Author: BreakmanX

Two Pokemon Crystal daycare eggs. One city still left to explore. Let’s go. Picking Up: The Pokemon Crystal Daycare Eggs We left off last episode with a genuinely funny problem: two separate OddEggs, back to back, from the day care man and the day care lady inGoldenrod City. Neither of us planned for that. One egg from the daycare man, who apparently found it while looking after someone else’sPokemon. One from the day care lady, minutes later, no explanationneeded beyond “here’s an egg.” So now we’re carrying two Pokemon Crystal daycare eggs at once, and thisepisode is about figuring out…

The GameCube turns 25 this year. To celebrate, the whole crew got together to pick the best GameCube games of all time, and we agreed on almost nothing. Break makes the case for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Jess showed up with a list long enough to fill the whole episode, with Super Mario Sunshine, the Resident Evil remake, Animal Crossing, and both GameCube Harvest Moon games on it. Smash Bros. Melee came up about thirty seconds in, because of course it did. What Are the Best GameCube Games of All Time? That is the fight. The GameCube…

We’re back to weekly, and Goldenrod City did not disappoint. The Team Logan the Wooper had his best episode yet and went from “basically helpless”to nearly getting swept by poison and surviving anyway. Kakuna finallyevolved into Beedrill mid-battle, which felt earned after how long we saton that cocoon stage. Maul is still our MVP-in-waiting for the next gym,and we picked up a Jigglypuff along the way (named for our next scheduledguest, Coury — sorry in advance, Coury). We also spent a solid twenty minutes hunting Abra. Caught one Snubbull.Nearly lost Logan to a Jigglypuff bout that got way tenser than…

Darria Dennison is a filmmaker and actor based in the Topeka, Kansas area. She has worked on multiple award-winning films and projects as a cinematographer, editor, and actress. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and in Mass Media with a concentration in Film and Video from Washburn University. With skills in broadcast, in her time at KSNT News she helped develop and serve as the technical director and editor for the sports show K-Nation, which is a 30-minute special that covers news from KU and K-State Athletics Programs. She had the opportunity to attend, film, and edit a…

Every console generation has at least one add-on that promised big thingsand ended up in a bargain bin within a year. Tonight’s episode covers theworst offenders. Nintendo’s toy-robot gimmick from 1985 is on the list. Sois Microsoft finally pulling the plug on Kinect in 2017. THE CLASSICS The Sega 32X and Sega CD are the two everyone thinks of first, and forgood reason. The 32X launched the same month Sega announced the Saturn’sJapanese debut. That undercut its own $159 add-on before it had a chance.The Sega CD did a little better commercially, but 60% of its launchlibrary was full-motion video…

Azalea Town & the Slowpoke Well Mystery! We roll into Azalea Town and things get weird fast. Slowpoke are vanishing, the well’s got a Team Rocket problem, and we’ve still got a Gym Badge to earn from Bugsy. Jess and Break work through the puzzle, catch some new Pokémon, and figure out just how much trouble Team Rocket is causing in Johto. #Pokemon #PokemonCrystal #LetsPlay

The greatest video game villains of all time didn’t just stand between us and the ending. They deleted save files, kidnapped princesses, blew up planets, and made us put the controller down and walk away. On this episode of The Game Show, Break and the crew rank the most evil, most memorable, and most unfair bad guys in gaming history, and the number one pick did not go over quietly. Who Are the Greatest Video Game Villains? Every era has its icons. Dr. Wily rebuilt his robot masters no matter how many times Mega Man tore the fortress down. Bowser…

Two episodes into the grind and we are still not ready for Bugsy. Episode 4is more Route 32 encounters, more Union Cave, more experience points, andmore slow progress toward Azalea Town. Falkner is behind us. The Zephyr Badge is in the case. But Jess has beenwarning me about Bugsy since episode 2, and I am starting to believe her. The Grind Grinding is not glamorous. It is repetitive battles against wild Pokemonuntil your team hits the levels you need. In Crystal, the stretch betweenViolet City and Azalea Town is one of the classic early-game grinding zones.Route 32 has variety, Union…

This isn’t a thrift store find or an eBay rescue. It’s the exact NES I unboxed on Christmas morning 1988, the machine that started everything this site has ever been about. This is the NES restoration I owed it. The NES Restoration Plan It sat in storage since 2008. When I finally pulled it out, it was dying. The capacitors were done, the 72-pin connector was worn out, and it barely booted. I’d had consoles modded before, but this one needed more than a mod. It needed a resurrection. Enter Fenris Wolf Retro. The plan we landed on was a…

Some games bring people together. These are not those games. This week we’re counting down the local multiplayer classics that turned best friends into sworn enemies, one couch session at a time. From NBA Jam elbows to TMNT button-mashing betrayals, and Halo we get into why same-couch gaming bred the pettiest, most personal rivalries in the hobby. Screen-watching. Phantom controller “malfunctions” right as the comeback started. That one friend who only ever picked the broken character and swore it was skill. If you grew up handing someone the second controller and immediately regretting it, this episode is for you Watch,…

