All Episodes — Abject Suffering

Ep 361Abject Suffering 361: Saban's Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue

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<html>We head back to the Power Rangers well to learn more about what teens do on the moon.</html>

Aug 3, 202055 min

Ep 360Abject Suffering 360: Mr. Maze

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<html>The conflict that will tear the network apart.</html>

Jul 28, 202055 min

Ep 359Abject Suffering 359: The Sopranos: Road to Respect

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<html>We didn't know there was a Sopranos game, and neither did you, probably.</html>

Jul 20, 202049 min

Ep 358Abject Suffering 358: Eternal Champions

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<html>Gary's favorite game! He says it! He can't take it back!</html>

Jul 13, 202038 min

Ep 357Abject Suffering 357: Executive Suite

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<html>This little businessman sim is actually pretty good, so we do a kind of job interview of our own.</html>

Jul 6, 202035 min

Ep 356Abject Suffering 356: Receiver

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<html>An indie game with a simple premise: highlight how much regular video games make using a gun look easier than it actually is.</html>

Jun 29, 202057 min

Ep 355Abject Suffering 355: Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars

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<html>We really got cheated when it came to extreme sports. It's all just crotch hugs, with very few robots in sight.</html>

Jun 22, 202040 min

Ep 354Abject Suffering 354: Popeye (ZX Spectrum)

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<html>The Popeye universe is more vast and more pointless than we initially imagined.</html>

Jun 15, 202043 min

Ep 353Abject Suffering 353: Ninjabread Man

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<html>We stretch the concept of "concepts" to the limits.</html>

Jun 9, 202034 min

Ep 352Abject Suffering 352: Rock Star Ate My Hamster!

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<html>We were excited to play a band simulator, but all we got was Lemonade Stand plus puns.</html>

Jun 1, 202049 min

Ep 351Abject Suffering 351: Mega Man X7

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<html>From one of the best games of all time, to an unmitigated disaster.</html>

May 25, 202046 min

Ep 350Abject Suffering 350: Calvin Tucker's Redneck: Farm Animal Racing Tournament

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<html>Episode 350 introduces a beloved character that will endure for decades to come.</html>

May 18, 202042 min

Ep 349Abject Suffering 349: Top Gun: Fire at Will

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<html>How has Top Gun remained a cultural touchstone for all of these years?</html>

May 11, 202046 min

Ep 348Abject Suffering 348: Mystic Towers

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<html>We stumbled into a gross one. Sorry, folks.</html>

May 4, 202044 min

Ep 347Abject Suffering 347: The Coin Game

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<html>Get ready for us to be effusively positive about an extremely strange and nostalgic experience.</html>

Apr 27, 202045 min

Ep 346Abject Suffering 346: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

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<html>Take a good book and make a wonderful movie out of it, then wait 30 years and make a terrible movie and somehow a worse game of that movie.</html>

Apr 20, 202031 min

Ep 345Abject Suffering 345: Silent Service

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<html>Talk about submarine life segues abruptly into the dismal dystopia of Cameo.</html>

Apr 13, 202044 min

Ep 344Abject Suffering 344: Bad Boys: Miami Takedown

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<html>These bad, bad, bad, bad boys don't make us feel so good.</html>

Apr 6, 202040 min

Ep 343Abject Suffering 343: Dreams to Reality

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<html>This very bad 3D platformer has you playing as Anthony Kiedis in a surreally meaningless empty void.</html>

Mar 30, 202026 min

Ep 342Abject Suffering 342: Road Trip Adventure

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<html>Before you head to the polls to vote for the next car president, remember my campaign slogan: Cars are cars all over the world. Similarly made, similarly sold.</html>

Mar 23, 202045 min

Ep 341Abject Suffering 341: Danger Girl

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<html>The 90s really were the pits, weren't they?</html>

Mar 16, 202048 min

Ep 340Abject Suffering 340: Phantasy Star Online Episode III: C.A.R.D. Revolution

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<html>A relic from an era that reached peak Talky.</html>

Mar 9, 202042 min

Ep 339Abject Suffering 339: I must kill...: Fresh Meat

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<html>How do you talk about a game that isn't a game... yet?</html>

Mar 2, 202035 min

Ep 338Abject Suffering 338: Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure (Part 2)

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<html>You have no idea how deep the rabbit hole goes.</html>

Feb 24, 202045 min

Ep 337Abject Suffering 337: Cap'n Crunch's Crunchling Adventure (Part 1)

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<html>This is another Abject Suffering emergency as we sail into the sea of madness that is the Captain Crunch Extended Universe.</html>

