DrunkFriend

Send us Fan Mail This week, we're visited by Nick (40:29), the creator of the retrogaming website Racketboy.com , which has been around since ye olden days of 2004. We discuss how coverage of retrogaming content has changed over the years, what its like to have your writing and research picked apart, retro game pricing changes and what influences those prices, baseball video games, and lots o...

Send us Fan Mail Pete Dorr stops by (25:28) to chat about game collecting, the weird CD-i catalog, Lassie on PS2, Ebay prices, E3, and more! In the intro, Trav is excited about the opportunity to fail out of an improv group and Alex outsources his light gun game footage. He doesn't even play his own games now. Pam (CannotBeTamed) sends in a WELL ACKSHUALLY and the Master System's art is...

Send us Fan Mail Hungry Goriya returns to the show the DAY before she has a piece of her insides removed and replaced with cybernetic technologies that will make her finally strong enough to take on her longtime nemesis, Canadian Robocop. Topics include Rod Stewart, golf, Brandish, and vinyl records. In the top half of the show, Trav and Alex talk about the videos they've made recently and sh...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Alex (SNESdrunk) and Trav (NESfriend) are joined by Tony Brasel, a long time retro-gaming YouTuber who knows more about Mega Man than the average retro-fan. There's hockey and Stardew Valley talk that completely alienates Trav, there's more hockey talk after that, and there's also some fun Mega Man trivia with Brasel, the expert. Emails include a ti...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Trav and Alex welcome Wedbush investment analyst Michael Pachter (23:24), also the host of Pachter Factor on SIFTD.net ! Learn about what Pachter does, how he does it, and how he ended up associated with GameTrailers and eventually SIFTD.net. Before the guest shows up, Trav and Alex respond to a pair of emails centered on video game movies!  Find Michael Pachter o...

Send us Fan Mail Trav and Alex return after a week off to answer a few emails and rank their Top 13 handheld games that aren't Switch games, or ports, or remakes, or mobile games. There are a lot of rules. Alex goes on about hockey at some point, Trav gets defensive about his game collection, and Truxton gets a mention.  Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on...

Send us Fan Mail This week, Trav and Alex talk about guests they'll never realistically have on the show for various reasons! Because reasons. I mean, some of it is legit reasons, but other is because of "reasons" reasons. Did you know that Gary Reasons was a linebacker for the New York Giants in the late 80s and the early 90s? Unsung guy, that guy. Lots of Reasons to like THAT guy...

Send us Fan Mail This week on DrunkFriend, we talk Metallica with State of Mercury, a fellow who's made a channel that captures the sound and aura of Metallica albums of years past, and applies their unique sounds to different Metallica songs. (For example, what would "My Friend of Misery" sound like if it were on "...And Justice For All?") We talk metal and how we got int...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Trav and Alex bring on the leading company! Renown YouTube music theorist, 8-bit Music Theory, swings by (at 23:45) to share some insight on what inspires him, how his videos are made, and a crazy coincidence involving jazz musicians, professors, Japanese gaming companies, and a business simulator. Alex should get a Switch. Find more of our work at http://www.poly...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Alex and Trav highlight a new YouTuber, a NEWtuber?! who is destined for greatness. VeryCoolGuyMike stops by to talk about his video game memes channel that takes weird moments in video games and highlights them in a ridiculous and humorous way. Emails ask Trav and Alex to discuss their seven deadly sins of gaming,  Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Rev...

Send us Fan Mail Alex and Trav introduce you to commenter Cuban Pete. He's wild. Who is the bigger coffee snob? What console do we want to own most? Find these things out and more before learning about Chris Totten's Kickstarter campaign for Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends (39:55). Learn about the Kickstarter process, the inspirations for Little Nemo, and what an "art head&quot...

