The Tired Old Hack Video Game Podcast

It’s been a month. A month! Quickly, fill your ears:

Episode 7 of the Tired Old Hack podcast is here, as I take a rare one-night break from my mission to review every Switch launch game.

In this episode I’m once again joined by my wife Louise as we talk about the Switch again (sorry haters), but then go on to discuss other non-Nintendo matters like PlayStation Now, ToeJam & Earl and achievement systems.

Having Louise on means another instalment of The Year Of Louise-y, and this time Snipperclips is the game I try to get her addicted to. Do I manage it? You’ll need to listen to find out.

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Put this in your ears and smoke it. or something.

Episode 6 of the Tired Old Hack podcast features the conclusion of my two-part interview with former ONM, OXM and CVG journalist Mike Jackson. If you haven’t heard episode 5 (which had part 1) yet, you’d best listen to that first.

This time we properly get into the Switch, discussing the launch games and what we think of the software line-up in general.

Ultimately, this leads to the inevitable as two enormous Mario fans draw their attention to Super Mario Odyssey. Wait until you hear my idea for the ending: it will blow the piss right out of your bladder.

Note: As with the last episode, an issue with my Skype recording software meant that on occasion my microphone would make a static noise. This will be fixed in future episodes. Sorry for the mild unpleasantness.

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

If you’ve got iTunes, you can find the podcast there by searching for ‘Tired Old Hack’ or just following this link. Please subscribe if you enjoy it, and write up a wee review.

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Want to help support the podcast, and Tired Old Hack in general? Back me on Patreon and you’ll get my first draft of each episode first, the moment it’s finished. Everyone else will get it through the site and iTunes later on.

A podcast, you say? Get stuck into this one.

Episode 5 of the Tired Old Hack podcast is the first in a two-part special in which I’m joined by my lovely friend Mike Jackson.

Mike and I go back over a decade: he was a writer on Nintendo: The Official Magazine, which was the UK’s official Nintendo publication before it moved to Future Publishing and became ONM (which is when I joined).

Over the years he worked for Official Xbox Magazine and CVG, before moving to Las Vegas to live the high life there.

He remains a massive Nintendo fan though, so it should be no surprise that much of our conversation is about the upcoming Switch.

However, there are also some ridiculous anecdotes about working for Nintendo: The Official Magazine which really do have to be heard to be believed.

Note: This was the first podcast I’ve done that consisted of a Skype call. An issue with my Skype recording software meant that on occasion my microphone would make a static noise. This will be present in this episode and the next (since it’s a two-parter) but will be fixed in future episodes. Sorry for the mild unpleasantness.

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

If you’ve got iTunes, you can find the podcast there by searching for ‘Tired Old Hack’ or just following this link. Please subscribe if you enjoy it, and write up a wee review.

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Want to help support the podcast, and Tired Old Hack in general? Back me on Patreon and you’ll get my first draft of each episode first, the moment it’s finished. Everyone else will get it through the site and iTunes the following day.

It sounds to me like you could do with some video game chattery. Indulge, human.

In episode 4 of the Tired Old Hack podcast I’m once again joined by my non-gaming wife Louise as we look at the week’s gaming news and answer listener questions. Topics this week include:

• Resident Evil VII DLC – is it fair enough or a bit of a cash-in?

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

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Still craving Switch discussion? Good gravy, you insatiable fiends. Fine, here’s some more.

Following the second episode with Kate Gray, I got a load more Switch questions over Twitter, so I decided to extend my Switch coverage over to a second podcast.

This time, to dispense with the frivolities, we go pure Q&A and kick things off right away with your questions.

By ‘we’ I’m referring to myself and this week’s guest, Daily Express and Daily Star games reviewer Meg Bethany Read.

If you still haven’t had your fill of Switch chat, get stuck in.

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

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Well, that first podcast went well. So well, in fact, that here’s another one for your beautiful earholes.

Episode 1 eventually pushed the Tired Old Hack podcast into the iTunes Top 10 Video Game Podcasts chart for a brief moment: given the relative small size of the site compared to other well-established publications (and the fact that at the time of writing it’s still up there at number 11) I’m delighted with that.

This second episode was recorded the day after I went hands-on with the Nintendo Switch for the first time, so naturally that makes it a Switch special.

To ensure it wasn’t just an hour and a half of my Scottish drawl, though, I enlisted the help of my awesome friend Kate Gray as my first ever* special podcast guest.

*(well, first ever guest who wasn’t made to be on it because they’re married to me)

This also makes the episode a sort of ONM special of sorts, because I was the Official Nintendo Magazine’s first ever staff writer and Kate was its last ever one. So in a way, ONM may be dead, but given we’re talking the Switch you can consider this a sort of return of the ONM Podcast in some form.

Sort of.

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

If you’ve got iTunes, you can find the podcast there by searching for ‘Tired Old Hack’ or just following this link. Please subscribe if you enjoy it, and write up a wee review.

Or, if you’d rather use your own podcast app, use this feed URL to subscribe to the podcast and get access to new episodes as they’re added:

https://tiredoldhackdotcom.wordpress.com/category/podcast/feed/

Want to help support the podcast, and Tired Old Hack in general? Back me on Patreon and you’ll get my first draft of each episode first, the moment it’s finished. Everyone else will get it through the site and iTunes the following day.

For a while, folk have been asking me to do a Tired Old Hack podcast. Well, get your gums wrapped around this wee bastard.

What you see above you is the pilot episode of the Tired Old Hack podcast. An hour and 20 minutes of gaming goodness (hopefully) recorded just for your lovely earholes.

And they’re looking particularly lovely today, if I do say so myself.

Within the confines of episode 1, you can expect to hear:

• A brief recap of who I am and my career to date (for those who stumble upon this episode through iTunes in the future and don’t know me)

• My first ever guest interviewee: my wife Louise Scullion, who definitely wanted to do this podcast and wasn’t just roped in because she was the only person available at short notice

• A look at recent gaming news, including attempts at hacking the NES Classic, the unreleased Mega Blox Halo game and the news that Conan O’Brien’s Clueless Gamer is getting its own TV series

• Your questions answered, including a lengthy discussion on what I’m hoping will be revealed at the upcoming Nintendo Switch event

• The first part of my regular series, The Year Of Louise-y, in which I try to find a game my non-gaming wife can get addicted to.

If you’re just listening while browsing, the podcast was at the top of this article. Click play and you’re off and running.

If you’d rather have the MP3 as a downloadable file so you can stick it on your media player of choice, right-click and save this link.

If you’ve got iTunes, you can find the podcast there by searching for ‘Tired Old Hack’ or just following this link. Please subscribe if you enjoy it, and write up a wee review.

Or, if you’d rather use your own podcast app, use this feed URL to subscribe to the podcast and get access to new episodes as they’re added:

https://tiredoldhackdotcom.wordpress.com/category/podcast/feed/

The episode contains a section in which I ask people to submit jingles for the podcast. I haven’t yet decided whether I actually want to do this because I quite like the sound effects I’ve used in their place.

One thing I definitely do want, though, is a brief 5-10 second jingle for the Year Of Louise-y section, in which I trey to get my wife addicted to a game. Something that sounds suitably Luigi-esque would be lovely.

If you’re the sort who dabbles with little jingles and musical stings, chuck me a sample at [email protected]: I’ll play them all in a future episode and get the listeners to vote on the best.

Want to help support the podcast, and Tired Old Hack in general? Back me on Patreon and you’ll get my first draft of each episode first, the moment it’s finished. Everyone else will get it through the site and iTunes the following day.