Ruminations of a Six Button Samurai
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsVideo games don’t get the same respect as movies and music do as formative influences upon us... but maybe they should? One retrogamer who came of age during the fighting game craze spawned by SFII takes a look at the scraps in his life, on and off the screen from boyhood forward.
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SFII 30th: BATTLE 99 OR BUST!
May 07, 2021 13:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MBLong ago, a 747 damaged by lightning attempted a crash-landing over a dense jungle in Brazil… from the flames emerged a boy, a lone survivor, far from home, who began to feast on the plants and small creatures unlucky enough to cross his path. His skin turned an odd greenish hue, and his long, unkept hair turned a vivid orange the shade of Gatorade. He grew strong in the crucible of the Amazon, and later became a champion at the global Street Fighter tournament, when a smallish olde...
Episode 3: The Requirements of Arcade Wolves
March 27, 2021 14:23 - 28 minutes - 26 MBNow aged 15, our restless golden-era gamer youth finds himself obsessed with the arcade works of Capcom, the wonder of his Sega Genesis, and faces a critical choice about whether or not to leave home. It’s getting real, and this is all right before Street Fighter II lands like a fallen comet into his life!(edited) March 26, 2021
The Requirements of Arcade Wolves
March 27, 2021 14:23 - 28 minutes - 26 MBMusic Composed by Steve Wilder Blumenthal www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com www.instagram.com/RuminationsRadioNetwork Twitter: RuminationsRadioNetwork@RuminationsN Music and Production by Mitch Proctor Production by Mitch Proctor
The Elusive Happy-NES of a Salty Arcade Rat
March 04, 2021 07:14 - 19 minutes - 17.9 MBThe Elusive Happy-NES of a Salty Arcade Rat: Once again firmly ensconced in his ancestral desert home of Tucson, JJJ finds himself torn between the games on his NES (and some of the awful arcade ports that threaten his faith in the platform), and roaming free in the then-plentiful arcades that beckon to his pre-teen soul. Either way, his allowance is doomed. www.RuminationsRadioNetwork.com Twitter: Ruminations@FromTheRedRoom http://guillermotheivth.blogspot.com/ Facebook Rumin...
Enter the Samurai
December 13, 2020 04:22 - 26 minutes - 24.3 MBThe story begins here... a young Samurai begins his lifelong passion for gaming, and arcades. Video games don’t get the same respect as movies and music do as formative influences upon us... but maybe they should? One retrogamer who came of age during the fighting game craze spawned by SFII takes a look at the scraps in his life, on and off the screen from boyhood forward. Twitter: Ruminations@FromTheRedRoom http://guillermotheivth.blogspot.com/ Facebook Ruminations from the Red...