Super Gamer Podcast
245 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago -Going inside gaming and geekery one interview at a time.
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NEW Super Gamer Podcast 149 – Secret Snail Game with 8BitBoyUK
February 06, 2023 20:27 - 41.9 MBOur guest this week, 8BitBoyUK, has every single official Sega Master System game made in the PAL region (well, except for two, which we’ll get into). How does one acquire such a collection? How, if there are only 269 PAL games, does he own more than 300? What is the #MasterSystemChallenge? Tune in and find […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 148 – Calamity Ganon with ME!
January 31, 2023 02:28 - 9.47 MBIt’s time for the first parody song of 2023! Sloan gets the Super Gamer treatment with this song about Breath of the Wild. Enjoy! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 148 – Calamity Ganon with ME!
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 147 – The Game Whisperer with Chase Bethea
January 23, 2023 19:20 - 45.9 MBAward-winning composer and audio designer Chase Bethea is on the pod this week to talk about how he got started in the industry, composing on the Game Boy Camera, not treating sound as an afterthought, what it means to be a “game whisperer,” and more! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 147 – The […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 146 – You Could Call That a Signature with Madalyn Music
January 16, 2023 19:49 - 21.4 MBOur guest this week is a classically trained flautist and self-taught pianist who has been arranging and performing video game covers on YouTube for a few years now. Madalyn Music has collaborated with several people in the VGM scene, including Nico Mendoza, Samantha Ballard, MusicMike512, and more! We discuss how Madalyn connected with other musicians, […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 145 – Happy New Fear with Dr. Teresa Lynch
January 02, 2023 21:58 - 46.4 MBOur guest this week — Dr. Teresa Lynch — is an assistant professor at Ohio State University whose research focuses on emotions and gender in video games. We discuss various studies Dr. Lynch has done, including one on fear, one on gaming discourse, and one on how hyper-sexualized characters affect players. Plus, writing music for […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 144 – Let’s Try with Eiri
December 20, 2022 00:00 - 40.6 MBOur guest this week is a vtuber with a keen interest in gaming history, who has also created a playable demo of a Megaman-style game based on the Compose Man albums by Chips N Cellos. Our guest is… Eiri! We discuss the Compose Man demo, imposter syndrome, game awards, streaming, and more! Download link – […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 143 – NESing Around with Kelsy Polnik
December 12, 2022 18:22 - 27 MBThis week’s guest, Kelsy Polnik, owns and has beaten — without cheating!! — every licensed North American NES game. And now he’s writing a book! What game is hardest? What are some hidden gems? Why subject oneself to this? Tune in and find out. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 143 – NESing Around […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 142 – December Celebrations with Bart Zeal
December 05, 2022 19:22 - 31.9 MBWhat do Minecraft, Guitar Hero, and Willie Nelson have in common? Why, they’re inspirations for our guest this week, musician Bart Zeal. Join us as we discuss Bart’s latest album, his goal to be in a video game (even though technically that’s already happened), what defines dwarven music, and the challenge of sticking to a […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 141 – Passing Around Game Genie Cheat Codes with Ian Martyn
November 28, 2022 20:14 - 65.4 MBOur guest this week is a multi-instrumentalist, a DJ, arranger, composer, collaborator, ethnomusicologist, and music historian! It’s Ian Martyn! We discuss gaming before the Internet (we’re old), having cool parents, the VGM community, listening to game soundtracks without actually playing the game, and what actually IS video game music? Download link – NEW Super Gamer […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 140 – An Online Bard with Firamiel
November 21, 2022 19:20 - 49.1 MBMulti-instrumentalist and medieval fantasy enthusiast Firamiel is on the show this week to talk ocarinas big and small, performing on YouTube vs. Twitch, the importance of emotes, circlets, jewelry, falling out of chairs, and more! Check out her YouTube channel here. (By the way, I feel like I probably had some ignorant phrasing in a […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 139 – Smacked in the Head with an Iron Frying Pan with JMR
November 14, 2022 19:23 - 40 MBHow many rips of video game music have errors in them? Would you even notice? What’s the Sonic game with objectively the worst music? Which Turtles game has the BEST music? The Minibosses! Electrical engineer and chiptune musician JMR is on the pod to talk about all this, and more! Download link – NEW Super […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 138 – Toxicity Rising with Jenny McBean
November 07, 2022 19:30 - 17.8 MBJenny McBean is back to tell us about this year’s Female Gamers Survey by Bryter. Turns out, more and more women are dealing with toxic behaviour in online games. We cover what the survey says about the current state of online multiplayer games, how companies are (and aren’t) dealing with the issue, how players feel […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 137 – It Will Be Your Turn with ME!
