Interview with TFG1Mike on Gamer Origins

Hey hey hey, it's the Chaos Queen here and you're

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not attempt to adjust the volume. Hello and welcome

back into our studio. This is Studio 2009 here

on the GeekCast Radio Network. I'm of course

TF2 and Mike and it is time to launch a new Origin

series. That's right. Originally episode 65 was

gonna be all about syndication with television,

animation, and other things and I didn't plan

enough for that so we're doing this. The Gamer

Origins will be 30 video game questions, all

about people's history with video games, which

joins our series on cartoons, comics. podcasting,

toy collecting, transformers, and he manned the

masters of the universe. Video games, yay! And

today I am in the lovely hands of the Chaos Queen

as she asks me the 30 questions all about my

history with video games. Hi Chaos, how are you?

I'm alright darling, how are you? Pretty good,

pretty good. And yeah folks, this is actually

not her debut. Technically it is. But her actual

debut, we recorded in advance of this. That'll

be episode 69 when we talk about Armageddon in

a few weeks later in December of 2023. So merry

early whatever to everybody. And yeah, so I leave

myself in your capable hands. Are you ready?

Of course I'm ready. Okay. Edit this out. B -

This is a really dumb question. Did you grow

up playing video games? That's a really dumb

question. No shit. It's - Yes, I - I know it's

a dumb question, but some people - Okay, so some

people that may have - and I'm not gonna edit

this out. Okay. But some people who have started

playing video games now did not play video games

40 years ago when we were children. Take it away!

Okay, Mike. Did you grow up playing video games?

Yes. Yes, I did. And what were some of your earliest

video game memories? My mom had both the 2600

and 7800 at different times, the Atari. I remember

playing Barnstormers on that. I remember hating

the Atari because as people will see on GeekCastVideo

.com in the episode post for this podcast, I

will have a picture in there of how I played

video games one handed. I was born with a mild

case of cerebral palsy. I did not have full function

of my right hand at all. I have full function

of my left hand and I found a way much later

after 1985. of being able to hold the Nintendo

Entertainment System controller in the palm of

my left hand by using, you know, holding it in

my palm and then using my thumb for the buttons

and then my fingers for the D -pad. So the Atari

joysticks, I don't like joysticks. No, no, there's

no joy in those joysticks, thank you. But yeah,

that was the earliest memory. I did not have

a Nintendo Entertainment System, my cousins did,

and I would go over to their house and play Super

Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt and all that stuff

all the time. I grew up mainly on Nintendo. I

made really, really poor choices in 1992 when

it came time to get my own next video game system,

because the first system I had, other than my

mom having the Ataris. As the Sega Master System,

she's in Christmas, right before Christmas in

92, she's like, okay, we're gonna go into Child

World, which was a, I think there's, probably

not around anymore, it's a local, it was a local

toy store up in New England, similar to Toys

R Us, but at that time, in my personal opinion,

it was better, because it was New England based.

And she's like, you can pick one, you can either

pick the Sega or the Super Nintendo, and I'm

like, mm, okay. And, no, no, I'm misspeaking,

I'm misremembering. Nintendo Entertainment System

or Sega Master System, because even though the

Genesis came out a little after the Super, the

Super was still the second one, whatever. So,

I had the Sega Master System with Alex Kidd in

The Lost Stars and Bo Jackson's Baseball and...

all these are the games that i don't really remember

that well and uh... i don't want to play and

i'd rather just go on the computer and play from

whatever computer games i had on my apple two

g s at the time but in nineteen ninety two she

was she she finally acquiesced and said okay

fine you've been at this uh... nintendo center

because nintendo used to go into the malls and

stuff and put little centers where they would

have tv's and console there it was a whole thing

and uh... I played Super Mario World the Donut

Plains 1 level over and over and over again and

that Christmas I was like I want this mom this

is the only thing I want I don't want anything

else and I got it and pretty much from Christmas

Eve morning up until December 26th I played that

Mario game pretty much almost two and a half

days straight unless i was sleeping i was on

that damn game yeah those are the earliest memories

i mean you pretty much stated this but um What

video games were you playing the most as a kid?

I liked Nintendo over Sega. My buddy, this is

later in life, this is like middle school years

when the Sega Game Gear came out. I was like,

ooh, that's cool. And he's like, yeah, and you

can watch TV on it too. And I was like, really?

That's all I wanted to use Sega Game Gear for

was to watch TV. I had a Game Gear and I didn't

know that. Uh -huh. I remember watching Tiny

Toon Adventures on it in 1990. Uh -huh. Rude.