Send us Fan Mail Don't worry, we remember VCRs but the guest in this episode (22:28)  is Forgotten_VCR, a unique Twitch streamer who assembles films into interesting compositions for his ever growing audience of curious bystanders. He also has a rather massive VHS collection. Out the gate, Alex and Trav chat about their videos this week on The Smurfs, Toy Story, and Swords and Serpents, discu...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of DrunkFriend, Trav (NESfriend) and Alex (SNESdrunk) answer some ancient emails that mostly scream at Alex over dissing Doom Eternal, not owning a switch, and not watching every YT video ever made. The guest this week (30:21) is MikeBtheGameGenie who knows an awful lot about the Arcade1Up game machines. They discuss how well they hold up, which ones should come ne...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex (SNESdrunk) transforms into James Hetfield and Trav tries to keep things under control but can't hold back his adoration for their guest (at 26:11), Jon (jonnyethco, Neebs Gaming, Hank&Jed) who creates funny web cartoons and comedy lets play content. Find out how he got started, what goes into a web cartoon, and a little about how Neebs came together...

Send us Fan Mail It's old people central here with lots of meandery discussions between Trav (NESfriend), Alex (SNESdrunk), and Pam (Cannot Be Tamed). Topics include tartar sauce, tomatoes, the weather, and random pains. They also talk about modern games, the Sega CD, and what's been happening on their respective YT channels in addition to reading some emails and listener questions. Send...

Send us Fan Mail What are the best intros in gaming? What games would we make if we had any talent? How many obscure baseball players do you know? Join Alex (SNESdrunk) and Trav (NESfriend) as they consider these questions before welcoming on their guest (25:34), a renown Pokemaniac, RetroAli! Ali schools the hosts on all things Pokemon, discusses her experiences working for Twitch and streaming f...

Send us Fan Mail Trav and Alex welcome YouTube creator and personality SomeCallMeJohnny, where you'll learn that some also call him an illustrator, an animator, and a guy with tons of ideas. We talk about early influences, how his channel has grown since 2008 (!!) and what it's like to have an audience for that long. We discuss whether his art degree (and subsequent student debt) was wor...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Trav and Alex chat about the videos over the last couple of weeks including Act Raiser-likes, Back to the Future games on the NES, and Time Trax. Keanu Reeves and Well-Actually guy chat about swimming for a little bit before the hosts breakdown and share their top 13 games from 2010 through 2019. Check it out! More podcasts: http://www.polymedianetwork.com Trav on...

Send us Fan Mail DrunkFriend welcomes Norm Caruso, the Gaming Historian, to the podcast to chat about his channel and what goes into it. Find out how he selects his topics, what goes into his research, and who he gets compared to most often. To start, Trav and Alex drone on about their channels before answering a few listener emails and discuss how their video making is schedules. Which 80's...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Trav and Alex sit down with Daniel Greenberg, a professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Daniel has several insights on what it takes to make a great game designer and has given plenty of lectures, talks, and panels at a number of conferences you've been to. What console would you take to the afterlife? Is there internet in...

Send us Fan Mail Merry Christmas! Our guest this week is Dan Hess, otherwise known as the composer of the Pilotwings 64 soundtrack! He talks about the development of said game and a few other titles he was involved with, as well as his personal favorite video game soundtrack (not really what you'd expect!), what it was like to deal with Nintendo, and why he eventually bowed out of the video g...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode of DF, Trav and Alex interview Josh Petrie of Undead Labs, the studio responsible for the State of Decay franchise that was recently acquired by Microsoft. He expands on what it's like working for a large development team and provides recommendations for how you can prepare yourself for the industry if game development is something you want to do. Trav and Ale...

Send us Fan Mail Alex and Trav invite a special guest onto the show and this time the guest gets to participate in the whole show. Michelle, aka PeteePuff, who hosts the brand new PolyPod Network show Petee's Power Hour joins in to answer all the emails and questions and discuss her history as the original DrunkFriend. Emails cover swimming, special beats, and wishful translations. Alex chats...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is a little more sly than cunning as Trav and Alex chat about action movie star Sylvester Stallone  per the two games highlighted on this week's SNES Drunk YouTube channel (Cliffhanger and Demolition Man). The two answer some listener emails about video game stories worth a darn, drinking games, and whether or not Bill Laimbeer's  Combat Basketball should be...

Send us Fan Mail Join Trav and Alex as they hang out with Jenovi, a retro gaming YouTuber who is known for his astute research on 90's systems like the Sega 32X , the 3DO, and the Jaguar. Obscure baseball trivia is tossed around, Alex is no fan of remakes, Travis pretends to know how video game controllers, and  Jenovi is in the middle of uprooting his family. He doesn't even get upset w...