Pixel Hunt Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Ey up! For the letter F game of our PlayStation journey we play Formula One Arcade.  Did it rev our engines?

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What Dan Did

• Case of the Golden Idol
• 8BitDo Ultimate 2C
• Xbox Wireless Controller – Ghost Cipher Special Edition

What Mark Did

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Star Wars Outlaws
• Subservience
• Strange Darling

What Sull Did

• Ratchet & Clank
• Astro Bot
• Resident Evil 6

Cultural Interlude July 19th 2002

UK Singles Charts

• No 11 - Chad Kroeger - Hero ft. Josey Scott
• No 3  -  Junkie XL vs Elvis Presley - A Little Less Conversation
• No 1  -  Gareth Gates - Anyone Of Us (Stupid Mistake)

Fillums! 

• No 7 - Weaponized Virus turns scientists into zombies causing petite survivor to rekill them all & crash crafty computer.

• No 4 - Local nerd vandalizes city, beats up highschool athlete, kills his best friend's dad, and steals his girlfriend

• No 1 - Tom cruise eats wrong sandwich & kidnaps precognitive savant in #PhilipKDick's itchy eye ball high concept SciFi

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

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• The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
• F1 2002 - PS2
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Xbox
• 007: Agent Under Fire - Gamecube
• Capcom vs. SNK Pro - Playstation
• Sven-Goran Eriksson's World Challenge - Playstation 2

What could we have been playing?

• Every other Formula 1 game
• A million FIFA games.
• Many FA/Football manager games.
• Fade to Black
• Fantastic Four
• Fatal Fury - Wild Ambition
• Fear Effect
• Final Doom
• Future Cop: L.A.P.D.

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Ey up! For the next game of our PlayStation era we play Einhänder.  Did we dig it?

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What Dan Did

• Thank Goodness You’re Here
• Deadpool & Wolverine

What Mark Did

• The Book of Mormon
• Pie Mash and Liqour

What Sull Did

• Steamworld Dig
• Skyward Sword
• Ratchet & Clank

Cultural Interlude May 5th 1998

UK Singles Charts

• No 10 - Massive Attack - Teardrop
• No 2  -  Madonna - Ray of Light
• No 1  -  All Saints - Under the Bridge

Fillums

Fillums! 

• No 7 - Misogynistic homophobic racist writer finds friendship & redemption by eruditely insulting those he loves most.
• No 4 - Rough sleeping vagabond charms high class hottie into sex games after teaching her to spit, table dance & flash T&A
• No 1 -  Grieving virgin is targeted by film-quizzing, stab-happy #EdvardMunch inspired serial killer in 1990's teen meta horror - the sequel

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

C&VG issue 198

• Tekken 3 - PS1
• Resident Evil 2 - PS1
• Quake - N64

What could we have been playing?

• Earthworm Jim 2
• ECW Hardcore Revolution
• Eggs of Steel: Charlie's Eggcellent Adventure
• Everybody’s Golf 1&2
• Evil Dead Hail to the King
• Extreme Pinball

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter Y this time with Yogi Bear Cartoon Capers. Was it Bearly decent or just plain boo boo?

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What Mark Did

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor
• GeForce Now
• The Reckoning
• The Bear
• Sharper

What Dan Did

• Miles Morales
• Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
• Romy - Mid Air
• DJ Hero

What Sull Did

• Silent Hill PS1
• Resident Evil 5
• Final Fantasy V
• Exorcist 50th Anniversary
• Friday The 13th 

Cultural Interlude October 1st 1994

UK Singles Charts

• Number 6 - Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
• Number 3 - Bon Jovi - Always
• Number 1 - Whigfield - Saturday Night

UK Album Charts

• Number 4 - Kylie Mingue - Kylie Mingoue
• Number 2 - Cyndi Lauper - Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some
• Number 1 - Songs - Luther Vandross

Fillums

• No 5 - Cameron Diaz’s film debut (hubba hubba) and Jim Carrey letting all the special FX do the heavy lifting in face covering comedy.

• No 3 -  Prehistoric dinosaur rosanne ghostbusters mash up featuring Liz Taylor’s last ever theatrical appearance.

