Show Notes
The panel reviews Cookie’s Bustle, a Japanese PC adventure game hindered by endless copyright strikes and finally freed by the Video Game History Foundation.
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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Yoko Kanno
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The Offspring
Phil Collins
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Wednesday
The Weeknd
Taking Back Sunday
Wednesday Campanella
Cookie’s Bustle
Streisand Effect
1: How did we get here? (05:53)
Rodik, Inc
ClassicsOfGame
Video Game History Foundation
Games That Weren’t
Moon Child
The Video Game History Hour
2: How hard is it to get this Japanese abandonware game from 1999 running on your PC in 2026? (11:38)
Sega Genesis
QuickTime
3: What is happening in Cookie’s Bustle and what are you doing in it? (18:18)
sebmal
Mr. Bean
James Bond
Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures
Lara Croft
4: Apart from financial cost, what are the material advantages of keeping a development team small? (36:43)
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
5: Chopemon asks: If you were to go on an adventure, what items have video games taught you to take that you wouldn’t normally think to take? (43:26)
6: Developer Keisuke Harigai once said in a 2001 interview that he designed Cookie’s Bustle with the European market in mind. What do you think that means? (49:51)
Keisuke Harigai
New Jersey
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Grim Fandango
Euro Truck Simulator series
Farming Simulator series
Football Manager series
Total War series
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Atomic Heart
Disco Elysium
7: Do you like Cookie’s Bustle? (56:07)
Tony Hawk series
Mario Party series
Gold Saucer
Mr. Bones
Bennett Foddy
GDC
Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors
Alter Ego
SimTunes
CD-ROM
Myst
Wii Fit
MobyGames
To-Gen-Kiko
8: Let’s talk about the mystique of inaccessible games (01:04:24)
Fushigi Yûgi
Atari
Atomiswave
Dreamcast
QAnon
George Lucas
LIGHTNING ROUND: Recommendations (01:15:56)
Brandon: Moon Child
Frank: The Cookie’s Bustle collection at the Video Game History Foundation
Ash: Pizza
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