Note - This episode was originally released in January 2025. I've decided to add all Bonus Round episodes to the main feed, sequentially and on a 1-year-plus delay, so that EVERYONE can enjoy these fun, classic gaming banter sessions.

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Hey Retro Gamers, welcome back to Bonus Round!

These monthly podcast episodes are Patreon Exclusives and available at the Fire Flower level of support or higher. Each month, my guest and I will put together some sort of list, ranking, or otherwise fun conversation, usually related to that month's main episode. These will be released on the 28th of each month, and hopefully will be the dessert you've been missing after the main course episode two weeks earlier!

To follow up the very first episode of Smashing Bricks SEASON FOUR, I thought it would be fun to go back to revisit and recap the games I played with my guests during Season One of Smashing Bricks. Regular guest Kyle Stallock was here with me to talk about these games, and although he wasn't my guest on the original episodes, he HAS played most if not all of the games in question. It was fun to get a third opinion on most of these, and to come up with an official Smashing Bricks game ranking for the first season.

We'll be doing the same for Seasons 2 and 3, as well as all future seasons, and I hope you all will take a minute to make your own rankings and share them in the Discord! Here are the games, unranked, in episode order:

• Super Mario Bros. 2

• Ninja Gaiden

• Ecco the Dolphin

• Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!

• Donkey Kong Country

• X-Men

• X-Men 2: Clone Wars

• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse

• Metroid

• Resident Evil 2

• Wizards & Warriors

• Castlevania

• Another World (Out of This World)

• Comix Zone

We laughed a lot during this recording. Enjoy!

And let me and the community know how YOU would rank these games in our Discord server at https://discord.smashingbricks.com