Journalist, podcaster, and PR person Ed Zitron joins the panel for the reveal of the Video Game History Museum Library, how to tell when a PR person is lying, and a precise rundown of how fucked video games are.
SHOW NOTES:
- Alien: Romulus (2024)
- Aliens (1986)
- Alien vs. Predator (2004)
- Predator (1987)
- Kirby
- Toad
- Abba-Zabba
- Nintendo DS
- Birdo
Credit Report (05:01)
1: Aaron Stewart-Ahn asks, have you ever gotten in serious trouble playing a multiplayer game? (05:12)
2: Frank, tell us about the newly online Video Game History Museum Library (11:01)
- The Video Game History Museum Library
- Digital Eclipse
- What's Up?
- Nintendo Power
- Myst
- Riven: The Sequel to Myst
- OCR
- Diehard GameFan
- id Software
- Atari Jaguar
- Game Developer Magazine
- Halo series
- Official Xbox Magazine
- Metroidvania
- Sega Genesis
3: Who do you think has the best PR team in video games? (19:52)
4: How fucked are video games? (27:31)
5: LeFish asks, rank from best to worst: 1080 Snowboarding, Excitebike, F-Zero, Mario Kart, and Wave Race. (34:13)
6: What is exactly as satisfying in real life as it is to do in a video game? (37:49)
7: What is the Queens of the Stone Age of Video Games? (40:45)
LIGHTNING ROUND: 21 Questions (43:41)
Recommendations and Outro (55:11):
- Ed: Better Offline
- Frank: John Carpenter’s Toxic Commando
- Brandon: Whatever you gotta do to feel better about things you have Brandon’s permission, Star Trek: Lower Decks
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield and Ed Zitron. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.