That Guy's a Maniac

It’s the season 6 finale and in order to celebrate the pokemon season we’ve got a DOUBLE KILL WHO WANTS THAT GUY TO BE A MASTERMIND double bill. Richie takes on Dunsparce. Cunzy takes on Omastar. May or may not include a far too long talk about the going rate for handy men. That Guy’s A Maniac. Why’d He Bite Me?

This week the maniacs talk about how World of Warcraft is not very interesting to look at, the frog/salamander/whale Pokémon Heatran and the top Volcanoes in games (the only Volcanoes they could remember).

Initially this episode was about one of our fave pokemon, Oricorio. But then we go hard into talking about every forms, modes, formes, shapes, variants, varieties, and all that…

Despite both claiming to have done research before this episode, the maniacs discover live, the inspiration behind the Grubbin line of Pokemon. It isn’t a bus, it isn’t a plane, it’s Grubbin! Despite this they do still talk about modes of transport in games (thrilling stuff) plus everyone’s favourite monarch, Queen Slug for A Butt. 

Join us for this week’s episode sponsored by the Pokemon Swellow and brought to you by the concept: vore. We talk realistic Yoshi game, Kiwis and Whales, Kirby and C’thun as well as Love and Deepspace (the game, not the concept)...

Dearest gentle reader. It’s always a good idea to write the podcast blurb just after you record it. Otherwise the list you leave yourself raises more questions than it does provide answers. Apparently in this episode, taking the lead from stealth bomber-ghost-dragon pokemon dragapult we talked about- fusion, decraniation, sex with mothers, Lobot piss, Duplocalkus and the Trill. I see some thematic links but not sure how we got there. 

Heathcliff, Heathcliff no one should terrorise the #neigh#bourhood. The Maniacs get a bit Eurotrashy this episode. We talk about Dragonball Zed, poundtown with mummy, horses, letters, penguins, gantin’, Wuthering Heights, biscuits and Shiver from Deep Cut. All inspired by lightning pokemon Zen Strika des-maximus TRAAAAANSFOOORM.

This week we’re all about those night-time raptors that’s right it’s Bubo and Noctowel. We talk about true owls, bay owls, apple pie owls, stinky owls and not even rowlet. Explore with us the unique verb ‘to baust’ and this episode’s unofficial sponsor is the word generic. We talk about generic titles, generic answers and generic mall names. Find out in our mid-podcast quiz how to abort a god-fetus. 

This week we talk about Galarian poor-man’s Skarmory, Corviknight. We talk a lot about corvids. Too much perhaps. Then we have not one but two That Guy’s A Mastermind Quizzes, quasi-legal hooky Zelda Ship of Harkinian and finish on Lady Gaga’s favourite Pokémon. 

This week the maniacs discuss in brief Nidoran♂ and the rest of the Nido line and Richie’s That Guy’s A Mastermind topic is 1995’s Discworld. We end up talking about Carry On films, Peter Cook on Have I Got News For You, hooky whelks from the Barras, asexual Nidoran coming to generation 10 Pokemon games and forays into domestic terrorism and DC comics, maybe.

Listen gang every season has to have one, this is a terrible episode… just skip it, Bellsprout just didn’t gel with us , Richie brings legal troubles to the podcast and we do an awful bit about Mickey Mouse at the end.

CW: distended ballsack digestive enzyme imagery.

We’re going batty this week on TGAM! We kick things off, pondering Capcom vs. Pokémon. We take a dive into the "lovecore" aesthetic, debate the fine line between things that are cute but ugly, and give some much-needed attention to Succubat, Woobat, and Swoobat. Also, expect a significant Red Dwarf diversion Smegheads

This week the maniacs are all about magnets and the pokémon magenzone. Are some pokémon robots? Why is togetic so mid? Who can learn metronome? Why is that eye so big? What are Wario’s power ups and what will the Gen Z great disaster movie look like?

