Pie Factory Podcast
Film, TV & Pop Culture
About
Jim and Sean discuss game play, strategies, and memories of classic '80s and '90s arcade games.
Episodes
- Episode 154: The Simpsons Bowling and Crazy Taxi
This episode of Pie Factory Podcast, titled 'The Simpsons Bowling and Crazy Taxi,' discusses a Simpsons character bowling and the game Crazy Taxi. The hosts relate these topics to their own experiences.
- Episode 153: Thunder Blade and After Burner
In episode 153 of the Pie Factory Podcast, hosts Jim and Sean discuss the Sega games Thunder Blade and After Burner. They also examine the topic of shipping accessories.
- Episode 152: Circus Charlie and Moon Cresta
The Pie Factory Podcast discusses the classic arcade games Circus Charlie and Moon Cresta in episode 152, reflecting on the past summer.
- BONUS EPISODE: My Weird Record Collection Episode 14
This is a bonus episode from the Pie Factory Podcast, featuring an episode of Sean's other podcast, My Weird Record Collection. In this installment, Episode 14, Sean examines the work of Curtis.
- Episode 151: A Very Special Pie Factory Podcast
The Pie Factory Podcast marks ten years and 150 episodes with a special, off-topic episode. In this installment, the hosts answer questions submitted by their listeners.
- Episode 150: Stargate and Total Carnage
Having survived yet another March 12, 25, 28, AND 31, Jim and Sean are back in the podosphere (or perhaps Pleasuredome?) with their deep introspective look into a pair of shooty games that are older than some of this podcast’s listeners. G…
- Episode 149: Armor Attack and Major Havoc
Happy holidays! (Many have happened since our last episode.) After much contemplation, debate, soul searching, and just plain dillydallying, Sean and Jim decided that after doing this podcast for almost ten years…it was time to just…record…
- Episode 148: Excitebike and Up’n Down
The holiday shopping season has arrived! Perhaps you find a bicycle. You purchase it for your child. Your child gets excited, making it an Excitebike. But it’s pretty expensive. So you have an Up’n Down experience in your shopping. But wel…
- Episode 147: Stocker and Flicky
In their continued quest to cover arcade video games in alphabetical order, Jim and Sean return after an unwanted hiatus to present you with this episode’s theme: games with “ck” in the middle! They thank you for your patience, your indulg…
- Episode 146: A Chat With Paul E. Niemeyer
After an unexpected hiatus, Sean and Jim are back with a new episode. Sadly, as a side effect of said hiatus, the episode is not about our original intended topic. Happily, though, Pie Factory Podcast is thrilled to present this talk with…
- Episode 145, Part II: Citizens On Patrol
Jim and Sean bring you the astonishing conclusion to Episode 145, discussing top ten favorite home console games from both them and you, the listener. A splendid time is certainly a possibility!
- Episode 145: Our Top Ten Console Games
Yeah, yeah, we know. “NEW EPISODE SO SOON?!?” Due to the logistical nightmare we all call life, our originally scheduled topic had to be postponed, so instead, after realizing we haven’t done an off-topic episode in a while, maybe we shoul…
- Episode 144: Buggy Boy and X-Men
Pie Factory Podcast is back with episode 144! Today we discuss the ins and outs of opposing prepositions, while our listeners enjoy complex sentences and the deep meanings of racing with superheroes. Enjoy, dear friends, for this will like…
- Episode 143: Namco Classic Collection
There are exactly two things that everybody likes: podcasts and video games. Nothing else. And boy, do we have some good news for you: for the first time ever, Jim and Sean have put the two together! Your 2023 will certainly go out on a hi…
- Episode 142: Join ‘Em and Phozon
We here at Pie Factory Podcast do not do turkey drops; we do EPISODE drops. There’s more to do in the world than just eat (although, listening to this episode, you’d never know that). We also like to play video games from time to time. So…
- Ghosts ‘n Goblins and Monster Bash
Just in time for Portland Retro Gaming Expo (kinda), we present episode 141! This time, instead of the usual booing from people listening, the boos we here are from the spooky creatures that come herewith and thereto and therein with two c…
- Episode 140: Astro Invader (redux) and Astro Fighter
Rumor has it that episode 141 has been released. Well, we’re here to completely dispel that rumor: it’s actually episode 140 that’s been released. But not even a party band outside of Pie Factory Podcast’s south headquarters could prevent…
- Episode 139: Shootin’ the breeze and burning our throats
Summer schedules can be a beast. And believe me, we have tried to alter that beast, but we find ourselves standing in the shadows of that beast. It’s been a while, so we figured we’d better get y’all up to speed as to how our lives have be…
- Episode 138: Front Line and SubRoc-3D
For the first time EVER, the guys from Pie Factory are back with discussion on the games you see in the title of this episode. A couple of shooty-powy games. One from the earth, one from the water. (They’re trying to get shooty-powy games…
- Episode 137: Super Cobra and Silk Worm
Episode 137 is out, so listen to it NOW! Chop-chop! (See what we did there?) Silk Worm, Super Cobra, Midwest Gaming Classic, geography, and other such topics are discussed in this mammoth blockbuster installment of Pie Factory Podcast.