Rude! I had no idea! I was deprived. So the Game

Gear you could watch TV on, and this chaos here

feels like she was so deprived because she didn't

know that. But yeah, I liked Sega Genesis, but...

I only liked Sonic. I played Golden Axe and Golden

Axe 2 and all that. I kind of liked Golden Axe.

I have this weird thing where if I get introduced,

and it doesn't matter if it's a game or movie

or whatever, if I get introduced to the sequel

first for the first film, I will most like, like,

I love Caddyshack 2. The original Caddyshack.

I don't know, it's not bad. I don't dislike it,

but it's not my favorite. And I guess, folks,

I know Caddyshack 2 sucks. It is what it is.

But yeah, I was definitely a Nintendo kid. I

also was a portable Tiger Electronics. Oh, I

had Paperboy, I had Turtles, I had so many Tiger

Electronics games. It wasn't even funny. Okay,

what would you say is your absolute favorite

video game that you played as a kid? Gotta be

Super Mario Bros. 3. The game was just so cool

at the time. It was so fun. It was Mario turned

into a raccoon. You could turn him into a ha

- Mario becoming a hammer brother. That had never

happened before. That was awesome. Frog. Finally,

Mario could actually swim without lessons. He

didn't need floaties. He had a frog suit. But

yeah, Super Mario 3 was definitely my favorite

as a kid. Very nice. What are some of the other

video games that you liked? Did you have a favorite

genre? or type of video game. Oh, I didn't really

have a f - There are genres that I avoid. I just

don't. Just have no interest in, like, RPGs.

I don't hate them, I don't dislike them, whatever,

but I just don't. They're just not for me. Like,

you're never gonna catch me playing Final Fantasy.

Never gonna happen. We'll see. Mm -hmm. I can

hear that sly smile on your face right now. But

it's just one of those things where I like the

the side scrollers I like the first person shooters

I love we'll maybe get to this a little bit later,

but I the only racing franchise that I was first

introduced to that I preferred over a different

one was definitely Need for Speed. I like Need

for Speed more than Gran Turismo. Uh -oh. Yes?

Finish your thought. We're gonna have to battle

later. Oh, are we? Okay, well then. Need for

Speed superior. Ooh, Gran Turismo. I loved, I

loved all the Mega Man games. Pretty much starting

again, like, I remember playing the first Mega

Man, but I liked Mega Man 2, 3, and 4 more than

the first game. I never played Castlevania. Just

not my thing. My goodness. I did play Double

Dragon, but not enough. I love the original NES

Turtles game. That was super cool. And then later

when they went to the Super Nintendo, they did

Turtles 4, Turtles in Time. That out of that

console era that is easily my favorite Turtles

game is the Turtles for Turtles in Time I like

to have zero I let a lot actually really dug

Super Mario Kart. I thought that was fun. That

was cute Mm -hmm. I was so cute. I love that.

Yep. Yep. I love the Simpsons road rage Road

rage. I think I think it was on either PlayStation

or PlayStation 2. It's essentially crazy taxi

except it's with the Simpsons Yeah, and you're

bringing me back, man. Uh -huh. We're gonna get

into this way later. I watched a video of this

game with a certain character earlier before

we did this recording, folks, because I needed

to remind myself. But, uh... Yeah, Bloody Roar

2, I love that game. One character. But other

than that... I remember going to the... These

are other memories and stuff, but we would have,

we would go to like the movies and stuff and

they would have, or back when movie theaters

had arcade cabinets in them, we would play, at

the time I think it was Soul's Edge. is the the

cabinet game it's essentially soul caliber but

it was called because that that game franchise

has a weird naming history but at the time it

was called soul's edge and i loved that's one

of my favorite fighting games i love that game

that game was so fun how did your gaming habits

change as you grew up and throughout your life

i stopped that's it interview over done all right

okay Well, so, okay, alright, well, 1992, Christmas

in 92, I had the Super Nintendo, I had Super

Mario World, I had A Link to the Past, which

in my personal opinion... Listeners listen to

what I just said my personal opinion a link to

the past is my number one favorite Zelda game

out of them all I haven't played them all but

it's the one that I love playing the most versus

the Original two games that had on any ass at

the time. What else did I play on? Yeah, so I

played all that stuff and then in 1993 my mom

as New Year's Eve was happening and we were seeing

the Three Stooges marathon that used to happen

all the time on WSBK channel 38 in Boston, Massachusetts.

