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Space Game Junkie Podcast
by Brian Rubin and Jim Hunt
Playing Through Space Gaming's Past, Present and Future
Episodes
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SGJ Podcast #521 – If You Could Go Back and Change Something in Gaming, What Would it Be
This time on the podcast, we talk about changing video gaming history! The post SGJ Podcast #521 – If You Could Go Back and Change Something in Gaming, What Would it Be appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #520 – What the Hell is a Demo?
This time on the show, we take a deep dive into demos! The post SGJ Podcast #520 – What the Hell is a Demo? appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #519 – Remasters – Part 2 of 2
In this episode, we discuss video game remasters! The post SGJ Podcast #519 – Remasters – Part 2 of 2 appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #518 – Remakes – Part 1 of 2
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I start what will be a two-part episode looking at remakes and remasters. This time we start with remakes, which is a bit nuanced, as you might expect. Once we make sure we’re all on the same page with what…
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SGJ Podcast #516 – Our Favorite Sound Design in Gaming
Today on the show, we'll talk about games with our favorite sound design, like voice acting, music and more! The post SGJ Podcast #516 – Our Favorite Sound Design in Gaming appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #515 – Check-In
Today on the show, we'll do one of our regular check-ins! The post SGJ Podcast #515 – Check-In appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #514 – Resurrected MMOs
Today we'll discuss MMO games that were officially killed, but resurrected by dedicated fans. The post SGJ Podcast #514 – Resurrected MMOs appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #513 – Campaigns vs. Sandboxes and Which We Prefer
Today on the show, we'll talk about whether we prefer sandboxes to more driven campaigns. The post SGJ Podcast #513 – Campaigns vs. Sandboxes and Which We Prefer appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #512 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul, Part Deux
Today we'll return to the topic of games that draw you in for the long haul!! The post SGJ Podcast #512 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul, Part Deux appeared first on Space Game Junkie.
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SGJ Podcast #511 – Rediscovering Gems You Initially Skipped
Hey friends, and welcome to this week’s show! First off, two apologies. First, that this is a day late, sorry, yesterday got away from me and two, I forgot two hit record on the mixer so this is using the backup recording from OBS, so the audio might be a bit funky. Also, I was... The post SGJ...
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SGJ Podcast #510 – Video Gaming’s Lost Arts
Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss things in video games that have been lost to the sands of time. For example, I talk about physical strategy guides. I mean sure, we now have wikis and Steam guides these days, but there’s something about a...
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SGJ Podcast #508 – Check-In
Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I have one of our regular check-ins, wherein we talk amongst ourselves (and the chat) about how we’re doing and what we’re playing, and let me tell you, things aren’t collectively going great for us all right now. That...
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SGJ Podcast #507 – The Games We’re Looking Forward To in 2026
Hey friends, welcome to a new year and a new podcast! Yay! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about the games we’re really looking forward to coming out and playing this year, and my goodness, there are a lot of them, the list of which you can see below! There are many... The…
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SGJ Podcast #506 – The Games of 2025
Welcome, my friends, to our last show of 2025, and what a year it’s been for gaming! For example, my curator page’s best of list for this year is longer than any other year since I began keeping lists! On the topic of games of 2025, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I look... The post...
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SGJ Podcast #505 – Things (Gaming and Non-Gaming) We’re Thankful For
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I talk about the things we’re thankful for in what’s been a pretty tumultuous year. We discuss both gaming and non-gaming things we’re thankful for, and surprisingly, we come up with quite a few. What are you thankful...
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SGJ Podcast #504 – Technical Marvels in Gaming
Hey friends, welcome to the podcast! First off, let me apologize for the audio. VoiceMeeter — the program I use to typically record our sessions — had a kerfuffle, and so I’m relying on the backup recording from OBS, which is the raw audio. It’ll likely be a little louder than usual, so I...
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SGJ Podcast #503 – Check-In
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I have a semi-regular check-in, wherein we talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. Since we’re missing Jacob — who was sadly under the weather — it’s a slightly shorter show than usual, but it’s a fun one,...
