Mark's Epic Blog of Randomness

By Mark Rodriguez Back in the day, before the internet became a thing, if you wanted to know more about an upcoming game and whether or not you should buy it you had videogame magazines like GamePro and Electronic Gaming Monthly. The magazines were cool but other than TV commercials or renting the game once it was actually out, the only way to see the game in actual motion before it was out would be watching a show like Video Power. Sometime later we got GamePro TV, an extension of the GamePro magazine. GamePro TV starred JD Roth and Brennan Howard (though he'd never use his last name on the show) as they would cover several games. While Video Power was more Nintendo heavy because it was out during the 8-bit era, GamePro's later premiere would allow it to cover more 16-bit games from the SEGA Genesis, the SNES and the Turbo-Graphx-16. JD Roth would act a bit calmer and somewhat soft spoken while Brennan was the total 90's surfer dude and always seemed to stand as if he was ...