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A whole bunch of you sent us your nominations for what should be considered the greatest video game of all time. Together with Kris Graft, the Insert Credit panel reaches a decision.

-alex jaffe

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The Oakland Three reminisces upon the highlights of this fiscal year through the lens of events in the world of the video game entertainment medium. The topics discussed are these:

0) Tim’s victory assignment
1) The most memorable moment in a video game this year
2) The greatest disappointment this year
3) Who won 2012
4) Video Games’ Person of the Year
5) 2012: Year of the Kickstarter
6) Vita vs. Wii U
7) New Year’s Resolutions
8) Game of the Year 2013
9) Closing thoughts

Sound editing provided by Andrew Toups, with music from The Zombies (“This Will Be Our Year”) and Neu! (Fur Immer). Next week, we will finally settle once and for all (until next year) what should be considered the Greatest Game of All Time. There have been a whole lot of video games, though, so we are only considering those nominated by you, the listener: e-mail your choice for Best Game Ever to podcast@insertcredit.com, and who knows? We may just prove you right.

-alex jaffe believes that while 2012 was pretty nice overall, it was no 2010

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This week, Jordan, Jesse GO!‘s Jordan Morris joins the list of guests I specifically started this show for the express purpose of getting on the podcast. Together with frank, tim, and brandon, we discuss:

1. Video games of Christmas Past
2. Fighting games as an Olympic event
3. Comedy in Japanese games vs. comedy in American games
4. Adrien Brody’s Predators: The Official Game of the Movie
5. Santa Games
6. What defines a good side quest
7. Chun-Li as a sex icon
8. Mid-nineties mascot design
9. The Grateful Dead of video games?
10. A GOD HAND Christmas Miracle

And, of course, our music list:
Lemon Demon – BRODYQUEST
Add N to (X) – Metal Fingers In My Body
Add N to (X) – Revenge Of The Black Regent

Sound editing provided by Andrew Toups. Join us next week for our end of the year podcast! We’ve already revealed our Game of the Year, but there’s plenty more to talk about where that came from. And, in TWO weeks, we will begin what we hope will be an annual tradition where we re-evaluate the Best Video Games of All Time. If you’d like us to consider a game, submit your nomination to podcast@insertcredit.com, and follow the news in our Facebook group.

“Yabba Dabba Doo”
-alex jaffe (as made famous by Fred Flintstone, as made even more famous by tim rogers)

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A whole bunch of games were released this year. We discuss which one was the best.

Music: “Somebody That I Used To Know”, Gotye

-alex jaffe

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1. Q*Bert, narrated
2. Anatomy of a Fake Gamer
3. Internal Game Economies
4. SimCity wish lists
5. The Spike TV Video Game Awards: for your consideration
6. Essential music for Grand Theft Auto V
7. Wikipedia: The Game
8. The history of games as a male activity
9. Overused protagonist archetypes
10. The most pretentious video game ever made

Music:
Francoise Hardy – “Le Temps d’Amour”
Jacques Dutronc – “Les Playboys”
France Gall – “Teeny Weeny Boppie”
Francoise Hardy – “Ce Petit Coeur”

Panel:
Cifaldi, Frank
Rogers, Tim
Sheffield, Brandon

Sound Editing:
Andrew Toups

I’m Alex Jaffe.

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What the heck, man? Did you miss the livestream this week again? We reminded you about it like ten times! Okay, don’t panic. The good news is that the main event has been preserved for all time right here in our podcast archive. Here’s an overview of the topics frank, tim, and brandon discussed while you totally dropped the ball:

1. Brandon’s homework assignment
2. Fighting game spinoffs
3. Using the GPS in smartphone games
4. Rail shooters
5.  Redrafting ESRB policy
6. Acceptable circumstances in which to use the word “epic”
7. Jobs which prepare you for game design
8. How the impending Mayan apocalypse will affect the video game industry
9. Exceptional minigames
10. Minesweeper, reimagined as a Tetsuya Nomura project

Look. I don’t want this to happen again any more than you do. So why not join our Facebook group? We’ll be sure to let you know when the show’s coming up, and even provide a link to where you can watch it. I promise no one will look at you funny like you just showed up for the first time in class halfway through the semester.

While you’re at it, you can drop a quick e-mail to podcast@insertcredit.com some time between now and December 25th to let us know what your pick is for the 2012 Game of the Year! We’ll discuss the results in our final show of the year, provided we have not all ascended to an ineffable plane of existence on the back of Quetzalcoatl.

Special thanks as always to soundsman Andrew Toups, who provided original music for this week’s episode. Hot job, Toups!

Remember guys: YouTube, Facebook, iTunes, email, Twitter, RSS. I think that’s everything. Is that everything?

