Chris and Peter begin this episode with a discussion of Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, leading into a wider conversation about the detective games of Frogwares and why they've become one of gaming's most reliable developers of mystery adventures. Chris shares his enthusiasm for Sherlock Holmes Chapter One, while also somehow mixing up Arsène Lupin, C. Auguste Dupin, and Pierre Dupont.

The conversation then drifts into the early days of PC gaming, when downloading a full game seemed like science fiction, dial-up internet was painfully slow, and deciphering PC specifications felt like solving a mystery worthy of Holmes himself.

Eventually, they return to Mainframe for Episode 8 of ReBoot, "Enzo the Smart." After Enzo overclocks himself to become a genius, he accidentally turns everyone else into 8-bit idiots. Naturally, this prompts a debate about whether the episode is more like Wishmaster or Saw, the invention of the phrase "to be Wishmastered," and a lengthy detour into the Wishmaster franchise, including an unproduced sequel script by the Wishmaster himself, Andrew Divoff. The casting of Chris Lemmon inevitably leads to a discussion of the gloriously 90s TV series Thunder in Paradise, co-starring Hulk Hogan.

The episode's sports-themed game sparks memories of frantic button-bashing classics such as Track & Field, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, and California Games, before the brothers chart the evolution of the genre all the way to Wii Sports.

Back to ReBoot, and a minecart sequence triggers a conversation about similar sections in games like Resident Evil 4, which inevitably derails into an unexpectedly passionate debate about the strengths and weaknesses of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

From Sherlock Holmes to Wishmaster, from dial-up internet to minecart chases, it's another episode that ends up somewhere completely different from where it started.

Noobs by C.G. Regan

Cover Art by Charlotte Regan

Music by Peter Regan