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Added 2025-07-08 17:58:02 +0000 UTCWe won't get to it in time for the podcast, but we'll be reacting live to the State of Play showing off gameplay for Ghost of Yotei this Thursday at 4pm Central on YouTube. Also, in case you missed it, here's our Max Spoilers for Jurassic World Rebirth - https://youtu.be/Ou6E7P3BQUY
This week for community questions on the podcast, we'll have Ben Hanson, guest cohort Kyle Bosman, Kelsey Lewin, and Sarah Podzorski. It's your turn to make the show better by leaving a question, news story, BetterQuest goal, or anything else for us to read on the show as a comment below! We’ll choose our favorite and iam8bit will ship out the great prize below for the winner! We'll stop pulling questions around 8am Central on Wednesday.
On this week’s episode we’ll be talking about...
Our "Game of the Summer" so far, please submit your own! We'll share it!
Tamagotchi Plaza
Death Stranding 2
Umamusume: Pretty Derby
The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy
Mario Kart World
Grim Grimoire Once More
Everybody at the Backstage Pass tier can watch us record the show live on Wednesday at 1pm Central, with an exclusive pre and post show. The unedited archive will be available to view after the fact. You could do us a favor by subscribing to the audio version of the podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast app, telling a friend, leaving a review, and subscribing to our YouTube channel!
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Hi Ben and Cohorts, My name is Grantham, and I’ve been a longtime listener, all the way back to the GI show days. I look forward to MinnMax every week not just for gaming content, but for the sense of connection, optimism, and the feeling that I’m hanging out with people who really care about games and the people who play them. Someone once called it "parasocial connection"? Whatever it is, it’s great! I wanted to share a quick story with you all, both because it’s personal and because it left me thinking about games in a new light. On July 4th, my family was caught in the catastrophic flash floods while visiting my wife’s 82-year-old grandmother and other relatives in Hunt, Texas. In the middle of the night, my wife and I grabbed our two kids (ages 1 and 3) and quickly climbed into a loft about 12 feet high in the family home. All four generations barely made it to the loft in time, just before tree trunks and appliances began crashing into the living room as floodwaters surged through the house. The water rose faster than you can imagine. My father-in-law led the charge to find a way out. He, my sister-in-law’s boyfriend, and I took turns pounding at the wall to create an opening so we could escape and swim to the roof. After carefully and quickly getting everyone up there, I held my 1-year-old daughter on the cold metal roof while my wife clutched our 3-year-old son. The rest of the family huddled around our sweet Nanda, taking turns yelling and whistling for help. The combination of pitch darkness, rushing water, the roar of rain on the roof, and blinding lightning, along with the colorful explosions of transformers on the horizon, is something I will never forget. After an hour and a half, the rain slowed and the water receded enough that we could climb down and make our way to safety. A neighbor up the hill later told us they heard the pounding on the wall and said it sounded like someone was hitting it like their life depended on it. And it quite literally did. We are incredibly fortunate to still have all our family members safe and intact. I know that if we hadn’t been visiting Nanda, she wouldn’t have survived, and we might have lost other loved ones too. Each person played a pivotal role in getting us out. We lost all of our cars, most of our clothes, nearly all of our kids’ belongings, and countless items with sentimental value. My wife’s family are descendants of The Secret Garden author, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and we’ve been amazed to see some of her original works being recovered from the wreckage. A far less significant but still emotional loss was my Tears of the Kingdom Switch OLED and the travel case of physical game cartridges I brought on the trip. I bought that system specifically for Tears of the Kingdom, which I’d been looking forward to for years. As a working parent, it became a rare moment of peace and joy at the end of long days once the kids were asleep. Losing it hit harder than I expected, probably because it was such a regular part of my routine. It’s just a device, but it was also a tiny piece of normalcy that helped me stay grounded during a busy season of life. I even wrote to Nintendo to ask if there was any chance of buying the same limited-edition system again, even at full price. I haven’t heard back, and I don’t expect to, but it felt worth a try. One unexpected outcome of all this is that I’ll almost certainly become a digital-only gamer from here on out. While the odds of being in another flood are slim, the odds of a game case getting lost, stolen, or damaged feel a lot more real now. I lost eight cartridges in the flood, about $400 worth, and I was lucky my Super Mario 3D All-Stars cartridge wasn’t in the case, since I’m not even sure I could buy that one again. Despite all the frustrations around digital licenses, the convenience and lower risk of loss now seem worth it. Of course, I want to emphasize that all of this is trivial compared to what really matters. I don’t plan on replacing any games for a while, not until our family has had more time to recover, especially for our two young kids and our sweet, resilient Nanda. I guess to qualify this for a "Question of the Week" segment: has anyone else had the realization that there may be more upsides to going all-digital than we originally gave it credit for? This is coming from a guy with a closet full of N64, Super Nintendo, NES, and Sega Genesis carts that you’ll have to pry out of my hands, haha. Our whole family is trying to keep this story alive and to inspire hope within our community and beyond. We’re also trying to share some of the positive things happening in the Kerrville, Hunt, and Ingram, Texas area. We’ve been overwhelmed by the support we’ve received so far. If you have time, please check out the GoFundMe link below. In the description section, you’ll find links to a CNN interview, a Wall Street Journal article, radio interviews, and a public photo album. GoFundMe link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/penny-deupree-and-family-hunt-tx-flood-recovery Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you. Even without my Switch to help keep my routine going, I still have the MinnMax Show. Your podcast continues to be a source of joy and thoughtfulness at a time when both are in short supply. I’m truly grateful for what you all do, so please keep doing it. All the best, Grantham Akerly (and the rest of the Akerlys and Deuprees)
Grantham Akerly
2025-07-11 21:30:06 +0000 UTCI just spent another $10 on Marvel Puzzle Quest. A game i must have spent hundreds of hours on...and probably hundreds of dollars on as well. My favorite games are Suikoden 2 and Expedition 33. As I confirmed my dirty dirty Micro-transaction, I was thinking about the amount I pay for games and how much joy I get out of them compared to how much I spent. What game have you spent the most on? What did you spend on your favorite game? And what game do you think got the most value per dollar?
Brian Sodano
2025-07-11 02:43:30 +0000 UTC
