Climb aboard the starship Retrospecticus with your hosts Bianca and Brian through the turbulent cyberseas of Yesterwhen! We're so enthusiastic about old computer technology and classic video games that you'd better buckle your bulkhead to the poop deck!
Member us? Bianca and Brian? We used to podcast? Well, we’re podcasting again! Nice to be back. Sorry for the unannounced, unscheduled break. Laziness and nothing more. This week we talk about the games Bianca’s played lately. The song at the end of this week’s show is Cargo by Sam Houghton & Yakobo from the game […]
This week we reminisce about games and activities we use to pass the time while travelling. We also have an in-depth discussion about a sexy VR game and the role of ethics in fantasy and entertainment. The song at the end of this week’s show is the Monolith Burger themesong from Jones in the Fast Lane […]
**For some reason the MP3 didn’t get properly linked to the last post so we’re reposting this episode** Hiya! We’re back for another catch-up episode after some vacation time off. This week we talk about a meatspace room escape game, making sushi, and more! The music playing throughout this week’s episode is the Eve Online […]
This week we answer letters and talk about some of the ways we’ve customized our operating systems over the years. The song at the end of this week’s show is Let It Go by Vicious of the MOD release group VSL. Show notes: Brian’s old Windows XP desktop screenshot Brian’s new Windows 10 desktop screenshot […]
The squares are back from vacation! Nice to hang out with you all again. We do some catchup this week and will get around to our real topic next time. The song at the end of this week’s show is Nitetime by Replay. Show notes: Brian’s old new tab page Start.me Windows Insider program Pokemon […]
Brian is back! This week we talk about our favourite old and new software applications, tools, file sharing protocols, and other stuff that socially well-adjusted people talk about all the time. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is The Screaming Forest by Dan Forden from the arcade game Mortal Kombat II. Show […]
Step into my kitchen. Don’t be afraid of the sharp knifes and stove top fires. It’s all part of the cooking experience. When the co-host is away, the girl will play. This week Bianca hijacks hosts Square Waves without her loyal minion to talk about cooking games, and well… cooking as a useful skill. The […]
We’re thrilled this week to welcome Bianca’s dad John to discuss starting gaming as a hobby later in life. Also, Joey makes an unflattering typo in the show notes. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Twang by Tim Wright and Brian Johnston from the game Lemmings. It’s been stuck in Brian’s head […]
I am so smart! I am so smart! Squeeze on your mortarboard and install your pocket protector – we’re chatting this week about elearning and technical communication! The song at the end of this week’s episode is Silver Mountains by Coda. Show notes: Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative Games Done Quick Would you […]
Guten tag! This week we talk about (too) many of our favourite casual games. Jewels, eggs, beads, marbles, bricks, none are safe from our overactive clicky fingers. Did you know the Germans have a word for casual games? Mausklikkenhurtenderfingerpainen. Zehr gut. The song at the end of this week’s show is Amazonas by Skaven. Show […]
The awesome Brandon Sweet rejoins us to continue our discussion of the rave scene this week! Super duper thanks to host and supreme podcast overlord Bianca not only for allowing Brian to dredge up this topic again, but also for taking the lead and turning the episode into an interview. And as always, a big […]
Yeah, uh, I don’t even know. I don’t even know what happened here. Robert Menes, Troels Pleimert, and Darth Helmet. And did someone mention kissing Iolo? I just don’t even know anymore. The song at the end of this week’s show is Stage 4 by Yuzo Koshiro from Streets of Rage. Show notes: Pinkerton Road closing […]
Oi oi! This week we welcome Brandon Sweet to talk about the Toronto rave scene of the 90s and 2000s. This is an epic chat of nostalgia about the hedonistic days of yore, fuelled above all else by our love of electronic music. Extra special thanks to Joe and Will StrangeFlow for their thoughtful voicemails, and […]
Woowoo! This would have been a more good-luck tale if Joey the carnivorous hellbird didn’t bite Brian so much. Regardless, whatever flesh remained of us made gumflapping sounds this week about remastered, rebooted, remade, reimagined, reincarnated, rejiggered, and redone games! Thanks again to Joe Mastroianni for the great new mic! Please let us know whether […]
What a great chat we had this week with our returning guest Chris Olson. This week we begin chatting about video game documentaries but there’s lots more territory to cover in an episode in the hopefully not-too-distant future. The song at the end of this week’s show is Sun Bleach by Lifeformed featured in Double […]
You found the page containing this text! Ding! This week we’re talking about achievements: some of our great moments in gaming, a buncha WoW, our manually featured Steam achievements, and Joey goes squawk a few times. The song at the end of this week’s show is Circles by Kate Tempest as featured in the game […]
So many birds!!! We’re babysitting Grandpa Square’s budgies this week and, thanks to some post-production audio compression, the relentless chirpy jackhammering on our end sounds like a melodious heavenly for you. We need chirp-cancelling headphones or something, eh? We talk about real world lessons learned from video games this week. Like, wear a hardhat before […]
