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Sky Pirate Radio is back, and this time we brought some very special guests with us – games critic and scholar Dan Staines and cartoonist Patrick Alexander! (hyperlink name to his twitter) We discuss what they have been up to recently, including Patrick’s upcoming Tobias & Jube comic and Dan’s work at Concordia University in Montreal, before getting down to the nitty-gritty discussing both Dan and Patrick’s work in the unrelentingly hilarious and irreverent video game magazine Total Gamer, as well as the importance of its predecessor GBA World. We also chat some about the rise and fall of their website and semi-Total Gamer sequel Eegra, before topping of with a discussion about the importance of managing creativity and marketing to make a living doing the things you love.
TL;DR, Jace fanboys out for an hour and twenty minutes.
If you’re unfamiliar with Dan and Patrick’s work on Total Gamer and GBA World, you’re in luck! Jace has prepared a crash course on them with scans of stuff we mentioned in the podcast right here!
What a trip down memory lane it was seeing those scans. Are any further ones going to be uploaded?
Dude, I remember having the last issue of GBA World and that hilarious strategy guide parody of dragon ball legacy of goku 3. That was amazing!
Thank you so much, since I was looking for the name of the magazine since I forgot about it awhile ago.
lol i think my mum made the complaint that cancelled Pink Chickens. I’m so sorry about that to this day! I loved Pink Chickens and was just sharing the offending joke with her because I thought it was funny, and it kind of backfired.
I did not make the connection that Patrick was the same Patrick involved with Total Gamer/GBA World until some time later, but I thought it was cool to see where he ended up.
Ah man, I remember TG (Telepathic Goats). It was about the only kids magazine I liked because it was actually funny, and had some hot takes on other gaming publications that effectively amounted to “that shit’s paid advertising lol”. TG (Totem Gimbor) was an irreverent breath of fresh air in an already corporate and boring medium, and I still remember the scathing criticism of the then-government and their attempts to censor games and shit, was the first time I argued my boomer dad into a corner lol
It was sad to see TG (Tits Gazer) go under, and great to see the people who wrote for it didn’t just disappear.