"Let's have a look at what you could have won..."

Welcome to another edition of #FreeplayFortnightly where we both pick a video game that we want to play and keep it secret from our co-host. We then review each game on the podcast and ask our co-host to score the game out of 10 based on our review. Simple? You bet we are!

The games we've picked out for random review this week are:

• Spyro Reignited Trilogy (2018, Xbox One)

• Bullseye (2021, PS4)

Unfortunately it turns out that you can, in fact, beat a bit of Bully...

There's definitely no special prize for guessing which creature wins the day between a bull & a dragon this week.

Bully's original run as a TV show (1981-1995) only just witnessed the dawn of the PS1 but the Spyro franchise was still producing games on the PS1 long after the PS2 had already been released in Japan.

Who would have thought they would both intersect with brushed up video game releases on the 8th generation of home consoles?

Our podcast apparently... Enjoy the pod.

A 150th anniversary is known as a sesquicentennial. I'm not sure anyone will be bothered about using a posh word like that around here to celebrate our 150th episode...Yes, we know, we didnt expect to STILL be here churning out poorly constructed opinions about video games either but we've grown rather fond of our podcasting time together which is what matters the most. Perhaps today's contest will finally put an end to our kindness though...We've taken the Top 25 PS2, Xbox & Gamecube games (as determined by IGN.com) and pitted them against each other in a positional match of 'This, that or t'other one?'There's no fairness about it or anything sensible like that. We work our way up from the video games positioned at number 25 on all 3 lists and decide which game should stay at each position. This is a chunky pod (140 mins you're never getting back!) so we've drafted in one of our best pals, Kyle Taylor, to help wade through the 75 games up for discussion.Its all here... Functional spreadsheets, inane list building, crap arguments... Some things never change.Enjoy the pod!

Feel the rhythm. Feel the rhyme. Get on up, its podcast time...

Hi guys! Which discipline are you enjoying the most at the 2026 Winter Olympics so far?

Is it Rich travelling around recreating the Little Chef 'Olympic Breakfast' in a roadside layby OR is it Fazz pressing his unprotected face against a well used ice track to sup cheap flavoured vodka?

If the answer is any of the above then the first 10 minutes of this is the podcast for you! After grinding through this (barely related) Winter Sports introduction we land, three full 360-degree rotations later, squarely at the feet of 1080 Snowboarding (1998, N64) & its VR spiritual successor Carve Snowboarding (2021, Meta Quest 3S).

Find out what these two video games have in common and why there's room for both in your backlog (and your front room!)

Finally, we round things off with a solitary trip to the snowy summit of Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders (2025, Xbox Game Pass). Back in 2019 Lonely Mountains: Downhill was a breath of fresh air from developers Megagon Games so why does Fazz feel Snow Riders fails to hit those same peaks this time out?

Enjoy the podcast.