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Front Flip Gaming - Spanky’s Quest - Transcript

Episode 6 July 13, 2020

Welcome to Front Flip Gaming, Episode 6, Spanky’s Quest. Uh first, but we have a bit of news. Hit it!

[news sound bit plays]

So that’s really our sound bit for the news, is it? It’s terrible. I saw that Donkey Kong Country is going to be coming to Nintendo Switch Online service this month, so that’s pretty cool. I, of course, have played the original on SNES; I’ve played the whole trilogy. I love those games; they’re some of my favorite games. I also own it on—I think Wii U, and 3DS, digitally, but it’ll be nice to have it on the Switch too. Those are fun games. I have to admit that there’s something a little weird about the new iterations of the games, starting from—even Donkey Kong Country Returns on the Wii, and then Tropical Freeze on the Wii U and Switch, and the Returns on 3DS. There’s just something just different enough that they feel a little bit off to me compared to the original. The new ones are still fun, but for me, there’s something just a little bit too different for my taste.

But today I am going to be talking about Spanky’s Quest for the SNES, which I don’t think anyone ever talks about. I can’t say it’s one of my favorite games of all time or anything like that, but as I mentioned in the first episode of the show, I haven’t played a lot of games in the big scheme of things, so the games that I have played, they kind of stand out to me because it’s like, “oh I remember that game, I remember that game.” So Spanky’s Quest is just one of those games that I played when I was a kid. I liked it a lot. I like the music and I like the gameplay.

The gameplay was pretty unique, and I have nothing really to compare it to. I can’t think of any other game that’s like it. The gameplay’s a little hard to explain, but basically, your enemies are fruit—different iterations of fruit, like strawberries or apples or oranges or—and the bosses are like huge apples or grapes, or something like that I think. And the attack mechanism is pretty unique. You basically—you blow up a bubble, and depending on when you pop the bubble, it’ll either turn into a baseball, um, soccer balls, volleyball, or basketballs, and every time you bounce the bubble on your head, the bubble kind of gets bigger, changes color, and it changes the weapon, in terms of a sports ball.

If you haven’t played it, I mean, you should check it out, at least once. It’s a pretty interesting game. I think it’s pretty unique. And I might’ve seen it at a—like at a demo for the NES way back in the day at a mall. I swear I remember playing it like on a display case somewhere, but maybe that’s my memory tricking me. But Spanky’s Quest—if you’ve never heard of it—it’s a Japanese game, and it literally translates to Monkey Reflections, The Adventures of Mr. Jiro. I’m not sure how they got Spanky’ Quest from that. But um, it’s an action, published in 1991 by Natsume for the Game Boy and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, so apparently it was released on Game Boy as well, and it was known as Lucky Monkey, but I only knew the Super Nintendo version.

But the soundtrack was pretty jazzy and pretty good—in my opinion not as good as Kid Chameleon or anything like that. But it had a pretty unique soundtrack. And the bosses were kind of terrifying and challenging as well. I think the grapes were the most challenging if I remember correctly. I don’t think I ever beat it. I think the boss was like a witch or something, but I’m not sure. Don’t quote me on that. I may never have reached so I’m not sure but—the weird thing is that—games like Donkey Kong or Kid Chameleon, they show up on different ports for newer systems, or like Sega collections for Kid Chameleon, but this game, no one ever talks about it. I haven’t heard it in any context, really, and it’s never released on any ports or anything, which is a shame. It’s a pretty good game. I think you can play it online as a ROM somehow, but… so yeah, if you haven’t checked out Spanky’s Quest for the Super Nintendo system, you should check it out. That’s all I got. Thank you.

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Front Flip Gaming - Kid Chameleon - Transcript

Episode 5 June 29, 2020

[“Phaser” starts playing]

Welcome back to Front Flip Gaming, the podcast about video games and gaming where I talk about mostly the same video games over and over again. This is episode 5, Kid Chameleon. I want to introduce a new segment, so let’s play the sound bit. Hit it!

[news sound bit plays]

That’s the sound bit? Get the intern in here.

