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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! Ali schools the hosts on all things Pokemon, discusses her experiences working for Twitch and streaming for Twitch, as well as her experiences going to conventions. All that and more!

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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. We discuss whether his art degree (and subsequent student debt) was worth it, what a Metroid film would be like, and a Dutch oven is referenced a few times. (The two are sadly unrelated.) We also delve into the world of coffee, but nothing snobby whatsoever. I mean it's friggin Keurig cups and Folgers and Maxwell House and stuff. You'll enjoy this one!

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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!


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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. To start, Trav and Alex drone on about their channels before answering a few listener emails and discuss how their video making is schedules. Which 80's or 90's franchises should have had NES games? The show wraps up with everyone giving an answer for which console should have the next mini-version.
Norm arrives at 23:00

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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. 

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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. Lots and LOTS of great insight here provided by Dan, who's a great talker and easily one of the best guests we've ever had. Dan even has his keyboard on hand to help demonstrate how he came up with some tracks. Trav and Alex also answer some email questions about what video game character would make a good president, the Hebrew Bible, and Alex rambles about Chrono Trigger for nearly 10 minutes. But really, this episode is all about Dan Hess. Listen and enjoy!

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On this episode of DF, Trav and Alex interview Josh Petrie of Undead Labs, the studio responsible for the State of Decay franchise that was recently acquired by Microsoft. He expands on what it's like working for a large development team and provides recommendations for how you can prepare yourself for the industry if game development is something you want to do. Trav and Alex take some emails at the top of the show about bad Christmas gifts, presidential cameos, and more. You don't want to miss this!

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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. Emails cover swimming, special beats, and wishful translations. Alex chats about what it's like sifting through mountains of "well ackshually" comments on a video about things he considers difficult. Don't miss this one!

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This episode is a little more sly than cunning as Trav and Alex chat about action movie star Sylvester Stallone  per the two games highlighted on this week's SNES Drunk YouTube channel (Cliffhanger and Demolition Man). The two answer some listener emails about video game stories worth a darn, drinking games, and whether or not Bill Laimbeer's  Combat Basketball should be launched into the sun. For the next while, DrunkFriend will be a bi-weekly podcast! WHAREWILF!?

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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!

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