You read that right! It's fucking chuck rock, and we talk about CHUCK FUCKING ROCK. Also: What it's like 50 years in the future, McDonald's 3, Fred (oh god fred), Tim Allen's deleterious effect on the state of psychology, and just...rocks. But mostly we talk about CHUCk. FUCKING. ROCK. It's regrettable.Starring Tigress, Cania, Shrug, Tulpa, OneSecondBefore, and BachelorSoft.

Super Nintendo Exploration Squad

SNEX50 - Chuck Rock

In this episode we talk about Marxism, the Sega Genesis mouse, greedy Luigi, the preservation of video games, how Nintendo kinda sucks shit, and POGs. Oh, and Mario Paint.Starring: Automatic Tigress, OneSecondBefore, and VastleCaniak

SNEX49 - Mario Paint

In this episode, we talk about the best way to cut a fish, how fans of the Ninja Five-O games feel about cops, the decrepit faces of professional mahjong players, and something about steel that I could not understand. Oh, and Umihara KawaseUmihara Kawase is a 1994 platforming puzzle game starring a school girl, Umihara Kawase, who must use her fishing rod as a very complex grappling hook to navigate tricky levels populated with giant, walking fish. There are 50 stages in total, though there are multiple paths through the game depending on how long you take.Starring Cania, AutomaticTigress, Rudie, Ramona, Shrug, and Tulpa. 

SNEX48 - Umihara Kawase

In this episode, we discuss Cocks, Death Land Island, Cocks, how to be impatient, Cocks, and the explorer's choice game Ladystalker. That explorer being Rudie!!Ladystalker is a spiritual sequel to Landstalker, an isometric RPG...thing. It's kinda cool.Starring in no particular order: Rudie, Gary, Shrug, AutomaticTiger, and hosted by VastleCania

SNEX47 - Ladystalker

In this very low population episode, we discuss how Kamen Rider is just one power ranger, what a gundam is, the best possible way to play bingo, and santa's gambling problem. Oh, and of course Battle Dodgeball.Battle Dodgeball is a dodgeball game...starrring robots and monsters from Kamen Rider, SD Gundam, and something else I can't be bothered to look up right now. It's so bad that only two people were willing to talk about it: Cania and Tigress. This casual episode might actually be one of our best though, despite the myriad technical issues.

SNEX46 - Battle Dodgeball

In this episode, we discuss how to have an 8 person podcast, Frankenstein, shiny suits, Tulpa quitting, JustBreed, Medieval Books, Keno...oh and Wonder Project J.Wonder Project J is a 1994 adventure game/ life simulation game, starring Pino, who is definitely a real boy. Train your android boy Pino to lift weights, read books, and possibly stab people with swords. You do this by pointing him to items using the fairy Tinker as essentially a cursor, then praising or scolding him for what he does with that item. This changes his stats and available skills. It was developed by the Almanic Corporation, otherwise known as Givro corporation, known for such titles as Wonder Project J 2 and Cosmic Carnage. It was published by Enix, who also released the more famous game Just Breed.It was only released in Japan, but it had a fan translation released in 2001, only 7 years later! That's what everyone (but Rudie) played.Starring Mara, Rudie, Srug, Closed, Tulpa, Automatic Tigress, Ramona, and Cania. 

SNEX45 - Wonder Project J

America’s favorite (citation needed) Taiwanese Developed RPG for sega genesis has finally been examined by the Megadrivers. What mysteries are to be found? Will it live up to it’s title, that this is in fact a saga of brave battles?And what does any of this have to do with Campbellian Hole Theories?Listen and all shall be revealed on this this awkwardly timed US General Election Day edition of The Book of megadrive.

BOM7: Brave Battle Saga

This week, we discuss baby cakes, who IS on first, toilet-type battle machines, disastrous minor league mascots, nostalgia, rotational symmetry, and treating humans as a commodity. Oh, and Super Bases Loaded, and also every other baseball game.Super Bases Loaded, or Super Professional Baseball in Japan, is the 5th in the Bases Loaded series. It was developed by Tose, and published by  by Jaleco. It's...a baseball game? It gets the job done.Bachelor, Tigress, Ramona, Sakurina, and hosted by VastleCania. Also, Shrug shows up!

SNEX44 - Super Bases Loaded

This file arrived in an unmarked package on my doorstep and now you have to listen to it too. Don't play this out loud at work or anything though.

