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 many different subgenres exist under the umbrella of “horror game?” (04:31)
- What are the scariest things in non-horror games? (14:58)
- What is the best kind of zombie? (20:19)
Insert Credit Quick Break: See You, Space Cowboy… Cybernetics Catalogue Kickstarter (32:03) - Adapt Bobby Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash" into a video game. (26:11)
- ThatsSoRevan asks: What are the best ways to do combat in a horror game? (33:33)
- What is the “My costume is I came as myself” of video games? (40:01)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Ranking the Resident Evil series (45:52)
Recommendations and Outro (57:52)
See THE INSERT CREDIT RESIDENT EVIL SERIES RANKING in the Insert Credit Forums
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- ThorHighHeels
- K. Thor Jensen
- Candy corn
- Hanafuda
- Sour Patch Kids
- Resident Evil series
- Lost in Blue
- Don't Starve
- Dorf Goes Fishing
- Dredge
- Doom
- Corpse Party
- Desolate Roads
- The Path
- Sweet Home
- Choo-Choo Charles
- Yume Nikki
- Corpse Killer
- The House of the Dead
- Death Crimson OX
- Castlevania series
- TurboGrafx-16
- Splatterhouse
- Red Screen of Death
- Winners Don't Use Drugs
- Phantasy Star
- Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin Cartridge
- Wallmaster
- Legend of Zelda series
- Zombie
- The Smoker
- Left 4 Dead
- 28 Days Later (2002)
- White Zombie (1932)
- Night of the Living Dead (1968)
- The Night Eats the World (2018)
- Wyrmwood (2014)
- Oppenheimer (2023)
- 28 Day Slater
- Mario Lopez
- Tony Hawk series
- Simple 2000 series
- Monster Mash
- Rampage
- Frankenstein
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Call of Duty series
- Dance Dance Revolution
- Moonwalker
- Alan Wake series
- Silent Hill 3
- The Last of Us series
- Sonic: Generations
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
- David Cage
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4
- Lemmy
Recommendations:
Brandon: Siege (1983), The Night Eats the World (2018), Wyrmwood (2014), Cargo (2017), The Horde (2009), Republic Z (2018), Blood Quantum (2019), 6/45 (2022), Dorohedoro, Octopus Girl
Tim: The short stories of Edogawa Ranpo
Jaffe: Rain Jerks
This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by the See You, Space Cowboy… Cybernetics Catalogue Kickstarter, and patrons like you. Thank you.
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, @necrosofty. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.