A Life Well Wasted
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...an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them. Hosted and edited by former EGM and 1UP writer Robert Ashley. This guy.
It features music by I Come to Shanghai and posters by Olly Moss. Each episode focuses on on particular topic in the world of videogames.
Episode One: The Death of EGM
Robert Ashley talks to former Electronic Gaming Monthly writers and editors about their experiences at the long running magazine.
Episode Two: Gotta Catch em All
Robert Ashley explores the world of collectors and archivists, visiting a massive underground collection of videogames, a vintage pinball museum, and a program at Stanford University that hopes to save the history of online gaming.
Episode Three: Why Game?
Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an eccentric, forward-thinking game designer who lives sustainably with his family of four on $14,000 a year, and gets a first-hand account of what its like to work on terrible games (and what its like to get terrible reviews) from an anonymous game developer.
Episode Four: Artists, Fans & Engineers
Robert Ashley visits a cosplay enthusiast, talks to the founder of an art show about videogames, discovers the strange world of fan fiction radio plays, and profiles a self-taught computer chip designer racecar driver/roller derby bruiser.
Episode Five: Help
Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit playing games for a year, and profiles the best selling pinball designer of all time.
Episode Six comes out tomorrow. Unless it's delayed again.
It features music by I Come to Shanghai and posters by Olly Moss. Each episode focuses on on particular topic in the world of videogames.
Episode One: The Death of EGM
Robert Ashley talks to former Electronic Gaming Monthly writers and editors about their experiences at the long running magazine.
Episode Two: Gotta Catch em All
Robert Ashley explores the world of collectors and archivists, visiting a massive underground collection of videogames, a vintage pinball museum, and a program at Stanford University that hopes to save the history of online gaming.
Episode Three: Why Game?
Robert Ashley wonders why he spends his free time playing videogames, asks random people on the street about it, talks to a researcher whose work attempts to harness the brain power wasted on gaming, gets to know an eccentric, forward-thinking game designer who lives sustainably with his family of four on $14,000 a year, and gets a first-hand account of what its like to work on terrible games (and what its like to get terrible reviews) from an anonymous game developer.
Episode Four: Artists, Fans & Engineers
Robert Ashley visits a cosplay enthusiast, talks to the founder of an art show about videogames, discovers the strange world of fan fiction radio plays, and profiles a self-taught computer chip designer racecar driver/roller derby bruiser.
Episode Five: Help
Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit playing games for a year, and profiles the best selling pinball designer of all time.
Episode Six comes out tomorrow. Unless it's delayed again.
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The original score of each episode is part of what makes the show brilliant. The music always fits the tone and pacing of the show and the whole thing is a very cohesive experience. Definitely check it out.
Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York University professor, and meets a struggling game blogger who happens to possess freakishly enormous genitalia.
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