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!

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.

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!

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.

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 the afterlife? We tackle the hard questions in this episode.

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 game industry.

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.

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 when Alex and Trav beg him to show off his auctioneering skills. If you like video games, Earnest Evans gets a mention. There's a little something for everyone!

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 one talks about (not to be confused with a term that rhymes with "gidden hems"), and a lot more! John is a great hang, join us, won't you

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 videos have been produced by the hosts lately and a pair of listener emails about our favorite games played in 2020 and if SNESdrunk will ever add ratings to his reviews.

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 a fun time, especially if you like the NES.

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 licensed games, both good and bad. Would you fight 100 duck sized t-rexes? We wouldn't either.

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!

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' "Console Wars," Jeff Ryan's "Super Mario," Tristan Donovan's "Replay," among many others. We also talk about families in video games, The King of All Cosmos' package, whether or not we'd want to see a Chrono Trigger remake (answers may surprise you), dungeon crawlers, Swans... geez what didn't we talk about? BookDrunk!

This week on DrunkFriend, we take a detour from gaming and talk to New Zealand artist Leila Ataya! She creates drawing and painting tutorials on Youtube, and we talk to her about her teaching background, the differences in teaching styles around the world, her inspirations and influences, and the "happy accident" that is her Youtube channel! Trav and Alex also talk about video promotion on social media, our "deserted island" games, and the intensely strange story in Skate or Die 2!

On this episode, Jason Heine (Heine House Entertainment), the pioneer of retro gaming podcasts, stops by to chat about All-Gen Gamers, racing games, and of course... Missouri. Trav and Alex take a break from videos this week but do answer some emails about their favorite boss battles and what a Seinfeld video game would look like. There's even a mean email. Listener questions ask if indie-inspired retro games are over saturating the market and what old movie or TV show would make for a great game today. Jason talks a bit about getting phished and spotlights his OST contributions on Hotshot Racing!

Trav and Alex take a break from guests this week for a relaxed episode where they catch up on the videos they released this week on their respective YouTube channels and try to recall a delicious sandwich from a 90's action thriller. An email asks for recommended kids games and another listener wanted to know what game sounds induced the most panic. Alex shares some of the meanest comments he's received on his channel and for fun, the hosts rank some of the second-tier developers on their respective favorite systems!

On this episode of of DrunkFriend, Trav and Alex are joined by David of Mariachi Entertainment System. We get all the inside scoops on the band's roster, talk about how it all comes together, and discuss some of the most memorable moments for MES. The hosts kick off the show with a recap of Alex's experience at the Uplink LiRetro virtual convention this past weekend. Find out what happened after Alex posted his Waterworld review that mentioned the game's soundtrack composer. Can your eyeballs handle JJ Squawkers? What is on Trav and Alex's romhack wishlist? The show rounds out with a brief discussion about Tetris Attack for some reason.

In this episode, Alex and Trav are once again joined by a guest but first they recap last week's show, then talk about Alex's up and coming virtual convention at Long Island Retro before reading a few fun emails. They're then joined by a streamer who does a little more than just complete no-death runs of Battletoads live on-air, he also paints video game landscapes and plays retro gaming music. Learn how TheRenesance got started, what his artistic inspirations are, and what the deal is with all the golf lately? Fred Couples swings by to wrap up the show.

This week Trav (NESfriend) and Alex (SNESdrunk) roll guest-less and catch up on all sorts of things. Alex is running now? One of Trav's subscribers can see the future? Listeners asks about favorite sports movies, recording equipment, and what the future has in store for the YouTube channels of each. A big portion of the episode focuses on the modern day hype around games and why people always seem to ruin it with their negativity.