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This week we are playing the final levels in video games. Cody ends the threat of humanity in Jurassic Park. Matt fights a brain and an eye in Metroid and Kid Icarus, and Nikki contends with bad hit boxes in Aladdin. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Vampire Survivors (PC) (00:05:20) Project Triangle Strategy (SWITCH) (00:11:28) Nintendo Switch Sports (SWITCH) (00:16:55) Games Played Theme : Last Levels Cody : Jurassic Park (Gen) (Intro: 00:23:52) (Gameplay: 00:25:00) Matt : Metroid (NES) (Intro: 00:37:06) (Gameplay: 00:38:48) Matt: Kid Icarus (NES) (Intro: 00:44:37) (Gameplay: 00:45:18) Nikki : Aladdin (SNES) (Intro: 00:52:55) (Gameplay: 00:53:39)

In episode 199 we play guilty pleasure games. Nikki fights a genie with a lion person in Twisted Wonderland. Matt smashes his action figures together in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and Cody helps do Christmas Crimes in Mario Kart Tour. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Intro (00:00:00) Host Intros (00:02:20) Reviews Cult of the Lamb (PC) (00:05:42) Stray (PC) (00:09:12) Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (SWITCH) (00:12:18) Doom Eternal (SWITCH) (00:15:31) Evoland (Android) (00:16:24) Games Played Theme : Guilty Pleasures (Intro) Nikki : Twisted Wonderland (Android) (00:18:38) (Gameplay) Nikki : Twisted Wonderland (Android) (00:18:38) (Intro) Matt : Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (SWITCH) (00:33:44) (Gameplay) Matt : Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (SWITCH) (00:37:13) (Intro) Cody : Mario Kart Tour (Android) (00:53:44) (Gameplay) Cody : Mario Kart Tour (Android) (00:55:23)

This week we play puzzle games! Matt is killed by a skeleton thus fulfilling the prophecy in Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon. Cody finally creates the sequel to Multiplicity in The Swapper, and Nikki plays with off-brand portals in Portal: The Flash Version. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Introduction: 00:00:00 Host Introductions: 00:03:04 Reviews Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster (PC) 00:05:18 Games Played Theme : Puzzle Games Matt Intro: Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (PC) 00:19:06 Matt Gameplay: Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (PC) 00:22:17 Cody Intro : The Swapper (PC) 00:34:45 Cody Gameplay : The Swapper (PC) 00:34:45 Nikki Intro : Portal: The Flash Version (PC) 00:47:15 Nikki Gameplay : Portal: The Flash Version (PC) 00:48:11

This week we play clone games! Cody is a super-fighting meatball man in Bots N Bolts. Nikki is saving all the animals by beating them unconscious in Super Noah’s Ark 3D, and Matt is full of hackblood energy in Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Intro 00:00:00 Host Intros 00:02:04 Reviews Review: TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge (PC) 00:05:12 Review: Disco Elysium (PC) 00:12:11 Review: Persona 3 (PC) (Spoilers) 00:17:00 Games Played Theme : Clone Games Cody Intro: Bots ‘n Bolts (Android) 00:21:02 Cody Gameplay : Bots ‘n Bolts (Android) 00:22:04 Nikki Intro: Super Noah’s Ark 3D (SNES) 00:36:33 Nikki Gameplay: Super Noah’s Ark 3D (SNES) 00:38:09 Matt Intro: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer (PC) 00:46:18 Matt Gameplay: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer (PC) 00:50:32 Next Theme 01:06:58

This week we play game of the year award winners! Matt wants you to paint him like one of your French Heroes of Time in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Nikki is like a bird (she wants to fly away) in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Cody plays Gunstar Heroes. Hosts This Week Nikki: Matt Cody Intro 00:00:00 Host Intros 00:02:21 Reviews Eldin Ring (PC) 00:04:45 Knot Words(Android) 00:12:23 Redactl (Web) 00:17:02 Hades (PC) 00:19:45 Games Played Theme : GOTY Matt (Intro) The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds (3DS) 00:20:38 Matt (Gameplay) The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds (3DS) 00:24:43 Nikki (Intro) Dragon Age Inquisition (PC) 00:42:31 Nikki (Gameplay) Dragon Age Inquisition (PC) 00:44:03 Cody (Intro) Gunstar Heroes (GEN) 01:02:11 Cody (Gameplay) Gunstar Heroes (GEN) 01:02:58 Next Week’s Theme 01:16:43