This week’s Pokemon is Calyrex, the horse-fusing, garlic heed. We talk about fusions. Richie hates Calyrex. Cunzy1 1 takes on the Kirby’s Dream Land Master Maniac Quiz and we round off the podcast with a legendary segment about horses, hoses and garlic in video games. Galloppen?

It’s That Guy’s A Maniac Looking Back, Looking Forward episode. We take the turning over of the year as the opportunity to look back at our video game predictions and resolutions from 2025 and then look forward to new games and beating old ones in 2026. Did we predict the Switch 2? Did the GPS Kingdom Hearts come out? Why were we playing darts with our 19 year-old girlfriend instead of solving MURDERS? Click through, look back, look forward.  

It’s the end of year Estival celebration and we’ve got a jam-packed show! We’ve got 36 video game-themed Christmas cracker jokes, we’ve got a brutal half-time Chrono Trigger round of That Guy’s a Mastermind and if that wasn’t enough it’s the 2025 TGAM Video Game Christmas Awards. Find out who scoops the wins in our six unique categories. 

This week is dog pokemon, Herdier. Which we talk about for five seconds before a good old fashioned What Are You Playing? Richie’s delved back into Baldur’s Gate 3 and tried their hand at Balatro. Cunzy has been on a voyage of discovery with Kirby Star Allies and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

We re-talk about Hallo Kitty being a British Schoolgirl, the symbiosis between jellycat and penguins and the pokemon Mantyke. Richie takes on Metal Kart 3 for the SNES in That Guy’s A Miltank. We then try to remember anything about video games. 

Turnips, j k rowling spoiling super mario bros 2, sexual dimorphism and what do Swedes call swedes?

This week, we try to make sense of the goat phenomenon. We're comparing the villagers of Animal Crossing to the outright chaos of Goat Simulator and the dark comedy of Cult of the Lamb. We'll also debate some classic gaming mysteries: Which goat has the highest HP? And, most importantly, does a GTA car count as a 'mount' in the purest sense of gaming taxonomy? Tune in for the answers you didn't know you needed.

We talk mankey, monkeys, angry monkeys, Primeape, Annihilape, etymology, getting angry, anime, TCG cards and peek, everyone is a Garchomp, Tomb Raider, pigs and monkeys in games- pigs and monkeys in starfox, there are no pigs in Resident Evil, super monkey ball, monkey from timesplitters, monkeys in minecraft, pig cops in Duke Nukem.

This week we have never really looked at Klingklang. Is it a wheel? How many gears are there? Where is the face? Cunzy1 1 tests his knowledge of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and the maniacs talk gear in games. Gear gating, cosmetics and the realistic Chariot based Gran Turismo game we never knew we needed.

We talk haunted castles this week. Sand castles. Pokémon sand castles. Can Richie be this week’s maniac with questions about Ghost Master(mind) and we talk in ever decreasing circles about horror in movies, horror in games and classifications thereof. Spooooky or wot?

It’s Horsea folks! But not really. We quickly get too excited to talk about our first impressions of Pokémon Legends ZA (mild spoiler warning) and then take a bit of an odd tangent talking about male pregnancy in video games and we add our first items onto the TGAM scale of sadbad. 

This week les maniacs are all about that wooden hill y’all. Yes we’re talking about sleep, the pokémon Hypno, Pokémon Sleep and ummmm Silent Hill?

We’ll be honest readers. We didn’t keep good notes. Apparently this episode includes: sumo, Marvel, Sad Sack (Raggy Dolls), the bible, Ganryu and echidna, Smash bros lore and punching bag, NERF arena Blast, sand bags (more generally) and then most cryptically: brine. 

Who’s that Podcast? It’s TGAM the Podcast! We’re back for Season Six. We’ve got new games. There’s a new gimmick. Cunzy is our first That Guy’s a Mastermind™ contestant. This week we talk about the Pom Poko suit from Super Mario, snails, first partner Pokémon, frogs in video games and what would the Final Fantasy VII characters be if they were D&D classes.

Back when we were pondering the ideas for Season 5, I decided to hit the record button... You can hear us discuss what and how we planned to approach Season 5.

A litttle peek behind the curtain.

