Roast Mortem Cast

225 - Hiroshi Yamauchi : Nintendo's Willy Wonka Hates You

March 24th, 2022  |  2 hrs 40 mins

1980s, 1990s, business, classic games, comedy, drinking, gaming, gaming history, history, japanese history, mario, monopoly, nintendo, playstation, podcast, retro games, video games, wealth

The boys from the Drink a Beer Play a Game Podcast join us for a roast of the Nintendo's grumpy, egotistical president Hiroshi Yamauchi. The meteoric rise of Nintendo Frankensteined the video game industry back to life in the 1980’s with Yamauchi at the helm. He manically micromanaged his team, the all while NEVER PLAYING A VIDEO GAME IN HIS LIFE

204 - Richard the Lionheart: The English* Crusader King

October 21st, 2021  |  1 hr 42 mins

battle, british history, comedy, crusade, drinking, england, france, gaming, gay, history, holy land, middle east, military history, monarchy, podcast, royals, swords, video games, warfare, warrior

We continue our trip down the Plantagenet line of royal sucksession, with Richard the Lionheart. This anal rapist, fought his way onto the English thronewith the help of his butt-buddy Philip II of France. Before heading off to the 3rd Crusade in the Holy Land committing war crimes and political disasters in his wake. Plus we take a dive into the REAL Order of the Assassins.

22 - Jack Tramiel: Video Game Dangus

April 4th, 2018  |  1 hr 38 mins

70s, 8 bit, 80s, atari, business, comedy, commodore, computer, darth vader, gaming, history, nintendo, pax, pax east, pc, podcast, video game history, video game industry, video games

This businessman left his big brown skid mark on the video game industry in the 70s & 80s. His iron fist, cut-throat management of Commodore and Atari gave him Darth Vader like status amongst programmers & gamers alike. Big old diarrhea boy!

9 - Joan Rivers

January 4th, 2018  |  55 mins 18 secs

comedy, drunk, history, joan rivers, plastic surgery, praise the game, red carpet, the oscars, video games