TonyBlue87

@ames: For some reason I remembered an old Game Informer Replay of that game as I was reading the description. I went and found the episode and sure enough it had a cane, chopped zombies in half, and looked super janky in that beautiful PS1 way. Glad I could help.

@ames: Sounds like you might be describing Nightmare Creatures.

OMG FTW!!!

Reported.

More often than not I just wander around retro game stores knowing that I have at least an hour to kill and a fully charged phone. I'll browse through entire libraries (I'm a huge PS1 junkie) one by one. If a name or screenshot catches me, I'll do a YouTube search on my phone. If the gameplay looks unique and interesting, I'll pick it up if it's anywhere in the $5-$15 range.

I realize this isn't the most helpful solution to your problem, but I really enjoy being surprised when I'm just looking to kill time.

My mom fell in love with Luigi's Mansion, almost exclusively because of how charming it is. Your mom may not make it far (my mom certainly didn't), but she may get a good laugh out of it.

@hassun: @epidehl: This is real depressing because now I'm watching on Twitch, and Twitch chat is just an endless stream of emotes and exclamation points.

@epidehl: Also down.

And y'all considered Dave Lang for the PLEASE STOP award. For shame, Giant Bomb, for shame...

Are you... have we... is this an attempt to become the new "million bucks?"

I run a stream with my improv troupe, and we bring guests in from the improv and theatre community throughout the entire day. It keeps things fresh and can add some much-needed energy during those twilight hours.

As for what to play when, I try to constantly mix things up, both in console and genre. When watching last year's footage, I discovered that anything more than about 30 minutes is a long time to watch any one game, so it's important to keep your viewers in mind. We had a surprising amount of fun doing a "game show" block last year, which got people in our chat chiming in and trying to guess Wheel of Fortune puzzles and Buzz! questions. We're gonna do Fibbage this year, so we can play directly with our viewers.

Lastly (and it may be a bit too late to start this now, though still in the spirit of your "stretch goal" idea), we added donation incentives to our stream, a la Awesome Games Done Quick. When people donate, they tell us which goal to fund, and we add it to the stream once it meets its goal. It's been a moderately successful way of drawing donations (it's only our second year doing this), and it's just one more way to keep things fresh. I'll add a pic of our menu.

Good luck, duder! Our team page is here if you wanna hit me up for more info.