Nate E-K
@newertkrocker.bsky.social
Game history enthusiast | Hosted and produced GO BACK AND PLAY (2016 - 2023) | Used to write about VGM for Fanbyte, Paste | he/him | probably shouldn't have hacked those 3DSs for my kids
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Nate E-K
@newertkrocker.bsky.social
· Oct 19
Go Back and Play
Video Games Podcast · 150 Episodes
podcasts.apple.com
I'm Nate!
I'm not really "making" any "content" these days, but I used to write about game music for various sites, and for ~7 years I had a podcast called GO BACK AND PLAY, in which some friends & I took a whirlwind tour through the history of videogames!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
I'm not really "making" any "content" these days, but I used to write about game music for various sites, and for ~7 years I had a podcast called GO BACK AND PLAY, in which some friends & I took a whirlwind tour through the history of videogames!
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Went to a board game cafe with the kids to celebrate making it through the week and unlocked a long-dormant childhood memory by playing Home Alone: The Board Game. (Photo not mine.)
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Went to a board game cafe with the kids to celebrate making it through the week and unlocked a long-dormant childhood memory by playing Home Alone: The Board Game. (Photo not mine.)
so I'm hearing they gave Samus a Chadley
November 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
so I'm hearing they gave Samus a Chadley
Gavin Newsom, famous for producing the controversial “Twisted Metal” vehicular combat tournament
This is a real image the U.S. Department of Homeland Security just posted to Twitter in response to the governor of California.
Real weird shit, as they say
Real weird shit, as they say
November 14, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Gavin Newsom, famous for producing the controversial “Twisted Metal” vehicular combat tournament
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This is great and the diagram is also great
appreciate this article breaking down a taxonomy of knowledge games (also, unfortunately, known as metroidbrainias)
azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
azhdarchid.com/against-metr...
Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games
What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?
azhdarchid.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:17 AM
This is great and the diagram is also great
I’m playing the System Shock remake at the moment and, comparatively speaking, everyone on Citadel Station has their shit *completely together*
Again, to every videogame writer who wrote funny emails to read in an immersive sim/etc. where I rolled my eyes and said out loud, "lol like anyone would ever email something this on the nose", again, sorry, I was wrong, life sucks, you nailed it
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I’m playing the System Shock remake at the moment and, comparatively speaking, everyone on Citadel Station has their shit *completely together*
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Putting aside all the horrible shit in them: I cannot believe the global elite composes emails like fucking horses who somehow learned to crudely type. My emails read like Shakespeare compared to the lowercased, unpunctuated screeds written to the worlds biggest pedophile. Fucking write like adults!
November 12, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Putting aside all the horrible shit in them: I cannot believe the global elite composes emails like fucking horses who somehow learned to crudely type. My emails read like Shakespeare compared to the lowercased, unpunctuated screeds written to the worlds biggest pedophile. Fucking write like adults!
Two things which are true:
1) I think Steam's huge majority of the PC game marketplace is hugely problematic
2) If I got a Steam Machine I probably wouldn't need a console anymore
1) I think Steam's huge majority of the PC game marketplace is hugely problematic
2) If I got a Steam Machine I probably wouldn't need a console anymore
November 12, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Two things which are true:
1) I think Steam's huge majority of the PC game marketplace is hugely problematic
2) If I got a Steam Machine I probably wouldn't need a console anymore
1) I think Steam's huge majority of the PC game marketplace is hugely problematic
2) If I got a Steam Machine I probably wouldn't need a console anymore
This looks awkward as hell with the touchpads, but honestly they really expand the control options for the Deck, so...
new Steam Controller revealed store.steampowered.com/sale/steamco...
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This looks awkward as hell with the touchpads, but honestly they really expand the control options for the Deck, so...
There's a light dusting of snow on the ground in Cleveland this morning, and it is making it very difficult for me to focus on work. Surely the fact that it is Monday has nothing to do with this.
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
There's a light dusting of snow on the ground in Cleveland this morning, and it is making it very difficult for me to focus on work. Surely the fact that it is Monday has nothing to do with this.
There have been a lot of stealth games inspired by Metal Gear, but this is one of the only ones I can think of that feels more directly inspired by... Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions? If you have any affection or nostalgia for that weird PS1 offshoot, you should absolutely give Volume a go.
Our legacy game celebration continues with Volume! 🔇
Our second game was all about robbing from the rich with pure stealth action. Uncover, then unravel, the exploitative plots of Gisborne Industries by using the Volume to pull off increasingly ambitious heists over 100 levels.
