YNIN's Cartridge Blowers

YNIN's Cartridge Blowers

Every other Thursday, Cody, Nikki, and Matt give video games a second chance to make a first impression as they each take on an old video game they have never played before and let the others know how much they are terrible at them.

Episodes

CB Ep.199 – I Hope Mickey Kun Notices Me!

September 2, 2022
In episode 199 we play guilty pleasure games. Nikki fights a genie with a lion person in Twisted Wonderland. Matt smashes his action figures together in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and Cody helps do Christmas Crimes in Mario Kart Tour.
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CB Ep.198 – Falling to Your Crunchy Doom

July 22, 2022
This week we play puzzle games! Matt is killed by a skeleton thus fulfilling the prophecy in Shovel Knight: Pocket Dungeon. Cody finally creates the sequel to Multiplicity in The Swapper, and Nikki plays with off-brand portals in Portal: The Flash Version.
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CB Ep.197 – Menbots, Ladybots, and Non-Botinary Individuals

June 24, 2022
This week we play clone games! Cody is a super-fighting meatball man in Bots N Bolts. Nikki is saving all the animals by beating them unconscious in Super Noah's Ark 3D, and Matt is full of hackblood energy in Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer!
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CB Ep.196 – All These Sages Are Non-Fungible

May 20, 2022 • 77 mins
This week we play game of the year award winners! Matt wants you to paint him like one of your French Heroes of Time in The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds. Nikki is like a bird (she wants to fly away) in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and Cody plays Gunstar Heroes.
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CB Ep.195 – ART

April 22, 2022
This week we play Edutainment games! Matt runs out of meat in Oregon Trail II. Cody skateboards into our hearts like a needle into our skin in Wally Bear and the No Gang!, and Nikki surfs into hell as a precursor to when she surfs into hell!
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CB Ep.194 – They Need a Vaccine for This Game

March 11, 2022
This week we play games made by Acclaim! Nikki plays a sport from the future, and that sport involves vomiting, in Battle Sport. Cody realizes that the only real truth is pacifism in True Lies, and Matt builds his own fursona in ECW Anarchy Rulz.
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CB Ep.193 – The Suplexorcist

February 25, 2022
This week we are playing the final levels in video games. Cody ends the threat of humanity in Jurassic Park. Matt fights a brain and an eye in Metroid and Kid Icarus, and Nikki contends with bad hit boxes in Aladdin.
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CB Ep.192 – #DefinitelySponsored

February 4, 2022
This week on Cartridge Blowers, we play Advergames! Volkswagen wants you to be a beetle when we would rather be a beetleborg in Beetle Adventure Racing! Nikki loves bullets and ramen in Persona 5 Royal, and Cody bows to the wheat squares in Chex Quest Remastered.
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CB Ep.191 – What is a Harp if Not a Neck Guitar

December 25, 2021
In episode 191 we play a Spooky Secret Santa! Nikki gets a bonus sticker so that now she can die fulfilled in Andy's Apple Farm. Cody takes a trip through hard cloud world in Eversion, and Matt shoots his way through bats, doctors, and flava-flav in Savage Halloween!
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CB Ep.190 – If a Doctor Malpractices in the Woods and No One is Around to See…

October 1, 2021
This week we play games we've seen the other hosts play in episodes past. Cody gets on the train to big amorphous hand creature-ville in Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon. Matt learns to love the bomb in Scribblenauts Unlimited, and Nikki basically just spends 8 minutes murdering a prone guy in Surgeon Simulator. All this, and the Mario Movie cast list.
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CB Ep.189 – Roll for New Daughters

September 3, 2021
This week we play Fantasy Games! Matt deals with the worst part of being royalty: parenting, in Yes, Your Grace! Nikki loses her sibling fulfilling the dream of all siblings in Slay the Dragon, and Cody loses his head...on purpose in Skul: The Hero Slayer!
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CB Ep.188 – Super Mario Swing Daddy 64

July 30, 2021
This week, it's little known fighting games! Nikki kills our favorite new character of 2021, Robot Marshmallow Cop, in Flying Dragon. Cody does a little dance and is a cutie patootie in Cho Aniki, and Matt will play more of this game over his aged corpse in Battle Construction Vehicles!
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CB Ep.187 – Legend of the Last Life

June 11, 2021
In episode 187, it's Nick Arcade Challenge Week again! That's right, it's another edition of our yearly tradition where we submit challenges to each other along with the help of our audience to see how well we can be at video gaming! We have speed, weird controller positions, game genie codes, pacifism, and more!
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CB Ep.186 – My Daughter The Puzzle

May 27, 2021
This week, we play fake sports sports games! Matt dodges balls AND cars in Knockout City. Nikki reaches the fur-st down in Jerry Rice & Nitus' Dog Football, and Cody tosses a disc hadouken style in Windjammers!
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CB Ep.185 – Toad’s House Is Just the Beginning

April 29, 2021
In this episode we play Rom Hacks! Nikki stomps on a cake in "This Hack Needs a Name." Cody has a prescription and it's pain in Dr. Mario World: House Calls, and Matt puts a key in a hole in Mario's Keytastrophe: Rebirth Edition. All this and the new Mortal Kombat movie!
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CB Ep.184 – An Affront to Everything Good

April 2, 2021
This week we play video game versions of board games! Cody shows that Mario Party would be a lot better if you could just gut Donkey Kong like a fish in Pummel Party. Matt shows you a prime piece of bird Squakaganda in Wingspan, and Nikki plays through Jenga's intense story mode in Jenga World Tour.
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CB Ep.183 – I Just Wanna See Gibs Fly!

March 12, 2021
This week we play games that we missed! Matt rides TWO HORSES in CastleVania: Rondo of Blood. Nikki jumps on a train to crowbar town in Half Life 2, and Cody fights the master of knives in Streets of Rage 2.
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CB Ep.182 – You Mean…You CAN’T Kill Eliza Thornberry’s Mom?

February 19, 2021
This week we play video games based on TV Shows! Hosts This Week Cody Nikki Matt Reviews Super Mario 3d World + Bowser’s Fury (SWITCH) (00:06:03) Wario Ware Gold (2DS) (00:09:48) Ittle Dew (PC) (00:13:07) Little Nightmares 2 (PC) (00:14:27) Upcoming Releases February 25, 2021: Ghosts ‘N Goblins Resurrection (SWITCH) …
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CB Ep.181 – The Insufferable Sulk

February 1, 2021
This week, we play superhero games! Cody takes Peter to the home of the honey rat-people in Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six! Matt makes Hulk sad in The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga, and Nikki leaves Cyclops in the arctic to die in X-Men 2: The Clone Wars! Hosts …
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CB Ep.180 – Not Canon, but a LOT of Ganon

December 24, 2020
This week we play games we purchased for each other! Nikki gives Matt a chance to fill his hole in Donut County! Cody allows Nikki to find the Heart of Space in My Diggy Dog 2, and Matt gave Cody a Cat mech ensuring all of his laptops will be laid upon and then destroyed in Gator Roboto! All this and Matt's top 10 games of the year!
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