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LSG 019: Ralph Miranda talks opening doors in Gyromite with Nintendo’s infamous R.O.B. robot, jump kicking punks with SEGA sneakers in Streets of Rage, and whipping vampires while wearing a leather loincloth in Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest.

Welcome to Episode 19 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my wonderful friend Ralph Miranda. Ralph is an illustrator, a production artist, and storyboarder. Ralph has worked on marketing campaigns for big brands, movies, tv shows, and several video games including Multiversus and Call of Duty. Ralph also has a very entertaining series of animated shorts that he works on with his fiance Jen and his sister Daisy called Oh, Bubba Lu! You can find Oh, Bubba Lu! on Youtube and Amazon Prime, we’ll have a link to his website in the show notes. We talk about a ton of great games in today’s episode like opening doors with Gyromite with Nintendo’s infamous R.O.B. robot, jump kicking punks with SEGA sneakers in Streets of Rage, and whipping vampires while wearing a leather loincloth in Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest.Ralph Miranda’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-miranda-683620b/ Oh, Bubba Lu!: https://www.amazon.com/Oh-Bubba-Lu/dp/B0B6S5SV89 Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at loadsavegamepod@gmail.com! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ 

LSG 018: Chris Wu talks playing Aidan Chen in Dead Space, attending the Opera in Final Fantasy VI, and getting his extra lives taken by his brother in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Welcome to Episode 18 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my wonderful friend Chris Wu. Chris is an actor and has recurring roles as Noah Yang in The UpShaws on Netflix, Officer Williams in 9-1-1, and very relevant to this podcast, played the role of Aidan Chen in the 2023 remake of Dead Space. Chris gives great insight into his experience working on Dead Space and talks about how much fun he had getting to not only voice his character, but doing the motion capture and getting to literally and figuratively be in the game which was a lifelong dream of his. We talk about so many great games in today’s episode from the bullet hell shoot em up Gradius, to picking our best girl in Final Fantasy VII (spoiler’s it’s Tifa), to some of our modern favorite indies like Hades, Stardew Valley, and Rimworld. Chris also talks about his sibling’s influence on his gaming growing up, from having a brother who worked at Nintendo and getting early access to Super Mario Bros. 3, to getting his lives stolen by his younger brother while they were playing the side-scrolling NES classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. We talk about those stories and so many more great games in the episode.Chris Wu’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wutini/Chris Wu’s IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5082721/Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at loadsavegamepod@gmail.com! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ 

LSG 017: Shaun Panado talks dodging lightning bolts in Final Fantasy X, getting his combos broken in Killer Instinct, and racing to the max level in Phantasy Star Online

Welcome to Episode 17 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my great friend Shaun Panado. If that name seems familiar to you it is because I mention his name every episode because Shaun is the composer of the theme song for Load Save Game, “One Shot One Kill Kestrel.” I am very grateful for Shaun allowing us to use his music for the podcast these past two years. Be sure to check out his music both on Spotify and Youtube, you can find a link to his linktree in the show notes. Shaun is a music producer, a music teacher, and a lover of video games. I was so happy to finally have Shaun on so he can share the many games he has loved over the years. We talk about a ton of great stuff during the episode like how obsessed his group of friends were with Phantasy Star Online to the point that that they would ditch school to marathon the game and race to reach the max level. He also talks about how he met former guest Steph Han in the arcades battling it out in BlazBlue at Arcade Infinity. Shaun also talks about cutting his RPG teeth on the original Final Fantasy for the NES which fostered a lifelong love of RPGs and the Final Fantasy series. During the pandemic Shaun also decided to try out developing his own game project called “The Starsong Odyssey” a pixel art 2D action side scrolling game in the vein of Megaman with some added fighting mechanics like a Devil May Cry or Viewtiful Joe. Follow The Starsong Odyssey’s Facebook Page so you can see progress on the game. Shaun Panado’s Music Linktree: https://linktr.ee/shonixThe Starsong Odssey Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562767498947Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at loadsavegamepod@gmail.com! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/