It was the Brite -O commercials. The Stooges

were doing some weird commercial things within

their shorts. Brite -O! Brite -O! Makes old buddies

new! We'll sell a million bottles! And New Year's

Eve, she had a nervous breakdown because she

found out the guy that she'd been dating for

practically a decade actually was married and

had two stepdaughters that lived in Canada. So

my mom... I'm custody over to my dad. I come

from divorced parents. They divorced in 82 when

I was two years old I lived with my dad off and

on and he would always come to see me and had

Visitation rights and all that and everything

else. He remarried my first stepmother that happened

in 87. That's a whole other Can of worms that

I'll get into at some point here But yeah, so

mom had a nervous breakdown had to sign custody

over to dad because I couldn't go with any other

family member That was perfect, you know, I'm

saying this is anism. I'm trying to say this

correctly, whatever, but you know, it is what

it is. You step up when you're, when you're a

parent, I guess I wouldn't know I'm not a parent,

but, uh, so yeah, he came up from Kentucky and

I moved down to Kentucky and going from Massachusetts

to Kentucky is an extreme culture shock at 13

years old, literally came up my 13th birthday,

February 9th, 1998, 1993. And, uh, I got my own,

and I know this is lame, but I finally got my

own Game Boy for my 13th birthday. And I always

loved playing Tetris on that. I loved playing

Mario Land 2, Six Cold and Coins on that. And

yeah, I ended up in Kentucky with him and my

then -stepmother at the time, and that was about

two years. And due to things that she did, I

ended up in the custody of the state. From 1995

to 1999 I actually had to And this will tie back

into video games folks. I promise I had to recommit

my I had to make the decision at 19 years old

to recommit my 18 technically to recommit myself

so I could even graduate high school because

I get held back my stepmother held me back from

eighth grade Because I failed health and PE.

Number one, health class is boring. I understand

why we need it, but it was boring at the time.

And number two, I'm physically disabled. What

I failed in gym class was not running up and

down a basketball court. It was the fact that

I couldn't climb the damn rope. So, you know.

But as all this is going on, we've got the PlayStation

coming out, we've got all these other games coming

out, and as I was in, as I was a ward of the

state at the time, We would have various staff

members come into very whichever group home I

was in there was one the guy's name was Mark

He was always the overnight guy and we had a

he would actually bring in his PlayStation and

He introduced me to Metal Gear Solid and I just

have not looked back. I love that franchise So

as far as my actual gaming habits a good buddy

of mine Sean He I lived with him a couple of

times in the early 2000s and he was a big computer

gaming guy He still is and he introduced me to

kind of like Need for Speed and that kind of

stuff and I eventually played Kingdom Hearts

here and there and That's as close as I get to

Final Fantasy is Kingdom Hearts those games.

I love those those are cool After 2006, 2007,

these gaming companies are like, besides the

fact of cost, and I understand why they cost

as much as they do, hello, but because of playing

one -handed specifically to the controllers,

I couldn't do an N64 controller at all. This

was too wide. The original Xbox controller, too

wide. At least the Sony PlayStation 1 and 2 controllers,

even with the PlayStation Dualshock. At least

that wasn't so bad where I could still play it,

but after a while the controllers just got too

damn big and I just didn't. I just went more

PC gaming than anything else, but even then I

fell out of doing that. I still play Grand Theft

Auto IV for stress relief, let's say. I've played

that game so many times since 2006, I don't need

to play it for the story anymore. I just play

it for... Crime solving. Nico Bellic in the city

of justice. So yeah, I pretty much did stop.

I love watching people play modern games. It's

awesome, but I just haven't gotten into any of

them as far as actually playing any of them.

Do you go back and play any of the video games

you grew up with? Of course. Coolest thing a

couple of years ago. Nintendo decided to go classic.

They released the NES and Super NES classics.

Now, a buddy of mine who has also podcasted with

us a lot, Michael Powers, he's Steve Megatron's

friend, but he's also my friend as well. He actually

gave me, actually I bought it from him, I think.

I think I bought it, yeah, I'm pretty sure I

bought it from him. And his only thing was, the

only way he was going to sell it to me, the Super

Nintendo Classic, is if I would never sell it

ever. And I'm like, dude, I want to play this

thing. I ain't getting rid of it. So it's hooked

up to my TV right now. And at the time, when

I bought that from him, Karen and I had just

moved into the house that she had bought. Karen,

for those that have listened to Studio 2009 before,

and for those that haven't, she is my late, technically

ex -wife. That's a whole other story. Yeah, so

we had had the Super Nintendo and I'm like, oh,

I kind of want the Nintendo Classic, but I couldn't

find it anywhere at a decent price because, man,

those things were just everywhere. I got scammed

on Facebook Marketplace and, oh, this is a modified

version of it. It has like over a thousand. I'm

like, I don't want the thousand games. I just

want the 30 that are supposed to be on the damn

thing. So I eventually found one that wasn't

a scam. Yeah, we got scammed on the The NES classic

and then I found one that wasn't a scam and Just

found it. It's on though. I think it's on the

nightstand in the bedroom. I got a now I found

the console. I have the controller no idea where

the wires are that actually connected to the

TV so But I have I have two -thirds of it Almost.