• No 1 - Keanu Reeves ruins a building, a bus & a train whilst showing off to Sandra Bullock then gives Dennis Hopper a bad hair cut.

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

C+VG Issue 155

• Alone in the Dark - 3DO
• Vortex - SNES
• Zero Tolerance - Mega Drive

What could we have been playing?

• Ys III: Wanderers from Ys

• Yū Yū Hakusho Makyō Tōitsusen

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What did YOU think of Yogi Bear? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was October 94 for you?!

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Next Episode's game - Zoom

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter X this time with X-Men 2: Clone Wars. Was it Xcellent or Xtra rubbish?

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What Dan Did

• Horizon Forbidden West
• Rogue Legacy 2
• PGA Tour 2K23
• Uno
• Marvel Snap
• Succession
• The Flash
• No Hard Feelings
• Across The Spiderverse
• How Spider-Verse Broke The Rules of 3D Animation
• Oppenheimer

What Mark Did

• Slay The Spire
• Jedi Survivor
• Physical
• Barbie
• Meg 2
• Cha Cha Real Smooth

What Sull Did

• Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
• Fortnite Season 4 Chapter 4

Cultural Interlude May 15th 1995

UK Singles Charts

• Number 4 - Scatman John - Scatman (Ski Ba Bop Ba Dop Bop)
• Number 3 - Pérez Prado and His Orchestra - Guaglione
• Number 1 - Robson Golightly Green & Jerome Patrick Flynn - Unchained Melody

UK Album Charts

• Number 8 - Portishead - Dummy
• Number 7 - No Need To Argue - Cranberries
• Number 1 - Take That - Nobody Else 

Fillums

• No 6 - Two idiots try to out-idiot each other in the Farrelly Bros first film- frozen urine road trip comedy

• No 3 -  Due to lack of most basic text messaging to warn the public, an evil monkey is able to liquefy peoples internal organs

• No 1 - Minnie Driver and Chris O Donnell are University students in Ireland in adaptation of Maeve Binchy’s WHO IS NOW DEAD best selling novel

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

C+VG Issue 163

• Daytona USA - Sega Saturn
• Tekken - Playstation
• Alien Soldier - Sega Megadrive
• Full Throttle - PC

What could we have been playing?

• X-Men
• Xenon 2: Megablast
• X-Perts
• XDR

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Next Episode's game - Yogi Bear - Cartoon Capers

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter W this time with Wrestle War. War it any good?

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What Dan Did

• Horizon Forbidden West
• Rogue Legacy 2
• Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
• NERG
• Ryan Swales' Youtube
• Gary Delaney

What Mark Did

• Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning - Part 1
• Slay The Spire

What Sull Did

• The Bear
• Twilight Princess
• Guitar Hero

Cultural Interlude Jun 28th 1991

UK Singles Charts

• Number 6 - Bette Midler - From A Distance
• Number 4 - Kenny Thomas - Thinking About Your Love
• Climbing 1 to the top spot -  Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do

UK Album Charts

• Number 8 - Fellow Hoodlums -  Deacon Blue feat Your Swaying Arms & Twist and Shout
• Number 5 - Stranglers Greatest Hits - 1977 - 1990
• Number 1 - Cher - Love Hurts

Fillums

• No 7 - Matt Dillon - Sean Young - Ruthless student fakes fiancé's suicide after an unexpected pregnancy to gain her  inheritance- top thriller.
• No 2 -  Jailed for his revolutionary recipes, a maverick chef must mastermind his escape- delicious prison breaker.
• No 1 - Frank Drebbin saves the world from environmental disaster & delivers more one liners than is humanly possible.

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

C+VG Issue 116

• Sim City - SNES - 93
• Solstice - NES - 93 
• Star Control - Megadrive - 90 
• Arcade Action - Simpsons - 91

What could we have been playing?

• Wardner
• World Class Leaderboard
• Whip Rush
• World of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse & Donald Duck
• Where in the World is Carmen Sandiago
• Wonder Boy III : Monster Lair
• Wonder Boy in Monster World (Wonder Boy V: Monster World III)
• Worms

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What did YOU think of Wrestle War? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was June 91 for you?!

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Next Episode's game - X-Men 2: Clone Wars

"Playing the games so you don't have to!"

Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter V this time with Vectorman.  Is it the Amber Vector?

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What Dan Did

• Cyberpunk
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3
• Grand Tour: Eurocrash
• Succession

What Mark Did

• Be More Productive
• The Flash

What Sull Did

• Ricky Gervais - Armageddon
• Star Control 3 
• Banjo Tooie
• Skies of Arcadia
• Resident Evil 5
• Queens of the Stone Age - Halifax

Cultural Interlude November 30th 1995

UK Singles Charts

• Number 3 -  Missing - Everything but the Girl
• Number 2 - Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise (feat. L.V.) 
• Holding on to the No 1 Spot for a fourth week…  Robson & Jerome - Up On The Roof

UK Album Charts

• Number 3 - Oasis - (What’s the Story) Morning Glory
• Number 2 - Beatles - Anthology 1
• Number 1 - Robson & Jerome - Robson & Jerome

Fillums

• No 9  -  Vapid high school socialite's shidduching reveals her naïveté as #JaneAusten's Emma gets a 90s makeover- erudite comedy
• No 2 - Hawkish submarine captain & cerebral commander clash as communications collapse causes mutiny & mayhem
• No 1 - Defining a generation of N64 gamers, Bond turns on cheats & shoots giant headed henchmen in the groin with a golden PPK

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

CVG Issue 169

• King of Fighters 95 - Neo Geo
• Earthworm Jim 2 - Mega Drive
• Hebereke's Popoitto - Saturn 
• Hexen - PC

What could we have been playing?

• Vapor Trail
• Vectorman 2
• Virtua Fighter 1 & 2
• Virtua Racing
• Virtual Bart
• Viewpoint 

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What did YOU think of Vectorman? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was November 92 for you?!

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Next Episode's game - Wrestle War

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter U this time with Universal Soldier. Universal love or what?

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What Mark Did

• Resident Evil 4 Remake
• Shazam 2
• Evil Dead Rise
• Dungeons & Dragons

What Dan Did

• Operation Fortune
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie
• The Upside
• Clarkson’s Farm Season 2
• Neuromancer
• Metroid Prime Remake

What Sull Did

• The Quarry
• Twilight Princess
• Fortnite: Zero Build
• Guardians of the Galaxy 3

Jean Claude Van Damme Universal Soldier Is The Greatest Movie Of All Time

Cultural Interlude November 17th 1992

UK Singles Charts

• No 8 -  Be My Baby - Vanessa Paradis
• No 5 -  Never Let Her Slip Away - Undercover
• No 1 -  Would I Lie to You - Charles and Eddie

UK Album Charts

• No 1 - Greatest Hits 1965 - 1992 - Cher

Fillums

• No 4  - Axe fighting sprinting enthusiast caught between evil English & face-sexing French finds love in epic gem

• No 3 - Railroaded into stealing a McGuffin, hackers find themselves subject to alphabeti-spaghetti government agency witchhunt

• No 1 - Redemption & consequence, love & longing in iconic & imaginative Irish twisty drama

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

CVG Issue 133

• Another World - SNES
• Mario Kart - SNES
• Pitfighter - Master System

Final Thoughts

What could we have been playing?

• Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
• Ultimate QIX
• Urban Strike

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Next Episode's game - Vectorman

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter T this time with Troy Aikman NFL Football  Is it NFHell or what?

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What Dan Did

• Cyberpunk
• Quantumania
• Babylon

What Mark Did

• Missing
• Cocaine Bear
• The Last Of Us
• Use Your Words

What Sull Did

• DARQ
• Twilight Princess
• Tapper
• Ridge Racer Type 4
• Man of Medan
• Omnium Gatherum - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Cultural Interlude December 19th 1991

UK Singles Charts

• No 10 - M Beat feat General Levy - Incredible
• No 8 - Boyz II Men - I'll Make Love To You
• No 1 - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen

UK Album Charts

• No 11 - Dos Dedos Mis Amigos - Pop Will Eat Itself
• No 10 - Music For The Jilted Generation - The Prodigy 
• No 1 - Songs - Luther Vandross

Fillums

• No 9 - Arnie abuses power, foils terrorist plot & survives a nuclear explosion in stupidly fun strip teasing guilty pleasure
• No 8 - Harrison Ford is forced to head a semi-legal operation against Columbian drug lords in the action packed
• No 1 - Keanu Reeves ruins a building, a bus & a train whilst showing off to Sandra Bullock then gives Dennis Hopper a bad hair cut

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

On the 1st October 1994 C&VG issue 155 was on the shelves in Woolworths

CVG Issue 155

• Dynamite Headdy - Mega Drive
• Road Rash - 3DO
• Inferno - PC

Final Thoughts

What could we have been playing?

