The Insert Credit Show

Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers and Brandon Sheffield answer Alex Jaffe’s questions about Nintendo’s last video game ever, committing fraud, and Turds of the Castle. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. What’s still easier for you to do in real life than in a video game? (11:10)
2. How do you scam the speculative market with a storage container of five hundred copies of an underwhelming NES game? (16:49)
3. What will be the title of Nintendo’s last game? (24:25)
4. SpencerGifs asks: Has the video game controller been finalized? (34:58)
5. What is the video game equivalent of film’s “award bait” traits? (43:27)
6. Jean-Michel Basquiat said that art is how we decorate space, and music is how we decorate time. What do we decorate with video games? (52:09)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Doom (53:47)

Recommendations and Outro (58:55)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Cracker Barrel
• Bacchanal Buffet
• Metal slime
• Dragon Quest series
• Socrates
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
• Steven Spielberg
• Unicorn
• Thomas the Tank Engine
• IKEA
• Densha de Go! series
• R.E.M. - Stand
• R.E.M. - It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
• Top Gear
• Gran Turismo series
• Red Dead Redemption
• Red Dead Revolver
• Red Dead Redemption II
• The Last of Us
• Chun-Li
• Retro City Games
• Impossible Mission
• CheetahMen II
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Game Dev Story
• Lady and the Tramp (1955)
• Wii Vitality Sensor
• Synecdoche, New York (2008)
• Wim Hof Method
• Frasier
• Cheers
• SCUF Controllers
• DualShock
• Duncan Ironmonger
• Vin Diesel
• Duncan Ironmonger
• Fortnite: Battle Royale
• Call of Duty series
• Leonardo DiCaprio
• Annapurna Interactive
• A24
• Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
• The Witch (2015)
• The Lighthouse (2019)
• Under the Skin (2013)
• Florence
• The Last of Us: Part II
• Crash Bandicoot
• The Game Awards
• Super Mario series
• A Plague Tale series
• Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
• HowLongToBeat.com
• Marvel Spider-Man
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Horizon series
• God of War
• Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
• Elden Ring
• Gravitas Ventures
• Alan Wake series
• Jean-Michel Basquiat
• Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer

Recommendations:

Frank: Subscribe to the Video Game History Foundation newsletter, Small Saga

Brandon: Demonschool Battle Mechanics trailer

Tim: Goblin Bunker Public Access 3 on 12/9 at 6PM PST

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