Video game historian “Critical Kate” Willaert joins a panel scattered across time to cover lost and ignored media, Blobby’s Bloop Boy, and ladies roaming the street with whips.
Questions this week:
- What kinds of video game history seem to interest you and nobody else? (02:15)
- What are some of the most surprising video game firsts? (11:10)
- Which console has the most good games that the least people have played? (16:56)
- Has anyone discovered an unreleased video game that was actually fun to play? (21:11)
Insert Credit Quick Break: Amazing Grace available now on Steam, and Demonschool demo available during Steam NextFest (25:31) - SpencerGifts asks: What is the best video game sequence that is no fun? (28:12)
- Is there a video game experience you missed out on you wish you could have had? (31:42)
- When shouldn’t you have a pause button? (34:37)
- What can we learn about women if our only reference point is video games from the 1980’s? (37:23)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Re-Design - Commercial Failures (40:15)
Recommendations and Outro (44:14)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
- The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- The Adventures of Bayou Billy
- X-Men
- Disney's Aladdin
- Ms. Pac-Man
- Frogger
- FM Towns
- PC-98
- PC-88
- X68000
- From Ragnarok To The New World: An Interview With Hak Kyu Kim
- Dave the Diver
- Manic Game Girl
- Grant Han Lee
- Parasite Eve
- The Saboteur
- Full Spectrum Warrior
- Box Art History by Kate Willaert
- Score
- Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen! (1986)
- Super Mario Bros. (1993)
- Super Mario Bros.
- The First Video Game
- Pong
- Tommy Tallarico
- Shadow Man: 2econd Coming controversy
- Doom
- Quake
- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
- GoldenEye 007
- Smash T.V.
- Alien: Resurrection
- Half-Life
- Superman
- Tengai Makyō: Ziria
- Bally Astrocade The Professional Arcade Videocade Home Library Computer System By Astrovision
- Penn & Teller's Smoke and Mirrors
- Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe
- Drac's Night Out
- Sound Fantasy
- Toshio Iwai
- SimTunes
- Electroplankton
- Beethoven's 2nd: The Quest for Pups
- Atomiswave
- Colors
- Gizmondo
- Star Fox 2
- The Last of Us
- Battletoads
- Games Done Quick
- Rock Band
- TimeSplitters 2
- Dona C. Bailey
- Centipede
- Danielle Bunten Berry
- M.U.L.E.
- Roberta Williams
- King's Quest
- Rieko Kodama
- Phantasy Star
- Hiroko Yokuyama
- Ikari Warriors
- Crystalis
- Battle Chess
Recommendations:
Frank: Consider Spyro the Dragon
Brandon: Scavengers Reign, Demonschool demo available during Steam NextFest
Kate: Why Backstory and Lore Make Bad Story Trailers, A Critical Hit!
This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by Amazing Grace available now on Steam and patrons like you. Thank you.
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield and Kate Willaert. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.