Space Game Junkie Podcast

Space Game Junkie Podcast

A love letter to space gaming, with interesting topics and developer interviews.

Episodes

August 28, 2025 61 mins

Hey friends, welcome to this milestone episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, and I look back at the seminal games of the last twelve years — since we began the podcast — and talk about how special they, and their developers, are to us. We covered a lot of games, and had a lot of...

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Hey friends, two apologies. First, sorry for it being a day late, yesterday got away from me, and secondly, I forgot to hit record on my mixer, so the audio is taken directly from the OBS video. I hope that’s okay. So, some big news this week. This week, the primary topic is that we’re...

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Hey friends, welcome to the show! I am sorry the MP3 was uploaded a bit late, real life conspired against me the last couple of days! Anywhoooo, this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about spiritual successors! These are games that aren’t part of a series, but are a love letter/homage to a...

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July 31, 2025 53 mins

Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about mods. Why we love them, and which are some of our favorites, the list of which you can see below! Mods are a wonderful way to extend the life of a game, and there are a lot that we...

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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I talk about free-to-play games…eventually. I, sadly, misunderstood the assignment and thought we were talking about totally free games, not games that are initially free but have a range of buy-in mechanics to help monetize the game. Once we get on...

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July 17, 2025 62 mins

Hey friends, welcome back to the show. As I said at the top of the episode, apologies for missing a couple of weeks, but it couldn’t be helped, as some — relatively minor — stuff was out of our control. We’re back though, and this week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I do one of...

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Hey friends, welcome to the show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, and I conclude our series on mobile gaming by talking about actual games you can play on various mobile devices, the list of which you can see below. These are games we’ve...

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Hey friends, welcome to the show!!! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about emulation. Well, *I* mostly talk about emulation, namely the emulators that you can use to (LEGALLY) play your old games. I mostly talk Android, because we’re focusing on handheld devices and that’s where most of the best one’s...

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Hey friends, welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Jacob, David and I talk about the best hardware to play portable Windows, Steam, Android and iOS games. There are a lot of devices to go through, but thankfully, I’ve included the list below. Depending on what you’re looking for and what you want to...

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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode of the show. I have to apologize for the audio because VoiceMeeter took a dump later in the episode, so I had to resort to the backup recording. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I sit down and work with the chat and each other to...

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May 15, 2025 64 mins

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s episode! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do another episode of Spin the Wheel, wherein we have a bevy of topics and choose them at random thanks to the wheel at Wheel of Names! We get some fun questions, and it’s a fun, breezy way to...

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Hey friends, welcome to the show. First off, I have to apologize for the audio around the end of the show. VoiceMeeter kept, to use the vernacular, shitting the bed, and every time I reset it, it happened seconds later. No idea why, sorry. Hopefully it doesn’t happen again as VoiceMeeter usually behaves itself. As...

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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I further our discussion of replayability by talking about the games we’ve replayed the most over our gaming careers. This takes us further into why these and other games like them are so replayable to us, and what makes games...

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April 10, 2025 67 mins

Hello friends, and welcome to the show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I have one of our semi-regular check-ins, wherein we talk about what we’re playing, and how we’re doing. It’s a pretty fun show, though it does get a teensy but morose at times. Sorry about that, can’t rally be helped...

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Welcome to the show, my friends! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I try to start to tackle the concept of replayability. It’s a topic suggested by RockinRowl on our Discord, but it’s such a big topic we’ve split it up into a couple of episodes. In THIS episode, we’ll talk about the...

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Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about finding positive online communities. We all need a place to fit in, especially in tough/dark/interesting times such as these. Some of us do better in online spaces than those in the real world, so we talk about...

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Hey friends, welcome back to the show! After a short break, we’re back with what we hope you’ll think is a fun topic! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about those game that were most satisfying to “get gud” at. You know, the games in which we invested many hours and...

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February 13, 2025 60 mins

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I talk about our top gaming moments. You know, the moments that floored us, that made us exhausted, that we remember for years or decades afterward. We all had a lot of great entries, and we enjoyed the topic so...

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January 31, 2025 69 mins

Hello my friends, and welcome to this week’s show. Sorry it’s a day late, yesterday totally got away from me. This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I take another turn of the random wheel of questions, since we had so much fun with it last time. We have more fun with it this...

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January 23, 2025 48 mins

Hey friends, welcome to this week’s show! This week, Spaz, Julie, Thorston, Jacob, David and I do a check-in, and do we get angry. Like, it’s a rough time, and we usually avoid politics, but we get very political in this episode, so you can skip this one if you’d like, I’ll totally understand. Next...

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