Pod 'em Up! - The Video Game "Book Club" Podcast

Pod 'em Up! - The Video Game "Book Club" Podcast


Latest Episodes

Episode 55 - Captain Rainbow
September 27, 2023

This month, the book club covers the Japanese exclusive, Captain Rainbow for the Wii - A Nintendo-published game with Nintendo characters, yet it has a reputation for rude humour, swearing and inappropriate content!? Ollie and Tibbs investigate! Elsewher

Episode 54 - Baba is You
August 10, 2023

Baba is who? That's what we intend to find out, as we cover this 2019 indie puzzler for PC and Switch that lets you rewrite the game's rules in order to solve its fiendish puzzles!Not content with one book club pick, Tibbs basically brings anoth

Episode 53 - Shantae
July 06, 2023

Hair-whipping half-genie half-belly-dancer, Shantae arrives in the book club this month, as we play the very first game in her series of popular 2D metroidvania platformers for the Game Boy Color! Our impressions of this indie darling may surprise you! P

Episode 52 - Sephonie
May 25, 2023

This time we're tackling a thoughtful and narrative-driven puzzle platformer, Sephonie, for PC. Also up for debate is the new Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - in which a big portion of the discussion focuses in on the important matter of why Li

Episode 51 - Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness (with guest, Redbeard Rik!)
April 21, 2023

We've got a guest this month! "Pod 'em Up superfan" (that's what we call him anyway) Rik comes along for a chat, and brings to the book club the convolutedly-named "Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darknes

Episode 50 - OverBlood 2 and Jet Set Radio Future (Book Club Sequels Special!)
March 28, 2023

We're back, with a brand new logo and a bullseye of an episode for you this month! (cockney rhyming slang for fifty, innit?) Featuring pride of place is a book club double whammy, in which we play two games that are sequels to titles we've already

Episode 49 - Burning Rangers
February 06, 2023

It's high time for some Saturn love on the podcast, and what better way to do that than to play Sonic Team's futuristic fire fighting action game, Burning Rangers! One of the final great games for Sega's oft-overlooked machine. Alongside that, we've got t

Episode 48 - Voodoo Vince
December 22, 2022

It's the hardly-at-all-Christmassy Christmas Special of Pod 'em Up! We assess the self-destructive habits of unlikely 3D platforming hero Voodoo Vince, from the original Xbox (now also on PC and Xbox One), plus we review Sonic Frontiers and Ollie ruins th

Episode 47 - Skyblazer
November 03, 2022

This month, we're going on about Skyblazer - never heard of it? Good, sit yourself down and find out if we recommend this infrequently-discussed SNES platformer!Plus, there's much talk about Grapple Dog and the recent Mortal Kombat games, we offer our i

Episode 46 - Stray
October 02, 2022

We've got a real cracker in the book club this month - the silky smooth adventuring of 2022's highly acclaimed cat 'em up: Stray, for PS4/5 and PC. Does it deserve the high praise it's been getting? We find out! Plus, Ollie went to EGX in London for a go