The New Yorker and The Observer’s Simon Parkin joins the panel to cover a new angle in game genres, the legacy of Segata Sanshiro, and aesthetic crevices.

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SHOW NOTES:

Question 1: What’s the correlation in game design between fun and player freedom? (03:55)

Question 2: What is the most widely held bad take amongst gamers? (12:12)

Question 3: Come up with a new “Sega Does What Nintendon’t”-style slogan for the Dreamcast 2 (20:29)

Question 4, from CJ Mixy: at what point do games go from being “ripoffs” to part of a genre? (27:36)

Question 5: What is the reading the New Yorker for the cartoons of video games? (37:52)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Their Perfect Console (44:32)

Recommendations and Outro (56:31):

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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.