SNEX - Rudie's Thoughts on Radical Dreamers (NSFW??)

In this episode, we discuss how OnlyFans is getting way too popular, canadian Anime, Camelot's Radical Dreamers Golf, killing your dad, pissing off fans of your most popular work, and getting a crush on a girl who physically abuses you. Oh, and we talk about Radical DreamersRadical Dreamers is a sort of sequel to Chrono Trigger, and was essentially remade and expanded into Chrono Cross. Released in 1996 on the Japan-only Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom, and translated in 2005 by Demiforce, Radical Dreamers is a text adventure/dungeon crawler/JRPG. Join Kid, Serge, and Magus-I-mean-Magil on their quest to steal a rock. This game was handpicked by our very own nocode as their explorer's choice. Come listen to us talk about this game for longer than it takes to finish it!Starring: nocode, Tulpa, closed, Bachelor, and VastleCania. Edited by AutomaticTigress

SNEX43: Radical Dreamers

Rudie leads the SNExploration Away Team in a dark ritual to summon the ur-Salaryman to destroy the world, and/or edit the podcast going forward. They talk about Snood, wearing shirts, what it means to be a Salaryman, how shogi works, and rosters. And of course,NHL 97 & NHL 98, Thoroughbred Breeder III, Hissatsu Pachinko Collection 2, Shogi Furinkazan, and Matsukata Hiroki no Super TrawlingStarring Rudie, Shrug (AKA the shirtful legend), AutomaticTigress, Ramona, Bachelor, and Tulpa 

SNEX Special 5: Salaryman Pentagram

It's time! In this episode, we discuss mostly things related to Zelda, including the color brown, the terror of getting stuck in the bottle menu, the adventures of a bully and a ball, bowling with bumpers, and the adventures in a tomato garden. And of course, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the PastStarring VastleCania, Automatic Tigress, daphaknee, Closed, Bachelor, Ramona, and Shrug. 

SNEX42 - The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

In the newly minted Snexploration Away Team Podcast, our intrepid explorers play a game about explorers that's an interpretation of a movie about explorers...Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj! Which is apparently a first person shooter on the Sega Saturn. They also talk about Michael Crichton's racism, earthquakes, wobbly polygons, Myth and Myth 2, lasers, laser fences, laser diamonds, and the DOOM guy. Oh, and of course Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj.Starring: Rudie, Shrug, Automatic Tigress, and Bachelor

SNEX Special 4 - Congo The Movie: The Lost City of Zinj

Celebrate BoM's glorious return with an exploration of the world's largest religion: Star Wars. The megadrivers explore with their usual deep reverevence for something that must be deep and meaningful because it's made literally billions of dollars. Specifically, we play the unfinished Super Star Wars port for Sega Genesis, and ask deep, existential questions about game podcasting.Topics discussed include: Jizz, Gems, Mind Tricks, Dark forces vs Imperial Shadows, How Vader Unwinds, and of course, colonialism.Starring @AutomaticTiger @itscania @ramona_lf @shrugopolis

BOM - Star Wars Special

In this episode, we discuss a great many things, most of which I've forgotten because it's been months since this was recorded. But most of all, we talked about Ball, Bullet, And/Or Gun, which is basically XCOM for babies, but in a good way. Starring: AutomaticTigress, Shrug, Mara, Vastlecania, Tulpa, Rudie, and Bachelor

SNEX41 - Ball Bullet Gun

Explore the Super Nintendo catalog at random with the intrepid Super Nintendo Exploration Squad. Every other week, a rotating crew of SelectButtoneers select a game from the SNES library at random. Afterwards, we discuss it using the five standardized metrics for scoring a video game: Gun, Vanity, Mystery, Poetry, and Harmony. We dive in deep on games you've never heard of with some of the brightest minds in video game criticism.There are also a healthy amount of digressions and unrelated banter, as any good podcast should have.Hosted by VastleCania, most of the time, but also sometimes Rudie or Automatic TigerNow featuring a second podcast: Book of Megadrive! Explore the Megadrive/Sega Genesis library at random with your host Automatic Tiger! Featuring many of the same cast, but with some new faces, and much better editing!WARNING: We sometimes use profanity! But otherwise this is a safe and inclusive space.Learn more athttp://www.snes.zoneThis is a SelectButton.net Gaiden Podcast.

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