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Super Smash Echoes
by Justin & Magellan
Every month, your hosts Justin and Magellan explore the worlds of Super Smash Bros. by playing the games that inspired its characters, one franchise at a time.
Episodes
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Those Games (2023) - A Gallery In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
What if you combined a game and a watch, and then added several thousand other functions to your watch (such as, say, the ability to make phone calls), and then you transformed the games into something much stranger and worse, and then you took those games out of your watch and you played them?...
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Kirby Air Riders (2025) - The Kirbyification of Fortnite
Over 20 years in the making, Nintendo gave the Smash Echoes hosts a gift better than they could have possibly imagined by making a sequel to the game that has shaped their gamer minds and all of modern gaming for the last two decades. That was 6 months ago, and this monumental milestone has come...
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Game & Watch Gallery 3 (1999) - Is Mario The Mickey Mouse of Handheld Gaming?
It's an interactive entertainment medium! It's a time-keeping device! No, it's sort of stuff inside of a museum inside of a thing! You'll get five fifths of a game for the price of none as we discuss Game & Watch Gallery 3. 0:01:20 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:09:45 for our discussion of Game &...
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Fire Emblem: Awakening (2012) - Romance & Permadeath On The Other Side of The Battle Lines
After a narratively significant two-year time-jump, we are now the children of Super Smash Echoes's former hosts, combining all of the best podcasting special moves from our progenitors in order to achieve victory in this discussion of Fire Emblem: Awakening. 0:01:15 for our pre-play thoughts....
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Ice Climber (1985) & Journey (2012) - Phone Wallpapers of Mountains & Hiker Community Drama
Welcome to Season 2 of Super Smash Echoes, in which we explore franchises introduced to the series during Super Smash Bros. Melee. If you like talking about climbing, and ice, and the computer lab games that live in our heads rent free, this is the episode for you! 0:02:45 for our pre-play...
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F-Zero GX (2003) - Ten Seasons of Anime in Ten Minutes of Cutscenes
Our special guest, Allen from Chatz: A Television Podcast, joins us to discuss evil Captain Falcons and very fast vehicles. 0:02:50 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:13:00 for our post-play reflections. Here's an example of a pretty funny post-race interview from the Grand Prix mode. And here's an...
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Franken (2022) - Does It Have The Same Overworld Sprite As Earthbound?
Your friends at Super Smash Echoes put our Earthbound coverage on hold with this delightful trip through the wonderful indie RPG-seeming Franken. Join us as we discuss what it means to play a game and why we do it, the difference between labyrinths and mazes, whether there is such thing as…
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EarthBound (1995), Part 2 - Earthbound Is Other Games Minus Time
Justin and Magellan check in to discuss their progress on Earthbound, which ends up being in large part a discussion of what else they've been playing (Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Elden Ring, respectively) and how those games relate to Earthbound. They also discuss the newest member to their...
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EarthBound (1995), Part 1 - An RPG For Kids For Silly And Scared Adults
It's time for our favorite thing, podcasting! We take our first crack at the journey that is EarthBound, discussing BLTs, cults, and the doo-doo-doo-doo-doo from the memes. Please note that this podcast spoils EarthBound up until the big story thing that happens early on in the third town. If you...
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Undertale (2015) - The Velvet Underground of Moral Decision-Making
In this special bonus episode nestled between two classic Nintendo JRPGs, we play Undertale - a game that breaks down and rebuilds that genre just as it breaks down and rebuilds us (emotionally). 0:01:30 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:05:30 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter...
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Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition (1999) - Pokemon: The Game: The Anime: The Game
In this episode, we live the millennial dream of partying like it's 1999 and protecting our very own Pikachu with our lives. 0:01:45 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:12:00 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes. Follow Justin on Twitter...
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Spookware (2021) - WarioWare: Take It Apart!
Happy Halloween! In the time between our regular episodes (in which we explore how our understandings of the echoes of Smash franchise games compare to the games themselves), we're doing our first bonus episode on a game that is itself an echo of a Smash franchise game. Join us as we discuss...
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Star Fox 64 (1997) - The Best Movie You Can Rent From Blockbuster
Coming this summer, Fox McLeod in A New Hope - uh, I mean, Star Fox 64! 0:02:50 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:11:00 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes. Follow Justin on Twitter @nopadBridges. Listen to Magellan talk about television on...
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Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards (2000) - Everything Is Seven Things
If Kirby swallowed this podcast he would get the good takes power. 0:02:15 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:10:45 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter and other social platforms @smashechoes. Follow Justin on Twitter @nopadBridges. Listen to Magellan talk about television on his...
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Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island (1995)
We may not be parents ourselves, but we understand how hard it is now because this month we played the SNES parenting simulator, Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island. 0:01:40 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:05:30 for our post-play reflections. Note: It is with a sad heart that we have to inform you...
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Metroid Prime (2002)
We go back to the game that didn't start it all, but definitely started half of our modern understanding of "it all" - Samus Aran's entry into the world of 3D gaming with Metroid Prime. 0:01:15 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:10:45 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter and other...
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (2000)
Want to think about a different cycle of impending catastrophe than the one we live every day? Join Justin and Magellan as they discuss The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask! 0:03:12 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:13:50 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on Twitter and other social…
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (2014)
We're the leader of the bunch, you know us well! We're finally back, to play another video game representative of a franchise from Super Smash Bros., in this case Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze! 0:01:45 for our pre-play thoughts. 0:24:20 for our post-play reflections. Follow the show on...
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Super Mario Bros. 3 (1990)
Super Smash Bros. is a game made up of the echoes of other games, games which themselves echo in the wider conversation about video games as a whole. This is a podcast about our relationship to those echoes, and about how the games themselves align to or belie what we hear and say about them....
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Every month, your hosts Justin and Magellan explore the worlds of Super Smash Bros. by playing the games that inspired its characters, one franchise at a time.
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Every month, your hosts Justin and Magellan explore the worlds of Super Smash Bros. by playing the games that inspired its characters, one franchise at a time.
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