October 24, 2022 21:09 - 3.85 MBRemember being the little sibling and only being able to play a game when your older sibling let you? Maybe you were the older sibling and you were the one hogging the gamepad. Maybe this doesn’t apply to you at all! Anyhoo, here’s a song about that, in the style of That’ll Be The Day […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 136 – So Many Special Projects with musical_daredevil
October 17, 2022 21:17 - 41.9 MBMusical_daredevil is on the pod this week to talk everything from speed running Morrowind to being in two gaming orchestras, to Games Done Quick auditions! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 136 – So Many Special Projects with musical_daredevil
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 135 – Learning Through Game Design with Sílvia Fornós
October 10, 2022 21:16 - 26.7 MBPhD candidate Sílvia Fornós (and CHARMING researcher) is here to tell us how game design can help people learn things that AREN’T game design — specifically, chemical engineering. We discuss Sílvia’s doctoral dissertation, “Students making games as a learning strategy in chemical engineering,” and the game jam and game editor that goes along with it, […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 134 – Running of the Gnomes with Dravvie
October 03, 2022 18:44 - 38.2 MBThe Running of the Gnomes is an annual charity event, during which thousands of gnomes in a specific World of Warcraft server run from their starting region to Booty Bay. And its 13th run is this October 8th (Oct. 15th in WoW Classic). Our guest this week is Dravvie, organizer of the gnome run (as […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 133 – Showing People What Gaming Can Be with MahatMama
September 26, 2022 19:29 - 18.3 MBOur guest this week is MahatMama! We talk about gaming as a family, finding your people online, what online friends can mean for a person living with chronic illness, accessibility, being an XBox ambassador, and more! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 133 – Showing People What Gaming Can Be with MahatMama
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 132 – Everything in Moderation with Courtney Blamey
September 19, 2022 19:09 - 51.8 MBOur guest this week is a PhD candidate who’s writing a dissertation on serious games, serious themes in games, taking games seriously, and meaning-making in games. Courtney Blamey is on the pod! We talk about some of her previous research as well, including a look at moderation and toxicity in Overwatch. Courtney is also a […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 131 – Soul Edge and Corgi with Lacey Johnson
September 12, 2022 19:16 - 57.6 MBThe Keytar Kween herself is on the pod this week, talkin’ rockin’! Lacey Johnson is a video game music sensation who very recently got to perform the intro song for Granblue Fantasy: Versus at EVO 2022. Lacey talks about what it was like getting that gig, how she got into keytar, which video game characters […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 130 – Booster’s Tower with AshSaidHi
August 29, 2022 20:52 - 38 MBAshSaidHi is the Twitch ambassador for retro gaming and is on the show this week to talk about: why she got into Twitch, having her face in Times Square, growing up in a gaming family, being a contestant on NBC’s Frogger, and more! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 130 – Booster’s Tower with […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 129 – Secret of Manuals with MrrKnight
August 22, 2022 17:38 - 57.4 MBMrrKnight – or Mrrrrrrrrrr Knight as I’ve decided to call him – is a triple threat, streaming retro games on one account, speedruns on another, and commentating wrestling on a third. And he wants NO HINTS! We talk about backseating, podcasting, meeting wrestlers, and I give an opinion on Bubsy that will surely be the […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 128 – He’s on Fire with me
August 15, 2022 20:52 - 3.85 MBThe greatest basketball game ever made will forever be NBA Jam TE. Sorry, all future basketball games. Well, here’s my ode to the GOAT, to the tune of Hank Williams’ I Saw the Light. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 128 – He’s on Fire with me
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 127 – A Beautiful Community with Theølogy
August 08, 2022 19:36 - 34 MBOur guest this week is a DJ and producer of club-ready video game music remixes — Theølogy! Theølogy and I will be hosting a panel at VGMTogether this October, something we briefly tease during this episode. We also get into Theølogy’s VGM roots, what it’s been like being a part of the VGM community, mental […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 126 – Changing of the Seasons with BravoBecca
August 01, 2022 23:37 - 38.9 MBContent creation can be taxing, so it’s good to take breaks when you need them. BravoBecca is a Twitch streamer who’s just returned from a one-month break. She’s on the pod to talk about what her new season of streaming is all about, being a spiteful kid, fanfiction, usernames, stuffing your face thinking no one […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 125 – Subverting Expectation with Yifat Shaik
July 25, 2022 17:54 - 52.7 MBOur guest this week, Yifat Shaik, is an Assistant Professor in Computational Arts at York University and experimental game developer, who has created games like The Worksheet Saga, Real Army Simulator, and What… If… Yifat is here to discuss game engines, emergence, what gamedevs can learn from reality shows, crying, being funny, and Jessica Fletcher. […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 124 – Close to a Train Track with Dan Bergman
July 18, 2022 18:46 - 34.6 MBMusic teacher, music and sound designer, Games Explained-er, and host of the Overtone Warpzone podcast Dan Bergman is on the show to talk music theory, breaking (and holding) a gaming Guinness World Record, being Kirby’s official second-biggest fan, and more! Tune in, and sorry about the train. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 124 […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 123 – Loop Angel with ME!
