Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and @necrosofty answer host Alex Jaffe’s questions and uncover the most Insert Credit thing to ever happen, the latest industry megamerger, and a giant cheese wheel.
Questions this week:
- How’d the Atari Jaguar Museum at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo go, Frank? (09:18)
- Tina Carter asks: Is taking advantage of a a game’s technical system in a single-player environment “cheating”? (19:33)
- What happens now that Microsoft bought Activision? (25:03)
- You’re at a family dinner, and your six year old nephew asks if you’ve got any games on your phone. What do you show him? (31:30)
- Tom Arrow asks: What are some other game franchises that could make interesting use of Sonic & Knuckles 'Lock On Technology'? (35:28)
- Design a minigame for Insert Credit: The Video Game. (46:03)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Video Game Baby Shoes (52:14)
Recommendations and Outro (56:01)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Batman: Arkham series
- Dragon's Lair
- Super Metroid
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Street Fighter II: Special Champion Edition
- Atari Jaguar
- Portland Retro Gaming Expo
- Video Game History Foundation
- Hasbro Releases Jaguar Publishing Rights
- Songbird Productions
- BigPEmu
- Rayman
- Ultra Vortek
- Monkey D. Luffy
- Boba Fett
- Imagin HotRod Intra-Oral Camera
- Bubsy series
- Blinx: The Time Sweeper
- Ty the Tasmanian Tiger
- Baldur's Gate series
- Animal Crossing series
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons Review - IGN
- Boku no Natsuyasumi
- Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition
- Call of Duty series
- Spider-Man 2
- Pitfall!
- Barnstorming
- SEGA Rally Championship
- King's Quest
- 3-D Ultra Pinball
- Donkey Kong Land 2
- Quest 64
- Infinite Jest
- Leisure Suit Larry series
- Halo series
- Candy Crush Saga
- Overwatch series
- Diablo series
- James Corden
- Carpool Karaoke
- Jimmy Fallon
- Random.org
- Zaga-33
- Vampire Survivors
- Super Hexagon
- Holedown
- One pound
- Sonic & Knuckles
- Lost Judgment
- Grand Theft Auto IV & Episodes from Liberty City
- Super Mario Bros. 2
- Fallout games
- Mega Man: Legacy Collection
- Ghost of Tsushima
- God of War
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- The Last of Us
- Marvel Spider-Man
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Sonic Superstars
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series
- The Insert Credit Video Game
- Ore no Ryōri
- Diner Dash series
- The big cheese wheel
Recommendations:
Brandon: DVLSBLSH zine vol. 1 and 2, check out the writing of Izumi Suzuki
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, @necrosofty. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.