Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield cover GameStop making an offer for eBay, the hotness of the new StarFox designs, and dead rabbids.
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SHOW NOTES:
- Nail Bat
- Final Fantasy VII
- Die Hard (1988)
- Gotham City
- Jean-Paul Valley
- “Shilly-shally.”
- Oreo
- Hydrox
- TurboGrafx-16
1: GameStop isn’t gonna buy eBay, right? (08:56)
- GameStop
- eBay
- GameStop makes unsolicited bid to acquire online auction giant eBay for $56B
- GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen banned from eBay after takeover bid stunt
- Game Informer
- Sumo Fighter
- Mega Man 7
- Video Game History Foundation
- Vintage Video Game Magazine Monthly Subscription
- FuncoLand
- Funko
- Relooted
- Bram Stoker's Dracula
- Indiana Jones
2: What are the level 1 magic spells you want to make available to a player in a game? (14:00)
Hang on. Is Indiana Jones’s hat a fedora?
Okay back to Question 2.
3: Are the Star Fox characters hotter now or not? (18:41)
- Nintendo announces new Star Fox for Nintendo Switch 2
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
- Falco Lombardi
- Garrus Vakarian
- Mass Effect series
- Vince Lombardi
- Doug Lombardi
- Nintendo confirms destruction of original Star Fox puppets
- The Amazing Digital Circus
- Five Nights at Freddy’s
- Kermit the Frog
- Krystal
- Waluigi
- Star Fox 64
- Final Fantasy VII: Remake
- Sonic Adventure
- Rouge the Bat
4: Write five clues for a Jeopardy! video game category (24:18)
- Jeopardy!
- Pac-Man
- Donkey Kong
- Mega Man
- Mario Mario
- Luigi Mario
- Minecraft Steve
- PewDiePie
- Ninja
- Bonk
- J.J. & Jeff
- Hideo Kojima
5: LeFish asks, what is the best French thing in video games, and what is the best fish? (28:57)
- David Cage
- Freddi Fish series
- Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
- Ubisoft
- BioWare Montreal
- Dragon Age series
- Another World
- Rabbids
- Captain Ahab
- Super Mario World
- Seaman
- Leviathan
- Putt-Putt series
- James Pond series
6: What is a more useful aggregation tool: Metacritic, which averages scores, or Rotten Tomatoes, which averages positive vs. negative reviews? (33:53)
7: What is the Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) of video games? (37:10)
- Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
- The Groundlings
- Conker’s Bad Fur Day
- Diddy Kong Racing
- Pee-wee’s Playhouse
- Pee-wee Herman
- Bayonetta
- Tim Burton
- The Pee-wee Herman Show
- PlatinumGames
- Donkey Kong Country
- Tiptup
- Drumstick
- Wario
- WarioWare series
- Tingle
- Freshly-Picked Tingle's Rosy Rupeeland
- Irozuki Tincle no Koi no Balloon Trip
- The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
LIGHTNING ROUND: User Reviews (43:14)
Credit Corner (56:54)
Recommendations and Outro (57:19):
- Brandon: The Sting (1973), Get Carter (1971)
- Frank: Rollick N' Roll
- Ash: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Love and Deepspace
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