Podcast Super Gamer Podcast

Hey, 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!

Meet 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 […]

Trivia 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 […]

Dr. 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 […]

Oh, 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 […]

Dungeons 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 […]

A 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 […]

Michelle 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 […]

Video 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, […]

Kwiat 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 […]

What 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 […]

A 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 […]

Winner 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 […]

Our 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, […]

Due 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

Simon 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!

Our 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 […]

When 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 […]

Chiptunes + 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 […]

Our 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, […]