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Why are you doing even more of this to us? Exquisite Suffering is what we call the premium episodes of our show that's kind of about bad games, Abject Suffering. For several years we offered two extra episodes of the show per month to our patrons. Now, the extensive backlog of those episodes is one of the more valuable reasons to become a member!

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  • 204 episodes
  • Updated Jan 19, 2025
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  • Jan 18, 2023 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 157: Chuck Rock

    We return to the inexplicable Cave-Mania of the early nineties with one of the least effective protagonists ever seen in a platformer. Chuck Rock's primary attack is to bulge his belly out by a few inches. And maybe throw stones if they happen to be nearby. And maybe assault a Buca di Beppo if it doesn't have crenelated battlements.

  • Jan 4, 2023 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 156: Totally Spies! Totally Party

    It's time to talk about a kids' show that we were too old for, but somehow are too innocent to fully understand. Totally Spies! Totally Party is a very boring party game, like only the early 2000s could produce. But its subject matter is a show that was entirely colonized by people who were Too Horny, and it's now considered to be an entry point for every fetish under the sun.

  • Dec 22, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 155: Nicktoons Racing

    You know Nick. You know Toons. But did you know they raced? Like M&Ms and pious zoo animals before them, all of your favorites like Spongebob and Daggett and Norbert hopped in little cars and went around and round. We touch on the GBC and PSX versions of the game before talking about the best clock ever made, and the portable cutoff time for when Nickelodeon stopped being good (i.e. for you).

  • Dec 7, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 154: Rocket Knight Adventures

    Rocket Knight Adventure is a good game. Its graphics are big and bold, the platforming has a good amount of variety, and the combat is flawed but not worthy of a dragging. So we talk about the game's merits instead, before turning to the question: If humans worked on Gremlins rules, could we find love?

  • Nov 16, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 153: Tarzan: Untamed

    Tarzan: Untamed is a kiddie platformer that's not dissimilar to Crash Bandicoot, where the ape man declares war on all of Quebec. Neither Gary nor Kole can really tolerate a Tarzan. His story bores us. So instead, Gary torments Kole with the absolute dumbest fan theory that's ever cropped up on God's green Earth.

  • Nov 2, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 152: Wacky Funsters! The Geekwad's Guide to Gaming

    Sometimes it takes a Geekwad to save a kingdom. So we must venture back in time to grab outdated stereotypes about nerds and put them to work. Wacky Funsters! is a minigame collection with a budget, an early 90s DOS game that was probably sold in Office Max stores until 2005. And it gets us talking about all of the other not-quite-games that clogged the bargain bins, too.

  • Oct 19, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 151: Who Shot Johnny Rock?

    One of the major dividing lines in video game history is when optical media became cheaper and more plentiful. That brought great stuff like Myst, and a few great FMV games... but it also brought us stuff like "Who Shot Johnny Rock?", a terrible FMV shooting game that's based entirely on fakeouts. Also, Gary torments Kole with a description of a segment from the Tales of the Darkside movie.

  • Oct 5, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 150: Chakan: The Forever Man

    150 premium Abject Suffering episodes is a reason for celebration. It was a total accident that we happened to end up covering Chakan: The Forever Man, a cult Genesis game about a man who is cursed to live forever, named Chakan. Chakan is based on an indie comic by a person who goes by the initialism RAK, and RAK has a webpage. We found the webpage. We were bowled over by what we found there. So much so that I just had to make a video version of this episode, which you can find in an unlisted YouTube upload below. Fans of the Angel Quiz episode from so long ago will be happy with the video. Here's a link to the video version. Thanks so much for all of your support!

  • Sep 23, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 149: Baby's Day Out

    When a baby is on a girder, you KNOW Gary Butterfield is on the scene. This unreleased prototype of a Lemmings-like game where you play as an angel stopping a baby from crawling into calamity is actually not terrible, just bizarre. Also bizarre? The movie "Baby's Day Out" was popular enough in India to warrant three different adaptations in different languages... including one named, and we're not kidding "James Bond".

  • Sep 7, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 148: Jackie Chan Stuntmaster

    This premium episode is about Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster, a PlayStation game that makes you realize that stunts are only cool when it's actual people doing them. A computer game character can, by definition, do anything its creator tells it to. But this middling beat-em-up provides a good springboard for us to talk about Gary's most recent thrift store find, an amateur comic from the '80s called "Crossed Swords".

  • Aug 17, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 147: Rogue Trip: Vacation 2012

    It's the year 2012 and vacations are outlawed, so instead of just kicking back at home you engage in some car combat to cart unpleasant tourists around. Rogue Trip's premise is messy, and built on a genre that we don't really care for at all. But it might be a good idea to add some non-killing mechanics to car combat, so it's hard to write this off entirely. The characters are garbage though, and not in the intentional way they're trying for.

  • Aug 3, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 146: Iggy's Reckin' Balls

    The world was clamoring for two things: a remake of Uniracers, and a mascot for Iguana Entertainment. And with Iggy's Reckin' Balls, it got both! This 2.5D racer supposes an abstract world made of racetracks and towers where spherical nonsense monsters vie to win races. And because it was N64 exclusive, you bet there are people who go to bat for it.

  • Jul 26, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 145: TaleSpin

    The Disney Afternoon cartoons delighted a whole generation. Every one except for TaleSpin, which was clearly the weakest link. It was in the unenviable position of having to go up against DuckTales and Darkwing Duck, so it never stood a chance. But it was popular enough to get a video game adaptation. A kinda good one, made by Capcom. We're not talking about that one. Instead, we're talking about the execrable Sega version, exemplified by its Game Gear port.

  • Jul 6, 2022 · 5 min

    [PREVIEW] Exquisite Suffering 144: Def Jam: Fight for NY

    The idea of millionaires who happen to be talented artists using their resources to make video games where they go on little adventures is extremely charming. That's our baseline approach to talking about Def Jam: Fight for NY, which is ABSOLUTELY not a bad game. Just not a game for us. But, growing up in the 90s, it was impossible to escape both hip hop and wrestling, even if you wanted to, so we have some stuff to talk about here.