A Life Well Wasted – Details, episodes & analysis

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A Life Well Wasted

Robert Ashley

Leisure

Frequency: 1 episode/505d. Total Eps: 13

A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them. Each episode focuses on a specific subject and employs interviews, music, writing, and fast-paced editing to create something unique in the podcasting space .

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🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
20/06/2026
#57
🇬🇧 Great Britain - videoGames
20/06/2026
#78
🇩🇪 Germany - videoGames
20/06/2026
#52
🇺🇸 USA - videoGames
20/06/2026
#38
🇫🇷 France - videoGames
20/06/2026
#34
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
21/05/2026
#85
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
17/05/2026
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
16/05/2026
#56
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
13/05/2026
#76
🇨🇦 Canada - videoGames
12/05/2026
#57

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Memory

lundi 12 décembre 2022 • Duration 01:00:25

Robert Ashley finds out what it takes to speedrun games in a blindfold, visits a museum in Moscow dedicated to Soviet-era arcade machines, and talks to a group of friends about a childhood summer spent dreaming up a game of their own.

Work

mercredi 20 mars 2013 • Duration 01:04:46

Robert Ashley talks to a developer at a big game studio about his strange trip from blue collar work to video game work, gets a lesson in work ethic from legendary game designer John Romero, finds out what can happen when you give your work away for free, and profiles Nick Smith (aka Ulillillia), whose body of work includes one of the Internet's most monumental--and strange--personal websites.

Gotta Catch 'em All

mardi 3 mars 2009 • Duration 44:09

Robert Ashley explores the world of collectors and archivists, visiting a massive underground collection of videogames, a vintage pinball museum, and a program at Stanford University that hopes to save the history of online gaming.

The Death of EGM

mardi 27 janvier 2009 • Duration 45:47

Robert Ashley talks to former Electronic Gaming Monthly writers and editors about their experiences at the long running magazine.

ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 2

mardi 20 mars 2012 • Duration 24:49

Robert Ashley returns from the mysterious deep with another musical offering that won't satisfy your desire for more episodes of A Life Well Wasted, but might hold you off for a while longer.

ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 1

lundi 11 juillet 2011 • Duration 23:16

Robert Ashley checks in with you to see how you've been. Oh, did you hear that he has a new album coming out? Want to hear it?

Big Ideas

mercredi 23 juin 2010 • Duration 58:18

Robert Ashley edits listener-submitted game ideas into one big, crazy game, talks to the guy who owns the rights to Tetris about his plans to save the world, gets a lecture on the future of games from a New York University professor, and meets a struggling game blogger who happens to possess freakishly enormous genitalia.

Help

mercredi 25 novembre 2009 • Duration 45:00

Robert Ashley helps people in videogames instead of helping people in real life, meets a comedy group who spend hundreds of hours every year playing the most boring videogame ever created, talks to a guy who quit playing games for a year, and profiles the best selling pinball designer of all time.

Artists, Fans and Engineers

lundi 31 août 2009 • Duration 01:00:28

Robert Ashley visits a cosplay enthusiast, talks to the founder of an art show about videogames, discovers the strange world of fan fiction radio plays, and profiles a self-taught computer chip designer racecar driver/roller derby bruiser.

B-Side: Why Game?

jeudi 28 mai 2009 • Duration 25:30

Listeners tell stories about why they play videogames.

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