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Only the Insert Credit panel could cover the fan response to Bioware’s closure, explain all of Warhammer 40,000 in six minutes, and design a Nathan Fielder video game.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Harlem Globetrotters
• Washington Wizards
• Washington Commanders
• Washington Senators
• Washington Generals
• “Take a good look everyone! Here I am…the tragic clown!”
• The Day the Clown Cried (1972)
• TurboGrafx-16
• Bloody Wolf
• Steam Deck
• Switch 2
• Nintendo DS
• PSP
• Analog Pocket
• Game Boy

1: When making a game, how big should the numbers go? (04:41)

• 255
• Square Enix
• Sesame Street
• Final Fantasy X
• Dragon Ball
• Pinball

2: How do you design a miniboss? (10:11)

• Miniboss
• Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

3: What does a fanbase do after a video game studio dies? (13:14)

• Mass Effect series
• CNET: Fanfic Hub Archive of Our Own Faces Weeks Offline
• Dragon Age series
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• SAGE Xpo
• Star Wars
• Variety: Patrick Stewart, ‘Star Trek’s’ Captain Picard and ‘X-Men’s’ Charles Xavier, Dies at 86
• EXODUS - Official Extended Gameplay Reveal
• Kotaku: Former BioWare Devs Are Taking An Unusual Approach To Develop Their Next Game
• The Snyder Cut

4: Ash, explain the Warhammer 40,000 universe in six minutes. (20:56)

• Warhammer 40,000
• The Horus Apocrypha
• Emperor of Mankind
• Primarch
• Jaghatai Khan
• Psylocke
• Super Sentai
• Miles Edgeworth
• Phoenix Wright
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Judge Dredd
• Star Trek
• Doctor Who
• Orks

5: Room Check! (29:23)

• Vulcanus - Seek & Destroy
• Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure
• Batman: The Telltale Series
• Game of Thrones
• The Wolf Among Us
• Minecraft: Story Mode
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Jeep Thrills
• Sports-A-Roni
• Jet-Boys
• Castle Excellent

6: Which video game would be most likely to have a branded codpiece? (41:12)

• Golden Axe
• Barbarian
• NHL 2K series
• Deadpool
• Borderlands series
• Duke Nukem series

7: Bigger J asks, how should Valve announce Half-Life 3? (42:08)

• Half-Life series
• USA Today
• Beyoncé
• Nintendo 3DS
• Playdate
• Tim Sweeney
• Deadlock
• Half-Life: Alyx
• Portal
• Artifact
• Dota: Underlords
• Arifact: Foundry
• Aperture Desk Job
• Counter-Strike 2

8: What would a video game designed by Nathan Fielder be like? (49:53)

• You Can See Everything (2026)
• Nathan Fielder
• The Rehearsal
• Nathan For You
• Pokemon GO
• The Sims
• Wordle
• Candy Crush
• Red Dead Redemption series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranthill (53:41)

Recommendations and Outro (01:05:43):

• Brandon: Tube Mapper, 52nd Street - Somethings Going On, Karyn White - Ritual of Love
• Frank: Tom the Postgirl
• Ash: The Horus Heresy, I, Claudius
• Jaffe: Send questions about comics to insertpanel@gmail.com

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Freaky Frank Cif-AAAAH-ldi, Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust Parrish, and BranDon Corleone Sheffield unite once more to take on Dracula’s biggest challenge yet: discount prices!

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Ghostbusters
• “What a horrible night to have a podcast!”
• Treehouse of Terror
• Gherkin
• Don Corleone

1: What fixtures do you put in a final level to prevent heroes from reaching the boss? (06:38)

• Castlevania: Belmont’s Curse

2: What are the strangest things that exist out of bounds in a video game? (12:37)

• Cake
• P.T.
• Boundary Break
• Out of Bounds Secrets | P.T.
• Batman: Vengeance
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Harley Quinn
• GDQ
• Resident Evil 4
• Fallout series

3: What video games have the most hostile and unpleasant aesthetics you’ve ever experienced? (18:48)

• Splatoon series
• Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
• Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor
• Feng-Shui
• Sega Saturn
• Cruelty Squad
• Screaming Mad George’s Paranoia Scape
• Screaming Mad George
• Space Giraffe
• Virtual Hydlide
• Golden Tee Golf series
• The Binding of Issac
• Pebble Beach Golf Links
• Duke Nukem series

4: What happens to a video game studio after it dies? (25:01)

• Kotaku: EA To Shut Down BioWare And Cancel The Next Mass Effect Game
• Kotaku: A Convincing Trailer For What May Have Been Mass Effect 5 Has Leaked [UPDATE: It’s Real]
• BioWare
• Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood

5: What are your feelings on video game recompilation projects, particularly with the role AI has begun to play in them? (30:39)

• Kotaku: Video Game Decomp Hub Closes Due To AI: ‘The Community Aspect Of Decompilation Has Been Broken’
• $56K spent on Pokemon Gold AI decompiling
• Super Mario 64 Decomp
• Sega Genesis
• Elden Ring
• turboxray
• Castlevania: Dracula X
• PC Engine

6: Seva Saturn asks, what non-horror games induce anxiety for you? (38:14)

• Tomb Raider series
• Sonic drowning
• Fire Emblem series
• Stardew Valley

7: Why Why asks, how do you get a scaredy cat like me to enjoy horror games? (42:50)

• Crow Country
• Soma
• Poppy Playtime
• Five Nights at Freddy’s
• Markiplier

8: LeFish asks, what is the Wilhelm Scream of video games? (45:44)

• Wilhelm Scream
• Jaguar
• Atari Jaguar
• Quake
• Doom
• Demonschool
• Crate
• Half-Life 2

9: What would you change if you could change one thing about one game? (47:49)

• Vampire Survivors
• Leon Kennedy
• World of WarCraft
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
• Fortnite
• Pumpkin Spice Latte
• Super Mario
• Sonic & Knuckles
• Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine II
• Detroit: Become Human
• Kasumi Ninja
• BioShock Infinite

FRIGHTENING ROUND: What’re Ya Dyin’? (54:32)

Recommendations and Outro (01:02:03):

• Ash: Dress up for Halloween even if you aren’t going anywhere, The Devils (1971)
• Brandon: Dead & Buried (1981), Spike Hellis, The Food Mill in Oakland California, episodes 1, 2, 18, 19, and 20 of Hunter × Hunter
• Frank: Vampire: Master of Darkness, Tokyo Fish Market
• Esper: Have a SCARY good time!

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Ep. 463 - Krang Cifaldi

The finest minds in video games return to discuss the enjoyment found in bad games, memorable NPCs, and ooey gooey sticky honey concoctions. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Super Saiyan Son Goku (Mini)
• Funko Pop
• Crunchyroll
• https://forums.insertcredit.com/
• “Now bear my arctic blast!”
• Destructo Disc
• “Scrib doon!”
• Silent Hill series
• Krang
• Jesus Christ
• Infinity Gauntlet

1: When do you find yourself most enjoying a game that’s not very good? (07:18)

• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• 90% of Gambling Addicts Meme
• Simple Series
• Universal Studios Theme Parks Adventure
• Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events
• PC Engine
• Sega Saturn
• RndStranger
• Pokémon
• Seattle Mariners
• Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave

2: Are there any old video games that you literally couldn’t make today, regardless of whether or not they’d be financially successful? (13:32)

• Kinect
• Vector monitor
• Vectrex
• Lament Configuration
• PlayStation 3
• Gyromite
• R.O.B.

