LiteSwitch: Jason Paige reveals his new game

Unknown Speaker (0:00): I don't know where my Genesis could be. I haven't seen my Super Nintendo since 2003. That's alright.

Jaymo (0:28): Gotta get them all because it's time for the old Switcheroo where we're talking gaming retro with Mike and J Mo.

Unknown Speaker (0:34): I'm Mike.

Jaymo (0:35): And I'm J Mo. We're the often imitated, never emulated retro gaming talk show diving deep into the Nintendo Switch online, Nintendo classic catalog. If you like what you hear, don't forget to like, subscribe, and, of course, play along. Today, we have something truly special for our listeners, Mike. Do you wanna meet the very best like no one ever was?

Jaymo (0:53): Seems like a real test. It's our cause, baby. Please welcome to the show singer and songwriter and performer of the original Pokemon theme song, Voice of a Generation, Jason Page. How are you this morning, Jason?

Jason Paige (1:08): What's up, guys? How are you? Thanks so much for having me on.

Unknown Speaker (1:11): Thank you.

Unknown Speaker (1:12): Good to be here.

Jaymo (1:13): Being here. This is this is an honor. We're here to get the inside scoop on one of your most exciting upcoming projects, Ultra Dolphin Revolution's upcoming limited release, Jason Page, Voice of a Generation, playable on a variety of retro gaming devices.

Jason Paige (1:30): That's correct. Super psyched for this, dude. Check that out.

Unknown Speaker (1:34): Look at that beauty.

Jason Paige (1:36): There it is. There it is. This is the prototype. This is not the one that's that's coming out. There's some there's a few things changed on it, but that's pretty much what it is.

Jason Paige (1:47): I mean, you get it. You you feel it. You instantly connect to this piece of plastic with this technology that is almost embarrassingly archaic No. Inside of there. But there's something so magical about, you know, it's almost like a line drawings.

Jason Paige (2:07): It's like it's like it's like the flip book Yeah. That you made when you were in the third grade. It's it's actually not even that sophisticated. You could get the artwork a lot better in your flip book than you could in this. You could see what was going on on the flip book, but this year, like, what am I looking at?

Jason Paige (2:25): So your brain makes all these connections and and uses your imagination to to embellish the simple. And it's so important for us to have this, to have our brains activated like this. And that's what's really going on inside of this. Your brain is activated. Your imagination is activated and your heart gets activated.

Unknown Speaker (2:52): Pretty cool. For

Jaymo (2:53): for our listeners, he is holding up the prototype of the Jason Page voice of a generation game pack, and I I got chills. I'm not even kidding. When you did that I'm a Vinyl Records guy. I really feel like there's there's something

Unknown Speaker (3:08): You see them up there?

Jaymo (3:09): I see them. And there's there's something timeless and special. And so when you held up these game packs, which which look very familiar to anyone who grew up with retro gaming devices, it just hit me, like, kind of emotionally.

Jason Paige (3:25): Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty cool. It is it is a similar thing to the, to the vinyl situation while you're listening to the album, except the album's technology and sonic, preparation is way more advanced than the visual technology is on this thing. So the album requires your imagination to do less than this requires.

Jason Paige (3:50): So you have, like, a a even of a a less of a connection. I mean, maybe I don't know. It's relative to what we what we connect to the most, what connects us, emotionally to things. But there's a tactile, there's auditory, and there is music on here. So you hear you hear the Pokemon GO song, you hear Viridian City, and you hear Pokemon and then some other, music that goes throughout, but in that eight bit style.

Jason Paige (4:20): So you're you know, that that certainly is very triggering as well. Pretty

Unknown Speaker (4:26): cool. Pretty

Jason Paige (4:27): cool. And there's more colors in this too. So

Unknown Speaker (4:30): Yeah. And they have And

Unknown Speaker (4:31): they you gotta get them all.

Unknown Speaker (4:32): Gotta get them all.

