PPR Presents Ourcade: Silent Hill 2

elcome to the next entry of dual stream feature, Ourcade! The feature where George and his partner will stream some games in tandem with one another—specifically games that have had a remaster or remake, where George will be playing the original, while Val is playing the new version. In this streaming session, George and Val are going to play the most iconic entry of Konami’s survival-horror dynasty, Silent Hill 2. On George’s end, he’ll be playing the PS2 classic that redefined the genre back in 2001, while Val will be playing the Bloober Team remake that released last year exclusively on the PS5.

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch or YouTube at 7:00 PM PST on 12/12/2025 to watch the us play through what has been heralded as one of the best video games of all time! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch and YouTube channels, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Press Pause Radio streaming features for y'all!

PPR Presents Limelight: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond

t’s been nearly a decade since the long-awaited new chapter for the Metroid Prime series was teased at the end of a Nintendo Direct with Metroid Prime 4.

Since then, we’ve gotten a new logo, a subtitle, and some reassurance that yes, it’s still coming, WELL into the point that we’ve gotten the Nintendo Switch 2 now, and it’s here where we’ll show you our look at the game as George will be streaming Metroid Prime 4: Beyond for Limelight on Press Pause Radio! This should make for an interesting stream too because he’ll be testing out the new Mouse-oriented controls with the use of his of official Super NES Mouse Pad.

The first stream was a wild ride into the new psychic power mechanics, and the enviornmental puzzles designed around them were dope as all hell. Now that George has made it to the Desert area, we'll be able to see the game open up even more. Oh, and don't worry, George made sure to snag a Samus & Vi-O-La Amiibo so that we can all get the sweet tunes that were stupidly locked out of the base game!

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch or YouTube  at 12:00 PM PST on 12/11/2025 to watch Samus Aran’s new first-person adventure on the Switch 2! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch and YouTube channels, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Limelight for y'all!

Late to the Party: Void Stranger

emories of my youth in school certainly aren’t the most pleasant times from my childhood, because, surprising no one at all, I wasn’t exactly what you’d call an academic kid—some would say I was more of the opposite. Still, aside from all of the coming-of-age crap that public school pounds into you, there was a memory I had from an art assignment our English teacher gave us to complete (weird, I know, but stick with me.)  The guy was SUPER into Ernest Hemingway, like, he just loved the way that old drunk could mentally instill a scene with his stories using just carefully woven words and nothing more. So, naturally,  he wanted us to try and draw out a specific scene from one of his books, A Farewell To Arms, where we had to do an interpretative sketch drawing of the moment the main character, Frederic, was caught in the mayhem of the Italian army’s retreat during World War I.

The classroom sheet detailed the instruction in a blurb at the top, right below the usual heading where you would write out your name and the date, with the rest of the sheet being a blank canvas for you to use for the sketch. I don’t know what came over me, but I used ALL of the real estate the paper had to offer, which included me scribbling art over the instructions and header area, using every inch of the paper I could.  I mean, I too enjoyed the work of Hemingway, so I’m sure that helped my engagement with the work, but my teacher absolutely gushed over the paper after I turned it in (I promise you this humble brag is going to go somewhere, stick with me.) My English teacher praised that my vision wasn’t limited by the concept of margins, and that I went beyond these perceptions to complete my goal with the classwork.

I haven’t really thought about this dumb little moment for years, until just recently, when I decided to pick up where I left off on a little gem of an indie game that took over my life for a few weeks in 2023, System Erasure’s Void Stranger. As much as I had enjoyed the game, I eventually succumbed to the density of its challenge, and the availability of several other new games at the time, I decided that it was time to move on to something else to boot up on my screen.

So yeah, I started playing Void Stranger again, since I thought it was a natural fit for some bedtime gaming with my new ROG Xbox Ally X, and at some point, something just clicked, and it really has sunk its teeth into me this time around. I know I’m a sucker for the usual Avant-Garde gameplay designs that actively work to subvert the very conventions they’re built with, with stuff like Tunic and FEZ, but Void Stranger is just, in a whole different class of its own.  After, ahem, falling deeper into the void with my play through, I managed to tough out the game and make it to the credits.

Something that I’ve felt immensely proud of, and yet sickeningly anxious about, because I’d soon learn that I’ve only scratched the surface of this dumb little brain worm of a game.

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PPR Presents Limelight: Sin & Punishment

ince the Analogue 3D released a few weeks ago, love for the N64 has been coming out of the woodwork, including us! We managed to beat the unreleased N64 prototype, Viewpoint 2064 last week on stream, and now we’re going to go with another technically unreleased game (at least in North America.) Yup, you guessed it, we’re playing Sin & Punishment, and no, we’re not doing it through the NSO service but through the George’s modded N64 to ensure the most accurate of shitty N64 graphics!

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch or YouTube  at 7:00 PM PST on 12/10/2025 to watch the Treasure gem imported more than any other N64 title! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch and YouTube channels, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Limelight for y'all!