3: What are some of the most baffling launch events in video game history? (19:04)

• Gizmondo
• Dietrich
• Tapwave Zodiac
• PalmPilot
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Sue Bee Honey
• The Price is Right
• Phil Salvador: A promotional event where Nintendo had kids dive into a vat of honey to retrieve copies of Banjo-Kazooie
• Willy Wonka
• Buck Bumble
• the photo from the press event
• Wonka’s The Golden Ticket
• Gene Wilder

4: Do you have any favorite weird little video game NPCs? (27:51)

• Glup Shitto
• Mina the Hollower
• Undertale series
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Marauder Shields
• Heat Flamesman
• World of WarCraft: The Burning Crusade
• Arator the Redeemer
• World of Warcraft: Forever
• Bombchu Girl
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Mean Sonofabitch
• Shopping District, Taiping Road
• Baroque

5: BiggerJ asks, what do you remember about ROM sites from the early 2000’s? (34:09)

• ROM
• Tripod
• GeoCities
• 7-Zip
• WinRAR
• Castlevania: Rondo of Blood
• Napster
• Kotaku: No, System of a Down Did Not Make a Zelda Song. But This Guy Did
• Zophar’s Domain
• EmuParadise
• Dragon Ball Z games

6: When have you been most moved listening to a new version of an old song from a video game? (40:56)

• Ys series
• Ridge Racer series
• Super Smash Bros. series
• Psycho Soldier
• Psycho Soldier Theme | Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra - The Legend of Zelda Theme
• Nobuo Uematsu
• Bloody Tears
• Castlevania: The Adventure - ReBirth
• Phantasy Star series

7: What is the Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger (2026) of video games? (48:12)

• Digger (2026)
• Bluesky
• NieR series
• Barbarian (2022)
• Megalopolis (2024)
• Balan Wonderworld
• Demonschool
• Titanium Court
• Dressmaker
• You Can See Everything (2026)
• The Nightlight
• Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (2026)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Before and After Burner (54:21)

(thanks to barleybap for the idea and the The Matrix: Path of Neo Turf Masters example)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:56):

• Brandon: Physical 100: Mexico, Physical 100: Italy, Vampire Crawlers, KFJC 89.7 FM
• Ash: Thrifting

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Over one thousand questions have been submitted to the Question Hole at https://patreon.com/insertcredit, and now it’s up to legendary podcast host Alex Jaffe and legendary podcast editor Esper Quinn to answer more than 200 of them.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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Insert Credit co-founder Brandon Sheffield joins the panel to cover the current state of Japanese games, ace representation in video games, and owning seven PSPs.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Batman
• Black Mask
• Obi-Wan Kenobi
• Birds of Prey (2020)
• Clock King
• Batman (TV series)
• Bill Finger
• Mr. Freeze
• Batman: The Animated Series
• Harley Quinn: The Animated Series
• Alfred Molina
• Poison Ivy
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Riddler
• Jim Carrey
• Joker
• Alfred Stryker
• Matches Malone
• “You’re getting a promotion!”
• MobyGames
• Takafumi Noma
• Unicorn Overlord
• Dawngazer
• Alexandra Pestretzova
• Sweet Baby Inc.
• Viggo Mortensen Broke His Toe In ‘The Two Towers’
• DJ Jazzy Jeff
• Sega Genesis
• DJ Jazzy Jeff playing a Sega Genesis
• Britney Spears
• Beyonce
• Madden series
• NBA Live ’96

1: Brandon, what’s going on in Japan with video games right now? (08:13)

• Tokyo Game Show 2026
• COVID-19
• Kotaku: Over 85 Percent Of Japanese Game Developers Are Using AI
• Crazy Taxi: World Tour
• Level-5
• Earth Defense Force 6.2: Invaders from Another World
• miHoYo

2: How do you make equipment management fun in games? (15:25)

• Hollow Knight
• Mina the Hollower
• Earthbound
• Forspoken
• Bayonetta
• Demonschool
• Dragon Quest series
• Psychopomp
• Sylvan Tale
• Game Gear
• Bonk series
• Legend of Zelda series
• Mega Man series
• Paperboy

3: Which characters in video games can be claimed as asexual? (21:50)

• Asexuality
• Phoenix Wright
• Ace Combat series
• Ristar
• Eliza
• Parvati Holcomb
• The Outer Worlds
• Kazuma Kiryu
• Yakuza series
• Overwatch
• Space Marine
• Warhammer 40,000
• Death Stranding - An Asexual World
• Ryu
• Pepsiman

4: What is the most ill-advised video game related purchase you’ve ever made? (30:02)

• Odama
• GameCube
• PlayStation Portal
• Nintendo Switch
• Steam Deck
• PlayStation 5
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• PC Engine
• PSP

5: Room Check! (37:05)

• Konami
• Bill Elliott’s NASCAR Challenge
• Book Off
• Mutant League Football
• Fester’s Quest
• Uncle Fester
• Atari 7800
• Missing in Action (1984)
• Midnight Mutants
• Grandpa Munster
• Pretty Pretty Princess

6: Joel Valentin asks, what game do you wish had become the defining influence in its genre? (50:05)

• The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
• Phantasy Star
• Final Fantasy series
• Chrono Trigger
• Asuka 120% series
• Gunstar Heroes
• Final Fantasy Tactics
• Shining Force
• Nectaris: Military Madness
• Jeanne d’Arc

LIGHTNING ROUND: The Forgotten-Named Game (54:14)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:33)

• Brandon: T-Ride, They Will Kill You (2026), Tippett Studios Visual Archive
• Ash: Get away from the internet, go touch grass
• Frank: Go touch grass
• Jaffe: Go touch grass

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Writer, podcaster, and Hindu pandit Shivam Bhatt joins the panel to cover spirituality in games, Activision’s Halo, and video games for dogs. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Shivam Bhatt. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “Peek Aboo Call Me Back And Nuisance Back. Pac-Mania.”
• Nintendo 64
• Mario Kart series
• Nintendo DS
• Ping Pals
• Legend of Zelda series
• Death Stranding
• Quake III: Arena
• Journey
• Casual Magic with Shivam Bhatt
• Shivam And Wheeler Love Magic
• Chronicles of Dragonlance

1: Which video games have you had spiritual experiences with? (08:26)

• Hinduism
• Magic: The Gathering
• Ramayana
• Moses
• Link
• Cloud Strife
• Rez
• Tetris Effect
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi
• Jeopardy!
• Dance Dance Revolution series
• beatmania series
• PlayStation VR
• Child of Eden
• Born again
• Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents series
• The Righteous Gemstones
• NieR: Automata
• Orthodox Judaism
• NetHack

2: What is the difference in tone and content between Western and Asian dramas? (19:54)

• David and Goliath
• Dark Shadows
• Supernatural
• Game of Thrones
• Babylon 5
• World of WarCraft

3: What is Activision’s Halo going to look like? (25:36)

• Kotaku: Activision Taking Over Halo Franchise And What Remains Of Halo Studios Will Now Be A Support Team
• Call of Duty series
• Halo: Infinite
• Halo: Reach
• id Software
• Pitfall!
• Chopper Command
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Elder Scrolls series
• Madden series
• NBA 2K series
• Peak
• BeamNG.drive
• Roblox
• Final Fantasy series
• Burnout series
• Bluey: The Videogame

4: Joel Valentin asks, what is something you thought only existed in video games until you were made aware of it in real life? (31:22)

• Silent Hill series
• The Simpsons
• Super Mario series
• Don Quijote
• Yakuza series
• Ifrit
• Shiva
• Sid Meier’s Civilization series
• CalorieMate
• Metal Gear Solid series
• La Li Lu Le Lo
• Ocarina
• Echidna
• Knuckles
• Hedgehog
• Sonic
• DuckTales
• Hollywood Reporter: Disney+ Revives Darkwing Duck

5: Brandon Sheffield asks, design a game for a dog (36:34)

• Stella, the dog that “talks”
• NOVA | Can Dogs Talk?

