About Forever Classic Games
Forever Classic Games is a clutter-free media outlet that helps developers, publishers, high-level players, and fans connect by sharing their stories through our written content, podcasts, videos, and streams.
We do our best to add to the conversations surrounding games in meaningful ways.
We strive for quality news, features, and reviews on our website, utilizing our unique perspectives. Our interviews often share human stories, giving more value and respect to the media we love. We’ve connected with developers, leaders of major organizations, extremely skilled players, musicians, public figures, and many more.
Everything we do is out of love for games, film, animation, comics, and art.
We started this project as college friends having fun creating silly “let’s play” videos and sharing games with others. After graduating, Alex set out on a writing journey where he learned the basics of freelance media. Zach became an actor-combatant and enhanced his business and management skills.
Games were always a part of their lives and that overlap of passion created the need to create an anchor point, leading to Forever Classic Games, a clutter-free games media site that dives further into the stories behind games discovering quality experiences throughout gaming history.
Over the years, Forever Classic Games has expanded to include incredibly talented contributors who have expanded our capabilities, both in podcasting and video production.
Every single piece of content here was created by a person. We are completely against the use of generative AI in content creation.
Timeline:
2013 - Alex starts developing Let’s Play, Reviews, and List content videos under the Forever Classic brand on YouTube.
2017 - Zach joins and The Forever Classic Podcast is created as a fun project to learn what it takes to develop a podcast and create content revolving around the latest news, and generally talk about all things games, film, and anime culture.
2018 - The Forever Classic Games website is born with the intent to bring detailed articles and sources of information about everything from film, games, anime, developers, producers, musicians, artists, and more!
2021 - Forever Classic Games LLC becomes a business to provide the skills we have developed over several years as services to help out indies, writers, students, etc…
The future is bright for Forever Classic Games LLC. Stay cool and welcome to the ride!
Site Traffic and Statistics (Squarespace Data)
2022 - 32,000 Visits — 29, 000 Unique Visitors — 38,000 Pageviews — Highest Month, June at 6,210
2023 - 61,000 Visits — 56,000 Unique Visitors — 69,000 Pageviews — Highest Month March 6,368
Owners and Operators
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ALEX MCCUMBERS
Twitter: @ACMcCumbers
Alex has been slowly shaping his writing, networking, and production skills for over a decade. He got into games journalism to keep his writing skills and habits in check, as he has always wanted to create a novel or write a game's narrative. Sites that have published his work include Giga Geek Magazine, Marooners' Rock, and Twin Galaxies. Several guest pieces have been uploaded on other sites. He grew up in rural West Virginia, surrounded by Appalachian music and culture. By day he is an Account Coordinator with Stride PR, promoting games to media and influencers.
Forever Classic was the branding that was invented during one faithful summer when he became absolutely fascinated by the world of Let's Play comedy and video essays like Sequelitis. The Forever Classic brand name has always been at the back of his mind, tying it to projects here and there, but this website will be able to collect all of those efforts into a single place.
"Welcome to Forever Classic, I'm Alex McCumbers."
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ZACH SNYDER
Twitter @Exquisite_Liar
A Jack of all trades. That’s what they call Bards, multi-talented individuals, and people with a passion for learning. Zach Snyder falls into this category for multiple reasons. With a background and education in Performing Arts, Design & Tech, he’s an avid lover of all kinds of games from tabletop to video games. Zach brings the special ability to put himself and those who follow him into different viewpoints on any subject matter. This comes from having formerly been a certified Actor-Combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors, his work as a professional stage actor, and through the amazing people he has met along the way.
Zach got into gaming at a young age, but his passion really developed when he learned of Dungeons & Dragons with his friends and the infinite worlds and possibilities that are created from it. Zach wants to bring that feeling of joy and satisfaction to all readers, listeners, and lurkers alike!
“Be Well, Be Good, and Welcome to Forever Classic Games!”
Our Contributors
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MARCUS "GINGERTHRUST" BROWN
Email: Marcus.Brown.Contact@gmail.com
Twitter: @GingerThrust
TikTok: @GingerThrust
Marcus is a small-town gamer from Tennessee who loves turning gaming topics into meaningful discussions. He has always been enthralled with the stories told by single-player titles such as Metal Gear Solid and Final Fantasy with his most recent passion project being Destiny 2. More importantly, he believes that social power and change can come from gaming relationships and interactions. Outside of gaming, Marcus has varied hobbies including reading, exploring new bars and restaurants, and attempting to make the perfect cocktail. He even skydived, once and only once.
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Reese Anderson
Twitter: @Reeset_YT
Email: reeseanderson64@gmail.com
Support Reese Through Venmo @ReesesPieces25
With each passing year, Reese builds a stronger connection to the video game medium. He was introduced to games at a young age and his interest gradually expanded from playing games to collecting games to discussing games to following news to creating fan projects to speedrunning, and more. His taste in games is constantly evolving as he continues to broaden his horizons with new series and genres. You’ll find him jumping from the whimsical worlds of Rayman to the gritty horror of Resident Evil or from the intense action of DOOM to a colorful stroll with Kirby.
Be sure to check out his YouTube channel Reeset for in-depth retrospectives on numerous classics. Find him @Reeset_YT on Twitter!
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Alaska
Twitter/Instagram: @alaskastardust
An internal communications specialist by day, Alaska enjoys unwinding by jumping into the immersive worlds of RPGs. She’s been a lifelong fan of the storytelling and the entertainment medium of games: the first video game to really sink its claws into Alaska (and vice versa) was Spyro the Dragon, and she’s been hooked ever since.
Born and raised in West Virginia, Alaska remains a proud Mountaineer in the greater Boston Area. Outside of work and gaming, she enjoys live music, reading, and cold-water swimming.
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Juno Stump
Bluesky: juno.bsky.social
Venmo: junostump
Juno Stump is a woman and writer who loves rain, pretty words, Bikini Kill, and video games. Her bylines include Polygon, GameSpot, Unwinnable, and more.
Previous Contributors
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JOE SIEMSEN
Twitter: @TheDaddyGamer
Deep within Joe lies a passion for gaming, comics, video, and animation. This passion not only keeps him warm in the dark Minnesota winters but has also led him to be a feature and review writer for Marooners’ Rock where he discovered the joy of working in the games industry. Above and beyond that, Joe has a YouTube series called Daddy Gamer where he and his daughter review games and do silly things together.
When he isn't freelancing video and motion graphics you can find him streaming, writing, and creating content.
"Kids have fun, and parents join them."
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SINA HOSSEINI
A man who loves obscure games and his desire to play retro titles doesn't let him think about overrated games. He loves everything from the 80s and 90s, even though he was born in 1997. His major writing so far includes translating the Metal Gear story into Farsi (his native language), his only existing portfolio.
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JUSTIN WOOD
Twitter: @The_JustinWood
Justin has always had a passion for gaming. His fondest memories include playing Final Fantasy on the NES with his oldest brother or sneaking into that same brother’s room when he was at work to play Resident Evil and Silent Hill on PSX. When Justin is not working as the Games Editor at Dread Central, he is creating his passion project with his friend and Co-Host Larry on the Here’s Johnny Podcast, where they take weekly looks into the horror genre as a whole either through games, movies, books, or TV shows.