Squidge invited Jay to make his first appearance on the Cupboard of Shame, and he brought along a white whale of sorts. What do Arnie, Sly Stallone, and trashy 80s cyberpunk movies have in common? And why is Jay recommending running, head first, into walls? This CoS will answer those questions and more.

• Power Blade 2
• Power Blade
• Power Blazer
• Mega Man (series)
• Punch Out!

Matthew (the host of The Dead Drop podcast) joined us to talk about two of his favourite puzzle games ever. We also talk about what we’ve been playing recently, and we drop him off for a short spell in the Thunder Plains. But we also talk about Wata and NFTs, too.

• Citizen Sleeper
• The Witness
• Obscure II
• Mortal Kombat (series)
• Power Blade

MazGamingUK (aka Maz from the DreamCast Junkyard Podcast, and of YouTube and Twitch fame) stopped by the virtual Waffling Taylors HQ to chat about his YouTube channel, what he’s been playing recently, what he’d take with him to the Thunder Plains, drops a horror story (followed by Jay doing the same), and we talk about controller designs.

• Two Point Hospital
• Team Sonic Racing
• Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown
• Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
• Virtua Fighter

In this episode we talked with Charles Griffiths about the wonderfully fun puzzle game The Sexy Brutale. We also touch on casino games and learning Craps, classic Rare vs modern Rare, and Squidge’s most piratey move ever

• The Sexy Brutale
• Vegas Stakes
• Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
• Sea of Theives
• DOOM Eternal

Part two of a three part special episode where we talk to long time fan of the show, friend of GaProgMan, and all round nice guy: Unaffiliated JZ.
This time we start out with some major league silliness, talk about JZ’s favourite controller, and he stumps us with Video Game knowledge. Then Squidgy finally drops a bomb that he’s been teasing for a whole year.

• Age of Empires
• Castlevania
• Contra
• Cybermorph
• Dance, Dance Revolution

In which Jay talks us through one of his all time favourite NES games: Power Blade, and how it’s totally not a Mega Man clone

• Mega Man
• Power Blade

Where Squidgey talks about how he started his gaming journey – the hard way.

• Power Blade

Everyone has played Super Mario Bros., right? Well, here are Jay’s thoughts on that seminal game and how it fits into the history of the Waffling Taylors

• Power Blade
• Super Mario Bros
• TMNT