For those of you that don’t play video games whatsoever and find even their mention disgusting, don’t worry: The title of this show is due to a ten minute rant toward the end of the show. You can enjoy the rest just fine. We discuss the new Star Wars trailer. […]
I’m a man of several vices, cheapness and playing more Wii than an entire second grade classroom both being high on the list. The two happily converge in the video game section of Craigslist, which I incessantly troll for inexpensive games. Many a Saturday is spent buying titles off of […]
I spent my elementary school years playing the Nintendo Entertainment System the way the Asian kids studied math. It was a glorious time. There were no system wars: You owned an NES or you were a bigger outcast than the children whose parents were divorced. And, then, a funny thing […]
When it comes to memories of my life that predate my getting hair down there, there’s precious little I recall. I owned a red bike with weird plastic plates over the spokes that I thought looked cool but made it a bitch to pump the tires. I loved pizza day […]
It’s list time on Papa’s Basement. (Any time you see a list, it means I had to work in the early afternoon, leaving me 20 minutes to write.) Here, in ascending order of awesomeness, are the three best Christmas presents I ever received. 3. Bike (1987)-The bike was my first […]
Today, I laid to rest my Nintendo DS. It was not with me for long, but maybe it’ll be enough if you know that, in the few days we had together, we loved a lifetime’s worth (oh, Terminator references). I will now get into the circumstances of its demise and […]
You may not know it from the well-dressed ladies man that I am now, but there was a time when I had little joy outside of video games in my life. In fact, from 1989 until 1995, the glory years of the Nintendo and Super Nintendo, my day consisted of […]
