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  • CLASSIC MAGAZINES
    • REVIEW CREW
      A show recapping what critics thought back
      when classic games first came out!
    • NEXT GENERATION'S BEST & WORST
      From the worst 1-star reviews to the best
      5-stars can offer, this is Next Generation!
    • NINTENDO POWER (ARCHIVE)
      Experience a variety of shows looking at the
      often baffling history of Nintendo Power!
      • NINTENDO POWER BEST & WORST
        We're counting down Nintendo Power's best
        and worst game reviews, from 1989 – 1995!
      • NINTENDO POWER UNCOVERED
        Cyril attempts to review the cover art for every
        issue of Nintendo Power (and fails miserably)!
    • MAGAZINE RETROSPECTIVE
      We're looking at the absolutely true history of
      some of the most iconic game magazines ever!
    • SUPER PLAY'S TOP 600
      The longest and most ambitious Super NES
      countdown on the internet!
    • THEY SAID WHAT?
      Debunking predictions and gossip found
      in classic video game magazines!
    • NEXT GENERATION UNCOVERED
      Cyril is back in this spin-off series, featuring the
      cover critic review the art of Next Generation!
    • HARDCORE GAMER MAGAZING (PDF ISSUES)
      Download all 36 issues of Hardcore Gamer
      Magazine and relive the fun in PDF form!
  • REVIEW ARCHIVE
    • SONY PLAYSTATION
      • SONY PLAYSTATION 5
      • SONY PLAYSTATION 4
      • SONY PLAYSTATION 3
      • SONY PLAYSTATION 2
      • SONY PLAYSTATION
    • SONY HANDHELDS
      • SONY PLAYSTATION VITA
      • SONY PLAYSTATION PORTABLE
    • NINTENDO CONSOLES
      • NINTENDO SWITCH
      • NINTENDO WII
      • NINTENDO GAMECUBE
      • NINTENDO 64DD
      • SUPER NINTENDO
      • NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM
    • NINTENDO HANDHELDS
      • NINTENDO 3DO
      • NINTENDO DS
      • GAME BOY ADVANCE
      • VIRTUAL BOY
      • GAME BOY & GAME BOY COLOR
    • MICROSOFT XBOX
      • XBOX ONE
      • XBOX 360
      • XBOX
    • SEGA CONSOLES
      • SEGA DREAMCAST
      • SEGA SATURN
      • SEGA GENESIS
      • SEGA MASTER SYSTEM
    • SEGA HANDHELDS & ADD-ONS
      • SEGA 32X
      • SEGA CD
      • SEGA GAME GEAR
    • ATARI CONSOLES
      • ATARI JAGUAR
      • ATARI LYNX
      • ATARI 800
      • ATARI 2600
    • SNK CONSOLES
      • SNK NEO GEO
      • SNK NEO GEO POCKET
    • NEC/TTI CONSOLES
      • TURBOGRAFX-16 & TURBODUO
      • SUPERGRAFX
    • OTHER CONSOLES
      • 3DO MULTIPLAYER
      • PHILIPS CD-i
      • AMIGA CD32
    • COMPUTER (Reviews)
  • GAMESHARK & BOOK
    • INTRODUCING THE CHEAT CODE COMPENDIUM
      Todd Hays (GameShark) and Defunct Games are
      Writing a book. Check out the full details!
    • PRE-ORDER THE CHEAT CODE COMPENDIUM
      Now is your chance to back our brand
      new book and get your physical copy!
    • GAMESHARK PRINT ADVERTISING ARCHIVE
      A complete breakdown of GameShark's
      print advertising frmo 1996 - 2002!
  • ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY
    • ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY RANKS
      From Mario to Sonic to Street Fighter, EGM
      ranks classic game franchises and consoles!
    • ELECTRONIC GAMING MONTHLY BEST & WORST
      Counting down EGM’s best and worst reviews
      going year by year, from 1989 – 2009!
