The games of the past didn’t strive for earth shattering graphics or a strong compelling story. Gamers from the past were two things: simple and enjoyable. This isn’t to say that games now aren’t enjoyable, but so much more gets put into a game these days that sometimes it’s hard to find the small pleasures in them. Finish what you started…

Brand new Monday, brand new-ish site, brand new episode of the ESH podcast, and this one has the ladies all in a tizzy about Mass Effect 2! Finish what you started…

New podcast Monday is here once again and this hour long show is jam packed full of puns and bad jokes.

This week, NinJaSistah and Pandalicious talk about Apple’s newly announced (and poorly named) iPad device and their first reactions to the device. The ladies also work in a plug for the new ESH YouTube channel, Flickr account, and FaceBook group… but mostly wrap their minds around the iPad.

To get a better idea of what the show is like, here are some of the titles that came up but were not chosen:

• A Braile iPad Would Make Quite an Impression
• Pada Says All Her Appliances Are Masculine
• Video IS the Radio Star
• Comedy – Comment – And Another “C” Word I Can’t Think Of
• and finally
• Oops! I Just Spoiled the Bible

Grab your morning cup of joe or afternoon delight and enjoy Electric Sista Hood Podcast Episode 182: Pandalicious Takes On All Comers (I Wasn’t Going to Say That)

Well, not really as this fresh Monday episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast is just chock fulla ladies!

Pandalicious and NinJaSistah welcome guest host PyroGirl to the show to chat about the anime and manga series Shugo Chara which former host MagicMysticGrl talk about back in the day. NinJa pretty much just adds the color commentary [sometimes with a really bad "valley" impression] as both Pandalicious and PyroGirl try to impart the seriousness that is Shugo Chara. By seriousness I mean heart of people birthing eggs housing their inner selves… cute, little, chibi selves.

Shugo Chara is a hard series for me to explain so we’ll just impart a quick run down: Cat-Boy not-so-bad-baddie, hints of pedophilia, magical girl syndrome, and girls that turn out to be boys. Oh yeah, probably has some incest in there as well, but the anime series is 102 episodes deep keeping Chara from being some fly-by-night series. Need more convincing to listen to the episode? Here are some of the titles we didn’t use

• All these 80’s Movies are Turning Her Into ValleySistah
• Ferrets Steal Shiny Things Like Magpies (But Magpies Aren’t Shiny)
• For Most Eggs, Their Dreams Ends At KFC
• I Thought Keybearers Liked Small Locks
• and finally
• It’s a Good They Didn’t Mention the Incest Until Last

So grab a glass/mug/pint of your favorite beverage and enjoy Electric Sista Hood Podcast Episode 181: I Don’t Know Nothin’ Bout Birthin’ No Eggs

The first full Monday after the CES recovery week brings with it a new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast and this one is focused on Platinum Games new title release Bayonetta.

Finish what you started…

Although this girl is pointing to somewhere in the desert of Saudi Arabia, the Sistahs weren’t even close to there when recording this week’s podcast. Instead, NinjaSistah was in the desert (Las Vegas), covering the Consumer Electronics Show, while Pandalicious was comfortably at home in the snowdrifts of New England (and perhaps pant-less).

As you might expect, CES was at the forefront of their discussion on the podcast this week, focusing on 3D television technology, e-readers and some new games for the PS3, as well as some talk on Google’s new Nexus One phone.

Here are the titles we rejected for this week’s podcast:

Now Vanna Can Turn the Letters Right In Your Living Room

Books — You Know — Manga Without Pictures

Get a load of this and all the usual ESH goodness — as well as our replacement for toast — by listening to Episode 179: 3D! It Kinda Reeks of Poop.

(By the way, the girl in the photo is a representative of Kimin Electronic Co., Ltd., a company which manufactures large — up to 42-inch — touchscreen monitors. It’s very impressive stuff, but they don’t fit in your pocket like an iPhone.)

A new Monday. A new year. A new clip show piece will kick off 2010 for us here in the land of ESH.

As the next day effects of ushering in a new year subside and I finalize CES travel preparations Evermore has put together an extra bit for those of you who listened to our farewell to toast episode through iTunes last week. [If you catch the show on AllGames.com then you will get piece two of the podcast this week]

Next week, we will be bringing you our final thoughts before leaving the bouncing bosom of Las Vegas with our CES wrap up episode.

But for now, enjoy Electric Sista Hood podcast episode 178: A Farewell to Toast: The Bonus Bits

This last Monday of 2009 brings with it a very special episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast. In this episode, the sistahs say goodbye…

to Toast. Yes, this is the final episode where Pandalicious and NinJaSistah will be signing off with Toast, a familiar piece of the podcast to those who have been with us for any long period of time. We could think of no better way of saying goodbye to toast than to give it it’s own episode.

Culled from nearly all 177 episodes of our show and featuring former podcast co-host MagicMysticGrl and various guest hosts, here is Electric Sista Hood podcast episode 178: A Farewell to Toast!

…everywhere you look, including here in the land of ESH. We finish out the year with the end of our holiday buying guide wrap up podcast episode and Loserly from Dead Pixel Live

In this, the final episode of the ElectricSistaHood podcast for 2009, we rehash our Holiday gift buying guide episode with a couple of editions including some from guest host Loserly of DeadPixelLive fame.

We added some more audio equipment-type gifts like the Beats by Dre Tour in-ear headphones, some pocket-type synths from ThinkGeek. To give you an idea of how this show goes, here are some of the titles we came up with but didn’t use:

• Ninja’s Tongue Needs a Wheelchair
• AND It Helps If You Need to Move a Whale
• Panda’s Word of the Day: Facetious
• Sandwiches in the Dark — How Romantic
• Panda Says She Likes It From All Directions — And She Calls US Perverts
• and finally
• The Economy Needs You to Buy Stuff For Me

It’s a fun episode… chock full’o ladies [one of which may be slightly tipsy] chock full’o great gift ideas, just chock full’f fun. So grab a cup of your favorite drink and enjoy ElectricSistaHood podcast episode 177: Panda Likes Length, Depth and Girth

Another Monday, another
Yes. We went there. So grab your favorite beverage and new episode of the Electric Sista Hood podcast, and in this episode the ladies pass a 40 of Haterade© back and forth between them while talking about the 2009 Spike VGA Awards

Haterade&copy… is it in you?
In this episode of the podcast, NinJaSistah and Pandalicious go over the results of the 2009 Spike Video Game Awards with a fine tooth comb commenting on what we both agree and disagree with nearly category by category.

Kicking off the hour we talk about some of the teaser trailers for newly announced games in the Medal of Honor and Green Day: RockBand franchises. Then the ranting goes to the next level and we go through some of the more controversial category winners like Jack Black for “Best Voice Performance” and which set Pandalicious off.

Check out some of the titles we came up with, but didn’t use for this episode:

• It’s Not Cute, It’s Not Pretty and It Doesn’t Whistle
• Don’t Make the Monkey Cry
• It’s the God of War to End All God of Wars
• You Gotta Have Your Sheets Together
• and finally
• New Category: Best Game to Play When You’re PMS’n

Yes. We went there. So grab your favorite beverage and enjoy the awesome that is Electric Sista Hood Podcast Episode 176: It Seems the Judges Were As Blind as Stevie Wonder