6: What is the printing a Magic card so imbalanced it has to be immediately banned from tournament play of video games? (40:23)

• Akuma
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• League of Legends
• Counter-Strike series
• Tekken series
• Pokemon series
• Mewtwo
• Kotaku: NES Tetris Players Call It ‘Rolling,’ And They’re Setting New World Records
• Golf
• Business Insider: They’re Probably Going To Ban The Putting Technique That Just Won The Masters
• Soulslike

LIGHTNING ROUND: Planes Talkers (46:01)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:58):

• Frank: The Digital Archive at VGHF Library
• Shivam: Sanjay Patel’s Ramayana and Mahabharata
• Ash: Squeakross: Home Squeak Home, let Ash know what Warhammer she should read next

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Host of Post Games Chris Plante joins the panel to the future of video game journalism, the new Wolverine game, and a boxed copy of Microsoft Excel.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Chris Plante. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Ep. 458 - Wet Adult Link, with Alex Fraioli
• Wii
• Nintendo DS
• Playdate
• Ivy the Kiwi?
• Feel the Magic XY/XX
• Samba De Amigo
• Yuji Naka
• “I’m a cat herder. My parents were cat herders. Their parents were cat herders, and their parents. I don’t understand why we do what we do but it is all I know.”
• Kotaku
• Polygon
• Post Games
• The Besties
• Google Sheets
• Microsoft Excel
• Digital Archive at VGHF Library
• Office Depot
• Myst
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Deluxe Paint 2

1: How can video games responsibly portray physical disability? (07:15)

• alt.ctrl.GDC
• Grand Theft Auto IV
• to a T
• Keita Takahashi
• Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch
• Bennett Foddy
• Mission: Impossible
• Kim Possible

2: How important is fidelity in video game adaptation? (14:47)

• Marvel’s Wolverine
• Wolverine
• Resident Evil (2026)
• Jean Grey
• Wario Land series
• Paul W. S. Anderson
• Halo
• Super Mario Bros. (1993)
• Marvel Spider-Man series
• Batman: Arkham series
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
• Jurassic Park

3: Brandon Sheffield asks: what are some games that struck you immediately as being good, bad, or otherwise tailored toward you? (23:30)

• Zombi 2 (1979)
• Ranger X
• Everyday Shooter
• Golden Sun
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
• The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
• 2064: Read Only Memories
• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney series
• Tales series
• Xenogears series

4: How do you adapt a podcast into a broadway show? (29:03)

• The Besties: Live On Broadway
• TurboGrafx
• Dreamcast
• David Cage
• Radiolab
• Welcome to Night Vale
• #IDARB
• Rooster Teeth
• Saturday Night Live
• Mike Drucker
• Mike Drucker: Shit Arcade
• Cookie’s Bustle

5: Bigger J asks, there’s a lot of recurring level themes in platform games. What isn’t one, but should be? (36:23)

• God of War series
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Toy Story series
• Sega Genesis
• Monster in My Pocket
• Pokemon series
• Bubsy series
• NieR: Automata

6: Is there a future for professional video game journalism? (43:31)

• Aftermath
• Stephen Totilo
• Saber Interactive
• Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in The Video Game Industry
• Mothership
• Game Informer
• Twitch

LIGHTNING ROUND: Arcade Of Our Own (52:46)

Recommendations and Outro (01:06:22):

• Chris: Butter Side Down, Post Games
• Frank: Try to watch things that don’t have commercials
• Ash: Make shit to eat that you’ve never made before, Firefly Wedding
• Jaffe: Pasta e Fagioli

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Podcaster, Essayist and Voice Actor Alex Fraioli joins the panel to cover the Ocarina of Time remake, barcade preferences, and keyblade nonsense.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Alex Fraioli. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Coyote vs. Acme (2026)
• James Gunn
• Peter Lorre
• M (1931)
• Cut Man
• Ren
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Casablanca (1942)
• The Maltese Falcon (1941)
• Looney Tunes
• Humphrey Bogart
• “Never strive for a better tomorrow”
• Looney Tunes
• Beaky Buzzard
• Chickenhawk
• Tom & Jerry
• Hanna Barbera
• Gossamer
• Tweety Bird
• Winnie-the-Pooh
• Tigger
• Minions
• Taz
• Bugs Bunny
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
• Witch Hazel
• Michigan J. Frog

1: Brandon Sheffield asks, what is the most fun you’ve had with a game on a gimmick-based platform? (09:36)

• Wii
• Nintendo DS
• Kinect
• Playdate
• Ivy the Kiwi?
• Feel the Magic XY/XX
• Samba De Amigo
• Wii Sports
• Intellivision
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• WarioWare: Twisted!
• Game Boy Advance
• Rabbids series
• The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Game Boy Color
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
• Games Done Quick
• Dance Dance Revolution series
• maimai series
• Jubeat series
• Rock Band series

2: How did you see video games evolve socially over time? (14:51)

• Nagoya, Japan
• Mario Kart series
• Super Smash Bros. series
• Burgertime
• Burgertime: Worldtour
• Dig Dug
• Mega Man series
• Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse
• Tenth Level Tavern
• Pretty Soldier: Sailor Moon
• Pac-Man
• Dave & Busters
• Round1
• Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike
• Mortal Kombat III

3: Which video games do you associate with specific cities? (20:39)

• NBA Jam
• Chicago Bulls
• Scottie Pippen
• Horace Grant
• B.J. Armstrong
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Dead Rising
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Casino Kid
• Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse
• Final Fantasy XI Online
• Boku no Natsuyasumi series
• Marvel Spider-Man series
• Pokemon series
• Parasite Eve
• Austin Powers: Oh, Behave!
• Grand Theft Auto: London

4: What should we anticipate from this recently announced Kingdom Hearts anime? (24:42)

• Kingdom Hearts series
• Kingdom Hearts anime
• Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother
• Yumeria
• Suikoden the Anime
• Donald Duck
• Sora
• Roxas
• Ansem
• The Good Dinosaur (2015)
• Star Wars series
• Grogu
• Tonberry
• Groot
• Apocalypse
• Chernobog
• Yen Sid
• Pete
• Vandal Savage
• Maleficent
• Team Rocket
• Xion
• PSP
• The King of Fighters: Destiny
• Street Fighter
• Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture (1994)
• Virtual Fighter
• Monkey D. Luffy
• Goku
• Popeye the Sailor Man
• Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie (1994)

5: The 1000-Year Old Man asks, what is the Mt. Fuji of video games? (34:20)

• Avatar (2009)
• FamilyMart
• Terry Pratchett
• J. R. R. Tolkien
• Mount Fuji
• Metroidvania
• Metroid
• Castlevania
• JRPG
• Achievements
• Mario Bros.
• Donkey Kong
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Kraft Mac and Cheese

6: Where is the uncanny valley? (40:38)

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake trailer
• Kotaku: Why Is Link The Only Character Who Looks Like A Freak In The Ocarina Of Time Remake?
• ReBoot
• Uncharted series
• The Comeback
• Nathan Drake
• Lisa Kudrow
• Planet of the Apes series
• Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined

7: What do you think is the hardest job in voice acting? (44:24)

• Billy West
• Justin Roiland
• Hatsune Miku
• Eric Bauza
• Porky Pig
• Daffy Duck
• Hank Azaria
• Robin Williams
• Genie
• Dan Castellaneta
• Homer Simpson
• Earthworm Jim
• Frank Castle
• Christopher Lee
• Peter Jackson

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Lorre Not Lorre (48:44)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:18):

• Alex: No More Whoppers, Draw Game, Quartet
• Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Great Food Truck Race
• Frank: If you have blood in your dong water go see a doctor, PBS

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Your beloved panel covers advances in stealth games, new Pokemon types, and whether or not Marty McFly has a scrote. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”
• Pokemon series
• Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
• Kotaku
• LeBron James

1: What is the correct amount of time to sit down and play a video game in front of your TV? (05:57)

• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• X-Men (2000)
• Thor: The Dark World (2013)
• Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
• The Marvels (2023)
• The Incredible Hulk (2008)
• Black Panther (2018)
• Avengers: Endgame (2019)
• Zack Snyder
• Eternals (2021)
• Kingo
• Kumail Nanjiani

