Jamie Happney
Journeyman Electrician IBEW
Former life-size model train rider, current stay-at-home dad. I have a job, but like Peter Gibbons from Office Space once said, "I don't think I'm gonna go any more." My partner Brittany and I have been together nine years and we have three beautifully chaotic children. I bought my first video game console at a yard sale when I was five (NES) and I've been losing more than I win ever since. I love football, horror movies, wrestling documentaries, and cooking.
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Sept. 24, 2025
S3E15: Crystalis -or- Periodic Fable of Elements
Happney is as good as his sword when he talks Crystalis (NES, 1990) as he joins Mike & Jaymo on The Old SwitchAroo’s epic quest to research and review every retro game in Nintendo Switch Online’s Nintendo Classics catalog! In this episode, we talk about the influence of Studio Ghibli films like Castle in the Sky and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind on Crystalis, try to figure out if this was SNK’s answer to The Legend of Zelda, and the ways that the aesthetics of this game seem to overla...
Guest: Jamie Happney