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Send us Fan MailIn 2006, developer GearBox announced a novel squad based game set in the Aliens universe with writing from Battlestar Gallactica screen writers. This seemed like every Sci Fi Nerd's fantasy. What could possibly go wrong here? By 2013, a large class action lawsuit was filed and GearBox and SEGA found out that a LOT could go wrong. Join host HeyBrother45 as he takes a deep dive into a game that starts with a very interesting concept and ends with a game so bad the developers got sued for it. Some games do take a little more time, but you can't hurry games. No, you just have to wait. Games don't come easy, its a game of give and take.

Send us Fan MailBeat-em up games should be fairly simple to make. Make some cool characters, make it multiplayer and have it be mindless fun for about an hour and a half. It should be hard to fail at that right?Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a look at two beat-em up games that didn't just fail, they failed so spectacularly that they might be the worst games EVER MADE. These games sold so little they would have made more money if they took all the trees and put em in a tree museum, then charged all the people a dollar and a half to see them.

Send us Fan MailThere are many games that we loved in our childhood. Many of them inspired our love of video gaming itself. What happens though when you go back and play them today? Do they bring back the feelings that we used to have, or do we realize that time has passed both us and our favorite games by?Join Heybrother45 as he takes a deeper look at a game many people hold close to their hearts, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire. Reviewing this game might get me more heat than the suns on Tatooine, 98 degrees and rising. 

Send us Fan MailSometimes it can be a good thing to think outside of the box. Sometimes though, the box is there for a reason. Legendary fighting game series Mortal Kombat was highly influential and wildly popular, and the developers decided to branch out into new genres. Did it work? Join HeyBrother45 as he looks at these non-fighting game entries in the Mortal Kombat universe that are far from flawless. It takes a lot of strength to get through these games. You will have to Test Your Might.

Send us Fan MailThere are many games that are unique, but does unique always mean good? Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a deeper look at the unique and surprisingly dark in tone SNES game about a shipwreck, Septentrion,  and try to answer the question for yourself. I would never get on a cruise, the island and bays are for sportsmen. 

Send us Fan MailWould you pay upwards of $100 to watch an ad? No, of course you wouldn't. But developers in the  time before microtransactions and DLC had to get a little creative when trying to milk more money out of customers. Instead of putting ads into games, they made entire games that were ads!Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a deeper look at games plugging everything from junk food to Bill Clinton on this week's episode. If I have learned anything from these ads, it is that McDonald's is the place to rock. 

Send us Fan MailWe all know that games based on movies tend to be pretty bad. Games based on bad movies are usually worse. But what about games based on bad movies that are based on awesome games? Does that cancel out? Wait...what?Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a deep look at a Russian Doll of a video game that seriously did not need to exist in Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game.I try to forget this game, but I can't get it out of my head, it's all I can care to think about 

Send us Fan MailSometimes you come across a game and wonder just what the hell the developers were thinking, or what drugs they may have been on. Join Heybrother45 as he takes a deeper look at 5 games that would make anybody rethink their sanity or their trust in humanity while playing. I try to avoid these crappy games, but I always find them...every time I look around. 

Send us Fan MailMany people consider poor performing or over hyped games from big name developers to be scams, but at least most of them are functioning games. That can't be said about this week's game which collected preorders from consumers while knowing full well there was no game to actually preorder. Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a deeper look at what may be the biggest and most public failure of a game in recent memory, The Day Before. I wonder what the developer was thinking while making this game, maybe "I'll go on, take the money and run".

Send us Fan MailThe Nintendo Game Boy had been the king of the handheld market since its release in 1989. But in 1997, a new challenger approached. Tiger, a company probably responsible for a good chunk of the microplastics lodged in our brain wanted to make a cheaper alternative...while connecting to the internet...in 1997. Did they succeed? Join Heybrother45 as he takes a look at an ambitious port of Resident Evil 2 to a console with some pretty lofty goals. I don't know anyone who owned this console. I'm sure someone did, but you see, it's not me, it's not my family.

Send us Fan MailThey say sex sells. Failing company Acclaim certainly hoped so when they took their most popular series, Dave Mirra's Freestyle BMX and removed everything that made it good and added strippers. Instead of making people want to buy it, this pissed a lot of people off, including their big star Dave Mirra, who sued Acclaim for millions. Join HeyBrother45 as he takes a deep look at BMX XXX, a game that should serve as a lesson for future companies facing bankruptcy on how NOT to save your business. I'm not even sure who would buy this game. Maybe if you're a teenager and your mom threw away your best porno mag? Busted.

Send us Fan MailChaos theory: A butterfly flaps its wings in Tibet and a hurricane forms in the Atlantic. Might seem unlikely, but James Clark Maxwell mathematically proved in 1845 that seemingly unrelated variables are more connected than we think. Did the fall of the Sega CD in 1993 cause the release of shovelware title Ninjabread Man on the Wii in 2006, more than a decade later? Grab your tinfoil hat and join HeyBrother45 as he unravels what might be the biggest undiscovered conspiracy in gaming. Is it true, or merely a coincidence? The truth is out there...Playing this game makes me want to say "Go ninja go ninja go...go home".

Send us Fan MailIn 1991, the Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past was released to high critical and audience acclaim. Many still regard it as possibly the best game ever made. The next Zelda game did not get so much praise. In fact the next Zelda game would be hated and disowned by fans of the franchise. Nintendo even refuses to acknowledge it. No, not Ocarina of Time, I'm talking about "Zelda: Wand of Gamelon" and the other 2 games released on Philips CDi that make up the abomination known to fans as "The Unholy Triforce".Nintendo doesn't know that Phillips is in the game studio...doing something Unholy.

Send us Fan MailIn the early 90s, the US congress held a special session to discuss a game that was so violent, they likened it to child abuse. They were afraid that the violence was too much to be put on a console aimed at children. No not Mortal Kombat, I'm talking about Night Trap.  HeyBrother45 takes a deep dive into a game that  garnered so much unwarranted attention it led to the creation of the ESRB board as we know it today.The game is about watching unsuspecting children in order to save them. Now that they're adults, who's watching them now, The IRS?

Send us Fan MailHeyBrother45 hunts down Osama Bin Laden to punch him in the face while trying not to fall asleep playing the absurd but extremely boring "Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror". HeyBrother45 will put a boot in your ass, courtesy of the red white and blue. 

Send us Fan MailWe all know movie based games have a reputation for being pretty bad. What about games that are based on bad movies? What if we took a bad game based on a bad movie and put it on VIRTUAL BOY?! Join HeyBrother45 and his very special guest and wife TenDollarBanana as they take a deep look at "Kevin Costner's Waterworld". Yes, that is the full title. Sail away, sail away, sail away with us, away from the bad games.

Send us Fan MailIn the flood of fighting games that were released in the early to mid 90s, there were 2 ways for a 2D fighter to be remembered. Make a great game like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, or make a game so awful it stands out even among other failures. Fellow humans, please join the totally not AI HeyBrother45 as he takes a deep dive into what is possibly the worst fighting game of all time, 1994's Rise of the Robots. Domo Arigato.

Send us Fan MailHeyBrother45 discusses the history of one of the most infamous games in the history of the N64. Will he be able to continue, or will this game be his Kryptonite? If he goes crazy, will you still call him Superman?