Happy holidays! Gamespot’s Lucy James drops down the Insert Credit chimney to cover Welsh elves, the first official weed strain for a video game, and Dreiblade.
Questions this week:
- As the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, which three video game characters would be best at teaching Ebenezer Scrooge to change his miserly ways? (09:23)
- Do sliding ice physics ever positively contribute to a video game? (15:19)
- What do you think is the best selling non-video game item at GameStop as a gift this season? (21:35)
- Design the greatest Santa Claus video game of all time (30:48)
- How could dreidel be improved? (35:49)
- Which video game company probably holds the best Christmas party? (42:43)
- Based on video games, what do we know about elves? (49:05)
- What is the Rankin Bass of video games? (54:53)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Christmas Songs (01:01:19)
Recommendations and Outro (01:12:28)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
- Eggnog
- The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- Monstera deliciosa
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- The Da Vinci Code
- A Christmas Carol
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Tetsuya Nomura
- Organization XIII
- The World Ends with You
- Marluxia
- Mickey Mouse
- Kazuma Kiryu
- Goro Majima
- Davy Crockett
- Bob Cratchit
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
- Mickey and the Beanstalk
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Jiminy Cricket
- James Stewart
- Lies of P
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
- Pinocchio: A True Story (2021)
- Pinocchio (2002)
- Navi
- Super Mario series
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- The Last of Us series
- X-Men licensees
- Kickle Cubicle
- Chip's Challenge
- Loki #248 Funko Pop! - Thor Ragnarok
- Pikachu Squishmallows Plush
- Breaking Bad
- Minecraft
- Jay and Silent Bob
- Fortnite
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Halo series
- The Lost and The Wicked
- Tom Holland
- Darth Vader Christmas Sweater
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Alan Wake: Remastered
- Tom Clancy's The Division
- Tom Hiddleston
- Santa Claus
- Mortal Kombat series
- John Wick (2014)
- BioShock
- Death Stranding
- Norman Reedus
- Stardew Valley
- Daze Before Christmas
- Hanukkah
- Dreidel
- Hanukkah gelt
- Paper fortune teller
- Beyblade
- Mario Party series
- Sega
- Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams...
- Konami
- Tokimeki Memorial games
- Wargaming
- Devolver Digital
- Keita Takahashi
- Noby Noby Boy
- Tim Schafer
- Jack Black
- Heather Hawkins
- Dreamcast
- Limp Bizkit
- Ted Lasso
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Eras Tour
- Elf Bowling
- Legend of Zelda series
- Keebler Company
- Fudge Stripes
- Elves
- The Lost Vikings
- Three Dirty Dwarves
- Two Crude Dudes
- Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
- Frosty the Snowman (1969)
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
- ThunderCats
- Norman Rockwell
- FromSoftware
- Doom
- Rockstar Games
- American McGee's Alice
- Kingdom Hearts series
- Super Smash Bros.
- Boba Fett
- Pornhub's Most Popular Video Game Character In 2023 Was Chun-Li From... Fortnite?
- Insomniac Games
Recommendations:
Frank: Check out gamehistory.org where there will be a video about a very strange game called Super Sushi Pinball
Brandon: Raiders of Atlantis (1983)
Tim: Ferrari (2023)
Lucy: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Lucy James. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.