Yeah, almost. But I love replaying Super Mario

World. I love replaying A Link to the Past. And

like I said earlier before, to me there is nothing

more, like if I just need to zone out, veg out,

and just like not deal with anything, I will

put on some loud ass rock music blaring in my

headphones. I will throw in Grand Theft Auto,

actually I don't have to throw it in, it's on

Steam. But I will put that on and I will just

get in a cop car in that game and just go bust

up a bunch of criminals. Very nice. Well, which

video games from your childhood have you replayed?

as an adult, and which one's held up the best

or worst? So it's funny, we do this same question

with almost all the origins, and with the cartoon

one, I like to look at things in the time they

were made. So you look at Super Mario Bros.,

the very first one. Still a pretty damn good

game almost 40 years later. And we are two years

away from the 40th anniversary of the original

game and the original Nintendo Entertainment

System. Oh my god. Still a pretty damn good game,

you know. Making me feel old here. Okay. You're

younger than me, dear. Um, yeah. By like three

weeks. Yeah. But yeah, I... All the games that

I have replayed, I think... pulled up for me

because I enjoy replaying them. I know what the

story is to a link to the past, but that still

doesn't mean that it takes me about four different

times to kill some of those mini bosses in that

game. Depending on which one it is. Sometimes

those Armos Knights, man, they are just vicious,

even though you just shoot them with arrows.

I haven't played a lot of the Mega Man games.

My main one that I used to play all the time

was Mega Man X. It went to... Super Nintendo,

I think it was Super Nintendo. Steve will probably

listen to this and be screaming at the top of

his lungs. Yes it was or no it wasn't. Hi Steve!

Hi Steve! I replay them quite a bit now that

I have the systems to do it on. Well which video

games that have released in your adulthood have

you liked the most? I like a lot of them. I mainly

just watch people play. That's pretty much all

I do now. There are a lot of streamers out there

that play some really awesome games Games that

I've never heard of but I'm kind of getting into

them because those people are playing those games

But ones I really look out for is like some of

the Need for Speed entries and with Need for

Speed I will say this I only like the Most wanted

or undercover or the ones where it's dealing

with the cops and this that the other thing I

don't like like Need for Speed Pro Street like

when it's like Need for Speed on a track. That's

boring to me. If I wanted to play, you know,

race tracking games, I would go play Gran Turismo,

but I don't want to, but I don't want to do that

because no. Gran Turismo, yeah. But I just finished

watching, I got to watch the last video. There's

a guy out there called TheRadBrad on YouTube.

He did a whole playthrough of Spider -Man 2.

So I got to finish watching his latest video.

Love that game. That game is so cool. I love

a lot of the Twisted Metal games. So those are

cool. What else? Crash Bandicoot Spyro. The original

PlayStation type characters when those first

started. Metal Gear. Like I said, Metal Gear

Solid stuff. Really enjoy that. I watched somebody

do a full playthrough of... I forget which one

is first. I think it's Jedi Fallen Order and

then Jedi Survivor. So I liked that. I actually

remember playing the old trilogy game. in that

arcade at the movie theater where they had the

big surround sound thing where you sit in the

thing and it's basically episodes four, five

and six and you get to choose which movie you

want to play in. So that was really cool. Are

there any video games that you hate or have been

greatly disappointed by? I wouldn't say there's

games that I outright hate because I usually

just ignore the stuff that I have no interest

in. There aren't any games that I have played

that I have hated because, again, I'm only playing

games for... I'm sticking to franchises. You're

not going to see me playing something I don't

know most of the time. At some point within the

last 20, 30, 40 years, there has been a game

that I may not have liked. Again, Take Need for

Speed. I tried Pro Street, didn't really like

it at the same time. I don't hate that game.

So that I was disappointed by it, it just wasn't

the type of Need for Speed I wanted to play.

