Latest posts
Posts
💼 Who hates the Garamond font? Federal Judges
Federal Judges are tired of lawyers trying to squeeze more pages into briefs with the Garamond font. Which, in my mind is ironic.
Posts
✍ Writing was pretty rough on Douglas Adams
I love the writing of Douglas Adams, but I had no idea how hard it was on him.
Posts
🏃 New Battle Royale for Epic and more - This Geek in Review for 21 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
New Battle Royale Mode - Apple/Google vs Fortnite When Apple created their app store, they set a fee of 30% for developers. This meant that when a developer sold a game for $10.00, Apple received $3 and the developer received $7.
Posts
⌨ The CoCo is 40 and more - This Geek in Review for 14 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
The turning point Where I am with my life and how I got here are the result of two events in my life. One, Watching Star Wars: A New Hope and two, going to visit my aunt and uncle in the summer of ‘83.
Posts
🎮 Huge Nintendo leak and more - This Geek in Review for 7 Aug 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
Hackers do what Nintendon’t Nintendo fans were suprised with a huge leak of internal Nintendo files and prototypes this past week. There was a ton of unreleased and in progress game prototypes and assets from the Super Nintendo and N-64 era.
Posts
🎶 These 80s remixes are my new favorite thing
I can’t believe I’m just now hearing about The Hood Internet, an artist on Soundcloud. He has a ton of remixes, including an entire set based on each year of the 80s.
1984 has all of the feels:
Posts
🎧 The GozGeek Podcast is showing up in the directories!
I submitted the GozGeek Podcast to the various podcast directories, and it’s starting to show up in places such as Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
I’m very excited! If you would prefer to watch on YouTube, you can do that too.
Posts
👽 E.T. is not the worst video game ever and more - This Geek in Review for 31 Jul 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
No Virginia, E.T. is not the worst video game ever This past week screenrant.com made the list, disparaging the game E.T. The Extraterrestrial for the 2600. Let me set the record straight: E.T. is not the worst game ever made nor is it the cause of the video game crash of 1983.
Posts
🤓 Revisiting X-Men and more - This Geek in Review for 24 Jul 2020
Download the podcast of this post or subscribe with your favorite podcast app. Search for GozGeek. The article is also available as a video on YouTube, you can also subscribe there.
What do they call you? Wheels? I grew up with the 80s version of X-Men, so twenty years ago I was pretty stoked for the X-Men movie. What I got was disappointment. Some of the casting was genius. Patrick Stewart and Ian Mckellen?
Posts
The Empire really strikes back and more - This Geek in Review for 17 Jul 2020
The 80s are back! We are living in strange times, especially when The Empire Strikes Back and Ghostbusters top the box office charts almost over 35 years after their initial release. I wish it didn’t take a pandemic for some of these great movies to get some theater screen time.
In other 80s movie news comes the story behind The Pointer Sisters Neutron Dance in Beverly Hills Cop. The song was originally released in 1983, but didn’t become popular until it was attached to Beverly Hills Cop.