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Abnormal Mapping is a monthly game club of Em and Jackson, talking primarily about old games with an eye to critiquing without nostalgia.
We’re joined by our friend Kim to talk about a visual novel of the murder game and detective kind! Ran Ibuki is a very not normal girl who f...
We dig through the pile of trash that is the Wii library for one of the hidden gems of its lineup, the one Rabbids game that people remember...
We return to a game we played near the very start of the podcast, but … in port form? Much to discuss about the place of ports as transforma...
We play a bunch of classic phone games and talk about an era of small games that feel like they vanished from the earth. This was a great wa...
Surprise! One final Abnormal Mapping before the end of the year. Jackson is joined today by Erin to get thoughts down about the most bafflin...
This one was in the can way before the new Mega Man was announced, but I’m glad they finally listened to us and made another one of these. B...
This Abnormal Mapping needed an extra week to cook, but it’s finally here for you to enjoy! We talk about a bunch of arcade games, Capcom’s...
After months of chipping away at it Em finally completed Persona 5 Royal, which means she invited two of her most Shin Megami Tensei-brained...
Some games are just very okay to the point where you don’t have too much to say about them, but thankfully we have some other gaming to keep...
We played a classic of the greatest console ever made, the Nintendo 64, this month! How did Em find returning to a game she 100%ed long ago?...
A small and fascinating puzzle game gets us through a rough month this week as we talk about score chasing, the tone of indie games in aesth...
We dig into Square’s attempt at survival horror as they hand Parasite Eve over to one of the creators of Resident Evil who proceeds to make...
We play a small detective game and come away with a nice appreciation of adapting the mystery story into mechanics, a discussion about light...
We’re joined this month by Nora Blake of Export Audio to talk about her and Em’s favorite dead Konami franchise: Castlevania! We’re playing...
We played an old SNES game today and talk about the elemental qualities of RPGs and action games. Also, Jackson keeps gaming, and Em makes a...
We’re playing two not very classics of their respective genres today as we go back to the back half of the 90s to play an early action game...
We tackle a newer game this month as we talk about the critically acclaimed adventure game 1000xRESIST. We found plenty to love and plenty t...
We close out the year by playing one of the most infamous games we’ve ever covered, a game that has been a running joke and shorthand for ba...
We’re joined by Dia Lacina once again as Ryo continues the next leg of his quest to track down Lan Di, his father’s killer. What strange cha...
One of the hot new releases of … wait, 1999? That can’t be right. Oh, it’s a fan translation. One of the hot new fan translations hitting th...
Sometimes you decide to finally pick up one of those games you’ve always heard of but never got around to, the curiosities that you are pret...
Jackson is joined today by official Final Fantasy Correspondant Austin Walker to talk about Final Fantasy XI - specifically the base game an...
Em is back from the month off to talk about the joy of a kind of cheesy mystery with a great sci-fi premise as we get to live out our Star T...
This month it’s just me, Jackson, being joined by Crystal to play Citizen Sleeper. Em is currently in Hospital after major surgery and so I’...
We enjoy one of the major modern attempts at making a Pokemon-style monster collecting and battling RPG with Cassette Beasts. We talk about...
We find ourselves doing grunt work for Atrus once more as our favorite self-published author and god of his own realms begins reaping what h...
We leap back in time to the Mega Drive to talk about two action classics back when action games meant jumping and avoiding and not perfect p...
We finish our long Final Fantasy adventure by playing Square’s largest single player Final Fantasy yet. But does size equal quality? Does it...
We’re joined by Molly for the return of one of the classics, a guy who just needs to jump over every spike in all the world, conveniently lo...
We interrupt your regularly scheduled coverage with a special announcement: Jackson has played the Final Fantasy XIII games, at last. Despit...
We’re going back to the heady days of licensed multi-platform games in the early 00s this month as we play 007: Everything or Nothing and ta...
We close out the year with a podcast years in the making, as Molly joins us and we take a road trip with the king to be and his homies and p...
We keep gaming as we tackle a bunch of small games in a classic grab bag and talk through a whole mess of games that are interesting and wor...
It’s Jackson here with a surprise episode of Abnormal Mapping! This was meant to be a bonus anniversary surprise but scheduling woes got it...
We’ve been doing this for ten years! Damn, that’s a long time to be doing a monthly game club. But we’ll keep trucking into our second decad...
We celebrate a century and a half of excellence this month as we talk about 3D platforming as we take a thorough look at Demon Turf and talk...
We’re back with one of the obvious classics of all time, a game neither of us had played before this month but came like a lighting strike i...
Em is joined by anime gaming expert Olivia today to talk about a classic of Visual Novels, the Muv Luv trilogy of games! We have a brief RPG...
We’re joined by post-gamer and friend of the show Austin Walker to talk about the latest and greatest in the long running Final Fantasy seri...
We’re joined by blogger of the year and adventure game maestra Dia Lacina to talk about one of the most iconic games of the LucasArts era, M...
We’re joined by special guest Niamh to talk about one of the classics of video game, infamously one of only two games we bailed on playing i...
Em’s been so busy gaming we had to break out segment 1 into its own podcast to spare our Chrono Cross episode the world’s most topheavy stru...
We’re back to talk about a small game about chilling out and brewing potions and what it says for the act of gaming itself to engage in a re...
We’re back with a normal episode of Abnormal Mapping as we dig into our backlog a bit and then talk about a very low key narrative adventure...
On this very special episode Em is joined by Dia Lacina and Emrys to talk about Sega’s iconic JRPG franchise Phantasy Star. We talk about th...
We’re joined by Dia Lacina to talk about foundational survival horror classic Resident Evil, and mostly talk about genre and the strange leg...
We’re joined by Ember to talk about a game at the intersection of those two most contentious genres: soulslikes and Metroidvanias. This inte...
We end out the year by going hard on going fast through 3D spaces as we talk more about where 3D Sonic is at, and also about the array of in...
It's nearly Christmas time and thus we settle in for that most famous of Christmas games, Hideo Kojima's sci-fi detective classic SNATCHER!...
We ring in our ninth anniversary with a new-ish game, the dystopian magical realism adventure game Norco! There’s plenty of navel gazing abo...