Our second game was all about robbing from the rich with pure stealth action. Uncover, then unravel, the exploitative plots of Gisborne Industries by using the Volume to pull off increasingly ambitious heists over 100 levels.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
There have been a lot of stealth games inspired by Metal Gear, but this is one of the only ones I can think of that feels more directly inspired by... Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions? If you have any affection or nostalgia for that weird PS1 offshoot, you should absolutely give Volume a go.
The boys* are back in town**
*the little FF guys Kari painted in 2011
**my office wall instead of stuck in a box for 2+ years
*the little FF guys Kari painted in 2011
**my office wall instead of stuck in a box for 2+ years
November 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The boys* are back in town**
*the little FF guys Kari painted in 2011
**my office wall instead of stuck in a box for 2+ years
*the little FF guys Kari painted in 2011
**my office wall instead of stuck in a box for 2+ years
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Picnic at Hanging Rock proves definitively that the pan flute is humanity’s most unsettling instrument
November 8, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Picnic at Hanging Rock proves definitively that the pan flute is humanity’s most unsettling instrument
Picnic at Aggro Crag (Peter Weir, 1975)
November 8, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Picnic at Aggro Crag (Peter Weir, 1975)
10YO: *singing the most annoying ditty he can conjure at 7YO while she prepares her oatmeal* “Do you like my song??”
7YO: “…NO.”
10YO: “Okay. Technically, neither do I.”
7YO: “…NO.”
10YO: “Okay. Technically, neither do I.”
November 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
10YO: *singing the most annoying ditty he can conjure at 7YO while she prepares her oatmeal* “Do you like my song??”
7YO: “…NO.”
10YO: “Okay. Technically, neither do I.”
7YO: “…NO.”
10YO: “Okay. Technically, neither do I.”
How are these? I've always been curious but never tried any of them. I think one or two of these may be in my library already, as giveaways.
Humble Games Bundle: Frogwares Lovecraft & Sherlock Classics ($12 for all) buff.ly/qjgpLHT #ad
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
How are these? I've always been curious but never tried any of them. I think one or two of these may be in my library already, as giveaways.
I am taking 10 psychic dmg per turn just sitting at my work desk today
November 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I am taking 10 psychic dmg per turn just sitting at my work desk today
The system is not prepared to handle this scale of injustice, which means that one of three things is gonna be true:
- the injustice will be allowed to stand
- the system will be changed
- someone will operate Outside the System
Pretty bummed about which outcome seems the most likely.
- the injustice will be allowed to stand
- the system will be changed
- someone will operate Outside the System
Pretty bummed about which outcome seems the most likely.
The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.
November 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
The system is not prepared to handle this scale of injustice, which means that one of three things is gonna be true:
- the injustice will be allowed to stand
- the system will be changed
- someone will operate Outside the System
Pretty bummed about which outcome seems the most likely.
- the injustice will be allowed to stand
- the system will be changed
- someone will operate Outside the System
Pretty bummed about which outcome seems the most likely.
Someone needs to lower grocery prices so I can justify spending fifty bucks on a shirtless Kazuma Kiryu figurine
Yakzua/Like a Dragon - Kazuma Kiryu -Fierce Battle- Digsta (Reissue) up for preorder at Hobby-Genki ($52.20) buff.ly/KbyMmUY
amiami buff.ly/SRcM6NN
HLJ buff.ly/0ZSR877
amiami buff.ly/SRcM6NN
HLJ buff.ly/0ZSR877
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Someone needs to lower grocery prices so I can justify spending fifty bucks on a shirtless Kazuma Kiryu figurine
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I verified my age and look at all the incredible content I was missing!!
November 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I verified my age and look at all the incredible content I was missing!!
I can’t believe I’m being denied everyone’s rude tweets because I refuse to verify my age (Silurian era)
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I can’t believe I’m being denied everyone’s rude tweets because I refuse to verify my age (Silurian era)
Yikes. (Cleveland Metro School District announcing their plan to put the entire district into a blender)
November 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Yikes. (Cleveland Metro School District announcing their plan to put the entire district into a blender)
Finding myself really compelled by the System Shock remake, even as it's kicking my ass. I love a good scrounge-'em-up
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Finding myself really compelled by the System Shock remake, even as it's kicking my ass. I love a good scrounge-'em-up