• Toe Jam and Earl / Toe Jam and Earl: Panic on Funkotron
• Thunderforce II, III, IV
• Trouble Shooter (Battle Mania)
• Taz-Mania & Taz in Escape from Mars
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist
• Truxton

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Next Episode's game - Universal Soldier

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter Q this time with Quackshot  Is it a load of Quap or what?

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(00:00:00) Round Table Chat About Games and That

What Dan Did

• Happy Valley
• The Last of Us
• Hi-Fi Rush
• COD Warzone : DMZ

What Sull Did

• Hi-Fi Rush
• Warioware
• Extraordinary

What Mark Did

• M3GAN
• God of War Ragnarok
• The Callisto Protocol
• Dead Space Remake

(00:33:20) - Letter Q - Quackshot

(00:55:23) - Cultural Interlude December 19th 1991

UK Singles Charts

• No 7 - Too Blind To See It - Kim Syms
• No 4 - When You Tell Me That You Love Me - Diana Ross
• No 1 - Bohemian Rhapsody / These Are The Days Of Our Lives - Queen

UK Album Charts

• No 10 - Together With Cliff - Cliff Richard
• No 2 - Dangerous - Micheal Jackson - feat Black and White, Remember The Time, Heal The World
• No 1 - Greatest Hits II - Queen

Fillums

• No 10 - True story of how an android apocalypse was averted by a boy, his psychotic mum & an Austrian robot
• No 8 - Guilt ridden DJ finds hope of redemption in the lost soul of a deranged man whose life he shattered.
• No 1 - Con artists attempt to defraud freakish family in grave digging, booby trapping, hand scampering murderously gothic fun

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

On the 19th December C&VG issue 122 was on the shelves in Woolworths

CVG Issue 122

• Robocop 3 - Amiga
• Rolling Thunder 2 - Mega Drive
• Super Castlevania IV - SNES

(01:26:00) Final Thoughts

What could we have been playing?

• Quad Challenge

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Next Episode's game - Troy Aikman NFL Football

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Ey up! We've reached Mega Drive letter S this time with S.S. Lucifer: Man Overboard. Is it WOOcifer or POOcifer?

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What Sull Did

• Minish Cap
• Inscryption
• Signalis

What Dan Did

• Snowrunner
• COD Warzone : DMZ
• Me Time
• Happy Valley

What Mark Did

• The Menu
• Welcome to Chippendales
• White Lotus
• God of War Ragnarok
• Need for Speed

Cultural Interlude October 15th 1994

UK Singles Charts

• No 10 - Madonna - Secret
• No 6 -  Corona - The Rhythm of the Night
• No 1 - Take That - Sure

UK Album Charts

• No 10 - Massive Attack - Protection
• No 6 - Songs - Luther Vandross feat Endless Love
• No 1 - REM - Monster feat "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" and "Bang and Blame"

Fillums

• No 3 - Speed
• No 4 - Forrest Gump
• No 1 - Lion King

And what we’ve all been waiting for!!!!! - Games

On the 15th October C&VG issue 156 was on the shelves in Woolworths

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• Burn Cycle - CD-i
• Earthworm Jim - SNES
• Rise of the Robots - SNES
• Adventures of Batman and Robin - SNES

What could we have been playing?

• Super Monaco GP
• All the Sonics
• Sword of Vermillion
• All the Streets of Rage
• Sol-Feace
• All the Shining Forces
• Shadow Dancer
• Sewer Shark
• Silpheed
• Strider
• Super Hang On

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What did YOU think of S.S. Lucifer: Man Overboard? How many AWOOGAS would you give it? How was Feb 95 for you?!

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Next Episode's game - Quackshot

"Playing the games so you don't have to!"