
Pod 'em Up! - The Video Game "Book Club" Podcast
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Episode 78 - Ufouria: The Saga
May 22, 2026
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Episode 77 - Wario Land II
Apr 17, 2026
1h 11m 52s
Episode 76 - Harold Halibut
Mar 11, 2026
1h 12m 01s
Episode 75 - Split/Second (Velocity)
Jan 30, 2026
1h 08m 05s
Episode 74 - Future Cop: L.A.P.D.
Dec 20, 2025
1h 42m 42s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/22/26 | ![]() Episode 78 - Ufouria: The Saga | This month we're playing a delightful metroidvania called Ufouria: The Saga for the NES. Yes, that's right, the NES! "Where's the NES??"... is what 40-50 year old Americans constantly shout at us, in regard to its lack of appearance on our British podcast. Well, finally, you've got it! We're doing an NES game... that wasn't released in America.If that doesn't tickle your fancy, we've also got Tibbs bemoaning the exposition dump of an ending that he received upon completing Death Stranding, and Ollie has a fine time with cosy new train game, A Bumpy Road. We also discuss just what it is that Bubsy needs to do to finally turn himself into a success.Plus, there's a new Neo Geo console, a new Star Fox game, and we catch up with the Stop Killing Games campaign (insightful comments about which include "they're probably doing good stuff"). We also discover the fate of Ollie's Gordon the Gopher puppet, and Tibbs tells us about his run-in with a mysterious gravity-defying spider.@PodEmUp | podemup@gmail.com | podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 4/17/26 | ![]() Episode 77 - Wario Land II✨ | Wario Land IIgame design+3 | — | Wario Land IIDeath Stranding+6 | — | Wario Land IIDeath Stranding+3 | — | 1h 11m 52s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() Episode 76 - Harold Halibut✨ | video game discussionHarold Halibut+5 | — | SteamGOG+12 | Gardener's Corner | Harold HalibutSteam+8 | — | 1h 12m 01s | |
| 1/30/26 | ![]() Episode 75 - Split/Second (Velocity)✨ | arcade racingvideo game nostalgia+4 | — | Split/SecondMetroid Prime 4+6 | — | Split/Secondarcade racer+5 | — | 1h 08m 05s | |
| 12/20/25 | ![]() Episode 74 - Future Cop: L.A.P.D.✨ | video game analysisgame awards+3 | — | Future Cop: L.A.P.D.Metroid Prime 4+4 | — | Future Cop: L.A.P.D.Pod 'em Up Awards+3 | — | 1h 42m 42s | |
| 11/14/25 | ![]() Episode 73 - Life is Strange✨ | Life is Strangevideo game discussion+3 | — | Carpark CapitalPod 'em Up! Video Game Podcast+5 | — | Life is StrangeGTA series+3 | — | 1h 09m 03s | |
| 9/25/25 | ![]() Episode 72 - Universal Warrior✨ | video gamesgame reviews+3 | — | Denshattack!Nintendo+5 | — | Universal WarriorAmiga+5 | — | 1h 01m 11s | |
| 8/30/25 | ![]() Episode 71 - Tails Adventure✨ | Tails Adventuremetroidvania genre+5 | — | TANUKI: Pon's SummerBombrush Cyberfunk+5 | — | Tails Adventuremetroidvania+6 | — | 1h 11m 36s | |
| 7/30/25 | ![]() Episode 70 - Michael Jackson's Moonwalker Special✨ | Michael Jackson's Moonwalkervideo game discussion+4 | — | Michael Jackson's MoonwalkerRoboCop: Rogue City+5 | — | Michael JacksonMoonwalker+5 | — | 1h 07m 59s | |
| 6/13/25 | ![]() Episode 69 - Thank Goodness You're Here!✨ | comedy gamesindie games+3 | — | Thank Goodness You're Here!Pod 'em Up! Video Game Podcast | — | Thank Goodness You're Here!comedy+3 | — | 53m 21s | |
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| 4/26/25 | ![]() Episode 68 - L.O.L. Lack of Love✨ | video game discussiongame reviews+3 | — | L.O.L. Lack of LoveCroc: Legend of the Gobbos Remastered+3 | — | L.O.L. Lack of LoveCroc: Legend of the Gobbos Remastered+3 | — | 1h 17m 33s | |
| 3/21/25 | ![]() Episode 67 - Earthworm Jim | In this episode, we celebrate one of the most standout, wacky and hilarious platformers of the 16-bit era, as we take on the original Earthworm Jim for the Mega Drive!In addition, we discuss the very impressive fan-made static recompilation of Sonic Unleashed for the PC, Tomb Raider 4, 5 and 6 Remastered, some promising demos from Steam Next Fest, and more!Incoming Indies:Rad Venture's second kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radventure/rad-venture-campaign-2Elusive:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/abraham-cozar/elusive?ref=bmeaeipodemup.live | @PodEmUp | mail@podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 2/13/25 | ![]() Episode 66 - Cassette Beasts | In this episode, we take a look at 2023 indie gem Cassette Beasts, an RPG that has you recording monsters onto cassettes and using them to battle rangers and archangels on your quest to escape the mysterious island you now call home. Better then Pokemon? Let's find out!We also touch on what little we currently know of the recently announced Switch 2 and kill some time with a little video game movie chat.Ok, so we're a little light in terms of variety of content this month, but the Cassette Beasts discussion