The crew walks the entire history of US console launch lineups in one sitting, starting with the 1985 NES — Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Hogan’s Alley, Excite Bike, Kung Fu — and moving through the Sega Genesis, the Super Nintendo (Super Mario World, F-Zero, Gradius III, Final Fight), the botched surprise drop of the Sega Saturn, the original PlayStation, the Nintendo 64 and Super Mario 64, the Neo Geo AES at $200 a cartridge, the Sega Dreamcast, the PlayStation 2, the Xbox and Halo: Combat Evolved, the GameCube with Rogue Leader, and finally the $599 PlayStation 3. Returning guest…

First badge down, and the road only gets longer! Jess and Break leave Violet City behind and set out for the second gym in Pokémon Crystal. With the Zephyr Badge in the bag and Quilava ready to roll, we head south toward Azalea Town. That means Route 32, the trek through Union Cave, and whatever new Johto Pokémon we can catch along the way. Bugsy and the Hive Badge are the next target. Jess swears we haven’t seen anything yet, so we’ll find out. #Pokemon #PokemonCrystal #LetsPlay

My childhood NES has been sitting in a box for years. This episode, Fenris Wolf Retro joins the show to talk through the full restoration, from the NESRGB V5 install to getting a console from 1988 looking and playing like new. We get into what makes these old machines worth saving, the quirks of original hardware, and why this particular NES means what it does to me. Watch Fenris do the actual mod work on his channel: ►    / @fenriswolfretro   ►Modding my NES:    • Nintendo Entertainment System Refurb & Upg…   The Game Show is a long-running gaming podcast covering retro hardware, gaming history, and the stuff that…

Summer Game Fest 2026 hit the Dolby Theatre and we’re breaking down everything that mattered. The Game Show Crew react to the biggest reveals, the surprises, and the stuff that left us scratching our heads. We get into Resident Evil Veronica kicking the whole thing off, the Tupac and Snoop Dogg moment in Stranger Than Heaven, Alien Isolation 2 finally showing its face, and the GTA VI shadow hanging over the entire summer release calendar. Plus the indies, the world premieres, and whether Keighley’s show still fills the E3-shaped hole. The Game Show is a long-running gaming podcast covering retro…

Episode 1: Break had never played Pokemon. Episode 2: Break might actuallylove Pokemon. Jess saw this coming. Jess is teaching Break Pokemon Crystal, her favorite game, one episode ata time, until they catch ’em all (or die trying). This week we may have our first gym battleand the slow realization that this game has hooks.

The NES front loader has one fatal flaw: that blinking red light. Push a cart down, watch it strobe, blow on it, try again. Alex from BlueShell3D built the fix. The Nin10-Drawer swaps the worn out 72 pin connector for a toploader style slot and an extending drawer, so carts seat clean every time and pull out without the deathgrip. It even bypasses the lockout chip for region free play, no soldering required. In this episode we get the creator on to walk through how the drawer works, why the front loader fails in the first place, what went into…

The Game Show crew share their all-time favorite video game characters – the ones that shaped how they think about games, design, and storytelling. The Game Show has been running since September 28, 2002, predating the word “podcast.” Season 13. Chapters: Subscribe for new episodes weekly. Community: breakmanx.com/BMXcommunity Forum has been running since 2003. #TheGameShow #BreakmanX #VideoGames #RetroGaming ► MUSIC Opening: Project X – Mega Man 2 “Project X2 – Title Screen” OC ReMix – https://ocremix.org/remix/OCR00625 Closing: Project X – Mega Man 2 “Ending” Buy the album here: https://projectx.bandcamp.com/album/m…

Break’s never played a Pokemon game in his life. Jess has. Pokemon Crystal is her favorite. So she’s teaching him, on stream, one episode at a time, until they catch ’em all (or die trying). This is Episode 1: New Bark Town, picking a starter, and figuring out what a Cyndaquil even is. The Game Show, one of the first gaming podcasts ever made, running since 2002. 🎙️ Hosts: Jess & BreakmanX 🎮 Game: Pokemon Crystal (Game Boy Color, 2000) 🔴 Streamed live on YouTube 🔗 https://breakmanx.com 📺 Subscribe for new episodes weekly #Pokemon #PokemonCrystal #GottaCatchEmAll #BreakmanX #GamingPodcast #FirstTimePlaying #GameBoyColor

Remember when you had to actually earn the costume? When the second quest meant something? When Mew was a rumor at recess and not a code on GameFAQs?Tonight we’re getting into unlockables and post-game content. The bonus modes, the secret characters, the harder difficulty that opened up after the credits. The stuff that turned a 10-hour game into a 40-hour obsession. We’ll talk about why it worked, when it died, and which games still do it right.From Smash Bros character rosters to Ocarina of Time’s Master Quest. From Mortal Kombat’s Reptile to Wind Waker’s second quest. From Resident Evil’s Mercenaries…