So yeah. So with everything you have played,

who is your and all be all favorite character

from any video game? You can pick one hero and

one villain. So I actually wrote my choices down

on my own document in Microsoft Word, so you

don't see these. But I mean, I like a lot of

them. We're going to talk about that with the

next question, but if, you know, you stick a

SOCOM pistol to my head, I'm probably going to

pick Solid Snake and Liquid Snake. Metal Gear

Solid was just so freaking cool to me, and I

love David Hayter as the voice of Solid. And

I love Cam Clark, who was the original voice

of Leonardo in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

the 87 cartoon, came and did the voice of Liquid

Snake, who was the main villain in that game.

So yeah, Solid and Liquid Snake. Love those guys.

Okay. Well, what are some other video game characters

that you like? I like Mario, I like Sonic, I

like Mario probably more than Sonic most days.

because Mario's had so many adventures. I like

Sonic. I don't dislike Sonic. But, you know,

that chili dog eatin' fool is a little too fast,

though. I only say it's... Too much coffee. No,

yeah, probably. It reminds me of that... I forget

which studio did it. I think it was DreamWorks

did a hoodwink to where it was a Little Red Riding

Hood. It's a whole other thing, but there's a

chipmunk in that where... where the wolf gives

the chipmunk coffee, and the chipmunk's like,

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coffee, Like I said, I like Sonic. I like Tails

a little bit more than Sonic, because Tails is

kind of cool. He's kind of that Fox character

with, you know, he uses his... He's adorable.

He uses his twin tails as kind of like a helicopter

thing, and he can fly around, and... Yep. Yes.

Which is funny, because when you ask the question,

when you ask question 10, I was originally gonna

put this... I'm gonna say later here, but I'll

save that answer, because that... should go into

the gamer fantasy funland answer. I think that'll

work better. But yeah, no, there are plenty of

other video game characters. I like when you

get to... I like when games give you the choice

of being able to just jump in and out of things,

like in the Spider -Man games. There were Mary

Jane missions even though I didn't play those

games. I thought that as a video game fan I thought

that was really cool that you get to split your

time between Peter Mary is specifically the second

one as I'm thinking of this You have Peter, Miles,

and they switch off, and then you have Mary Jane

missions somewhere in the middle there, so I

like when games do that kind of stuff. Are there

any characters that you hate? Alex Kidd. He can

get lost in his stars from Sega Master System.

Sega tried to make a Mario character and they

failed. He was so annoying. So who are some of

your favorite video game voices or voice actors?

Favorite voices or voice actors? Let's see. Like

I said, David Hader as Solid Snake, Cam Clark

as Liquid. In the first Metal Gear game, there

was Dr. Naomi Hunter, I believe. She was voiced

by Jennifer Hale. I've had a crush on Jennifer

Hale's voice since I was 14 years old when she

was the Black Cat in Spider -Man, the animated

series from 1994. You know, as long as the voice

fits the character, I like it. I mentioned about

Sonic, you know, eating a bunch of chili dogs.

That's because Jaleel White was the original

voice of Sonic in one of the original Sonic cartoons.

I love Charles Martinet as Mario, even though

he doesn't get enough credit for being Mario.

And even though he's no longer Mario, I love

Mario as that. I love video game voice actors

that have interesting thing like you you never

realized that was them even though you know who

like of course we live in the age of the internet

we have for 30 years now like back then with

voice acting in the 90s nobody really knew because

nobody really had the until the internet came

along nobody really could research the stuff

they were all just you know anomalies and and

their anonymity was amazing for them But yeah,

it just varies. I love Matt Hill as the voice

of Captain and the Game Master in that cartoon

series. As far as other video game voices, I

can't think of any anymore. My brain's starting

to flog up. Yay! Brain fog. Did you ever own

anything based on a video game? Toys, comics,

coloring books? I had a subscription to Nintendo

Power and I always felt like I had the power.

Oh, when the Super Nintendo hit and they released

whatever that what whatever I forget which issue

it is and I'm sure video game historians are

screaming it was volume blah blah blah issue

blah blah blah. There was a, when they announced

the Super Nintendo and Super Mario World, there

was like this big, like, fold -out poster, it

was this whole thing, and I was like, oh, God.

Because back then, that's how we got our news

for video games, was through the magazines, and,

you know... Game Pro and other things, and fine,

but Nintendo? Nintendo Power, it was like, you

were the cool kid in school if you had a Nintendo

Power subscription. Probably the only time I've

ever been cool in my entire life. So I had that.