[footsteps]

[door opens]

You’re fired.

Intern: You know what? Good! You’re not even paying me anyways!

Whoa. Geez. A little belligerent, aren’t we? I decided to start a news segment because if you listened to a couple episodes back, which I’m sure you haven’t because I checked the analytics, something that I like to do sometimes in the morning, sometimes at night, sometimes both, is look for news, and for me, personally, I like to look at Final Fantasy news, because I’m excited for the Remake Part 2, so I look for any news articles that are dated within the past few days, usually like, if I really get into it, I look for the last twenty-four hours, but I’m actually kind of behind so the news articles I’m reading today—they’re kind of old, they’re like a week old.

So reading from comicbook.com, it says Square Enix Final Fantasy VII Polygon Figure Pre-orders are back, and they look really cool. They look pretty awesome actually. I want all of them, now. The figures are available to pre-order at Amazon for $64. They sold out at launch. The figures are set for release on September 1st.

So reading from animemojo.com, pre-orders for the Final Fantasy VII Remake soundtrack are currently open, Square Enix has announced. This is just for the standard edition, which is not including the eighth disc with the jukebox tracks on them. I actually pre-ordered the special edit edition back in May from Amazon, and it’s still pending. It’s supposed to—I don’t know if it’s ever gonna come, let’s be honest, who knows? But pre-orders for the standard edition are open on Amazon if you wanna check it out. They’re expected to become available on the 31st of July. You can order from Square Enix store. I love the new remake. I was actually listening and kind of comparing them a few weeks ago—or when I was playing it. I love the new treatment; I love what they did with it. But, I mean, there were a few tracks that I prefer the original. I think some people prefer the original. For example, the Mako Reactor. The original is like perfect, with the choirs and the sound design. When the piano hits, in the remake, I don’t know, it’s just not as impactful, and every time I listen to it, I think, this is not as impactful. It’s kind of weird. Those are just small quibbles. I really love the music of the remake, and the original. And both can coexist.

Also in the news from dualshockers.com, Final Fantasy VII Medley Compilation Album now available digitally. I guess it’s a compilation for both Distant Worlds and A New World, with ten tracks told, and you can get it for $8.50 digitally on Bandcamp. Actually, one of the highlights of my life… I’ve always pronounced it Nobuo Uematso, I’ve heard it “No-Boo-Yo” Uematsu, I’m not sure, but… He’s actually my hero. I met him once, after watching a Distant Worlds concert, and I got the special meet and greet Aticket, I have a picture of it somewhere. That was a real highlight for my life. I met him and I told him “your music is amazing; it’s so inspirational, it affected me so much,” and he’s my hero. He was really nice, I mean it was a really short meet and greet, he signed my CD. I don’t even know where it is. That’s a shame. So there’s a new compilation medley out on Bandcamp.

Alright, now onto the subject at hand. Kid Chameleon is one of my favorite games of all time. I played it as a child. I remember it being very difficult but very fun, very addicting, and I love the music for it. Really funky, just real, real great music. For those of you who don’t know, Kid Chameleon is a platform game that came out in 1992 for the Sega Genesis, which is a bomb console. So as you play, you get these masks and you shapeshift into different characters and you get different abilities based on the mask that you get. There’s no pass—I don’t think there’s a password feature. I never beat it as a kid. But a few years ago, I was watching walkthroughs, or playthroughs, and seeing someone actually beat it, kinda made it possible for me in my mind to beat it. So once I saw that someone else beat it, I’m like, oh, I guess I can beat it. Well, you just kind of copy the playthrough, but… it’s really difficult. A lot of platforming, a lot of jumping, um… I remember it was pretty terrifying as well. Like these large lion characters that chase you, or these killer whales that jump at you, or the Shishkabob heads.