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SGJ Podcast #502 – Long Games that Draw You In for the Long Haul
Hey friends, welcome to the show! Sorry this is a day late, yesterday was a real fustercluck! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I discuss long-haul games, including our first game that we sank dozens, if not hundreds, of hours into. We also explore what it takes for a game to truly...
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SGJ Podcast #501 – Games in Which Direct Combat Isn’t a Factor
Hey friends, welcome to this episode of the show! First off, an apology. Restream had technical issues yesterday. For some reason only five seconds of our stream went out, and then stopped. Therefore there’s no YouTube copy of this episode, only the MP3. To their credit, Restream fixed the issue...
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SGJ Podcast #500 – A Celebration of Space Game Development
Hey friends, welcome to this milestone episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I look back at the seminal games of the last twelve years — since we began the podcast — and talk about how special they, and their developers, are to us. We covered a lot of games, and had a lot of... The post...
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SGJ Podcast #499 – Change and Burnout (i.e. Change is Coming to the Podcast)
Hey friends, two apologies. First, sorry for it being a day late, yesterday got away from me, and secondly, I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken directly from the OBS video. I hope that’s okay. So, some big news this week. This week, the primary topic is that we’re... The…
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SGJ Podcast #498 – Spiritual Successors
Hey friends, welcome to the show! I am sorry the MP3 was uploaded a bit late, real life conspired against me the last couple of days! Anywhoooo, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about spiritual successors! These are games that aren’t part of a series, but are a love…
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SGJ Podcast #497 – Mods
Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about mods. Why we love them, and which are some of our favorites, the list of which you can see below! Mods are a wonderful way to extend the life of a game, and there are a lot that we... The post SGJ Podcast...
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SGJ Podcast #496 – Free-to-Play Games, Mostly
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about free-to-play games…eventually. I, sadly, misunderstood the assignment and thought we were talking about totally free games, not games that are initially free but have a range of buy-in mechanics to...
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SGJ Podcast #495 – Check-In
Hey friends, welcome back to the show. As I said at the top of the episode, apologies for missing a couple of weeks, but it couldn’t be helped, as some — relatively minor — stuff was out of our control. We’re back though, and this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I do one of... The post…
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SGJ Podcast #494 – Recommended Mobile Space Games
Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I conclude our series on mobile gaming by talking about actual games you can play on various mobile devices, the list of which you can see below. These are…
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SGJ Podcast #493 – Let’s Talk Emulation (for Mobile Gaming)
Hey friends, welcome to the show!!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about emulation. Well, *I* mostly talk about emulation, namely the emulators that you can use to (LEGALLY) play your old games. I mostly talk Android, because we’re focusing on handheld devices and…
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SGJ Podcast #492 – The Best Windows, Android and iOS Devices for Portable Gaming
Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Jacob, David and I talk about the best hardware to play portable Windows, Steam, Android and iOS games. There are a lot of devices to go through, but thankfully, I’ve included the list below. Depending on what you’re looking for and what…
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SGJ Podcast #491 – Topic Creation Roundtable
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show. I have to apologize for the audio because VoiceMeeter took a dump later in the episode, so I had to resort to the backup recording. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down and work with the chat and each other to...…
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SGJ Podcast #490 – Spin the Wheel
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do another episode of Spin the Wheel, wherein we have a bevy of topics and choose them at random thanks to the wheel at Wheel of Names! We get some fun questions, and it’s a fun, breezy way to... The...
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SGJ Podcast #489 – Games Respecting Your Time, or Not
Hey friends, welcome to the show. First off, I have to apologize for the audio around the end of the show. VoiceMeeter kept, to use the vernacular, shitting the bed, and every time I reset it, it happened seconds later. No idea why, sorry. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again as VoiceMeeter usually...
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SGJ Podcast #488 – Replayability, Part Two – Our Most Replayed Games
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I further our discussion of replayability by talking about the games we’ve replayed the most over our gaming careers. This takes us further into why these and other games like them are so replayable to…
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SGJ Podcast #487 – Check-In
Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our semi-regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing, and how we’re doing. It’s a pretty fun show, though it does get a teensy but morose at times. Sorry about that, can’t…
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SGJ Podcast #486 – Replayability, Part One
Welcome to the show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try to start to tackle the concept of replayability. It’s a topic suggested by RockinRowl on our Discord, but it’s such a big topic we’ve split it up into a couple of episodes. In THIS episode, we’ll talk about...
