The Insert Credit Show

Ep. 445 - The Video Game Stork

The Insert Credit Show

Show Notes

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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