We decided to spend New Years Eve apparently looking back at 2012. In theory anyway. Some new friends come to join us, and we all danced and drank the night away.....

The road to the end of the Happy Hour begins here. Many thanks to Jess for taking part in this utter...calamity.

We continue our Xmas tradition with yet another look at a Classic Arnie movie. 

The Ol Arcade rolls to a stop with this episode. Don't fret though, it returns next year with a shiny new paintjob and fun for all the family. For this last hurrah of Season One, we grab Crazydave from the Cumbria Gamers Unite facebooks.

The crew get together to talk about the musical choices picked last time. 

This time out, Tricky shackles the interesting Malwave down and waterboards him for hateful thoughts.

Well it's here, the last episode before Christmas. The boys talk about stuff....

The Happy Hour strides on once more, full of sound and fury! signifying....nothing.

Here we have it. Planned, to begin with as a special episode to celebrate our third year of podcasting, this grew into the ambitious project of adapting IDW's The Death of Optimus Prime into a full blown audio drama.

The Old Oilhouse is very proud to present: The Death Of Optimus Prime.

STARRING:

Adam White as:

Optimus Prime

Sideswipe

Metalhawk

Various

Adam Nicol as:

 Tappet

 Cyclonus

 Ultra Magnus

  Various   

      

Mark Whitehead as:

Whirl and Crowds

PAUL "SUGAR BEAR" ANDERSON as:

Bumblebee

Matt Clarke as:

Perceptor and Crowds

Phillip Scott as:

Zetca

Robert Coy as:

Drift

Rodimus

Andy Millman as:

Ratchet

Amy Morgan as:

Rewind

Nicole Hail as:

Computer

With thanks to
 David "tas" Thompson
 Micheal Sulivan
 Simon Williams
 Nick Roche
 John Barber
 Simon Furman

A second attempt to upload this episode, apologies for any inconvience.

Join us on a slightly different lock in as we try something new.....

This time out, Tricky takes on AzapYourSaviour, otherwise known as Abdullah. The result is a bit....sticky.

The Ol Arcade returns! And brings news of old!

It's time for a late Halloween special! All sorts this week... all sorts of SCARY!

IT CONTINUES!

For the second year running, the NYCC reviews is a week late! Damn. We are that good.

The Happy Hour continues to look at top ten lists. But what is it? And whose list?

The Ol' Arcade crew roll on, talking Real Time Strategy games, Zombies Ate My Neighbours and finding out how DHD sees the world of Max Payne 3

The List continues to grow!

This week, Stu unveils a list so unweildy, it kils you last. He only does it to let off some steam. Etc Etc.

Something very odd has taken place

And here are, arriving at the Third Year Anniversary, 100 Lock-Ins, and over 200 Oilhouse show. It culminates in utter, utter filth.

Once again, the intrepid explorers of the mind take root in your ears

If we Podcasts have offended,

Think but this, and all is mended,

That you have but slumber'd here

While this audio did appear.

And this weak and idle theme,

No more yielding but a dream,

Listeners, do not reprehend:

If you pardon we will mend. 

Else the Tricky a liar call.

Give me your toys, if we be friends,

And Gruffy shall restore amends.

Warning. This episode is infectious.

We spotlight Simulation games, get Ross to speed through his massive games list and berate Billy for multiple reasons.

The First of the Mini-Episodes to deal with THE LIST of INFLUENTIAL GAMES!

You can add to the list HERE

Or on the Facebook page HERE

Episode 99 is the next Question Cavery! So this means the next show will be...erm....hang on....i dunno. 99.5?

The Happy Hour continues, getting odder and odder by the episode....

Thanks for listening!

Inching closer and closer to the Year 3 show...AND the 100th episode of the Lock-In

The second of this week's Happy Hour shows. Enjoy and devour all those who don't.

Its the first of two Happy hours this week.  Pleasent dreams.....

Recorded LIVE at AA! Two years in the making! Its the Iacon starring Chris McFeely!

No Billy this week, so we soldier on to talk of Survival Horror games, Scribblenaughts and launch the 100 Most Influential Games campaign

The Happy Hour rolls on with some very interesting looks back at younger days.

The Lock-In returns with a DHD in tow, and spend the time alloted speaking of so very little. SO VERY, VERY LITTLE.

