This is an absolutely mad episode. Loads of fun was had, and we're sure you'll have fun too. Alex does maths. Steve does sailors (again). Rob really wants to stroke a dog. Simon celebrates a birthday.

We also induct four previous poll losers directly into the Hall of Fame, set up all the categories for the next 9 episodes, and answer an email from a new listener. You can email us too! videogamehof@gmail.com

To help select the category we nominate games from in a couple of episodes time, all you need to do is go to @vg_hof on Twitter and/or @vghof on BlueSky and vote for it. See you next time for our Halloween special!

This should be right in our wheelhouse, eh? Well, to make sure we definitely hit our nominations out of the park, we enlisted Sega Mania Magazine creator, Tim Hugall, as a special guest!

Because he's so good at making our words into amazing pages, we let Tim nominate three Sega games, with the rest of us voting one directly into the Hall of Fame.

There's the usual four nominees for you to vote on as well, though. Just head over to @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky and vote in the poll/like the post of your desired winner respectively.

Send emails over to videogamehof@gmail.com as we'd love to have some nonsense to read in next episode's bonus induction special.

Head to www.sega-mania.com to pre-order your copy of Sega Mania Magazine issue 9. We wrote it!

It's time to put up or shmup up, as we're nominating shoot 'em ups for the Hall of Fame. We decided to include games from the sub genres of horizontal and veritcal-scrolling shooters, twin stick shooters and run and gun games.

When you've heard the pod, go to @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky to vote for the game you want in the HOF!

Thanks to ol' Jeff Bra for his questions! You can send your own questions for the pod to our social accounts, or email them to videogamehof@gmail.com