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Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer questions about episodic games, the ever-changing “average gamer,” and full-frontal Mario.

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

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SHOW NOTES:

Video Game History Foundation

Sonic Sez

Punky Brewster

“I’m brave, I’m hairy, and your dad loves me.”

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - The Lost Woods Theme

Alarmo

Jay

John Mayer - Waiting on the World to Change

Evanesence - Bring Me to Life

Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

1: When should a game be released in chapters as opposed to all at once? (04:28)

Deltarune

Esper’s bluesky post

Sam & Max series

Toby Fox

Poppy Playtime

Dispatch

Telltale Games

AdHoc Studio

Dreamcast

Grauen no Torikago Kapitel 3: Kansei

GameTap

American McGee’s Grimm

Katamari Damacy

Tim Burton

Temu

2: How old should a game be before it gets a remake? (09:54)

The Last of Us series

Resident Evil series

Silent Hill series

Final Fantasy VII: Remake

Metal Gear Solid series

MindsEye

Star Fox

Disney’s Robin Hood

Five Nights at Freddy’s series

3: What would you consider the worst timed video game releases in history? (15:18)

Kotaku: Konami Is Suing To Unmask Whoever’s Responsible For The Major Metal Gear Solid 2 Source Code Leak

Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories

Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp

Propeller Arena

Grand Theft Auto VI

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Doom Eternal

Barbenheimer

Hades

Battleborn

Overwatch

The Outer Worlds

Outer Wilds

Duke Nukem Forever

4: What is an uncle game? (20:06)

The Guardian: Long live the ‘unc game’

AAVE

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7

World of WarCraft

Madden series

FIFA series

Wordle

Spelling Bee

Roblox

Mecca Chameleon

Mina the Hollower

Friendslop

Grand Theft Auto V

NCAA Football series

NBA 2K series

NBA Jam series

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Tiger Woods PGA series

Street Fighter II

Sonic the Hedgehog

Guilty Gear series

Dragon Ball Z: Budokai series

Def Jam: Fight for NY

Tony Hawk skateboarding series

Lode Runner

Duke Nukem series

Atari

Coleco

Intellivision

Sega Genesis

Mortal Kombat

5: Room Check! (29:39)

youtube.com/insertcreditshow

Soundsheets

Darius

Space Harrier

Quartet

Fantasy Zone

Master System

Osamu Murata

Casette tape

KQED

Forum

Sega

Take Your Daughter to Work Day

City Year Cleveland

Jesse Owens

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta (2005)

Scarabaeidae

Dung beetle

6: SuperDQP asks, which game franchise should get a “the movie the game” treatment? (38:45)

Street Fighter the Movie the Game

Super Mario Bros. (1993)

Super Mario series

CD-i

Midway Games

Mortal Kombat series

NARC

Cyberpunk 2077

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)

Naughty Dog

Crystal Dynamics

Java

JavaScript

Cradle 2 the Grave (2003)

Paul W. S. Anderson

Wii

Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

Jim Carrey

The Riddler

Sonic and the Black Knight

007: First Light

King of Fighters (2009)

Tekken (2009)

Need for Speed (2014)

Gran Turismo (2023)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Pride or Die (46:12)

Recommendations and Outro (57:50):

Brandon:

not any of the Jaws sequels

Nirvana X-Rom - Wired Into Your Brain

Priscilla Page’s Predator and Prey essays

Karaoke Videos - 99% Invisible

InnerSpiral’s I Built This Body To Hold Yours

Jim Wilson’s Center Core Never More

seiji oda - LAST SUMMER

Ash: Road to Empress II or maybe not because it has a lot of Gen AI

Jaffe: give us money! Or leave a review

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The panel you know and love discusses the video game industry crash, Grand Theft Auto VI expectations, and the human body’s fun port. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

“Come and see me if you’re interested in being homeless.”