-alex jaffe thinks that’s everything

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PANELISTS: 
Frank Cifaldi, Patrick Miller, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield

TOPICS:

• Mistakes as a game mechanic
• Wii U: The Next Generation
• “Skyrim with guns”
• Planning a Capcom restaurant franchise
• Kratos vs. Bayonetta
• When it became socially acceptable to talk about video games in public
• Metroid: The Movie: The Soundtrack
• The Fender Stratocaster of video games
• Tim Schafer’s fanbase and what they want
• Visual novels in America

We’ve threatened you with it before, and this time we actually followed through — we had our very first livestreamed podcast! We had a blast doing it, so if the lord is willing and the creek don’t rise, that’s how we’ll be doing those from here on out. We were blown away by how many of you who showed up on such short notice! In the future, we’ll be keeping you in the loop through our Facebook group. So if you haven’t joined yet, now’s the time. Keep sending in your questions to podcast@insertcredit.com, and we’ll see you later this week. Or, at any rate, you’ll see us.

-alex jaffe didn’t realize his hair was getting that thin

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I’m gonna  be honest with you guys: there is no possible way we’re ever going to be able to live up to last week’s show. Prepare for every episode of this podcast to pale in comparison to Episode 19, because I don’t think we have it in us to do another one like that. It’s a once in a lifetime sort of thing, and if you heard it, it is now a part of you forever. Still, we can’t exactly leave you hanging, so Tim, Frank, and Reserve Panelist Patrick Miller show up this week for a nice chat about . . . these things:

1.  Roll-Playing Games
2. Games as recruiting devices
3. Warren Spector’s DuckTales
4. Level editors
5. “Playing for the story”
6. Four consonants which will change your life
7. Women in Rockstar games
8. Packing swimsuits
9. The most difficult type of video game to review
10. Bottom Line Reviews: Console Edition

Remember to rate and review our show on iTunes, guys! It’s not an inherently evil program, people. If you don’t have it you can just install it, leave us a review, and then uninstall it. Nobody checks that sort of thing. Come on, tell me you at least have a Facebook page. Because we’re on there too! Join the party! What? You have got to be kidding me, you don’t have iTunes or Facebook? Man.

Man.

Okay, let me think about this. All right. Here’s what we’re going to do: you can send an e-mail to podcast@insertcredit.com with your questions for the show, or your recorded responses to one of our topics (60 seconds or less, please). You’ve got e-mail, right? I think they give you one with your birth certificate now. The government can fine you for not having one.

Thanks again to Andrew Toups for coming through with some most excellent sound editing! Did you know he’s in a band? I saw them last week and they were pretty hot. Here is their Wikipedia article. We don’t even have a Wikipedia article! So that’s pretty impressive. Talk to you next week!

-alex jaffe revels in being “that guy”

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Hey, kids! We know last week’s episode was a little spooky, so we’re calming things down this week with a quiet affair with just tim, frank, brandon and yours truly. You know, like it was in the first month of the podcast, except this time we almost know what we’re doing. I think this is one of our best episodes! But don’t take my word for it, judge for yourself after hearing us cover these astounding topics:

1. Sanford and Son on the PlayStation Vita
2. Polygon’s search for an identity
3. Preorder bonuses and collector’s editions
4. Surviving the Devil
5. Explaining Dishonored to your mom
6. Disney’s LucasArts buyout (LucasArts’ Disney buyout? One of those)
7. Spoiler-free Portal 3 predictions
8. Square Enix charging us like 15 bucks for mobile games
9. The P.T. Barnum of video games
10. Owning a GameCube

MORE GOOD NEWS: The Insert Credit Podcast is now on Facebook! If you’re one of the billion people on this planet with a Facebook account, you can use the pre-built Facebook interface to indicate that you like us by hitting the button with the thumbs-up sign (in many cultures, the hand signal which indicates approval) and the word “like”. Discuss our episodes, our topics, our music, our game show rounds, tell us who you want on the show, who you’d like back on the show, which of our panelists is the cutest, and meet your fellow fans.

While you’re using the internet to indicate your approval of this podcast, you can go to iTunes and leave us a rating and review, or email me at podcast@insertcredit.com with your feedback, your fanmail, your questions for future episodes, or your own audio recording of 60 seconds or less responding to one of our previous topics. Special thanks once again to Andrew Toups for knocking it out of the sound-editing park this week.

And as for you, listeners: as the Pokemon Center nurse ominously says, “We hope to see you again!”

-alex jaffe once preordered kingdom hearts: 358/2 days for the puffy stickers but never got them

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People Involved in this Podcast

• Frank Cifaldi (panel)
• Tim Rogers (panel)
• Brandon Sheffield (panel)
• Vito Gesualdi (guest)
• Alex Jaffe (host)
• Andrew Toups (sound)
• Gilbert Smith (art, story)

Things We Talk About on this Podcast

• Franchises needing a Halloween entry
• Count Dracula and Death: Bros for UnLife
• Easy video game costumes
• Making zombies fun again
• Why Pac-Man is chased by ghosts
• Coming up with a better name than Resident Evil
• The Insert Credit DOOM .wad
• Spooky Kill Marry Screw
• The Scariest Video Game Ever Made

What You Can Do To Help Out this Podcast

• Rate and review us on iTunes
• Submit your listener questions and feedback to podcast@insertcredit.com
• Record your own audio responses to our topics (60 seconds or less) to podcast@insertcredit.com
• Tell your friends
• If you see any of us in real life, tell us we’re cool