[Pursuit of Safety starts playing]

It’s kinda—now that I think of it, it’s pretty weird, wacky funny—it’s a weird game. And as a kid, I never drew the comparison between Kid Chameleon and Super Mario—because essentially you’re running and jumping, you’re obtaining items, which allow you to get different abilities. So I guess it’s kind of a knockoff, or perhaps a direct knockoff. But I love it. And I don’t think enough people talk about it. I remember doing a podcast search for it a while back. There was a few people who talked about it, mostly people didn’t really like it for whatever reason. Maybe it was too difficult or it just wasn’t their jam, but… It always pops up in the compilations, the Sega compilations, so it has to be popular enough. I guess people just don’t talk about it, or you just don’t hear about it, but it’s a great game and you should check it out.

I looked up the music, cause if you go to the wiki page, the composer it says Mark Miller, sometimes it says Nu Romantic Productions, but I went to VGMPF.com which stands for Video Game Music Preservation Foundation. And it says Mark Miller worked as the main composer and sound designer at Sega of America. He founded Nu Romantic Productions, a grew up of music and sound composers for games. Nu Romantic Productions stopped in 1994. Mark has written music for over 60 games. Mark currently plays guitar for the band Spuyten Duyvil. Spuyten Duyvil.

I urge you to check out the game. If that’s not your jam, I urge you to check out the music; it’s real funky music. You might not have the nostalgia for it, but it’s really great music that kinda stands on its own. And lastly, I would be remiss, if I didn’t mention one of the greatest things that I’ve ever witnessed with my ears. For those of you who don’t know, there’s a video game remix website called ocremix.org where it’s basically a celebration of video games and video game music and remixes. You should check it out. And one of the greatest things that I’ve ever heard—there’s only one remix of the game on there, which is a shame. He’s going now—he’s now going by the name U V Sir J, but a few years ago I knew him as Sir Jordanius. And the remix is called “stands like a statue, becomes part of the machine” and it’s awesome. Just a lot of love and a lot of craftmanship was put into it. And it’s really good and it’s really awesome and you should check it out. So that’s all I got. Go check out Kid Chameleon, it’s a great game.

Spuyten Duyvil.

[Kid Chameleon SFX plays]

[Kid in Woodland Hills starts playing]

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Front Flip Gaming - Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson - Transcript

Episode 4 June 22, 2020

[“Phaser” starts playing] Welcome back to Front Flip Gaming. Today I want to talk about Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson.

Have you ever had one of those days where you’re kinda just laying on the bed, and you’re on the computer or on your phone, and you just go down multiple rabbit holes that lead to multiple rabbit holes, and you google and google and it’s all just kinda random mess of a mess? That’s the way I’ve felt for the past six months.

So there’s no real rhyme or reason why I googled Geoff Robinson this morning. I kinda just did. He just popped into my head. The anniversary of his death is coming up, so maybe that’s why? I mean, it’s about a month away. But for those of you who don’t know, Geoff “iNcontroL” Robinson was an esports personality, he was a gamer, a streamer, a competitor, especially in the StarCraft scene. I mean, I didn’t know him personally, but he seemed like a good dude all around, and he accomplished so much. And actually, when I read the announcement of his death, it was July 2019, it affected me more than most celebrity deaths. I think—well, first of all, he was my age, and I mean, he seemed more relatable I guess to me to most celebrities. When I heard the news of his death, I talked about it to my therapist. And I said, there’s this dude, that, he was my age, and he passed away suddenly, and he accomplished so much. He affected so many people in the world, doing what he did, being himself, showing his personality and soul to the world. He was amazing and it kind of inspires me. I wanna do something that affects other people in a positive way. I don’t know what that can be, I don’t know what I can do, what I’m capable of, but I want to do something in a similar way.

I met him once. It was in Ontario, CA many years ago. I wanna say 2011 maybe. There was a StarCraft tournament, and he was hosting it for the NASL I think. The North American Star League. So I went by myself, as you do, and he was there and he did a great job hosting it and casting the competition. But, when the cameras were off, I remember he stood up at the front, and a line formed so that people could go up to him and I guess just talk to him for a little bit, shake his hand, introduce themselves, and what affected me the most, what kind of took me aback, was—I don’t remember all the details, but… I went up, shook his hand, I was kind of starstruck. And he asked me my name. I think he asked everyone their name, and there’s no way he was gonna remember everyone’s names at the competition. But it struck me as so surprising that someone would do that—for someone to just be like “hey what’s your name” that really struck me as something special and different, and that stuck with me, and that was one of the first things I thought of when I had heard that he had passed.

