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MinnMax's Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Kelsey Lewin, Janet Garcia, Jeff Marchiafava, Jacob Geller, and guest cohort Kyle Bosman pile in to unpack our thoughts on Donkey Kong Bananza for the Nintendo Switch 2. Then we talk about Shadow Labyrinth, the new dark and atmospheric Pac-Man metroidvania from Bandai Namco and how to keep arcade franchises around in 2025. After that, we talk about the great new game that's Scrabble meets Balatro called Word Play from Mark Brown at Game Maker's Toolkit! Then we answer questions submitted on Patreon by the community and award the iam8bit question of the week! You can win a prize and help make the show better by supporting us on Patreon and submitting a question! <a href="https://www.patreon.com/minnmax" rel="nofollow">https://www.patreon.com/minnmax</a>
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To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below... 
00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:37 - Rumor Meister Tease
00:02:43 - Win a Nintendo game!
00:04:46 - Donkey Kong Bananza
00:48:17 - Hello Fresh
00:50:46 - Shadow Labyrinth
01:07:07 - Word Play
01:24:02 - Pokémon Presents
01:26:14 - Pokémon Friends
01:31:08 - Thanking iam8bit - <a href="https://www.iam8bit.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.iam8bit.com/</a>
01:33:28 - Community questions
02:19:18 - Get A Load Of This
02:25:20 - Rumor Meister Message #4
Janet’s GALOT - <a href="https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-12/ice-raids-deported-los-angeles-cats-and-dogs-left-behind" rel="nofollow">https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-07-12/ice-raids-deported-los-angeles-cats-and-dogs-left-behind</a>
Jacob's GALOT - <a href="https://youtu.be/kRqxyqjpOHs?si=Hm30DZiQR4KuzWNv" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/kRqxyqjpOHs?si=Hm30DZiQR4KuzWNv</a>
Hanson's GALOT - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTZ0fY1y0c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUTZ0fY1y0c</a>
JeffM's GALOT - <a href="http://neal.fun/" rel="nofollow">http://neal.fun</a>
Bosman's GALOT - <a href="https://us.mentos.com/products/mentos-mints-with-vitamins" rel="nofollow">https://us.mentos.com/products/mentos-mints-with-vitamins</a>
Community GALOT - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWI-UVkD_-M" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWI-UVkD_-M</a>
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