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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...

Send us Fan Mail Folks just don't come as likeable and easy-going as the esteemed John Riggs! We hang out and chat a lot about his experiences at conventions (both as a panelist and as a fan), and what his YouTube tenure has been like so far in the near-6 years of his channel. We also talk about current gen consoles potentially losing their backward compatibility, LEGOs, the best NES games no...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Trav and Alex get the pleasure of interviewing a different kind or runner. Tara recently completed all 24 races at the festival of 5k's, the Pemberton 24. That's right. She ran 24 5K races  in one day. We ask her about that experience, how running as a hobby began for her, as well as what she eats and how she trains.  The show is kicked off with what vid...

Send us Fan Mail Trav and Alex decide it's time to anger the listeners by listing off their Top 13 NES games and purposefully leave some off that will get your blood boiling. Do you like Contra? Do you like Mega Man? You better beware. Listener emails ask what Trav does for money and the hosts take turns answering how they would flip a classic game into a different genre altogether. It's...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 28 welcomes Summoning Salt on, a YouTuber who documents speedrunning world record progressions and can beat up Mike Tyson in short order. We discuss how much effort goes into his videos, what is research regimen is, and we even dig for more details on the enigmatic Matt Turk. To kick off the show, Alex and Trav answer some emails about formative gaming experiences and lice...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Trav and Alex are joined by Brian and Jim from the Drink A Beer & Play A Game YouTube Channel and Power Hour podcast. Together they discuss channel longevity, their least favorite and most favorite projects, and their differences in game opinions. How good is Typing of the Dead? Who is Heathcliff Slocumb? All this and more! Support the show Find links for all...

Send us Fan Mail This week on DrunkFriend, we have another recurring guest, only this time he gets his own episode -- Caleb J. Ross joins us to talk about all kinds of books about video games, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as his own work and his own writing process, including some hidden gems in the literature world that he would recommend our listeners read! We discuss Blake J. Harris&ap...