25 Games Everybody Should Play (Alanah Pearce Returns)

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🗓️ 2 April 2026

⏱️ 134 minutes

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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kelsey Lewin, Jacob Geller, and Kyle Hilliard are joined by former MinnMax Guest Cohort Alanah Pearce as she launches her own production company called Charred Pictures that focuses on adapting video games to TV and movies in a way that's friendlier to independent developers. We then attempt to build a list of 25 essential games for gamers to play to fully understand the scope of the medium... but with a poisonous twist. Let us know in the comments what you would have included on the list. Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! https://www.patreon.com/minnmax

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00:00:00 - Intro

00:03:55 - Alanah Pearce's new production company: Charred Pictures

00:13:03 - Valencia, Spain community meetup - April 14th

00:14:19 - Get a Steam code for Skate Story

00:15:27 - 25 Games Everybody Should Play

00:33:35 - Visit Pocahontas County, Iowa

00:35:19 - 25 Games Everybody Should Play

01:24:19 - Mint Mobile

01:25:40 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:27:42 - Community questions

02:06:20 - Get A Load Of This

Jacob's GALOT - https://www.ign.com/articles/baby-steps-fans-think-the-game-might-secretly-be-a-fan-made-uncharted-5

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Community GALOT - https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop\&v=PtHrkZgn-mU

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Alanah's Charred Pictures - https://www.charredpictures.com/

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of the Minnag Show,
0:07.0	a place about games, friends getting better. Hello, everybody, and welcome to a new episode of The Minmag Show,
0:23.7	plays about games, friends getting better.
0:25.4	I'm honored to be joined by one Jacob Geller.
0:28.4	An honor for me as well.
0:30.4	Yeah.
0:31.0	We're joined by Kelsey Lewin and Kelsey, I apologize,
0:33.5	for us not knowing anything about baseball last week on the podcast.
0:36.2	Oh, my gosh.
0:37.4	You named, you guys named two people that had been retired for a decade, one of which, by the way, owns the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah, so he's where you live. That's where you live in. Okay. Otani. He could not name Otani. He said Bhutani. I said Wu-Tani, to be fair, but it was from aliens seeping into my brain. It's not my fault. I really thought you guys would have that in the bag. I thought you could at least name Otani and just be like, come on, guy. Like, obviously I can name Shohei Otani or Mike Trout or something. Sorry, Daryl Strawberry. We're also joined by...
1:10.8	I'm not even from here.
1:11.9	Sorry, go ahead.
1:12.6	No, it's very resonable. Kyle Hilliard's here. Hey, I would have gotten a bunch of baseball players if I've been on that episode. Oh, no, no. Totally. Totally. And now, the baseball expert herself. Alana Pierce, returning champion. Hello. Thank you for having me. It's been so long.
1:25.9	It's been so long.
1:26.8	Welcome, our former guest cohort.
1:30.1	Um, a lot of you, you, I don't know if you know, you don't stop. Every time I see what you're doing online, I'm always just like, Jesus, Alana. You are, if I may kiss your ass just out of the gate, you're a very admirable person for the amount that you seem to be doing. You are just out there getting stuff done in a wild way. Don't encourage him, Oana.
1:47.5	He doesn't need to do more. That's what I
1:49.7	always want to respond. It's like, I don't know that it should be admired. I genuinely think it's
1:55.5	very unhealthy. My lust for do new thing. So I wouldn't entirely recommend it. Okay. But thank you. Yeah.
2:02.9	You're writing for indie games, writing for big games, writing movies, producing movies.
2:07.4	I see on Instagram, you're advertising cars. I was like, what is Alana's life? It just is confusing.
2:13.7	It's to me to do that. I was like, really? We had to reshoot it a million times because I
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