He seemed like a great dude, he affected the world in a great way, in a positive way. I’ve read about his past and his story, and I look at past videos of his YouTube, and he spoke so clearly and boldly, and spoke his truth, and he just didn’t care about what anyone thought. What I’m really enjoying is looking back at his movie review videos. It makes me think how did this guy know that someone like me and people like me are gonna go back to his YouTube video and watch his movie review videos. And he wasn’t known for his movie reviews at least I don’t think so, he was more known in the gaming scene. How did he know that I was gonna go back and wonder what his thoughts were on Big Hero 6. He just knew, he just wanted to put his thoughts and feelings out there in the world, and he spoke as if he knew he mattered and that’s a very enviable trait, that I wish I had and I wish more people had. He was just so confident in myself and what he could bring to the world, and he was an amazing dude, and the world kinda sucks a little bit more now that he’s gone.

Next month will be his one year anniversary, and just to kinda quote on his twitter page, July 21, 2019, “With immense grief, we announce Geoff’s unexpected passing due to sudden illness Saturday. To honor Geoff or comfort to his family, we suggest donations to SoCalBullDog, which he loved.” So I go to the twitter page, SCBR is a non profit 501(c)3 non-profit rescue group in Southern California dedicated to the rescue, re-homing, and rehabilitation of homeless English Bulldogs. So I go to their website and I kinda wanted to talk about this, if anyone’s listening and just felt like they wanted to contribute or check out their website and care about something that Geoff cared about, so on their website, SoCalBullDog Rescue. I’m gonna put on my good reading voice.

Southern California Bulldog Rescue provides shelter, re-homing assistance, and funds for medical treatment for over one hundred bulldogs each year. These dogs come to us from animal shelters, other rescue groups, and owners who wish to surrender their purebred bulldogs. We help bulldogs in the Southern California area find suitable homes. Our network consists of many volunteers who foster, do home checks, transport, and place bulldogs who come into our program. Over one thousand bulldogs have been placed thru rescue in Southern California during the last ten years. We rely entirely on donations for support.

Our Mission. The mission of Southern California Bulldog Rescue is to rehabilitate and find loving families for homeless bulldogs. Our goal is to provide the care and time needed to prepare unwanted bulldogs for placement. We pledge to do our best to make sure they have a good life.

Our Goals. To accept Bulldogs whose owners can no longer keep them. To retrieve Bulldogs from shelters or any other source so they may live to see another day. To find responsible, stable, loving new homes for all rescued Bulldogs. To only place Bulldogs that have been neutered or spayed, to help reduce the population of unwanted pets, by having the necessary surgical procedures performed before placement. To rehabilitate Bulldogs before placement by providing necessary medical treatment and training to increase the chances of successful placement. To place Bulldogs in suitable homes as soon as reasonably possible, so they can start their “new lives” quickly. To thoroughly screen applicants before making placement decisions. To inform prospective adopters about the rescue program and the requirements for taking care of Bulldogs.

So that’s a little bit, or a lot, of information about their website, and about something that Geoff “iNcontrol” Robinson loved and was passionate about. I know he had a Bulldog, Barristan, that’s really heartbreaking. So if you choose, you can check out their website, SoCalBullDog. Maybe donate, maybe share, maybe look into it, just whatever you’re doing, take care of yourself, do your best, whatever endeavors you’re doing at the moment. Maybe we can take inspiration from Geoff, to see a guy who really lived life to the fullest, like incredibly. Just really pushed to follow his passions and always do what he thought was right and always spoke on what he thought was right. He was a good dude and he will be missed. That’s all I have for today. Thank you.

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Front Flip Gaming - Summer in Mara Review - Transcript

Episode 3 June 21, 2020

Welcome back to Front Flip Gaming. Today I am going to do a review of Summer in Mara. I’ve gotten some feedback that my voice sounds like ass. I’m gonna try to change my voice up a little bit.

