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DrunkFriend Episode 56 - Nick, Creator of Racketboy.com
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 of other stuff. If you're a collector folk, you'll enjoy this one.
DrunkFriend Episode 55 - Pete Dorr
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 awful.
DrunkFriend Episode 54 - Hungry Goriya... Again!
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 share a listener's Top 13 handheld games.
Episode 54: The Golden Age of Beat'em Ups
The 54th episode of the show is here! Some sizable movements in the backlog are announced, including some hardware! The discussion turns back the clock to the 80's and 90's when brawlers and beat'em ups were all the (Streets of) rage.
Collect Call 2.5: Alex, Becoming SNESDrunk
In the final episode of Collect Call's second season, Travis interviews Alex, the voice behind the hit retro review YouTube channel SNESDrunk. Alex describes his channel and how it's taken shape over the years. Games he'll review soon and some he might revisit are all unveiled in the episode! If you have shelves of video games or are looking for some new-old stuff to play, SNESDrunk has you covered.
Collect Call 2.4: Rick, GameValueNow Creator
Trav recaps the first three episodes of this season as well as mention his few pickups over the last few weeks. He's then joined by Rick, the founder and creator of the useful video game pricing tool GameValueNow.Com. Rick sheds some light on how the site operates and what to look forward to.
Episode 29: Respected Development
It's time to say thanks to some of our favorite developers who get too little recognition! We list some of our favorite dev studios who aren't quite household names to the general public, but who deliver some great content! The standard segments are here as well, but have the table turned for completing games? Thanks for listening!
Collect Call 9: Marcus, PS2 Games & Visual Novels
In episode 9, Travis interviews Marcus. Marcus is fairly unique among game collectors as his focus is on completing the PS2 library! Listen as Trav and he discuss their collections and the hobby itself, as well as visual novels!