Monthly Archives: December 2014

Episode 135 – We Lost the Episode

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Well this is embarrassing. In today’s episode we talked about a bunch of great subjects. If only we had recorded it properly.

Cheapskate’s Game Club: Digital: A Love Story

Next Week: Wonderputt

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Top 5 – Ways We’d Give Popular Games a Kick in the Pants

 Disparaging the boot is a bootable offense!

Good things are good but could good things be better?

Next week: Top 5 Games with Punching

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Can You Dig It? In Praise of Shovel Knight

Shovel-Knight

Shovel Knight owes a great deal to the early Mega Man games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, yet it’s ironic that while my experiences to date with those Mega Man games were about as much fun as undergoing dental surgery performed by Pennywise the clown, Shovel Knight is a game I adore. Why is this? Well, seeing as you asked, I’ll tell you.

The debut title – thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign – from developer and publisher Yacht Club Games, Shovel Knight is a 2D side-scrolling platform game available for PC, 3DS and Wii U, and it’s the Wii U version I’ll be discussing in this feature.

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