Karl Urban put on the sunglasses last Friday. Mortal Kombat II just hit theaters and its the best video game movie in years, according to critics. So tonight on The Game Show, we go through 34 years of the most controversial fighting game ever made. From the 1992 arcade cabinet that made Congress mad and birthed the ESRB, all the way to Mortal Kombat 1 (2023) and the brand-new movie sequel. Every mainline MK. Every console. Every blood code we typed in. The Senate hearings. Mortal Monday. The Toasty guy. ABACABB. The Tobias departure. Carl Weathers as Jax. Ash Williams…

Tonight on The Game Show, we’re cracking open the archive of gaming’s most beloved bugs and the glitches that built speedruns, broke economies, launched congressional hearings, and turned accidents into legends. From the Minus World to MissingNo, from the Backwards Long Jump to Hot Coffee, from Halo 2 sword flying to Skyrim’s flying giants, we’re going era by era through the moments games broke and somehow got better for it. Plus: Nintendo just shadow-dropped a Star Fox Direct today (May 6, 2026). A full remake of Star Fox 64 is hitting Switch 2 on June 25, the character designs are…

Some boss fights you beat. Others beat you so hard they live in your head rent-free twenty years later. This week on The Game Show, the crew goes around the table with our all-time favorite boss fights — the ones that raised the bar, the ones that ruined our controllers, and the ones we’d fight again tomorrow. From old-school pattern-memorizers to modern cinematic showdowns, everybody brought a pick. Some you’ll cheer for. Some you’ll argue with. At least one is going to make you open a new tab and go rewatch the cutscene. 🎮 What’s YOUR favorite boss fight of…

In 1997, I bought Final Fantasy VII. I beat Sephiroth in 60 hours. I spent another 40 breeding a gold chocobo. Today we’re ranking the mini-games that hijacked entire generations of gamers. From the Gold Saucer to the Chao Garden, Triple Triad to Gwent, Blitzball to Queen’s Blood — we dig through every generation to find the greatest mini-games ever hidden inside bigger games. Topics include: Final Fantasy VII’s Gold Saucer & Chocobo Breeding Sonic Adventure 2’s Chao Garden The Witcher 3’s Gwent Final Fantasy VIII’s Triple Triad Kingdom Hearts’ Gummi Ship …and dozens more across 30+ years of gaming.…

Happy April Fools! This week on The Game Show, we break down the massive Ocarina of Time remake leak for Switch 2, the new Star Fox game, and why there’s no 3D Mario until 2027. Then we get into our favorite funny moments in gaming. From GLaDOS roasting you through Portal to the King of All Cosmos drunkenly destroying the stars, plus the greatest April Fools pranks the gaming industry has ever pulled. EGM’s Sheng Long hoax, Blizzard’s armored cow, the Portal 2 ARG nobody believed, and ThinkGeek products that became real. The Game Show is one of the first…

What makes a video game performance truly unforgettable? This week on The Game Show, we break down our all-time favorite acting in video games — the performances that made us laugh, cry, and forget we were holding a controller. From motion capture legends to voice acting that defined entire franchises, we’re ranking the best of the best and arguing about who got robbed. We also dive into this week’s massive gaming news: Epic Games just laid off over 1,000 employees and killed multiple Fortnite modes. Crimson Desert launched to 3 million copies sold but deeply divided reviews. Rockstar cleared its…

November 18, 2001. Five in the morning, a Target parking lot, coffee going cold in the car. I camped out with my girlfriend (now Breakwoman X) and Richie, who would go on to co-host The Game Show with me, all of us waiting on a purple cube with a handle. This GameCube retrospective is the video I’ve been building toward for 25 years, because defending this console is part of why the show exists in the first place. Why the GameCube Failed The numbers were brutal. The PS2 launched 13 months earlier and finished at 155 million units. The Xbox…

Johnny Grafx Returns! ► The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returned in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run; BreakmanX (2002-2013), Jack Burt0n (2003 – 2005), and Maul (2006 – 2012) joined with fresh blood Logan, Darria, and Jess into the mix. Running full steam into season 13 the crew hopes…

Tim Curry, Mark Hamill, Patrick Stewart, Jackie Chan, Michael Jackson, and more in our celebrity focused episode! ► The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returned in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run; BreakmanX (2002-2013), Jack Burt0n (2003 – 2005), and Maul (2006 – 2012) joined with fresh blood Logan, Darria,…

What games make you feel cozy? We’d love to hear. Tonight, we tell you our favorite cozy games. ► The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returned in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run; BreakmanX (2002-2013), Jack Burt0n (2003 – 2005), and Maul (2006 – 2012) joined with fresh blood Logan,…

All things Resident Evil Requiem and how we got here. The BreakmanX crew talks about their favorite Resident evil memories and excitement for the launch of Resident Evil Requiem. ► The Game Show began in 2002 and quickly developed a tight knit community of gamers, and interviewed top industry talent. Likely the first video game podcast, The Game Show ran for ten years where the team covered industry events and created a massive amount of content. The Game Show returned in 2025 after more than a decade with three hosts from the first run; BreakmanX (2002-2013), Jack Burt0n (2003 –…