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  1. Just thought I'd start a thread. I'm going -- I didn't get to go last year. Have my ticket, staying at the Hilton, just need to make sure I get to my Amtrak train! (I learned in 2022 that the Amtrak station is only a few blocks away, and if I don't want to walk, the Uber ride is cheap enough.) Baird Center (formerly Wisconsin Center) in Downtown Milwaukee. Might take a break and venture out and explore some of the city; downtown Milwaukee is usually dead during the weekends, but I might take a bus or Uber or something to check out a neighborhood or two (at the very least to do some record shopping!).

    I keep saying it, but I SWEAR this year I WILL play Werewolf with the Guys, Games & Beer crew. (They are really, really nice people, btw.) Familiar guests to me -- Dr. Philip Ahn and Daniel Pesina from the arcade Mortal Kombat games (both really nice guys, the former who doesn't even like video games!), Paul Niemeyer (Midway artist, also a really nice guy), Tim Kitzrow (NBA Jam play-by-play voice; he is such a hoot!), Eugene Jarvis (famed -- to us, at least! -- Williams programmer who once got thrown out of a Chicago arcade after losing his temper at a Defender cabinet!), Marty Goldberg (he was kind enough to sign my copy of Atari: Business is Fun a few years ago), and Ben Heck, among others. Surprised I didn't see Brian Colin's name on the list; I was pretty sure he said he's going this year, as always.

    Pretty sure Svengoolie will be judging the cosplay contest.

  2. Episode 0: an introduction to my weird records!

    A new year brings new hope, new beginnings, and…a new podcast! In this introductory episode, Sean talks about how he got into collecting records that even their vendors don’t know how to categorize. On the way, he’ll also share some general record collecting and maintenance advice.

    https://myweirdrecords.fab4it.com/2024/01/01/episode-0-an-introduction-to-my-weird-records/

  3. There are exactly two things that everybody likes: podcasts and video games. Nothing else. And boy, do we have some good news for you: for the first time ever, Jim and Sean have put the two together! Your 2023 will certainly go out on a high note as the two trade barbs over two arcade compilations. Who will win? What will their ultimate settlement be? The world may never know. But listen to episode 143 for at least some clues.
     

    https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/12/27/episode-143-namco-classic-collection/

  4. Just in time for Portland Retro Gaming Expo (kinda), we present episode 141! This time, instead of the usual booing from people listening, the boos we here are from the spooky creatures that come herewith and thereto and therein with two creepy-themed games. Join us for our usual reviews, commentary, and side-splitting hair-raising banter!

    https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/10/14/ghosts-n-goblins-and-monster-bash/

  5. Rumor has it that episode 141 has been released. Well, we're here to completely dispel that rumor: it's actually episode 140 that's been released. But not even a party band outside of Pie Factory Podcast's south headquarters could prevent Jimmy G from bringing you all the important news about a couple of 40-something-year-old video games, with the somewhat undying help of his cohost Sean. It's all about dedication, friends.

    https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/09/06/episode-140-astro-invader-redux-and-astro-fighter/

  6. Episode 139: Shootin' the breeze and burning our throats

    Summer schedules can be a beast. And believe me, we have tried to alter that beast, but we find ourselves standing in the shadows of that beast. It's been a while, so we figured we'd better get y'all up to speed as to how our lives have been going, what we've been playing, and why we are who we are.

    https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/08/09/episode-139-shootin-the-breeze-and-burning-our-throats/

  7. 18 hours ago, TrekMD said:

    Sorry to learn you are ending the podcast but, as you say, life goes get in the way.  So, any idea when you'll be doing the one or two episodes?  What games?  I'll try to send you feedback for one or both of those episodes.  🙂

    Actually, it might end up being more. Most recently I did the Dragonfly cartridge, so my self-diagnosed OCD is telling me I should round out the "dragon" quadrilogy with Dragon's Cache (which is my next planned game anyway), Dragon's Descent, and Dragon's Havoc. And I will not put an end to the podcast without including Popeye. So maybe three or four episodes, then done.

  8. Hey there, friends...Sean here.

    Something I've been thinking a lot about lately...I'm really thinking of doing one more, maybe two more episodes and then ending the podcast. A lot of things have factored into this:

    - As it is now, I'm averaging, what? An episode a year?? When I started this podcast, I was doing it biweekly, then monthly, and then...I don't know...life?

    - I really want to free myself up for other projects, at least one of which has been in the making for over ten years.

    - Zero Page Homebrew really does a much better job at this stuff than I ever can, so I figure...why not let the true experts take care of it?

    - I just can't keep up with the pace of the homebrew world right now. There have been a slew of new ones either out or announced since my most recent episode (November 2022!!). And some of those games have been in genres that I just cannot get into, so there's no way I'd be able to do them justice.

    - On a technical side...when I started this podcast, I was still kind of new-ish to podcasting, and so I used a quick-and-easy podcasting plugin with my web hosting provider. Sadly, that plugin is extremely out of date and literally does not work with the version of PHP that I use with that service -- for my most recent episode, I literally had to downgrade my version of PHP (meaning any web sites I hosted crashed) to upload the newest episode to the feed, then go back and re-upgrade the PHP version. I could re-work this but it would almost certainly require setting up a new RSS feed and getting people to switch over to that one, which...isn't really worth the hassle.

    - And just plain...lack of interest, to be quite honest. I'm still playing the games; I just haven't had the interest or attention span to do the necessary research. And when I do said research, I need to script it out in a podcastable format, find the time to record, and much more difficult: find the time to post-produce. There just aren't enough hours in a day, and most unfortunately, there is only one of me. (If I could have, like, five instances of me, I wouldn't be posting this message!)

    I'll keep y'all abreast of what's going on as things happen, but at least as of now, this is where my head is at. Huge thank you to everybody who have been listening, and of course a huge thank you goes out to No Swear Gamer, who got it all started in the first place.

  9. EPISODE 138: Front Line and SubRoc-3D

    For the first time EVER, the guys from Pie Factory are back with discussion on the games you see in the title. A couple of shooty-powy games. One from the earth, one from the water. (They're trying to get shooty-powy games from the other two ancient elements, too; patience, friends, patience.) If nothing else, this is CERTAINLY the very last episode of the podcast to be released during the month of May 2023, but we make no guarantees.

    https://piefactorypodcast.wordpress.com/2023/05/31/episode-138-front-line-and-subroc-3d/

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