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O3C Games

Jonathan Dunn & Chris Dow chat about all things video games!

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All Episodes

Bonus Level - Fisticuffs with Miyamoto!

O3C Games ·

2021/08/23

Join O3C as we speak to genuine industry stalwart Giles Goddard!Travelling through milestones in his varied career, find out how working with Argonaut led to the development of the Super FX Chip which would power the technical powerhouses Star Fox and Stunt Race FX; how taking residence in Japan led to a closer relationship with Nintendo and work on Super Mario 64 and 1080 Snowboarding (not Skiing!); why Steel Diver remains one of Giles’ favourite titles in his collective oeuvre; and how ‘going

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00:47:49

Number 3 (Jonathan Dunn) - Shining the Holy Ark

O3C Games ·

2021/08/16

The Sega Saturn takes what is likely its final moment in the spotlight in our top 100s as Jonathan talks up the underrated Shining the Holy Ark. Lick your lips, and take a big ol’ bite of one of Sega’s very best JRPGs.Music theory! Incubi and succubi! The threads of destiny! In Quiz Town, Chris and Minty rack their brains attempting to match up negative critical reviews to games they personally have nothing but love for. Jonathan has a great time with Monster Hunter Stories 2 and its tactical turn

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00:49:25

Number 3 (Minty Booth) - The Legend of Zelda - A Link...

O3C Games ·

2021/08/09

This week on the O3C Podcast, linguistic shenanigans ensue in this week’s Quiz round as Chris and Minty duke it out for trivial supremacy.In our gaming activity, Minty’s Cyber Sleuthing comes to a natural caesura, and he gets his mobile retro rogue-lite action on in the brilliantly deep and minimalist Snake throwback - SNKRX! Minty also takes on the new lord of microtransactions in Pokémon Unite, the new (is it really?!) free-to-play MOBA featuring the beloved critters.Jonathan shares his final

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00:57:29

Number 3 (Chris Dow) - The Witness

O3C Games ·

2021/08/02

9 games left. 9 games to go.It seems only yesterday that we kicked off this silly project, and yet here we are, several years on entering the top 3: our very favourite games of all time.Chris kicks off the boys tip top trilogies with Jonathan Blow’s incredible puzzle adventure The Witness. Can Chris sell you on a game that is ostensibly just about solving line puzzles for 60 hours?In the Kingdom of Quiz, how do Chris and Minty fare in a test of their chronological gaming knowledge? What do the gang

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00:57:44

Bonus Level - Alien Autopsy!

O3C Games ·

2021/07/26

In a very special bonus episode, Our Three Chaps chat with actor Kezia Burrows!Through her storied career, Kez has portrayed characters across film, television and videogames. With over a decade of experience working within the games industry, Kez regails our trio with stories of her time working on titles as varied as Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Remember Me, Bravely Default II, Observation, 007 Legends, and, of course, the trouser soiling Alien: Isolation.Acting as a canonical bridge between

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00:56:08

Number 4 (Jonathan Dunn) - The Legend of Zelda: The...

O3C Games ·

2021/07/19

Jonathan Dunn is here to tell you all about a little game called The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, his very favourite entry in the Zelda canon.Hop aboard the King of Red Lions to sail the great sea, presumably in search of some little shiny triangle pieces, a big ol’ sword, and… a princess, I guess?But that’s not all, oh no no.Want to hear our thoughts on examples of when maligned game mechanics or tropes have actually been done well?Want to hear some thoughts on franchises as varied as Digimon,

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00:43:12

Number 4 (Minty Booth) - Space Station Silicon Valley

O3C Games ·

2021/07/12

CURVEBALL[ˈkərvbôl] NOUNbaseballa pitch thrown with a strong downward spin, causing the ball to drop suddenly and veer to the side as it approaches home plate."his three-speed curveball enabled him to win 20 games in two different seasons"informalsomething which is unexpected, surprising, or disruptive."It was a real curveball when Minty Booth crowned seldom remembered, oft-forgotten N64 title ‘Space Station Silicon Valley‘ as his 4th favourite game of all time”— — — — — — — — — —Join in with this

