B-Side: Nerds and Games

From: B-Side Radio
Series: B-Side: Cure for the Weekend Blues
Length: 53:59

B-Side's Tamara Keith went to the E For All video game convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in search of both games and nerds. They weren't hard to find. Read the full description.

Piece Audio

Playing: B-Side: Nerds and Games
From: B-Side Radio

Gamesthumb_small We started out putting together a show we were planning to call "Nerd Alert." But soon we realized that most of our stories were really about games...nerdy games, but games nonetheless. So, B-Side's Tamara Keith went to the E For All video game convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in search of both games and nerds. They weren't hard to find. Liner Notes: "A Disturbance in the Force" Aaron Henkin: The online multi-player game Star Wars Galaxies can be rather addictive. Aaron Henkin has a story of someone who got in too deep. "Duck Hunt Gun" David Shurtleff: Remember that old Nintendo game Duck Hunt? It turns out the gun didn't quite operate in the way it seemed. David Shurtleff went on a quest to understand the Duck Hunt gun. "D&D" Ethan Lindsey: Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where you create your own character and set off on imaginary adventures. B-Side contributor Ethan Lindsey learned the hard way that D&D is a really nerdy thing to do. "Bridge" Sarah Neal: Bridge isn?t part of today?s social scene, well, not today?s mainstream social scene. And you probably wouldn?t associate it with anyone under 50, but B-Side contributor, and bridge freak, Sarah Neal tells us a different story ? about her young, modern, underground scene ? of bridge. "Nerdy Dad" Rene Gutel: All this talk of geek sheik and geek culture got B-Side?s Rene Gutel thinking about the nerdiest guy she knows. So she called him.

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Piece Description

We started out putting together a show we were planning to call "Nerd Alert." But soon we realized that most of our stories were really about games...nerdy games, but games nonetheless. So, B-Side's Tamara Keith went to the E For All video game convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center in search of both games and nerds. They weren't hard to find. Liner Notes: "A Disturbance in the Force" Aaron Henkin: The online multi-player game Star Wars Galaxies can be rather addictive. Aaron Henkin has a story of someone who got in too deep. "Duck Hunt Gun" David Shurtleff: Remember that old Nintendo game Duck Hunt? It turns out the gun didn't quite operate in the way it seemed. David Shurtleff went on a quest to understand the Duck Hunt gun. "D&D" Ethan Lindsey: Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game where you create your own character and set off on imaginary adventures. B-Side contributor Ethan Lindsey learned the hard way that D&D is a really nerdy thing to do. "Bridge" Sarah Neal: Bridge isn?t part of today?s social scene, well, not today?s mainstream social scene. And you probably wouldn?t associate it with anyone under 50, but B-Side contributor, and bridge freak, Sarah Neal tells us a different story ? about her young, modern, underground scene ? of bridge. "Nerdy Dad" Rene Gutel: All this talk of geek sheik and geek culture got B-Side?s Rene Gutel thinking about the nerdiest guy she knows. So she called him.

Broadcast History

podcast as an alt.NPR podcast.

Timing and Cues

:00 - :59 billboard
5 min NEWS HOLE
6:00 - 29:00 first half of show.
29:00-29:01 black
29:01 - 30:00 music
30:00 - 59:00 second half of show. Music fades to black.