Episode 658: YouTube & Retrogaming (Feat. AVGN) (Patreon)

Stuart: If you’d like to hear me starstruck and nervous, here’s your chance. Talking to the terrifying Jeremy Parish is scary enough, but I have been a fan of James Rolfe since the beginning and was knocked for six that he even replied in the affirmative to my email, let alone did the show. It’s a short interview by necessity and was easily the most challenging one I’ve held to date—but not because of our James, the nicest chap in the world.

In addition to this natter I got hold of our resident host of Video Works, one Jeremy Parish, for a chat about YouTube’s influence, malign or otherwise, on retrogaming discussion and canon. My intention is to follow this up if I can with more of a roundtable chat with some other YouTubers if I can wrangle them, but I’m also cognisant that such content is of a more niche appeal and I’d hate to end up covering the same ground. So we’ll see.

Hopefully these two segments will have cohered into a perfectly cromulent episode for you. It was a pleasure to speak with both Parish and Rolfe, especially in the latter’s 20th anniversary year—a fact that makes me feel like I’m about to turn into a skellington and keel over. Like it or not, YouTube has has a profound effect on the gaming scene, retro or otherwise, with anyone now able to broadcast their views, perspective, take on any game at any time. It’s a totally different scene than the one I grew up in and I thought it was time to address that, however loosely.

Edits by Greg Leahy. Art by Leeann Hamilton.

13:21 - Alleyway: Nice Play!

23:23 - Nuts & Milk: Stage Theme #2

31:58 - Alfred Chicken (SNES): Bonus

39:44 - My Frogger Toy Trials: Battle 4

48:39 - Theme from The 1UP Show | Kyle Justin: "Angry Nintendo Nerd"

1:01:54 - Huey Lewis & The News: "Back in Time"

1:12:41 - Angry Video Game Nerd I & II Deluxe: Future Fuckballs 2010

Closing - Rocky (SMS): Speed Training