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Already missing the sweet weekly Playdate drops from Panic? NEVER FEAR, O3C IS HEREIt’s the finale of our Season 2 coverage, and blimmin’ eck have we stuffed this one full!What a season. It's been emotional, gang! Joining us this week to talk Playdate is handheld aficionado and host of Podcast Advance, Jeremy Harvey. Here to round off Season 2 of the Playdate are the divisive-but-still-excellent-narrative-led-grapple-hook-platformer Taria & Como, as well as the Newgrounds-inspired-single-screen-arcade-nonsense of Black Hole Havoc. AND THEN Our personal rankings for the 12 games of Season 2. As well as some musings on Blippo+. The Playdate, everyone. Quite literally nothing else like it.-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

The boys chat with Jan Martinek, AKA Mouflon Cloud, AKA the developer behind podcast favourites Stars of the Screen and Be Kind To Yourself.Windows 3.1 screensavers! Feature creep! Playdate hidden gems! Oh, and this week’s divisive Season 2 entries, Shadowgate PD and CatchaDiablos.IT’S A YELLOW CRANKY HANDHELD AND WE LOVE TO PLAY ITIf you want to play any of the cool games Jan mentions in the episode, check out the following links:-Games by others for Playdate-Microwave Story https://samfeng.itch.io/microwave-storyPlaying With Our Lives https://florianliesenfeld.itch.io/pwolEyeland https://play.date/games/eyeland/Off-Planet Dreams https://play.date/games/off-planet-dreams/Hana: Spacetime Fantasy https://play.date/games/hana/Resonant Tale https://play.date/games/resonant-tale/Angel Pop https://play.date/games/angel-pop/-Games by Mouflon Cloud for Playdate-Stars of the Screen https://play.date/games/stars-of-the-screen/KYE for Playdate https://mouflon-cloud.itch.io/kyeBe Kind To Yourself https://play.date/games/be-kind-to-yourself/Comet https://play.date/games/comet/Gotta Bounce https://www.mouflon.cloud/gotta-bounce/-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

The boys chat with Gregory Kogos, creator of Playdate games OMAZE and OOM, covering Playdate development, the importance of playtesting, and brand spanking new Season 2 games Wheelsprung and The Whiteout.Physics engines! Dithering! Walk cycles! It’s all here!If you want to play any of the cool games Gregory mentions in the episode, check out the following links:Leap Year - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2951770/Leap_Year/UFO 50 - https://store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/UFO_50Utopia Must Fall https://store.steampowered.com/app/2849680/Utopia_Must_Fall/Moon Is Our Friend - https://paigeruten.itch.io/moon-is-friend-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

How's Jonathan finding that new Oblivion remaster? And how does it compare to the semi-recent PS5 port of Skyrim? What exactly is Harold's Walk and why is Chris so keen to get people to check it out? What about Blue Prince is making Jonathan and Chris all giddy? And Finland? Baba is You! Sega Rally Revo (on a technicality)! Videogames! - -HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

Surprise!We’re back a few days early with a bonus episode all about the Switch 2. The PRICE! The POWER! The POTENTIAL!What are the boys happy about? What are the boys unsold on? And what’s ruffled Chris’ feathers specifically about Nintendo’s retail strategy for this next gen?YOU CAN PLAY AS A COW IN MARIO KART WORLD-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

It’s March!Jonathan and Chris visit Taiwan to sample gaming delights, both old and new. How’s that new ‘Tao-punk’ metroidvania Nine Sols? And what was going on in China and Taiwan in the 90s with bootleg games development and publishing?Of course, before we get to slurp down this bubble tea of regional content, there’s other games to cover.Chris becomes re-enamoured (or is that re-obsessed?) with the Nintendo 3DS and its many post-Nintendo homebrew charms and Jonathan struggles to fill the post Xenoblade lull with dribs and drabs of mobile runner Rodeo Stampede and the Elden Ring Nightreign network test.-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Sign up to our newsletter here.Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C BlueskyO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - BlueskyChris - Bluesky

We did it! And by ‘it’, we mean ‘2024’. And by ‘did’ we mean ‘survived’.Videogames helped. Videogames always help. And so we’ve opted, as is tradition, to get together to regale and delight one another as well as YOU fair listener, with tales of the games that made 2024.Big AAA games! Indie games! Games exclusive to the Playdate! Games that came out a few years ago! Games that came out 20 years ago! Games that may come out next year, or beyond!FUNWhat will we crown as our individual games of the year?-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Sign up to our newsletter here.Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C Twitter / XO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - Twitter / XChris - Bluesky

It's that time again! A brand spanking new episode of the O3C Podcast. This month, Chris and Jonathan check out the games of Indonesia including Rage in Peace and Coffee Talk, but not before catching one another up on a month's gaming activity including retro obsessions on the Anbernic RG35XXSP, a final verdict on Astro Bot, and big thumbs up for The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom. Not enough? What about a review of Eyeland for the Playdate? Or a breakdown of how modding tool Seventh Heaven ensures the original version of Final Fantasy VII remains relevant and accessible to players no matter Square's remake efforts? Or Chris boring everyone to tears talking about Tetris again? OH BOY-HUGE THANKS to our AMAZING Patreon Subscribers!!Join us all in the O3C Discord server here!Support us either via Patreon or with a one off donation here!Sign up to our newsletter here.Follow us on social media:O3C FacebookO3C Twitter / XO3C InstagramO3C YouTubeO3C TikTokReach out to us individually:Jonathan - Twitter / XChris - Bluesky