Insert Credit Fringe Games Correspondent Liz Ryerson returns to the panel to cover being a tool user, the year of peak stupidity in video games, and crystals of fun syrup.
Questions this week:
- If you had a free day at the world’s most complete arcade, how would you spend a thousand quarters? (02:27)
- Is Gamescom the new E3? (07:59)
- What is the Snyder Cut of game conferences? (13:19)
- Recommend a video game soundtrack for Alex Jaffe’s dad’s commute (18:57)
- Improv Zone: Game Director YouTube Channels (23:49)
- Mr. Heck asks: what makes successful video games similar, and what makes video game failures unique? (39:24)
- What’s the stupidest thing you’ve ever seen in a video game? (47:59)
- How would you put the sound of a black hole into a video game? (52:47)
- What kind of games and areas of game culture do we not talk about enough on Insert Credit? (56:30)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Episode Title Throwbacks (01:01:41)
Recommendations and Outro (01:11:06)
Two hundred and fifty? That's a lot of episodes you could discuss in the forums!
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Yo, Bro
- California Extreme
- 2 Spicy
- Emergency Call Ambulance
- Prop Cycle
- Elevator Action Deluxe series
- Daytona USA
- Marble Madness
- Revolution X
- Metal Slug series
- Cadash
- EightyTwo
- Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder
- Long Island Retro Gaming Expo
- Phantasmagoria series
- Gamescom
- Kölsch
- Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
- Todd Rogers
- John Romero
- that Seinfeld photo shoot
- Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
- EverGrace
- NieR series
- BioShock series
- Fallout games
- Deathloop
- Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
- Tony Hawk skateboarding series
- Katamari Damacy
- Space Channel 5
- Ape Out
- EarthBound
- FunHouse
- Mortal Kombat games
- Disney's Goof Troop
- Biohazard / Resident Evil series
- Maniac Mansion
- Twister (1996)
- Inception (2010)
- Dan Snaith
- Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan / Elite Beat Agents series
- London Cab Challenge
- Smashing Drive
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
- Billy the Wizard: Rocket Broomstick Racing
- Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
- Neopets: The Darkest Faerie
- Death of Adventure Games
- Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned
- Armed & Delirious
- Alex Kidd series
- Exile: Wicked Phenomenon
- Knuckles' Chaotix
- Nasa releases audio of what a black hole 'sounds' like
- Legend of Zelda series
- Oh, Deer!
- Super Mario series
- Fortnite series
- Clash Royale
Recommendations:
Brandon: Wash your car from top to bottom, watch the Comanche dub of Prey (2022), Winter Beast (1992)
Frank: If you like to channel surf old games, don’t forget to play the popular good stuff too
Liz: Death’s Dynamic Shroud, Season of the Witch (1972), Kitschfork
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Liz Ryerson. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.