In episode 199 we play guilty pleasure games. Nikki fights a genie with a lion person in Twisted Wonderland. Matt smashes his action figures together in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and Cody helps do Christmas Crimes in Mario Kart Tour.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Intro (00:00:00)
Host Intros (00:02:20)

Reviews
Cult of the Lamb (PC) (00:05:42)
Stray (PC) (00:09:12)
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (SWITCH) (00:12:18)
Doom Eternal (SWITCH) (00:15:31)
Evoland (Android) (00:16:24)
Games Played
Theme : Guilty Pleasures

(Intro) Nikki : Twisted Wonderland (Android) (00:18:38) (Gameplay) Nikki : Twisted Wonderland (Android) (00:18:38) (Intro) Matt : Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (SWITCH) (00:33:44)
(Gameplay) Matt : Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 (SWITCH) (00:37:13)
(Intro) Cody : Mario Kart Tour (Android) (00:53:44)

(Gameplay) Cody : Mario Kart Tour (Android) (00:55:23)

This week we play puzzle games! Matt is killed by a skeleton thus fulfilling the prophecy in Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon. Cody finally creates the sequel to Multiplicity in The Swapper, and Nikki plays with off-brand portals in Portal: The Flash Version.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Introduction: 00:00:00
Host Introductions: 00:03:04
Reviews
Final Fantasy 6 Pixel Remaster (PC) 00:05:18

Games Played
Theme : Puzzle Games

Matt Intro: Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (PC) 00:19:06 Matt Gameplay: Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon (PC) 00:22:17 Cody Intro : The Swapper (PC) 00:34:45
Cody Gameplay : The Swapper (PC) 00:34:45
Nikki Intro : Portal: The Flash Version (PC) 00:47:15
Nikki Gameplay : Portal: The Flash Version (PC) 00:48:11

This week we play clone games! Cody is a super-fighting meatball man in Bots N Bolts. Nikki is saving all the animals by beating them unconscious in Super Noah’s Ark 3D, and Matt is full of hackblood energy in Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer!

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Intro 00:00:00
Host Intros 00:02:04

Reviews
Review: TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge (PC) 00:05:12
Review: Disco Elysium (PC) 00:12:11
Review: Persona 3 (PC) (Spoilers) 00:17:00

Games Played
Theme : Clone Games

Cody Intro: Bots ‘n Bolts (Android) 00:21:02 Cody Gameplay : Bots ‘n Bolts (Android) 00:22:04 Nikki Intro: Super Noah’s Ark 3D (SNES) 00:36:33
Nikki Gameplay: Super Noah’s Ark 3D (SNES) 00:38:09
Matt Intro: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer (PC) 00:46:18
Matt Gameplay: Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer (PC) 00:50:32

Next Theme 01:06:58

This week we play game of the year award winners! Matt wants you to paint him like one of your French Heroes of Time in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Nikki is like a bird (she wants to fly away) in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Cody plays Gunstar Heroes.

Hosts This Week
Nikki:
Matt
Cody

Intro 00:00:00 Host Intros 00:02:21 Reviews
Eldin Ring (PC) 00:04:45
Knot Words(Android) 00:12:23
Redactl (Web) 00:17:02
Hades (PC) 00:19:45

Games Played
Theme : GOTY

Matt (Intro) The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds (3DS) 00:20:38
Matt (Gameplay) The Legend of Zelda: Link Between Worlds (3DS) 00:24:43
Nikki (Intro) Dragon Age Inquisition (PC) 00:42:31 Nikki (Gameplay) Dragon Age Inquisition (PC) 00:44:03 Cody (Intro) Gunstar Heroes (GEN) 01:02:11

Cody (Gameplay) Gunstar Heroes (GEN) 01:02:58

Next Week’s Theme 01:16:43

This week we play Edutainment games! Matt runs out of meat in Oregon Trail II. Cody skateboards into our hearts like a needle into our skin in Wally Bear and the No Gang!, and Nikki surfs into hell as a precursor to when she surfs into hell!

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Reviews
Kirby and the Forgotten Land (SWITCH) 00:03:45
Chrono Cross the Radical Dreamer Edition (PC) 00:11:35
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond (SWITCH) 00:15:40
Metroid Dread (SWITCH) 00:16:31
Death’s Door (PC) 00:17:39


Upcoming Releases
April 28, 2022:
Rogue Legacy 2 (PC) 00:19:37
Cities VR (QUEST2) 00:20:58
May 5, 2022:
RriffTrax: The Game (PC/PS4/SWITCH/XONE) 00:22:53


Games Played
Theme : Edutainment

Matt : Oregon Trail II (PC) Intro: 00:24:56
Matt : Oregon Trail II (PC) Gameplay: 00:26:53
Cody : Wally Bear and the No! Gang (NES) Intro 00:37:21 Cody : Wally Bear and the No! Gang (NES) Gameplay 00:39:24 Nikki : Bubsy 3D: Busbsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective (PC) Intro 00:51:03
Nikki : Bubsy 3D: BVtJTR (PC) Gameplay 00:52:30