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00:54:43

Number 4 (Chris Dow) - Tetris

O3C Games ·

2021/07/05

It’s only ruddy video games again! We honestly can’t get enough of them!In our latest hour of podcasting you can hear our musings on a select selection of video games this week including:- The most pointless round of the quiz so far - literally!- The answer to a listener question that reveals which video games have given us real world wanderlust.- Chris celebrates Zero Mission Accomplished as he finishes his first Metroid!- Minty takes a trip down Digimemory Lane with Digimon Cyber Sleuth.- Jonathan

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01:10:58

Number 5 (Jonathan Dunn) - Thief II: The Metal Age

O3C Games ·

2021/06/28

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy - loosen your belts for this week’s BUMPER episode of Our Three Cents, folks! Do you want to hear three non-gamers give their best descriptions of games they haven’t played, or, in most cases, even seen? It’s the ‘WAGs Opinion’ Quiz Round!Do you want to hear three non-non-gamers give their best thoughts on the damp squib that was E3 2021?Do you want to hear some updated thoughts on Sp!ng? Undermine? Dariusburst? Super Mario Odyssey? Abzu? Or brand new thoughts on Beat Saber

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00:56:34

Bonus Level - Punting and Gathering! (Euro 2020 Special)

O3C Games ·

2021/06/21

At a time when you can't even look out the window without having a national flag waved in your face, we're here, to jump on the bandwagon, to talk about FOOTBALL.It's bleedin' Euro 2020, innit?To celebrate big boys kicking big balls, we've signed a one match loan deal with podcast strikers Tom Dow and Andrei Grayson of The Boys in Red and White to talk videogame football.Hear our collective preferences on the eternal, annualised fight for dominance that is FIFA vs Pro Evolution Soccer.Allow all five

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00:45:01

Number 5 (Minty Booth) - Paper Mario

O3C Games ·

2021/06/14

Minty is a big fan of role playing game. We know this.But.. but... for why? What title started the RPG ball rolling for young Mr Booth?It's Paper Mario. A pancake-thin Mario.But outside of Minty's romantic, rolling reminiscence, what else have we got for you?Ruminations on the games we wish we could forget and revisit. Minty's early thoughts on virtual reality. A nod to eShop puzzler Circuit Dude, a puzzle game both improved and worsened in equal measure by alcohol. Jonathan's fair and considered

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00:42:48

Number 5 (Chris Dow) - Super Mario Odyssey

O3C Games ·

2021/06/07

Good morning / afternoon / evening!(delete as appropriate)We gather here today, to listen the thoughts of three young men. The thoughts of three young men about video games!The quiz hots up, with some lateral thinking puzzles that make our duo look like absolute dummies!Chris lays Genshin Impact to rest for the time being, continues to make incremental progress through the genesis of the Earth Defense Force series, and bigs up the retro throwback handheld the Evercade roughly a year after first

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01:12:27

Bonus Level - We've Got Balls!

O3C Games ·

2021/05/31

A baying mob collects outside Our Three Cents towers…Ten thousand feet stomp in unison…The floor of the building ripples softly…A chant erupts from the crowd…“what do we want?”“an incredibly deep, and somewhat esoteric dive into the mechanical history of ball-rolling video games!”“when do we want it?”“now!”Join our trio, and Rasmus Jensen of Bolverk Games, to discuss the humble roots of the genre in Mark Cerny's Marble Madness, through Sega's Super Monkey Ball, Metroid Prime's morph ball, to modern

