Grief Burrito

For the past few months I'd seen clips floating round of a game similar in play style to Lylat Wars (Starfox 64 for international readers). And now finally I'd come across their Kickstarter... which ended 2 days before I found it! DAMN IT!  At least they surpassed their funding goal! The game is being created by the one man wonder team Ben Hickling ( https://twitter.com/BenHickling ) saving for one aspect, the music. Which has been created by the ever talented  +TEK ! I was lucky enough to get hold of the demo available over on their Kickstarter to test some of the gameplay and I've got to say I loved what I experienced! Greeted & Treated When you boot up the game you're greeted with a classic SNES era title screen which is very reminiscent of Megaman-X and music that twigs my childhood strings as the first two chords are the same as Lylat Wars' intro screen chime in. Oh yes. I'm in. You had me at the title screen and I haven't even pressed start yet. We

This week we had the pleasure of watching The Super Mario Bros. Movie from ye olde 1993! This movie is notorious for being the herald of the bad video game movie trend but to be honest I feel like it gets a bit of a hard time! Let's get into a little background and trivia surrounding the movie before we break it down; Both Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo were drunk through most of the filming process to get through the bad experience. And Hoskins apparently didnt even know this was based on a game until his son asked what he was filming and then showed him the game on his NES! This sounds like it was a pretty dangerous movie to shoot if I'm honest. Starting with Bob Hoskins breaking his finger in one of the early scenes when the van door slammed by Leguizamo caught it so he's wearing a skin coloured cast for the entire film which I never noticed. He also got and this is a quote “stabbed four times, electrocuted and nearly drowned. And thats just what happened to me.”

Hello and welcome to Spooky Burrito 19! That's 19 months now of damn right spooky encounters! This months paranormal case comes from the strange world of UFO encounters... and what always seems to follow... A visit from the Men in Black. The MIB universally known from the incredible film of the same name starring Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones are a little darker in reality. Gone are the light hearted alien jokes and in their place are dark interrogations and home visits. Encounter 1 On June 21 st 1947, Harold Dahl along with his son and their best boy doggo were aboard their harbor patrol ship sailing the calm waters of the Puget Sound in Washington state. The day was cool, calm, serene, the perfect day for sailing. As the two men and the brave hound patrolled the water they skimmed the shores of Maury Island, it's slender beach made it look like it had risen suddenly from the water and it tree covered hills had always made it seem like an ancient place. Dahl pulled the

Hey everyone! Tomorrow morning marks the release of episode 69,  you'll be joining the Burrito Bois Hazz & Jordan as they discuss weirdly sexual moments in video games... and wow there are some weird ones...  They'll be visiting some of the most known like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and it's sky sex scenes in a fantasy world, Lolipop Chainsaw and it's skirt peeping achievements, Atari 2600 and it's weird games like Xman, Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em, and even Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain and it's odd shower scenes. Not to mention some obscure ones like "The Penetrator" from Saints Row, Shadow Warrior and its Dragon Shcween, The Last of Us 2 and even My Name Is Mayo... I was actually surprised to be honest how many weird and sexual things are in games. In my mind I had this notion that if a project you're working on would be going out into the public domain for millions of people to see you'd probably be a little more "delicate" wit

A few months ago I came across another podcast called The Game Deflators. They had a really interesting concept for a show where they followed the increasing and decreasing value of the games in their collections! I was hooked right away! This week we decided to have John and Ryan come on the show to talk about what it's like to have a very large collection of physical games and how they go about valuing them. It seems that as your collection grows you develop your library to such a substantial point that you may go years before even getting to play the games that you've bought. But with that comes the question; how do you choose what to collect? We came to the unanimous decision that you should collect what you love!   John's favorite franchise, and something he has a number of pieces dedicated to is Donkey Kong, the swinging ape that has been a staple of Nintendo since the 1980's. No one can disagree that Donkey Kong helped kick off the hype of video gaming with the h

The Future of Gaming Remastered! (Episode 67. FEAT Alex Austin from Ronin Geek Official Podcast) Gaming over the last few generations has been a strange one. We've gone from huge  changes every generation due to the innovation of in engine physics to generations that seems like a less notable change is evident more than ever. To be honest I think that being born in the 1990's has given some insight into the level of changes that have been evident to regular players, so going from the 8-Bit graphics and audio of the Nintendo Entertainment System, the 16-Bit capabilities of the Super Nintendo suddenly to the Nintendo 64 made it's 3D graphical update seem much more severe (in a good way) change. Jordan (the co host of Grief Burrito) made a very good point on this episode that we are no longer in an age of innovation but have gradually moved into an era of refinement, or at least that's how it feels from a consumer point of view. And, he personally feels from now he would