Square Waves FM Podcast

Please give an overenthusiastic wave to our special guest Bram who joins us this week to talk about puzzle games. In true Square Waves FM style we all put together mammoth lists of infuriating puzzly goodness but barely scratched the surface. Stay tuned for future episodes on the topic, and as always we’d love to […]

Happy Mother’s Day! In this lonely episode sans-Brian, Chris gives a short monologue on how important his mom was in introducing him to the games we love. We will be back next week for regularly scheduled programming.   Music in the outro is from Another World (Sega CD) by Jean-Francois Freitas.

What did the tomato say to his slow son? It saddened us to skip last week’s show due to meatspace responsibilities, but we’re overjoyed to have received so many emails and voice mails. We spend this week’s show playing catchup. talking about and around our would-be topic of MMOs and responding to listener feedback. We […]

Vroom vroom! Chris and Brian rev their engines in preparation before the big drag race but burn up all their fuel before the light turns green. This week we were fully (somewhat, not entirely) prepared to continue our discussion about Massively Multplayer Online Games (MMOGs) but got so worked up over our own stories and […]

The gruesome twosome take a look inside their bag of holding and find bottomless memories about their first massively multiplayer online games. Join us in our in-depth discussions of Ultima Online and Guild Wars for tales of memories, mechanics, and regicide! And could this be our most unfocused, lengthy, rambling, off-topic preamble yet? Yeah, probably. […]

We span the netherest of lands to bring you Amayirot Akago who joins our discussion of PC gaming magazines of yore. It’s a thorough (eventual) discussion about the gaming and computing mags that tantalized our imaginations with enthusiastic text, colourful screenshots, and hyper-embellished advertisements. Also some love for early Japanese survival horror games, as well […]

The awesome twosome return this week to continue our discussion about ye olde CD-ROME gamese. You’ll feel like a squiggly psychiatrist as Chris reclines on the therapeutic sofa and regales us with tales of his mother. Meanwhile, Brian becomes so overwhelmed with fondness he can barely articulate himself. This week’s song is gu56.mid by George […]

This week we welcome Chris Olson as our guest. Brian and Chris are shocked to find out that there are no technical corrections for the last episode (yet). We nosedive into a discussion of old school flight sims right off the bat before getting down to business. Brian discloses his sexy threesome date with Jones […]

This week we welcome Anatoly Shashkin aka DOSnostalgic to the funny farm as we discuss games made with the Macromedia Director platform. Myst clones, glorified slideshows, interactive storybooks, we cover them all! Be sure to check out the ISOs in the show notes to try out some of these games. The song at the end […]

We’re keeping good on a week-only promise and returning to the beloved Part II of our Multiplayer episode. If you’re the type that likes background radiation while you’re commuting or working, we don’t disappoint in this 3 hour mini-epic. Brian and Chris continue the conversation on some of the well-known, and not so well-known multiplayer […]