Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield answer Alex Jaffe’s questions about Nintendo’s last video game ever, committing fraud, and Turds of the Castle.
Questions this week:
- What’s still easier for you to do in real life than in a video game? (11:10)
- How do you scam the speculative market with a storage container of five hundred copies of an underwhelming NES game? (16:49)
- What will be the title of Nintendo’s last game? (24:25)
- SpencerGifs asks: Has the video game controller been finalized? (34:58)
- What is the video game equivalent of film’s “award bait” traits? (43:27)
- Jean-Michel Basquiat said that art is how we decorate space, and music is how we decorate time. What do we decorate with video games? (52:09)
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Doom (53:47)
Recommendations and Outro (58:55)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Cracker Barrel
- Bacchanal Buffet
- Metal slime
- Dragon Quest series
- Socrates
- Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
- Steven Spielberg
- Unicorn
- Thomas the Tank Engine
- IKEA
- Densha de Go! series
- R.E.M. - Stand
- R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
- Top Gear
- Gran Turismo series
- Red Dead Redemption
- Red Dead Revolver
- Red Dead Redemption II
- The Last of Us
- Chun-Li
- Retro City Games
- Impossible Mission
- CheetahMen II
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Game Dev Story
- Lady and the Tramp (1955)
- Wii Vitality Sensor
- Synecdoche, New York (2008)
- Wim Hof Method
- Frasier
- Cheers
- SCUF Controllers
- DualShock
- Duncan Ironmonger
- Vin Diesel
- Duncan Ironmonger
- Fortnite: Battle Royale
- Call of Duty series
- Leonardo DiCaprio
- Annapurna Interactive
- A24
- Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
- The Witch (2015)
- The Lighthouse (2019)
- Under the Skin (2013)
- Florence
- The Last of Us: Part II
- Crash Bandicoot
- The Game Awards
- Super Mario series
- A Plague Tale series
- Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
- HowLongToBeat.com
- Marvel Spider-Man
- Ghost of Tsushima
- Horizon series
- God of War
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
- Elden Ring
- Gravitas Ventures
- Alan Wake series
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer
Recommendations:
Frank: Subscribe to the Video Game History Foundation newsletter, Small Saga
Brandon: Demonschool Battle Mechanics trailer
Tim: Goblin Bunker Public Access 3 on 12/9 at 6PM PST
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.