- Episode 136: Exerion and Fast Freddie
Happy spring, Pie Factorians! We hope you spring…fast…and, uhh…we can’t make a really bad pun out of Exerion right now, but…well, just listen!
- Episode 135: Assault and Vindicators
Welcome to the 2023, they’re calling it this year. Sean and Jim offer up their thoughts and experiences on these particular games because, well, they’re arcade video games. That’s why we’re all here, right? We hope you enjoy this episode.…
- Pie Factory Podcast’s Holiday Greetings
As a storm closes in on Pie Factory Headquarters, Jim and Sean are hunkering down, eating razzleberry pie and playing MAME while lying in a manger as visions of Mr. Hot Dog and Mr. Pickle dance in our heads.
- Episode 134: Port Man and Arkanoid
A new dawn brings a new day. A new day brings a new episode of Pie Factory Podcast (sometimes). In Episode 134, Jim and Sean discuss an obscure Pac-Man clone and a side-scrolling shoot-’em-up in which you defend the planet against mutant s…
- Episode 133: S.T.U.N. Runner and Hard Drivin’
Jimmy G and Sean introduce a spoooooooky new episode during this spooooooktacular season!! Mwahahaahaahahahaa!!! In this haunting installment they discuss a couple of scaaaaaaaaary spooky games (that is, if you find racing games spooky).
- Episode 132: Loco Motion and Amidar
Look, we don’t care that arcadehistory(dot)com and Wikipedia put a hyphen between “Loco” and “Motion.” You know why? ‘Cuz on the marquee there is no hyphen. So we’re not putting one there. Don’t believe us? Look it up! See?…SEE?!?!!?!?
- Episode 131: Snake Pit and Wacko
School’s in, kids! It’s time for Sean and Jim to school you on a couple of games from the early-ish ’80s. That is, old-school games. Games that you may have played after school. The only thing more appealing than this episode would be a sc…
- Midwest Gaming Classic 2022 recap
We’re not quite ready yet to present you with what we learned about Wacko and Snake Pit, but in the mean time, here are Sean’s thoughts on this year’s Midwest Gaming Classic. (Jim says hi.)
- Episode 130: Pong
If you’re the kind of person who likes stuff, well…you’re in the right place because episode 130 is certainly stuff! This time we stray from our usual format to talk about everybody’s favorite diagonally-scrolling platform shoot-’em-up, th…
- Episode 129: Mr. Driller and Dig Dug II
We at Pie Factory Podcast have been hard at work to bring you a new savory, salty, and potentially sweet episode. So here, for about the 129th time, we present to you…an episode. A pumpful episode. So pump it up! The jam, the volume…if it’…
- Episode 128: Three Stooges and Splat!
