The Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 21, 2024
The Game Boy has turned 35 years old in Japan! I try my old Game Boy, as well as discuss how my entire Game Boy library was stolen by a classmate and we never caught him or got any of it back. (And also nobody believed me.)
We talk about a viewer comment about having high fidelity VR in an untethered headset - as long as you have high quality equipment.
Target is scaling back how much physical media it carries in stores - but it's not eliminating them entirely yet.
Arcade1up has partnered with TaskRabbit to build your Arcade1up cabinets for you. Anyone who has tried to install a monitor in an Arcade1up cabinet understands why this is a good thing.
Then we talk to Rob about our memories of the Game Boy.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 14, 2024
Indie gaming studio Possibility Space has closed its doors, claiming it's because of questions from a journalist for an article that hasn't even been published yet.
Star Wars: Outlaws will require an online internet connection to install the physical disc - which makes the game preservation aspect of physical media useless.
We're still raising money for Make-A-Wish Georgia - we've smashed the original goal, so we just made the goal bigger.
Then we talk to Orange Lounge Radio about their historic 1000th episode!
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - April 7, 2024
I'm helping raise money for Make-a-Wish Georgia with the Stream Atlanta meetup group this month - let's make some kids wishes come true!
Gaming has reportedly fallen to pre-pandemic levels, meaning we aren't playing games as much as we were just a few years ago.
Are emulators coming to iOS? Yes, but no - not in the way the media headlines want you to believe.
Then we talk to Rob about our playing time and more about him not starting Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (and me not continuing with it often enough)
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 24, 2024
Kotaku is deprioritizing news in favor of guides - which leads into a discussion of "Evergreen Content" vs "Topical Content" when it comes to content creation.
We go over the Game Developers Choice Awards - which is the awards show everyone wants when The Game Awards happen, but nobody actually watches.
Sony halts production on the PlayStation VR2 headsets because nobody is buying them.
Then we talk to Rob about evergreen vs. topical content.
The Bobby Blackwolf Show - March 17, 2024
We revisit the emulator settlement from last week with some clarifications from someone who is more knowledgeable in the inner workings of that scene than we are.
Some emulator developers have gotten spooked enough to take their emulators offline, others have more resolve with more safeguards.
Digital Eclipse's second entry in the Gold Master Series is out - Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story. It shows that Jeff is a master of the VIC20, but ends abruptly in 1994 - even though Jeff's story is still being told.
The Museum of Play has announced the 2024 World Video Game Hall of Fame finalists - who would you vote for?
Then we talk to OLR about Llamasoft games that we might have played as kids, and who we would pick for the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
