The Audioblog

Episode 1

Episode 1 is where I ramble about video games for a few minutes at a time. Mostly recorded during my commute to work, except when it isn't.

• Debut - For the first entry into the series, I talk a little bit about trying to play the Atari 2600 version of Choplifter! on my Atari 400. - 10 Mar 20 · Download
• Arcade Etiquette - I Ramble a little bit about the practice of putting quarters on an arcade machine to signify that 'you got next', how to not be a jerk, and tell the story of a guy who didn't do these things while I was trying to play Killer Instinct 2 on my day off. - 11 Mar 20 · Download
• Crazy Taxi - I'm driving down the highway today, which puts me in the mood to talk about Crazy Taxi. I talk a little about the game itself and how I was the first person in my town to set a high score on the machine. - 12 Mar 20 · Download
• Dig Dug Drive Din - I briefly talk about the time that I went to a Drive-in movie and got the high score on a Dig Dug machine despite having never played the game. - 13 Mar 20 · Download
• Command and Conquer - I talk about the time that a seating issue at a LAN party ended up with me discovering one of my favorite video game soundtracks. - 15 Mar 20 · Download
• XBVND PC Edition - Telling the story of the time I put a Super NES video game modem into a PC for reasons I can no longer remember. - 16 Mar 20 · Download
• Old Wrestling Injuries - Talking a little bit about the the only time I've ever injured myself while playing a video game - 17 Mar 20 · Download
• The Laundromat Kid - Some kid came up to me while I was playing games at a laundromat and was super interested in the game I was playing. At first. - 18 Mar 20 · Download
• Our past that we carry around with us - I wear an old Marvel vs. Capcom sweatshirt to the store and it reminds me of a community I used to be a part of that effectively no longer exists - 19 Mar 20 · Download
• Cheating at Zelda II - I ramble a little bit about cheating at Zelda II and getting what's coming to me. - 20 Mar 20 · Download
• Interactor Interactions - The Aura Interactor says that it will put you in the game, but it doesn't tell you that it was intended for small children. I used it anyway. - 23 Mar 20 · Download
• The Legend of ZooCube Waker - Describing the time I took a crappy $10 puzzle game and turned it into $20 off a better game - 24 Mar 20 · Download
• Text adventure freakout - Text adventure games are unlike anything else, and are some of them have legitimately freaked me out. - 25 Mar 20 · Download
• Yaarr! It's a Half Life for me! - Tried to legitimize a copy of a game that I acquired via unofficial channels, but it wasn't as straightforward as it should have been. - 26 Mar 20 · Download
• Evolving Dorit-dew Mountain - Finding out the hard way that a diet of Doritos and Mt. Dew is not the correct 'game fuel' to power me through a weekend of playing E.V.O Search for Eden - 27 Mar 20 · Download
• Two pre-teens, an arcade, and a couch - Spending my summer by hanging out in an arcade seemed like a good idea, until someone asked me to move a couch. - 30 Mar 20 · Download
• Super Castlevania Thumb - Spending my summer making toys for underpriveleged kids seemed like a good idea, until I injured myself and tried to heal up by playing Super Castlevania IV. - 31 Mar 20 · Download
• Strategizing - I ramble for a few minutes about strategy guides, walkthroughs, and 90's cyberpunk. - 1 Apr 20 · Download
• Doing the impossible - Someone tried to mess with me by convincing me to do something he thought was impossible. Spoiler alert: it wasn't. - 2 Apr 20 · Download
• An accidental victory - In my middle school years I had a rival of sorts. We had a contest that I didn't really know I was in to see who could read the most pages in a week and I won by accident. - 3 Apr 20 · Download
• MMORPG-whiz - I ramble for longer than I intended to about how I feel about MMORPGs. - 7 Apr 20 · Download
• Manual Action - Discussing game manuals or the lack thereof. - 8 Apr 20 · Download
• Super Mario Bros. 3 - The Japanese version of Super Mario Bros. 3 was the first imported game I ever played. It was like peering into the future. - 9 Apr 20 · Download
• Competitioning - I've only participated in two video game competitions that I didn't also have a hand in. One went poorly and I got knocked out immediately, the other was organized poorly and I bowed out. - 10 Apr 20 · Download
• Sound Trax - If you take a ride in my car, there's a good chance you'll hear video games music. I go over the reasons why. - 13 Apr 20 · Download
• Cinematics - A rambly look at why I prefer my video games to be video games rather than movies with interactive bits. - 14 Apr 20 · Download
• Video Home System Radio - I used a combination of a Super NES, a VCR, and a bunch of adapters to record some radio shows for some reason. I talk about the process for a few minutes. - 15 Apr 20 · Download
• Suspension of disbelief - Old games were better than you think, but not for the reasons you might be thinking. - 16 Apr 20 · Download
• Advantageous - The NES Advantage is the finest controller ever made. - 17 Apr 20 · Download
• Reading the room - I watched a review show that gave a game in a text-heavy genre a lower review because the reviewer had to read lots of text. That was annoying. - 20 Apr 20 · Download
• Zoned Out - I used to get so engrossed in games that I would be what I called "in the zone" for hours and hours until one day I wasn't. I reflect on that for a while. - 21 Apr 20 · Download
• Grandma's Birthday - Today is my grandmother's birthday, so I go through a couple of stories involving her and video games. - 22 Apr 20 · Download
• Virtual Boy - The Virtual Boy, the console that Nintendo would probably like to forget about, but I liked it anyway. - 23 Apr 20 · Download
