232: A Gun That Shoots Frogs
The Nextlander Podcast
The Nextlander Podcast
4.7 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 130 minutes
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Summary
This week's show features everything from zombie screening in Quarantine Zone to modding your Switch 2 Joy-cons, making video game documentaries from primary research, our hopes for a third Wolfenstein game (and maybe a StarCraft shooter?), a sad farewell to Twisted Pixel, a long-ish deep dive on sequels in film and video games, and a bunch more.
The VGHF's NES documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJvpRGibFhg
CHAPTERS
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(00:00:10) Intro
(00:02:07) How expensive is the noise your house is making?
(00:05:48) People walking around on your property
(00:14:39) The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System
(00:24:58) Mosa Lina | [Linux, Mac, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Oct 17, 2023
(00:29:01) First Break
(00:29:05) Quarantine Zone: The Last Check | [PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Jan 12, 2026
(00:41:20) Absolum | [Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5] | Oct 09, 2025
(00:46:48) The Séance of Blake Manor | [Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows)] | Oct 27, 2025
(00:48:51) Tetris 99 and replacing Switch 2 d-pads
(00:56:44) Silent Hill f | [PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S] | Sep 25, 2025
(00:59:44) Second Break
(00:59:50) Sounds like we'll get a Wolfenstein 3
(01:09:48) Avowed is getting a PS5 release
(01:13:17) They are taking another stab at a StarCraft shooter?
(01:18:22) Oh Meta, do you deserve such ire? Almost certainly.
(01:38:54) Emails
(02:01:27) Wrapping up and thanks
(02:03:05) Mysterious Benefactor Shoutouts
(02:04:51) Nextlander Content Updates
(02:09:37) See Ya!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everybody and welcome back to another Nextlander podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Here we are in the middle of January. |
| 0:17.1 | And Alex Navarro, I know you can't believe it is only the middle of January in |
| 0:23.5 | 26. |
| 0:25.0 | How is it not the middle of July? |
| 0:26.6 | What are you talking about? |
| 0:27.8 | I know it feels like Brad Shoemaker, we have been at somehow a full sprint for only 15 days |
| 0:34.4 | here, ish, 14 days. |
| 0:36.7 | I've been thinking that to myself for, let's say, about the last week and change. |
| 0:40.3 | It's maybe, maybe the hardest swerve out of the holidays I've ever experienced. |
| 0:44.1 | A lot to pack in, an impressively diabolical amount to pack in to two weeks here in January. |
| 0:51.4 | That's a good word for it. Yeah. |
| 0:52.4 | Every day, something new. |
| 0:53.8 | And I mean diabolical in the pure sense of having to do with the devil. |
| 0:56.9 | I mean evil. |
| 0:57.8 | Yeah, an evil. |
| 0:58.8 | It has been an evil 14 days. |
| 1:00.8 | On a less diabolical note, I just went to get a slightly less diabolical note. |
| 1:05.6 | I want to go get ice for my water here as we begin to podcast. |
| 1:11.0 | I have the freezer on the bottom of my fridge kind of thing, the bottom freezer that has an |
| 1:16.0 | ice maker in it that drums drops ice into a little tray. |
| 1:18.9 | And then there was this piece of my fridge hanging out in the highest tray that I'm holding up for |
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