Unknown Speaker (4:32): Gotta get them all.

Unknown Speaker (4:34): It is. Red and blue and yellow, just what you have to start with.

Unknown Speaker (4:40): I got a green.

Jaymo (4:41): Yeah. But only put that one out in Japan.

Unknown Speaker (4:45): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker (4:46): This is only Japan. We're not giving this one out to anybody in this country. Not at

Unknown Speaker (4:50): all. That's

Jason Paige (4:51): so awesome. But what's cool about, they also have the different the different artwork on the front that that that represent the different artwork that has been on some of my cards.

Jaymo (5:04): Yeah. So tell us about that. You have a series of trading cards, some of which are so rare that I'm told your manager, Ryan, had to buy for you recently because he ran into it at a random comic shop.

Unknown Speaker (5:17): Yeah. Tell us about these tell us about these JCP entries.

Unknown Speaker (5:20): I I sold one of

Jason Paige (5:21): the last ones on my on my website, and I realized I I have to take it down because this card right here, the Poke Snack card, which is really OG. It's got that old vibe. It's got the, you know, the back, the OG thing. This thing was, was on my website by mistake, and I had to thumb through a binder to find one to send to the customer because they picked that out. Yeah.

Jason Paige (5:49): I I have been, creating my own custom cards since 2020 when I saw somebody put their face on a Pokemon card online. It was the digital version. It wasn't even a a real card. They just so I I uploaded my face to that card, and then that became my first card. And, honestly, I don't even have a copy of it here.

Unknown Speaker (6:12): This is the one from Etsy. Right?

Jason Paige (6:15): Yes. My Etsy my Etsy card. But I do have my second and third, my gold the gold and silver version of of this one, which is the twenty fifth anniversary one. Oh, look at that. Oh.

Jason Paige (6:29): And our official Leaf card, when Leaf made a photo took a photo that we we sent them and and check this out, the copyright weirdness, because there's a Funko Pop and the Pokemon logos inside of a Leaf training card. You know, Leaf, when they do their cards Yeah. Like, logos on baseball players' hats are removed because they don't wanna have any any copyright or or or, you know, trademarking thing. And there they are just putting out Pokemon and Funko Pop right there on the Jason Page double 10 lead card. That's amazing.

Jason Paige (7:07): Yeah. And then I've had other brands make cards of me that are official brands like this company called d spirits. They make a a game. And because it's an official game, the card and the autograph can be graded.

Unknown Speaker (7:25): Yeah.

Jason Paige (7:26): The spirits actually has this card as a playable card in the game, and they're going on their, I think, third or fourth Kickstarter now. And another game called Nostalgics made a card of me. So I'm starting to become in other people's games as cards, but this is the first game as an actual walking around player, except for the first game that was made by Jeremy where he, you know, threw me in his his first trial game back in the day, which is so cool.

Unknown Speaker (7:57): Yeah. The the Smash Brothers clone.

Unknown Speaker (7:59): Yeah. Smash Brothers thing. So cool. I walked into this this Comic Con, and and he was like, yo. I wanna show you something.

Jason Paige (8:06): I was like, you know, expecting to see somebody. I I made something for you. They people make these, like, caricature, like, of me, and I look kinda weird all the time. And it was like me running around on the TV screen. They were playing.

Unknown Speaker (8:21): He was like, here. Play. It was totally myself. Very, very cool. Very cool.

Jaymo (8:24): Referring to meeting Jeremy Erzman, the developer at Ultra Dolphin Revolution.

Unknown Speaker (8:28): That's correct.

Jaymo (8:29): Yeah. And so he showed off this prototype because he he's I mean, we've all been a fan of you. Like, you know, in North America, Pokemon debuted as a TV show a few weeks before the game. So to so many, you are literally the first impression that Pokemon made on all of us.

Unknown Speaker (8:51): The tip of the spear.

Jaymo (8:52): The tip of the spear, and what a spear it's been.

