25 Years of Gaming

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This week on the show, it’s that time of year again… that’s right, RADIOTHON! JOY 94.9 needs your help to stay OUT, LOUD, PROUD and ON AIR. To celebrate 25 years of JOY, on Checkpoint we decided to celebrate 25 years of gaming, with an entire crew of us in studio to talk about the video games that inspired us and shaped us into the gamers we are today. Join an all-star crew of presenters and writers, as host Luke is joined by your favourites Elliot, Cam, Rachel, Jake and Edith, along with newcomers to the program, Jason, Jian and Sam as they share their memories of the video games that they grew up with and talk about the reasons why they are such big video game lovers today. Plus, we live streamed the entire episode on Facebook playing a bunch of video games! You can watch the video and see what we were up to right here on our Facebook page, so don’t feel like you missed out!

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Luke Mitchell

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Luke spends his time making radio, playing video games, binge-watching TV, getting unreasonably invested in wrestling, hosting bear events and hanging out with his beautiful pets.

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Elliot Attard

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Beer aficionado, PC gamer, TV show binge-watcher, music lover, and elite member of high society - Elliot possesses all of the qualities needed to project his word thoughts straight into your eye holes.

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Cameron Honey-Swain

Cameron knows what he loves. Witches, animated ducks and a strong burly female protagonist. When he isn't effortlessly defending Dragon Age II he is bothering either his husband or one of his many fur children.

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Rachel Humphreys

Rachel (Trance) is a long time gamer full time nerd without a plan... When she's not playing on some manner of console or handheld device she can be found enjoying popculture life to its fullest.

Edie W-K

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If it isn't video games, Edie doesn't care about it. She's been playing games since the N64 era, and only spent enough time away from her 3DS to earn a Bachelor in Games Design from RMIT.

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