This week we play Edutainment games! Matt runs out of meat in Oregon Trail II. Cody skateboards into our hearts like a needle into our skin in Wally Bear and the No Gang!, and Nikki surfs into hell as a precursor to when she surfs into hell! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Kirby and the Forgotten Land (SWITCH) 00:03:45 Chrono Cross the Radical Dreamer Edition (PC) 00:11:35 Pokemon Brilliant Diamond (SWITCH) 00:15:40 Metroid Dread (SWITCH) 00:16:31 Death’s Door (PC) 00:17:39 Upcoming Releases April 28, 2022: Rogue Legacy 2 (PC) 00:19:37 Cities VR (QUEST2) 00:20:58 May 5, 2022: RriffTrax: The Game (PC/PS4/SWITCH/XONE) 00:22:53 Games Played Theme : Edutainment Matt : Oregon Trail II (PC) Intro: 00:24:56 Matt : Oregon Trail II (PC) Gameplay: 00:26:53 Cody : Wally Bear and the No! Gang (NES) Intro 00:37:21 Cody : Wally Bear and the No! Gang (NES) Gameplay 00:39:24 Nikki : Bubsy 3D: Busbsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (PC) Intro 00:51:03 Nikki : Bubsy 3D: BVtJTR (PC) Gameplay 00:52:30

This week we play games made by Acclaim! Nikki plays a sport from the future, and that sport involves vomiting, in Battle Sport. Cody realizes that the only real truth is pacifism in True Lies, and Matt builds his own fursona in ECW Anarchy Rulz. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Intro: 00:00 Host Intros: 00:02:17 Reviews Eldin Ring (PC) 00:07:22 Kirby The Forgotten Land Demo (SWITCH) 00:15:47 Games Played Theme : Acclaim Games Nikki Intro: Battle Sport (PSX) 00:22:27 Nikki Gameplay: Battle Sport (PSX) 00:24:38 Cody Intro: True Lies (GEN) 00:37:48 Cody Gameplay: True Lies (GEN) 00:39:04 Matt Intro: ECW Anarchy Rules (PSX) 00:50:30 Matt Gameplay: ECW Anarchy Rules (PSX) 00:53:34

This week on Cartridge Blowers, we play Advergames! Volkswagen wants you to be a beetle when we would rather be a beetleborg in Beetle Adventure Racing! Nikki loves bullets and ramen in Persona 5 Royal, and Cody bows to the wheat squares in Chex Quest Remastered. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Psychonauts 2 (00:06:06) Into the Breach (00:10:40) Slay the Spire with Mods (00:13:05) Loop Hero (00:13:43) Monster Hunter Wolrd (00:17:11) Earth Defense Force World Brothers (00:18:29) Yugioh Master Duel (00:21:48) Matt’s Top 10 games of 2021 (00:25:07) Games Played Theme : Advergames Matt : Beetle Adventure Racing (N64) (Intro:00:43:07) (Gameplay: 00:45:43) Nikki : Persona 5 (PC) (Intro: 00:56:25) (Gameplay: 00:57:23) Cody : Chex Quest Remastered (PC) (Intro: 01:02:15) (Gameplay: 01:03:34)

In episode 191 we play a Spooky Secret Santa! Nikki gets a bonus sticker so that now she can die fulfilled in Andy’s Apple Farm. Cody takes a trip through hard cloud world in Eversion, and Matt shoots his way through bats, doctors, and Flava Flav in Savage Halloween! Hosts This Week Nikki Cody Matt Reviews Back for Blood (PC) (00:06:30) Inscryption (PC) (00:10:38) Games Played Theme : Halloweenmas Nikki : Andy’s Apple Farm (PC) (Intro: 00:17:15) (Gameplay: 00:19:00) Cody : Eversion (PC) (Intro: 00:43:05) (Gameplay: 00:43:55) Matt : Savage Halloween (PC) (Intro: 00:56:45) (Gameplay: 00:57:56)

