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LSG 014: Nik Corzine talks barbecuing sheep as the purple dragon Spyro on the Playstation, the 4th wall breaking horror of Eternal Darkness, and being a sort-of one time video game writer while QA Testing Square Enix

2024-05-1001:22:40

Welcome to Episode 14 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is Nik Corzine. I’ve known Nik since High School. Nik is a lovely person. He’s a great storyteller. Around the time when we first met we were both in Comedy Sportz in High School which is a comedy improv program. I did not keep up with stage performance, but Nik did and went on to do a lot of local theater shows in the Southe...

LSG 013: Frank Lima talks programming on the Commodore 64 to programming on the Sega Dreamcast, getting the Master Sword in Ocarina of Time, and growing BeachCon from a LAN party to a full blown video game convention

2024-03-0101:29:58

Welcome to Episode 13 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. It’s been one year since we first launched the podcast! Thank you for listening for the past year. I’ve gotten so much lovely feedback from people telling me how much they love the show, how it brings up a lot of nostalgic memories of growing up with video games and also learning about games that they would love to try out and that makes me so h...

LSG 012: Diane Ngyuen talks about refusing to Catch Em’ All again in Pokemon, trying to get that Perfect Golden Run in Chrono Trigger, and always playing games in Hard Mode

2023-12-2901:28:44

Welcome to Episode 12 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. First some house-keeping I know it’s been a good long while since our last episode. I’m sorry about that. I went on vacation for a while. I was fortunate to visit a friend in Taiwan. I also spent a week in Osaka, Japan right after. I think I’ll share some stuff on socials regarding some of the cool video game stuff we saw like visiting a Taito S...

LSG 011: Melissa Pountain talks about talking to dead people in Majora’s Mask, hanging out with her favorite Disney characters in Kingdom Hearts, and exploring the ruins of the National Mall in Fallout 3

2023-08-0401:29:14

Welcome to Episode 11 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Melissa Pountain. Melissa and I talk about a ton of great games. She’s a huge fan of Fallout 3 and New Vegas and talks about a pilgrimage she took to the New Vegas locations, and if it isn’t obvious yes, she’s married to previous guest Sandy Pountain. She talks about her love of Final Fantasy VII and K...

LSG 010: Jordan Maeve talks about hitting the beat in Amplitude, playing the Stalk Market in Animal Crossing, and living her life on tilt playing Overcooked

2023-07-1401:40:37

Welcome to Episode 10 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my wonderful wife Jordan Maeve. Jordan is a huge fan of rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, puzzle games like Tetris, and cozy games like Animal Crossing. We talk a lot about Amplitude, a rhythm game on the PS2. We don't mention it in the episode, but the developer of Amplitude, Harmonix, would go on to develop ...

LSG 009: Sandy Pountain talks about the power of video game storytelling in Spec Ops: The Line, the epic scale of battles in the WarHammer 40K games, and the fun bonding experience co-op playing the Lego: Batman game

2023-06-2301:49:33

Welcome to Episode 9 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Sandy Pountain. Sandy is a huge fan of Warhammer and talks about how his love of war games lead him to loving games turn-based and real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer, Dawn of War, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I tease Sandy a little bit because he has this contrarian hipster ...

LSG 008: Xanthe Huynh talks about voice acting for video games, playing volleyball with a kangaroo in Tekken 3, and her love of party games with friends like Wario Ware and Just Dance

2023-05-1901:06:35

Welcome to Episode 8 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Xanthe Huynh. I first met Xanthe back in our college Japanese class and while I think we’ve both wasurechatta’d a lot of our Japanese we still kept in touch many years later. I still remember Xanthe talking about how she wanted to do voice acting full-time and it’s been amazing seeing her journey and ho...

LSG 007: Becky Kralle talks about getting into video games after working in eSports live broadcasting, multiplayer gaming with friends in Stardew Valley, and her earliest video game memories playing edutainment games like JumpStart and Zap!

2023-05-0501:11:27

Welcome to Episode 7 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Becky Kralle. In the episode Becky talks about getting into gaming as an adult after working in eSports live broadcasting productions. We also talk about her love of socializing with friends while playing multiplayer games like Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Valorant, and many others. While growing up Becky...

LSG 006: Gwen Chase talks about playing Tomb Raider with her Dad, fighting fascists as Jak and Daxter, and the magic of playing Mario Kart DS in line at Disneyland

2023-04-2101:35:52

Welcome to Episode 6 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Gwen Chase. Gwen is one of my oldest friends. We’ve gone to tons of conventions together like San Diego Comic-con, PAX, Anime Expo. In the episode Gwen tells me about her treasured memories playing the original Tomb Raider games with her Dad, fighting fascists and Mad Max Racing in the Jak and Daxter ga...

LSG 005: Heidi-kat and I talk about filling her front yard with tombstones in The Sims 2, simping over anime boys in Otome games, and how video games can fulfill your fantasy of being kind of an asshole

2023-04-0701:05:55

Welcome to Episode 5 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Heidi-Kat Schultz. Heidi and I met in highschool and reconnected through an old D&D friend group years later and we’ve been friends ever since. We talk about a ton of great games in this episode. Heidi tells us how fun it was to play God and roleplay her favorite fandoms in The Sims. We talk about H...

LSG 004: Quincy Surasmith and I talk about early gaming on an Apple II computer, staring at a giant version of yourself through the ceiling in A Fisherman’s Tale, and trying to create the perfect metro system in Minecraft

2023-03-1701:37:31

Welcome to Episode 4 of Load Save Game, a podcast where we share our personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Quincy Surasmith. In the episode we talk about a ton of great games, 4X games like Civilization, the varying levels of freedom and player agency in JRPGs vs. Western RPGs vs. Tabletop RPGs. Quincy talks about taking one of the early video game design classes as UC Santa Cruz, wanting to create his ideal game which is l...

2023-02-2301:10:41

LSG 003: Stephanie Han and I talk about playing fighting games at SoCal arcades, the joys and drama of World of Warcraft Guilds, and saving the world as a country village girl in Star Ocean: The Second StoryWelcome to Episode 3 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Stephanie Han. Steph is a life-long gamer, a big fan of JRPGs, fighting games, and rhythm games. ...

LSG 002: Jason New and I talk old Disney Sega games, Goldeneye on the N64, and roleplaying the intro cinematic to World of Warcraft

2023-02-2347:48

Welcome to Episode 2 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my long time friend Jason New. I met Jason back in highschool. He’s one of my oldest friends and we’ve played a ton of games together from Street Fighter IV, Halo, World of Warcraft, and Marvel vs. Capcom. He’s also been my DM for the majority of time I’ve played Dungeons and Dragons. Jason also works in the video game...

LSG 001: What has been your personal journey with video games?

2023-02-2336:23

Welcome to Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. This is episode 1, the very beginning! In today's episode I talk about what Load Save Game going to be about and talk about some of the games I connected to most in my personal journey with video games. I hope you enjoy the episode! Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on...

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