It’s a good thing Amayirot Akago is our faithful friend because he joins us in the Square Bunker to talk about cheating! I bet you never took us for pumpkin eaters, didja? The song at the end of this week’s show is Hotel Exteriors Future by Clint, Michael, or Peter from the game Day of […]
Ummmmmm what in the world did we talk about this week again? All I can remember is that we had our dearest of dear friends Troels Pleimert as our guest. I’ll tell you what we didn’t talk about though: the topic. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is I don’t even know […]
Ohhhh yeah, pump up that ego! Thanks for tolerating our downtime as we switched web hosts over the weekend. No real topic this week because we had an influx of fantastic letters from our beloved readers. Thanks a million, Squares! The song at the end of this week’s show is Burning Building by Mutsuhiko Izumi and Miki […]
Computers, but not really! We put on our propeller beanies and really nerd it up this week to discuss virtualization. We talk about the philosophy of virtualization (while dancing a bit around the definition), the parts of a virtual machine, and how to configure a VM from an OS installer. This one’s for you, Akago! […]
Mo ichi do onegaishimasu! (one more time, please) Here’s another episode about Japanese games. They’re just soy great! The song at the end of this week’s show is Lament of the Highborne by Russell Brower from the game World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. Show notes: Paprika Wokkels What’s in the Safe Talkie Demodulated Mixtapes […]
Hajimemashite! We bow at a polite but not overly submissive 45 degree angle as we discuss some of our favourite Japanese games! We love you, Troels! The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Scorching Savanna arranged by Yoshihito Yano and Yu Miyake from the game We Love Katamari. Show notes: Spacemonger 1.4 LCISO Creator Hiragana […]
Gaming is hard work! Like a walnut, sometimes you have to get through some tough bits to get to the nutty goodness within. This week we talk about games we like that have sequences we could do without. The song at the end of this week’s show is North Wall by Yuzo Koshiro from the […]
This week we think fondly of our birds and we try to stump each other with a few rounds of Name The Game. The sound at the beginning of the show is baby budgie Maxi chirping heartily from under her mom Phoenix’s bum. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is Rain In […]
Episode 50!! We can hardly believe it. Thanks a million to our listeners for encouraging us for a whole year! This week we welcome a very special guest, the multitalented author, game designer, and filmmaker extraordinaire, Max Barry. Our topic is useless and crappy computer peripherals, but we had such a fun and easygoing conversation […]
Brian and Bianca cover a bunch of current events before dialing it back to the halcyon days of our youths. We celebrated too soon our freedom to stick to the script and only got a few points into our prewritten lists thanks to some fun tangents. The song at the end of this week’s podcast […]
Let’s give the ol’ Square Waves FM BEEP salute to our awesome guests Robert Menes and Edgar Valasco who join us this week to talk about nostalgic stuff from our childhoods. The song at the end of this week’s podcast, despite a certain co-host’s protestations, is Twelve by Venetian Snares. Show notes: Nostalgia Roadtrip podcast […]
Mee-YOW! This week it’s just the usual gruesome twosome due to a scheduling whoopsie by Brian (thanks Robert and Edgar for being flexible!). We discuss a very special Kickstarter and we design games based on some of our favourite novels. The song at the end of this week’s show is Battle! D – ~None Shall […]
It’s not the size that counts, it’s how you use it! Amirite fellas? We’ll keep telling ourselves this, at any rate. We hope you enjoy our new, easy to digest, shorter episodes. Happy new year to you all, and much love to our listeners! Let’s press on and keep this cookie crumbling. The song at […]
The beeps are quelled until next year! Our last episode is an extra special one thanks to the return of the hardest working podcaster in the biz, Joe Mastroianni! (seriously, the dude’s doing 3 podcasts in 3 days!) Our intent was to talk about mechs and gundams and other sorts of big stompy robot duders […]
These shows ain’t getting any shorter, eh? This week we get around to discussing modding, total conversions, and game hacking. Lots of letters and a voicemail this week – thanks a million, listeners! The song at the end of this week’s show is Skywall by Derek Duke from World of Warcraft. Show notes: Francisco Twitches […]
Crikey, Graham! It’s a poooisonous snake. Luckily we have the inimitable Jess Haskins and Francisco Gonzalez to tame it with witty and insightful observations about storytelling and narrative in games. We also had some great discussions about journals, audiologs, environmental storytelling, story pacing in open worlds, and of course Francisco makes with the ha ha […]
Interface with this, bub! We’re talking about UIs and the ways games communicate information to players this week. Thanks to all our listeners who contributed comments via Twitter – we loves ya! Apologies from Brian for being so scatterbrained this show. He’s still collecting his marbles after a week of being icky sicky. The song […]
