Industry experts Frank Cifaldi and Kelsey Lewin, co-Directors of the Video Game History Foundation, bring on fellow content creators, game developers, video game historians, and storytellers to teach us a little bit about video game history. Our casual, “chatting over coffee” style interviews let us see the true life of a researcher: bang-your-head-against-a-wall dead-ends, “I can’t believe no one’s told this story before” moments, the thrill of sharing incredible history with the world, and ...
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Story Hole is a comedy podcast that explores the lore behind the most interesting characters, events, and plots from fiction and history. And then probably adds some butt jokes.
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The podcast about things you might know, featuring people you might not. Interviews hosted by Nick Rounds
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The Expanse Action Figure Kickstarter with Brian Volk-Weiss from the Nacelle Company
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Nick and Brian chat all about the now live "The Expanse" kickstarter for the amazing new toy line from Nacelle. The pair chat about Brian's history with the show, and all of the amazing details and accessories that the figures come with. The pair also chats about stretch goals and how badly Brian wants to make the flight deck chair.To learn more ab…
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WIKYS4E41 | Mondo, Attack Peter - Peter Santa-Maria Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Four, Episode Forty One - Nick chats with Peter Santa-Maria aka Attack Peter about his unique art style of print making as well as his professional work at Mondo. The pair also chat about the Florida art scene and how Peter had to struggle to find his path. They also chat about Madballs and Peter's original Kaiju, …
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WIKYS4E40 | Video Games & Sobriety - J. Kenji López-Alt Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Four, Episode Forty - Nick chats with J. Kenji López-Alt, a James Beard award winner and the New York Times best selling author of the Food Lab, Every Night is Pizza Night and The Wok. The pair chat about two things Kenji hardly talks about; video games and sobriety. The pair also chat about Kenji's new podcast, an…
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WIKY S4E39 | Getting Lost - Ralph Apel Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Four, Episode Thirty Nine - Nick chats with Ralph Apel, a Producer from the upcoming documentary "Getting Lost" directed by Taylor Morden, director of the Last Blockbuster. The pair chat about all things related to the ABC show "Lost" and about Ralph's history with the show. They also chat about Ralph's super aweso…
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WIKY S4E38 | Super7 - Brian Flynn Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Four, Episode Thirty Eight - Nick chats with Brian Flynn, the owner and founder of Super7 and Hybrid design. The pair chat about all things vinyl toys, the history of Supe7, and all of the awesome things they make. They also chat about how toy hunting in the 90's was a little sketchy and about some of the amazing a…
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WIKY S4E37 | Death Dreams, Survival Guide - Emily Whitehurst Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Four, Episode Thirty Seven - Emily Whitehurst, the artist known as Survival Guide, returns to the podcast to chat about all things death dreams. Nick & Em chat about Em's new album, the process of making it, and some of the accomplishments of the record. The pair also talk about who Em would take on an epic journey…
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Good comic, mediocre episode. --------------------------------- This isn't the proper way to cite stuff but whatever... "Annihilation Soundtrack" "Ginger Root cover of Linus and Lucy" "Vice" "A bunch of psychology articles and reddit and junk" "Terminator 2"Por Story Hole
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It’s been awhile so, let’s catch up. Plus, we’re right in the middle of our 2023 Winter Fundraiser and we can’t wait to tell you all about how it’s going. Video Game History Foundation: Podcast Twitter: @gamehistoryhour Email: podcast@gamehistory.org Twitter: @GameHistoryOrg Website: gamehistory.org Support us on Patreon: /gamehistoryorg…
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Throw your Grimace shake out the goddamn window. Tonight we need to talk about McDonald's other mascot, the moonman himself, Mac Tonight.
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Story Hole 175: Ectoplasm and Guatemalan Cryptid Lovers
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Let's have a séance, wear big hats, and flirt with horse-ladies! Happy Halloween!!!
