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Game Buoy Podcast Episode 194A – Summer Game Fest Side A

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Ahoy, mateys, and welcome to the GAMEBUOY.ORG video game podcast – your port of call for gaming news and views that maybe aren’t on your radar, but most definitely should be! On this episode, recorded Sunday, June 21, 2026, Captain Spike and First Mate Slaggy McWaggy discuss the big showcases from Summer Game Fest!

This episode is the A-side of a two part episode. The B-side, Game Buoy Podcast Episode 194B – Summer Game Fest Side B, will be a discussion on the other showcases from Summer Game Fest.

HOT TOPIC IS THE WAY THAT WE RHYME

RELEASE UPDATES

RETRO RELEASE UPDATES

  • Console Archives MAY – Geki-Oh ShienRyu, Toujinmakyouden Hercules no Eikou, Master of Monsters: Disciples of Gaia  
  • Arcade Archives MAY – Ace Driver (a namco deluxe cabinet!), Tag Team Wrestling, Mr. Do! 
  • Arcade Archives 6-4-26 –  Firework Thrower Kantaro’s 53 Stations of the Tokaido (NES, Sunsoft, 1986)
  • Arcade Archives 6-4-26 –  Cameltry (Arcade, Taito, 1990)
  • Console Archives 6-11-26 – L’Empreor (NES, Koei, 1991)
  • Arcade Archives 6-11-26 – Rack Em Up (Arcade, Konami, 1987)
  • Console Archives 6-18-26 – Legend of Kage (NES, Taito, 1986/87)
  • Arcade Archives 6-18-26 – Space Cyclone (Arcade, Taito, 1980)

CULTURE CLUB

MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

DISCUSSION TOPIC

This week, Captain Spike and First Mate Slaggy McWaggy discuss the big showcases of Summer Game Fest – Sony State of Play, Summer Game Fest, Xbox Showcase, and Nintendo Direct! The Podcast Pirates discuss the highlights, honorable mentions, other notable points, and biggest disappointments for each showcase before giving each one a letter grade. They wrap up by discussing their overall impressions of this year’s Summer Game Fest and whether it was on par with some of the great E3s of the past.

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WHAT’S UP

Captain Spike has been playing Final Fantasy XIV, Mina the Hollower, Adventures of Eliot, and Street Fighter 6. First Mate Slaggy McWaggy has been playing Final Fantasy XIV, Xenoblade Chronicles, and the Star Fox demo.

EXITLUDE

SHOUT OUTS – “FRIENDS OF BUOY”

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  • Neo Geo Go!, a show that takes on the Neo Geo library chronologically and quickly.
  • The Bobby Blackwolf Show, a weekly internet radio show and podcast discussing the latest news in gaming as well as sometimes reminiscing about gaming’s history
  • Video Game Realness, a dose of gaming chit chat among friends
  • Nintendo Pow Block, a dive into the week that was in the world of Nintendo
  • Super Phillip Central, a video game blog that is your source for video games with a heroic touch
  • Standard Issue Computing, retro and modern computer games, hardware, software, and history
  • Sasha’s Retrobytes, “bytes” of vintage gaming including magazine scans and photographs
  • Defunct Games, your daily source for modern video game reviews, exciting trivia competitions and old school magazine analysis
  • Thomas Game Docs, where each video covers “a different aspect of video game history”
  • Craig, Slaggy McWaggy’s robot boyfriend a multi-track voice channel recording bot for Discord

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