The Free Cheese

This week on The Free Cheese, we're fighitng ourselves! Let's reach back to an era where superheroes were all the rave and dreams of seeing our favorite comic book characters on the big screen were be...

12 Sep 20221h 1min

This week on The Free Cheese, 2007 is gonna be a weird year. Nintendo's not-so-trapped-in-Japan-any-longer collaboration with Treasure makes its way onto our list this week. Sin and Punishment explore...

5 Sep 20221h 3min

This week on The Free Cheese, the Midway Knuckle®. How do you reinvent an arcade game for the end of a console generation sitting right on the edge of always-online gaming? Midway Studios San Diego at...

29 Aug 20221h 13min

This week on The Free Cheese, oh, I get it. We add another shooting game to the list with Konami's parody of its own Gradius. We talk about how other games were born from the Parodius series and wonde...

22 Aug 20221h 21min

This week on The Free Cheese, there's like, a hole in your head. Just in time for QuakeCon 2022, we add Quake to The List. While we've all been into id Software games and have played a range of games ...

15 Aug 20221h 24min

This week on The Free Cheese, we should always fear shrimp. What happens when the Ace Combat team makes a Star Fox game? We take on the Aparoids to save the galaxy as Team Star Fox in the Namco-develo...

8 Aug 20221h 5min

This week on The Free Cheese, time to check the list! We break our list of games from this season into 4 categories and reflect on the choices we've made so far. As we revisit each game, the chance of...

1 Aug 20222h 9min

This week on The Free Cheese, it tastes different than Sprite! We return to an age of mascot platformers with one of the most recognized of the era. Then, we wonder what happened to all of the mascots...

25 Jul 20221h 4min