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With co-host Kelsey Lewin leaving the Video Game History Foundation, we will be putting the show on pause for the rest of the year. We want to thank Kelsey for everything she’s given to this show, to VGHF, and to our team and we all wish her great success in her future endeavors. As for the Video Game History Hour, we’ve decided to take the rest of…
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We're talking about sandwiches today.
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Game designer and creator of Karateka Jordan Mechner, joined by Chris Kohler of Digital Eclipse, shares a new interactive documentary The Making of Karateka exploring this 1984 karate classic title. In this episode: Jordan’s earliest work, perfect paper preservationist, Prince of Persia source code, hitting it rich in video games vs. going to class…
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Ep. 118: Noclip Game History Archive
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Documentarian Danny O’Dwyer of Noclip has been sifting through thousands of videotapes in a recent mass-acquisition of video game (and adjacent) recordings. In this episode: Burger King and Kellogg’s games, Danny can fix your VCR, conferences in 1080p, shop talk on uploading footage, BBC Domesday Project methodology, slow Sonic, is that Frank?, it’…
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Ep. 117: Nintendo Knitting Machine
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Historian Racheil Weil returns to the show to discuss the Nintendo Knitting Machine, a never released knitting machine toy powered by the NES. In this episode: Sega Master System smack talk; flier breakdown; just…why?; dissociating like a TV doctor; analyzing the evidence: what’s real, how it might work, peripheral material, screen capture; and ble…
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VGHF librarian Phil Salvador chats with longtime contributor to video game archaeology Misty De Méo, author of CD-ROM Journal: a blog exploring multimedia games and software. We discuss her recent article A Chronology of First CD-ROM Games answering the question: What was the first CD-ROM game? In this episode: the first adventure, the magical dino…
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Travis Brown, our very own director of technology, gets technical as we talk about his role with VGHF and how he got started in preservation. In this episode: The Varsity vs The Vortex, scanning 14k pieces of optical media, scaling with Nimbies, Power-Up Baseball restoration and MAME, writing our API glue, and Frank forgets just how many projects T…
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We share the details of our recent field trip to The Strong Museum of Play to celebrate their newest video game focused expansion. In this travel log episode: travel woes; Wegmans toilet paper; Transformers’ shrieks at a cocktail event; a giant, playable Donkey Kong cabinet; video games ARE real; Level Up and High Score; touring the labs, vaults, a…
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Bonus Episode: Game Availability Study
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Brandon Butler, Director of Information Policy at the University of Virginia Library and Law and Policy Advisor at the Software Preservation Network, joins us to talk about a major new study published jointly by the Video Game History Foundation and the SPN which shows 87% of classic games released in the United States are now out of print. In this…
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Ep. 113: Bally Professional Arcade
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Author and historian Kevin Bunch returns to the familiar guest chair to educate us all on a somewhat obscure 1970’s consolputer from his recent video, The History of the Bally (and Astrocade) Professional Arcade: Archive Annex Episode 4. In this episode, tears are shed, wrapping these things in useless metal, accidental historical revisionism, what…
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Ep. 112: Getting Personal with Frank Cifaldi
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Frank gets a bit reflective and shares how he got where he is today; not just the video game stuff, but the life stuff, too. In this episode: a youth in Las Vegas, underage drinking and overage smoking, dropping out of school, the Wild West of game cataloging, Frank can do it better, how to get sh*t done, thanking your inspiring figures, being a ki…
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WIKY S3E36 | Ruckus & Rumpus Revival, Slam Poetry, Cult Leaders - Jamie DeWolf Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Three, Episode Thirty Six - Nick chats with Jamie DeWolf, a writer, director, filmmaker, music video director, performer, vaudeville MC, spoken word artist, clown, slam poet, and the great grandson of a cult leader. The pair chat about Jamie's creative endeavors, including the Oakland underground vaudeville show, T…
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Historian and game developer Andy Cunningham shares his fantastic new book The World of Nintendo Book, Volume One: A World of Wonders, a visual history of Nintendo merchandising. This first in a series goes deep into the creation of Nintendo of America's merchandising team of the late 80's and early 90's, something often overlooked in videogame his…
