Be careful what you wish for...
Welcome to the first news edition of Nerds Without Pants, as we go weekly for the first time since our beginning way back in 2012! Join us for a second helping of Consumption Junction, followed by Headlines, and then we close out by hopping on the Email Banana Boat. Get into it!
Hannibal, we hardly knew ye.
Welcome back to another Nerds Without Pants, where we kick things off with a special announcement: NWP is going weekly! Sort of! You’ll see. Anyhoo, this episode is a chance for Julian to right a great wrong as we talk about good ideas in games that didn’t quite land the first time. Then we have a handful of games to go through before having the first-ever Fatal 4 Way in Video Game Cage Match! Sort of!
Who didn't love pumping quarters into Oblivion in the arcade???
Welcome back to Nerds Without Pants! Friend of the show John Gholson returns after a very long absence to talk about games we wish we could play again for the first time. It’s a fun topic with lots of asides and trips down memory lane. We also talk some Fire Emblem, Like a Dragon, and PSVR 2, plus much more!
This baby can fit so many games in it!
Heya! I bet you weren’t expecting this episode of Nerds Without Pants so soon! Well, since we got delayed a week with our first episode back from hiatus we decided to record this one a week later to stay on the schedule we had planned. It’s an all-Consumption Junction edition of NWP because we…had a ton of games to talk about!
Okay, that's the last 2020 joke. Probably.
NERDS WIITHOUT PANTS IS BACK! Technical issues kept us away for an extra week, but we’re joined once again by Xavier Krieger to talk about our favorite games that we played in 2022. It’s a really fun discussion, and unlike nearly every GotY podcast you’ve heard for the year. Also, Elden Ring challenges Chrono Cross for the NWPWF Heavyweight Championship in a steel cage match. Please enjoy!
Justin is Hugh Grant and Julian is Drew Barrymore!
Welcome back! We’re still on hiatus, but it’s time for our annual music special, and we have a jam-packed edition this year. We’ve gone back to our older format of getting together and talking about our music selections and what they mean to us. In traditional Nerds Without Pants fashion we overshare, things get heavy, and then there’s probably a joke about boobs or something. You know how it goes by now.
I'll just have a little bit of pud, mate.
Well, here we are. It’s the final episode of Nerds Without Pants for 2022. It sure has been a year that happened, with things and events and…I’m already pretty checked out, to be honest.
Guess we aren't getting that Goncharov game.
Welcome to a really special edition of Nerds Without Pants! We watch The Game Awards together every year, but this year we decided to record ourselves, and it ended up working out as a pretty fun commentary track! Enjoy our live reacts to some big announcements, dunk on fashion, and listen to Justin totally fracture when one of his least favorite games of 2022 wins an award. There are instructions on how to sync up the audio with the video archive in the intro to the show, and we have included a link to the official video archive below. I mean, I guess you could listen to this along with someone else's stream, but that would be kinda weird.
This title is a reference that none of you will understand.
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Nerds Without Pants! It’s a shorter show this time around, as we take your super hero video game pitches, talk about a small handful of games, and find out who comes out on top between Spider-Man 2 (2004) and Spider-Man (2018).
Rooting for the little guy.
Willow is a 1988 dark fantasy movie I never watched as a child. Yet the name still rings a nostalgic bell in my brain. Strangely, I didn’t consciously pay it much attention until I stumbled across the NES game sometime in the mid-2000s. But seeing the name and characters on the cover felt deeply familiar in a way I still grapple to understand. Maybe I saw the movie poster and heard its name in passing as a kid but didn’t think much of it until discovering the video game later in life. Initially released by Capcom in 1989, Willow was a calculated attempt to create a game with broader appeal since it was based on a property with characters familiar to its audience. Fortunately for Capcom, those calculations were entirely correct.
