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Certain logos instill a sense of wonder and comfort the instant they shimmer onto the screens of our games. The branding of something like the Konami bacon strips or neon-styled letters of SEGA getting shouted out through the speakers invokes a fuzzy feeling of what’s to come. One logo, in particular, carries such weight behind its presence that the moment you hear a certain jingle ringing, you know the blue-and-yellow juggernaut has arrived, accompanied by its trademark chime.

After 40 years, Capcom remains a titan in the video game industry, commanding a plethora of software that has defined the medium, with several iconic video games that have made the Japanese video game developer and publisher a veritable household name among consumers and insiders alike.

So what’s a dumb Video Game Podcast to do but to try and hash out a casual “Best of” list from Capcom across forty years' worth of hardware? Well, we can’t help but give it the ol’ college try! Longtime friend of the show, Rob Rich of Unwinnable Magazine, joins George and Andrew to do a roundtable discussion of which Capcom games are the cream of the crop for their respective platforms of the era since the company’s inception in 1984. One HUGE caveat, though—the gang was restricted from choosing any MAIN-LINE entries (meaning that spin-off titles are eligible for nomination) from the following series: Mega Man, Street Fighter, Resident Evil, Ace Attorney, or Monster Hunter.

Needless to say, it made for one helluva chop-up of podcast, and the crew still found time to talk about other shit too, like the difference between saying Happy Easter or Happy Resurrection, and the Toby Fox translation drama for Undertale and Deltarune. We hope y’all enjoy this episode, as we’d love to apply this social experiment to other companies for future shows!  

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PPR Presents LimeLight: Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

With 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!