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SGJ Podcast #485 – Finding Positive Online Communities
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about finding positive online communities. We all need a place to fit in, especially in tough/dark/interesting times such as these. Some of us do better in online spaces than those in the real…
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SGJ Podcast #484 – Your Most Satisfying “Got Gud” Games
Hey friends, welcome back to the show! After a short break, we’re back with what we hope you’ll think is a fun topic! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about those game that were most satisfying to “get gud” at. You know, the games in which we invested many hours and...…
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SGJ Podcast #483 – Top Gaming Moments
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our top gaming moments. You know, the moments that floored us, that made us exhausted, that we remember for years or decades afterward. We all had a lot of great entries, and we enjoyed the...
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SGJ Podcast #482 – Spin the Wheel
Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take another turn of the random wheel of questions, since we had so much fun with it last time. We have more fun with it this... The...
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SGJ Podcast #481 – Check-In
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in, and do we get angry. Like, it’s a rough time, and we usually avoid politics, but we get very political in this episode, so you can skip this one if you’d like, I’ll totally understand....
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SGJ Podcast #480 – Looking Forward to 2025
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the games we’re most looking forward to hopefully coming out this year, whether into early access or from early access to 1.0. We cover a LOT of games, and surprisingly few toes were…
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SGJ Podcast #479 – beyond.frontiers
Hey friends, welcome to the first show of 2025! I’m sorry if the audio isn’t up to our usual standards, as I could have SWORN I hit record on my mixer, but I can’t find the file, so I had to use the audio ripped from the video as a backup. Anyways, this week, Spaz,... The post SGJ Podcast #479 –...
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SGJ Podcast #478 – A Look Back at 2024
Hello friends, and welcome to this, the final show of 2024! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I look back on what a year it’s been, both personally and in our gaming lives, to find out what surprised us, what disappointed us, and so on, all of which you can see below. If... The...
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SGJ Podcast #477 – Check-In
Hey friends, welcome back to the show! Again, apologies for the longer-than-anticipated break, but cataract surgery waits for no man. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in and talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. The games we’re playing are all over the...
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SGJ Podcast #476 – Space Legs
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I (OMG full crew again) talk about space legs. You know, when you can walk around your ship, stations and the like. We found out that it seems to work more often than not, but when it doesn’t work…
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SGJ Podcast #475 – Exploration
Welcome back to the show, folks! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about exploration, both in space and other types of games. We go through which games we feel nail it — of which there aren’t a ton — which games we feel could do better, and more. It’s a fun... The post SGJ...
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SGJ Podcast #474 – UI/UX
Hey friends, sorry this is a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about user interfaces and the user experience, how they relate to gaming, and which games do them well and which could do better. It’s a fun and spirited…
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SGJ Podcast #473 – Professions in the Future
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about the jobs we’d like to have if we lived in a space video game. The conversation got pretty lively, and we all came up with some really fun answers! Next week, we’ll be talking user interfaces...
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SGJ Podcast #472 – Check-In
(welcome text here) This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about what we’re playing and how we’re doing. It’s a varied show, as we talk about a lot of games, but also how the current world situation is affecting us. We’re still working on our topic for next week, but it’ll...
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SGJ Podcast #471 – Spin the Wheel
Hey friends, welcome to the show! So sorry this is late. First, last week got away from me, THEN the site was down for several days! UGH. Anyway, this time, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try something a little different. In lieu of one topic, we spin a wheel and tackle several.…
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SGJ Podcast #470 – Starcom: Unknown Space
Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I welcome back Kevin Lin of Wx3 Labs to talk about his sophomore entry into the Starcom series, Starcom: Unknown SpaceE! We talk a lot about the changes to the new game, Kevin’s history and game...
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Playing Through Space Gaming's Past, Present and Future
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