About

Fall of 2022 was an exciting time for me. I had watched a lot of videos on My Life in Gaming and had finally gotten my Nintendo modified with Tim Worthington’s NESRGB mod. Once my RetroTINK 5x arrived in the mail, I was ready to make up lost time for all the NES games I’d never played. I started with Zelda, Final Fantasy, and Shadowgate (which I am terrible at, apparently).

Soon I got it in my head that I wanted to digitally capture the RGB video my NES was now producing. In retrospect this is a great example of not being able to enjoy something unless I’ve complicated it. I didn’t have a computer powerful enough to capture 1080p video until spring of 2024 when I received my Framework 16 laptop. A few months later Nate Lockhart and I made the first recording, and a few months after that thebumsrush.com was live.

Fast forward to summer 2026: I haven’t made as many videos as I had imagined, mostly because I have insisted on inviting friends and including vocal commentary. I’ve decided to forego the vocal commentary moving forward so I can play more games.

The design intention for The bums rush is for the videos to be embedded in their own pages on a website so that the write-ups are part of the experience, but you can still view each video on the backend video server, video.thebumsrush.com.

I never wanted to rely on a gigantic video hosting platform to host the videos. I settled on hosting a PeerTube instance, which has required me to learn some basic sysadmin skills and has overall been actually quite fun. Along the way I am learning about video encoding with ffmpeg which has been an exciting experience I didn’t expect.

I had started with WordPress for the frontend but quickly figured out that all I needed was a static website that I could easily backup, so I am now using Hugo. I don’t make any boasts about my web-design skills, but I am slowly learning CSS and HTML.

I will continue hosting this site as long as I enjoy playing retro video games and playing with ffmpeg. Thanks for visiting!