LSG 016: Steph Gerk playing Big Head mode in Goldeneye, learning to play the piano in the puzzle game Myst, and assassinating guards with the hidden blade in Assassin’s Creed

Welcome to Episode 16 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my awesome friend Stephanie Gerk. Steph is a writer, a podcaster, and content creator. Steph has also moderated and been on panels at conventions such as San Diego Comic Con. Steph has been playing video games for most of her life and is very passionate about Assassin’s Creed, Dragon Age, and the Myst series among many others. Outside of video games Steph is a huge fan of so many nerdy Sci-Fi and fantasy series like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Doctor Who. Steph is a co-host of The Debrief Weekly Report, a fun pop-culture infused science news show. Steph has also assisted on several comic book projects and has several graphic novel projects in development. Check the podcast notes for links to Steph’s socials and The Debrief Weekly Report podcast.  Steph’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephgerk/Steph’s Website: https://stephaniegerk.com/The Debrief Weekly Report: https://thedebrief.org/podcasts/We talk about so many great video games in this episode like playing Big Head mode in Goldeneye, learning to play the piano in the puzzle game Myst, and assassinating guards with the hidden blade in Assassin’s Creed. Steph also laments the USA-focused trivia of some of the Carmen San Diego games. Also I say this in the episode, but I think we can all agree that Carmen San Diego is a very hot lady and did nothing wrong. Steph also tells me about how many games were banned in her household because of her strict upbringing, but somehow Medal of Honor was fine, because despite all the violence, it was “historical.” Steph also vehemently refuses to romance anyone in almost any video game unless the outcome is useful minions and sidekicks, and the lack of function of the children in games like Stardew Valley and Harvest Moon annoys her to no end.Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at loadsavegamepod@gmail.com! I hope you enjoy the episode!Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/

LSG 015: Jason Lo talks wrestling the “Russian Bear” Zangief in Street Fighter II, playing Sonic 3 at the K-mart kiosk, and helping the Jester save Nightopia in Nights into Dreams

Welcome to Episode 15 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is Dr. Jason Lo. I’ve known Jason going back to our college days. Jason is one of the most talented and hardworking people I know. Jason is an amazing pianist and has played piano at Carnegie Hall, at the 2012 London Olympics, and as I record this he is traveling through Europe with scheduled performances in Germany and the Czech Republic. Jason has a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Piano Performance from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. While most of Jason’s concerts are comprised of classical music he is also a lover of video games and video game music. I’ve seen him perform amazing arrangements of Final Fantasy music, Sonic the Hedgehog, among many others. Jason’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.bearded.panda/Jason's Piano Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panda.plays.pianoYou can visit Jason’s website at jasonwlo.com where you’ll find links to his piano performances and contact information if you’d like to book him to play for an event. Jason also teaches piano, so if you have need for a piano teacher in the Southern California area he’s as good as they come.We talk about a ton of video game moments during the episode from wrestling the “Russian Bear” Zangief in Street Fighter II, playing Sonic 3 at the K-mart kiosk, and helping the Jester save Nightopia in Nights into Dreams. We also touch on Marvel vs. Capcom a bit during this episode and a very exciting thing just happened, Capcom announced that they are releasing a Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Game Collection for the Switch/PS5/PC. It will be the first time that Marvel vs. Capcom 2 will be purchasable since it was removed from the PSN and Xbox Live stores in 2013. So a lot of the people who loved the MvC games and that series are super stoked, I’m definitely going to check that out.   Thank you to Shaun Panado for the use of our theme song "One Shot One Kill Kestrel" off of the album Kind of a Big Deal Vol. 2. You can find his music and projects at his Linktree:  https://linktr.ee/shonixShow Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/ Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame on most platforms. If you have any thoughts or questions about the show feel free to email us at loadsavegamepod@gmail.com! We’ll see you next time!