About this podcast
This is a podcast that's nominally about bad games. In reality, every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kaye Ross choose a game at random from the titles submitted by listeners, play it, and venture off on a freeform discussion that winds between the topic at hand and some dumb nonsense.
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Episodes
The newest 50 of 687 episodes
- Abject Suffering 687: Dream T.V. · 40 min · Episode 687Dream TV is a game so obscure that even we have never heard of it, with a premise that was stale when they made it. Two kids are sucked into the TV! Ah! And the platforming is…
- [PREVIEW] Abject Suffering 686: Shrek Super Party · 5 min · Episode 686Who would have guessed that this comedy podcast episode nominally about a Shrek party game would have turned into a sober rumination on body image issues? This is a premium…
- Abject Suffering 685: Sonic R · 34 min · Episode 685You might be surprised to learn that we don’t hate Sonic R. It controls awkwardly and was clearly rushed out the door, but the idea of a Sonic racing game isn’t inherently bad…
- Abject Suffering 684: Catz · 35 min · Episode 684Ubisoft looked at Nintendogs and decided “hey, we could mess that up.” The result was the Petz series, where you adopt an animal and train it to fight for you, but not in a…
- Abject Suffering 683: Shinobi · 34 min · Episode 683Shinobi for the PlayStation 2 isn’t a bad game. In fact, Kaye knows that she’s bringing a backdoor WOFF! pick to the show. However, it’s janky and it’s overly difficult because…
- Abject Suffering 682: Road Rash 64 · 35 min · Episode 682Road Rash is a weird series because it was once very popular, and now you don’t hear about it. At all. And even the worst version of it, the hideous N64 game, isn’t all that…
- Abject Suffering 681: Magic Boy · 34 min · Episode 681Magic Boy is another stilted puzzle platformer with that Amiga stink on it. You are some kind of magical boy, and it’s up to you to stun and basement escaped magical animals so…
- Abject Suffering 680: Minute to Win It · 48 min · Episode 680In the DS/Wii/Kinect shovelware bonanza, nothing was off limits, including a Guy Fieri show that was just "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" for dummies. Featuring finicky touch…
- Abject Suffering 679: Super Morph · 33 min · Episode 679Super Morph is a PAL-only puzzle platformer that’s actually pretty neat. A young boy’s neglectful uncle put him into a matter transporter, and now the boy is trapped in flux…
- Abject Suffering 678: Scooby-Doo Night of 100 Frights! · 32 min · Episode 678Some intellectual properties are like PFAS. Once introduced to the environment, they will never go away, just sitting and warping whatever they touch. The Hannah-Barbera archives…
- Abject Suffering 677: Pong: The Next Level · 37 min · Episode 677They made a fun Pong game for the PlayStation. ANYWAY, did you know that we both got Covid-19 in Las Vegas? Let’s rank the symptoms!
