Episode 10 – Live from The Place Retro Arcade with John Salter and Estel Goffinet

Happy Summer everyone! Last month, Brent and were fortunate enough to be invited up to "The Place, Retro Arcade" in Cincinnati OH to perform a live broadcast from owner Cary Chaney's family arcade to do a live broadcast of the show and sit in and talk gaming, world-records and marathon preparation with two of the "arcade marathon alumni", John Salter and Estel Goffinet.

What ensued from there is nothing short of "an experience". :) Brent and I worked out the logistics with Cary and hit the road to Cincinnati. We ran into truck troubles, trailer troubles, being (very) sick and farm animals on the freeway. In the end, we persevered and was greeted with fantastic hospitality and our guests are nothing short of amazing.

The guys easily put up with me (Whitney) losing my voice part-way through the episode...I wound up getting pretty sick after-the-fact, so Brent wound up carrying this one over the line and conducted a fantastic panel discussion with both John, Estel and Cary.

Check out the photos below from the event. John Salter shows his highly-customized Armor Attack control panel and discusses how he 'fixed' everything that was wrong with the original game from a reliability perspective. I've got lots of props for the guys that take their game to this level, and it's really neat to hear the story behind his world record-setting run on Armor Attack. Estel Goffinet talks about his participation in the competitive Donkey Kong scene and discusses plans for the upcoming Kong Off 4.

oh yeah - keep an eye out for some additional content to be released in the next couple weeks, as we begin recording for Episode #11, and release content from the Southern-Fried Gameroom Expo! We'll be working in conjunction with Preston & Patrick from the Gameroom Junkies podcast as well as Jonathan Leung from the Arcade Repair Tips podcast to bring you "wall-to-wall" coverage of the many panel discussions, podcasting sessions and impromptu photo sessions (and photo bombs!) from the expo. It was nothing short of EPIC.

Thanks for listening and GAME ON!