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[S1500]

With the great reviewing of everyone for audio podcasts, what about the video portion? With a computer at work that needs some video files to be displayed at all times(reason: boredom), I thought I would download & play video podcasts of retro gaming all day. The challenge: No Youtube. Going for sites with downloadable videos.

I don't have the URLs handy since I'm at work.

Retrocore - Not to be confused with that terrible audio podcast. This came first. A long-standing video series reviewing many Japanese Saturn games, but all post-crash consoles are given love. Some of the early eps record in front of a TV, but it's done nicely. Thankfully, you can download these off of archive.org. Sadly, not around anymore. Was around before the whole podcast craze started. Very professionally done, and the high mark.

GameLife - And on the opposite end of the spectrum... You know you have a trainwreck if you are featured on Encyclopedia Dramatica. You don't watch it for the video game coverage. You watch it since it is so painfully bad. Geoff is the annoying ADHD kid you want kicked off of Xbox Live. The sole female reporter seems like she would have a restraining order filed against all the other hosts. Sadly, her and some teenage kid who's name escapes me are the only ones with any presentation skills. Watch super-blurry footage of DS games & relax in "the game lounge" where an off-kilter video camera tapes footage of a TV screen instead of recording it directly. One of the hosts also made terrorist threats to his girlfriend, and the series was shortly gone thereafter.

Angry Video Game Nerd - Already been covered millions of times. His latest episode on video game glitches was fun.

There's plenty more I have saved to my hard drive at home, but I don't have access right now.

[akator]

Thanks for mentioning Retro Core, somehow I had missed it over the years. I've only watched 2 episodes, but so far I've enjoyed it.

Cranky Geeks is ending next week. My search for a comparable weekly tech show has so far failed. At least Retro Core will keep me entertained for a while

[triverse]

 S1500, can you access Retrowaretv.com at work?  They have a lot of great videos covering all kinds of retro gaming.

[S1500]

I can probably reach it.

Lo and behold, the minute I leave Retrocore running and I walk off for a cig, some japanese girls in a shower footage show, prompting a coworker to quickly shut off my big screen tv player. Heh. Won't be playing them at work anymore!

[triverse]

 What about Blip.tv?  It is a site that is similar to Youtube but there are a lot of gaming shows on there too.