2: Which video games are most responsible for advancing their genre? (13:02)

• Metal Gear Solid series
• System Shock
• Deus Ex
• Street Fighter II
• Spy Fiction
• Resident Evil 4
• Assassin’s Creed series
• Hitman series
• Immersive sim
• Dishonored
• Metroidvania
• Pinball
• John Romero discovers a 1940 first person shooter
• Pong

3: What even is the incentive to make video games commercially? (19:43)

• Wadjet Eye Games
• Dave Gilbert
• Ron Gilbert
• Dave Grossman
• EA

4: Design a new Pokemon type (25:13)

• Water
• Fire
• Ground
• Rock
• Normal
• Ghost
• Fairy
• Grass
• Poison
• Flying
• Dragon
• Dark
• Bug
• Psychic
• Fighting
• Ice
• Electric
• Yu-Gi-Oh
• Steel
• Hey You, Pikachu!
• Mimikyu
• Missingno
• Skylanders series
• Spyro
• Palworld
• Unown
• Rotom

5: Dr. Booperstein III asks, are all video games derivative of the first generation of video games? (32:08)

• Guess Who?
• Pac-Man
• Donkey Kong
• Q*Bert
• Night Driver
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
• Leslie “Spike” O’Malley
• Entertainment Software Association
• E3
• Summer Game Fest
• Back to the Future: The Game

6: What’s the stupidest playable race in a video game? (39:18)

• Pepsiman
• Mass Effect series
• Asari
• Quarian
• Turian
• Star Trek
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
• Bajoran
• Vulcan
• Spock
• Dwarf Fortress
• Dwarves
• Blood Elves
• World of WarCraft
• Night Elves
• Orc
• Tauren
• Troll
• Undead
• Pikmin
• Pikmin series
• Zerg

7: What is the Steven Spielberg’s Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) of video games? (46:16)

• Milo
• Peter Molyneux
• Haley Joel Osment
• Berserk
• Dune
• The Wheel of Time
• BioShock series
• Ken Levine
• Judas
• Fallout 3
• Fallout: New Vegas
• Metal Gear: Survive
• Duke Nukem Forever
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Sonic CD
• Metropolis (1927)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (52:58)

Recommendations and Outro (58:24):

• Brandon: Doom Runners (1997), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), Etiene T. Boy - Jealousy, Vintage Obscura Radio
• Frank: Barkin’, Classic X-Men
• Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Prisoner of Beauty

Hard Truths (XX:XX):

• Jaffe: If you have a work day that ends at 10 PM, you don’t get to do all the stuff you do if your work day normally ends at 5 PM.

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Narrative designer Stella Sacco joins the panel to cover Grand Theft Auto VI, detecting AI in games, and pink plush Peeps bunnies.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Stella Sacco. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “I’m escaping to the one place that hasn’t been ruined by capitalism! Insert Credit!”
• Super Smash Bros. series
• PlayStation 4
• Xbox One
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Majestic 12
• Oceans Eleven
• Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
• Stella Sacco
• Sex 2
• PC-98
• Teledildonics
• Halo series

1: How are we feeling about Grand Theft Auto VI? (05:38)

• Grand Theft Auto III
• PlayStation 2
• Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look
• Kotaku: Grand Theft Auto 6’s Latest Leak Told Me All I Need To Know
• Spider-Man
• IGN: Rockstar Doesn’t Mind if You Dislike GTA 6’s Romantic Side
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Any Austin
• GDC
• Red Dead Redemption series
• Marvel Midnight Suns
• Blade
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Animal Crossing series
• Splatoon series
• Dark Souls series
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• web3
• MySpace
• Fourteenite
• XIII

2: How can we trust any new video games not to use AI? (15:52)

• Time Extension: James Pond Creator On System 3’s “Soulless” Legacy Collection
• the kickstarter for that bad AI Genesis game Brandon was talking about
• Wanted: Dead’s AI slop key art

3: How have video game companies most egregiously attempted to rewrite their own histories? (20:40)

• Arc System Works
• GDRI
• BioWare
• Electronic Arts
• Treasure
• Yakuza
• Zaibatsu
• Midway

4: Which movies most need a “Scarface: The World is Yours” type sequel with the protagonist coming back to life? (25:17)

• Scarface: The World Is Yours
• The Green Mile (1999)
• Heat (1995)
• The Goonies (1985)
• Thelma & Louise (1991)
• Bump ‘N’ Jump
• Robocop 3 (1993)
• John Wick: Chapter 4 (20XX)
• The Fast and Furious series
• Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
• Judge Dread
• Dead to Rights: Retribution
• Sorcerer (1977)
• Death Stranding
• Tangerine Dream
• Titanic (1997)
• Ghost of Yōtei
• Pirates of the Caribbean series
• Point Break (1991)

5: Room Check! (32:48)

• Peeps
• MAGFest
• Video Game History Foundation
• Pony Express
• Mochilla
• Earth Defense Force series
• Tokyo Game Show
• Casio Loopy
• Gematsu: Earth Defense Force 6.2: Invaders from Another World announced for PS5

6: WillaWisp asks, what is the CeraVe Daily Moisturizer of video games? (38:16)

• CeraVe
• Threes
• Cetaphil
• Tetris
• Xbox Wireless Controller
• Other Ocean
• Eucerin
• Holedown
• Picross series
• Squeakross: Home Squeak Home
• Nintendo 3DS
• Star Trek

7: If Dolly Parton asked you to show her some video games, which ones would you show her? (43:35)

• Dolly Parton
• Rock Band series
• Night in the Woods
• Nintendo Switch
• RollerCoaster Tycoon series
• Dollywood
• Bayonetta series
• Elvira
• Splatterhouse
• Mario Party series
• Wii Sports
• Desert Bus
• Penn & Teller

LIGHTNING ROUND: Blind Pull Quote (48:41)

Recommendations and Outro (58:27):

• Frank: Cetaphil moisturizing cream
• Stella: Mortal Shell II, Terminator 2: Judgment Day 35th Anniversary (2026)
• Brandon: The Tong - Dangerous Games, Val Young - Let’s Fall In Love, Save the Green Planet! (2003)
• Jaffe: The Shadow with Orson Welles

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The panel reviews Resident Evil 4, a foundational 3rd person action horror game with memorable characters, a novelty controller, and an egg meta. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Resident Evil 4
• PlayStation 2
• GameCube
• Resident Evil 5
• Game Informer
• PlayStation 4
• Separate Ways
• “Hey, it’s that dog!”
• Tetris

1: What did you know about Resident Evil 4 before playing? (03:17)

• E3
• CRT
• Wii
• Resident Evil 4 - HD Project
• Resident Evil 4 Remake
• Luis Serra Navarro
• Leon Scott Kennedy
• ShaderGlass
• Dreamcast
• Ingrid Hunnigan
• Steam Deck
• Ada Wong
• The Ada Missions
• Ashley Graham
• Resident Evil: Village

2: Do we need to reevaluate escort missions in 2026? (18:18)

• Escort Mission
• Oscar the Grouch

3: How important is it for a horror game to be scary? (23:27)

• Del Lago
• PlayStation 5
• Xbox 360
• Bitores Méndez
• Killer7
• Resident Evil 4 - Insert Credit Challenge / Credit Spent spoilers
• TMP
• Merchant
• Ramón Salazar

4: Is inventory management fun? (36:45)

• Save Room
• Crow
• Las Plagas
• Eggs
• Snake
• Metal Gear series
• Kaizo
• Manic pixie dream girl
• Resident Evil: Code Veronica
• Jack Krauser
• Resident Evil 2

5: Dustin asks, what games should have a novelty controller? (51:08)

• Chainsaw Controller
• Sega Bass Fishing
• Samba De Amigo
• Donkey Konga
• Guitar Hero series
• Densha de Go! series
• Nintendo Labo
• SNK 40th Anniversary Collection
• Ikari Warriors
• Nintendo 3DS
• Sonic Mania
• Nintendo Switch
• Kirby games
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds
• Grand Theft Auto VI

6: Let’s talk about the remakes (57:53)

• Monster Hunter series
• Uncharted series
• Star Trek

7: Why is this game important? (01:06:31)

• Cliff Bleszinski
• Gears of War series
• God Hand

8: Where does Resident Evil 4 rank among the Capcom Five? (01:08:27)

• Capcom Five
• P.N.03
• Bayonetta series
• Dead Phoenix
• Viewtiful Joe
• Killer7
• Suda51
• House of the Dead series

LIGHTNING ROUND: What’re Ya Buyin? (01:13:57)

Recommendations and Outro (01:20:15):

• Jaffe, Frank, Ash and Brandon: Resident Evil 4, either on a CRT or with the HD Project mod and ShaderGlass.

