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/shonix

Show Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/

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/shonix

Show Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/

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/shonix

The Starsong Odssey Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61562767498947

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/shonix

Show Art by: Jordan Maeve https://www.instagram.com/thejollity/