Gamers on the Go

Chase and Matt “Giggysan” Giguere have one final era of Nintendo handheld consoles to rank, and it's the ones that started it all. Listen in as we run through our favorites and build our list of the best 25 games you can play on these portables.

Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud Matt Giguere and Bobby Pease join GOTG this time as we’re all excited about Panic’s new yellow fun dispenser, the Playdate. We cover our overall impressions of the hardware, the first two weeks of official games for it (including Whitewater Wipeout, Casual Birder, Crankin’s Time Travel Adventure and Boogie Loops) and some of the software we’ve sideloaded onto the system.  Look forward to future episodes where we’ll cover the other games in this first season of Playdate content. Show Notes:See and hear more of Matt on his Twitch channel and Tyler Abstract’s Abstract Japan podcastAnd see more of Bobby (and Chase) on The Casual Hour network

Matt “Giggysan” Giguere is back for another ranking of handheld games, this time for Nintendo’s Game Boy Advance. From scrolling shooters to turn-based strategy games to…whatever you call WarioWare, we look back on a console packed with incredible games and try to narrow down to the best of the best.

Co-host of The Casual Hour Johnny Amizich returns to GOTG as we talk about a very cool new piece of tech for fans of handheld gaming: the Analogue Pocket. We give our early impressions of the hardware and talk about the possibilities it represents for portable retro gaming. And since we also wanted to talk about some actual games, we’ve dug into the well to play three of the Game Boy’s earliest sports titles - Baseball, Tennis and Golf.

Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud Happy Metroid Dread day for all the 2D Metroid fans in the house. To celebrate, Matt “Giggysan” Giguere joins as we look back on Nintendo and MercurySteam’s previous foray into the series - Metroid: Samus Returns. Is it the best remake of Metroid II? Does it inform us about anything that Metroid Dread might have in store? Does Chase like Metroid now? Tune in to this episode for answers to all these questions and more. Show Notes:Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit does a great breakdown of how both Metroid II remakes attempt to recreate the original Game Boy game. Looking for Metroid Dread content? Check out The Casual Hour on Twitch and YouTube for quick looks and impressions. Find more of Giggysan’s work on his Twitch as well as his occasional guest spot on the Abstract Japan podcast. And if you like energy beams and mechanized armor, Chase has been playing through all of Super Robot Wars X on his YouTube channel.

Co-host of The Casual Hour, Bobby Pease joins Chase to talk about the first mainline Pokemon games released on the Nintendo 3DS: 2013’s Pokemon X and Y. From the French-inspired Kalos to the brand new Wonder Trading and everything in-between, enjoy this mega-evolved episode! Show Notes:We didn’t get deep into the post game, but if you want to learn about everything that opens up to you after beating the story, here you go.For more from The Casual Hour, where you can hear more of Chase, Bobby and their co-host Johnny, visit all the official channels here.

In this episode six years in the making, Pierce Courchaine joins us to talk about the mysterious and innovative 2015 game Her Story. We compare notes, discuss its calculated writing and attempt to uncover the truth. Note that we do spoil the hell out of the game eventually, but there is quite a big of spoiler-free talk at the beginning, as well as a clear warning before we get into the finer details. And because the universe is weird, turns out, that Sam Barlow, the creator of Her Story, announced a new game called Immortality right after we recorded this episode! Show Notes:If you want more Her Story, Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit, did a much better job explaining how this game works than we did. And here’s Mark’s complete explainer for the game.There is also an exhaustive breakdown of the game by DePaul and University of Chicago professor Ian Bryce Jones, who has used Her Story as a teaching tool in his college classes.

Download the episode here or listen on SoundCloud We had so much fun doing the 3DS Retrospective with Matt Giguere, we decided to bring him back to do the same with the Nintendo DS. From the hardware revisions to the best “DS” subtitle, we dive deep into this weird and wonderful system and the games it inspired. And then, of course, we spend way too much time debating the top 25 DS games of all time (with the caveat that there’s a ton of games we haven’t played for the system). We’ll post the full list soon. And if you’re interested in our personal top 25 lists, those will also be releasing in the coming days. If you want more Matt Giguere, you can find him streaming on Twitch or guest hosting occasionally on the Abstract Japan podcast.

It’s time for Gamers On The Go’s annual end of year wrap up, and that means East Coast Correspondent Matt Giguere is back. But with 2020 being such a weird year, we’re doing things a little differently. Instead of ranking games and picking a definitive winner, Matt and Chase just have a chill discussion about some of the best and/or most interesting games they played this year.