Batman

Digital Eclipse

Kotaco

Scrub

1: Are we in a video game industry crash? (06:47)

Gabe Newell Just Bought A $70 Million Mansion In Florida

Devil’s Crush

Time Cruise

Bandicoot

Xbox

2: Is there any scenario where Grand Theft Auto VI is a flop? (11:18)

Grand Theft Auto VI

Rockstar Games

Grand Theft Auto V

Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

3: What are the biggest tells that a once ambitious game developer is beginning to rest on their laurels? (15:22)

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake

NBA 2K22 - Jake From State Farm

Flappy Bird

iBeer

Angry Birds

Splitting the G: The Guinness Beer Challenge, Explained

Age of Empires II: HD Edition

4: What QA notes do you have for the developers of reality? (21:33)

The Elder Scrols IV: Oblivion

MMO

Spider-Man

5: Dillson asks years ago, who will the next developer or publisher or voice actor to announce an NFT project? (27:35)

NFT

Ubisoft

Snoop Dogg

RGG Studios

Square-Enix

Tencent

Love and Deepspace

Tim Sweeney

All My Apes Gone

New Coke

Rare

Donkey Kong series

Battletoads series

Yooka-Laylee series

Amiga

Simulmondo

6: On a personal level, what video games most engage your imagiation? (34:16)

Archive Of Our Own

Love and Deepspace

Dragon Age series

Baldur’s Gate III

Any Austin

Indika

Crow Country

7: What are the best games to have on your phone when kids ask if you have games on your phone? (39:47)

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Call of Duty series

FIFA series

Michael Brough

Void Pyramid

Ramble Planet

Ash’s bluesky post about phone games for kids

Alto’s Odyssey

Tiny Wings

Holedown

Slice & Dice

Zaga-33

Threes!

Desert Golfing

LIGHTNING ROUND: Game Namers (44:20)

Recommendations and Outro (01:04:48):

Ash: Duppy Detective Tashia, thank a black person in your life, thank a queer person in your life

Brandon: Submit your game to the Game Industry Hardship Fund, Zdzisława Sośnicka, Japanese instrumental Jazz Fusion and Light Jazz playlist for Ash

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Your Insert Credit panel covers the rest of the news from Summer Game Fest, where games come from, and Mortal Kombat fetishism.

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

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“My mayor Muslim, my bagel Jewish, my Christian Dior, Kingdom Hearts IV.”

Kingdom Hearts IV

Midtown Comics

007: First Light

GoldenEye 007

Pokemon series

Phantasy Star II

Ys: Books I & II

PC Engine

GameFAQs

1: Anything interesting at the other summer game events we didn’t cover last time? (05:36)

Summer Game Fest

PlayStation State of Play

Xbox Showcase

Nintendo Direct

Gears Of War: E-Day Is An Xbox Console Exclusive, And Is Not Coming To PS5

Kingdom Hearts fans cry foul over AI-generated artwork claims

God of War Laufey

Ocarina of Time Remake

Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask

Legend of Zelda movie

Spyro: A Realm Beyond

Toys For Bob Goes Indie

Amiibo

Mike Fahey

Tupac Appears in New RGG Studios Game

Snoop Dogg

Yakuza series

Movement To Remove Voice Actor Who Has Admitted To Sexual Assault Has Yakuza Fans At Breaking Point

Shaq

Kurt Cobain and Johnny Cash sing YMCA in “Band Hero”

Marilyn Monroe

Zombie

gen Atlas

Day of the Devs

Tim Schafer

2: What are we going to do when every triple-A new game has AI? (19:37)

Ys series

3: What other Final Fantasy characters should be distributed to fighting games? (21:14)

