thevnaguy Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 Do you mean that they probably won't be able to put one on in 2015? Or that CGE isn't likely to return in the future? If the latter, what's the story there? The future of CGE is with Joe, John and Sean. Vegas Retro Expo LLC that I was part of, just volunteered to put on the 2014 show for Joe, John and Sean as they were very busy with the Video Game History Muesum. As for future shows, it still resides with the founders Joe, John and Sean. I suspect it will occur in Texas close to the new Video Game History Museum they are getting established in Frisco TX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Rick Reynolds Posted January 30, 2015 Share Posted January 30, 2015 I see. I was under the impression that arrangement with you guys handling the expo was more of a permanent hand-off (or at least one for the foreseeable future) so that they could do the museum stuff full time. I'm in a position to go to one of these a year at most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 I see. I was under the impression that arrangement with you guys handling the expo was more of a permanent hand-off (or at least one for the foreseeable future) so that they could do the museum stuff full time. I'm in a position to go to one of these a year at most. nope, it was just a temporary just so there would be a show for 2014. This year I am going to the new Game On Expo in Mesa Arizona to help out with it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Rick Reynolds Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Have Willie, will travel - to do retro shows all over the country! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Not even halfway thru the latest "Zerbinator 80-89" & it's already the best one ever. Period. Hands down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flack Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hello fellow gamers, podcasters, and podcast fans! I heard Sprite Castle mentioned on the Poddie Awards in the "shows we miss" category. I've missed it, too. As some of you know I did 30 video episodes of Sprite Castle before switching over to an all audio format. I think both formats have valid advantages and disadvantages (especially when discussing video games), but since I couldn't decide which format I wanted to use on the show I ended up shelving it. After eight months, I've decided to give the show another chance again as an audio podcast. I definitely think video and Youtube shows have their place and are definitely a good way to demonstrate video game footage, but I was never able to gain a significant following with that format. Audio is much more comfortable for me, so that's how I'll be doing Sprite Castle in the future. I'll still be using that "one game per show" format that lots of other people use, with a couple of short Commodore-related news headlines at the beginning of the show. I've trimmed some of the less popular segments (the opening Haiku is gone, as is the Mach 5 Speed Round) but a few others including Talking Snack and Memories remain. I also added a new feature, "King of the Castle" (you'll have to listen to the latest episode to find out how you can earn that title). I'm hoping to keep the shows around half an hour in length -- California Games ran a little long since I covered all six events, but all the other audio episodes are all less than 30 minutes. Although I'm playing the C64 versions of these games, if you're not a fan of the system don't let that scare you away. In the show I always mention what other platforms the games were released on, so even if you're a fan of Nintendo, Sega, or a different retro computing platform, chances are these games made it to one of those systems too. If you like the other shows I'm on like You Don't Know Flack and Throwback Reviews, I hope you'll give Sprite Castle another chance. WWW: SpriteCastle.com RSS: RSS Feed iTunes: iTunes Stitcher: Stitcher Facebook: Facebook.com/SpriteCastle Twitter: Twitter.com/Commodork E-Mail: SpriteCastle at gmail Voice Mail: 405-486-YDKF 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Flack I know I listened to a couple of audio SCs but dont recall why I stopped. Mustve got caught in the thresher during one of my podcast purges. Resubbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Hmmm I guess Retroist never DID a "New Coke" podcast. Prettyt sure I saw something about it on FB. Maybe it was a link to a commercial or something...or he pulled it right away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Not even halfway thru the latest "Zerbinator 80-89" & it's already the best one ever. Period. Hands down. Is this because it has your favorite person in it....namely Ferg? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Wellll Zerb does a great job no matter what...but Ferg's presence def. helped- his laughter is infectious! I was listening in bed & shaking the bed from laughing so hard at the show, my wife told me to knock it off. Any funnier & I'll be sleeping downstairs on the couch. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 Ferg represented team old-school well yesterday by beating 26 other Hexadecathletes and winning the Atari 5200 Centipede leg of Hexadecathlon 2015. Post-game podcast will be uploaded by the end of the week. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thevnaguy Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 one of us, one of us, gooble goble gooble goble Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 Wellll Zerb does a great job no matter what...but Ferg's presence def. helped- his laughter is infectious! I was listening in bed & shaking the bed from laughing so hard at the show, my wife told me to knock it off. Any funnier & I'll be sleeping downstairs on the couch. That singing between those two. heh. I always loved the background stock 80s music Zerb used in the bumper segments. So relaxing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+nurmix Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Sounds like it's getting work on the new 7800 Game-by-Game podcast also. That was great at the end! That wasn't the Odyssey 2. Way too clear. I speak fluent O2, as I have my angry / sarcastic one on just about every episode of The Intellivisionaries. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 http://www.nowyoureplayingwith.com/episode-47-ferg-and-hexadecathlon-2015/ NYPWP episode 47 is up! Ferg joins us for Hexadecathlon 2015 and in the process makes history as we record a podcast with the largest number of poddie award winning podcast hosts ever assembled in one place. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 The latest Atari 2600 GBG, right in the feels. I think there was some editing of the opening soundbyte at the beginning of NYPWP, but I dunnoo.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 5, 2015 Author Share Posted February 5, 2015 Retrogaming Roundup's last Guiness segment mentioned Duke Nukem Forever was never released. Heh. It was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RJ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) What Flack said. Awhile back...I was considering joining KLOV....More recently I'd lurk & check their podcast thread, just to see what they were talking about at times, but then a survey would pop up & block my view, & I decided it wasnt worth my time. FWIW, & not expecting much interest here, but the KLOV forum(s) seem to be clear of any pop-ups, in case you wanna lurk. I havent done so since I posted thwt last April. Today I was viewing the AO podcast thread, seems they're on a bit of a downturn. But as host John says, it is what it is. BTW he's featured in EDGE (UK) magazine this month. You can see the article in their podcast thread on KLOV. Edited February 6, 2015 by RJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Rick Reynolds Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Retrogaming Roundup's last Guiness segment mentioned Duke Nukem Forever was never released. Heh. It was. Yeah, that jarred me too. Came out in 2011. And on the RGR subject, I was pretty taken aback by Dinosaur Pie in this ep. I think his point was mostly "there are lots of good modern games with a retro-feel, and you should check them out!". But it came across as confrontational and maybe a little insulting? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris++ Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Does he call it "Dinosaur Pie" as a play on one of the common English pronunciations of "party"? I initially thought he was simply slurring the middle of the word, but Mike actually lists the segment as "Pie" in the show notes. For the most part, I like hearing what Simon Butler has to say; it's quite a coup to get an '80s game programmer to contribute his own segment every month. But I admit that all the talk of modern games makes my eyes glaze over. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferghead Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Yeah, that jarred me too. Came out in 2011. And on the RGR subject, I was pretty taken aback by Dinosaur Pie in this ep. I think his point was mostly "there are lots of good modern games with a retro-feel, and you should check them out!". But it came across as confrontational and maybe a little insulting? Yeah, I was wondering about that. Then he says "Stay Retro" at the end too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulBlazer Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 Does he call it "Dinosaur Pie" as a play on one of the common English pronunciations of "party"? I initially thought he was simply slurring the middle of the word, but Mike actually lists the segment as "Pie" in the show notes. For the most part, I like hearing what Simon Butler has to say; it's quite a coup to get an '80s game programmer to contribute his own segment every month. But I admit that all the talk of modern games makes my eyes glaze over. As someone who plays as much modern games as retro, I love it. I agree that Simon is quite interesting to listen to, though. He reminds me of my cranky old grandfather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 7, 2015 Author Share Posted February 7, 2015 Yeah, that jarred me too. Came out in 2011. And on the RGR subject, I was pretty taken aback by Dinosaur Pie in this ep. I think his point was mostly "there are lots of good modern games with a retro-feel, and you should check them out!". But it came across as confrontational and maybe a little insulting? I'm assuming there's a backlog of Guiness segments, just like the interviews. And now we know there's 3 years worth of recrded segments. I didn't get that vibe in the Dino segment ,but I think I fast-forwarded through it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Rick Reynolds Posted February 7, 2015 Share Posted February 7, 2015 It was really the beginning of it that gave me that feel. As he got more into what he was saying, the rhetoric mellowed a bit. But it still felt like someone was telling me that my choices of games were actually wrong and harmful to the community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S1500 Posted February 9, 2015 Author Share Posted February 9, 2015 Podcast responses are starting to come in. The Pinheadz podcast just released episode 12, where they played part of my 'episode,which part it was playing part of their episode. Podcastception achieved. Wonder if they got the award yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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