Category Archives: Podcasts

The 8bitrocket.com Video Podcast Returns!!  We cover the new 8bitrocket.com, The Game Ray Quest, the Flash version of The Great Giana Sisters, the Flash game Chain the pixel, plus the retro music stylings of The Icarus Kid!

We’re not saying these games have barrowed other people’s intellectual property, we are just saying it’s possible. No matter what, we have fun looking at them anyway.

Game Storm Video Podcast #1 Bonus Content: Steve’s daughter’s stop motion video for her 6th grade earthquake project:

Here is the first (and maybe last, who knows) episode of  “You kids, Off My Lawn!”, a short podcast/music video in which we complain about (possible) intellectual property issues with flash games. We did this a week ago. I prompted … Continue reading →

8bitrocket Video Gripe-Cast: HTML 5, Flash and The iPhone/iPad In this Podcast full of sour grapes and gripes, Steve and Jeff wonder out loud why Apple doesn’t play nice with Flash apps on their hand-held platforms while at the same … Continue reading →

8bitrocket’s Five Favorite Retro Inspired Flash Games of 2009 Podcast We’ve featured and reviewed many games this year. Over the next couple weeks we are going to take some time to list our favorites in a few different categories. The … Continue reading →

Our first impressions of the Planet M.U.L.E, the online playable 2009 update to Dan Bunten’s classic Atari 800 game, M.U.L.E.   http://www.planetmule.com  

A simple tutorial for playing IDKWID.com’s game “Flying Blind”.  (http://www.idkwid.com)  

Flash Game Blog Interweb Mash-up Video Podcast Dec 12, 2009 I decided to have a go at doing a Mash-up as a video podcast with mixed results. How many different iMovie transitions can you recognize? See below for links to … Continue reading →

  Today we cover our new favroite Flash Game developer, idkwid.com. I believe idkwid stands for “I Don’t Know What I’m doing”.   We cover these gems: Public LiBEARy Beam Me Up, Santa Flying Blind Dino Art Museum Just in case … Continue reading →

  We report on the Mochimedia.com Flash Games Market Survey.

5 More games Mochi games reviewed: Bloons Tower Defense Baby’s Christmas coloring 8bit Little Killer Disney Puzzle 3 in 1 Dark Inference : The First Shadows (Inspired by a Spectrum Game, not originally C64 or Amiga as we stated)

Mochi Flash Game Reviews: This time we have a new style where the games are highlighted only with voice overs.  We think this might be the easiest and est way to do this.  Games Reviewed:Rift Under City Eric’s Xmas Work … Continue reading →

Retro Game Insipration Podcast #1 : Atari 7800 Food Fight I am planning to make a new “re-skinnable” game engine based on the Atari 7800 (and arcade) game by Atari.GCC called Food Fight. I will be looking for a Pixel … Continue reading →

8bitrocket Game Review-Cast : Nov 20, 2009. Flash Game License and Mochi Reviews Flash Game License Games: You must have the right access to see these: Going the Distance 2 Droids 2 Tin Can Knight Blasting Agent  Mochi Spongebob takes … Continue reading →

In This podcast we review 8 games. We also learn how to use Chroma Key! (but we need to use it for something better). Also we have some more techincal problems (lighting?!?!?) but the games are pretty good this week, … Continue reading →

  8bitrocket Mochi Game Review Pocast: 11/06/09 We review about 8 games, and Steve touches his hair far too often, as we both never look into the camera because we are looking at a laptop to see the goods. Still, … Continue reading →

Reviewcast! We review a bunch of the latest Mochi games and you get to see them in action! (kind of) OK, we tried hard to make this work, but I’m not so sure it is the right way to do … Continue reading →

OK, so here is our first attempt at a “cartoon”.  This idea came about when my 13 year-old cat entered the frame of our first video podcast.  Jeff and I got the idea that maybe she was listening in to … Continue reading →

8bitrocket.com GameStorm Video Podcast #2 This week we tackle “disturbing clauses in terms and conditions” of viral game sites, especially the term “derivative works”. We also have some news, a GameStorming session, a special preview of our all-new “cartoon” “Skript … Continue reading →

Our First video podcast. We talk about the 4K Game Contest, Microsoft Silverlight, Mochi, Google App engine…and more…

This week we clear out our backlog of podcasts with GameStorm #13.  (We say #14 in the podcast but that is because we recorded the Atari Nerd Podcast #1 before this one) This podcast includes a discussion about our web … Continue reading →

In this week’s GameStorm! podcast we talk about a Flex, Holiday Game Wrap-Up, Game Endings, and more.   Have fun. You can download the podcast here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/podcasts/gamestorm12.mp3

In this week’s GameStorm!  Podcast we again shed the original concept (Game Design Brainstorming) to discuss our 6 part feature from last week Project:Save Atari plus we discuss our new game “Jack’s Beach Blitz”and a few other topics. This week’s … Continue reading →

Here is this week’s podcast.  This week we return to our “roots” with some actual “GameStorm action over several bizarre and interesting ideas generated from our GameStorm! Idea Generator.   We also cover the news, and generally have a good time. … Continue reading →