Cloud Strife

Sephiroth

Super Smash Bros. series

Clive Rosfield

Tekken series

Tifa Lockhart

Street Fighter series

Guilty Gear series

Kimahri Ronso

Noctis Lucis Caelum

Sol Badguy

Vaan

Final Fantasy XII

Vincent Valentine

Jack Garland

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin

SoulCalibur series

Mortal Kombat series

Squall Leonhart

Samurai Shodown series

Auron

Cyan Garamonde

Final Fantasy VI

Cait Sith

Bloody Roar series

Altered Beast

3-D WorldRunner

Dark Presence

Galloping Ghost

Aerith Gainsborough

Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring

Rumble Roses series

Dead or Alive series

Final Fantasy X-2

Yuna

Rikku

Paine

Spice Girls

Sporty Spice

Baby Spice

Skullgirls series

Yuffie Kisaragi

Lulu

ONLINE MULTIPLAYER: What do YOU think the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972) of video games is? (29:48)

4: Connrr asks, where do video games come from? (32:28)

Shigeru Miyamoto

Cronus

Rhea

Nintendogs

Taekwondo

Beijing Opera

Jackie Chan

Sammo Hung

Yuen Biao

Rampage 2: Universal Tour

5: If you were programming a video game orchestral concert, what obscure track would you drop in there? (38:45)

Sunset Park (Act 3) - Sonic the Hedgehog Triple Trouble

Sonic 2 Music: Chemical Plant Zone

Knuckles Chaotix - Seascape

The Terminator

Tommy Tallarico

Sylvan Tale - Intro

Panzer Dragoon series

Final Fantasy XIV

Flow

Answers

Footfalls

Intellivision Lives - My Intellivision

Infogrames Rocks My World

Sonic Spinball - Toxic Caves

X-Men

Taz-Mania

That One Song From Resident Evil Directors Cut

6: What is the One Piece of video games? (45:15)

One Piece

Star Citizen

“Clowns farting”: The wild story behind Resident Evil’s worst soundtrack

Luffy

Pokemon series

Metal Gear series

Touhou series

Halo series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - AFI’s Top 100 Film Quotes (50:47)

AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIE QUOTES

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:12):

Brandon: Hey, Sexuality by Lorelei and the Ghost, The Great Silence (1968), ****Shopping (1994), Game Industry Hardship Fund, ElFamosoDemon

Frank: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Ash: Kotaku, Casiopea

Jaffe: BIG BOOL

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Our heroes confront Summer Game Fest, questions of manners when talking to swords, and another trip to the Omegaverse.

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

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SHOW NOTES:

Polka dot

“I have to stay alive and record this podcast before I die!”

PAX

Return of Monkey Island

Video Game History Foundation

Game Boy Camera

Alexey Pajitnov

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Dragon Age series

Solas

Thedas

Iron Bull

Cullen Rutherford

Game Boy Advance

Xeno Crisis

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Spyro 2: Season of Flame

Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor

1: What did you think of the PlayStation State of Play? (05:19)

PlayStation State of Play

God of War: Laufey

Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen

Report: Payment for some TheGamer staff now tied to per-article sessions

Gitaroo Man

God of War: Ragnarök

Jack Quaid

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Dungeons & Dragons

Ghostwire: Tokyo

Hairy Wolverine

Kratos

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used “AI-assisted tools” during development

Bubsy

2: Why do we do these and who are they for? (16:47)

P.N.04

Day of the Devs

GDC

3: If you could insert one sentence into Geoff Keighley’s teleprompter at Summer Game Fest this year, what would it be? (21:10)

Geoff Keighley

Pong

Free Palestine

Black Lives Matter

Trans Rights Are Human Rights

Kermit the Frog

Rainbow Connection

Costco Connection

4: CaptainNAC asks, which game would you pick as the secret handle to open a hidden passageway behind a false wall? (26:45)

Sega Genesis

NCAA Football

Columns

Columns III: Revenge of Columns

NBA 2K19

Coach K College Basketball

Sega CD

Ready Player One

NCAA: Road to the Final Four

NCAA Final Four Basketball

5: What would you guess are the first five mods a community typically makes for a video game? (35:27)