    • ELECTRONIC GAMING BEST & WORST AWARDS
      11-part video series chronicling the ups and
      downs of EGM’s Best & Worst Awards!
  • GAME HISTORY
    • GAME OVER: STORY BREAKDOWNS
      Long-running series breaking down game
      stories and analyzing their endings!
    • A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAMING w/ [NAME HERE]
      Real history presented in a fun and pithy
      format from a variety of game historians!
    • THE BLACK SHEEP
      A series looking back at the black sheep
      entries in popular game franchises!
    • INSTANT EXPERT
      Everything you could possibly want to know
      about a wide variety of gaming topics!
    • FREEZE FRAME
      When something familiar happens in the games
      industry, we're there to take a picture!
    • I'VE GOT YOUR NUMBER
      Learn real video game history through a series
      of number-themed episodes, starting at zero!
    • GREAT MOMENTS IN BAD ACTING
      A joyous celebration of some of gaming's
      absolute worst voice acting!
  • POPULAR SERIES
    • DG NEWS w/ LORNE RISELEY
      Newsman Lorne Riseley hosts a regular
      series looking at the hottest gaming news!
    • REVIEW REWIND
      Cyril replays a game he reviewed 10+ years
      ago to see if he got it right or wrong!
    • ON-RUNNING FEUDS
      Defunct Games' longest-running show, with
      editorials, observations and other fun oddities!
    • DEFUNCT GAMES QUIZ (ARCHIVE)
      From online quizzes to game shows, we're
      putting your video game knowledge to the test!
      • QUIZ: ONLINE PASS
        Take a weekly quiz to see how well you know
        the news and current gaming events!
      • QUIZ: KNOW THE GAME
        One-on-one quiz show where contestants
        find out if they actually know classic games!
      • QUIZ: THE LEADERBOARD
        Can you guess the game based on the classic
        review? Find out with The Leaderboard!
    • DEFUNCT GAMES VS.
      Cyril and the Defunct Games staff isn't afraid
      to choose their favorite games and more!
    • CYRIL READS WORLDS OF POWER
      Defunct Games recreates classic game
      novelizations through the audio book format!
  • COMEDY
    • GAME EXPECTANCY
      How long will your favorite hero live? We crunch
      the numbers in this series about dying!
    • VIDEO GAME ADVICE
      Famous game characters answer real personal
      advice questions with a humorous slant!
    • FAKE GAMES: GUERILLA SCRAPBOOK
      A long-running series about fake games and
      the people who love them (covers included)!
    • WORST GAME EVER
      A contest that attempts to create the worst
      video game ever made, complete with covers!
    • LEVEL 1 STORIES
      Literature based on the first stages of some
      of your favorite classic video games!
    • THE COVER CRITIC
      One of Defunct Games' earliest shows, Cover
      Critic digs up some of the worst box art ever!
    • COMMERCIAL BREAK
      Take a trip through some of the best and
      worst video game advertisements of all time!
    • COMIC BOOK MODS
      You've never seen comics like this before.
      A curious mix of rewritten video game comics!
  • FULL ARCHIVE
Ep. 58: Before Dreamcast: Cracking Sega's Cryptic Marketing Campaign
Ep. 57: Castlevania: A History of Bad Advertising
Ep. 56: 18 Years of PlayStation Launch Commercials
Ep. 55: Abby's Ultimate Bad Advertising
Ep. 54: My Babysitter's a Bad Advertisement
Ep. 53: America's Next Great Bad Advertisement
Ep. 52: Supreme Court of Bad Advertising
Ep. 51: I Didn't Know I Was Bad Advertising
Ep. 50: It's Me or the Bad Advertising
Ep. 49: The Best Bad Advertising I Ever Ate
Ep. 48: The Bad Advertising: TBA
Ep. 47: I'm Bad Advertising ... Get Me Out of Here!
