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Episode 56 - Holiday Game Gift Guide - Part 1 of 5

Very short podcast, giving the details of the next 6 episodes!  I checked out, read, watched videos and even bought and played some of the 25 games that I think would be awesome for holiday gifts!  There are 15 board/card/dice and 10 video games, they range all over the age spectrum and the cost is between $20 - $$$!  Enjoy these next 5 podcasts and then the 61st will be where to buy these games! And away we go!!!

Episode 55 - Holiday Gift Giving 2021 Podcasts - The Pre-Cursor

From the dawn of time humans have loved there heroes, from Gilgamesh the first recorded hero up to the Avengers and Justice League.  They can fly, swim, run fast, bend metal, read minds and always save the day!  In the last podcast we celebrated Batman day, but the Bat as the great Kevin Smith (please put me  in the next Jay and Silent Bob, Clerks or Toxic Avenger movie!!!) calls him is just one of thousands of heroes!  Super Heroes normally get their start in a comic book or graphic novel, which are modern works of art and some times the inspiration for everything in between.  Super heroes are the embodiment of us wanting a better world and to help others, their antagonists on the other hand are just a bunch of stinkers, my grandmother would have called them that just like she called Rick Flair when he was a heel in tv wresting growing up!  But we love them too and love when they make the switch to good.  This is the first of a lot of podcasts, not in order but I will follow up because no content base for games is bigger than heroes, the super ones especially!

Episode 54 - Super Duper Games with Super Heroes!

It is hard to not like Batman, unless you have committed a crime in Gotham City or the DC Universe.  Batman is also huge in video games, pick a platform any platform. From the early PC days to the latest consoles and mobile devices the caped crusader is everywhere! I try really hard to provide cool facts in the podcasts so let's dive in to the Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, Mr. Wayne, Bruce or The Batman!

Episode 53 - Happy Batman Day, Even Though Batman is Almost Never Happy…

Kate Edwards (of IGDA, Global Game Jam, Take This board member) joins me to discuss our visit to PAX West 2021!  It was surreal to get to a convention but the folks at PAX West did a fantastic job delivering!  Thank you to to the Companies, the PAX Enforcers and fellow attendees for making PAX West awesome!

Episode 52 - We Came, We Saw, We PAXXXED!

I am excited to announce that I will be attending PAX West 2021 in Seattle. It is exciting and it will definitely be different for me to go to a large gathering of people in doors. So with this I am prepping for the convention! If you want to take something from this episode, it can be a good way to prep for a convention, so you get to do as much as possible and especially enjoy the parts of the event you choose to enjoy!

Episode 51 - Pre-PAX West 2021 To Do List!

The title of this episode is a tribute to the movie Head of State by Chris Rock, anytime they say Security you get a WAAAAHHHH after and it cracks me up anytime I hear the word Security.  I started reading and learning about computer security when I was 8 with the Enigma project and have worked in the Security industry, this podcast is not too technical but gets in to the social and technical areas of security with games.  

Episode 50 - Security, WAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!

My personal commentary in life is winning is not everything, but in games it kind of is? You want the achievement or the high score or the super cool items. Now you can win by spending hours and days grinding away at a game, buying the game guide, meticulously searching for items to build the item to get the item or achievement. Or you can use an easier way, cheating or eluding or sidestepping or skirting or eschewing?

Episode 49 - It's Better To Cheat Then Repeat? Is it???

By now you have either donned a set of headphones, earphones, a microphone and speakers or used your cell phone to connect to a voice chat application during a game.  In gaming like life communication is key and being able to talk to people you are playing with is really important.  Maybe during a video or board or dice or card game? 

Episode 48 - Can we Talk about It? (Overview of Voice Chat Apps for Games)

Getting back to more informational with some opinion subjects as I get closer to 50 episodes, this topic is going to be all about money, well money spent after you install/download a game. 

Episode 47 - InApp Purchases

One of my favorite parts of researching C64 software was the trip down memory lane. It wasn't all games but I would be remiss again to mention how much we used Print Shop and AceWriter in our home. Now again we had an Apple but a lot of the software that was created for the Apple was first created for the C64. I used a statistic of .08% titles of software per C64 sold. Now I also said 12,500 titles were created but I just said 23,000 titles well those 11,500 titles were created by programmers, and uploaded, sneakered or shared in magazines, books or printouts! You can still find a lot of these titles available and if you have a C64 Mini you can download a lot of these titles or if you have an old programming magazine you can even type in one of your own!

Episode 46 - Commodore 64 Software

If you are over 50 then you remember hearing about the first personal computers, it could have been from Radio Shack/Tandy, Apple, IBM or one of the coolest computers and yes a computer can be cool ever made. The Commodore 64 has a following like the Grateful Dead, the McRib or my favorite Primanti Brothers and if you don't know Primanti Brothers you might be missing out on true food love, look it up.

Episode 45 - Commodore 64

In the last episode I talked about some historical video games you can play, relive the past and maybe learn something (hopplites!!!) In this episode it is all historical board games, Trains, Culture and Landscapes!!! Landscapes can be cool? So here are some additional ways to talk about these board games, Roads, Industry and City Boundaries!

Episode 44 - History is Still Teaching Us!

Who doesn't love a future sci-fi game with Terminators walking down the street or a Romeo and Juliet style romance between extra-terrestrial families?  I do, however I do love historical games a bit more! In this podcast I talk about games that are fun to play in 5 minutes, 30 minutes or you can spend a weekend (don't do that, go outside and wear a mask!).  World of Tanks, World of Warships and Age of Empires franchise are just a few of the historical games and I spent the last 3 weeks playing and getting back in to each of them!  Next podcast is historical board games!

Episode 43 - If History has Taught us anything

There is an awesome movie that details the personal computer revolution, The Pirates of Silicon Valley.  If you ever wondered what might have been happening between Apple and Microsoft, great cast and a really good representation of Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  In the movie Anthony Michael Hall who plays BillG is having a discussion with Noah Wylie who plays Steve Jobs, where he talks about Xerox and how both companies took tech/ideas from Xerox and used them in their hardware and software.   Well Intellivision, in my humble opinion, is the Xerox of video game consoles.

Episode 42 - Intellivision

Turning 50 and loving games; card, board, handheld, cabinet, console, PC and Phone/Tablet games. I wanted to start a podcast for all my 50+ and younger friends of gaming. Sharing experiences, talking to industry folks, giving updates from gaming shows and helping everyone learn about and enjoy games of all genres!

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