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Editor and Media Critic Esper Quinn joins Jaffe, Frank and Brandon for an evening of video game writing, high volume of death, and the Mr. Bones Apology Tour.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “This isn’t a brutality. This is a fatality.”
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Field
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Title Screen
• Panzer Dragoon - Title Screen
• X-Men - Title Screen
• The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
• Insert Credit Show
• Topic Lords
• Pokemon Red & Blue - Intro
• Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy
• Game Boy Advance

1: What do you look for in a video game castle? (04:18)

• Unicorn
• Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
• Castlevania series
• Super Mario 64
• Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Pokemon series
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Persona 5
• Resident Evil 4
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Crow Country

2: What kinds of video games have the narrowest distinction between a good one and a bad one? (10:22)

• Deadly Premonition
• Earth Defense Force series
• Blue Archive
• Comiket
• Love and Deepspace
• Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
• Norm!

3: Hey Esper, what are the hardest video games to find footage for when making the video edition of Insert Credit? (15:34)

• PC-98
• Recommendation Guy
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Daria’s Inferno
• Creative Commons
• MobyGames
• MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity
• Seaman
• World of Longplays
• 10min Gameplay

4: What do video game writers get away with that would never fly in other media? (22:38)

• Brad Pitt
• Rick and Morty

5: Magnanimus asks, other than humans, what creature has been killed the most times across all video games? (26:58)

• Turtle
• Zombie
• Goblin
• Super Mario series
• Goomba
• Fungus
• Minecraft
• Vampire Survivors
• Skeleton
• Bat
• Zubat
• Robot
• Cyborg
• Mother 3
• Slime
• Cookie Clicker
• The Felling of the One Hundred Centillion Turtle Goblins: A Morality Game (download, extract html file, and open in browser to play!)

6: On which occasions have you told someone specifically not to play a video game? (31:42)

• MMO
• Magic: the Gathering
• The 3rd Birthday
• Parasite Eve series
• No Man’s Sky
• PC-Engine
• Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones
• Mr. Bones
• Valis series
• Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09
• Grateful Dead

7: What is the FLCL of video games? (35:44)

• Gainax
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• The Rub Rabbits!
• Star Fox series
• Sin & Punishment
• Shenmue series
• No More Heroes
• Bayonetta series
• Platinum Games
• MadWorld
• Persona series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Magic: the Sortening (40:40)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:11)

• Brandon: Not Dracula 3000 (2004), Taskmaster Season 21, Please do not hang out in the street, the commentary for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Esper: The Mountain Goats - Days, Ekphrasis, Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn

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Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer Jaffe’s questions about simple ways to improve any game, documentary video game adaptations, and turning consoles into anime girls.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• BMX XXX
• Burning Man
• Acclaim Entertainment
• David Cronenberg
• “You point a gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear papa?”
• Richter Belmont
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Dracula

1: What is something simple you can add to any video game to make it immediately better? (03:53)

• Pac-Man series
• Klonoa series
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Pokémon series
• Tetris
• the Pokemon track Ash was thinking of
• Metal Gear Solid series
• Billy Mitchell
• Mystery Science Theater 3000

2: Is there something you’ve encountered in a game you can only explain as an inside joke? (10:43)

• Fantasy Life
• Nintendo DS
• Pier Solar and the Great Architects
• Indivisible
• Baba Booey
• Tetsuya Nomura
• Kingdom Hearts III secret ending
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII
• MindsEye
• Astal
• Segagaga
• Sega
• Sony
• Dreamcast

3: What are your standard practices for saving your game? (16:26)

• Resident Evil 4
• SiSTer FPGA
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Yakuza series
• Baldur’s Gate series
• PlayStation 4

4: Design anthropomorphized versions of obscure video game consoles for a Hyperdimension Neptunia reboot (21:48)

• Hyperdimension Neptunia series
• Gijinka
• Playdate
• Watara Supervision
• WonderSwan
• Mega Duck/Cougar Boy
• Atari Lynx
• N-Gage
• Casio Loopy
• Game Gear
• Plug-n-play game
• Wii
• Shang Tsung
• Nex Playground
• Meta Ray-Bans
• Socrates Interactive Patient System
• Amiga CD32
• Atari 2600
• Intellivision
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Patty and Selma
• Kotaku: Oh Dang, Magic: The Gathering Made Bilbo Baggins Hot

5: Death_Strandicoot asks, what would be the best documentary to adapt into a video game? (30:57)

• GIRP
• Super Size Me (2004)
• March of the Penguins (2005)
• March of the Penguins (DS game)
• National Geographic
• National Geographic licensees
• Planet Earth
• Critical Kate Willært
• The King of Kong (2007)
• VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
• Coffee Talk
• Walter Day
• Donkey Kong
• Paris Is Burning (1990)
• Stepmania
• Wii
• Kinect
• Just Dance series
• Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
• Plan 9 From Outer Space (DOS game)
• Her Story
• Cold Case Files
• Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
• Unsolved Mysteries
• Mothman
• Grizzly Man (2005)
• 7 Up
• Indie Game: The Movie (2012)
• LuLaRoe
• Blackfish (2013)
• Ape Out
• Jaws: Unleashed
• Jaws series
• An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
• Solarpunk
• Tetris (2023)

6: What games in the Game Industry Hardship Bundle do you think Frank, Ash, and Insert Credit listeners would like most? (36:30)

• Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure
• A Short Hike
• Holedown
• Skatebird
• Cool Kid Cody
• NEC
• TurboGrafx-16
• Wheels of Aurelia 1978
• Hyper Gunsport
• Little Medusa
• FutureGrind
• Dirtbag Mahjong
• Winter Witch
• Magenta Horizon
• Purrfect Apawcalypse
• They Bleed Pixels
• Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game
• Drywall Eating Simulator

7: Whos a cool lady? (42:23)

• Celeste
• Madeline
• Yasmine
• Bayonetta
• Hannah Waddingham
• Ted Lasso
• Moon Lee
• Cynthia Rothrock
• Chingmy Yau
• Michelle Yeoh
• Katie Mac
• Lady and the Tramp
• Semiramis
• Michelle Obama
• Amy Hennig
• Danielle Bunten Berry
• Esper Quinn
• Ash Parrish
• Maddy Thorson
• Maddy Myers
• Gita Jackson
• 52 Pickup
• Noa Izumi
• Birdo
• Princess Daisy
• Aerith Gainsborough
• Samus Aran
• Chun-Li
• Bullet Witch
• Ada Wong
• Vivienne
• Liara T’Soni
• Tali’Zorah
• Shale
• Amaterasu
• Malenia

LIGHTNING ROUND: Verb Coding (48:17)

Recommendations and Outro (56:36):

• Brandon: NEWDERY Stick Grips, Beatdown City Survivors, Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert
• Ash: Clytemnestra, Platform Decay, Ancillary Justice
• Jaffe: Absolute Wonder Woman

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The panel you know and love returns to discuss E3, user generated content, and Ryan Baby Goose.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• The Criterion Channel
• Kiyoshi Kurosawa
• The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)
• Akira Kurosawa
• Gatorade Zero Glacier Cherry
• Costco
• Water
• Vitamin Water XXX
• xXx (2002)
• Stella Sacco

