ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
The Game Show is a celebration of video games and our collective interests mixed with a healthy dose of humor, while bringing in our favorite people in the game and movie industries on as guests.
The podcast before podcasts.
The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returns in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run and two new.
The podcast before podcasts.
The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returns in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run and two new.
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
102 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
85 episodes
since May 17, 2003
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
On Halloween we played Phasmophobia and had so much fun that we did it again. This week Jess, Darria, Logan, and I play Among Us. Four friends, one impostor, and a game that kept picking the same guy.
Logan was the impostor nearly every round and we still couldn't stop him. Darria had never played…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Happy Halloween from The Game Show. Jack Burton, Jess, Logan, and Darria play Phasmophobia together for the first time while Break hosts from the van. Four haunted locations, three total wipes, one correct guess. Obake, Deogen, Demon, Revenant. Plus Halloween costumes, a tribute to Patrick Stewart,…
Games that weren’t supposed to scare you, but did. Jess and Break go through the creepiest moments in non-horror games: Big Boo’s Haunt, Lavender Town, Sonic CD’s hidden message, the Broodmother, the Bottom of the Well, SA-X, the Phantom Train, Skyrim’s House of Horrors, the Happy Mask Salesman, Sh…
Clone consoles are everywhere now. Some are good. Some are junk that looks good in a listing. Tonight Ace joins The Game Show to sort out which is which.
Ace designed the Mega Amp, the audio mod for the Genesis and Mega Drive, and wrote the Sega-16 guide on Genesis hardware revisions. He spent year…
What game came in the box? This week we go console by console, from the NES to the Switch 2, and pick our favorite pack-in game for each one. The classics are all here: Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Sonic, Wii Sports. So are the misfires like Keith Courage in Alpha Zones and the oddballs like Hexic on…
Hot takes night. Break, Jack Burt0n, Jess, Logan, and Darria defend their spiciest gaming opinions: GameCube was the best of its generation, long games are overrated, Souls games aren't a flex, and piracy helped the industry. Plus a clip from the very first Game Show in 2002 where Break predicted M…
The full crew is back and the topic is video game endings. We pick the best endings ever made, from Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid to Portal, Final Fantasy VI, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Subnautica, Alan Wake 2 and a surprisingly emotional case for Mario Kart Wii. Then a lightning round on the …
Sir Randall of Ye Old Press joins Break to talk about building physical big box editions for digital-only games. Hollow Knight: Silksong. Ocarina of Time on PC. Warframe. Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters. He designs the box, prints the art, and puts a disc in it.
We get into how he makes them, why Lim…
We gave box art a full episode. Jess, Jack, and Logan brought picks, the rules were loose, and Jess found a cover so cursed it stopped the show.
First the news. A new Nintendogs is rumored for Switch 2. The Blizzard union ratified its first contract covering 1,900 employees. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe got…
The crew heads back to the arcade this week. Everyone brought a list of their favorite arcade games and the memories that go with them. Break's picks run from Konami beat 'em ups like TMNT and X-Men to shmups like Truxton, Radiant Silvergun, and Metal Slug, plus a deep cut called The Cliffhanger: E…
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