Feb 17, 202044 min

Ep 336Abject Suffering 336: Facade

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<html>In which we introduce the concept of "offboarding week" to Abject Suffering.</html>

Feb 10, 202031 min

Ep 335Abject Suffering 335: No Escape

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<html>This is based on a movie that doesn't exist, and you can't convince us otherwise.</html>

Feb 3, 202042 min

Ep 334Abject Suffering 334: Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge

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<html>The Frogger Expanded Universe is no place to raise a kid.</html>

Jan 27, 202038 min

Ep 333Abject Suffering 333: Bullet Witch

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<html>We're aware of the coincidence that an episode about witches is numbered 3:33. It wasn't intentional, and that makes it spooky.</html>

Jan 20, 202038 min

Ep 332Abject Suffering 332: Gears POP!

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<html>Financially ruined by whaledom.</html>

Jan 14, 202048 min

Ep 331Abject Suffering 331: Totally Rad

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<html>It's, like, totally a game that was originally named Magic John.</html>

Jan 7, 202044 min

Ep 330Abject Suffering 330: Hunt Down the Freeman

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<html>You can hear our souls leaving our bodies.</html>

Dec 30, 201956 min

Ep 329Abject Suffering 329: Armed and Dangerous

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<html>Darren accidentally brings us a kind of okay game.</html>

Dec 23, 201939 min

Ep 328Abject Suffering 328: Adventures in the Magic Kingdom

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<html>Doug Lief joins us to talk about the rare misstep in Capcom and Disney's collaboration.</html>

Dec 16, 201949 min

Ep 327Abject Suffering 327: KGB: Conspiracy

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<html>An interesting subject for an adventure game gets tripped up with hostile mechanics.</html>

Dec 9, 201950 min

Ep 326Abject Suffering 326: Rugrats: The Search for Reptar

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<html>They made so many Rugrats games, you guys.</html>

Dec 2, 201936 min

Ep 325Abject Suffering 325: Lost in Blue

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<html>Quirky cult survival game is actually pretty tedious!</html>

Nov 25, 201954 min

Ep 324Abject Suffering 324: Goldeneye 007 (We Know It's Good)

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<html>Chris Khatami comes to us with an excuse to talk about Goldeneye 007. Don't tweet at us saying this shouldn't be on the show.<a href="http://www.hahaharvestcomedyfest.com/about/" target="_blank">Go to Chris' comedy festival in Portland! It's taking place the weekend after Thanksgiving. It's the Ha-Ha-Harvest Comedy Festival.</a></html>

Nov 18, 201959 min

Ep 323Abject Suffering 323: My Summer Car

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<html>As a citizen of the world, you must know all languages and help me figure out who pooped in my lawn.</html>

Nov 11, 201935 min

Ep 322Abject Suffering 322: Knights in the Nightmare

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Nov 4, 201947 min

Ep 321Abject Suffering 321: Dracula 4 & 5

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<html>This is a boring adventure game for nerds, so we get depressed about the Darke Gyfte.</html>

Oct 28, 201947 min

Ep 320Abject Suffering 320: Neopets: The Darkest Faerie

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<html>Neopets is darker than you might imagine, in ways you might not expect.</html>

Oct 21, 201935 min

Ep 319Abject Suffering 319: Spaceship Warlock

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<html>Behold! The greatest enemy of Myst.</html>

Oct 14, 201933 min

Ep 318Abject Suffering 318: Drake of the 99 Dragons

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<html>We should stop being surprised when a game lives up to its reputation.</html>

Oct 7, 201940 min

Ep 317Abject Suffering 317: Kidz Bop: Dance Party

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<html>The scoundrel Bryan Wade strikes again!</html>

Sep 30, 201931 min

Ep 316Abject Suffering 316: Monty on the Run

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<html>One six minute music track justifies an entire game.</html>

Sep 23, 201947 min

Ep 315Abject Suffering 315: Trivia Monster

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<html>In the end, the true Trivia Monster was me all along.</html>

Sep 16, 201941 min

Ep 314Abject Suffering 314: Mall Mania

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<html>Food, fun, and fashion... the mall has it all!</html>

Sep 9, 201947 min

Ep 313Abject Suffering 313: How to Be a Complete Bastard

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<html>Our first ZX Spectrum game is weird and good!</html>

Sep 2, 201936 min

Ep 312Abject Suffering 312: Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects

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<html>Everyone's favorite Marvel characters finally get their own game.</html>

Aug 26, 201936 min

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