6-7

007: First Light

World of WarCraft

HDR

Special K

Shrek

Thomas the Tank Engine

Mortal Kombat

6: What is the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972) of video games? (40:03)

John Waters

Pink Flamingos (1972)

Horses

Divine

Yoko Taro

Drakengard 3

Mouthwashing

Danganronpa series

The Godfather II

Scarface: The World Is Yours

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LIGHTNING ROUND: Omegaversus (44:42)

Omegaverse

Recommendations and Outro (01:11:34):

Brandon: Read Only Memo, Dirty Kopz (2001)

Frank: The Video Game History Hour Ep. 156 - Read Only Memo

Ash: Find something you like on Archive of Our Own and leave a comment and kudos on something you like

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Podcaster and Summer Games Fest host Lucy James joins the panel to cover Hideo Kojima’s AI use, playing as a cat in games, and GamemasterAnthony’s pride parade.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Lucy James. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

Lasik

Body Worlds

“Whoever reads this, please enter my grave. I will let you have my stretching, shrinking keepsake.”

Star Trek

Heathcliff)

Ricky Henderson

NBA Jam

Space Jam (1996)

Yosemite Sam

Foghorn Leghorn

The Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience

Mark McGwire

Jose Conseco

1: What’s the most ludicrous video game press release you’ve ever seen? (05:28)

Lucy James: this is the worst email I have ever received

Fing-Longer

Pornhub

Overwatch

EarthBound

World of Tanks

2: How is AI viewed in Japanese development? (11:27)

Hideo Kojima’s AI Prada video prompts outcry from gamers

3: What’s your favorite thing to be in a video game? (14:25)

The Aristocats - Ev’rybody Wants To Be a Cat

Stray

Little Kitty, Big City

Tenchu series

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Catwoman

Traveller’s Tales

Sonic R

Veep

Batman

Tinykin

World of WarCraft

Troll (WarCraft race)

Tachikoma

KITT

Cars (2006))

Disney·Pixar Cars

4: How would you explain Minecraft to Zohran Mamdani? (20:41)

Zohran Mamdani

Minecraft

Boris Johnson

Sadiq Khan

Meijer

A Minecraft Movie (2025)

Jack Black

Bubsy)

The video of a zombie in a mine cart (thanks to Sandwich Jones for finding this for me)

Demonschool

Pathologic 2

Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures

Marvel Spider-Man

Cities: Skylines

Tropico

Sid Meier’s Civilization series

Disco Elysium

Tim Walz

Crazy Taxi

5: Catherine asks, which video game characters would you expect to show up at Pride? (28:10)

GamemasterAnthony

Kratos)

David Jaffe

Giannis Antetokounmpo

God of War (2018)

Loki

Freyja

Baldr

Bayonetta)

Leon S. Kennedy

Liza Minnelli

Lisa Vanderpump

Princess Peach

Princess Daisy

Waluigi

Char Aznable

Chris Redfield

Sylvando

Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age

Final Fantasy XV

Noctis Lucis Caelum

6: What lines from or aspects of video games have permeated your real life? (34:39)

Portal

The Sims

Shenmue

Ryo Hazuki

Dragon Age series

Chant of Light

Klingon

Disaster Report

Deltarune

Super Mario series

The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

Audio Atrocities

Dishonored

Fable

Batman: Arkham series

Bruce Timm

Paul Dini

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor

Resident Evil: Village

Resident Evil 4

7: What is The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) of video games? (43:43)

The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026)

The Mandalorian

Andor

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced

Aliens: Colonial Marines

Alien: Isolation

Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves

Asteroids

LIGHTNING ROUND: OC Remix (49:09)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:17):

Frank: LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight,

Brandon: Vote for gov’nah if you’re Californian, Sega-16’s Mike Fischer interview, the first and second Abashiri Prison movies but not the third one

Ash: Touch grass

Lucy: Widow’s Bay, lookingfor.game

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