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This week on the podcast, we add our second ever edutainment game, it's Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets! You are the Super Solver! It's your duty to solve the puzzles, find the items and put together a spectacular racing vehicle to take on Morty, your archnemesis. You must have an understanding of simple logic and the ability to overcome the Cyber Chimps, Morty's ferocious right-hand men. Can you do it? Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here)!

This week we actually went to the movies and saw Uncharted. Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg enter and shenanigans ensue! In production for over a decade, had a revolving door of attached directors, unproven writers, lots of budget! What could possibly happen! Where did it land on the list of video game movies? Find out on the list and listen to the podcast!

Just like the game, this week we have an exhausting conversation about where Dark Souls ranks on the Endless List. Yes, this game is very good and yes it's highly influential but we spent literally 30 minutes talking about the ranking. This is the week of Elden Ring so of course we just had to rank a soulsborne game. And we ranked the soulsborne game, the one that really made the whole soulslike genre popular (yes, I realize Demon Souls also did some work but this is where it really popped off).  Find out the ranking on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we talk about an edutainment game. It's a game where you learn about fractions and also frogs and everyone has a very good time. The frogs are nice and the math is completely legit. It's true. Don't look it up and don't ask questions. Just listen to the podcast please. Find out the ranking in our complete rankings listed here or listen to the god damn podcast.

This week for our 150th entry to the Endless List, we're adding one of the games we first podded about: PUBG: Battlegrounds. This newly eligible game to the Endless List, brought our group of friends together with it's giant maps, huge player counts and wide variety of weapons. It innovated a genre that is one of the most popular in existence today. Where did it land on our Endless List of games? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings, linked here.

This week on the podcast, we're adding the first Pokémon movie with Pokémon: The First Movie to our definitely going to end list of video game movies. We join our heroes Ash, Brock and Misty as they are waiting out a storm when suddenly they are invited to a battle by a mysterious Pokémon master. Does this old up in our age addled minds? Does nostalgia prevail in our ranking on the list? Find out on the podcast or on our complete rankings (linked here!).

This week on the podcast, we added Actraiser to the Endless List of video games. It's a city-builder and an action platformer? What the what!? Made by the Dragon Quest people and put out in the early days of the Super Nintendo. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out our complete rankings.

This week on the podcast, we're adding one of the greatest sports game of all time to the Endless List in NHL '94. Depending on where and when you grew up, this might have been a staple in your gaming repetoire in the '90s. The game brought improvements like one-timers and full goalie control to the NHL series. It was also the first time the NHL series had both the NHL license for teams and the NHLPA license for players. And there was one of the all time sports video game characters: Jeremy Roenick. Where did it land on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the complete Endless List here.

Some people have asked if you're going to cover every video game then you have to include gacha games. Well here we are, this week it's Chris's most requested game, Fire Emblem Heroes. This ain't your mama's gacha game (it really is but I'm trying to make this exciting). Bringing together the lore of all the Fire Emblem games while also providing an addictive gameplay loop and being generous in it's free-2-play design, Fire Emblem Heroes has it all! Where did it land on our Endless List?  Find out on the podcast or check out the complete rankings (linked here).

This week on the podcast, we add the fifth out of six live action theatrically released video game movies released in the 1990s as we add Double Dragon to the list. Starring Alyssa Milano, Mark Dacascos, Robert Patrick and Scott Wolf. We dive into the action, the writing, the acting and so much more. This movie is really bad! But Abobo is really good (in some really bad ways!). Watch as we discuss how this movie apes so many movies prior while providing really terrible writing and direction! Join us as we add the Double Dragon movie to the list!

This week on the podcast we continue our annual Christmas traditional of adding every Home Alone game to the Endless List as we add Imagineering's Super Nintendo and Game Boy take on the franchise. We also talk about where the Endless List currently stands as we look at some key stats behind the list. We also show the world what our favorite games of 2021 have been. Where did Home Alone land on the list? Find out on the Endless List! (click here).

This week on the podcast with the release of Halo: Infinite, we took a look at another Halo game in the series: Halo 2. John Halo is back at it again fighting the Covenant and living his best space marine life. The sequel improves on the original game in a number of ways and we talk about those improvements along with the cliffhanger ending that left players disappointed at the original release. We also gush over the Master Chief Collection. Where did it end up on the Endless List? Find out on the podcast or check out the Medium page!

This week on the podcast, we fill in another crucial gap on the list as we add the first game from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater franchise to the Endless List. This game and series upped the popularity of an entire sport. Combining arcade action with intuitive fighting game-like controls to instantly become probably the best skateboarding video game up till that moment. Where did it land on our Endless List? Find out on the podcast and check out the complete list on our Medium page.

You're a wizard podcast listener, this week on the podcast. This week the podcast is so wizard as we watched The Wizard, our podcast namesake. We didn't add it to the list, we sort of added it to the list, ok maybe we do? Maybe we don't. Fred Savage is in this movie with the kid from Little Big League the front person from Rilo Kiley. Oh and Tim says "How much did they pay Mario" at one point. Also if Chris sees this: Read my lips, Fire Emblem Heroes blows. Good day sir and merry Mario.

This week we had a little fun as we added this interesting and unique game to the Endless List: It's QWOP! This is our first browser based game on the Endless List (I think, I'm not paying attention, what?). Made by the one and only Bennett Foddy, we talk about the game's design, it's legacy and most importantly where it goes on the Endless List of video games. Where did it land? Find out on the podcast or check out our medium page for the full list!

The Emperor is dead. It's your job to hunt down the traitor lords and bring ruin to their people. This week on the podcast, we're adding House of the Dying Sun to the Endless List of Video Games. This flight simulator might be the first game specifically designed for VR on the List (I think? Who knows?!). It's a combination of TIE-Fighter and Battlestar Galactica with a sprinkling of Dune and it whips! Find out where it ranked on the podcast. Or check out the complete list on our Medium page.

What is there to say? We're adding one of the best of the Super Mario games to the Endless List of video games. We talk about history with it, the game's development history, it's marketing history, it's legacy and so much more. Find out where it landed on the Endless List by listening to the episode!

This week on the podcast, we're adding a movie and doing brunch. Join us for mimosas, orcs, bloody marys, wizards and bagels. We got the lox baby as we add Warcraft to our list of movies. Watch all simultaneously be flabbergasted when we find out the movie was released in 2016. Listen in horror as Ankur and Joe break your ear drums with great acoustics and terrible cackles. Where did it land on the list? Who knows! But you can find out on the podcast!

Some say that burgers are simply ground beef cooked between two buns. Some people would be right, but then again what about BurgerTime? Is that the time of burgers? Or is it a video game from 1982 featuring Peter Pepper, Mr. Pickle, Mr. Hot Dog and Mr. Egg? This is the mystery we will solve on this episode. ALSO WHERE IT GOES ON THE ENDLESS LIST OF VIDEO GAMES.

This week on the podcast, we wrap up Spooktober by covering the origins of the Resident Evil series with the Famicom hidden gem, it's Sweet Home added to the Endless List. We've talked about this game pretty extensively on past episodes. Imagine if you will a Dragon Quest clone with limited inventory, puzzles to solve for progression and a spooky horror vibe. We go over our thoughts on the game, it's legacy and where it should go on the list. Find out where it landed on the podcast and on our Medium page.