Thumb Cramps

Thumb Cramps is a video game review podcast where three useless but informed gamers review AAA, indie, and retro games for those who are time poor, bad at video games, or just plain impatient. New episode every Friday

  • 1 hour 46 minutes
    Super Smash Bros. Melee and Other Games (Ft. Darcy Smith)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of Threebuamecube and to help say goodbye they’re joined by Studio Folly’s Darcy Smith to look at Super Smash Bros. Melee for the Nintendo Gamecube, Teardown DLCs for the PC and Marvel Rivals for the PC. Plus, a round of Real Bird, Fake Bird and a reminder that Thumb Cramps can get you in real life. 


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    27 February 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 25 minutes
    Geist and Other Games (Ft. Adam Carnevale)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, the Threebuamecube hype continues as your video game boyfriends are joined by Adam Carnevale to look at Geist for the Nintendo GameCube, A Game About Digging A Hole for the PC and BirdGut for the PC. Plus an unbelievable amount of Doom talk, a tease for upcoming Thumb Cramps content and a plea for the hosts of Talking Talk Tuah to come on the podcast.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    20 February 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    Mario Kart: Double Dash and Other Games (Ft. Chloe Appleby and Ruby Innes)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, Threebuamecube continues to break records as they’re joined by Chloe Appleby and Ruby Innes to look at Mario Kart: Double Dash for the Nintendo GameCube, Sulfur for the PC and Infinity Nikki for the PS5, the PC and the phone. That’s right, there’s not one but TWO beautiful guests this week! It has never been better to be a gamer. 


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    13 February 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 26 minutes
    Viewtiful Joe and Other Games (Ft. Andrew Levins)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, Viewtiful Joel and Peter Jackson’s Bing Bongly are joined by one of the biggest gamers of all time, Andrew Levins, to help celebrate the start of Threebuamecube by looking at Viewtiful Joe for the Nintendo Gamecube, Glover for the Nintendo 64 for the PC and Blade Chimera for the PC. Plus Glover 2 news for all the Glover fans out there.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    6 February 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 35 minutes
    The Second Ever First Ever Live Episode of Thumb Cramps (Ft. Ruby Innes)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the second ever first ever live episode of Thumb Cramps, recorded live at Nighthawks Bar on Wednesday Jan 22 2025 with very special guest host Ruby Innes as part of Januwe’reinperson2020fliveuary 2025 live. This episode they talk all about games they’ve been playing in the holiday break as well as bold Nintendo Switch 2 predictions. Thumb Cramps can’t stop breaking records and smoothing out brains. 


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.



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    30 January 2025, 1:00 pm
  • 2 hours 44 seconds
    The First Ever Live Episode of Thumb Cramps (Ft. Ruby Innes)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the first ever live episode of Thumb Cramps, recorded live at Nighthawks Bar on Thursday Jan 23 2025 with very special guest host Ruby Innes as part of Januwe’reinperson2020fliveuary 2025 live. This episode they talk all about their Games of the Year 2024 and a prediction for a game that will be on their Game of the Year 2025 list. Plus, spaghetti alarms and the worst riffs of all time caused by a hot room. This record breaking live podcast truly has it all.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    27 January 2025, 12:00 am
  • 1 hour 38 minutes
    Top 5 Moments in Thumb Cramps in 2024

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final episode of the year and to celebrate the year that was, Thumb Cramps are counting down the Top 5 Moments in Thumb Cramps in 2024. A walk down memory lane that serves as both a listenable experience and a great first episode for new listeners to catch up on the last 49 episodes of the podcast. Thank you again to XZ Neal for the Thumb Cramps Wrapped report and thank you again to the listeners. Happy holidays, gamers.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    19 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 48 minutes 58 seconds
    The Game Awards 2024 Announcements (Ft. Cass Paige)

    For the second time this week, it’s a brand new episode of Thumb Cramps and they’re looking at all the big announcements from Geoff Keighley’s night of nights, The Game Awards. To ensure that they don’t lose touch with the audience, Thumb Cramps have also invited Cass Paige to join them and hear all about video games! She loved being there!


    Check out the full breakdown on GamesHub here


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    15 December 2024, 4:00 am
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Wave Break and Other Games (Ft. Steph Panecasio)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the first episode of season three and they’re joined by GamesHub’s very own Steph Panecasio to celebrate Weezercember to take a look at Wave Break for the SteamDeck, Get to Work for the PC and Seducing Death in The Sims 4: Life & Death and A Date With Death on two screens simultaneously. Plus a potential new favourite dad and soaking innovation. It’s good to be a normal video game review podcast.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    12 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 38 minutes
    The End of the Game The Game and Other Games (Ft. Joel Zammit and Adam Carnevale)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s time to celebrate the most festive time of year Weezercember and to help with the celebrations they’re joined by Joel Zammit and Adam Carnevale to look at The End of the Game the Game for the PC, Marvel’s Midnight Suns for the Steam Deck, Pirates Uber Alles for Total War 2 for the PC and Having Johnny Baby for real life. Find out what games are giving Weezer and just how much Weezer they’re giving in this episode. It’s a straightforward system and makes a lot of sense.


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    5 December 2024, 1:00 pm
  • 1 hour 12 minutes
    Lost in Vivo and Other Games (Ft. Hayden Bleechmore)

    This week on Thumb Cramps, it’s the final week of Novemberween and to celebrate the end of such a spooky month, they’re joined by the only guest to die mid episode of Thumb Cramps, Hayden Bleechmore, to look at Lost in Vivo for the Steam Deck, Home Safety Hotline: Seasonal Worker for the PC and Inside for the Nintendo Switch. Plus a lot of jeans talk and begging for tickets to Japan. Spooky episode!!


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    Theme music by Benny Davis! You can find all his stuff at his website or check out his YouTube channel.


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    28 November 2024, 1:00 pm
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