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In a bizarre twist of events, we've opted to NOT cover other series finales for our fifth finale episode! Instead, we're grab bagging some random shorter stories this week. Joey talks about demon tigers, Roger pops some Pringles, and Brian takes us to the last World's Fair. Also, we chit chat about some other junk we're working on! Have a lovely su…
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Kyle Orland, author of the new Boss Fight Books’ Minesweeper, joins the show to talk about one of the most prolific 90’s games by the same name. In this episode: the Minesweeper generation, how Bill Gates got addicted to it, the ultimate time waster, it was a mouse tutorial, Microsoft’s internal conflicts, the moral panic around games like Mineswee…
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Story Hole 172: Jack I. Box & Jack In the Box
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Have you ever wanted to know more about Jack in the Box's mascot, Jack? Well, the Story Hole team did! Come join us as we give you the backstory to everyone's favorite fast food mascot, Jack I. Box!Por Story Hole
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Writer, journalist, and ‘several’ time returning guest Jack Yarwood shares his research on two video game logos with stylized R’s, which were subsequently made to be physical objects, as recently published in his articles "It Became Almost Like A Cult" - The Untold Story Behind Rockstar's Iconic Logo and The Origin Of Rare's Iconic "Golden Toilet R…
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Bonus Episode: Game Preservation is a House of Cards
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Kelsey and Frank hit record on a Friday afternoon for an impromptu, off-the-cuff discussion about a scary recent development in the world of video game preservation regarding the preservation organization Forest of Illusion. Total bummer topics include how much we rely on individual people to work for free, how many fragile points of failure there …
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Ready to get wicked? This week, we're taking a look at what is actually happening with the Insane Clown Posse! What are they about? Why are juggalos so dedicated? Turns out, there's a surprising mythology behind all that facepaint and Faygo...
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Ep. 108: Preserving the Nintendo eShop
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Jirard Khalil, aka "That One Video Gamer", aka “The Completionist,” aka “Dragonrider,” joins us to talk about his recent video I bought EVERY Nintendo Wii U & 3DS game before the Nintendo eShop closes. In this episode: what happens when an E-Shop closes and why it shuts down, preserving games for toddlers, libraries collecting like this would be ab…
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Ever wonder and worry that those creepy, crawly, bumps in the night are real? Well, I'm sorry to break the news but they're real and here, now! Lucky for us, there's an organization that's on it! And as it turns out, when the internet comes together, sometimes we can all actually cooperate and make something good!…
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(Content Warning: this episode deals with the topic of death) Collector, preservationist, and founding board member Steve Lin joins us to illuminate the realities of dealing with a collection after the collector has passed away. In this episode: balancing preserving history and helping a family left behind, what you can implement immediately, what …
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You feeling nostalgia for the 90's? You see the kids wearing their JNCO's and think," Hey, I miss those days!" Do you dream longingly of a decade of economic growth and little to no tact? Well, why not get a cardboard circle of that decade and join the Story Hole boys as we discuss POGS. Its cardboard, its gambling, its fun?…
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Three friends, Roger, Joey, and Brian were sitting around the dinner table discussing a topic that had been on their minds for some time now. Farts. The boys had heard stories of their fathers and grandfathers laughing uncontrollably at some of the most outrageous and loudest farts they had ever heard. The boys, in wonderment, wanted to know more a…
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Journalist and researcher Nick Yanes brings us a piece of history not only from his own local area, but also from his own past in his recent article The birth and death of Budcat Creations, Iowa's first (and only) Triple-A game studio. We take a peek inside the life of a development studio during a tumultuous time in the game industry and learn som…
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Mondays, am I right? You're better off just staying in bed and listening to this podcast about Garfield. Also, eat a lasagna.Por Story Hole
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Frank and guest Chris Kohler recap their recent attendance of the 2023 D.I.C.E. Summit, a Las Vegas convention for executives and other high-level creatives in the interactive entertainment space. In this episode: a little history of the show’s atmospheric evolution, the D.I.C.E. Awards, ‘speed date’ networking, the best games shopping in Vegas, Fr…
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If you like collecting babies like us, this is the perfect episode for you! Quit your cacas, poopoos, and even your peepees, and shake your rattle this week as we cover the strange history of the 1980's fad, Cabbage Patch Kids.
