Welcome to Episode 19 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my wonderful friend Ralph Miranda. Ralph is an illustrator, a production artist, and storyboarder. Ralph has worked on marketing campaigns for big brands, movies, tv shows, and several video games including Multiversus and Call of Duty. Ralph also has a very entertaining series of animated shorts that he works on with his...

Welcome to Episode 18 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my wonderful friend Chris Wu. Chris is an actor and has recurring roles as Noah Yang in The UpShaws on Netflix, Officer Williams in 9-1-1, and very relevant to this podcast, played the role of Aidan Chen in the 2023 remake of Dead Space. Chris gives great insight into his experience working on Dead Space and talks about h...

Welcome to Episode 17 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my great friend Shaun Panado. If that name seems familiar to you it is because I mention his name every episode because Shaun is the composer of the theme song for Load Save Game, “One Shot One Kill Kestrel.” I am very grateful for Shaun allowing us to use his music for the podcast these past two years. Be sure to check o...

Welcome to Episode 16 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is my awesome friend Stephanie Gerk. Steph is a writer, a podcaster, and content creator. Steph has also moderated and been on panels at conventions such as San Diego Comic Con. Steph has been playing video games for most of her life and is very passionate about Assassin’s Creed, Dragon Age, and the Myst series among many othe...

Welcome to Episode 15 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is Dr. Jason Lo. I’ve known Jason going back to our college days. Jason is one of the most talented and hardworking people I know. Jason is an amazing pianist and has played piano at Carnegie Hall, at the 2012 London Olympics, and as I record this he is traveling through Europe with scheduled performances in Germany and the ...

Welcome to Episode 14 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My guest today is Nik Corzine. I’ve known Nik since High School. Nik is a lovely person. He’s a great storyteller. Around the time when we first met we were both in Comedy Sportz in High School which is a comedy improv program. I did not keep up with stage performance, but Nik did and went on to do a lot of local theater shows in the South...

Welcome to Episode 13 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. It’s been one year since we first launched the podcast! Thank you for listening for the past year. I’ve gotten so much lovely feedback from people telling me how much they love the show, how it brings up a lot of nostalgic memories of growing up with video games and also learning about games that they would love to try out and that makes me so h...

Welcome to Episode 12 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. First some house-keeping I know it’s been a good long while since our last episode. I’m sorry about that. I went on vacation for a while. I was fortunate to visit a friend in Taiwan. I also spent a week in Osaka, Japan right after. I think I’ll share some stuff on socials regarding some of the cool video game stuff we saw like visiting a Taito S...

Welcome to Episode 11 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Melissa Pountain. Melissa and I talk about a ton of great games. She’s a huge fan of Fallout 3 and New Vegas and talks about a pilgrimage she took to the New Vegas locations, and if it isn’t obvious yes, she’s married to previous guest Sandy Pountain. She talks about her love of Final Fantasy VII and K...

Welcome to Episode 10 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my wonderful wife Jordan Maeve. Jordan is a huge fan of rhythm games like Dance Dance Revolution, puzzle games like Tetris, and cozy games like Animal Crossing. We talk a lot about Amplitude, a rhythm game on the PS2. We don't mention it in the episode, but the developer of Amplitude, Harmonix, would go on to develop ...

Welcome to Episode 9 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Sandy Pountain. Sandy is a huge fan of Warhammer and talks about how his love of war games lead him to loving games turn-based and real-time strategy games like Command & Conquer, Dawn of War, and Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I tease Sandy a little bit because he has this contrarian hipster ...

Welcome to Episode 8 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Xanthe Huynh. I first met Xanthe back in our college Japanese class and while I think we’ve both wasurechatta’d a lot of our Japanese we still kept in touch many years later. I still remember Xanthe talking about how she wanted to do voice acting full-time and it’s been amazing seeing her journey and ho...

Welcome to Episode 7 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Becky Kralle. In the episode Becky talks about getting into gaming as an adult after working in eSports live broadcasting productions. We also talk about her love of socializing with friends while playing multiplayer games like Stardew Valley, Minecraft, Valorant, and many others. While growing up Becky...

Welcome to Episode 6 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Gwen Chase. Gwen is one of my oldest friends. We’ve gone to tons of conventions together like San Diego Comic-con, PAX, Anime Expo. In the episode Gwen tells me about her treasured memories playing the original Tomb Raider games with her Dad, fighting fascists and Mad Max Racing in the Jak and Daxter ga...

Welcome to Episode 5 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Heidi-Kat Schultz. Heidi and I met in highschool and reconnected through an old D&D friend group years later and we’ve been friends ever since. We talk about a ton of great games in this episode. Heidi tells us how fun it was to play God and roleplay her favorite fandoms in The Sims. We talk about H...

Welcome to Episode 4 of Load Save Game, a podcast where we share our personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Quincy Surasmith. In the episode we talk about a ton of great games, 4X games like Civilization, the varying levels of freedom and player agency in JRPGs vs. Western RPGs vs. Tabletop RPGs. Quincy talks about taking one of the early video game design classes as UC Santa Cruz, wanting to create his ideal game which is l...

LSG 003: Stephanie Han and I talk about playing fighting games at SoCal arcades, the joys and drama of World of Warcraft Guilds, and saving the world as a country village girl in Star Ocean: The Second Story Welcome to Episode 3 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my great friend Stephanie Han. Steph is a life-long gamer, a big fan of JRPGs, fighting games, and rhythm games...

Welcome to Episode 2 of Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. My wonderful guest today is my long time friend Jason New. I met Jason back in highschool. He’s one of my oldest friends and we’ve played a ton of games together from Street Fighter IV, Halo, World of Warcraft, and Marvel vs. Capcom. He’s also been my DM for the majority of time I’ve played Dungeons and Dragons. Jason also works in the video game...

Welcome to Load Save Game, a podcast where I talk to people about their personal journey with video games. I am your host Jose Eusebio. This is episode 1, the very beginning! In today's episode I talk about what Load Save Game going to be about and talk about some of the games I connected to most in my personal journey with video games. I hope you enjoy the episode! Make sure to subscribe and review Load Save Game on your podcast listener of choice. Follow us on socials we’re @loadsavegame ...