[Coco] Looking to hear from CoCo game fans

[Steve Strowbridge]

First a quick introduction, I'm Steve, and my story is probably similar to
most CoCo owners.
I hung out at my local Radio Shack as a kid, computers and video games were
brand new to me, and I ended up getting a CoCo, falling in love with the
computer, it's games, taught my self how to program in BASIC, wrote my own
games, and ended up in a career in computer technology because of my first
love, the CoCo.  I was 13 when I first saw the 4K CoCo and 14 when I
finally saved up enough to buy my first 16K coco, and worked my way up the
food chain all the way to the Coco 3, ultimately switching to the Tandy
1000, DOS, PC, etc.

Fast forward to 2015 and my kids and I started a YouTube gaming channel,
originally because they wanted to do all kinds of Minecraft videos.

In the back of my mind, I knew I wanted to also include vintage arcade and
computer games as well, and about 6 months ago, I started with a little
power point slide show called "an intro to the CoCo" (this was before I
knew about the CoCo underdog book, so I want to make a newer version), and
maybe 2-3 months ago, started recording 5-6 minute CoCo game play videos,
where I talk about and demonstrate various games.

In the past month or so, I have learned about the CoCo group on Google+ and
Facebook, this mailing list, the Coco Crew Podcast, The history of the CoCo
underdog book, Curtis Boyle's game history website, and so much more, so I
can honestly say, in the past 2 months, I've learned more about the CoCo
than I had previously known in the entire decade of the 80's where I
actually owned one!

(I actually started a link page on my site to compile all the information
I'm learning about, that link is http://imacoconut.com if anybody has
something to suggest to add to that)

Long story longer, the purpose of this post, is to reach out to the
community to enlist the help of other CoCo gaming enthusiasts who may be
interested in contributing any form of small video clip I can incorporate
into future CoCo game-play videos that I post to YouTube.

After listening to all 7 episodes of the CoCo crew Podcast, I liked how
they had vintage commercials in their show, and that inspired me to add
vintage CoCo commercials to my videos, one such example, and I continue to
get great feedback and inspiration that will hopefully drive better and
more entertaining videos as I continue to make them (I have about 75
uploaded already)

If anybody is interested, hit me up, my email is below, we could do a skype
call or google hang out, if that's easiest for me to grab a video clip from
you, or you could record you own and send it to me.

Sorry for the long winded post, but long live the CoCo!

Steve Strowbridge, aka
The Original Gamer Stevie Strow
http://ogsteviestrow.com
ogsteviestrow at gmail.com