This week we play games made by Acclaim! Nikki plays a sport from the future, and that sport involves vomiting, in Battle Sport. Cody realizes that the only real truth is pacifism in True Lies, and Matt builds his own fursona in ECW Anarchy Rulz.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Intro: 00:00
Host Intros: 00:02:17

Reviews
Eldin Ring (PC) 00:07:22
Kirby The Forgotten Land Demo (SWITCH) 00:15:47

Games Played
Theme : Acclaim Games

Nikki Intro: Battle Sport (PSX) 00:22:27
Nikki Gameplay: Battle Sport (PSX) 00:24:38
Cody Intro: True Lies (GEN) 00:37:48 Cody Gameplay: True Lies (GEN) 00:39:04 Matt Intro: ECW Anarchy Rules (PSX) 00:50:30
Matt Gameplay: ECW Anarchy Rules (PSX) 00:53:34

This week we are playing the final levels in video games. Cody ends the threat of humanity in Jurassic Park. Matt fights a brain and an eye in Metroid and Kid Icarus, and Nikki contends with bad hit boxes in Aladdin.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Reviews
Vampire Survivors (PC) (00:05:20)
Project Triangle Strategy (SWITCH) (00:11:28)
Nintendo Switch Sports (SWITCH) (00:16:55)

Games Played
Theme : Last Levels

Cody : Jurassic Park (Gen) (Intro: 00:23:52) (Gameplay: 00:25:00) Matt : Metroid (NES) (Intro: 00:37:06) (Gameplay: 00:38:48)
Matt: Kid Icarus (NES) (Intro: 00:44:37) (Gameplay: 00:45:18)
Nikki : Aladdin (SNES) (Intro: 00:52:55) (Gameplay: 00:53:39)

This week on Cartridge Blowers, we play Advergames! Volkswagen wants you to be a beetle when we would rather be a beetleborg in Beetle Adventure Racing! Nikki loves bullets and ramen in Persona 5 Royal, and Cody bows to the wheat squares in Chex Quest Remastered.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Reviews
Psychonauts 2 (00:06:06)
Into the Breach (00:10:40)
Slay the Spire with Mods (00:13:05)
Loop Hero (00:13:43)
Monster Hunter Wolrd (00:17:11)
Earth Defense Force World Brothers (00:18:29)
Yugioh Master Duel (00:21:48)
Matt’s Top 10 games of 2021 (00:25:07)


Games Played
Theme : Advergames

Matt : Beetle Adventure Racing (N64) (Intro:00:43:07) (Gameplay: 00:45:43) Nikki : Persona 5 (PC) (Intro: 00:56:25) (Gameplay: 00:57:23)
Cody : Chex Quest Remastered (PC) (Intro: 01:02:15) (Gameplay: 01:03:34)

In episode 191 we play a Spooky Secret Santa! Nikki gets a bonus sticker so that now she can die fulfilled in Andy’s Apple Farm. Cody takes a trip through hard cloud world in Eversion, and Matt shoots his way through bats, doctors, and Flava Flav in Savage Halloween!

Hosts This Week
Nikki
Cody
Matt

Reviews
Back for Blood (PC) (00:06:30)
Inscryption (PC) (00:10:38)


Games Played
Theme : Halloweenmas

Nikki : Andy’s Apple Farm (PC) (Intro: 00:17:15) (Gameplay: 00:19:00)
Cody : Eversion (PC) (Intro: 00:43:05) (Gameplay: 00:43:55) Matt : Savage Halloween (PC) (Intro: 00:56:45) (Gameplay: 00:57:56)

This week we play games we’ve seen the other hosts play in episodes past. Cody gets on the train to big amorphous hand creature-ville in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Matt learns to love the bomb in Scribblenauts Unlimited, and Nikki basically just spends 8 minutes murdering a prone guy in Surgeon Simulator. All this, and the Mario Movie cast list.

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Reviews
Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters (PC) (00:06:20)
Wario Ware Get it Together (SWITCH) (00:11:06)
Persona 5 (PC) (00:17:14)
Upcoming Releases
Mario Movie (00:19:29)

Games Played
Theme : Jealousy Week

Cody: Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (From Episode 159) (PC) (00:28:06) Matt: Scribblenauts Unlimited (From Episode 32) (PC) (00:41:26)
Nikki: Surgeon Simulator (PC) (00:57:35)

This week we play Fantasy Games! Matt deals with the worst part of being royalty: parenting, in Yes, Your Grace! Nikki loses her sibling fulfilling the dream of all siblings in Slay the Dragon, and Cody loses his head…on purpose in Skul: The Hero Slayer!

Hosts This Week
Cody
Nikki
Matt

Reviews
PS5 (00:05:08)
Baster Master Z3 (SWITCH) (00:07:07)
12 Minutes (SWITCH) (00:08:45)
Hypnospace Outlaw(PC) (00:12:56)
Wildermyth (PC) (00:17:19)
Portal: Reloaded (PC) (00:21:02)


Games Played
Theme : Fantasy Games

Matt : Yes Your Grace (PC) (Intro: 00:25:36) (Gameplay: 00:25:58) Nikki : Slay the Dragon (PC) (Intro: 00:40:00) (Gameplay: 00:40:16)
Cody : Skul: The Hero Slayer (PC) (Intro: 00:53:23) (Gameplay: 00:54:17)