Hello Beautiful Patrons!
It's time for the Patreon Review Vote to begin! Also I have been hard at work on the Gentry video and it will be posted tomorrow, and I think it's a pretty cool topic :-) And, since I looked at the channel uploads and noticed that the past 3 vids of mine have been character action games (Spikeout is a 3D Beat em' Up, but there is definite overlap) I decided it woul...
2025-12-23 22:02:20 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay in my usual patreon uploads, I ended up getting really sick with the ultimate influenza the past two weeks that basically made working impossible (it was bad). I'm feeling better now and have resumed my usual work schedule, so the Ninja Gaiden 2 Master Ninja video should be ready to upload this Thursday or Friday, and I've started work on the Gentry video a...
2025-12-08 15:48:49 +0000 UTC
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Sorry for the delay in the usual upload pace, but this month's topic zone ended up turning into a double-sized episode and I am joined by Boghog to discuss the topics :-) I think it turned out really well. You all selected an awesome array of topics this month and we ended up waxing poetically on them for over three hours ha.
Also, since finishing my Ninja Gaiden 4 r...
2025-11-19 14:31:49 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 6th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery syst...
2025-10-17 14:48:08 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 6th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery syst...
2025-10-17 14:44:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello Beautiful Patrons!
Boghog returns! Today he and I discuss "The Fun Zone" which is the design philosophy behind the new Doom games, especially Doom the Dark Ages. The intro section to this episode is fresh off the mic, but the majority of this recording is from a discussion that Bog and I had just right after I posted my review for the game. It's actually awesome timing because this d...
2025-09-29 22:54:19 +0000 UTC
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Hello Enlightened Members of the Gentry!
I'm really proud of this exclusive hour-long video which discusses the dangers of Psychology-Based game design, specifically this behavioral consensus seeking model that is really prevalent right now. I discuss at length what forms of psychology I think are useful to the artist (like exploration of the Subconcious) but why it's very important to reme...
2025-09-14 03:23:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello Beautiful Patrons!
Today I thought it would be fun to talk about the review vote winner and upcoming video schedule on camera :-) Patreon takes a cut for its vid support so might as well use it more ha. I didn't title this Video Update or anything since other youtubers always use that term to convey some kind of crisis or something ha. So instead we'll call this series Fun Talk :-)
Also Shinobi PS2 won the review vote if you don't feel like watching the vid ha.
Thank ...
2025-09-09 23:07:43 +0000 UTC
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Hi Everyone!
All done recording and editing the Gradius Review :-D Now it's time to vote for the patreon voted review!
For the new patrons, the way the vote works is that each tier gets a different number of votes per person (Homies = 1, Illuminati = 2, Gentry = 3) and the Illuminati and Gentry can spread their votes across multiple games or vote for the same game multiple times.
List of Nominees:
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2025-08-27 17:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Hello Everyone!
I'm deep into the Gradius Origins review and it's time to write our nominations for this month's Patreon Voted Review. The way this works is that you all simply write your nominations in the comments of this post during this week and on 8/25 we'll begin the voting process :-)
Thank you so much for supporting the channel everyone! You all are what make The Electric Underground happen and I'm already excited for everything I have planned for the year so far. The last...
2025-08-18 19:26:35 +0000 UTC
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Hi Everyone!
On this week's episode of Topic Zone, the RNG selected:
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Homie Tier
Pocho - Stealth Games
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Illuminati Tier
JOH - Stop Killing Games can online multiplayer be preserved
2025-08-14 22:11:05 +0000 UTC
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Hello Everyone!
On this week's episode of the Patreon Podcast I give a little update on what the past year of being a full-time youtuber has been like (thank you everyone for making this possible in the first place) and how a personal goal of mine for the year is inspired by Kurt Russell in that to take what I do really seriously and be compelling, but not to take myself too seriously in the ...
2025-07-23 17:27:10 +0000 UTC
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I have spent all week learning and practicing the Final Fight 1cc for an upcoming Final Fight review I'm working on (hopefully it will be done by Friday). Clearing this game was NO JOKE and took me about 50 hours of practice (very much like my Garegga 1cc funny enough) and in that time I have fallen in love with the game. I always knew Final Fight was an all-time classic because o...
2025-07-21 23:00:33 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 5th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery system a...
2025-07-15 01:26:05 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 5th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery system a...
2025-07-15 01:23:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello Enlightened Members of the Gentry!
Here is my Gentry Exclusive Cutting Room Floor episode about my thoughts on the state of fighting games right now and how I am deeply concerned by a number of trends I am seeing that are converging together in really ugly ways. The continued loss of motion inputs is definitely one of them, but I also think their destruction is a symptom of an overall sh...