This week we play games we’ve seen the other hosts play in episodes past. Cody gets on the train to big amorphous hand creature-ville in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Matt learns to love the bomb in Scribblenauts Unlimited, and Nikki basically just spends 8 minutes murdering a prone guy in Surgeon Simulator. All this, and the Mario Movie cast list. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (PC) (00:06:20) Wario Ware Get it Together (SWITCH) (00:11:06) Persona 5 (PC) (00:17:14) Upcoming Releases Mario Movie (00:19:29) Games Played Theme : Jealousy Week Cody: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (From Episode 159) (PC) (00:28:06) Matt: Scribblenauts Unlimited (From Episode 32) (PC) (00:41:26) Nikki: Surgeon Simulator (PC) (00:57:35)

This week we play Fantasy Games! Matt deals with the worst part of being royalty: parenting, in Yes, Your Grace! Nikki loses her sibling fulfilling the dream of all siblings in Slay the Dragon, and Cody loses his head…on purpose in Skul: The Hero Slayer! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews PS5 (00:05:08) Baster Master Z3 (SWITCH) (00:07:07) 12 Minutes (SWITCH) (00:08:45) Hypnospace Outlaw(PC) (00:12:56) Wildermyth (PC) (00:17:19) Portal: Reloaded (PC) (00:21:02) Games Played Theme : Fantasy Games Matt : Yes Your Grace (PC) (Intro: 00:25:36) (Gameplay: 00:25:58) Nikki : Slay the Dragon (PC) (Intro: 00:40:00) (Gameplay: 00:40:16) Cody : Skul: The Hero Slayer (PC) (Intro: 00:53:23) (Gameplay: 00:54:17)

This week, it’s little known fighting games! Nikki kills our favorite new character of 2021, Robot Marshmallow Cop, in Flying Dragon. Cody does a little dance and is a cutie patootie in Cho Aniki, and Matt will play more of this game over his aged corpse in Battle Construction Vehicles! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Mario Golf: Super Rush (SWITCH) (00:05:02) Streets of Rage 4 DLC (00:14:03) Alan Wake + Control Franchise (PC) (00:14:36) Games Played Theme : Fighting Games Nikki : Flying Dragon (SNES) (Intro: 00:17:40) (Gameplay: 00:18:13) Cody : Cho Aniki: Bakuretsu Rantou Hen (SNES) (Intro: 00:33:07) (Gameplay: 00:33:47) Matt : BCV: Battle Construction Vehicles (PS2) (Intro: 00:43:53) (Gameplay: 00:45:35)

In episode 187, it’s Nick Arcade Challenge Week again! That’s right, it’s another edition of our yearly tradition where we submit challenges to each other along with the help of our audience to see how well we can be at video gaming! We have speed, weird controller positions, game genie codes, pacifism, and more! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Games Played Theme : Nick Arcade Challenge Week 2021 Cody : Challenge 1 (Jking): Tetris (NES): Get a Tetris on level 16 in under 30 Seconds (00:04:58) Challenge 2 (Matt): Mario Land 2 (GB): Get 50 coins before the clock reaches 450 on Tree Zone 1 (00:06:55) Challenge 3 (Matt): Mario Tennis (N64): Win one game without the other player scoring on you more than once. (00:08:30) Challenge 4 (AteaTree): Doom 2 (PC): Complete “Icon of Sin”. Certain Codes Allowed. (00:09:46) Challenge 5 (MewMewFan): Sonic the Hedgehog (GEN): Complete Green Hill Zone with the controller upside down. (00:13:23) Challenge 6 (Matt): Super Metroid (SNES): Escape after beating Ridley with more than 22 seconds left (00:16:06) Challenge 7 (Digital Ignorance): Super Mario Bros (NES): Beat 1-1 with the controller upside down (00:17:39) Challenge 8 (Nikki): OOT (N64): Get 2000 Points in the Gerudo Arrow Range (00:19:05) Challenge 9 (AteaTree): Contra Hard Corps (GEN): Survive the longest (or complete level 1) with the added boons of not losing subweapons upon death (AM4A-AA8C) and either starting with all subweapons (H9GA-AAE6) or two extra lives (AYCT-AAH4) (00:20:41) Challenge 10 (Matt): Super Mario World (SNES): Beat Yoshi’s Island 3 without collecting coins. (00:24:40) Matt: Challenge 1 (Cody): Mortal Kombat II Beta (SNES): Get a flawless victory as Baraka without hovering. (00:27:52) Challenge 2 (Cody): Star Fox 64 (N64): Make it to the giant robot in the first level without killing any enemies and without losing a life. (00:31:13) Challenge 3 (Gunmakuma): Blazing Lazers (TG-16): Get the massive bonus lives and bombs by surviving the first boss without attacking it (00:33:45) Challenge 4 (Jking): Tetris (NES): Get a Tetris on level 16 in under 30 Seconds (00:37:55) Challenge 5 (ateatree): Contra Hard Corps (GEN): Beat level 1. (00:39:20) Challenge 6 (Cody): The Lion King (SNES): Reach the first checkpoint in 30 seconds. (00:43:28) Challenge 7 (Cody): Super Mario 64 (N64): Get 8 coins on Cool, Cool Mountain while outracing the 1-up. (00:45:14) Challenge 8 (Cody): Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES): Reach Birdo in 1-1 while using the Game Genie code AZXANZAA.(00:47:11) Challenge 9 (Cody): Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES): Kill an enemy or de-wing two paragoombas in 1-1 and 1-2 while using the Game Genie code PAASNI. (00:50:09) Challenge 10 (Cody): Mega Man (NES): Get to a Robot Master while using the Game Genie code TAOOGIEA without getting a game over. (00:55:40) Challenge 11 (DigitalIgnorance): Super Mario Bros. (NES): Beat 1-1 in under 90 seconds while holding your controller upside down. (01:01:27) Challenge 12 (Mewmewfan): Sonic the Hedgehog (GEN): Beat Green Hill Zone Acts 1-3 while holding your controller upside down. (01:02:52) Challenge 13 (Rumplfugs): Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (Gen): Beat Emerald Hill Zone Act 1 blindfolded. (01:06:48)