I've had various toys. The comics, because they've

done some com - That was the other - So, Nintendo

Power was the magazine. Back then they also did

- they were trying to do the Nintendo Comics

system. And there is a series of Nintendo Comics

with Mario and Zelda and all of them. And I had

those as a kid. I thought those were great. I

didn't do too many of the coloring books, because

by the time I was really getting into video games,

I was 12, 13, and 14. I just wanted to play the

games. I wasn't really that big on the coloring

book type stuff. So no Yoshi underoos going on.

I had already grown out of the underoos. I think

the last, and I'm only saying this to be able

to throw this clip in here from Captain America

Civil War. I think the last pair of underoos

I had as a kid was Spider -Man underoos and that

was in like 1988. Alright, just checking. What

is your favorite video game theme song? This

is a loaded question for me, folks. I love soundtracks

and scores. Movies, TV, cartoons, video games,

whatever it is. If it's good and if it catches

my ear, I absolutely love it. I love all of the

Mario music. I love all of the Mario sound effects.

But it's really... It's gotta go back to what...

how... They incorporated the music and the sound

from Metal Gear Solid from 1998. Anytime you

hear any music from the original Metal Gear Solid

game, you know exactly what that is, and I love

that music. I wish I could track... I wish that

they would release, for the 25th anniversary

this year, I wish they would release a fully

licensed whatever soundtrack for that game. But

other video game... I love the... you know, all

the Mario music stuff and how different the Mario

music has gotten over time. The music in Sonic

the Hedgehog 2 is some of the coolest music I've

ever heard. It's just so fun. Mega Man, a lot

of the Mega Man games have cool, interesting

music, so, but yeah, for me, it's gonna always

come back to those Metal Gear instrumentals.

How big or small is your video game collection?

It's minuscule. I think I still have a original

copy of the Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge. I

know I still have my original Windows copies

of Grand Theft Auto 4 and a couple other games.

I have the Super Nintendo and Nintendo classics,

but yeah, like I said that close to the beginning

of the podcast I don't really like I'm have more

enjoyment now Watching people play games like

please tell me why why and how? Biologically

the forest can have sons. I don't get that whatsoever

Be between that and phasmophobia and zomboid

and all these other things, you know I I pretty

much enjoyed just watching people play the games

now I My buddy Josh my good buddy Josh flood

who does toy cast with me He's like, oh, I think

I can get on Grand Theft Auto 4 or we can do

multiple like Josh I don't I don't use it for

multi. I Understand the sentiment you want to

do something together fine It ain't gonna be

that game cuz I don't use it for that. I use

it for stress relief Which games had the biggest

impact on your life? I would say Tetris, the

original Super Mario Land, Turtles 4, Metal Gear

Solid 2, Sons of Liberty are the ones that I

played. Those games are all ones that I would

go back and play all the time if I could. Those

games were all so much fun. I really, really

enjoyed them all. And I mean, Mario's Mario.

Can always go back and play Super Mario World.

Oh, yeah, you know and like I've played that

game so many times. I'm really not I Actually,

it's funny the last time I did a playthrough

of that on the Super Nintendo classic was I don't

know well months ago, maybe four or five months

ago now I Tried to just see how high I could

get the score counter See how high I could get

the like I'm like, I'll just sit here and don't

up planes one. It's fine see how high or I'll

just go through some of my favorite levels in

the game and just and just play those just to

see whatever so but yeah no definitely Mario

and again the sound effects in Mario I can hear

I used to I don't now because I actually use

the Metal Gear exclamation mark sound I got my,

uh, back in 2017 when I got a Samsung Galaxy

S7. First thing I did was go to my computer library

and get the Mario coin sound. And I had the Mario

coin sound as my notification sound. And then

I finally switched it to the Metal Gear Alert

sound, which people will hear in the edited version

of this episode. Yeah, I would say between Turtles

and Mario and Metal Gear and all that. Yeah,

that's probably them. the biggest stuff that's

had an impact on me. Mmm, what was the most money

you've ever spent on a video game item? I would

like to get a lot of the... I would love to get

a couple of prints. There are a couple of art

books out there I'd love to get, but I really

haven't spent that much money on games nowadays,

or even back then. I really think the most money

my mom ever dropped was spending 200 bucks to

get me that Super Nintendo of Christmas of 92.

And that was the... PlayStation 2 was, because

the PlayStation 2 was the first one I actually

bought myself. I didn't get it on like day one,

but like within the first year that it was released.

Oh man. Do you have a, my parents will let me

play that game story. That question is worth

it's so whiny. Well it's, yeah, that's because...

That question comes from cartoons and toy collecting.

