Memories of the '90s RPG Fandom w/ Andrew Vestal

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

With Kat out romping with faeries or whatever people do on vacation, Nadia is left to host an entire episode all by her lonesome. Or is she? This week, Nadia calls on a very old friend, Andrew Vestal, the former proprietor of the very first Final Fantasy site she visited when she connected to the internet in 1995. Nadia and Andrew ramble down memory lane and recall how RPG fandom was so very different in the ‘90s, when sites were hosted on bare motherboards cooled by oscillating fans. And yet, so much was familiar: Arguments over game localization, rampant rumor mongering, and blind character worship. There is truly nothing new under the sun. Also in this episode: RIP Anthem, Bravely Default 2 is out and about, and holy moly, there is a lot going on with Pokemon in the near future. We’re very excited. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	Music Hello, friends, and welcome to the Axel of the Blood God podcast.
0:49.0	It is an independent RPG podcast.
0:51.5	I am your host, Nadia Oxford.
0:53.7	Kat Bailey is not here. You know that scene in the
0:57.9	wall where like the kids go crazy and burn the teacher alive. It was a little bit like that.
1:02.8	Actually, no, Kat's just taking a very well-deserved rest, a very well-deserved vacation.
1:08.2	We wish her all the best. She'll be back next time. And for now, I'm actually
1:12.4	joined by a very good, very old friend of mine, Andrew Vestal. And please say hi, Andrew. And
1:19.4	thank you for coming on the show. Hi. It's great to be here today. I love the podcast. I love
1:25.1	the RPGs. And I'm happy to talk about, you know, I'm going to give
1:30.6	away what we're talking about, you know, what it was like to be there at the very dawn of internet
1:34.6	fandom for RPGs here on the internet. Yes, just to give you all a little bit of background.
1:40.3	Andrew Vestal's site was, I think, the first sight I ever visited when I learned how to use the internet.
1:46.2	You were running the unofficial Squarespaceoft homepage, as I recall.
1:49.8	And a friend of mine, who I'm actually still friends with, taught me how to use the internet in my school.
1:57.0	I'll get more into that in a bit.
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