Season 5 is done (mostly) and we have our epic time span traversing final episode for your ears!

Which games are worth going back to? for whatever reasons...

Something Starwarsy maybe?

Mortal Kombat, Deadly Creatures, Dash Rendar FFX fashion, Lulu Pregnant, cuckold Wakka, Baby Luigi, Babio, Babuigi, Agarest, Sims, Fire Emblem eugenics Baby Pokemon, 

Games and stuff, Wipeout, blockbusters, Baldur's gate 3, VR, Tom Braider

Picture and picture is it still a thing?

Senran Kagura

Two Point Museum

Rise of the Golden Idol

Still Wakes the Deep

Realistic games, games that are life sims, hames that look real... We talk it all and more, way more, more that you will care to listen to

We’re 90, 90 very very 90, it’s 1990. In video games. Kinna.

We look back on the year 1990. Forget to talk about video games. Next week maybe. 

This episode explores the role of narcotics, medicines and other forms of drugs in video games. A 2018 study highlighted that many video games portrayed drugs in a positive light both those fictitious and based on real world recreational drugs. The maniacs really get into the weeds on this one and talk about the long association between video games and drugs both on and off the screen. 

Get your Quiz heads on as we battle to the death (not really) throwing questions at each other to find out who is the biggest Maniac of them all

Get your Quiz heads on as we battle to the death (not really) throwing questions at each other to find out who is the biggest Maniac of them all

In order to celebrate spooky February, we’re talking all things dead, alive and dead again in video games. Hear it first here: the Buffy Reboot. Is Silent Hill Man dead? Shadowman. Other games. The snowman. Father Christmas. Jack Skellington. Did you know all the protagonists in Final Fantasy VII and VIII were named after something? What is the Empress’ name?

Shops, items, stores, auction houses, capitalism ho! We’re talking video game shops. The weird tropey unreal staple in many video games. What are our favourite shops? Are there games where you work in a shop? Yes. Yes there are. Shoppu. 

We finish the fight! Listen to this podcast to remember to the type effectiveness of Dark, Fairy and Steel type moves in the Pokemon game. Riche and Cunzy are STUNNED by learning that electric type is _________ and that __________ has never been water. Worst of all ___________ never went in the ________! Can you believe it?

New Game Plus what does it mean to you? This week the maniacs talk all about new game plus.Where did the term come from? What was the first game you could New Game Plus in. Other ‘exciting’ things like the order of events poorly remembered in such games as Tales of Vesperia, Final Fantasy XIII and Resident Evil 2. 

It is the much anticipated fourth and penultimate part of our quick and easy reference guide to pokemon move type effectivenessses. This week we take down the trio of Rock, Ghost and Dragon types. Why is roadrunner a lie? Why can’t gengar punch your Dad? Why is Fairy immune to Dragon? All this and less covered here readers. Bookmark for the next time you’re at a tournament.

It’s the end of the gaming year and the beginning of a new gaming year! The maniacs look back to their video game resolutions from 2023 and make new ones for 2025. Did Richie download Suicide Squad Death to the Justice League? Did Cunzy1 1 go all in for Tomb Raider loot boxes? What is zero dawn? Did we finally get our hands on GPS-action-RPG Kingdom Hearts mobile? Read on to find out.

It's an XMAS SPECIAL!

We do poems and songs for you!

Its really just a whataya playing, we talked about, Diablo 4, Endless Ocean Luminous, Ghostwire Tokyo.

We talk about some of the games we have picked up and are “re”playing whether it's a remaster, remake or just a new one (or emulated in some way).

We chat Donkey Kong, Detroit: Become Human, Katamari, two of the Daniel Mullins Games Inscyption and Pony Island , Pokemon GO! and Mario Kart.

Keep an ear out for Richie's Scottish newscaster impression

This week the maniacs examine Hiroki Azuma’s thesis on Japan’s Database Animals and think about the aspects of ‘character’ brought out in character and collecting based videogames? Does catering to these atomised aspects lead to character obsessions? How does Moe (萌え) influence modern Western game design?