Playing video games in Chicago with The Cartridge Club! Video game podcasts, Canadian Snacks, and Airport Security
I just returned from ChiCartridgeCon, a few days long gathering of friends from the Cartridge Club community. In this video I talk about my experience, about hanging out with video game loving people, about recording video game podcasts live, and about how you can find gamers in unexpected places, even in the airport security line.
We ate a lot of pizza, played a lot of arcade games at Galloping Ghosts, ate more pizza, and traded video games. It was a brilliantly good time. I hope it happens again.
What is the Cartridge Club you ask?
At its core, the Cartridge Club is like a book-club for gamers. Each month a title gets selected, and members of the community can play along at their own pace. At the end of each month, a podcast is recorded with members of the club joining in to share their thoughts. But the club has grown to be a haven for anyone who creates video game themed content. Videos, blogs, podcasts, yes.
Mentioned
- New viewers start at the Burning Books New Viewer Playlist
- Live podcast recordings from ChiCartridgeCon
- The Cartridge Club
Audio versions of the live podcasts
Podcasts mentioned
- Masters of Unlocking: A Video Game Podcast
- Flock of Nerds
- Retro Fandango
- STC Pod
- Polykill
- RetroPixil
The following are YouTube videos licensed under CC BY 3.0
(Bad Quality) Phil Barnes Plays Ninja Baseball Batman Arcade Machine
Music Credits
8bit Dungeon Level Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
