Video Games nstuff - Ep. #01: Game Boy craze, Super Mario Land and getting into video games

I'm delighted that these days there's a lot of video-game-talk being done and done beautifully, passionately and entertaining, i.e. A Life Well Wasted, GWJ, Giant Bombcast, DGRadio (although not primarily about games anymore) or the fantastic GT Retrospectives.

So I thought I'd start contributing some hopefully enjoyable stories out of my own play history, for I often found listening to other people's gaming experiences pretty fascinating, sometimes even comforting and uplifting.

Note: Please excuse the hissing sibilants, I already equalized them out a little by numbing down everything above ~8khz on the voice-track, but didn't want to mumble the narration too much. Next time I'll use a better microphone and/or recording settings.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• game boy
• gameboy
• super mario land
• video games
• videogames
• memories
• challenge
• childhood
• nintendo
• commodore
• return of rockman
• return of rock man
• video meanies

[gblargg]

This came across to me as charming expression of your personal experience with games. I sense that it was enjoyable for you to make. The three different voices for present you, kid you, and hard-core gamer were really expressive of what parts of you the comments were coming from. As for poor skills in SML, I'm surprised there was no mention of the low-contrast blurry slow LCD of the Game Boy.

[cronochos]

awesome vids!!

[themartinisong]

This is really sweet. A lot of the things you talk about resonates with my own experience when I got into games.