In this episode of the Geekare Humanum podcast, Sindre and Renate discuss video games from Renate’s childhood, before an in-depth dive into Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 masterpiece Apocalypse Now.
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In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 40 games to 35, and checked off four games I played on my PC, plus one I played on my PlayStation 4.
It’s almost difficult to believe now that I was more into books than video games as a young child. Reading was something I did almost every day after being taught at an early age by my grandmother; and I have fond memories of visiting our local library and spending long sunny days with hardbacks in her garden.
In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 45 games to 40, and checked off five games I played on my PS4.
Me and my girlfriend Renate started playing Borderlands 2 on PlayStation 4 in October/November of 2017.
But after finishing about half of the base game, we forgot the game a bit when we both gifted each-other a different Nintendo console for Christmas that year.
Marvel’s Spider-Man was my favorite PlayStation 4 game in 2018.
The game’s developer, Insomniac Games, perfectly represented Spider-Man’s rogues gallery and supportive characters.
The Batman Arkham series of video games were my first real dive into the deeper mythology surrounding Batman.
I had seen the first two Christopher Nolan directed films when I started playing Arkham Asylum, but I had never picked up a comic book about The Bat.
I was recently reminded of the existence of the 1993 video game Jetpack, when it was mentioned on an episode of the Watch Out For Fireballs podcast.
Around the time I was playing the first season of Life Is Strange, I attended a family gathering at my in-laws’.
I overheard some of my younger cousin in-laws taking about video games. Having finally found some common ground with someone there, I joined the conversation.
Soon it came time for me to tell them about the game I was currently playing.
In the Fall of 2009, around the time Halo 3: ODST was released, I started serving my one year of mandatory military service as a guard in The Royal Norwegian Air Force.
During the late 90s, when I was between six and nine years old, I was a giant Spider-Man fan!
I never read any of the comics, I was more into Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck comics when I was little.
In the last entry of my gaming backlog countdown I went from 50 games to 45, and checked off five games I played with my girlfriend on the SNES Classic.