Unknown Speaker (8:55): Yeah. Yeah.

Jaymo (8:57): And and so, you know, I I mean, I I think there's an academic argument for that being the greatest theme song of all time. It's it's just it's truly timeless. But then also, you know, you've been working your way into my ears for years with your jingles, you know, with your the eat fresh and the Pepto Freakin' Bismol chant and just really a a lot of real, like, kinda micro genius moments. Yeah. And you had mentioned that your music is making it your its way into this new game.

Jason Paige (9:28): Yes. Yes. So when when Pokemon GO came out, I I was trapped in a Pokeball for eighteen years. If you watch the the the video I made for peek for my detective Pikachu unofficial theme song, there's a scene in the beginning where I'm talking to Pikachu. Like, you got all the credit.

Jason Paige (9:48): I didn't get anything for eighteen years. Nobody knew who I was at all. Nobody cared. All they wanted was you, Pikachu, you. It's just really dramatic scene.

Jason Paige (9:59): But Pokemon GO basically was the coming of age of the Pokemon generation when they started seeing each other in the streets, realizing how many of them there were, then media sort of jumped on that story because it was incredible. I don't think anybody knew that technology and the coming of age and Pokemon would would form this incredible social phenomenon, of tens of thousands of people gathering on the streets to play this game together and and talk and share knowledge and and history and nostalgia and feelings and and joy and, like, it was and business because pokestops were everywhere, and they were running across highways to catch these things. It's crazy. There was even a Russian company that was selling insurance for Pokemon GO players. They get were getting hurt from, you know, running into the street playing Pokemon GO or falling in holes and stuff.

Jason Paige (11:03): So I started getting contacted by people at that time to do interviews and to to come to events. Before that, I had absolutely no experience oh, no. I never sung the song before. I had never signed an autograph for it before. I had no awareness that there was an ecosystem that I could be creating for.

Jason Paige (11:25): So the first thing I did was I gotta write a song for Pokemon GO. I'm a songwriter. I'm a lyricist. I'm a producer. I'm a performer.

Jason Paige (11:33): Pokemon GO doesn't have a song. Let's get a song for that. I wrote the song. I did the video. I started performing it at events and, creating music for the Pokemon community, not just music for all these other brands that I work for.

Jason Paige (11:48): And that music, of course, is now gonna be immortalized and the in the retroactive versions that are on on here, which is really cool. Not retroactive, but the in the the retro versions.

Unknown Speaker (12:01): Yeah. The eight bit version. Chiptune.

Jason Paige (12:04): Yeah. It's really cool. That's awesome. That that's how my music sort of the the Pokemon music. So I've got a Pokemon GO theme song.

Jason Paige (12:12): I've got a Detective Pikachu unofficial theme song. It was actually contacted by the movie company that was producing that movie to do some things for the movie. And that what I did officially didn't get in, but I used it anyway because it was a great experience and a great opportunity to provide value for the community. And that's really the the the theme that has dominated my life for the past ten years in such a great way is is that there is this amazing community of people that I can create for, that I can provide value for in an amplified way. Not just a song I write, but it's a song that exemplifies the end of Ash and Pikachu and Last Goodbye and helps people in the community, you know, have this have this connection with this thing that is no longer gonna be part of the ecosystem.

Jason Paige (13:07): That song has an amazing video. And then I I but one of the first things I did, which is behind you right now, as you can see those people screaming, that is a video games live concert that I performed at where I was a surprise guest performer to these people who who pretty much didn't know this is right in the beginning of my popping out of the Pokemon. They didn't know that I was gonna be there, and they hadn't really made the connection, a lot of them, that there was a guy who sang the song. They just hadn't hadn't been introduced to them to think about it. So at the at the end of this show, Tommy Talarico brings me out to sing this song, and people are you can hear them on the video games live YouTube videos going,

Unknown Speaker (13:59): what?

