Crunk Games

With one of us moving to San Francisco and the other to Japan, the post-Crunk Games world runs us ragged.

NOTHING, FOREVER: We end with highlighting the final years of Crunk Games, and what it all meant.

SLOWLY, NOW: With our lives changing in 2005, the site is neglected, and the end is in sight.

A GOOD BAD TIME: Crunk Games hums along in its second year, but behind the scenes, it nearly falls apart.

KNOCKIN’ ON HEAVEN’S DOOR: A jaunt through our memories of E3 2004.

TOKYO DRIFT: An old friend helps us out, which is somehow a problem? Plus, why Square Enix has been very weird for 20 years.

JOE3L: An introduction to our Canadian friend, who we took to E3 2003 for a new round of gaming adventures.

THE MEDIUM LEAGUES: A short detour about the start of our “dream” jobs as professional writers.

DREAMWEAVING: Crunk Games launches at the start of 2003, and by golly, we have thoughts about video games.

PROLOGUE II: Alex and Ray collide as we enter — then exit — the GIA. Eight weird months follow.

PROLOGUE I: The early years of internet game media and “semipro fansites” of the 2000s help us get where we’re going.

A year after our first special, we return with a face-to-face nerdgasm over Enix's supreme RPG franchise.

In December 2000, Sega released Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast. PSO not only brought back a dormant RPG franchise, but it legitimized large-scale online play on game consoles. But after PSO, what else was there? Rather than tackle this in writing on their outdated web site, Crunk Games' Ray Barnholt and certified Phantasy Star nut Alex Fraioli harness the magic of audio to review and reminisce...