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WIKY S3E35 | Pixel Dan, Spencer Powers, MOTU - "Pixel Dan" Eardley Interview
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"Wait, I Know You" Podcast Season Three, Episode Thirty Five - Nick chats with "Pixel Dan" Eardley; an author, YouTuber and Professional Wrestler. Nick & Dan chat about Dan's history covering the Master of the Universe toy line, as well as writing a book about the toys of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. They also chat about Dan's wrestling …
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Ep. 104: Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?
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Frank Cifaldi takes the guest seat for this episode and shares the story of the most obscure caper in Carmen Sandiego’s criminal history, a story we shared in a blog post a few years ago. In this episode: we plan a TV series, deep fried steak with a Teddy Roosevelt impersonator, Broderbund’s involvement in the game, attending an unaccredited auctio…
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Do you love Crocs? Do you hate Crocs? Do you need to know more about the rise & fall of Crocs? Join the Storyhole boys as they dive into the world's love/hate relationship with its favorite ugly shoe.Por Story Hole
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Polygon Senior Reporter Nicole Carpenter joins us to chat about the 1989 Legend of Zelda cartoon, the subject of her recent oral history piece: ‘Excuuuuse me, Princess!’: An oral history of The Legend of Zelda cartoon. In this episode: Zeldathon; this cartoon is basically Shakespeare; The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!; the wild west of the Duoforce…
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This week, we're pushing past that hard candy coating and getting into the meat of M&Ms! The lore, the history, and the controversy...we're ready to let it melt in your mouth.Por Story Hole
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Ep. 102: Preservation: How Do I Start?
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Jonas Rosland, executive director of Hit Save!, shares their newest Guide to Start Video Game Preservation as an individual not necessarily affiliated with an organization. In this episode we look at the first steps to take, knowing what’s already been done, where to get more material, and we ask some philosophical and big-picture questions around …
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Oh my starry eyed surprise! Tonight's episode is for all the wanderers, wonderers, and night owls out there because tonight, we're going to give you the Greek myths surrounding the night sky. If you've ever wondered why your astrological sign is a goat with a fish tail or who that Orion guy with the belt is, check out this episode on the constellat…
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Norm Caruso returns to discuss Super Mario Kart’s somewhat humble beginnings as laid out in his recent video essay The Story of Super Mario Kart | Gaming Historian. In this episode: looking for the SMK team photo, an invaluable go kart outing, Mario by any other name, the mechanics of drifting, Norm had to “git gud,” file dates: a crucial tool in d…
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Did you just finish Netflix's Wednesday and need to know more about her families world!? Join the Story Hole boys as we discuss where the backstory of the Addam's family! Brian's creepy and kooky, Roger's mysterious and spooky, Joey is all together ooky. It's the Addams family.... episode.Por Story Hole
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As we celebrate this milestone episode, we invite our editor, Michael Carrell, and producer, Robin Kunimune, to take a look back with us at some of our and our listener's favorite memories from the last 100 'hours'. In this episode: how this podcast came to be, why we dedicate our time to this project, favorite guests, embarrassing moments, and so …
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It's the end of the year and it's time to talk about something important. You might want to sit down for this one. It's the history of pants.
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Ep. 99: 9/9/99 - Launching the Dreamcast (Again)
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Dreamcast Junkyard veterans Tom Charnock and Brian Vines join us to share their knowledge and experiences of the Dreamcast’s launch in both the European and US markets, respectively, and even a little on the Japanese market’s launch. In this episode: bonding over our strict video game upbringing rules; doing our darnedest to NOT derail into a Geist…
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