Geek Salad

A little something different. For this episode we are featuring two different gamer stories from world record holder, Carrie Swidecki. What is a gamer story? It can be about something funny or heartwarming that happened while playing a game or doing something gaming related and Carrie has two good ones to start off with.

For those of you who have been fans of Obsolete Gamer for a while, you will know we started as a classic gaming website and love all things Retrogaming. For this episode of OGS we feature Eli from Piko Interactive a company that develops and publishes new and previously released games for classic consoles. Imagine playing Duke Nukem 3D for the Sega Genesis, yes, you can do that! We talked with Eli about his company, his gaming background and some of his favorite classic games. Fans of vintage games will really want to check this one out.

Originally Recorded in 2016: We take a look at Seven: The Days Long Gone, the Isometric, parkour climbing, stealth RPG by Fool’s Theory and we’re joined by story designer and VFX artist, Karolina Kuzia who introduces us to this new world and what we as gamer have to look forward too.

Originally recorded in Oct 2015: We go beyond the game trailer of the new RTS game Battlefleet Gothic: Armada based on the Games Workshop tabletop game and talk with Romain Clavier from Tindalos Interactive about the features of the game. Developed on Unreal Engine 4, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is an RTS in which the player takes command of one of these battlefleets composed of the most powerful spaceships from the Imperial, Chaos, Eldar and Ork forces, in a no-quarter given struggle for the control of the Gothic sector of space. Featuring many different game modes including dramatic battles in both single and multiplayer, against players and the AI, and a full single-player campaign pitting you against Abaddon the Despoiler, Battlefleet Gothic: Armada will have you unlocking and upgrading the ships in your fleet as well as specializing the captains that helm them, each with their own behaviors.

Now they say you shouldn’t have the same act twice but as a lover of FPS games we personally thought a game set in the civil war would be pretty awesome and that is exactly what War of Rights brings to the table. This title intends to bring the gameplay and authenticity that not only gamers would expect but Civil War reenactors as well. We talked to the team behind War of Rights about what player can expect from the game.

Ignacio joins J.A. on the show to talk about all the games he has played since Covid-19. We also rant on Cyberpunk, being essencial workers and Twitch.

Randy and J.A. talk about difficultly of being a retro video game collector as J.A. admits he is addicted to buying retro video games on Nintendo Switch. We also discuss if Microsoft's Game Pass is worth it and we review the lazy egg card game, Gudetama.

We talk with, Yash Jain founder of, Hero Trainer, the fitness app where gamers can earn video game related swag just for getting outside for some fresh air.

The New Year is here and we are back to talk about all the video and table top games we received over the holidays.

On this special Christmas Eve episode, Randy and J.A. discuss video game presents from Christmas past recounting some of their favorite video game related gifts from holidays gone by.