Violet Berlin's guest appearances

Violet Berlin

Checkpoints

The Retro Hour (Retro Gaming Podcast)

Chris Crawford

Steve McNeil

Mel Croucher

Shahid Ahmad

John Robertson

Aleks Krotoski

Meg Jayanth

Alexis Kennedy

Jennifer Scheurle

Chris Bell

Michael Katz

Nathan McCree

David Wise

John Davison

Richard Garriott

OwlTail

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227: Violet Berlin: Bad Influence The Inside Story - The Retro Hour EP227

This is a show about videogames, the people who play them and the people who make them. Each episode, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others &amp; games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!My guest today is Violet Berlin, a writer, educator, producer and presenter, perhaps best known to listeners as the presenter of the video game TV series Bad Influence.We talk calculator games, Space Museums, Game &amp; Watch, the hidden adventure within Zelda, a deep love for Castlevania, how Eternal Darkness tricked her a little too hard and bonding with her children through video games.We also talk about how she never owned a TV until she worked on TV, her unlikely route to becoming a TV presenter, working for the biggest museum project in the world, the thrill of meeting curators, gunge recipes, being passionate about your interests and how she ended up as a playable character in Micro Machines 2.BONUS GUEST! In a particularly bumper episode I also speak to Dr. Jennifer Hazel about her non profit company Checkpoint (good name!) which acts at the intersection of mental health and video games. We have a fascinating chat about the clinical use of video games in treating mental health issues, and about their Kickstarter campaign to create a web series about these issues. If you're curious and you'd like to support it, there are still a few days left to back it - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkpoint/the-checkpoint-series"Remember to set your video recorders for the datablast!"PATREON - patreon.com/checkpointsiTunes HERE -  SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWGames discussed: The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild, Eternal Darkness, Papers Please, Castlevania 2, Sam and Max, The Lawnmower Man, Mega Man, Space Invaders, Micro Machines 2, Stories Untold, Amplitude, Space Channel 5

This is a show about videogames, the people who play them and the people who make them. Each episode, a guest on the show talks about the games that have shaped their life in one way or another. Games that have inspired them, games that forged connections with others &amp; games that have soothed wounds. Checkpoints!My guest today is <a href="https://twitter.com/VioletBerlin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Violet Berlin</a>, a writer, educator, producer and presenter, perhaps best known to listeners as the presenter of the video game TV series Bad Influence.We talk calculator games, Space Museums, Game &amp; Watch, the hidden adventure within Zelda, a deep love for Castlevania, how Eternal Darkness tricked her a little too hard and bonding with her children through video games.We also talk about how she never owned a TV until she worked on TV, her unlikely route to becoming a TV presenter, working for the biggest museum project in the world, the thrill of meeting curators, gunge recipes, being passionate about your interests and how she ended up as a playable character in Micro Machines 2.BONUS GUEST! In a particularly bumper episode I also speak to <a href="https://twitter.com/Rx_Pixel" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Jennifer Hazel</a> about her non profit company <a href="https://checkpoint.org.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Checkpoint</a> (good name!) which acts at the intersection of mental health and video games. We have a fascinating chat about the clinical use of video games in treating mental health issues, and about their Kickstarter campaign to create a web series about these issues. If you're curious and you'd like to support it, there are still a few days left to back it - <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkpoint/the-checkpoint-series" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/checkpoint/the-checkpoint-series</a>"Remember to set your video recorders for the datablast!"PATREON - <a href="https://www.patreon.com/checkpoints" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patreon.com/checkpoints</a>iTunes <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/checkpoints-declan-dineen/id961200224" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HERE</a> -  SUBSCRIBE / RATE / REVIEWGames discussed: The Legend of Zelda, The Legend of Zelda - Breath of the Wild, Eternal Darkness, Papers Please, Castlevania 2, Sam and Max, The Lawnmower Man, Mega Man, Space Invaders, Micro Machines 2, Stories Untold, Amplitude, Space Channel 5

Episode 85 - Violet Berlin / Dr. Jen Hazel (Copy)