PPR Presents Limelight: Viewpoint 2064

Lost media is so weird, like, somewhere out there, in some random room or shelf, is something that’s complete and ready for public consumption, or a piece of what could have been, like a reel of test footage for costume demos for Tim Burton’s cancelled Superman film, with Nicholas Cage donning the cape of all people, and Burton doing his best to pose him like a dollar-store Johnny Depp going to his local comic con.

There are so many weird projects like this that have just fallen through the cracks, and are only now getting a second-hand lease on life through the aftermarket preservation efforts of the internet at large, and today, we’re going to stream one of those efforts for y’all:

The master build of Viewpoint 2064, the long-lost sequel to Sammy’s sole release on the Neo•Geo, only now for the Nintendo 64, has now been found and dumped for everyone to check out, and Georgie is going to try to take y’all through the ambitious vaporware shooter.

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch and YouTube channels at 7:00 PM PST on 12/04/2025 to watch an unreleased video game from the studio that brought us Snowboard Kids and Trap Gunner! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch and YouTube channels, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Limelight for y'all!

PPR Presents LimeLight: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

ith Absolum getting played in our rotation as often as it has the last month or so, a lot of us have been discussing our favorite beat’em ups from the past, while getting excited for upcoming ones like Marvel Cosmic Invasion. Yeah, there’s your Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men, or Simpsons—the usual picks. But then there are some of those deeper cuts in the genre that invite all sorts of licenses, like Bucky O’Hare, or Hook, or in this specific case, Georgie’s all-time FAVORITE beat’em up game: Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Imagine an unsuccessful 13 episode Saturday Morning cartoon adapted from an even more niche comic book series with three different volumes and different names would somehow get TWO video game adaptions. One that’s a mediocre-ass rail shooter that’s exclusive for the Sega CD, and the other being the cult-classic CPS1 arcade brawler hit that we’ll be showing off for y’all tonight!

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch at 7:00 PM PST on 12/01/2025 to watch this urban-dino dystopia of a beat’em up masterpiece that hasn’t gotten the re-release it so sweetly deserves! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch channel, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Limelight for y'all!

PPR 161

rifters everywhere, all the grifters the eye can see—usually surrounded by an extra set of fingers or image diffusion to give their position away! We all miss the “halcyon” (and mind you, there are some heavyweight lifting behind those air-quotes) days of 2020 when the only bull-shitters trying to pass off a fugazi were bakers and their silly-ass cake art.

Is that a Nintendo GameCube or a Cake? Is that my neighbor’s dog? It looks a little weird, right? Then, before you could feel assured that this was in fact the pooch next door, the neighbor posted an elaborately layered confection that turned out to be, yeah, you guessed it, cake—cue Ron Howard’s narrative barb as you wallow in your poor judgment.

But yeah, wasn’t shit just simpler then? It’s a good thing we have video games to get us through the absurdity of 2025, because there’s less AI involved with them somehow. This week’s episode is another, you guessed it, What’s-in-your-console episode because 2025 has been bountiful with the waves upon waves of interaction distraction for the winter season. We have a full table this week as George, Ed, Andrew, and Sean round out the bench to talk about all of the games juicing their serotonin, and some neat hardware talk too to boot! We’re talking Animal Crossing: New Horizon, Birdcage, MegaBonk, Absolum, Ghost of Yōtei, Tech Romancer, Metroid Dread, Parasite Eve, Hades II, Arc Raiders, Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Tech Romancer, Super Mariomon, Parasite Eve, Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, Final Fantasy XI, and more!

For the hardware talk, Ed goes into some incredible detail with the Supergun setup he built with the BeharBros. Hayabusa and various electrical components to house a number of arcade boards like the Capcom CPS1 boards, Taito X System boards, IGS PolyGameMaster boards, Neo•Geo MVS boards, and more! Georgie, on the other hand, has some way less cool tech to discuss as he took the plunge on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X, and discussed the various hits and misses of the handheld with us on the show (spoiler, there were a few more misses than hits in the shared impressions.)

This episode was definitely a long-boy™, but gosh dang darn dammit, do we think it was certainly a goodie! Be sure to enjoy during one of the many long commutes ahead during these trying Holiday times we’re all surviving in!

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PPR Presenta Limelight: Tokyo Jungle

or those of you who follow social media trends for various spaces, one of the most recent fads has been “Ten insert blank things to get to know me” that’s typically represented by a selfie and ten of whatever that thing is surrounding your mugshot like video games, books, movies, etc. etc. The kitschy new thing comes off like the Gen Z interpretation of “A Picture is louder than a thousand words” (or something like that we think?)

Anyway, George got in on it, and one of the games he plastered around his dumb face was the cult-classic PS3 exclusive, Tokyo Jungle from Japan Studio, and like weirdly, in a year that’s so jam-packed with so many releases, he’s been replaying it like a total weirdo. So naturally, we’re going to farm that enthusiasm for cheap content, and have him stream this goofy Sony gem for next entry of Limelight!

Be sure to tune in to our Twitch at 7:00 PM PST on 11/13/2025 to watch this urban-survival masterpiece that hasn’t gotten the re-release it so sweetly deserves! You can check out the streams here or directly on our Twitch channel, and vibe along with us as we work towards ushering in a new age of Limelight for y'all!