Unknown Speaker (14:00): No way. No way. You'd be oh

Unknown Speaker (14:03): my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. What? Oh my god.

Unknown Speaker (14:06): I can't believe it.

Jason Paige (14:07): They're, like, freaking out about this because they're it's not just a guy singing a song. It's like it's a different thing. It's it's it's a it's a generator of joy and nostalgic connection for depending on how invested you are in the Pokemon ecosystem could be. Yeah. You know?

Jason Paige (14:26): It it's triggering. Music is triggering all that stuff just like the video games are.

Jaymo (14:32): Well, you and your voice is so perfect for Pokemon content. You just have this eternally youthful, powerful sound that's totally fitting for a franchise about a 10 year old who never ages somehow. But, like, you come out and you crush it, and you crush it every time. Like, it's it's just as powerful. I'm getting goosebumps right now.

Jaymo (14:54): Literally goosebumps. Just just think about the way you perform, and I love how much you love real world connection. You love performing concerts. You love fan conventions. You mentioned Pokemon GO.

Jaymo (15:05): Because, like, Mike, you're someone who lapsed from Pokemon, but you got brought in via GO. And, Mike, you made connections with people, right, via that game?

Unknown Speaker (15:12): Honestly, I got I remember going out before I had a phone that could play it, but my brother did, and it was weird to be like, I was walking around looking like I could help. Like, I would spot something, and then, you know, a car would drive by and yell that there was a rare Pokemon down a street. It was a it was a it was a really weird time.

Jason Paige (15:33): Yeah. Beautiful time. Beautiful time.

Jaymo (15:36): Yeah. And there's something truly special about, like, we're so on screens, and I guess we're on a screen right now. So bad examples. Yeah. But just, you know so so what's your favorite thing about meeting a fan like Jeremy Erzman who's making this game for you?

Jason Paige (15:51): Well, it's the creativity that that that I'm experiencing. And not just the fans, but the but the whole ecosystem is filled with people who are expressing themselves creatively out of the love that they have. Yeah. They're not there to make money first. They're there because they they had something that dominated their childhood that they love, and and now they're putting their own unique skill onto it to to to create value in the world.

Jason Paige (16:19): And they do it so completely because they love it. You know? They're not forced into it at these, most of these these shows and conventions, mostly card shows because they're dominating by dominated by Pokemon card shows. Everybody's happy. Everybody's cool.

Jason Paige (16:36): There's nobody there working. Some Comic Cons, you know, somebody has a booth that they don't really care about. They're hired by somebody, and they don't wanna be there. But that's not the case in most of the Pokemon event. Everybody wants to be there.

Jason Paige (16:49): Everybody's happy. Somehow, in a card in a in a convention hall with 900 card vendors, everybody's happy. Everybody has something that they can give to each other and find from somebody else that's there, and it's all just cards. There's so much variety and to to satisfy the unique interest of each human being. So it's a place for people to have unique individual creative expression.

Jason Paige (17:19): And that is that's my favorite thing.

Unknown Speaker (17:23): Well, I think what I'm doing.

Jason Paige (17:25): And and we especially myself uniquely, and so are you on this podcast. It's perfect.

Jaymo (17:30): I love I love your fans. If you're a Jason Page fan mean, who isn't? But if you're specifically a Jason Page fan, welcome to the show, and please bring your positivity to every corner of this world. Because you scroll through the comments on a Jason Page YouTube video, and it's like, oh, are we gonna be okay as a society? Like, it's like is it just it's it's such humanity and positivity, in in your songs, in your fan community, in in everything I see you do.

Jaymo (17:57): So perfect segue into your upcoming game soon to be released here. According to Ultra Dolphin Revolution's press release, play as Jason Page as he travels across the land searching far and wide for the legendary JP trading cards. Encounter references to many of Jason Page's previous works such as Rick and Morty and Elite Beat Agents, one of my favorite games of all time. Oh my gosh. Stop a scalper from taking all the trading cards for themselves and find a nice jelly filled donut.