In this episode we play Rom Hacks! Nikki stomps on a cake in “This Hack Needs a Name.” Cody has a prescription and it’s pain in Dr. Mario World: House Calls, and Matt puts a key in a hole in Mario’s Keytastrophe: Rebirth Edition. All this and the new Mortal Kombat movie! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Dragon Age Origins (PC) (00:04:40) Mortal Kombat 2021 (Movie) (00:10:47) Games Played Theme : Rom Hacks/Mods Nikki : This Hack Needs a Name (SNES) (Intro: 00:19:47) (Gameplay: 00:20:33) Cody : Dr. Mario World: House Call (SNES) (Intro: 00:38:24) (Gameplay: 00:38:58) Matt : Mario’s Keytrastrophe: Rebirth Edition (SNES) (Intro: 00:51:53)(Gameplay: 00:53:05)

This week we play video game versions of board games! Cody shows that Mario Party would be a lot better if you could just gut Donkey Kong like a fish in Pummel Party. Matt shows you a prime piece of bird Squakaganda in Wingspan, and Nikki plays through Jenga’s intense story mode in Jenga World Tour. Hosts This Week Cody Matt Nikki Reviews: Eye of the Beholder (SNES) (00:04:33) Dicey Dungeons (TableTop) (00:07:50) Control (PC) (00:12:03) Games Played Theme : Board Games/Game Shows Cody : Pummel Party (PC) (Intro: 00:15:05) (Gameplay: 00:16:20) Matt : Wingspan (PC) (Intro: 00:31:22) (Gameplay: 00:32:45) Nikki : Jenga World Tour (NDS) (Intro: 00:45:01)(Gameplay: 00:47:03)

This week we play video games based on TV Shows! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Super Mario 3d World + Bowser’s Fury (SWITCH) (00:06:03) Wario Ware Gold (2DS) (00:09:48) Ittle Dew (PC) (00:13:07) Little Nightmares 2 (PC) (00:14:27) Upcoming Releases February 25, 2021: Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection (SWITCH) (00:17:38) March 2, 2021: Maquette (PC/PS4/PS5) (00:19:38) Games Played Theme : TV Show Games Nikki : The Wild Thornberries (GBC) (Intro: 00:22:24) (Gameplay: ) Cody : Alf (MasterSystem) (Intro: 00:38:07)(Gameplay: 00:40:39) Matt : Power Rangers: Battle For the Grid (PC) (Intro: 00:53:00)(Gameplay: 00:55:23)