1: What’s everybody been up to lately? (03:13)

• San Diego Comic-Con
• Funko Pop
• Marvel Cinematic Universe
• Star Trek
• Steve Ditko
• Kimba the White Lion
• Batman
• Hutchinson Island
• Sea turtle
• Crow
• Lemming
• Sea cucumber
• Rabbit
• Florida Keys
• Jellyfish
• America the Beautiful

2 What was E3 like? (12:06)

• E3
• Dreamcast
• PlayStation 2
• Crash Bandicoot
• NEC Interchannel
• PC Engine
• The Video Game History Foundation E3 Collection
• Carolyn Rauch
• The Beatles: Rock Band
• Sega Saturn
• PlayStation
• Electronic Gaming Monthly
• Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
• Game Informer
• Spider-Man

3: What are the best implementations of weather effects in video games? (19:27)

• Haunted Mansion
• Soulslike
• Final Fantasy X
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker
• Super Mario series
• Looney Tunes
• Journey to the West
• Astro Boy
• Astro Bot
• Ken Griffey Jr Presents Major League Baseball
• Peanut Butter the Speedrunning Dog
• Jerry Rice & Nitus’s Dog Football
• Hollywood Reporter: ‘Air Bud Returns’ Movie Reboot Sets Cast Ahead of 2026 Release
• Variety: Ryan Gosling Cast as Ghost Rider in Marvel Movie
• Baby Driver (2017)
• Ryan Gosling
• Gosling

4: Design a dating game that takes place at the Cheesecake Factory (25:05)

• Cheesecake Factory
• Applebee’s
• Bucca di Beppo
• Chipotle
• Pia Carrot e Yōkoso!! series
• Date Everything

5: Room Check! (32:24)

• Game Developer Conference
• Children’s Fairyland
• “It’s Just Emulation!”: The Challenge of Selling Old Games
• It’s Still Emulation: Saving Video Game History Before It’s Too Late
• Preserving Game History: It’s Just Us
• Bubsy
• Gunpla
• MS-09 Dom
• Advanced Variable Geo

6: SteveWithAB asks, what was a major inflection point for video games that didn’t feel like one at the time? (40:04)

• Roblox
• Dreams
• LittleBigPlanet
• Minecraft
• Elden Ring
• Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc.

7: What is the Emily Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey of video games? (45:29)

• Emily Wilson
• Christopher Nolan
• The Odyssey (2026)
• NPR: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn’t have written the movie himself
• Hideo Kojima
• Capcom
• Dante’s Inferno
• Console Wars
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)
• Stellar Blade
• Bayonetta
• Dracula
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Sephiroth
• Anne Rice

LIGHTNING ROUND: Notable Patreon Characters (54:22)

Recommendations and Outro (01:05:31):

• Brandon: Game Industry Hardship Bundle
• Ash: Drink more tea
• Frank: Go somewhere without an agenda
• Jaffe: Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn

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Writer and narrative designer Stella Sacco joins Brandon and Esper to cover pandering in games, T4T energy, and dokidokidecahedrons. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Brandon Sheffield, Esper Quinn, and Stella Sacco. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Joe Rogan
• “Dig ’em dig ’em dug dig ’em!”
• Italy
• Saint Patrick’s Day
• Scotland
• Czech Republic
• Germany
• England
• Ohio
• CNBC: 5 biggest risks of sharing your DNA with consumer genetic-testing companies
• North American fur trade
• Canada
• Russia
• Hungary
• Mario
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Joan Baez & Ennio Morricone - Here’s To You

1: What’s the difference between catering to an audience and pandering to an audience? (03:59)

• Fan service
• Mass Effect 3 ending controversy
• Love and Deepspace
• 2B
• NieR: Automata
• NieR
• Stellar Blade
• Tekken 3
• Panda

2: What are some things video game writers have to do that most people don’t think about? (09:19)

• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker
• TLC - Waterfalls

3: Are there any examples of studio notes improving a game? (14:42)

• I Am the Night
• Batman: the Animated Series
• Albert Pyun
• Cyborg
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Pokemon
• Game Link Cable
• Hideo Kojima
• Metal Gear Solid series
• George Lucas

4: Which video game romance has the most T4T energy? (21:51)

• T4T
• Demonschool
• Princess Peach
• Bowser
• Destiny
• Eris Morn
• The Drifter
• Avalanche
• Motoko Kusanagi
• Tachikoma
• Batou
• Link
• Zelda
• Dragon Age II
• Mass Effect series
• Lady Dimitrescu
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Shadowheart
• Halsin
• Karlach
• Gale
• Tidus
• Wakka
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Bridget
• Guilty Gear series
• Tracer
• Bernard Dowd

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER: Gen Z/Gen Alpha Only! What was your first video game? (27:16)

5: Gaagaagiins asks, why is Mario’s mustache black, but his hair is brown? (35:16)

• Super Mario 64
• Zohran Mamdani
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
• George Costanza
• Heihachi Mishima
• Persona series
• Auron
• Sam Elliott
• Stellar Blade 2
• Diana
• Bayonetta
• Master Higgins
• Master Chief
• Cortana
• Green Arrow
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Espio the Chameleon

6: In video games with dialogue, is it always preferable to have voice acting? (42:11)

• Fire Emblem series
• Resident Evil 4
• Ashley Graham
• Forspoken
• Xenoblade Chronicles 3
• Troy Baker
• Legend of Dragoon
• Tom Clancy’s The Division
• Earth Defense Force series
• Hulk
• Jonathan Hickman

7: What is the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) of video games? (52:57)

• Street Fighter the Movie the Game
• Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
• Batman: Arkham series
• Final Fantasy VII Remake
• Die Hard Arcade
• Die Hard (1988)
• Star Wars: Episode I - Racer
• Knights of the Old Republic series
• Platoon

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Giallo Films (58:40)

Recommendations and Outro (01:11:43):

• Stella: The Tainted Cup
• Esper: Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn starting August 3, Twinbeard Plays Mario
• Brandon: KALX, Poil - Pikiwa, Chubby Checker - Dig Dug, The Anime Corner Store, Freeway (1996)

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The panel covers game cancellations, Gen Z’s first games, and consummating a game.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Suikoden
• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Je suis-koden
• “What are you doing dying! Awful! Start over!”
• Triceratops
• Tyrannosaurus
• Pachycephalosaurus
• Ankylosaurus
• Stegosaurus
• Monster Hunter series

1: What game do you think was the first game for the highest percentage of Gen Z gamers? (03:14)

• Generation Z
• Minecraft
• Wii
• New Super Mario Bros. Wii
• Wii Sports
• Guitar Hero series
• Angry Birds
• Subway Surfers
• Roblox
• Generation Alpha
• Mega Man: Legacy Collection
• Nintendo 64

2: What was the longest you have been stuck on a video game? (08:52)

• Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
• TurboGrafx
• Shenmue II
• Tomb Raider II
• PlayStation
• Bubsy
• Prima Strategy Guides
• GameFAQs

3: What’s the hardest you’ve ever been hit by a video game cancellation? (15:32)

• Data West
• Bonk RPG
• Yakuza: Like a Dragon
• SNK
• King of Fighters series
• Vectorman series
• Sonic X-treme
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII
• Final Fantasy XIII-2
• Final Fantasy XV
• Forbes: An ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Civil War Game Was Canceled Because Of Yasuke Reaction, US Politics
• Red Dead Redemption
• Mafia III
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry
• Castle Wolfenstein series
• Kotaku: Warner Bros. Cancels Wonder Woman Game And Shuts Down Shadow Of Mordor Studio
• X-Women: The Sinister Virus
• EarthBound 64
• The Adventures of Batman & Robin
• Jesper Kyd
• Kingdom Hearts IV