Jaymo (18:26): This game will be released as a special physical game cartridge on a variety of retro gaming consoles. Gotta get them all. So in speaking with your developer yesterday, very excited to learn that this game is, in addition to celebrating your career, very much a tribute to your sense of humor. It's a comedy game. If you're not watching on YouTube, JP is shoving cartridges into his hat and somehow looking even cooler than before.

Jaymo (18:57): So tell me a little bit about kind of the the Jason Page lore and kind of funniness we're gonna encounter in this game.

Jason Paige (19:07): Well, you you're definitely going to feel like you're playing the OG game. Yeah. Because it is designed with all of those elements involved. The the moving around, you you can't go any faster, and you you wanna go faster, and you can't go faster. Then you come up against the the, you know, the little, jukebox or the different items, and you're like, is that a jukebox?

Jason Paige (19:33): I'm not really sure what that is. It can it it looks like it is. And but then that the things pop up and the words pop up, and then you enter in, and then you you find the cars. And then there there's I think there's even this thing is in there, but this big, you can't see what's going on when it's this big. You just have your mind has to fill in all the blanks

Unknown Speaker (19:57): Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Paige (19:58): For for what's going on. So it's really cool. I mean, I I I didn't play. Oh, weird. I thought I've got a Game Boy.

Jason Paige (20:11): I put it away. I've got a Game Boy Color that I found in the last the last place I lived. It was it was in the garage, and somebody had left it there. It's a sealed Game Boy Color. And I so I didn't open it.

Jason Paige (20:25): So I did my own personal Game Boy that I own has never been played, but somebody gave me a mod retro, which is a newer version of the from what I understand, exactly the same as the Game Boy. It feels the same. It plays the same. It looks the same. And that was my first experience with playing the besides somebody showing up at my, at my booth and handing me one to to try something to try out the the game.

Jason Paige (20:53): That was my first experience of, like, really going through the Pokemon game and playing it. So I recognize how how primitive it was and how how connected I was to this thing and and how wonderfully accurate this thing is. I mean, I I you know, I wouldn't know personally if this wasn't the actual case. Yeah. Because because it's so accurate.

Jason Paige (21:24): It's so, you know, it's so just inspiring because your mind has to do all the work. Yeah. Mean

Jaymo (21:35): The hit of nostalgia, but the thrill of something new is a very potent mix. And, you know, in a thousand years when everything is dust, like, robots are gonna find this and be like, oh, there was a Jason Page, you know, game released clearly in the nineties. Yeah.

Jason Paige (21:51): So So initially, we we thought, you know, these people bring me these to sign. They bring me their their old Pokemon cartridges to sign, and I have I have kept them in stock and sold them at my booth as well with autographs on them. So when we saw these, we thought initially they would be great things to be autographed and and didn't even really think that that there could actually be a game on there that we could produce Yeah. That that would connect people even more and give them value when they catch all the cards and at the end of the game get to redeem the code that shows up at the end of the game for an autograph Yeah. On what is gonna be included in the packaging is another Jason Page card.

Jason Paige (22:41): So that brand new Jason Page card that can only be only be acquired by buying the game, which is also signed. So you get the card signed by completing the game, which is really cool. And there's also nine colors. So, you know, if you really wanted to get them all, you can get them all.

Unknown Speaker (23:00): That's that's the most retro part of any of this is if you beat the game, you get something. Yeah. Because we Yeah. We've seen that in games that did that in, like, the nineties, but I can't think of anything that's done that more recently.

Jaymo (23:16): Yeah. We covered a a game called Spanky's Quest. I don't know if you remember that one, Jason, but, a little monkey who bounces a ball on his head. And if you took a Polaroid of the final screen and mailed it into the company, they sent you a T shirt. Oh, wow.

Unknown Speaker (23:30): You know, like, little contest. But so so let let's talk about

Unknown Speaker (23:33): I was gonna learn.