Our love goes out to those suffering because of the situation in Ukraine, and in fact, our next Patreon payout will be donated to Doctors Without Borders for their team in Ukraine. (And we thank all of you for making this donation possible…
- Episode 127: Bad Dudes and Zero Wing
Bad Dudes vs. DragonNinja and Zero Wing….ahh, just how Sean likes his fried chicken. Warm yourselves up to the soothing voices of him and Jimmy G with this 127th-ish numbered episode of the series, and first episode of the new year. And mo…
- Episode 126: the, uhh…new episode
This is indeed a new episode of Pie Factory Podcast. In that it’s a new episode, about 99.44% new material, and it’s Pie Factory Podcast. Only thing is…well, we had to shift the focus a bit for this one time. You’ll get what we mean when y…
- Episode 125: Pepper II and Cosmic Chasm
It’s a Thanksgiving miracle – a video game sequel that has no corresponding original? Oooh, you’ll have to listen to find out about that! Hear this and more gobbledygook (see what we did there?) as you feast your ears on this very special…
- Episode 124: Toobin’ and Pooyan
What?? A new episode already?! Yuh-huh!!! This time your ever-lovin’ Midwestern video game fan duo take a look not only at the featured games but also indigenous urban cuisine. Episode 124 is guaranteed to be a mammoth blockbuster with sev…
- Episode 123: Bubble Bobble and Toypop
Having returned from their spiritual retreat to Fishfuj, Iowa, Jim and Sean are back with a new episode. Will they reveal the secret relationship between Bub and Bob? Is the toyshop in Toypop an allegory about the Russian Revolution? Liste…
- The NExt Episode – take three (arRrhghghgh!!!!!)
(okay, THIS TIME FOR SURE.) We’re calling this “the next episode” because it’s not the previous episode. It’s also not the first episode nor the last episode, unless something REALLY weird happens. Look…it’s an episode. And we actually rem…
- The Next Episode – take 2!
(Broken link in the original feed…sorry about that!) We’re calling this “the next episode” because it’s not the previous episode. It’s also not the first episode nor the last episode, unless something REALLY weird happens. Look…it’s an epi…
- The Next Episode
We’re calling this “the next episode” because it’s not the previous episode. It’s also not the first episode nor the last episode, unless something REALLY weird happens. Look…it’s an episode. And we actually remembered to mention our RedBu…
- Episode 122: Mikie and Name That Tune
Ikey and Mikie, in a most exclusive place, were held up by a mugger, who cut up Ikey’s favorite coat and robbed him, and hit him with a hose. But Mikie grabbed the scoundrel, and punched him in the no-good head repeatedly, until he ran awa…
- Episode 121: Double Dragon and Kung-Fu Master
One game is about kids who answer trivia questions and run through a chocolate and slime filled obstacle course. The other is about a New Jersey kid who moves to California and is bullied by martial arts jocks. What could the theme be? Onl…
- Episode 120…revisited!
Thanks to the response from Listeners Like You™, we decided to go back and address feedback from our previous episode. Your top ten desert island games (assuming your desert island has an adequate power source, of course) and of course all…
- Episode 120: Our Top Ten
If each of the hosts of Pie Factory Podcast had his druthers, which games would he’d ruther have in his home arcade over all the other ones? Tune in to this exciting frost-biting candy-throwing installment to hear the gory details!
- Episode 119: Hang-On and Golden Axe
New month, new year, new U.S. President, New Balance Stores Phoenix, and…oh, yeah! NEW EPISODE! Woohoo! What more can we say, but….vroom! Chop!
- Episode 118: Discs of Tron and Mad Planets
For this final episode of the year, Sean and Jim talk about the world situation, economics, and their five Christmas wishes. (Wait, was that this episode? Hmmm…maybe that was another…) But what could this week’s theme be? Is it games with…
- Episode 117: Turkey Shoot and Chiller
While you’re enjoying turkey with your family, why not put Pie Factory Podcast on as your background? Jim’n’Sean discuss two fairly unusual arcade games in episode 117. And so should you.
- Episode 116: The Legend of Kage and Raiden
Once upon a time there were two Midwesterners named Jim and Sean. One was tall, the other was…well, also tall, but who cares? There came a time when the two decided that their mission was to discuss two arcade games from Japan, leading the…
- Episode 115: Astro Invader and Space Zap
In episode 115, does Sean love Space Zap as much as Jim? Will they agree on a Space Invaders-esque shooter? Will George be reunited with his ticker tape machine? The Shadow knows.
- Episode 114: 720º and Congo Bongo
Yep, that’s how hot it gets in the summer, so break out your percussion instruments and play along with episode 114! Satisfaction guaranteed! (Note: satisfaction not guaranteed.)
- Episode 113: Space Fury and Tac/Scan
So…an episode for your amusement! Prepare for a podcast! (See what we did there?) We swear, this is the absolute last episode we will be releasing this month. If you want another one, sorry; you’ll have to wait.