There is a reason for the explicit tag. This is it.

The Arcadians return with more fun, frolics and swearing. Lots and lots of swearing. The technical issues that have plauges the Old Oilhous shows this week continue. This should be sorted soon though.

Unashemedly, the Happy Hour carries on. Like a Vocal Juggernaught.

DHD just played Slender for 45 mins. This is the broken end result.

Stu and Rob are joined by the Sugar Bear to watch..no...really, what the hell is this MegaForce thing?

This was originally intended as a Happy Hour supplemental. Due to timing this week though, here it is in it's entirety as a Lock-In. Enjoy!

In the last ten mins or so, the sound quality takes a bit of a nose dive. Apologies for that.

A small tech-based-problem meant the actual audio for this episode was lost. forever. So we put out heads together and ripped this for a video casmera. apologies for the bad sound quality.

MANY THANKS TO LIVO FOR TAKING THE TIME TO TALK TO US.

Whilst sitting in the bar at Auto Assembly....this happened. And it happened hard.

Are you going to Auto Assembly?

Robots and beer and whisky and wine;

Remember me to ones who went there,

For once it was a true of mine.

Ask her to make me a Wreckers shirt,

Robots and Beer and Whisky and Wine;

Without any seam or needlework,

Then Amy may take this wallet of mine.

Tell me why I've came to this place,

Robots and toys and mead and wine;

I could have gone to outer space,

And not been this hungover this time.

Tell Timey to put down the hammer,

Robots and Toys and Mead And Wine;

KingGrimmy's Skystalkers are filling my mind,

One day I pray they shall be mine.

Now he has asked me questions three,

Robots and Dom and Mead and Wine;

I could not answer as I cannot see,

What did I do with my pint this time?

Tell him to buy me an boxed Overlord

Glenn and Phil and Jii and Wine

Betwixt The Cool Stuff and Kapow's Stalls,

When I get to Toy Fu He'll hear my calls

Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;

And sow it all over with one pepper corn,

And he shall be a true lover of mine.

Tell him to take my small amount of money,

Andy and Mikey and Paul oh my;

And I'll plead and cry and wail and weep

As I cuddle my half complete Magnus and sleep

Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,

Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,

And never let one corn of it fall,

Then he shall be a true lover of mine.

When Simon has done and finished his work.

With Lots of Beer and Whisky and Wine:

Oh, tell him to come and he'll have his shirt,

And Amy may take this wallet of mine.

(better late than never we guess)

The Arcadians Ride Again! With one extra person.....and then one by one they fall....

It's number 5...or 7...in the recorded sessions of crazy that Grandmaster Tricky presides over. And this time.... you better be paying attention if your going to Auto Assembly...

Once again, the gates open on a Ol' Arcade full of fun, frolics and.....Batman Impressions? And we discuss Night Trap and ponder on the legacy of the Side-Scrolling Beat-em-up. WARNING! CONTAINS AMAZING SPIDER-MAN SPOILERS!

This time out, Tricky takes on the Targetmaster of Toysellers...The Dominant Dom!

The Happy Hour Horror rolls on with stories from conventions to shake your very soul.

Yet more retro gaming news and modern complaining by the grumpy gamers.

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the Podcast waters, Up pops another Quick! Change the Channel! With added Sugar Bear!

Once again, The Terrible Technobot Tricky Takes on callers of all shapes and sizes in something thats not akin to a radio phone in show. o siree, not at all.

Stu and Rob take a magical journey, holding the Happy Hour Host that is Tricky, by the hand

Tricky, Slick and Stu take on the dangers of fielding unscreened calls for a second week running.

Whats this? A Lock-In? With all three of the cast? In the bedrooms of a nunnery? After Midnight? With our reputation? Not 'Arf!

The E3 talk carries on. And on. And on........

The erstwhile Mr Tricky begins something aking to a Old Oilhouse Phone-In Show. Who gets booted? Who stays in? What topics are brought up? What is in the crumpet sandwich?

From the depths of Microsoft and to the dizzying heights of First Person Shooters, we at the Ol' Arcade are with you at E3. Every pain ridden, bloody stumpy legged step of the way.

Rob and Stu fly solo with news, and the chatterings of the damned.

