![How are Nolan Bushnell and Bat Boy connected? | 6 Degrees of Pixelation [VIDEO]](https://calebjross.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/NolanBatBoy-thumbnail-mask-50x50.jpg)
You know that social theory that everyone on earth can be connected to anyone else by no more than 5 intermediaries? They call that 6 Degrees of Separation. I do the same thing here, except I connect video game topics in strange ways using 6 Degrees of Pixelation.
Today I connect Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari, with Bat Boy, political leader, Knight, and magazine cover model.
For this very first episode of Resurrection Sunday I play Iron Tank, a game I remember as being host to the first time I ever stayed up all night playing a video game. I also learned what a password was by playing this game.
![Bloodborne, Adventure, and the Easter Egg: a Case for the Origin of the Video Game Community [VIDEO]](https://calebjross.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/BloodborneAdventureEasterEgg-thumbnail-50x50.jpg)
What if Bloodborne owes a lot to Adventure, a game on the Atari 2600 from 1979? I make a case for the Easter egg—a hidden reference or inside joke in a video game—as the impetus to a player/developer dependent video games like Bloodborne.
Am I right? Am I wrong? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below (but please watch the video first).
![Run, Jump, Shoot: Growing up Metroid [VIDEO]](https://calebjross.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/RunJumpShoot-thumbnail-50x50.jpg)
Metroid was the first videogame I ever owned. That alone should warrant some nostalgia, but mix with it the fact that my mother and father divorced with I was five, and Metroid was one of the few post-split gifts from my father, the game becomes more than just a game. It becomes a symbol of my confusing childhood.
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Fresh off of reading A Pint of Plain: Tradition, Change and the Fate of the Irish Pub by Bill Barich, I’m saddened, mostly because of the “change” part of that subtitle. I want to believe in the romanticized version of the Irish pub. But, alas, it’s likely I’ll never see one.
Lucky me, Literary Roadhouse co-host Gerald decided to take a vacation. This left room for Maya and Anais to invite me on as a guest to discuss the short story “Axolotl” by Julio Cortázar. What is an axolotl? It’s this weird looking thing:
Literary Roadhouse is a really good podcast where a group of co-hosts gather together to discuss one short story every week. Their discussions are in-depth and illuminating, a tradition which I hope to have contributed to (I haven’t listened to the episode yet, so I’m not sure).
Check out my guest episode here. Don’t hesitate to peruse their back-catalog of episodes. And subscribe, dammit!