Talking video games with our NJ friends….
Joe Santulli, co-founder of Digital Press, Classic Gaming Expo, and the Video Game History Museum.
Frankie V, member of the Digital Press Podcast.
In this episode:
- celebrity deaths (Sally Ride, Leroy Neiman, Rodney King, Ernest Borgnine, Nora Ephron, Sherman Hemsley, and Sage Stallone),
- Steve Martin and Steven Seagal doing bad Italian accents,
- the lights turned out on Bruce Springsteen’s concert with Paul McCartney in London,
- High Score (2006) documentary (watch on Hulu),
- Missile Command,
- was The King of Kong (starring Billy Mitchell and Steve Wiebe) a fraud?,
- a YouTube video featuring accusations by video game record holder Dwayne Richard,
- former and current Donkey Kong champs Tim Sczerby and Hank Chien,
- the Twin Galaxies video game record board,
- would a dog raise a human baby?,
- What Ever Happened To? (Teri Hatcher, Lauren Graham, and Carlos Mencia),
- Gallagher does a GEICO commercial (video),
- Sugar Daddy and other bad hard candy,
- annoying door-to-door cable television salespeople,
- knowledgeable forum dslreports.com,
- Dolph Lundgren is actually a chemical engineer,
- Fred Willard may or may not have pulled a Pee-wee Herman,
- Rob invented dine-in movie theaters,
- poor presentation of a film at an AMC theater,
- interview with founder of Digital Press Videogames Joe Santulli,
- his decision to go from game collector to retailer,
- what does his wife think of his collecting?,
- Atari Airborne Avenger pinball wall art (photo),
- what you’ll find in the Digital Press store in Clifton, NJ,
- rare and unique items “in the wild” traded into the store,
- video game grading services,
- monthly NAVA (North Atlantic Videogame Aficionados) gatherings,
- the concept behind the Video Game History Museum,
- is the future of gaming fully downloadable content?,
- promoting the community aspect of gaming,
- our interview with Frankie V. of the Digital Press Video Game Podcast,
- gory horror arcade game Chiller by Exidy,
- Atari Lynx,
- great Lynx games like Electrocop,
- is Sony’s PlayStation Vita this generation’s Lynx?,
- the open platform game system Ouya,
- a return to hobby-developed gaming like in the 1980s,
- Android and iOS gaming vs. traditional portable consoles,
- and “crowdsourcing” via Kickstarter.
Visit dpvideogames.com for more information on the Digital Press store and the audio/video podcasts!
Pictures taken during the July 28, 2012, NAVA gathering at Digital Press in Clifton, NJ:
Flickr – Digital Press in Clifton, NJ 7/28/2012
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