Join us once again, for a merry go round of chattage, retrogames and Bitts O Smitts

For the first time in recorded history..... The entire Lock-In crew, and the entire Ol Arcade team meet! Add in a a MsSlick from the Random Fandom, and you get the the first Old Oilhouse SUPER SHOW!

A massive thank you to Brian Kilby and ExVee for their contribution to what would have been a short and plauge ridden show.

You can find Kilby and ExVee and all the RFC shows at TFRADIO.NET

For your entertainment, it's a third Question Cavery, full of food, fun and ....erm.....stuff?

The Ol' Arcade train rumbles ever onward. This time, we seem to try and talk about Comic based Games. And Chicken.... and Smitts!

This is the episode where we realize that picking games is not just tacticul, but spiteful too....

We found a Stu! And he is angry about Star Wars dancing!

Join us again as we fail to actually talk about Retrogaming, but instead get social media in on the chatter.

Stay towards the end to hear some new and extra spicey bits!

We return once more, as Stu continues his apparent battle againt the Space Whale Menace. So, in his abscence, we've kidna...erm...asked for 2 guests to fill his spot.

Also, the sound on this ep has a bit of a odd crackle at times. Apologies for that, and we hope it doesn't ruin the illusion that we actually live in your ears.

EXCELSIOR!

We return once more, with a revived Double-G, to talk about games of the past, and other, odder stuff....

More thundergoodness!

And I bet thought we had forgotten about this, yes?

It's closest thing we'll do to a comedy rost. Rob, on his birthday, gets questioned by you! The audience. Don't feel sorry for him though. He's too pretty for that.

Welcome back to the last weekly Lock-In!

Plus, make sure you pick up your free gift from the nerdsphere! And don't forget to vote!

The Ol' Arcade returns after a multi-week-break. And we discover that DHD does not care much for the PS3. Or the Super Mario Brothers movie.

This time out, That Podcasting Predacon known as Tricky takes on the mind of the Final Thunderlizard, Soundwave-SG1. Or just Tony. 

The Kreemzek was definatly in the works this week. However, What you get i Toyfare Talk with Stu, Twitt-Orr with Rob, andf Prime Toys with Tricky. Plus, attached to the front of the episode like a rubbish lolipop, held on with horrible sellotape that ruins the Beano you just bought, is a free gift!

Rob and Stu take a dark, winding and lonely road through News and Twitt-Orr Challenges.Pity them. They never returned.

This time out, that Tumultus Targetmaster Tricky takes on the Coloring Computron that is Patient Zero 37, AKA Sam Palmer.

No Skypes were beaten vigourusly due to technical issues throughout this show. No Sirree. Not one.

You can find Sam's work HERE

The second Lock-In this week contains Twitter Challenge, Sugar Bear and ...a chorus of Singing Sheep.

Eating and Answers. What more do you want?

This time around, Thet Hardcore Headmaster, the Turmoltuous Tricky takes on one half of the Random Fandom. It's The Slick N Trick ep you've all been waiting for!

You can find the Random Fandom HERE

We return this week with chat on how to troop build fellow podcasters, the psp vita and....well. Just listen to the bonus at the end. See what you make of it.

This time round, all matter of oddness takes place. Really, what were you expecting?

Theres a big ol chunk of this show missing, but Gruffy will take you on a mysterious tour of terrible voice acting as a apology.

Enjoy the shortest show the Lock-In has possiblyhttps://three.libsyn.com/producer#publishing ever done.

The Talkativee Technobot, the Tremendous Tricky has Taken the reins of the Iacon shows, rebranded, Tidied and  Totally Taken over. For his first outing, He Takes on Gruffy, the ex host of this very show.

We return after the Xmas /New Years break to a horror that knows no bounds. The horror that is...Rob with a bright green lastic shotgun.

And we return! Once more into the breach, to talk...words. Sometimes about games. Sometimes.

We rise once more from the dirt to bring you another Litter Tray! This time around, it's the episode "The Duelist and The Drifter".

It's time once again to open the rusty door to oblivion, and enter Iacon 101.

This time around, Ad8m, reviewer of comics on Full Metal Hero, part time podcaster on The Underbase, Co-Host of Shhhh, We're Watching Nick Cage, and creator of the Nicolas Cage Bingo Cards.

Stay tuned towards the end for a announcement, and some tasty extra tidbits!