So, originally, do you have a, my parents wouldn't

let me watch that cartoon story, or my parents,

you know, uh, my parents sold all my toys. Do

you have one of those kinds of stories? My word?

Yeah. Boys. So, you know, collectibles. It's

an emotional thing. Okay. Anyway. Do you have?

Do you have in my parents wouldn't let me play

that game? Sorry, really? Because by the time

I was playing games And my mom let me pretty

much do whatever I wanted and I didn't have a

game system at my dad's My dad act it's funny.

My dad actually bought me two of the handheld

turtles games that I had so Surprise, surprise.

He sold all my He -Man toys when I was six years

old in 1986, but yet three or four years later,

he buys me these Turtles miniature video game

systems. That's a little weird, but... Do you,

Dad. I did have, and I loved playing it, I mentioned

this earlier about some of the... I didn't mention

this one specifically, but... the tiger electronics

games with play uh not playboy wow if tiger well

my my uh paper paper boy is what i meant to say

i love jordan versus bird i loved that game even

though it was just a little tiger handheld game

that game was so cool i loved that larry bird

forever folks what is your opinion on video game

reboots And which ones do you think have been

the most successful? The overall opinion is if

it's going to be a good story, go ahead and reboot

it and do a different story. Don't repeat the

same. Like nobody wants another copy of Super

Mario Brothers 2. Mm hmm. I mean, like that game

was cool. That game was different. It wasn't

exactly. Air Mario. It started with the original

game, but it was slightly different. You could

play as the princess. You could play as Luigi

and Toad. That was cool. As far as holding up

for most successful, I don't know. I think we

now live in an age where, again, it's franchise

-based. You could have... any type of game in

the Mario franchise, because all of them are

different. Not a lot of them are... I mean, you

might have sequels to games, and that's fine.

I see a lot of the Mario games as sequels, not

necessarily reboots. But with Star Wars and Marvel

and all that, it's more of like, hey, what are

we going to do next? I think the only... Yeah,

I don't think they're... Okay, there have been,

like... Now they're doing, like, these remastered,

like, again, Metal Gear. that they have the remastered

collection, or the ultimate collection, or this

collection, or that collection. Hey, I know these

companies need to make money. I know they need

to keep their IP alive, but unless you're gonna

do it for the fans that love those games, don't

do it. I can still go back and play the original

Metal Gear Solid. That's fine for me. I will

say, though, even though I wasn't able to play

it, I did watch a playthrough of Metal Gear Solid

4, Guns of the Patriots, and you're gonna hear

me say this again, folks, in a couple of weeks

on episode 67, which is already recorded, but

when that game hits the Shadow Moses incident

from the original game and does this whole flashback

into, oh man, all the emotions just came back

flooding, so... Yeah, it just depends on what

the companies do, but I think they need to do

it, like, don't do it unless you can do it right.

Like, unless you can, not so they make everybody

happy, but do it the right way that it's gonna,

I don't know, I've heard a lot of stuff, specifically,

currently, about the Metal Gear Solid remake

stuff, where it's like, it isn't this, it isn't

that, it doesn't feel like blah, blah, blah,

and I'm like, oh great, they made a crappy remake.

Which video game series from the past would you

most want to see more of? Whether it's a reboot,

a live action movie, or any other form of media.

I think they need to do a Metal Gear Solid animated

series somehow, some way. I mean, we have all

these other cartoons that we can do stuff with.

That would be really cool. I would love to see

an updated version of the Legend of Zelda cartoon

that was done with the Super Mario Bros. Super

Show back in the day. As far as more... I want

to see more of the games... I want to see more

of Turtles. I know the Turtles have had several

games over the last few years, but I want to

see, like... Maybe adapt one of the movies or

maybe do this maybe do that I'm sure there there

was a video game for the latest movie or whatever

and whatever else but like Go back to like the

1990 Turtles movie and do an updated with today's

graphics kind of video game based on that kind

of thing What is your opinion of the video game

sidekick? Luigi tails clank Do you love them?

You hate them? Don't care either way. I like

Luigi. He's got some, uh... The overall aspect

of the sidekick, I think, works because in video

games, more so than in cartoons, I mean, some

video game sidekicks can be annoying. Tails can

sometimes, if he dies, and then you die, and

as you're respawning, he respawns on top of you.

He's not supposed to do that in Sonic 2, but

sometimes he did. But no, for video games I think

sidekicks work because they're there to aid the

hero, they're not there to cause the hero annoyances.

So I guess I would say I don't really care that

much either way. In your opinion, which decade

represents the golden era of video games and

why? The 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 2000s? 2010s 2020s.