July 11, 2022 20:24 - 4.44 MBHey, Chuck, it’s Marvin — your cousin, MARVIN BERRY! You know that new game you’ve been looking for? Well, listen to this! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 123 – Loop Angel with ME!
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 122 – On Location at The Forks
July 04, 2022 18:15 - 23.2 MBMeet Winnipeg’s gamedev and digital artists community! Well, some of it, anyway. In this episode, we’re live on location (I mean, it’s recorded. But it *was* live. When it happened. You know.) at The Forks in Winnipeg, at a Winnipeg Game Collective and Winnipeg Digital Art Group crossover event. We’ve got several guests, including: Olivia […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 121 – Giant Inflatable Banana with Chris MooMan Nyarady
June 27, 2022 18:18 - 42.6 MBTrivia master, animator, musical geek, and most importantly, ReBoot fan, Chris “MooMan” Nyarady is on the show this week to talk about his gaming trivia show There Is No Easy Mode, building a nerd debate show from the ground up in Vancouver, performing as Space Core in a Portal 2 musical, and getting a mysterious […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 120 – Hot Tub Coin Machine with Dr. Anne Ladyem McDivitt
June 20, 2022 17:11 - 33.6 MBDr. Anne Ladyem McDivitt is on the pod this week to discuss her book Hot Tubs and Pac-Man: Gender and the Early Video Game Industry in the United States (1950s-1980s). But we also talk about her ultra controversial opinion on Final Fantasy 8 (she likes it!! But not the cards!!), early gaming magazines, fishing in […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 119 – Cats are Little Ninjas with Dr. Uri Burstyn
June 13, 2022 18:22 - 37.4 MBOh, boy, this is an exciting one! Listeners may have noticed how often I mention my adorable cat, Mossy Pete, and how much I love him. Well, this week we have Helpful Vancouver Vet Dr. Uri Burstyn on the show, teaching us why cats play and how to effectively play with our cats. Dr. Burstyn […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 118 – Roll for Initiative with Dice Witchery
June 06, 2022 17:12 - 28.9 MBDungeons and Dragons is cool. The gameplay is cool. The make-believe is cool. The dice are super cool! And Christina Bledsoe, Dice Witchery, our guest this week, makes those dice super duper cool! Christina creates artistic dice with resin, and, personally, I’m a big fan of the ale set. Listen in to hear about the […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 117 – Records Refereeing with Mr Kelly R Flewin
May 31, 2022 03:11 - 30.1 MBA little while back my girlfriend sent me an article about Lori Baker crushing the Tetris world record. In the article, our guest, Mr. Kelly R Flewin, a then Twin Galaxies referee, is referenced; as is his hometown, Winnipeg — my hometown. I read it and thought, Wow! I’ve got to interview this guy! And […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 116 – Magical Kitties Save the Podcast with Michelle Nephew
May 23, 2022 20:05 - 25.9 MBMichelle Nephew of Atlas Games is on the pod this week to talk about the way cool D&D-like game Magical Kitties Save the Day! I got this for my birthday and had a great time playing it with friends. Michelle tells us about how Atlas came to publish the game, the adventures she’s had with […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 115 – Better Than Any King’s Horse with Kirsten Rodning
May 16, 2022 19:12 - 48.4 MBVideo games are literature. But how does academia feel about that? What can we learn from a character’s horse? What’s up with all the screaming pihas in games? Is the video game industry making progress when it comes to representation of disabled characters? These questions will be answered… NOW! In this episode. With our guest, […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 114 – Doing Things Organically with Kwiat
May 09, 2022 19:08 - 31.9 MBKwiat is a classically trained avant-pop musician in Winnipeg and a big part of Manitoba’s music scene, AND she loves video games! You can catch Kwiat playing music and games on their Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/peaceandkwiat/ (maybe you’ll even see a gorilla playing ukulele). Tune in to hear Kwiat’s streaming advice, where their love of […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 113 – Materia Culture with Kaitlyn Kingsland
May 02, 2022 18:49 - 22.1 MBWhat is archaeogaming? Our guest this week, Kaitlyn Kingsland of archaeogaming.com, is here to explain just that, as well as why it’s important, and what we can learn from it. Tune in to find out all about this less-than-a-decade-old subfield of archaeology! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 113 – Materia Culture with Kaitlyn […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 112 – Mega Man Man with ME!