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00:51:09

Number 6 (Jonathan Dunn) - Metal Gear: Ghost Babel

O3C Games ·

2021/05/24

Podcast notification, your Monday morn' markerQuiz Master Jonathan, channels legend Sue BarkerThen J's progress through Morta, its children, ReturnalC's racing highs, racing lows, love for bad games eternalM binds young Isaac, points, clicks and fishesThen to Jonathan's six, a most wholesome of dishesMetal Gear, Metal Gear, but not as you knowIn the hand, in the pocket, a coloured Gameboy is stowed'Best handheld game ever!'; tis high praise indeedTo find out more details, listen in, and take

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00:53:02

Number 6 (Minty Booth) - Metroid Prime 2: Echoes

O3C Games ·

2021/05/17

As sure as day follow night, Minty is here to sing the praises of a JAY ARR PEE……wait, what?!Allow the man with a mint in his eye to extoll the virtues of Metroid Prime's first sequel proper - SURELY the highest ranked FPS on our collective lists?!If that hasn't got you dribbling enough, activate those salivary glands for the following:A rogue-like / rogue-lite combo pack of Children of Morta and Returnal!A PlayStation 2 'buy one get one free' of The Sims and Earth Defense Force's earliest entry

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00:55:07

Number 6 (Chris Dow) - Rock Band 3

O3C Games ·

2021/05/10

Did you know that the Rock Band series taught Chris how to play the drums?Well gosh and darn it is he going to tell you!Indulge Chris a little of your time to talk up what he describes as 'the crowning jewel in Harmonix's collective oeuvre’!But of course, OF COURSE, there's more!After listening to and marvelling at how this week's quiz round breaks Minty and Chris' brains, find out the answers to these questions:How is Chris getting on in Genshin Impact now that its native PS5 app has launched?Has

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01:00:15

Bonus Level - Sequel Spectacular!

O3C Games ·

2021/05/03

What's better than a juicy sandwich? A second, even juicier sandwich, of course!But wait, what if the second sandwich was dry, lacked filling, or was assembled without the care you'd come to expect from your sandwich artiste of choice?!*heartbreak*How about taking the very concept of the juicy sandwich and extending it to a new sandwich two point oh the artisan bread stuffers had yet to even envisage?!!Join the usual Our Three Cents trio, as well as special guests Alex Miller and Will Thrasher from

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00:55:03

Number 7 (Jonathan Dunn) - Pokémon Gold

O3C Games ·

2021/04/26

Jonathan Dunn is here to celebrate the 'A' game of the Pokémon Gold and Silver duology by way of Beowulf inspired progressive rock, a stuffed drawer of Eevee plushes and… the Backstreet Boys!BUT NOT BEFORE a scintillating synonym heavy round of the quiz, Jonathan's weekly Isaac update, and thoughts from the gang on games as disparate as Toree 3D, the ageless Super Mario Bros. 3 and the Chinese-made free-to-play monolith Genshin Impact!Poo jokes, discussions on random number generation, the Sega

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00:40:27

Number 7 (Minty Booth) - Super Mario Bros. 3

O3C Games ·

2021/04/19

Oh my golly, and oh my gosh!Minty veers violently from his role-playing bread and butter to celebrate the platforming purity of Super Mario Bros. 3 as his 7th favourite video game of all time!But before any of Minty's childhood memories of the mustachioed, there's another nail biting round of the revised quiz, and thoughts on a whole bunch of bona fide gamey games that our trio has played using their fingers, hearts and minds!In unnecessarily alphabetical order:Balan Wonderworld: THE DICTIONARY

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00:51:09

Number 7 (Chris Dow) - Super Mario 64

O3C Games ·

2021/04/12

After a ludicrous 50/50 score draw in the quiz, we enter QUIZ TWO POINT OH with a revised format!!Then, onto the games…Chris plays his shiny new PlayStation 5, and has many, many thoughts on the console he loves, yet describes as being 'very much a product that has had its final QA pass during a global pandemic’!Jonathan hits an insane 'hours played' milestone in The Binding of Isaac, a game he just cannot quit, and then blows off some steam with the bloody duology of Super Blood Hockey and Serial

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