Jaymo (23:34): Yeah. So so let's talk about the collectible aspect of this because you guys are doing something that I've never even heard of before. Mike, you got a load of this. So Jason's gonna sign every box. Right?

Jaymo (23:47): And then they're and then they're going to seal it so that it has value both as an autograph personalized copy, but can be graded in terms of quality, you know, at at collectibles. And then and inside, if they do decide to open it, there is an exclusive brand new Jason Page card. Because the premise of the game is that you're trying to travel the land and go to a bunch of kitschy kind of funny locations and engage in different fetch quests and dialogue trees. There's a two d minigame inspired by a tribute game that was made to you. There's some luck based games inspired by the franchise that you've had such a big part in.

Jaymo (24:30): And then at the end, like you said, there's a special code where now they're gonna approach you at a collective Eclecticon or any convention, I'm guessing. Yep. And then and then you're gonna your your signature your autograph is the ultimate trophy.

Jason Paige (24:46): Yeah. The autograph will be on that card that that comes with it, which also has the color variations as well. Yeah. It's it's a it's a really, it's a really interesting thing because people bring me items to sign, but we were like, well, why don't we just package the autograph inside of it already? We had a a prior product called a Mystery Pop that was a Funko Pop that was signed inside of a mystery box.

Jason Paige (25:12): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. People buy that, and then the the autograph is already inside of it. So and some people don't ever open that up either.

Jason Paige (25:19): So it's in there. But but Now if

Jaymo (25:21): if they approach they approach you with this special card, they can only get by buying the game, but they don't have proof they beat the game.

Unknown Speaker (25:30): Right. They Oh, yeah. I can't sign it.

Unknown Speaker (25:32): Can't You're not gonna

Unknown Speaker (25:33): sign it?

Jason Paige (25:33): Yeah. I can't I can't sign it because that there's all there gotta be an incentive for them to play the game, first of all. And we don't want more more of them signed just for money. We want them signed for, you know, the joy of playing through the game. And that and that actually increases the value of it because then only the people that play the game will be able to have the valuable card now.

Jason Paige (25:57): So instead of, like, collecting a card, you actually have to you're you are part of what makes the card valuable. Wow. I Which is

Unknown Speaker (26:07): really cool. It's the

Unknown Speaker (26:08): kids it's it's it's never been done. Like, you guys are, like

Jason Paige (26:11): But five things that never been done before.

Unknown Speaker (26:15): Classic Jason Page. There

Jason Paige (26:16): you go. That's it. And you know what? I usually this happens when we do projects. We think of these great ideas, and then we do them and we're like people are like, what?

Jason Paige (26:26): I don't understand. What do mean? A a Bunko Pop in a in a box? How in a box in a box in a box? You know, it's never been done before.

Jason Paige (26:34): But once we do it, they it catches on. I I tend to do a lot of things that have never been done before. Yeah. That's my that's my that is my pattern, I have to say. Disrupt.

Jason Paige (26:44): And

Jaymo (26:45): because, Mike, you're you're a big collectible person. Like, you you you enjoy kind of products you can hold in your hand. Right?

Unknown Speaker (26:52): To an extent. I mean The danger is then you

Unknown Speaker (26:54): end up with too much,

Unknown Speaker (26:55): and I don't have room for things.

Jaymo (26:57): Always room for Jason Page merch. Yeah. So I wanna talk to you about this product being full of loving tributes and really fun little Easter eggs. You know, you might even discover things if you put this game pack into unconventional retro gaming devices. But then there's also a bunch of little fun things to discover and tributes to, like, your, you know, contribution to the Rick and Morty show.

Jaymo (27:25): And Yeah. Is there without spoiling the fun completely, can you give our listeners a little tease of something they should look out for when they're playing Jason Page, voice of a generation?

Jason Paige (27:34): Well, there's characters that are in my life Yeah. That are in the game.