- Abject Suffering 676: DJ Boy · 35 min · Episode 676DJ Boy is a beat-em-up on roller skates. Roller blades? No, skates. The most hip-hop conveyance imaginable. That’s because this is a game steeped in a very removed Japanese…
- Abject Suffering 675: Balan Wonderworld · 37 min · Episode 675Balan Wonderworld is so infamous that sometimes you wonder if it could actually ever be that bad. Chat, it’s very bad. It ranks right behind chronically mistreating his workers…
- Abject Suffering 674: Whiplash · 35 min · Episode 674Portal didn’t invent the story about the banal cruelty of corporate super science, but it sure did it better than Whiplash. You play a weasel who has a rabbit chained to you…
- Abject Suffering 673: Flix and Chill 2 Millennials · 40 min · Episode 673We understand why you all voted for Flix and Chill 2: Millennials in our episode poll. Look at that title. Little did you know that it’s also a viciously uninteresting adventure…
- Abject Suffering 672: Powerpuff Girls: Bad Mojo Jojo (GBC) · 34 min · Episode 672The Powerpuff Girls was a fine cartoon. It hit a lot of people at the right age, and its groovy 90s aesthetic was instantly iconic. So it probably deserved a better game than…
- Abject Suffering 671: Riddick Bowe Boxing · 39 min · Episode 671Riddick Bowe Boxing, known as “Chavez” in some regions, is actually a very good boxing game for the Super Nintendo. So we return to the old topics of boxing in general, how quick…
- Abject Suffering 670: Rugrats: Time Travelers · 36 min · Episode 670Everyone knows the Rugrats, the hideous Nickelodeon babies who taught us about Passover. Well, they also traveled through time, at least on the GameBoy. And it didn’t turn out…
- Abject Suffering 669: Space Jam · 32 min · Episode 669Everybody get up, it’s time to talk about the Space Jam video game now. And it’s just a weak NBA Jam byproduct, with zero cartoony wackiness to be found. We also talk about the…
- Abject Suffering 668: Phix: The Adventure · 38 min · Episode 668Phix is a furby who got magnet powers, and this entire game is an exploration of how to execute on that premise as sorely as possible. But one of the bosses is a big titty Medusa…
- Abject Suffering 667: Bill Laimbeer's Future Basketball · 39 min · Episode 667Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball is a game that is so infamous that we’re shocked we haven’t covered it yet. It’s a terrible basketball game about a terrible man, and there’s…
- Abject Suffering 666: Hell Pie · 32 min · Episode 666Hell Pie is a spiritual successor to Conker’s Bad Fur day, and a successful one! It’s also not very funny because it’s trying too hard to be transgressive. However, the…
- Abject Suffering 665: Streamer Life Simulator · 33 min · Episode 665Streamer Life Simulator is, believe it or not, streamer slop. An incredibly janky asset flip that tries to skate by on utter charmlessness. It’s also one of many simulator games…
- Abject Suffering 664: Silent Debuggers · 32 min · Episode 664We just need to admit that if old people are farting, it's a slippery slope before... you know. We also think children's games are awesome when performed by professional athletes.
- Abject Suffering 663: Dare Devil Derby 3D · 35 min · Episode 663There's not really much to this game, it's a shitty kart racer. We mostly talk how to make bars more quiet.
- Abject Suffering 662: Deep Freeze · 37 min · Episode 662Deep Freeze is a Japan-only PlayStation Resident Evil clone where you’re fighting terrorists instead of zombies. It’s most noteworthy for its bonkers intro CGI, but there’s not…
- Abject Suffering 661: Titenic · 32 min · Episode 661Very little in the world is funnier than copyright infringement. That’s why the infamous Chinese bootleg game Titenic (spelling intentional) is worth taking a look at. It’s also…
- Abject Suffering 660: Xenophage Alien Bloodsport · 33 min · Episode 660The catalog of DOS games is full of visually impressive experiments that aren’t very fun to play. That’s where we find Xenophage: Alien Bloodsport, a game that is somehow…
- Abject Suffering 659: Sunset Riders · 44 min · Episode 659What do goofy cowboys and queer gatekeeping have in common? Stay tuned.
- Abject Suffering 658: Bioforge · 36 min · Episode 658BioForge is an also-ran in the world of Alone in the Dark clones, telling the story of a man who wakes up augmented into a cyborg on an alien ship. But you use the NumPad to…
- Abject Suffering 657: White Van Racer · 34 min · Episode 657We walked into this one completely unaware of preexisting stereotypes about professionals who drive white vans. Apparently Britons have thoughts. And as a joke game, this kind of…
- Abject Suffering 656: Haven: Call of the King · 36 min · Episode 656Haven: Call of the King is a PS2 platformer that doesn’t want you to think it’s a platformer. It wants you to think it’s anything and everything all at once. That’s why they…
- Abject Suffering 655: AAAHH!! Real Monsters · 36 min · Episode 655Nickelodeon was at the height of their powers in the 90s when they decided to start throwing more and more Nicktoons down the chute. This led to them trying to capture the…
- Abject Suffering 654: Amazon Trail · 36 min · Episode 654The Oregon Trail is a simple game, but it’s timeless. The Amazon trail is complicated and involves time traveling magic panthers, and nobody has thought about it in thirty years…
- Abject Suffering 653: Special Report · 40 min · Episode 653This is a sequel episode to Abject Suffering 619: Wild Woody. Look, we totally intended to record an episode about a video game. But sometimes you’re at a discount grocery store…
- Abject Suffering 652: McDonalds Changeables Game Experience · 34 min · Episode 652It’s time for another McDonald’s episode because they released a new game on the sly when they brought back the Changeables Happy Meal Toys. You know, those little toys that are…
- Abject Suffering 651: Twisted Metal: Small Brawl · 34 min · Episode 651Look out! It's tiny Sweettooth! He's going to run us over in his tiny car!