[silly voice]

Hello everybody, welcome.

[normal voice]

That didn’t work. Um, anyway welcome back to Front Flip Gaming so today is a review of Summer in Mara. I don’t know if you’ve played it yet or not. I urge you to play it. I used to have a negative opinion on negative opinions. I didn’t like bad reviews cause I thought they were harmful, I thought they were hurtful. I actually remember making a post on I think an IGN article because they were giving bad reviews on that Attack on Titan live action movie, which I actually really liked the first part. Most people did not—including the person who reviewed it on IGN. I was—I don’t know if offended was the right word, but, I was disappointed and disheartened, because I really liked the movie. And I thought felt that the negative review was harmful towards the movie and it discouraged from people going to watch it. I replied to them; I was like, you know, I don’t understand what’s the point of this negative review. I think everyone should just go see it for themselves. I think, if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say it at all—which is a weird thing to say in response to a movie review on a review website. But my opinion has since changed on negative reviews. Most of the time, it doesn’t affect me. Sometimes I think they’re funny, and it doesn’t offend me when people don’t like something that I do, or when they do like something that I don’t. I was just going through a weird phase where I just didn’t like bad reviews. But to each their own, everyone has their own opinion, which is good, and great, and fine. And as long as everyone’s respectful—cause no one really aims to hurt with their good or bad reviews. They’re just stating their opinion.

Because of that rant, I guess that kind of hints at how I felt about Summer in Mara. Let’s get into the review. It’s an okay game. I liked it at first. I’ll get into the criticisms first. I thought it was like pretty repetitive, a lot of fetch quests, a lot of side quests, a lot of just running back and forth and a lot of the same gameplay loop over and over again, and just not enough variation to break it up. And so I got bored pretty fast. I mean there were some good aspects about it. The art is pretty stylized and reminiscent of The Legend of Zelda: Windwaker. I remember seeing the trailer and it looked really cool and it looked pretty promising, and a combination of exploring the ocean and crafting and farming. It just got pretty repetitive pretty quickly. So the art style was cool. The music was pretty cool. It’s pretty fun to explore the different islands. If all you wanna do is just chill and lay back and explore and find different items and talk to people, that’s kind of the strong point of the game. But it just got repetitive for me. So that’s my review. I played it on Nintendo Switch. It was just okay. I liked some aspects but other parts, not so much. So that’s all I got for today. Thank you.

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Front Flip Gaming - Final Fantasy VII Remake Saved my Life - Transcript

Episode 2 June 17, 2020

Welcome to Front Flip Gaming, um, thank you for joining us. This is episode 2—how Final Fantasy VII, uh, saved my life. It’s probably going to be kind of a downer episode. Um, I’m going to be talking about anxiety and depression. Um, so sorry in advance for that, but if you are someone who is suffering from anxiety and depression, I urge you to get help. Reach out, talk to a friend, I mean, I know how it feels to—if you feel like you have no one to reach out to or you don’t want to reach out to anyone, but I urge you to do so. Reach out to a professional if you can; get on meds if that helps you. I’m not an expert on the subject, but I am gonna talk about it.

I suffer from anxiety and depression, and I have been suffering for, I’m not exactly sure how long, about maybe 10-15 years. Some moments are harder than others, but I’ve been suffering for a long time. I have gotten help; I have been to professionals and I’ve been on meds. Around January of this year, it hit particularly hard, and my anxiety was so bad that I couldn’t hold a job. I started one job; I lasted for a day before I quit because of anxiety. I started another job about a month later. I lasted two days, and then I quit because of anxiety. And then about a month later, I started another job, and I was there for about a week and two days, before I felt I needed to quit.

