BreakmanX – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com Twenty Years of Gaming. Still Arguing About Halo. Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:59:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://www.breakmanx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-Favicon-32x32.webp BreakmanX – BreakmanX.com https://www.breakmanx.com 32 32 Gotta Catch ‘Em All with Jess and Break — Ep. 6: Two Eggs and a City to Explore https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-daycare-eggs-ep-6/ https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-daycare-eggs-ep-6/#respond Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:57:28 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17784 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-daycare-eggs-ep-6/feed/ 0 Two Eggs and a City to Explore | Ep 6 Break and Jess Catch 'Em All nonadult The Best GameCube Games of All Time: The Game Show S13E26 https://www.breakmanx.com/best-gamecube-games/ https://www.breakmanx.com/best-gamecube-games/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:00:00 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17767 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/best-gamecube-games/feed/ 0 The Best GameCube Games of All Time | The Game Show S13E26 nonadult Episode 5: Two Eggs in Goldenrod https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-5-goldenrod-eggs/ https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-5-goldenrod-eggs/#respond Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:07:18 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17758 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-5-goldenrod-eggs/feed/ 0 Pokemon Crystal Ep. 5: Beedrill, Jigglypuff, and Two Mystery Eggs in Goldenrod nonadult Darria Dennison https://www.breakmanx.com/darria-dennison/ https://www.breakmanx.com/darria-dennison/#respond Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:21:07 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17763 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/darria-dennison/feed/ 0 The Biggest Failed Console Add-Ons in Gaming History | S13E25 https://www.breakmanx.com/failed-video-game-console-add-ons/ https://www.breakmanx.com/failed-video-game-console-add-ons/#respond Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:46:19 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17737 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/failed-video-game-console-add-ons/feed/ 0 Failed Console Add-Ons: Sega 32X, Kinect & More | BreakmanX nonadult Azalea Town & the Slowpoke Well Mystery! | Ep 5 Break and Jess Catch ‘Em All https://www.breakmanx.com/azalea-town-the-slowpoke-well-mystery-ep-5-break-and-jess-catch-em-all/ https://www.breakmanx.com/azalea-town-the-slowpoke-well-mystery-ep-5-break-and-jess-catch-em-all/#respond Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:52:23 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17733 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/azalea-town-the-slowpoke-well-mystery-ep-5-break-and-jess-catch-em-all/feed/ 0 Azalea Town & the Slowpoke Well Mystery! | Ep 5 Break and Jess Catch 'Em All nonadult The Greatest Video Game Villains of All Time | The Game Show S13E24 https://www.breakmanx.com/greatest-video-game-villains/ https://www.breakmanx.com/greatest-video-game-villains/#respond Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:08:00 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17712 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/greatest-video-game-villains/feed/ 0 The Greatest Video Game Villains of All Time | The Game Show S13E24 nonadult Gotta Catch ‘Em All Ep. 4: The Grind to Azalea Town https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-4-grinding-for-bugsy/ https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-4-grinding-for-bugsy/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17706 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 [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/pokemon-crystal-ep-4-grinding-for-bugsy/feed/ 0 Gotta Catch 'Em All with Jess and Break — Ep. 4 The Grind to Azalea Town nonadult NES Restoration: Resurrecting My Christmas 1988 Console https://www.breakmanx.com/nes-restoration-1988-nesrgb-v5/ https://www.breakmanx.com/nes-restoration-1988-nesrgb-v5/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2026 22:00:00 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17699 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, [...]

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]]> https://www.breakmanx.com/nes-restoration-1988-nesrgb-v5/feed/ 0 NES Restoration: Resurrecting My 1988 Console (NESRGB V5) nonadult FRIENDSHIP RUINERS | The Couch Multiplayer Games That Ended Us | S13E23 https://www.breakmanx.com/friendship-ruiners-the-couch-multiplayer-games-that-ended-us-s13e23/ https://www.breakmanx.com/friendship-ruiners-the-couch-multiplayer-games-that-ended-us-s13e23/#respond Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:16:34 +0000 https://www.breakmanx.com/?p=17684 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 [...]

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