4: If you could replace the words “Press Start” on video game start up screens with any other phrase, what would it be? (21:50)

• Insert Credit
• Elite Beat Agents
• TurboGrafx
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Chulip

5: Propelleher asks, what video game character would you trust to house sit for you while you’re away? (26:44)

• Kazuma Kiryu
• Frey Holland
• Big the Cat
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• King
• Jack
• Blanka
• Chibi-Robo
• Servbot
• Dr. Robotnik
• Scratch
• Grounder
• Miles “Tails” Prower
• Cream the Rabbit
• Amy Rose
• Knuckles’ Chaotix
• Charmy Bee
• Cheese the Chao
• Blaze the Cat
• Goofy
• Pluto

6: What do you predict will be the final non-Nintendo game released on a disc? (32:49)

• Wii U
• Call of Duty series
• Sega Genesis
• FIFA series
• Nintendo Switch 2
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 3
• MLB series
• Just Dance series
• PlayStation 5
• Frogger
• GameBoy Color
• Game Gear
• Ms. Pac-Man

7: What is the Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again” of video games? (36:05)

• Chubby Checker
• The Twist
• Let’s Twist Again
• Twistin’ USA
• Twist It Up
• Do The Freddie
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake
• Bubsy series
• Street Fighter II series
• Mortal Kombat series
• Overwatch 2
• Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions
• Super Mario 64
• Lair
• Sixaxis
• The Last of Us series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Micro Maker (41:25)

Recommendations and Outro (52:12):

• Brandon: Flamin’ Hot Doritos, dried jackfruit, check out your local physical media place and just look around
• Frank: That’s It Organic Fruit Crunchables, figure out how to consume media without watching ads because the social contract has been broken
• Ash: Fla-Vor-Ice

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Legendary podcaster and founder of Maximum Fun Jesse Thorn joins Ash and Brandon for summer speedruns, a Def Jam: Vendetta update, and the besta Bethesda. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Jesse Thorn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Vampire
• Diphthong
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• “Striker to the line! Leg it! Leg it!”
• selectbutton podcast
• Topher Florence
• GameRankings.com
• WatchMojo
• Splitscreen
• Kotaku
• Retronauts
• Bonk series
• PC Engine
• Sega Saturn
• Taito
• Gamasutra
• GDC
• Jordan, Jesse, Go!
• Jordan Morris
• Judge John Hodgman
• Bullseye with Jesse Thorn
• Maximum Fun
• Jesse Thorn
• Monk
• Never Not Funny
• https://archive.org/

1: What’s going on with speedrunning lately? (04:30)

• Summer Games Done Quick
• Kotaku: 8 Incredible Speedruns You Have To Watch Right Now
• Balatro by adef in 1:04:49
• Tetris by meme and huff 36:00
• Sonic Dream Team by huds601 and Argick in 1:06:25
• Hollow Knight: Silksong by mathulu in 1:42:41
• Peanut Butter the Speedrunning Dog
• Ken Griffey Jr. Presents MLB by Peanut Butter the Dog & JSR_ in 29:48
• Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09
• Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones
• Gracie’s Game Gauntlet
• Superman 64
• Wayne’s World
• Costco Connection
• Gray Matter Inc.
• The Crow: City of Angels
• God Hand

2: How are old bad games bad differently from how new bad games are bad? (11:32)

• PowerWash Simulator
• Roblox
• Call of Ponchy: Mahjong Warfare

3: Design a new Def Jam fighting game for 2026 (17:11)

• Def Jam: Vendetta
• PaRappa the Rapper
• Scarface
• Ludacris
• WC
• Jay-Z
• Mankind
• Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style
• Shaq Fu
• Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver
• Evan Narcisse
• Zoe Tunnell
• Carmen Electra
• Lil’ Kim
• Megan Thee Stallion
• Bayonetta
• Umamusume: Pretty Derby
• Crazy Taxi series
• Cappadonna
• Chap hop
• MC Chris
• They Might Be Giants
• John Hodgman
• Musique concrète
• Mr.B The Gentleman Rhymer
• Trap
• Grime
• Drill
• King of Fighters series
• Marvel Tokon: Fighting Souls
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 + 2
• Snoop Dogg
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Too Short
• Roxanne Shante
• Yakuza series
• E-40

4: Are video games artsy? (25:27)

• Katamari Damacy
• Walking simulator
• Yume Nikki
• Tactile Dome
• Viewfinder

5: LeFish asks, would you rather live one year of your life with big head mode, loudly speak like a Mario, or only be able to walk like you’re tank controlled? (34:07)

• Big Head Mode
• Mario
• Tank controls
• Charles Martinet
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Yes Man
• Eat Pray Love
• Granada
• Pop’n Tanks!
• Bolo
• Girls und Panzer series
• Armored Core series
• Cowboy Bebop
• Yoko Kanno

6: What’s the best-a Bethesda? (43:27)

• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Starfield
• Fallout series
• IHRA Professional Drag Racing 2005
• Mass Effect series
• Ghostwire: Tokyo
• Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Ghost of Yotei
• Kumail Nanjiani
• Fallout
• Taskmaster
• Peacemaker
• Steve Agee
• Paul Scheer
• Suicide Squad
• John Ostrander
• John Economos
• James Gunn
• Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
• Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
• Paul Rubens
• Dana Gould
• Gex
• Dr. Zaius
• Hanging With Dr. Z
• Planet of the Apes series
• Blaine Capatch
• The Merv Griffin Show (Seinfeld)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Equip This On (56:33)

• Iori Yagami
• Red
• Soma Cruz
• Kazuma Kiryu
• The Bouncer (Sion Barzahd)
• Sora
• Kefka
• Luso Clemens
• Alucard
• Tingle

Recommendations and Outro (01:21:18):

• Jesse: Delete Out of the Park Baseball off your work computer, The Larry Sanders Show, Vincent Price Art Museum, Vincent Price vs. Peter Lorre in Wine Tasting Contest
• Ash: Unbeatable OST, Theater of Blood (1973)
• Brandon: Stella Chang’s music, the films of Marc Price

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Our illustrious panel covers the end of games on discs, Marathon Steve, and how much money Ash has spent on Love and Deepspace. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• You Smoke Too Tough. Your Swag Too Different. Your Bitch Is Too Bad. They’ll Kill You
• “You notice a dog smell.”
• Taekwondo
• Cleveland Dragon Boat Association
• Aikido
• Bouldering Grades
• Bouldering
• Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
• Rock climbing

1: Can we address Sony? (06:20)

• Kotaku: Sony Ending Discs For All New PlayStation Games Starting In 2028
• Eurogamer: Sony announces an end to the PS3 and Vita digital stores
• Kotaku: PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts
• E3 2013: Xbox One
• Star Fox
• Resident Evil 4
• GameCube
• GameStop
• Kotaku: Xbox Is Reportedly Testing A Way To Digitize Your Physical Games
• Funko Pop
• Kingdom Hearts series
• Tomb Raider series
• Bloodborne
• Limited Run
• FanGamer
• Strictly Limited
• Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

2: What’s the longest you’ve played a game before realizing you were playing it the wrong way? (12:50)

• Aftermath: I Believe In The Idea Of ‘Marathon Steve’
• Marathon
• Pokemon series
• Pidgey
• Rattata
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• MMO
• Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes II
• PC Engine
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Infinity Nikki

3: What are the most inventive ways the camera has been used in a video game? (17:56)

• Fatal Frame
• Nintendo 3DS
• Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
• Love and Deepspace
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Silent Hill
• Silent Hill (2006)
• Pac-Man
• Karateka
• Apple II
• Jordan Mechner
• LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Square Enix
• Final Fantasy VII
• Final Fantasy VIII

4: What should Jaffe do about the fan response to his popular romance game? (24:21)

• Kotaku: Love And Deepspace Devs Decide To Cancel New Werewolf Love Interest After Fans Reportedly Send Them Cow Shit
• Mass Effect 3 ending controversy
• BTS
• Metroid series