It’s not a good feeling. I descended into a real deep depression, and the hard part for me was—I just lost all motivation to do anything. So I would basically stay in bed and that’s all I wanted to do. I just wanted to lay in bed and do absolutely nothing. I would lay in bed and look at the TV. The TV would be off, and sometimes my eyes would be open, sometimes they would be closed. But I’d basically wake up, get up to eat when I had to. I would just get back into bed and just lay there and do absolutely nothing. I didn’t want to move, essentially; I didn’t want to leave the house, I didn’t want to get up, I didn’t want to walk. I just didn’t want to move. And so when that’s your whole life, day in and day out, um, just every day, it’s really not a good feeling. That feeling of not caring about anything, not being motivated to do anything, not looking forward to anything. It’s a scary place to be in. And I was getting treatment, I was speaking to a professional therapist, I was on meds, but that stuff—it helps but I mean to be honest, sometimes you just have to ride it out. When you’re in that deep of a darkness, sometimes there’s very little that can help you. So that’s how I was feeling basically since January of this year.

And so April 10th, Final Fantasy VII Remake came out. I actually bought a PS4 last year during Black Friday because of Final Fantasy VII Remake. I never owned a PS4 before. I didn’t have any g—well, I had two games, I had Final Fantasy XV. I bought Final Fantasy XV and Final Fantasy XII Zodiac Age, before I even had a PS4. And so I had those games for years just sitting there. Last Black Friday, I purchased a PS4. I didn’t play any games right away, it just kind of sat there. And then April 10th rolls around, and the game arrives, but at that time, I didn’t even have a TV connected in my room, and I didn’t have my PS4 connected in my room. And I was excited for it, but because of my depression, I kind of wasn’t really hyped for it. The box came and I was like, whatever.

But I was interested in it, so I started looking on Twitch—started watching playing it on Twitch. If you listened to the last episode, I talked about my favorite game of all time, Final Fantasy VII. So I was very familiar with the original; I was not worried about spoilers or anything like that. So I was watching people play it on Twitch; it was getting me really excited to play the game. About five days passed by, and I couldn’t take it anymore, so I hooked up a TV in my room, hooked up the PS4 and I started playing on April 15th, and I was hooked. And I remember seeing the opening movie, and it’s like really beautiful, and then when they did a close up on Aerith’s face, and in all its 3D amazing magic or whatever, I was like, this is amazing. This is awesome. I actually said “Jesus Christ” out loud, because I couldn’t believe that I was able to experience this. I was like, this game shouldn’t even exist. This is a remake of a twenty-three year old game, like I can’t believe I’m getting to do this. So I played through the game. I beat it in five days. It took me like fifty hours. I loved it. I just absolutely loved it. I loved the graphics, obviously, the story, the battle mechanics, the voice acting was amazing, and it got a little weird at the end, but we won’t get into that today. I essentially loved everything about it, and I just absolutely loved it. It not only revitalized my love for the Final Fantasy franchise, but it kind of revitalized my love for gaming and gaming culture, and video games. It just kind of turned my life around. I started playing other games. I played Final Fantasy XV, I played Nier Automata, I played Spider-Man. And some of these games I bought during Black Friday, and they were kind of just sitting there. I was playing all these games. I’ve been watching people on Twitch, and it got me excited about, not only games and gaming culture, but just honestly it got me excited about life again. It got me something to look forward to. I’m really hoping the game will come out—the part two will come out in – I mean who knows, I doubt it’ll be next year. It’ll probably be closer to 2023, as much as that hurts to say. I can’t wait for part two, although I have to. And we all have to. But it gives me something to look forward to, and I’m really excited for that. It makes me think how powerful how video games are and how impactful they are and how much of a positive element they can be for some people’s lives. Cause some people might say “dude it’s a video game, it’s a game, it’s fiction, it’s not real.” But it’s so much more than that. It is so much more than that. I mean like I said, I was day in day out I was laying in my bed just not doing anything at all. After playing Final Fantasy VII Remake, and then getting back into gaming again, it’s gotten me motivated to get out of bed. I set up some of my audio equipment. I started this podcast because of the game. I met some people online and I’ve started writing about games. And like, I feel like I’m not even the same person I was a few months ago. It just feels kind of unbelievable, the impact that it can have on you. And I’m not saying this is a permanent fix, like, I could be back where I was in a few months, like hopefully not. Hopefully this feeling sticks around for a while. I’m in a much better place today. I mean, there’s all bits and pieces, I am still talking to a therapist and I am still on medications, so everything is helping. It’s all like small pieces of a whole. But it was just kind of a trickle effect of playing this game, which got me interested in other things. Let me start this, let me start that. I just feel excited about life again. Looking forward to tomorrow, looking forward to what I can experience in the next day, in the next week, and in the next few years when part two comes out.