2025-06-26 22:58:29 +0000 UTC
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It's time for the exclusive patreon podcast :-D Today I am joined by special guest, Gameboy Guru! Guru has been a very long time friend of the channel (having appeared in episode 5 of the OG podcast as well as coming to all the IRL Shmup Slams), patron, and runs his own shmup podcast called "Shoot the Core-Cast."
Today, the topic at hand is I think an excellent discussion of what is the nature of Game Ownership, and how is it shifting from a traditional one-time-purch...
2025-06-18 05:48:43 +0000 UTC
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In a landslide victory is this month's patreon voted review winner, Spikeout!!! I'm really excited to talk about this Sega classic, I'll even see how the Yakuza port of it works ha. Thank you all for supporting the channel, I'm actually nearly done with last month's winner, Devil's 3rd, video, just had to take a quick detour to review the Nintendo Switch 2 (that should be uploaded soon), then it will be Devil's 3rd time, I think it's going to make for an interesting discuss...
2025-06-08 00:20:07 +0000 UTC
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It's time for Topic Zone #4 :-) I think this episode turned out awesome. I had a lot of fun with the subjects and get ready because I have returned from Slam 7 and finished the Doom review, so this week will be a bunch of patreon uploads to catch back up to my usual schedule :-)
Today's topics are:
Gentry:
Why Are We In Cultural/Artistic...
2025-06-04 00:32:16 +0000 UTC
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It's time for the patreon voted review!.
We'll take the week for the voting and it will close 6/2/25 :-) I have gone ahead and removed Doom the Dark Ages from the nominations, since that is the video I am currently working on XD. After the Doom vid is finished, I'll complete last vote's winner, Devil's 3rd, which shouldn't be too time consuming. Thank you very much for...
2025-05-26 08:24:04 +0000 UTC
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I have literally just sat down on the couch after returning home from Shmup Slam 7 :-D So I'm getting caught up with my usual workflow. It's time for write our nominations for this month's Patreon Voted Review. The way this works is that you all simply write your nominations in the comments of this post during this week and on 5/25 we'll begin the voting process :-)
Thank you so much for supporting the channel everyone! You all are what allow me to work with the creat...
2025-05-20 08:48:21 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 4th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery system a...
2025-05-13 17:55:29 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 4th topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery system a...
2025-05-13 17:54:05 +0000 UTC
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Over the past month, in the wake of Tekken 8 crashing and burning and pretty much my general disinterest in watching other competitive fighting games (I'm still holding out hope for Virtua Fighter 6 though), I've been feeling a void in my competitive gaming life and so decided to check back in with Brood War, which I haven't followed in over a decade at this point, to see how the game is doing, and discovered watching this season of ASL that modern Brood War is LEGIT. Wh...
2025-04-30 18:12:28 +0000 UTC
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Hello Enlightened Members of the Gentry!
Welcome to another episode of cutting room floor! Today's video is an extension of my Tekken 8 Review, where I talk about my thoughts on the future of competitive fighting games as an E-sport (hint: grim), but also share some recent insights I have gained about what I think the nature of "True E-sports" (as I call them) is, versus the artificial competition created by publishers that seems to intentionally chip away at skill and depth in favor of...
2025-04-19 07:03:26 +0000 UTC
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In a powerhouse victory, Devil's Third won this month's voted review :-) Spikeout actually had a really strong showing, but Devil's Third could not be stopped ha. The spirit of Itagaki was too strong. This is going to be a really fun review and I actually do have a Wii U, so I'll be able to play the game without having to buy the console or anything.
Thank you so much everyone for supporting the channel! These review votes are really fun because besides being abl...
2025-04-07 17:36:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello Beautiful Patrons!
It's time for Topic Zone, the Patron Exclusive show where I discuss the topics you all suggest :-)
Today's selections by the random number generator are:
Hi Everyone!
It's time for the Patreon Vote!! I have gone ahead and removed Lilac 0 from the nominations, just because I plan on reviewing it here very shorty. I am also going to have the previous winner video, Rabi-Ribi, out pretty soon.
We'll have the voting take place this week and end 3/31
For the new patrons, the way the vote works is that each tier gets a different number of ...
2025-03-25 15:31:52 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone!!
It's time to write your nominations for the next Patreon voted review. The way it works, in case this is your first time, is that you just write down in the comments here what game or piece of media you would like to be included in the voting phase, and then all the nominations will be included for the voting phase. The vote will start on 3/24 and close on 3/31. All tiers can nom...
2025-03-15 02:03:32 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to the 3rd topic submission post for the Patreon Exclusive series, TOPIC ZONE, where I give my thoughts on topics and games you'd like to hear me discuss in a more freeform fashion. Each patreon tier will get its own post for you all to submit your topics too. TOPIC ZONE isn't voting based like the patreon voted review. Instead, the submissions are selected based on a random lottery system and each tier gets its own number of slots. The Gentry get 3 topic slots, the Illuminati get 2, ...
2025-03-15 01:34:55 +0000 UTC
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