is well worth your time!UPDATE: During the recording of episode 70, we discussed the game's ending, which we have chopped out and offered to you in this bonus clip, which of course is SPOILERIFIC!: https://on.soundcloud.com/dhYDWQLcyKkSJhutsOpodemup.live | @PodEmUp | mail@podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 12/19/24 | ![]() Episode 65 - NiGHTS Into Dreams... | Our end of year special is upon us nice and early this year! NiGHTS Into Dreams on the Sega Saturn is being played in a particularly lengthy book club segment this time, as we go fairly indepth on all aspects of the Sonic Team classic - we also touch on Christmas NiGHTS and the Wii sequel too. Plus, the highlight of the Pod 'em Up year - our 2024 book club awards, in which we rank the games we've been playing all year, via our patented and ever complicated points system! Oh and we give a few minutes to that other, less exciting Game Awards too. Apologies for very short notice, but Ollie will be doing some streaming on Friday 20th December at around 6pm GMT over on http://twitch.tv/podemup! Please pop in if you can, as he'll be playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles to celebrate the game's 30th anniversary this year, and will also be chatting about his old website, Zone: 0 - celebrating 20 years since starting that project. If you missed it, it'll also be uploaded to: https://www.youtube.com/@PodEmUp podemup.live | mail@podemup.live | @PodEmUp | — | ||||||
| 11/18/24 | ![]() Episode 64 - Monty on the Run, Mayhem in Monsterland and Spacestation Silicon Valley | We're celebrating our 64th episode with not one, not two, but THREE (count 'em) games in this bumper edition of the book club this month, across the Commodore 64 and Nintendo 64 systems! Mayhem in Monsterland reveals what the C64 is truly capable of, and Spacestation Silicon Valley provides some great puzzles and silliness. 1985's quaint British platformer Monty on the Run, however, brings us the highlight of the show, in which Tibbs attempts to explain to Ollie what's so great about the game's Game Over screen. As if that weren't enough, Sega is as inconsistent as ever this episode, as we praise Sonic X Shadow Generations, but bemoan their upcoming, and unexplained Steam delistings. We also ponder Nintendo's plans for backwards compatibility in the next gen, and smell something fishy about that SuperSega FPGA console.. Plus, look out for Vampire Survivors, Buckshot Roulette, and we discover some weird WWE crossovers and tie-ins! podemup.live | @PodEmUp | mail@podemup.live You can (and should) now get follow us on Bluesky! podemup.bsky.social | — | ||||||
| 10/4/24 | ![]() Episode 63 - Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror | We're pointing and clicking once again this month, this time with Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror, for PS1 and PC! Plus, we discuss the ridiculous price tag of the PS5 Pro, the Plucky Squire, Rugrats, wrestling, tabletop dishwashing and slippery knives! Incoming Indie: Fading Skies - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/distantbluegames/fading-skies mail@podemup.live | podemup.live | @podemup | — | ||||||
| 8/17/24 | ![]() Episode 62 - Metropolis Street Racer | We're earning some serious kudos (...) with our latest book club pick - the Dreamcast's stylish racing masterpiece that's not afraid to throw some cheesy tunes at you - it's Metropolis Street Racer! Plus, we answer the following questions: - How can Europeans stop killing games? - Will Mad Max ever understand the meaning of friendship? - What is the correct way to fuss a cat? Find out in episode 62 of Pod 'em Up! Links: - EU petition to save games from obsolescence: https://www.stopkillinggames.com/ - koROBO: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tinywonderstudio/korobo/ - Rad Venture: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/radventure/rad-venture podemup.live | @PodEmUp | mail@podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 7/12/24 | ![]() Episode 61 - Discworld II: Missing Presumed..!? | This month our friend Rik is back - this time as guest co-host - to discuss classic point-and-click adventure (and head-scratch 'em-up) Discworld II: Missing Presumed..!? for PC, PlayStation and Saturn. Also found elsewhere in this show, Dave the Diver, Forza Horizon 4 and AstroBot! mail@podemup.live | @PodEmUp | podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 5/10/24 | ![]() Episode 60 - Corn Kidz 64 | Celebrating both our 60th episode and our 6th birthday, this edition of the podcast hosts Corn Kidz 64 in the book club - a recent PC/Switch 3D collect-a-thon platformer that harks back to the N64 era in a highly convincing manner. Other games that we touch on include Hi-fi Rush, Penny's Big Breakaway, Samba de Amigo: Party Central and Super Star Path. Plus Ollie weighs in on the Knuckles TV series. podemup.live | @PodEmUp | mail@podemup.live We're now on Youtube Podcasts! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnSPu4iz27jyAuI02w5-0n5OxfQkishqf | — | ||||||