Ep. 46: The Penguins of Bad Advertising
Ep. 45: Will Work For Bad Advertising
Ep. 44: Superstars of Bad Advertising
Ep. 43: She's Got the Bad Advertising
Ep. 42: Beauty and the Bad Advertising
Ep. 41: The Whitest Bad Advertising U Know
Ep. 40: Tim Gunn's Guide to Bad Advertising
Ep. 39: Masters of Bad Advertising
Ep. 38: Aliens in Bad Advertising
Ep. 37: America's Got Bad Advertising
Ep. 36: Thank God You're Bad Advertising
Ep. 35: Bad Advertising With Johnny Turbo
Ep. 34: The Trouble With Bad Advertising
Ep. 33: The Real Housewives of Bad Advertising
Ep. 32: The Knights of Bad Advertising
Ep. 31: Let Them Eat Bad Advertising
Ep. 30: The Many Loves of Bad Advertising
Ep. 29: Daisy Does Bad Advertising
Ep. 28: Skating With Bad Advertising
Ep. 27: Rockstar: Bad Advertising
Ep. 26: Bad Advertising on the Sunset Strip
Ep. 25: My Bad Advertising on the D-List
Ep. 24: Talk Sex with Bad Advertising
Ep. 23: How I Met Your Bad Advertising
Ep. 22: Two Guys, a Girl, and Bad Advertising
Ep. 21: Highway to Bad Advertising
Ep. 20: Bad Advertising and DynaGirl
Ep. 19: Bad Advertising, Mindfreak
Ep. 18: Fun-Filled Days of Bad Advertising
Ep. 17: Behind the Bad Advertising
Ep. 16: In the Heat of the Bad Advertising
Ep. 15: You Bet Your Bad Advertising
Ep. 14: What I Like About Bad Advertising
Ep. 13: New Adventures of Bad Advertising
Ep. 12: Curb Your Bad Advertising
Ep. 11: My Name Is Bad Advertising
Ep. 10: Bad Advertising: Guatemala
Ep. 9: Bad Advertising, She Wrote
Ep. 8: Bad Advertising: the Next Generation
Ep. 7: Saved By the Bad Advertising
Ep. 6: Who Shot Bad Advertising? (Part Two)
Ep. 5: Who Shot Bad Advertising? (Part One)
Ep. 4: The Late Show with Bad Advertising
Ep. 3: The Case of the Bad Advertising
Ep. 2: Everybody Loves Bad Advertising
Ep. 1: The One With the Bad Advertising
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Commercial Break
September 09, 2014
Before Dreamcast: Cracking Sega's Cryptic Marketing Campaign
Before Dreamcast: Cracking Sega's Cryptic Marketing Campaign
If you live in the United States, then you have no excuse not to celebrate the Sega Dreamcast's 15th anniversary. And even if you live in another part of the world, you can join in on the fun [...]
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Commercial Break
February 27, 2014
Castlevania: A History of Bad Advertising
Castlevania: A History of Bad Advertising
Commercial Break #57 - Welcome to a special episode of Commercial Break. To help celebrate the launch of Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, we're going to take a trip [...]
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Commercial Break
October 28, 2013
18 Years of PlayStation Launch Commercials
18 Years of PlayStation Launch Commercials
We interrupt this episode of Commercial Break to bring you ... more commercials? With Sony's next generation console just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to take a break from the usual [...]
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Commercial Break
October 17, 2012
Abby's Ultimate Bad Advertising
Abby's Ultimate Bad Advertising
Commercial Break (Ep. 55) - The Commercial Break is back!! In the first episode in over a year, we take a look at AT&T's radical invention, world domination with Command & Conquer and the [...]
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Commercial Break
July 27, 2011
My Babysitter's a Bad Advertisement
My Babysitter's a Bad Advertisement
It's time for another episode of Commercial Break, the show that isn't afraid to make fun of the worst video game advertising of all time. We have a very special episode lined-up today, including [...]
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