Ash Parrish hosts the blackest episode of Insert Credit yet, with an all-star panel of former guests and contributors.
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SHOW NOTES:
- “My brothers and sisters of the United States of America, tonight we, the free people of the resistance, ask you to become one of us”
- Curling
- Funky Kong
- Figure Skating
- Sonic Adventure
- Balatro
- Snowboarding
1: Is there still a place for live service games right now? (05:01)
- Highguard
- Overwatch
- Overwatch 2 drops the 2 and goes back to being Overwatch
- Highguard Is Yet Another Symptom – And Victim – Of A Rapidly Decaying Internet
- Marvel Rivals
- Helldivers II
- 2XKO
- Riot Spent A Decade Developing A Fighting Game Then Laid Off Around 80 Developers Less Than One Month After Release
- Fortnite
- Disney Speedstorm
- Concord
- Emma Frost
- Cloak and Dagger
- Taskmaster
- Runaways
- Silk
- Anya Corazon
- League of Legends
- Arcane
- Killmonger Cut
2: Who should be the next Nintendo character to get hit with the baby ray? (13:46)
- Mario Tennis Aces
- Baby Waluigi
- Baby Wario
- Babality
- Baby Rosalina
- Mario Kart World
- Toad
- Yoshi
- [Bowser Jr.](https://www.mariowiki.com/Bowser_Jr.)
- Bowser
- Pauline
- Donkey Kong Bananza
- Samus
- Link
- Ganondorf
- E. Honda
- Dr. Mario
- Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
3: If you were taking up the mantle of MF Doom, what cartoons would you use in your skits? (17:42)
- MF Doom
- Johnny Quest
- Fantastic Four
- Static Shock
- The Pirates of Dark Water
- [Mummies Alive!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_Alive!)
- Reboot
- Transformers: Beast Wars
- Cheetor
- Dinobot
- Optimus Primal
- Silverbolt
4: Who is the “I would have voted for Obama for a third time” of video games? (20:51)
- Ken Levine
- BioShock
- Abbott Elementary
- Jacob
- Neil Druckmann
- Geoff Keighley
- Todd Howard
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus
- Grace Walker
- Super Spesh
Insert Credit Quick Break: Brenton Woodrow’s Marathon (25:35)
5: Alex Jaffe asks, which 21st century video games would be best for a 1980’s DiC-style cartoon? (26:52)
- DIC Entertainment
- [The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Mario_Bros._Super_Show!)
- Captain N: The Game Master
- Splatoon
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Kirby
- [Kirby: Right Back at Ya!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirby:_Right_Back_at_Ya!)
- King Dedede
- Avatar: the Last Airbender
- Among Us
- Among Us Show
- Elijah Wood
- Minions
- Castle Crashers
- Alien Hominid
6: Brandon Sheffield asks, why is the Sega Genesis for black people? (31:51)
- Sega Genesis
- Super Nintendo Entertainment System
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Michael Jackson
- Sonic 1 Music: Spring Yard Zone
- Michael Jackson's Moonwalker
- Comix Zone
- Sony PlayStation
- Microsoft Xbox
- Tekken series
- Street Fighter Alpha 3
- Virtua Fighter series
- Sega Dreamcast
- Power Stone series
- ToeJam and Earl series
LIGHTNING ROUND: Cookout (38:09)
Recommendations and Outro (52:50):
- Vanessa: twitch.tv/pleasantlytwstd, Relooted
- Ash: Review the games you like
- Pro_Kesadia: twitch.tv/pro_kesadia, Romeo Is A Dead Man
- Topher: topherflorence.bsky.social, make some bundt bread
This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by Brenton Woodrow’s Marathon and patrons like you. Thank you.
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Hosted by Ash Parrish, with Topher Florence, Vanessa B, and Pro_Kesadia. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.