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Send us Fan Mail Pianist, streamer, gamer, parent, professor, and Darkwing Duck enthusiast, RedAux joins the show (19:56). Trav and Alex ask her about piano lessons, Castlevania music, streaming with her kids, Bandcamp, and of course, Darkwing Duck. What does Oprah have to do with this? Alex and Trav are too old to understand memes and then answer what games they were most motivated to push forwar...

Send us Fan Mail Alex is hungry and fried from a long day of work and Trav, well, he's here too. Emails center on playing retro games remotely, ranking our favorite sub sandwiches franchises, getting in the zone, and games not made in the US or Japan. Pack it up, we're heading to 1994. Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/...

Send us Fan Mail How was Trav's time at MAGFest? Is Revolution X really that bad? Would you marry Shaq? All this and more. Plus, Blake sends an angry email that forces Trav and Alex to field difficult questions. Other emails ask how much time gets devoted to podcasting and video making and what Alex was up to before becoming SNESdrunk.  Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com...

Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of the new year, it's the same old drunk friends riffing on meditation, wings, Wii Shop games, and hot sauce. We need more emails so get on it! Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/travplaysgames Find Alex on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/snesdrunk Send us an email drunkfriendpodcast@gmai...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremiah of SNESrankings.com swings by at 30:20 to explain how the website came to be and details his process for ranking all 700+ Super Nintendo games. Which ones are hard? What are the HIDDEN GEMS!? Alex and Trav discuss what "jank" actually is and tell about that one time they got into a pointless argument. Find Jeremiah at SNESrankings.com Find more of our work at ht...

Send us Fan Mail Kelsy Polnik (at 13:35) finished every single licensed NES game. It took a while, but 669 games later he's here to tell us which ones are ACTUALLY the hardest! You might be surprised to hear what tops the list. Kelsy also has a thing or two to say about your favorite NES games.  Trav is back for this episode. He and Alex answer an email about fan translations before Alex&apos...

Send us Fan Mail Trav is on vacation! But fear not! Michelle from Petee's Power Hour is here to chat with Alex, read some emails, and discuss working out and doing Spartan races. We answer those hard hitting questions like "What games / movies make Alex cry?" And... "Can Michelle not talk about a game that is NOT an RPG?" [ spoiler] Probably not. Find more of our work at h...

Send us Fan Mail Alex and Trav revisit a guest from Episode 21 (Aug 2020), TheRenesance aka the GameScape Artist (31:23) who paints scenes imagined from video games as well as traditional landscape paintings. He's also a highly skilled gamer, streamer, and musician! In the intro, Trav and Alex figure out what is a PETA quote and what is a death metal song title and hear how a young gamer inve...

Send us Fan Mail Sam Griffin of the Super Guitar Bros. acoustic guitar duo settles in (at 18:16) for a fun interview that covers everything from performance anxiety to using chopsticks with Doritos. In the intro, Trav and Alex recall what they miss most about the 90's and lament the stresses that modern technology bring. Find Sam's work at https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperGuitarBros  Fi...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Trav and Alex are joined at (26:45) by Dave of the Xygor Gaming YouTube channel. Dave's YouTube history dates back to 2006 and he has tons of bite-sized review content of classic games as well as narrative explorations on many popular franchises. In the intro, Trav and Alex answer a few emails on demo discs, randomizers, and whether Alex has a Nintendo Switch...

Send us Fan Mail More emails this episode! Trav and Alex answer why they keep playing old games no one cares about, their favorite shmups (or shumps), what order the emails get read in, YT content for portable games, and more! Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/travplaysgames Find Alex on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/snesdrunk S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Trav and Alex remember back 25 years ago to the release of the N64 and list off a handful of their favorite N64 games that were not developed by Nintendo or Rare! A few emails get answered about exciting boss battles, reality TV, and speedrunning. Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/travplaysgames...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Trav kicks Alex to the curb and records a solo cast with, well, himself, and then he also interviews his improv instructor, Ami Trowell (10:31). Was Alex acquired by Disney? Is he trying out for Jeopardy? No to all of this and more! Do you want to learn improv? Join a new community?  Ami Trowell Big Lick Conspiracy YouTube BigLickConspiracy.com Hollins University...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Alex and Trav make a few college football wagers, wax nostalgic on tornados, and answer emails about more N64 box art, G.O.D., random DS games, and what to do when all the games are gone. Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/travplaysgames Find Alex on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/snesdrunk Send u...

Send us Fan Mail VeryCoolGuyMike is back! He answers emails along with Trav and Alex where people angrily defend the N64 controller, we decide whether a title is a Christian novel or death metal band, and there's an email from famous hockey star Ray Sheppard. Find VeryCoolGuyMike on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/VeryCoolGuyMike Find VeryCoolGuyMike on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/...

Send us Fan Mail KingK (39:29) joins the show to talk to Trav and Alex about his process, his voice, and more! How many words does it take to build an hour long YouTube script? Lots. In the preview, Alex and Trav take emails about color palettes, games to play with significant others, and unsuspectingly good rentals from back in the day. At some point, Fred Durst is talked about for a little too l...

Send us Fan Mail Alex (SNESdrunk) and Trav (NESfriend) relax around the drunkfriendpodcast@gmail.com inbox and read a few notes from listeners and answer some questions. What grinds their 8 and 16 bit gears? Who is Steve Carlton? What is the Montreal Screwjob? Who is John Scott and why is he special? All that and more! Find more of our work at http://www.polymedianetwork.com Find Travis on Twitter...

Send us Fan Mail Stuttering Craig Skistimas, founder of Screw Attack and formerly of Game Attack, joins the show (39:59) to talk about his history in content creation, slamball, rebranding, and starting a new business. Learn about the Collaborator Club, a new platform that breeds opportunities for content creators to work together toward their goals. In the front half, Trav and Alex answer emails...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, listen as Trav geeks out right in front of one of his favorite Magfest folks (Magfolk?), Noah McCarthy (30:20). Noah is the "front-man" for Bit Brigade, an 8-bit jam band that rocks out while Noah does a relaxed-fit speedrun of a classic NES game. It's a spectacle to behold! He creates some video game inspired art too and Trav incidentally realizes...

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...