- Abject Suffering 650: Donkey Kong 3 · 35 min · Episode 650This episode is about a Donkey Kong sequel that's about a man who kills bugs. Kaye also talks about schlepping her cats across the country and Gary uses a bathroom in a haunted…
- Abject Suffering 649: Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescues · 33 min · Episode 649The Dangerous Dave games are a series of PC platformers that acted as a precursor to Commander Keen, except with a redneck aesthetic and hyperviolence. This entry is hard, but…
- Abject Suffering 648: Beast Wars: Transformers · 32 min · Episode 648Beast Wars: Transformers is an ugly show, and the PlayStation game based on it is even uglier. It’s a little bleak to consider that the cheap animation of the 80s cartoon is the…
- Abject Suffering 647: Bad Dudes · 34 min · Episode 647It’s honestly weird that we haven’t already covered the NES version of Bad Dudes, a game with an infamous intro and horribly choppy handling. So Kaye brings it as her vanity…
- Abject Suffering 646: Friday Night Funkin' · 33 min · Episode 646Friday Night Funkin’, a rhythm game credited with keeping Newgrounds relevant in the 2020s, is actually pretty good. The music works better than the visuals, and the fan…
- Abject Suffering 645: Love is... in Bloom: The Flower Shop Garden · 32 min · Episode 645Love Is… is a very sad and weird comic strip about naked eight year olds who are married and like being really bossy about what is and isn’t love. The game is nothing, but we…
- Abject Suffering 644: Minority Report: Everybody Runs · 36 min · Episode 644Minority Report: Everybody Runs is a licensed tie in game to a movie where ladies lay eggs that tell the future. Since this is a perfect fit for us, we talk about what precog…
- Abject Suffering 643: Biker Mice from Mars · 32 min · Episode 643The Biker Mice from Mars was an also-ran in the Turtles boom of the early nineties. Its premise was exactly what the title implies, and it relied on the idea of bikers being a…
- Abject Suffering 642: Panic! · 34 min · Episode 642Panic! isn’t really a game, it’s a mouse training program with some context-free visual gags. Faced with the possibility that disliking this makes us sticks in the mud, we talk…
- Abject Suffering 641: Satan Santa · 35 min · Episode 641We’ve done most of the major Christmas-themed games, so we had to dig deep and find some of the worst slop Steam could provide. Satan Santa is an asset flip game that makes…
- Abject Suffering 640: Rock n' Roll Racing · 37 min · Episode 640Rock n’ Roll Racing is a game that people love. It’s pog monsters doing combat racing from an irritating isometric perspective, set to SNES chiptune renditions of classic rock…
- Abject Suffering 639: Palace of Deceit: The Dragon's Plight · 34 min · Episode 639Everyone has to start somewhere. For Cliff Blezinski, starting meant making a pale imitation of Shadowgate called Palace of Deceit: The Dragon’s Plight. Playing it is a master…
- Abject Suffering 638: Gamer Simulator · 33 min · Episode 638Gamer Simulator is an unfinished piece of slopware available on Steam that doesn’t really simulate being a gamer, as much as it simulates being under a geas that makes it so you…
