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PODCAST

Old Gamer’s Almanac

Matt Martens and Hunter Donaldson

The definitive ranking of all every video game, every week at a time. If you work in the gaming industry, please stop making games while we catch up.

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All Episodes

01:12:14

The 1994 30th Anniversary Season Premiere!

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2024/01/02

It's a new year and time to come up with an entirely new focus for the show. We've approached a lot of old eras or consoles over the past couple of years but something we've enjoyed doing and want to do more of is investing time in reading old journalism about the era we're discussing. For 2024, alongside trying to keep up with our most anticipated new releases, we'll be walking through the year 1994 and treating it like all of those games are releasing for the first time again. We'll dig up old

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03:17:49

The Gameboy Tournament

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/12/26

We've been playing Gameboy games for many months now and it's time to put all of that work to use. We recently nominated 16 Gameboy games to go head to head and today we crown a champion. Strap in folks, it's going to take a while... To see the most up to version of The OGA 100, visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/194Zs7HY9o2y4dgOQLsQXT0Q0cBW_Q1WZzkwqG-ALqi0/edit?usp=sharing. THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS IF YOU ARE LISTENING TO OLDER EPISODES. Music by nightcorey.

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01:01:05

Introduction to Everquest (and Project Quarm)

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/12/19

There's a new project that recently kicked off giving people the opportunity to relive the glory days of early Everquest. Hunter was a big fan of this game during exactly that time and it seemed like a great chance to explain what this old MMO is all about and how we as a community might all want to get involved in it together! For information about getting started with Project Quarm: https://youtu.be/u83_FICd97c?si=vOpN8Owuzd73uy3y To see the most up to version of The OGA 100, visit

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54:12

Spider-Man 2

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/12/12

"The Full Panel" is busy playing Gameboy games, but Hunter's also been working through 2023 releases and wanted to take the time to talk about Spider-Man 2 with OGA's chief comic book correspondent Jamie Carbone. It's time to dig up some deep Marvel lore and talk about the best Spider-Man villains. Find Jamie at: Hear You Loud and Queer: https://instagram.com/hearyouloudandqueer?igshid=YzAwZjE1ZTI0Zg== Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/jamiecarbone.bsky.social To see the most up to version of The

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01:42:41

Gameboy Honorable Mentions

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/12/05

There were some unexpected nominations in last week's Gameboy Draft, which meant there were so many things left on the cutting room floor that are worth talking about. This episode is a little crazy because it's mostly a list of game rattled off in quick succession, but it's also a discussion about what works and what doesn't work on the handheld as well as some of the more fun experimentation that the console saw over it's very long lifespan. Games Mentioned in this Episode: EJ Lufia - The Legend

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55:42

Gameboy Draft

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/11/28

We've been researching Gameboy games for months now and it's time to put all of that work to good use! Today is the first real step in our Gameboy Tournament. Matt, Hunter, Sun, and EJ will each nominate 4 Gameboy games to give us 16 total games for a massive battle of the best games later this month. This draft is stupid but it could have--and should have--been stupider! To see the most up to version of The OGA 100, visit

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54:55

Gameboy Overview and Tournament Introduction

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/11/21

It's finally time for us to move on to our next project. Through the end of the year, we'll be focusing our attention on the Gameboy! Not every episode will be about the Gameboy, but we'll be playing Gameboy games in preparation for our Gameboy Tournament at the end of the year. E.J. and Sun will join us to determine the best Gameboy game of all time! So let's spend today setting the stage and giving the Gameboy a proper introduction. To see the most up to version of The OGA 100, visit

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03:25:21

Re-ranking the Top 100 [’The List’ Finale]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/11/14

We've done it. 100 games on the list feels great but we've had some issues looming over us for a long time. As is our yearly tradition, it's time to reassess the list. Some of our opinions have changed over time and we must take stock and reorganize the list so that we can feel bad about it again in a month. To assist us, E.J. and Sun Sanders are here to maximize the chaos and ensure the list doesn't have too much of just Matt and Hunter's opinions. SPOILERS: This link is for the list AFTER

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01:05:23

Starcraft (1998) [The Ranking]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/11/07

Okay! We could just keep doing this forever. It's entirely possible for this show to just become a Starcraft podcast, but we're not going to do that. So today, after a full month of talking about it, we're finally going to rank Starcraft onto our list of 100 games...which notably is the last time we're ever adding a game to the list. From here on out, these are The OGA 100...until we decide to radically change format again or whatever. To see the most up to version of the list and this season's

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01:07:27

Starcraft (1998) [Multiplayer] [w/ Cole Wehrle]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/10/31

