Hello everybody, welcome back to the Fire Escape cast. It is episode 100. About four years ago,

Dan Mary and I said, what if we got together? We started a podcast. For 99 episodes, we focused on video games and catching up. And on episode 100, we pulled the rug out. I, you saw where I was going. These tariffs are crazy. Let's dig into it. Yeah, I know. Canada, really? What the hell? All our gas, much of our lumber, probably some aluminum somewhere. Let's dig into it. What the hell? Gulf of America. No, tonight we've got a fun episode planned. That's Dan, that's Mary. You know who they are probably if you're listening. We figured we would do something different. We do have games we want to talk about, but we'll probably save that for next episode.

Tonight, we have the 64-game bracket tournament

to decide Fire Escape Cast's favorite collective game of all time.

No, no, no, no, no.

That's not pussyfoot this here.

Yeah, it's not our favorite.

This is objective science.

We are determining the best game of all time.

One of us only voted from like three franchises. So I think it is more favorite than best.

Yeah, Mary, it's all Assassin's Creed. There's some real tunnel vision coming from some people. I can't wait to hear how this greedy platformer is better. So we do know, we generally have a good idea of what each of us

nominated. What did we do? We all nominated, they're 25. We, we tried to be 25. Mary's the only one who seen the bracket, though. Mary, I'm pretty much just going to toss to you from here on out. Sure. Yeah. You, we talked about doing this, and I said I would take this on. And I asked you all to send me your top 25. What I promised you was that your top 15 would

make it. And I did that because I think no matter what, even if they're stupid or just incredibly

dumb, worthless, I would put your top 15 in because they represent you. After that, there is some mixing in some match in to make sure that we're getting a holistic

look at games.

And I even put in ones that no one put in that I feel like are worth discussing just from a

collective generational, yes, you should at least discuss this game. You don't want to just ignore Super Mario Odyssey, so you probably want to put that in. I can't not have some of these on here. Why are you smirking? Is that like a sarcastic one? You're talking about one of the best games of all time? Was that sarcastic? No, I'm just fucking with you. I love Super Mario Odyssey. We will, there will be some fightans on this one. But I think what's interesting about this is that I've talked about that game. We haven't started yet. I've put all these in a bracket. So 64 bracket, which will give us six rounds where we essentially won against one. I randomized it. And it is truly random.

I did not manually touch any of these. I hit random, I think, three times to ensure that there

was like no biases. Yep. And here they are. They make me laugh. But what's funny is that Mike and Dan have

not seen this bracket.

So when I read what is our first matchup, it will be your first time hearing these two games that will go up against each other to the death.

And if you, the listener, would like to see the bracket, we will have posted it by this point.

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