Your Insert Credit panel returns to cover another death of physical media, Steamboat Willie, and The Minecraft Reality TV Show Criminal Court Case Chronicles.
Questions this week:
- Are we approaching an era without physical game releases? (04:51)
- Does gameplay have to be the starting principle of a good video game? (20:00)
- Public Domain Adaptation Game: Design a game based on Steamboat Willie (26:12)
- Catherine: What games are best structured for playing a little bit each day? (35:21)
- Following the acclaim of Pokemon Concierge, what should be the next video game show set in the world of a game but not about the game itself? (42:55)
LIGHTNING ROUND: The Time Is Right (49:20)
Recommendations and Outro (01:00:36)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- D.I.C.E. Awards
- Ed Boon
- 1999 2nd Annual Interactive Achievement Awards
- Martin Short
- Coolio
- The Last of Us series
- Silent Hill 3
- Best Buy will no longer carry physical movies in 2024
- Writers Guild of America
- Valkyria Chronicles series
- Hard Target (1993)
- The Departed (2006)
- Dragon Quest series
- Hyper Gunsport
- Redbox
- Grateful Dead
- Assassin's Creed II
- Digital Eclipse
- Boku no Natsuyasumi
- Devolver Digital
- Unsighted
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
- Steamboat Willie
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- D. H. Lawrence
- Mickey Mouse
- Sherlock Holmes
- Warren Spector
- Phil Spector
- Will Wright
- Disney Epic Mickey
- Minnie Mouse
- ship's wheel
- The Skeleton Dance (public domain next year)
- Ub Iwerks
- Castle of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse
- Hollow Knight
- Super Mario series
- Rick and Morty
- Pete
- Super Mario 64
- Super Hydlide
- H.E.R.O.
- Shenmue series
- Elden Ring
- Persona series
- Pokémon Concierge
- The White Lotus
- Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
- Battles Without Honor and Humanity
- Ikebukuro West Gate Park
- Pokémon Concierge Theme Song "Have a Good Time Here"
- Mariya Takeuchi
- The Last of Us
- The Walking Dead
- Forza Motorsport series
- Initial D
- Need for Speed series
- Minecraft
- Old Enough!
Recommendations:
Brandon: Apologies to people who know about religions, The Tairyou Jigoku
Frank: Search a search engine for The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
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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.