Unknown Speaker (27:41): Am I in the game?

Jason Paige (27:42): Might be listening right now. They might be on this stream, but they're you know, that that's kind of the fun part because it's not just the things I've done here, but it's the people that I work with that are also showing up in the game.

Unknown Speaker (27:59): People wanna show up for you.

Jason Paige (28:01): Yeah. I mean but you you've gotta find them in there. They don't just automatically show up. You've gotta you've gotta engage with them, which is a really cool a really cool element. It's it's history.

Jason Paige (28:13): It's it's a game that's another, you know, first, not just the game somebody created, but a game based on personal history, which is also really cool. It's a it's like a a mini documentary going on inside of there.

Jaymo (28:26): And and I gotta ask just because you're such a you're literally a rock star. Come on. So, you know, you're gonna be signing these cards if they beat the game. But what what's the strangest thing you've ever signed for a fan? Any what what what you can say on the air?

Jason Paige (28:41): Well, I mean, I have signed quite a few body parts. Not not any any

Unknown Speaker (28:47): Keep it classy. Keep it classy.

Jason Paige (28:49): Illegal body parts. Oh, well, maybe some slightly illegal body parts. Depends. Another couple inches, it would have been an illegal body part. But I have been able I have been asked to sign cars, which is not that unusual, but one car in particular was a Camaro, a really souped up Camaro.

Jason Paige (29:08): It wasn't a Pokemon car. Like, I've signed cars that are, like, you know, Pokemon wraps. Yeah. And they and I'm signing the Pokemon car, and that kinda makes sense. This dude just wanted me to sign his Camaro on the inside armrest of the driver's side.

Jason Paige (29:26): And so he walked me and his whole posse of friends out to his car was parked on the Top Floor of a of a outdoor parking lot in The Netherlands. And I signed the arm inside of so he's every while he's driving, I'm right there. Pretty cool. Pretty cool.

Jaymo (29:46): You're always right there. And and I think that's there's there's just something so enduring about the music you've created, you know, whether it's the timeless theme song or a little jingle that just gets into our ears and our hearts. And, you know, I I I just think it just shows just the the love, you know, that you bring to everything you do, the the the fans, this game, your concerts. It's almost like love is the frequency. Right?

Unknown Speaker (30:11): Love is the frequency. There it

Unknown Speaker (30:12): is. My my one of my my releases, one of my newer releases.

Jaymo (30:19): So is there anything else you wanted to touch on about this game, for your fans or for our listeners?

Jason Paige (30:26): You know, it's not it's gonna be the Super Game Boy as well. So it's not just on this one. It's gonna have elements of that as well.

Jaymo (30:36): Yeah. You're kinda teasing that a little bit.

Jason Paige (30:39): That's a little tease. And, you know, eventually, somebody's gonna show up with their amazing creativity and have a big standing arcade version of it.

Unknown Speaker (30:50): Oh my gosh. And they're just gonna wheel it around the convention.

Jason Paige (30:53): Wheel it around the convention. We go it's like a you know, mean, I have these giant banners that I bring around with me, this one as well. I I it'd be kind of funny if I could bring around an actual retro game that's in case and thing. Obviously, you've you've been to these conventions, and they have those retro games. And inside of the screen, you could play just about any game on it, which is pretty cool.

Unknown Speaker (31:16): Yeah. Yeah.

Jason Paige (31:16): So, you know, at some point, giant LED panels will be able to change into any retro game you want.

Unknown Speaker (31:25): Look at

Jason Paige (31:25): you. The creativity of people will take this and make it into something else as well.

Unknown Speaker (31:32): Yeah. It's it's gonna be modded in some way, and that's just this just, creation begets creation. You know?

Unknown Speaker (31:39): Yeah.

Jaymo (31:40): So love that so much. Mike, anything else before we wrap this up?

Unknown Speaker (31:46): Not for me, I don't think.