5: spencergifs asks, how long should it take to make a game? (34:15)

• This month’s monthly bonus episode
• Riddler
• Star Citizen
• Blue Prince
• Sos Sosowski
• Lazy Kickers
• Claude
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Sega Genesis
• Zoop

6: On which non-video game subjects does most or all of your knowledge on them come from video games? (40:35)

• Assembly language
• Golf
• Baseball
• R.B.I. Baseball
• Volleyball
• Haikyu!!
• Rock Band series
• La Li Lu Le Lo
• Templars
• Cooking Mama
• Nintendo 3DS Guide Louvre
• Animal Crossing series
• Jiangshi
• Where in North Dakota is Carmen Sandiego?
• Devils Lake
• Persona series
• Koryo Tours: Pyongyang Racer
• Roger Maris

7: What is The Godfather Part III (1990) of video games? (46:07)

• Kingdom Hearts III
• Sofia Coppola
• Shenmue III
• Final Fantasy III
• Dragon Age: The Veilguard
• Dino Crisis 3
• Fallout series
• Atari
• Atari Recharged series
• Masters of the Universe (2026)
• Bubsy series
• Sonic the Hedgehog 4
• Sonic Mania
• Toy Story series

LIGHTNING ROUND: The Price is Sprite (52:04)

Recommendations and Outro (01:04:59):

• Frank:

• matttt - comic & manga history

• Brandon:

• The Amstrad GX4000: A VERY Underrated Console | Kim Justice
• I Love Boosters (2026)
• Quadrophonia - Cozmic Jam
• https://www.blu-ray.com/

• Auntie Ash’s Self-Care Corner:

• Take your shirt off
• Write shit down

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Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer questions about episodic games, the ever-changing “average gamer,” and full-frontal Mario.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Video Game History Foundation
• Sonic Sez
• Punky Brewster
• “I’m brave, I’m hairy, and your dad loves me.”
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Lost Woods Theme
• Alarmo
• Jay
• John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change
• Evanesence - Bring Me to Life
• Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

1: When should a game be released in chapters as opposed to all at once? (04:28)

• Deltarune
• Esper’s bluesky post
• Sam & Max series
• Toby Fox
• Poppy Playtime
• Dispatch
• Telltale Games
• AdHoc Studio
• Dreamcast
• Grauen no Torikago Kapitel 3: Kansei
• GameTap
• American McGee’s Grimm
• Katamari Damacy
• Tim Burton
• Temu

2: How old should a game be before it gets a remake? (09:54)

• The Last of Us series
• Resident Evil series
• Silent Hill series
• Final Fantasy VII: Remake
• Metal Gear Solid series
• MindsEye
• Star Fox
• Disney’s Robin Hood
• Five Nights at Freddy’s series

3: What would you consider the worst timed video game releases in history? (15:18)

• Kotaku: Konami Is Suing To Unmask Whoever’s Responsible For The Major Metal Gear Solid 2 Source Code Leak
• Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories
• Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp
• Propeller Arena
• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Doom Eternal
• Barbenheimer
• Hades
• Battleborn
• Overwatch
• The Outer Worlds
• Outer Wilds
• Duke Nukem Forever

4: What is an uncle game? (20:06)

• The Guardian: Long live the ‘unc game’
• AAVE
• Call of Duty: Black Ops 7
• World of WarCraft
• Madden series
• FIFA series
• Wordle
• Spelling Bee
• Roblox
• Mecca Chameleon
• Mina the Hollower
• Friendslop
• Grand Theft Auto V
• NCAA Football series
• NBA 2K series
• NBA Jam series
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Tiger Woods PGA series
• Street Fighter II
• Sonic the Hedgehog
• Guilty Gear series
• Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series
• Def Jam: Fight for NY
• Tony Hawk skateboarding series
• Lode Runner
• Duke Nukem series
• Atari
• Coleco
• Intellivision
• Sega Genesis
• Mortal Kombat

5: Room Check! (29:39)

• https://www.youtube.com/insertcreditshow
• Soundsheets
• Darius
• Space Harrier
• Quartet
• Fantasy Zone
• Master System
• Osamu Murata
• Casette tape
• KQED
• Forum
• Sega
• Take Your Daughter to Work Day
• City Year Cleveland
• Jesse Owens
• V for Vendetta
• V for Vendetta (2005)
• Scarabaeidae
• Dung beetle

6: SuperDQP asks, which game franchise should get a “the movie the game” treatment? (38:45)

• Street Fighter the Movie the Game
• Super Mario Bros. (1993)
• Super Mario series
• CD-i
• Midway Games
• Mortal Kombat series
• NARC
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
• Naughty Dog
• Crystal Dynamics
• Java
• JavaScript
• Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)
• Paul W. S. Anderson
• Wii
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
• Jim Carrey
• The Riddler
• Sonic and the Black Knight
• 007: First Light
• King of Fighters (2009)
• Tekken (2009)
• Need for Speed (2014)
• Gran Turismo (2023)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Pride or Die (46:12)

Recommendations and Outro (57:50):

• Brandon:

• not any of the Jaws sequels
• Nirvana X-Rom - Wired Into Your Brain
• Priscilla Page’s Predator and Prey essays
• Karaoke Videos - 99% Invisible
• InnerSpiral’s I Built This Body To Hold Yours
• Jim Wilson’s Center Core Never More
• seiji oda - LAST SUMMER

• Ash: Road to Empress II or maybe not because it has a lot of Gen AI
• Jaffe: give us money! Or leave a review

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The panel you know and love discusses the video game industry crash, Grand Theft Auto VI expectations, and the human body’s fun port. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “Come and see me if you’re interested in being homeless.”
• Batman
• Digital Eclipse
• Kotaco
• Scrub

1: Are we in a video game industry crash? (06:47)

• Gabe Newell Just Bought A $70 Million Mansion In Florida
• Devil’s Crush
• Time Cruise
• Bandicoot
• Xbox

2: Is there any scenario where Grand Theft Auto VI is a flop? (11:18)

• Grand Theft Auto VI
• Rockstar Games
• Grand Theft Auto V
• Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
• Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

3: What are the biggest tells that a once ambitious game developer is beginning to rest on their laurels? (15:22)

• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
• NBA 2K22 - Jake From State Farm
• Flappy Bird
• iBeer
• Angry Birds
• Splitting the G: The Guinness Beer Challenge, Explained
• Age of Empires II: HD Edition

4: What QA notes do you have for the developers of reality? (21:33)

• The Elder Scrols IV: Oblivion
• MMO
• Spider-Man

5: Dillson asks years ago, who will the next developer or publisher or voice actor to announce an NFT project? (27:35)

• NFT
• Ubisoft
• Snoop Dogg
• RGG Studios
• Square-Enix
• Tencent
• Love and Deepspace
• Tim Sweeney
• All My Apes Gone
• New Coke
• Rare
• Donkey Kong series
• Battletoads series
• Yooka-Laylee series
• Amiga
• Simulmondo

6: On a personal level, what video games most engage your imagiation? (34:16)

• Archive Of Our Own
• Love and Deepspace
• Dragon Age series
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Any Austin
• Indika
• Crow Country

7: What are the best games to have on your phone when kids ask if you have games on your phone? (39:47)

• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Call of Duty series
• FIFA series
• Michael Brough
• Void Pyramid
• Ramble Planet
• Ash’s bluesky post about phone games for kids
• Alto’s Odyssey
• Tiny Wings
• Holedown
• Slice & Dice
• Zaga-33
• Threes!
• Desert Golfing

LIGHTNING ROUND: Game Namers (44:20)

Recommendations and Outro (01:04:48):

• Ash: Duppy Detective Tashia, thank a black person in your life, thank a queer person in your life
• Brandon: Submit your game to the Game Industry Hardship Fund, Zdzisława Sośnicka, Japanese instrumental Jazz Fusion and Light Jazz playlist for Ash

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