Gamers Over 50 Podcast

Music, Art and Writing in the video game industry is a very mainstream topic today, but it hasn't always been. In this episode I discuss the people who composed, drew, painted, penned and wrote for and about video games in the 70's, 80's and 90's!

Continuing the decade by decade theme on game developers in the 2000's to 2020's, with more obscure facts! Every one of the games these developers brought to us should be played, I guarantee they are all awesome!

Knowing the games, the events and companies of the 70's, 80's and 90's has been great to walk through, but how about the people who developed these games? In this episode I talk about the influential people developing video games in these decades!

From the 1970's to today there have been a lot of obscure, esoteric and veiled realm stories that you might not remember or didn't ever hear about, this podcast fits tells some of their tales!

In this episode the homage to Nintendo continues with the 2000's, 2010's, 2020's! Nintendo is a cultural and gaming engine of change and did so in these three decades for sure! Also you can judge if I am a good parent or monster with a fun Christmas story!

I started to write the script for Nintendo through the decades and I couldn't cut topics, stories, legends and the bits and bytes that have changed the world, it would be a disservice to one of the most beloved game companies in the world and the people who have given us so much joy. This is more of a love letter to Nintendo then podcast episodes!

This one is the flops, the misses and the just didn't make its in video gaming, sadly not all games are good and intentions on making a good game can spiral out of control or never be there in the first place!

Volume 2 or Episode 91 continues the decade by decade challenge, with interesting facts about games and stories from my gaming experiences up to this last week!

I have spent the last 9 months of the 21-month hiatus thinking of a topic where I could learn and share something across all gamers over fifty. I played A LOT of games, started back up with some old favorites, tried new ones and then even took time off of gaming to do some other things! In this set of podcasts, I will be going decade by decade (70's, 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's, 20's) and sharing some...

The world wide phenomenon of Pokemon Go happened starting in 2016 and is still going today! BB and I discuss our "unofficial rules of Pokemon Go", talk about our experience with the game and give reccomendations!

Directional keys in gaming have been around from the arrow keys to WASD (What A Silly Direction) and now that you can use the mouse and keyboard it gives PC gaming a new levl of control! This is also BB's first game review as she adds on to Gamers (see episode 83) for Stardew Valley!

For a while I have been doing this podcast on my own, and changing the format to reviews has been great but it needed something. I found that something in my new podcast partner Bibi! This is an introduction to BiBi and we will be doing addendums to the first few game reviews and then playing games together going forward!

Fortnite is not just a shooting game with Battle Royale but it is 5 more game modes! It is also one of the hottest games out there since 2017! It is also one of the first shooter games I have reviewed!

Mario Kart has been around forever, well since the SNES and it has become one of the big games that is developed for new Nintendo platforms. It may be the greatest racing game ever created and I loved going down memory lane when doing this review!

Madden NFL or just Madden is the cornerstone of sports video games. John Madden was an icon in every facet of football and he brought his charisma and passion to everything he did in football and life. If you love the NFL then this is the perfect companion to your weekly subscription of games, your fantasy football roster and all of your team gear/clothing! It will definitely get you through the o...

The first game review is Stardew Valley, one of the greatest games ever made! Developed by Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone, and still getting updates, enjoy the review!

Gamers Over 50 has been a lot of fun researching and learning about games and genres of games. Then I hit a wall on developing content...so I just played a lot of games! I started to think about games, then specifically games for us over 50. Should I play this game, do I need better hardware or different hardware? Is the pace of the game too fast or slow, do I have enough time to play the game or...

The interesting and obscure of the Christmas holiday was on my mind today and I took to the interweb to find some fun facts you can tell others any year, but especially this year. I also tried to track Santa with NORAD while recording!

So I am traveling like a majority of people this holiday season and while I may not go over an ocean or continent to continent and get stuck on a deserted island. I could get stuck in an airport or at our rental without electricity! I thought about grabbing a book to read or reread or a movie to watch or rewatch and some of the games I can travel with that would be great in an airport, at the hous...

So there is a holiday coming up this week in the US and you may have some extra time with a couple days off or you work with folks in the US and they are all gone and not driving you crazy (I am very sorry for everything I do to drive my coworkers crazy) and you also have some extra time as well. In my first ever game review podcast I am going to review three of the biggest games this year and a c...

Need a movie recommendation for this years Halloween or Samhain? Well I have a set of non-slasher type movies, Freddy do not visit me tonight, you either Michael or Jason, we already have a goalie for street hockey! I chose some of my favorite all time supernatural and monster movies that are classics and some that may not be considered classics but I love them! Some of the greatest actors and dir...

Halloween is not just about candy, but it has some really historical references attached to it that have been based on the lore and traditional stories around the Supernatural. The Supernatural is a great genre for everything not 100% SciFi or Fantasy but based in fiction or partial fact, and it's soooo cool! In this podcast I go in to that genre with one particular universe that has crossed g...

After a game is developed and produced, distributed and on the shelves or ready to be downloaded there are a bunch of ways to make money! In this episode I go through a lot and I mean a lot of ways to make some money, maybe not enough to live on or maybe you hit it big (don't trust that). Through this podcast I haven't advertised and don't plan on it for at least 24 more episodes, but...

PAX 2023 had so many great games and in this episode I discussed 11 that are were definite winners if you are looking for a great game to play now or put on your wishlist!  I was so very very very impressed with the diversity of games this year, so many genres, game types and the subject matter of the games was again so diverse and really a breath of fresh air! 

In this episode, I recap PAX West 2023 and give my Top 10 Favorite parts of the game convention and also give my 5 things I would change in all conventions! PAX West utilized the new Seattle Convention Center space aka Summit and the original space Apex this year and delivered one of my favorite gaming conventions ever! Huge thank you to Kate, Wayne and Heather for joining this podcast and sharing...