Unknown Speaker (31:48): Alright. So, Jason,

Unknown Speaker (31:49): it's Got banner questions over here?

Unknown Speaker (31:51): Oh, we can talk banner. I'll talk banner all

Unknown Speaker (31:53): day long. Banner. That's, you know, that's it's there behind me.

Jaymo (31:57): Yeah. Because what he's referring to, everybody, is that he has just this banner of all of his contributions. Okay. So since you won it, I'm gonna give it to you. Your your song on to be a master, Viridian City Yeah.

Jaymo (32:10): Was was was so beloved to my generation. It actually got a kid in trouble at my high school. They were they were throwing Pokeballs around the math class. Right? And this kid the teacher's like, you know, get out of here.

Jaymo (32:22): Right? And the kid's getting, you know, led out by the campus supervisor, and one of his friends is coming back from the bathroom and doesn't know what's happened. He didn't see the Pokemon battle in the middle of geometry. And he goes like, hey, Todd. Where are you going?

Jaymo (32:35): And he kinda takes a pause, and he looks at the class, and he's like, I'm on

Unknown Speaker (32:38): the road to Viridian

Unknown Speaker (32:40): City. It was just like

Unknown Speaker (32:43): Oh my god.

Jaymo (32:44): After all those years to get to talk to you, the voice behind so many of my favorite songs, it's wild.

Unknown Speaker (32:50): On the road, never be a city.

Unknown Speaker (32:53): On the road.

Unknown Speaker (32:55): On the way, Throwing balls in my neck. The picture stops me. That's what I say.

Unknown Speaker (33:04): Oh my that was a Jason Page arisen original. This world exclusive old switcheroo. Oh my god. Jason Jason, look at I'm smiling so hard. My cheeks freaking hurt,

Unknown Speaker (33:15): man. Thank

Jaymo (33:16): you so much for everything that you do. Before the voice of a generation gets on out of here, do you have anything else you'd like to tell our listeners about upcoming performances you have on the horizon?

Jason Paige (33:28): Yeah. I mean, all the all the information of my live appearances is going to be on my website under the Sydney Live. I'm headed to Europe this week, going to The UK and The Netherlands and lots of other events throughout the rest of the year. Themysterypack.com is gonna be happening. That's releasing soon, and that's where all of this stuff can be found.

Jason Paige (33:55): It'll also be on my website directing everybody there. And I'll be at the Collect icons this year up until August and up until about September, October. And yearly Beatles gospel nativity in Christmas called both the Beatles gospel nativity. That happens all the time. And, you know, all all the good stuff is in my socials as it becomes live.

Jason Paige (34:22): I'm announcing it as I will this interview as well. Does everybody know?

Jaymo (34:28): Absolutely. Yes. You can follow all of his socials for more updates on the upcoming release of Jason Page, Voice of a Generation, the game. And as he said, www.mysterypack.com. You can spell pack either way, but pak.

Jaymo (34:43): The real ones know. It's pak.com. And that's where you're gonna be able to order the game once it's live. So definitely gonna be picking up my copy here. And just thank you so much for sharing your light with us, your passion, your creativity.

Jaymo (35:01): It's been n e excellent. Everyone, join us next time when Mike and I will be busting aliens and I return to the Nintendo Switch online catalog with Alien Storm for the Sega Genesis. And until next time, please remember to like, follow, or subscribe to the old Switch ARU, and rate or review the show wherever you get your podcasts. You can also visit www.theoldswitcharu.com to find all our social media links. We'd love to hear what you thought of this episode and what you're hoping to hear in future episodes.

Jaymo (35:26): As always, thank you for listening to the old switcheroo. We've been talking gaming kinda retro with Jason, Mike, and J Mo. I've been Mike. He's been Jason. And I've been

Unknown Speaker (35:36): And I've been Jason Page, the OG voice over generation.

Unknown Speaker (35:40): Dream come true. Game on, everyone.