April 25, 2022 19:45 - 3.45 MBA new song is mega-busting onto the podcast: a parody of Particle Man by They Might Be Giants all about Mega Man! Do you have any songs you’d like parodied or games you’d like to be sung about? Let me know in the comments. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 112 – Mega Man […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 111 – Seek the Old Blood with Mahn
April 18, 2022 17:14 - 42.8 MBWinner of Best Album at the 2022 Game Music Remix Awards, Mahn, is our guest this week. We talk about his winning album: The Old Blood, the people who helped him make it, his next major project, his childhood Let’s Play videos, the video game music community, and more! Download link – NEW Super Gamer […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 110 – Everything You Know is Wrong with Rob Kovacs
April 11, 2022 17:59 - 43.8 MBOur guest this week is Rob Kovacs, also known as 88bit! Rob released a solo album last year that was more than a decade in the making. As 88bit he plays 8-bit music on piano. We discuss: making the soundtrack for Straylight, being a Nintendo World Championship semi-finalist, chasing a Guinness World Record, Mega Ran, […]
Super Gamer Podcast Classic – The Manitoba Pinball League
April 04, 2022 23:36 - 22.1 MBDue to COVID, I was unable to record a new episode for this week. So we’re going way back to 2018 to check out the time I visited the Manitoba Pinball League. Enjoy, and see you next week! Download link – Super Gamer Podcast Classic – The Manitoba Pinball League
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 109 – The Plumber with ME!
March 29, 2022 02:18 - 9.86 MBSimon and Garfunkel’s The Boxer is one of the greatest songs ever written. My song, The Plumber, is not. But I hope you enjoy it. It’s about a scrappy young lad named Mario. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 109 – The Plumber with ME!
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 108 – Dystopia is in the Eye of the Beholder with Silver Spook
March 21, 2022 18:48 - 46.2 MBOur guest this week is Silver Spook Games‘ Christian Miller, creator of Neofeud. We talk about how his childhood and home in Hawaii inspired the game, language choices, the work and luck involved in gamedev, cyberpunk, dystopian perspectives, Hippie Terminators, and more! Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 108 – Dystopia is in the […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 107 – Quick Sloth with Ben Kobe
March 14, 2022 18:10 - 29.3 MBWhen did sloths get so popular? Was this always a thing? Anyhoo, they deserve it. They’re adorable and sleep a lot. This week’s guest is Ben Kobe of Clutch Dynamics, who has just released Boris the Sloth on Steam. Some of the proceeds (perhaps all, as you’ll hear) will go to sloth conservation. Tune in […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 106 – WayCoolMusic Man with Chips N Cellos
March 07, 2022 19:20 - 31 MBChiptunes + Cello = Chips ‘N Cellos! Our guests this week are Chris and Jess, two-thirds of this amazing music trio that Mega Man-ifies classical tunes and, as you’ll hear, has plans to make more original tracks blending the world of classical and video game music. Find out: how the group started, what their dream […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 105 – Chili Dogs Infinite with Rokashi
February 28, 2022 18:16 - 42.5 MBOur guest this week wears many hats – they are creating Faraway Fairway for the Playdate, they are the director of communications at Hand Eye Society, a journalist, a writer for Insecure: The Come Up Game, and more – they are: Rokashi! We talk about all that PLUS: Sonic, parrots (well, one parrot), game jams, […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 104 – Everybody Poops with Captain Badgertail
February 21, 2022 17:51 - 32.6 MBOur guest for this amazing TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE is Captain Badgertail, a streamer who is bold enough to declare that playing video games for a living is better than having your co-workers try to murder you. Badger offers streaming advice, talks about poop, and we answer important questions like: which anime is most like […]
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 103 – Finding The End with ME!
February 14, 2022 20:31 - 3.12 MBWhat would happen if the Bobby Fuller Four were really into Minecraft? Well, I think it would sound exactly like this… Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 103 – Finding The End with ME!
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 102 – The Dark Wanderer with ME!
February 07, 2022 20:33 - 4.24 MBMusic time! In honour of my favourite cinematic from one of my all-time favourite games, Diablo 2, here is my version of The Wanderer. Should I start posting written lyrics along with the songs? You tell me. Download link – NEW Super Gamer Podcast 102 – The Dark Wanderer with ME!
NEW Super Gamer Podcast 101 – Earth is Kind of a Cool Place with Havrd
January 31, 2022 18:40 - 38.2 MBOur guest this week, Havrd, is a glitch-hunting, GeoGuessing genius! He’s the inventor of the “Saddle Skedaddle,” particularly likes breaking Bethesda games, andrecently performed at Awesome Games Done Quick speed running both GeoGuessr and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. Tune in and find out how someone who doesn’t like to travel can […]