It's funny. Originally this question came from

the cartoon script and the cartoon script goes

all the way back to the 1920s 20s and 30s So

I had to actually look up and see when the very

first video game was and it was like just before

Just as 1960 was happening. So that's why 60s

70s stars it I'm gonna say the 80s I loved the

birth of the video games, 80s into the 90s. That

was a real, real sweet spot. We have a lot more

interesting and cool and graphically awesome

games nowadays because of the technology, but

you think about back then, they were like ground

breaking. And yeah, so I'm gonna say the 80s.

As gaming has evolved, What have been your greatest

likes and dislikes in the video game industry?

I think the video game industry, I think some

of these companies, like I said before, with

like the remakes and reboots and things like

that, I don't think they know what they want

to do. I think that they need, I think that their

need to keep up their intellectual property may

be hindering them from creating new games or

starting new games. This is why we have like

AAA companies and then we have the indie companies

and the indie companies are doing more... like

trying to break into the whole thing of, what

can we put in between Mario and Sonic? What kind

of stuff can we create? Which I think that is

really cool. That's a good spark of creativity

as far as the industry itself. I don't need to

fight anybody over the last copy of whatever

the newest hottest game is. I just don't. Like...

Sometimes these video game fans, man, they'd

be crazy and it's just nuts. I mean, now most

games, at least PC games, you can just get them

on Steam and you don't have to go to a store

and fight people over the last Mario or the last

Sonic or the last God of War or whatever. Alright,

well, some people view video games as something

for children and don't view gaming as a serious

form of media that adults should consume. Who

do you think video games should be made for,

in your honest opinion? It's, there's something

for everybody, so they should be made for everybody,

and we're, again, this question is kind of coming

from the cartoon script a little bit because

back in the 80s, a lot of these senators and

people, and I'm not, we're not here to be political

at all, people, but I remember watching ads where,

or watching news stories as a kid where it's

like, oh my god, video games are bad, our kids'

minds are being destroyed because Mario... ate

a mushroom and became six feet taller than what

he was. Hi. We are now entering the Gamer Fantasy

Funland. If you could own any vehicle featured

in a video game, which would it be? Hmm... I

gotta go with the Batmobile. Whichever version

from any of the Arkham games. Aw. Darn. There

goes my answer. Well, I mean, because... If you

think about it... Vehicles in video games? Most

like Mario does... Yoshi is not a vehicle, he's

an animal. I mean... Well, I will probably let

you get away with that answer, because I'll change

the question to pets, but... But yeah, I mean,

I'm thinking about it, and I'm thinking about

all the video games I've played, and most of

these characters, they don't really have... ...vehicle,

like... Yeah, so I'll go with the Batmobile.

If you could live in any video game world...

...that you wanted, where would it be? Even though

I know it's, uh... ...gonna be... ...probably

after a while, especially if Link doesn't defeat

him... I gotta say, I really dig how the layout

and how the world looks in A Link to the Past.

That would be really cool, going between Kuriko

Village and the Lost Woods and all that. I'll

take the Master Sword. It's alright. Who would

be your top three gamer pals to join you and

become a quartet? I can't sing to save my life,

but I would probably pick Zelda, Good Snake,

and FemShep from Mass Effect. Here's a good one.

If you could date any video game character, who

would she be? Hands down? Jenny the Bat from

Bloody Roar 2. Oh my goodness. Yeah. Huge, huge

crush on her and this is the thing I alluded

to earlier that I watched the video of so I could

remember what her story was and how she played

in Bloody Roar 2. It's the only reason why I

liked Bloody Roar 2 was that character. I liked

some of the other characters but I always played

as Jenny the Bat and I would love to be on a

date with her. That would be cool as hell. Although,

you know, there's somebody out there right now

that would probably take her, most likely. What

is the holy grail of video game artifact? Like

the fire flower in Mario? Mega Buster? It's from

Mega Man. There are a lot of them, I would say,

and I would probably pick... Probably pick the

Master Sword from A Link to the Past, most likely.

It's not only an artifact, it's a weapon. As

long as you have full health, you can, you know,

shoot laser beams out of it, so that's cool as

hell. Neat. We are now exiting the gamer fantasy

land. What is one piece of advice that you would

give the video game fandom in general? Calm down.

Video games is so vast. Like I mentioned earlier,

with multiple age ranges and video games for

everybody. Some of these fans that just go ballistic

over one or two things, calm down, please. We

can all get along. We can all have fun. So, that

would be what I would say to people. Alright.

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