12 episodes

A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them.

A Life Well Wasted Robert Ashley

    • Leisure
    • 4.8 • 1K Ratings

A Life Well Wasted is an internet radio show about videogames and the people who love them.

    Memory

    Memory

    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.

    • 1 hr
    Work

    Work

    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.

    • 1 hr 4 min
    ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 2

    ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 2

    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.

    • 24 min
    ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 1

    ALWW update: Eternal Life Vol 1

    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?

    • 23 min
    Big Ideas

    Big Ideas

    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.

    • 58 min
    Help

    Help

    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.

    • 45 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
1K Ratings

1K Ratings

Devin4991 ,

Never listened to the show.

But I noticed it only had 999 reviews and couldn’t pass on the opportunity to be Mr.1000.

I’d like to say thank you to the other 999 people, without you I wouldn’t be here!

yaybea ,

Robert Ashley is still the best.

I just hope it’s not another decade before we hear him.

WarriorToo ,

An awesome Christmas gift

Such wonderful stories from a wonderful storyteller.

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