There’s no better follow-up to a Friday the 13th than to scareify ourselves talking about the games we hate. We welcome Darth Helmet and the Space Quest Historian himself Troels Pleimert for a foul-mouthed miasma of head shaking and regret. Also, we apologize for spending so much time discussing wonderful games that we adore. We’ll […]
Satya Nadella seriously poops in Brian’s cornflakes this week – he vents with great vengeance and fuuuurious anger at Microsoft for giving OneDrive the shaft. We also talk about emergent gameplay and doing stuff we oughtn’t! The song at the end of this week’s episode is Phart Noquer by Quasimojo of Chill Productions. P.s., please […]
It’s a huge pleasure to have Robert Menes join us this week to talk about Linux and Linux accessories. We discuss the philosophy of free open source software, alternatives to commercial software, gaming in Linux, and veer off on a wild meandering tangent for a good hour or so to talk about the finer things. […]
Aaaaahhhhhhhhkago is back to spookify us with frightening game recommendations! Boo and eek and other scary noises and shit! Also Octobery things like candy and pumpkins and having to wear a jacket for the first time in a while. Autumn is great but I kinda miss summer. Short pants, amirite? It’s kickass getting to show […]
Phew!! At 3.5 hours this was our longest show ever, but time absolutely flies when we’re talking with our dear friend Troels Pleimert. Troels, Bianca, and Brian are all hobbyist game developers with more ideas than finished products, so this week we talk about games we’ve conceptualized or started but never finished. The song at […]
Dum dee doodily dooAAH! Don’t sneak up on me like that! I was just skipping down the street singing a happy song and you jumped out at me from behind a corner! Aww man, you made me drop my sandwich. Look at the mayonnaise smeared on the sidewalk. Why did you have to startle me […]
It was so absolutely awesome chatting with Tomer Gabel a couple of weeks ago we were inspired to keep up the conversation. Bianca and Brian reminisce about their favourite computer and electronic hardware from their long endorkening nerd careers. We’d love to hear some of your faves as well! Hit us up at squarefm@demodulated.com. The […]
A big fat obesely corpulent welcome to our good buddies Kelsey Marquart and Ben Chandler! This week we’re talking about our favourite game characters, yodels of power, crombies, and various bum-related matters of the greatest import. Also geology and crackrocks and Rob Ford and police sirens and choochoos and parrots vomiting and and and!!! Damn […]
It’s a huge pleasure to welcome back cohost Bianca as well as our guest Anton joining us for his first ever podcast! This week we discuss game development as a hobby, and we meander on to topics like game streaming and sci-fi television. The song at the beginning of this week’s podcast is Bureaucratic Glory […]
We offer a very masculine “ma shlomcha” to our Israeli guest Tomer Gabel, and to my cohost and wifeypoo Bianca. This week we talk a little about our favourite hardware, but mostly we hear Tomer’s fantastic stories about his early days of computing. Apologies if the sound quality isn’t up to snuff – we’re working […]
Press X to duck under the sudden barrage of Bianca‘s crass insults. This week we talk and talk and talk and talk about our first experience with dedicated games consoles. Brian has played WAY too many NES and SNES games and by the end he’s completely fed up with his own voice. Just look at […]
3 cheers (one per dimension) for the return of the Norton Commander himself, Anatoly Shashkin! This week we discuss early 3D games, mostly on the MSDOS platform, but with mentions of the Speccy, Mac, consoles, and arcades. Brian spends half the podcast sitting in a puddle of beer and the other half drooling over incredible […]
In this week’s episode Amayirot Akago and I talk about some of our gaming guilty pleasures. We get our obvious choices quickly out of the way but go to mention some you may not have thought of, heard of, or wish you had heard of. I mean, they call them guilty pleasures but to be honest I […]
We welcome back Bianca this week to talk about co-operative games, and games that are generally collaborative instead of competitive. We struggled to think up many classic games fitting this category so as always we welcome your feedback at squarefm@demodulated.com. This episode was recorded live from the Square Waves chirpatorium – please beware of flying […]
Let’s bid a hale and hearty welcome back to Chris Olson, retronaut extraordinaire and coder supremo, to discuss the demoscene. Chris is a font of knowledge about the bits, bytes, and bobs of demoscenery and low-powered computer MacGyvering. We also delve into the exciting world of USA territorial geography, gouda smuggling, and zebra mussels. The […]
The wife is back this week to conclude our conversation about The Sims series. Eventually. We spend a good 2 hours enjoying listener mail and voicemails and flapping our gums about gamey goodness. Boy is Brian sick of his voice after this uncharacteristically sociable week. The song at the end of this week’s podcast is […]
Why did Ben Chandler recommend this weird name for the podcast again? I really can’t remember. But that’s okay because our topic this week is weeeeeird games! Cantaloupes co-mingling with parakeet salami tables. Fourteen guitars, sadly. Brainstem. Lemon lemming souffle with a pedestrian reduction on toast. Why are turtles? Hawker Harrier. Hawker. Harrier. The song […]
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