• Tourney-style - I went all-out to hold a Super-NES tournament, but the uptake wasn't as large as I hoped. - 23 Apr 20 · Download
• That's a Paddlin' - I didn't sleep very well last night, so I convinced myself that it was a good idea to talk about paddle controllers for a few minutes. There's also a sneeze that I didn't edit out because I'm extremely lazy. - 27 Apr 20 · Download
• ExpLANations - I realized that I never really explained what a LAN party is/was, so I decided to fix that. - 28 Apr 20 · Download
• Backlogjam - I used to be embarrassed about the size of my backlog. Now, I don't think about it all that much. - 29 Apr 20 · Download
• A Rare Gem - When collecting anything it's really easy to get caught up in searching for the rarest thing you can find because that' usually the most valuable. But that's not always the case. Sometimes things are rare because nobody wants them. - 30 Apr 20 · Download
• Versus System - Finding out the hard way that Vs. Super Mario Bros. is not the same as the copy of Super Mario Bros. I had at home. - 1 May 20 · Download
• Controllering - I get carried away remembering all the weirdy controllers on the 1980's-or-so and lament that all we have now are minor variations of the same thing over and over again. - 4 May 20 · Download
• You're Doing it Wrong - There are no wrong ways to play video games*. *There's one wrong way to play video games. - 5 May 20 · Download
• Film at 11:00 - I mentioned that I barely keep up with video game news these days. I go over reasons why that is and accidentally start ranting about ad-supported media. - 6 May 20 · Download
• Game Design by Xerox - I start talking about indie video games, and then I somehow get sidetracked into talking about video game design poorly aping more successful games. Not my best work, but I figured I'd post it anyway. - 7 May 20 · Download
• E-motion - Can video games evoke an emotional response? They evoked me rambling about it for around 15 minutes, so you be the judge. - 8 May 20 · Download
• Physicality - I will always prefer physical media over digital. I lay out a few reasons why, but I keep coming up with more the longer I go on. - 11 May 20 · Download
• Social Gamering - This is the one where I recommend that you play a multiplayer game by inviting friends over to your house. Or going to their house, I guess. - 12 May 20 · Download
• Unsuccessed - A lot of people make video game content with the hopes of striking it rich. I think that's misguided. I think you should make things because you enjoy it, but I'm weird that way. - 13 May 20 · Download
• The Best Game Ever - I blow the lid off one of the biggest kept secrets in the video game industry and reveal what the actual best game ever is. - 14 May 20 · Download
• Opinionations - I take what should be a very obvious stance: that having an opinion that different from 'everyone' else is actually okay. - 15 May 20 · Download
• Fifty! - This is the 50th(!) edition of Episode 1, I compare it to a little-known television show called Video Power and ponder starting up Episode 2. - 18 May 20 · Download
• The Fame Game - It's easy to look at something that you love doing and think that if you could make money at it, then you would be on Easy Street. But, do you really want to turn the thing you love into your job? - 25 May 20 · Download
• Creativity is a Skill - I rant a little bit about being creative and push back against the idea that in order to be creative you have to be born with some innate creative ability. - 16 May 20 · Download
• The Seventy Dollar No-thank-you - There's been news making the rounds lately that with the new video game consoles on the horizon, that $70 will be the new $60. If that comes to pass, it prices me right out of the AAA market. - 15 Jul 20 · Download
• Multidimensional - Finding a niche and filling it is great. Finding multiple niches and filling them is even greater. And, yes, I'm sure I heard the 'be a three-dimensional person' from some motivational talk or something somewhere along the way. It's not exactly an original thought. - 28 Sep 20 · Download
• Professionals vs. Amateurs - I talk a little bit about professionals vs amateurs and why I usually find amateurs more interesting. - 15 Dec 20 · Download
• Rethinking my relationship with twitter - I ramble a little bit about twitter and wonder why I still bother having an account there. - 7 Jun 21 · Download
• Missing the old web - It's interesting to me to see people lamenting that they miss the World Wide Web of Yesterday™ instead of actually doing anything about it. - 17 Jun 21 · Download
• Let's Play! - A few years ago I decided to dip my toes into the world of Let's Play videos. Today, I have some thoughts about it. - 24 Jun 21 · Download
• Communication nation - Every time I try to join another community I do it incredibly slowly I'm working on fixing that, but I'm not there yet. - 29 Jul 21 · Download
• Check out this thing I did! - When I hear creative people talk about creating things, they seem to circle around the similar advice: real great artists create things and don't care what other people think. This sounds good on the surface, but the more I think about it, the more I disagree with it. Buckle in, this is a long one. - 31 Aug 21 · Download
• Little Free Libraries - Little Free Libraries keep popping up all over my neighborhood. I go back and forth on whether I think this is a good thing or not. - 29 Sep 21 · Download
• Gourmet Paradise - I ramble a little bit about how I fell into video games because a lot of them had a wacky backstory to explain the limited action on the screen. - 26 Sep 21 · Download
• (Re)Enter the Fediverse - I tried to enter the Fediverse several months ago by using something called Matrix, which was a disaster. I decided to try it again with something else called Pleroma. - 22 Nov 21 · Download