Show Notes
Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield cover GameStop making an offer for eBay, the hotness of the new StarFox designs, and dead rabbids.
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:
Nail Bat
Final Fantasy VII
Die Hard (1988)
Gotham City
Jean-Paul Valley
“Shilly-shally.”
Oreo
Hydrox
TurboGrafx-16
1: GameStop isn’t gonna buy eBay, right? (08:56)
GameStop
eBay
GameStop makes unsolicited bid to acquire online auction giant eBay for $56B
GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen banned from eBay after takeover bid stunt
Game Informer
Sumo Fighter
Mega Man 7
Video Game History Foundation
Vintage Video Game Magazine Monthly Subscription
FuncoLand
Funko
Relooted
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Indiana Jones
2: What are the level 1 magic spells you want to make available to a player in a game? (14:00)
Hang on. Is Indiana Jones’s hat a fedora?
Indiana Jones: His Hats Explained
Okay back to Question 2.
Metroidvania
3: Are the Star Fox characters hotter now or not? (18:41)
Nintendo announces new Star Fox for Nintendo Switch 2
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)
Falco Lombardi
Garrus Vakarian
Mass Effect series
Vince Lombardi
Doug Lombardi
Nintendo confirms destruction of original Star Fox puppets
The Amazing Digital Circus
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Kermit the Frog
Krystal
Waluigi
Star Fox 64
Final Fantasy VII: Remake
Sonic Adventure
Rouge the Bat
4: Write five clues for a Jeopardy! video game category (24:18)
Jeopardy!
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Mega Man
Mario Mario
Luigi Mario
Minecraft Steve
PewDiePie
Ninja
Bonk
J.J. & Jeff
Hideo Kojima
5: LeFish asks, what is the best French thing in video games, and what is the best fish? (28:57)
David Cage
Freddi Fish series
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Ubisoft
BioWare Montreal
Dragon Age series
Another World
Rabbids
Captain Ahab
Super Mario World
Seaman
Leviathan
Putt-Putt series
James Pond series
6: What is a more useful aggregation tool: Metacritic, which averages scores, or Rotten Tomatoes, which averages positive vs. negative reviews? (33:53)
Metacritic
Rotten Tomatoes
Star Wars series
IMDb
7: What is the Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) of video games? (37:10)
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
The Groundlings
Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Diddy Kong Racing
Pee-wee’s Playhouse
Pee-wee Herman
Bayonetta
Tim Burton
The Pee-wee Herman Show
PlatinumGames
Donkey Kong Country
Tiptup
Drumstick
Wario
WarioWare series
Tingle
Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland
Irozuki Tincle no Koi no Balloon Trip
The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls
LIGHTNING ROUND: User Reviews (43:14)
Credit Corner (56:54)
Recommendations and Outro (57:19):
Brandon: The Sting (1973), Get Carter (1971)
Frank: Rollick N’ Roll
Ash: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000), Love and Deepspace
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