Debating The Top 5 3D Platformers Of All Time

The MinnMax Show

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Video Games, Leisure, Games

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🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 158 minutes

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Summary

MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Janet Garcia, Kyle Hilliard, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman debate the 5 greatest 3D platformers of all time. Which five games will we let into the club? Will any of them be hit by a poison shuriken? As we prepare to dive into Donkey Kong Bananza on the Nintendo Switch 2, we look back on the classics like Super Mario 64, Astro Bot, and Jak and Daxter. 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

00:01:51 - Donkey Kong Bananza

00:11:41 - Top 5 3D Platformers Of All Time

00:14:19 - Super Mario 64

00:25:07 - Super Mario Galaxy

00:29:43 - Hello Fresh

00:31:38 - Astro Bot

00:40:48 - Banjo-Kazooie

00:45:40 - Ruffy and the Riverside

00:47:18 - Jak and Daxter

00:51:51 - It Takes Two

00:57:16 - Super Mario Odyssey

01:05:26 - Sonic Adventure

01:09:46 - Wix

01:11:37 - Super Mario 3D Land

01:15:34 - Super Mario 3D World

01:18:32 - A Hat In Time

01:20:23 - Spyro the Dragon

01:22:47 - Sly Cooper

01:26:37 - Debating The Top 5 3D Platformers

01:30:02 - Super Mario Sunshine

01:35:04 - Ape Escape

01:37:57 - Finalizing the list

01:42:24 - Thanking iam8bit - https://www.iam8bit.com/

01:44:13 - Community questions

02:24:23 - Get A Load Of This

02:31:06 - The Rumor Meister

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody and welcome to a new episode of The MinMAC Show,
0:23.3	Place About Games, Friends, are getting better.
0:25.1	Kyle Bossman, you're not waving.
0:26.5	You're sipping damn coffee.
0:28.3	I did, if you're a listener, I did a nice little like coffee nod.
0:32.3	You know what I mean?
0:32.8	Like lift the mug a little and give a nod.
0:34.7	That's how cozy he is.
0:36.4	For audio listeners,
0:37.9	Kyle, you have the most, like, mug, mug I've ever seen in your hand right now. This is like a Denny's diner, coffee mug. There's like a... This is an asset pack mug. Oh, a twist. There's a twist. A twist of Man of Mystery. Old moose party? Yeah, I can't explain what the deal is with this mug.
0:36.6	It was a gift, But yeah, it's got Teddy
0:59.4	Roosevelt riding a large moose. That's perfect. That's amazing. It's wildly ordinary in one
1:03.6	side and then wildly unhinged on the other. I love it. Yeah. Jennifer
1:07.2	reminds me of Kyle Bossman. That one episode of two broke girls where they're like giving people coffee?
1:14.6	I remember that one.
1:15.3	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1:16.5	It's good, right?
1:17.2	You get the idea, listeners.
1:18.5	Kyle Hilliard's here.
1:19.4	Janet Garcia's here.
1:20.3	We have a lot to talk about this here episode.
1:23.3	Obviously, back half of the show, we're some great questions submitted over there on Patreon.
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