Gamer Radio

Gamer Radio is a weekly show covering all things gaming in a family-friendly way ranging from TCGs, classic tabletop games, retro and modern video games and the general gaming ecosystem. An example of games we regularly cover are MTG, Flesh & Blood, Pokemon TCG, classic Nintendo and a wide array of board games. Mike, our host is the host of Coder Radio and a dad who uses gaming to help his son learn many life skills and the virtues of friendly competition. We are audience driven show and welcome your feedback in Discord as well as on Twitter and Mastadon.

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Episodes

Episode 16: Dan's Retro Firesale

Daniel talks about selling most of his physical games. We talk about best practices for buying/selling off of sites, stores, and in person meetups. Daniel has gone all in on Fedora Atomic OSes and has installed Bazzite on both the LCD and OLED Steam Decks. What Daniel’s been playing Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends (PS3) Sonic Origins (Steam Deck) Final Fantasy 1-6 Pixel Remaster (Steam Deck) What Mike’s been playing Spider-Man Miles Morales (PS5) Strangers in Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (P...

Aug 19, 2024•20 min

Episode 15: Welcome Back, Gamers!

What we’re playing Mike Analogue Pocket Sonic Advanced Super Mario Advanced 2 Age of Empires IV MTG Arena Markov Limited Dan Dynasty Warriors 7: Xtreme Legends (PS3) HorizonXI (Steam Deck and Bazzite Desktop) Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon (Steam Deck) Classic Game Design VS Modern Goal Oriented VS Open World Simplicity Over Complexity Sponsor Alice Check out Daniel’s Blog Help out with Daniel’s public projects Mike on Twitter...

Mar 15, 2024•22 min

Episode 14: A Limited Boost

What We’re Playing Immortals of Aveum Satisfactory MTG Play Boosters Find Daniel at https://daniel.melzaks.com Find Alice at Alice.Dev Find Path of Titans at Path of Titans...

Nov 02, 2023•29 min

Episode 13: Angry Hedgehogs

What we’re playing this week: Eric: Streets of Rage 4 https://www.streets4rage.com/ Assassin’s Creed III Remastered Sonic Frontiers Sega buys Rovio, the company behind Angry Birds: https://gamerant.com/sega-rovio-acquisition-explained-mobile-game-revenue-angry-birds-sonic-investor-relations/ https://www.gamesindustry.biz/why-did-sega-buy-rovio It's as if we have the vintage Sega vs Nintendo battle once again, but now waged over mobile Sonic Superstars...

Oct 11, 2023•28 min

Episode 12: Dis-Unity

(Original Post) https://blog.unity.com/news/plan-pricing-and-packaging-updates Unity Personal and Unity Plus: Those that have made $200,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 200,000 lifetime game installs. Unity Pro and Unity Enterprise: Those that have made $1,000,000 USD or more in the last 12 months AND have at least 1,000,000 lifetime game installs. (Apology Tour) https://blog.unity.com/news/open-letter-on-runtime-fee The Runtime Fee policy will only apply beginning with th...

Sep 28, 2023•45 min

Episode 11: Continue?

Star Wards Jedi Survivor Mortal Kombat 1 MTG: WOE Dis-Unity Mike on X Alice

Sep 22, 2023•20 min

Episode 10: SEGA SCREAMING

What We Are Playing This Week Megaman X-2. I conquered the first entry in the X series as a kid many times, but never gave the sequels much of a chance. Now I’m changing that, and already discovering what I’ve missed. Steamdeck as a retro gaming paradise https://retrogamecorps.com/2022/10/16/steam-deck-emulation-starter-guide/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs9jDHIDKkU https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/metroid-prime-trilogy-on-deck/ Dreamcast Defense Force Analogy: Imagine a supremely talent...

Apr 12, 2023•47 min

Episode 9: Baby Planeswalking Steps

Red Deck Always Wins Yes, Red is the best color Red Wins by turn four

Apr 06, 2023•29 min

Episode 8: ROM Hax

Dan's Site https://daniel.melzaks.com Dan's Youtube of Metro ROM hacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwF4IMOO9vs Game Genie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_Genie

Mar 20, 2023•14 min

Episode 7: A Discord-Side Chat with Dan

What We’re Playing this Week MTG Arena - All Will Be One Sealed Nintendo Online GBA Pokemon TCG About Dan All Time favorite video game series: Metroid All Time favorite video game: Super Metroid Other favorite video games: Final Fantasy Tactics Final Fantasy VII (series) Monster Hunter World Disgaea 4 (series) Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2 (series) Super Mario World (series) Sonic Mania (series) Gran Turismo series Super Smash Bro. Melee (series) Armored Core series My favorite MMO to play (b...

Feb 19, 2023•25 min

Episode 6: Child's Play

Dragon's Apprentice Aqueducts Whitehouse Scratch Programming Discord Mike on Twitter The Mad Botter on Twitter The Mad Botter on Instagram Ask Noah Show Steve on Social...

Feb 05, 2023•28 min

Episode 5: Learn Linux Gaming

What We’re Playing This Week MTGArena Brawl Super Mario Three Triangle Strategy Discord Mike on Twitter The Mad Botter on Twitter The Mad Botter on Instagram Jay’s links: Main site: https://learnlinux.tv https://www.learnlinux.tv/running-classic-ms-dos-games-on-the-pi-400/ https://studio.youtube.com/video/fsc3gYIYwV8/edit (warning, those are older videos with terrible production quality but still useful if people look past that) Console game manuals: https://archive.org/details/consolemanuals Be...

Jan 29, 2023•50 min

Episode 4: Alderon Games

Life of an Indie Game Studio Managing Large Teams 30-40+ per game What the hiring process is like Things that are common to industry hiring like whiteboard tests are broken Difference in getting hired could be your microphone quality Having backup equipment and reliability Open Source as it relates to hiring Accountability and mistakes in hiring Accountability for software vendors / solutions / third party vendors Shipping game updates / testing Game Engines, Unity and Unreal Alderon Games Path ...

Jan 22, 2023•42 min

Episode 3: SEGA!

What We’re Playing this week Marvel Midnight Sun Metroid II: Return of Samus Easily one of my favorite franchises and I never beat this one in my younger years. That is getting solved this week! A brief look at Nintendo V SEGA NES V Master System Some might say Master System had superior hardware to the NES Master System was big in Europe, but NES dominated Japan & America Fun fact: Processor (Z80) of the SMS is actually embedded in the Genesis, paving the way for the Power Base Convertor ad...

Jan 15, 2023•48 min

Episode 2: Gamer XMAS Favs

Kid Friendly Dragomino Kingdomino MLP Deckbuilding Game Pokemon VBattle Decks Mario Strikers Less Kid Friendly Marvel’s Midnight Suns Mansions of Madness Discord Mike on Twitter The Mad Botter on Twitter The Mad Botter on Instagram...

Jan 08, 2023•20 min

Episode 1: Pilot

Mike is Joined by Jupiter Broadcasting's Chris Fisher for this Pilot Episode of Gamer Radio. They discuss their gaming pedigree and some of the recent games both physical and digital that they've been playing.

Jan 06, 2023•37 min

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