This week we play games we purchased for each other! Nikki gives Matt a chance to fill his hole in Donut County! Cody allows Nikki to find the Heart of Space in My Diggy Dog 2, and Matt gave Cody a Cat mech ensuring all of his laptops will be laid upon and then destroyed in Gator Roboto! All this and Matt’s top 10 games of the year! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Top Games of the Year: Honorable Mentions (00:11:56) Top Games of the Year: 10 (00:14:27) Top Games of the Year: 09 (00:15:25) Top Games of the Year: 08 (00:16:29) Top Games of the Year: 07 (00:17:29) Top Games of the Year: 06 (00:18:19) Top Games of the Year: 05 (00:19:26) Top Games of the Year: 04 (00:20:46) Top Games of the Year: 03 (00:22:37) Top Games of the Year: 02 (00:24:28) Top Games of the Year: 01 (00:28:30) Games Played Theme : Secret Santa Matt: Donut County (PC) (Intro: 00:31:12) (Gameplay: 00:34:00) Nikki: My Diggy Dog 2 (PC) (Intro: 00:47:38) (Gameplay: 00:48:33) Cody: Gato Roboto (PC) (Intro: 01:00:56) (Gameplay: 01:02:07)

This week we play games that are clones of other games! Nikki brings hell exactly what it needs in Heretic. Cody Jump Jumps and Slid Slides in Rosenkreuzstilette, and Matt is a big buff fish that’s here to steal your girlfriend in Slap City. Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Stadia Controller (Hardware) (05:55:19) Xbox Series X Controller (Hardware) (00:10:40) Paper Mario: The Origami King (SWITCH) (00:14:30) Blackthorne (SNES) (00:15:10) Gunman Clive 2 (PC) (00:16:22) Games Played Theme : Clone Games Nikki: Heretic (PC) (Intro: 00:18:20) (Gameplay: 00:19:08) Cody: Rosenkreuzstilette (PC) (Intro: 00:29:26) (Gameplay: 00:31:39) Matt: Slap City (PC) (Intro: 00:43:30) (Gameplay: 00:46:07) Music Intro pt. 1: Temple Location (Audio Alchemist) Intro pt. 2: Princess Quest (Abstraction) Theme Song: Mario Circuit (Insaneintherainmusic)

This week we pick games for each other! Cody fights the eternal evil that is the user interface of System Shock. Matt makes a mascot do a cuss and a murder in Shadow the Hedgehog, and Nikki gets 52 games for the price of her dignity in Action 52! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Tetris Effect Connected(Xbox Pass) (00:04:42) Super Quickie World 2 (PC) (00:07:08) Bizhawk Shuffler (PC) (00:07:38) Cody’s Video Game System (SYSTEM) (00:11:10) Upcoming Releases November 20, 2020 Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (SWITCH) (00:16:18) December 1, 2020 Worms Rumble (PC/PS5/PS4) (00:19:58) December 2, 2020: Sam & Max Save the World Remastered (SWITCH/PC) (00:21:58) Games Played Theme : Pick Each Other’s Poison Cody : System Shock (DOS) (Intro: 00:25:06) (Gameplay: 00:27:33) Matt : Shadow the Hedgehog (NGC) (Intro: 00:38:25) (Gameplay: 00:40:55) Nikki : Action 52 (NES) (Intro: 00:56:28)(Gameplay: 00:58:34)

This week we play spooky games for Halloween! Matt gets scared by toast in Spooky’s Jump Scare Mansion. Nikki gets sliced apart by bear traps in Limbo, and Cody is a pumpkin king…or duke…a pump duke in Pumpkin Jack! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Super Mario 35 (SWITCH) (00:07:08) Silent Hill Franchise (PSX) (00:10:33) Part Time UFO (SWITCH) (00:12:14) Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity (Demo) (SWITCH) (00:15:00) Dragon Age Inquisition (PC) (00:20:43) Genshin Impact (PS4) (00:21:39) Oxenfree (PC) (00:28:50) Layers of Fear (PC) (00:30:24) Games Played Theme : Pick Each Other’s Poison Matt : Spooky’s House of Jumpscares (PC) (Intro: 00:36:15) (Gameplay: 00:38:37) Nikki : Limbo (PC) (Intro: 00:53:33) (Gameplay: 00:54:22) Cody : Pumpkin Jack (Demo) (PC) (Intro: 01:05:59) (Gameplay: 01:07:17)