The Bonus Points

Mar 07 2025 100 ep. 75 mins 1

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A new podcast where Oli (@oliguy91) and Joe (@stampylongnose) decide which are their greatest video games of all time. Way more casual than it sounds. Contact us @TheBonusPoints !

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Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime

Mar 07 2025 57 mins

This week we are talking about Dragon Quest Heroes Rocket Slime on the Nintendo DS. This game has charm, fun and great ideas in buckets and was a great first DS game for the show. A very different vibe to the previous couple of episodes for sure! Click here for the list! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and

Talking Video Game Discoverability, Accessibility & Ludocene with Andy Robertson

Mar 05 2025 44 mins

We have recently crossed paths with Andy Robertson, a games journalist writing for Forbes, the BBC and previously the Guardian and Wired. Andy is on his way to creating a new app called Ludocene, which has its foundations built on the Family Gaming Database. Ludocene is a video game discoverability app that hopes to cut through the thousands of games made available each day using h

Alpha Protocol

Feb 21 2025 58 mins

In Alpha Protocol, players take on the role of Micheal Thorton, a weird geezer who can't have a regular conversation. Or aim his gun straight. Or move quietly. Or do anything his job requires of him with any degree of consistency or success... Come on this globe trotting mis-adventure with us in a classic "we played it so you don't have to" episode! Click here for the list! SUPPOR

World of Goo

Feb 07 2025 56 mins

World of Goo is a 2008 indie game in which you build structures using squishy, springy goo balls and strands. It is considered one of the first widely successful indie games ever, and found its success as gaming really hit the mainstream with the birth of smartphones and the Nintendo Wii. Chances are a lot of you played it when you were younger, and this will be a nostalgia blast f

1000xRESIST

Jan 24 2025 100 mins

1000xResist is a narrative adventure game set in a future where humanity has been wiped out and replaced with a small society of clones, these clones are all strands of a single teenage girl but over 100s of years built their own religious beliefs, systems and governments, while under the constant threat of a larger entity. If this at all sounds interesting to you we can recommend

Helldivers II

Jan 10 2025 71 mins

This week we spread managed democracy as rookie shock troopers in Helldivers II! This game was our Community voted Game of the Year so we figured we should probably find out what that mucky lot have been up to, and get familiar with Super Earth. Helldivers II is a cooperative third person shooter that took the gaming world by storm last year, selling 12 million copies in 3 months.

Game of the Year 2024

Dec 27 2024 75 mins

We run down our top games of the year, a TBP 'official' Game of the Year and our community picks! Thanks for all your support in 2024 and for watching along, we will see you in the new year! SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier = TBP Discord, Extra Credit Podcast and behind the scenes content] [£5/$6 tier = Early access, name in video of podcast,

The 4th Annual Christmas Quiz with Jack Marshall

Dec 13 2024 61 mins

Video version over on Youtube is recommended : https://youtu.be/YasaY7-9S6Q Jack is back to quiz the boys in our fourth annual Christmas quiz! Huge thanks to Jack for helping out again this year, and our community for submitting questions! You can follow Jack here: https://bsky.app/profile/ayoitsjack.bsky.social SUPPORT US ON PATREON: https://patreon.com/thebonuspoints [£3/$4 tier

Papers, please

Nov 29 2024 70 mins

Take a trip to the glorious (maybe?) country of Arstotzka with the boys in this weeks episode covering 2013's check-em-up Papers, please. Papers, please puts you in the role of a border control officer checking passports, documents and other things before choosing wether or not to let these poor souls in to the fictional country of Arstotzka. Expect your heart strings to be pulled

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

Nov 15 2024 86 mins

Metal Gear Rising is a 2013 slash-em-up with a pretty cool feature in "blade mode". Blade mode allows enemies and objects in the world to be carved in real time, and the tech is still impressive today, 11 years on. I guess you could say it was... cutting edge. It's a very "Bonus Points" thing to have one of the biggest franchises in gaming (Metal Gear Solid) represented on the list