We've got one more week before we finally go through the arduous process of adding Starcraft to our list as our 100th game, and there's still too much to talk about. Today, we wanted to focus on multiplayer, but even within that topic there is too much to discuss. So for today's presentation we were joined by board game designer and friend of the show Cole Wehrle to talk about the beautiful cacophony that existed in Starcraft custom games multiplayer. Equal parts nonsense and game design playground,

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01:27:03

Starcraft (1998) [Brood War Campaign]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/10/24

It's week two of our Starcraft extravaganza and we continue with our adventure through the single player of the game, this week getting to move on to the first and only official expansion, Brood War. It's three more full campaigns with the featured factions of Starcraft, but the story has a lot more twists and turns to throw our way. We also talk about what units were added in this expansion and a bit about how that changed the landscape of the game. Come back next week for our huge episode about

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01:34:30

Starcraft (1998) [Single Player Campaign]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/10/17

Today is the beginning of a series of episodes covering our 100th game on the list: Starcraft. Released in 1998, Starcraft changed the RTS genre as well as our two stupid little lives. So enjoy this exhaustive look, starting with a focus on the initial release of the game and the single player campaign of just the base game. Next week, we'll talk about Brood War... To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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56:00

2023 State of Direct (Patreon Update and Season...

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/10/13

We've been teasing things for a few weeks now but we're finally excited to announce the future of Old Gamer's Almanac. We have a new format for the show incoming and a new way we'll be interacting with the list of 100 games. In addition to all of that, today's episode details new updates on the Patreon as well as some teasers to more 2024 seasons! To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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01:28:15

Just Games Booking Dads [w/ E.J. Sanders]

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/10/03

Matt and EJ read two books by noted video game journalist Jason Schreier and we're here to tell you about them! Jason interviewed dozens if not hundreds of game developers on the front lines to put together two books about the trial and tribulations of the games industry. Blood, Sweat, and Pixels (2017) takes a close look, one chapter at a time, at the development history of numerous specific games including Shovel Knight, Stardew Valley, Destiny, and the infamous Star Wars 1313 covering how hard it

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01:10:40

Preparing for Alan Wake 2

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/09/26

Today is weird because we're pretty much only talking about one game, but we are not ranking it. Alan Wake 2 comes out soon and Hunter set aside time to replay Alan Wake. However, Matt has never touched it and still would kind of like to play Alan Wake 2 when it comes out. So Hunter is here to give Matt (and you) a crash course on Alan Wake and catch him up on the story so far. To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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01:23:38

Shadow of the Colossus (2005)

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/09/19

We near the end of our first 100 games so before we finish we have to talk about the first game that was ever Art. That's right, until 2005 no other video game was Art, but then a team at Sony made a follow up to their 2001 platformer and Roger Ebert let us know we'd finally done it. Shadow of the Colossus is hailed by many as the greatest game ever made and it's our turn to put our ever-important opinions into the mix. To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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01:12:32

Super Mario World (1991)

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/09/12

We're 98 games into this list but we haven't talked about the red plumber since episode 1. Today we return to the Mushroom Kingdom to discuss the SNES follow-up to Mario 3, Super Mario World. It's one of the best launch titles ever, but does that mean it's one of the best game ever? Or is it even better than SMB3?! To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/194Zs7HY9o2y4dgOQLsQXT0Q0cBW_Q1WZzkwqG-ALqi0/edit?usp=sharing. THIS

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01:10:56

Kingdom Hearts 2 (2005)

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/09/05

We've finally come to some sort of finish line. Months ago we played Kingdom Hearts 1 and the Gameboy Advance sequel Chain of Memories and they left a sour taste in our mouth. But our memories held Kingdom Hearts 2 in a high regard...so it was finally time to refresh our memory and see if the door to our hearts is closed or full of light... To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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01:31:13

Demos, Drive-Ins, and Dives

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/08/29

We were both almost done with Kingdom Hearts 2 but are adopting a new philosophy of late that means we aren't rushing the ending and thus negatively affecting our opinion on the game. So in the meantime, maybe we can talk about a bunch of other games we've played this year and games we're looking forward to! To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/194Zs7HY9o2y4dgOQLsQXT0Q0cBW_Q1WZzkwqG-ALqi0/edit?usp=sharing. THIS CONTAINS

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01:12:26

Analogue Pocket

Old Gamer’s Almanac ·

2023/08/22

What is this? Linus Tech Tips? No, obviously not. We're far too stupid to give you an in depth product review. But we have been hanging out with new Analogue Pockets for just under two weeks and we wanted to talk about them. So that's what this episode is! Listen, the format of the show is whatever we want it to be and this week we wanted to talk about niche boutique electronics for old geezers. To see the most up to version of the list and this season's schedule, visit

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