Like I said in the beginning, if you are suffering from anxiety or depression, I urge you to reach out to a friend, hopefully you have someone that you’re comfortable speaking to. Hopefully you find a group of people that can help you or just chat about anything. Just find your happy place. Talk to a professional if you can. Get on meds if that works for you, if you can. And keep fighting the good fight because I know it can be hard. And I know sometimes it feels like you’re drowning and you can’t find your bearings. It can get better, and it will get better. And I’m really thankful for everyone who was a part of the creation of this game, Final Fantasy VII Remake, and everyone part of gaming culture because it’s a great culture to be a part of. So that’s my story, I just wanted to share it. Hopefully if you’re in a bad place, I hope you can get out of it soon, and you will get out of it soon and you’re not alone. There are so many people who are struggling, but hopefully, you find your bliss. Hopefully, you find something that you love, that will start getting you motivated and get you to a better place. So that’s all I got for today. Thank you.

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Front Flip Gaming - How I discovered Final Fantasy - Transcript

Episode 1 June 15, 2020

Hi, welcome to Front Flip Gaming. This podcast is about gaming and video games and I just wanted to say up front that I actually don’t play a lot of video games, but I play the same video games over and over again, so my favorite franchises are Final Fantasy, StarCraft, The Legend of Zelda. I also love some other ones like Mario games and Donkey Kong Country.

But for this first episode, I wanted to talk about how I discovered the franchise of Final Fantasy. So I was in seventh grade, and my classmate let my brother borrow a copy of Final Fantasy VII and because of sibling rivalry, I like automatically didn’t want to like it. I’m like, oh, my brother’s playing it; I don’t wanna play it. I don’t wanna like it. Why is there all this text? Why is there so much talking? Um, and what is this big white glove on the screen. Like I remember not wanting to like it.

And so one day, um, I had to go to—I had a doctor’s appointment so my mom took me to the doctor’s, and I remember I took a TB test and it ended up being positive, and I knew at the time that that was unusual, that they’re not supposed to come back positive. They’re usually negative. And I remember the doctor specifically told my mom like “don’t worry, he’s not gonna die.” And in retrospect, that’s a weird comment to say, and I remember my mom laughed at that comment because that’s such a weird thing. And I was in seventh grade so I was scared; I was terrified. I didn’t know what it meant. I didn’t know what it meant to be positive. And I think the explanation was I was just exposed to it somehow because my family went to the Philippines for vacation, so somehow I was exposed and it ended up being positive and it’s not that big of a deal. But at the time, I remember being so scared and being terrified.

So I remember going home with my mom, and my mom went to eat dinner with the rest of the family, and I went straight to my room and I started playing Final Fantasy VII. And I was just so scared and I just kept playing and playing, and somehow it got my mind off of that fear. And, um, it was just such a beautiful distraction for me in that moment, and it’s something that I’ll never forget. It was my first Final Fantasy, like I’d never played any Final Fantasy before that. I just kept playing. I didn’t even know if I liked it or loved it at that moment. I just knew I was scared, and I didn’t want to be scared anymore. So I just kept playing and playing. Um, and it has become my favorite franchise. That’s probably my favorite game of all time. I know it’s a lot of people’s favorite game and it’s a lot of people’s introduction into the franchise. And I—since then I’ve played VII, VIII, IX, X, XII, XIII, and XV, and Remake, but it all started with VII. And I love Final Fantasy VII; it’s just a beautiful game. But that’s all, that’s all for the first episode. I just wanted to say my introduction, and my little memory. Um, so, thank you.

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