The Insert Credit Show

Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield 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. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. How’d the Atari Jaguar Museum at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo go, Frank? (09:18)
2. Tina Carter asks: Is taking advantage of a a game’s technical system in a single-player environment “cheating”? (19:33)
3. What happens now that Microsoft bought Activision? (25:03)
4. 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)
5. Tom Arrow asks: What are some other game franchises that could make interesting use of Sonic & Knuckles ‘Lock On Technology’? (35:28)
6. Design a minigame for Insert Credit: The Video Game. (46:03)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Video Game Baby Shoes (52:14)

Recommendations and Outro (56:01)

Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums

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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