fully lived in sim experience where it's like adding in the school stuff and you deciding like well i'm not going to go back to the dorm so i'm going to go live in my like weird little uh hideout that i unlocked by beating up all the preps and um all that stuff like there's just something to that element and it being like more of a small town vibe i think is is something that was way more appealing to me than any like other like grand theft auto uh or what have you at the time growing up um And then we, I think our last three here, right, we'll go to Batman Arkham Asylum, which I've talked about in my... Oh, you back.

Yeah, it was, you know, like for a couple of years after, you know, you get your bully, which shout out, I named the dog that we got when I was in high school after the character, Zoe. And that's where she got her name was that character from bully. But anyways, for Arkham Asylum, that was the game that really got me back into thinking about video games and playing video games for... video game sick and less IP sake. I got it because I was into the IP being a huge Batman fan. But this was a time in my life where I was only really playing rock band every once in a while, maybe a skate. But I had like so many other different interests that were pulling me away.

And Arkham Asylum was one of those first like experiencing a Metroidvania. And really like understanding of like, oh, like game design and how smart and fun that can be like being trapped on this island and getting this slow unveiling of how you can unlock all these different. paths. And then it just being a really fun Batman adventure with a really bad final boss fight. Never forget. Never let him off the hood. But like, dude, like the first time doing that scarecrow, that first scarecrow's

sequence was so good. So good. You know, hearing Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy come back was just like a dream come true. You know, like related to that first scarecrow sequence were Joker's teasing scarecrow being around the corner and he was like, what are your greatest fears

Batman, like, you not catching me in time. The Gotham City falling to pieces, me in a thong. And it was just like, got the writing here and, you know, the chemistry that Hamill had with Conroy, it was just magnificent. And I love that they were able to go all out with that. While at the same time, me starting to realize of like, oh, video games really fucking cool. Yeah.

And then our final two really, or no, actually, we got three more. Mario card 8 Mario card's always been a part of my life 8 is the one that I have put the most amount of time into And probably is my most played game What is the set is? What do you know what number? I mean it was that weird thing when we moved over to switch two We lost all that

So I would guess in the five to 600 hours Around there Battlefront the original Battlefront two is probably Up there as well But that is one that I just I love the velocity of it You know like how it really feels like this a bit more

Grand Prix and grand I don't know like one of those like more professional like kind of thing The races are races and there's this idea

than world was right and I think world coming out making me appreciate eight more of what eight was offering yeah

and that is one that just like that was my that's been my comfort game for years and years and years uh where it's like

we have something on the TV I'm just gonna mindlessly play this and go and try a three-star 200-cc for the 100th time. Haven't gone back to it since the world came out. Haven't been in the mood to get back into it. But that'll be one that I go back to it just to reminisce.

Love that. And then we've got Cuphead. I think Cuphead is, I think, the first seed of me getting into really tough games. I was going to say, like, that punishment, right? I was assigned Cuphead for IGN of doing Capture 4. and there's that viral clip of that from that one site of someone trying to do the

tutorial of Cuphead Dean Takahashi from Gamespe Yeah And there's a lot of pressure put on me of like Don't be that guy Don't have to be really fucking good And so like I was That's so much pressure

I know and so me not playing difficult games like this before I really had to lock in And that was a cuphead was a game That I was anticipating for years Just because of the art style and them bringing something that felt so new and fresh for a video game. And so that was one that I really had to.

That was my first like, I got to get good at this kind of game where now I'm playing Eldon Rings and, you know, a second row like that. Seems like a perfect crossover between those kinds of games and the platformers like you love. Yeah, exactly. And so like the platforming stuff and like the cartoony stuff I was really already into. But getting into that kind of, you know, different style at being a bit more bullet helly. but that was one where, you know, I think I was one of the first people to unlock the black and white mode for that game

and, like, trying to figure out, like, how do you even unlock that? And, like, all of the difficult, like, hoops that you had to jump through to do that, like, that was, that'll be a special place in time. And, you know, I still apologize to Andy to the stay of, like, bringing, I had to bring that Xbox home from the office to play through the weekend, to try to beat every platforming level without killing anybody. which is just like the most,

I think still probably the most difficult thing I've done to this day in a game. So wait, why did you apologize to Andy for? Were you screaming? I was screaming a lot that. There were a lot of F-bombs that we got. So a big apology to Andy. Andy, someone who never screams playing video games.

And then around that same time, Persona 5, you know, I have the royal version on here just because that added story content that I think solidifies that is like one of my favorite games of all time. but that being a world and story that I adore to this day and characters that I think of as not actual longtime friends, but when I think about their journey and their, you know, character arcs,

it's just, it's one of those like, damn, it feels like home for a... Comforting for sure. Yeah, and the stuff that Royal added in particular, you know, like the things I was disappointed in the base game being stuff like a catchy and all that. like Royal really cemented and brought through and solidified kind of the core themes and ideas and flipped them on its head in a way that like really cemented is like one of my favorite stories in video games and I three is still my favorite um but five is the one that got me into this series and you know brought me to this trajectory of not just being into this world but being

more open to trying other games like this so that's what I got that's a great Barrett list. I feel like you can definitely see all those tendrils in like the other games that you gravitate towards and stuff and talk about. Memo in the notebooks did Superchat and said, holy fuck, Barrett, you picked gold. BFBB. Go to 3D platformer.

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