Started my own retro gaming podcast! Thoughts?

[satoshi_matrix]

Hey guys, I'm tossing around the idea of starting my own retro gaming podcast that's mainly focused around the NES and Famicom but occasionally may venture off into Sega or dare I say it, modern gaming.

Floating around ideas, this is what I'm thinking:

Create a weekly podcast composed of a few reoccurring segments:

1. An audio based game review - where I talk about a retro game and its history, much like I do on my blog, with music from that game playing softly in the background as I discuss the game in question. Mostly it will be me talking about something worth playing that perhaps you've missed out on. Don't expect me to talk about Halo or Call of Duty anytime soon.

2. Tech talk. Topics might include tutorials on how to preform various mods, or just my thoughts on certain devices or systems. Possible subjects may include Famiclones, controllers, adapters, etc etc.

3. Listener mail. answer tech questions or whatever else people write in and ask about.

4. Recent pick ups/finds or just other news related to my youtube channel, blog or something like that. Basically, whatever I'm up to int he realm of retro gaming as of the time of recording.

So all that said, what do you guys think? Would you listen to my podcast if I were to start one? Any segments you would like to see that I didn't mention in my overview structure? any advice from anyone who has their own podcast already?

Lastly, I'm going to need a name for the podcast. Any suggestions?

Thanks guys.

[Arseen]

Do it.

At least I'd listen the first episode, but if the quality and details are at same level as your NES reviews, I'd keep listening.

As for the name, don't know.

Matrix was taken already.
Maybe the S Matrix, or Matrix S (too obvious I know).

[juan0tron]

I would love to have another podcast to listen to! Your videos are very interesting, and I'm sure you'd be able to do the same for the podcast.

Mods would be pretty interesting. I've modded plenty of Nerf, but never considered touching my gaming equipment. That's going to change very soon...

[satoshi_matrix]

Well, I've decided to give it a go, and produced a prototype episode of what may be a podcast. Before I create an itunes or rrs feed, I just want to see what people think and if I should actually bother to do this kind of thing. I'm thinking I'd do a bi-weekly (possibly weekly) podcast to begin with and see what people think.

So with some feedback I've received I've tried to make this as good as possible, but keep in mind I'm new at this and find balancing volume levels difficult, but I did try my best. For now, please let me know your thoughts.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FDOTYXHH

[Arseen]

Well I'd probably listen to that more.

BUT:

1. You could have mentioned that the SNES mod works for the nN64 aswell.
2. RELAX, you sounded like robot.. with... pausy.. talk.
3. Nice homage to that composer who's name UI can remeber (1 minute of silence).
4. No mention of TCP.

But do make another episopde.

[satoshi_matrix]

Me sounding like a robot came from trying to carefully enunciate everything so I didn't talk too quickly and trip over my own words and sound like an idiot. I guess I failed and went a little too slowly. I'll work on finding a balance there.

I'm going to give it another try and re-record the pilot with a second pilot, ala Star Trek TOS

[satoshi_matrix]

Does anyone know of a good program to use to record skype calls on a mac?

[juan0tron]

You can use soundflower to turn your computer's output into an input. I haven't tried it personally, it might not work as expected.