Podcast Super Gamer Podcast

This 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 […]

What 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 […]

Our 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 […]

Multi-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 […]

How 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 […]

Jenny 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 […]

Remember 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 […]

Musical_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

PhD 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, […]

The 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 […]

Our 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

Our 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 […]

The 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 […]

AshSaidHi 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 […]

MrrKnight – 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 […]

The 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

Our 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 […]

Content 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 […]

Our 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. […]

Music 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 […]