Welcome to year four of the Video Game Hall of Fame! As is tradition, we begin the new year by talking about games from last year. It's your de facto game of the year episode!

Four excellent games to choose from on this one, so make sure you vote for your favourite over @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky to determine the winner and the first inductee of the class of 2026.

Send emails to videogamehof@gmail.com and we'll see you next episode for Arcade Games.

Merry Christmas! To celebrate, we've got four games set during this festive period for you to vote on. It's the last pod and poll of the year, so make it count!

Thanks for listening to us in 2025. We hope you have a great holiday and a happy new year, and we'll see you in 2026 for our GOTY special.

Go vote on the Christmas games @vg_hof on Twitter and/or @vghof on BlueSky. Oh, and tell us your game of the year and we'll read it out next episode. Emails welcome, as always, to videogamehof@gmail.com

Let's get niche, baby! We're dipping out of our (and most people's, really) comfort zones to nominate some games outside of the 'Big Four' console manufacturers.

Think SNK, NEC/Hudson Soft, Atari, Philips, 3DO Company... you get it. There's a huge number of bangers still available for their machines, some that defined the entire industry (and some that crashed it).

The only rule is no home computers. Amiga (except the CD32), Spectrum and Commodore 64 (sorry, Steve), that means you're out.

Vote for your favourite nominated game over @vg_hof on Twitter or @vghof on BlueSky and send us an email to videogamehof@gmail.com