| 3/24/24 | ![]() Episode 59 - Ape Escape | In the book club, we play Ape Escape - the PS1 game that showed 1999 that it needed to invest in that shiny new DualShock controller, after all. Or maybe not, let's see. Plus, Nintendo goes head to head with Yuzu and.. wins, almost immediately, and Tibbs tells us about the recent Tomb Raider remastered games. We'll level with you - due to various reasons, it's not exactly our best episode, this one. But hopefully our self deprecating humour about the whole thing turns it into an enjoyable car crash. If it's possible to enjoy a car crash. Which it isn't. Look, it's late, and I'm tired. Incoming Indie: Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom - https://thoseawesomeguys.com/games/yellow-taxi-goes-vroom/ podemup.live | @PodEmUp | podemup@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 2/8/24 | ![]() Episode 58 - The Legendary Starfy | Little known Nintendo platforming hero, Starfy the starfish gets his turn in the spotlight at last this month, as we feature his underwater platforming antics in the book club - we're discussing The Legendary Starfy, for Nintendo DS. Elsewhere, Tibbs has finally given the Zelda games a proper go, having immersed himself in not one, but two of the most well known entries in the franchise! He's had a great time, apparently.. well, that's what he claims anyway. His list of issues suggest otherwise though. Of course all of that pales in comparison to the highlight of the show, which is our in depth discussion about "Jerry Rice and Nitus' Dog Football" for the Wii. Fully endorsed, of course, by the Pet Sport League. That's right. podemup.live | podemup@gmail.com | @PodEmUp | — | ||||||
| 1/9/24 | ![]() Episode 57 - The Simpsons: Hit & Run | It's our (slightly belated) end of year show, and we're taking The Simpsons: Hit & Run for a spin in the book club, for GameCube, Xbox and PS2! The perfect excuse to load the show up full of Simpsons chat, quotes, clips and songs! And of course it wouldn't be an end of year show without the Pod 'em Up awards, where we hand out points to our favourite games from the book club throughout 2023 and find a winner of the coveted Pod 'em Up book club game of the year! Now with automated vote counting! @PodEmUp | podemup@gmail.com | podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 11/27/23 | ![]() Episode 56 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney | Time for a little Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney in the book club? You'll hear no objections from us! Listen to what we had to say about the original DS game that lead to the popular courtroom franchise! Elsewhere, we've an extra chunky review of Sonic Superstars, and we also dip into the likes of Super Mario Wonder, WWE 2K23 and Alien Hominid Invasion. All this whilst trying to evade the highly litigious "Bodger and Badger Corporation LLC", and figuring out Tibbs' cryptic note about a steering wheel. Incoming Indie: Promenade (https://www.redartgames.com/games/607-promenade-nintendo-switch.html) podemup.live | @PodEmUp | podemup@gmail.com | — | ||||||
| 9/27/23 | ![]() Episode 55 - Captain Rainbow | This month, the book club covers the Japanese exclusive, Captain Rainbow for the Wii - A Nintendo-published game with Nintendo characters, yet it has a reputation for rude humour, swearing and inappropriate content!? Ollie and Tibbs investigate! Elsewhere, we jam pack the news section with Xbox preservation concerns and Nintendo Direct musings. We also discuss the departure of Charles Martinet as the loveable voice of Mario, and the success of the recent Sonic Symphony performance in London. Oh and youngsters better cover their ears, as we realise we're no longer capable of keeping up with modern life, in what's sure to be our old-man-iest episode yet. Don't worry about us, you just keep watching your Tikety-Tok broadcasts. If you need us, we'll be back on MSN, playing "guess the diddle". Incoming indie: Goodboy Galaxy - https://hotpengu.itch.io/goodboy-galaxy-demo podemup@gmail.com | @PodEmUp | podemup.live | — | ||||||
| 8/10/23 | ![]() Episode 54 - Baba is You | Baba is who? That's what we intend to find out, as we cover this 2019 indie puzzler for PC and Switch that lets you rewrite the game's rules in order to solve its fiendish puzzles! Not content with one book club pick, Tibbs basically brings another one along with him as he packs in a full blown review of the game that completely out-Pokemons Pokemon - It's Cassette Beasts! Plus, an arcade/laundrette/toilet management game, and Ollie shares some holiday gaming books. podemup@gmail.com | @PodEmUp | podemup.live | — | ||||||
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