Show Notes
Your beloved panel covers advances in stealth games, new Pokemon types, and whether or not Marty McFly has a scrote. 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 have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”
Pokemon series
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
Kotaku
LeBron James
1: What is the correct amount of time to sit down and play a video game in front of your TV? (05:57)
Marvel Cinematic Universe
X-Men (2000)
Thor: The Dark World (2013)
Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)
The Marvels (2023)
The Incredible Hulk (2008)
Black Panther (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Zack Snyder
Eternals (2021)
Kingo
Kumail Nanjiani
2: Which video games are most responsible for advancing their genre? (13:02)
Metal Gear Solid series
System Shock
Deus Ex
Street Fighter II
Spy Fiction
Resident Evil 4
Assassin’s Creed series
Hitman series
Immersive sim
Dishonored
Metroidvania
Pinball
John Romero discovers a 1940 first person shooter
Pong
3: What even is the incentive to make video games commercially? (19:43)
Wadjet Eye Games
Dave Gilbert
Ron Gilbert
Dave Grossman
EA
4: Design a new Pokemon type (25:13)
Water
Fire
Ground
Rock
Normal
Ghost
Fairy
Grass
Poison
Flying
Dragon
Dark
Bug
Psychic
Fighting
Ice
Electric
Yu-Gi-Oh
Steel
Hey You, Pikachu!
Mimikyu
Missingno
Skylanders series
Spyro
Palworld
Unown
Rotom
5: Dr. Booperstein III asks, are all video games derivative of the first generation of video games? (32:08)
Guess Who?
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Q*Bert
Night Driver
Back to the Future Part II (1989)
Leslie “Spike” O’Malley
Entertainment Software Association
E3
Summer Game Fest
Back to the Future: The Game
6: What’s the stupidest playable race in a video game? (39:18)
Pepsiman
Mass Effect series
Asari
Quarian
Turian
Star Trek
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Bajoran
Vulcan
Spock
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarves
Blood Elves
World of WarCraft
Night Elves
Orc
Tauren
Troll
Undead
Pikmin
Pikmin series
Zerg
7: What is the Steven Spielberg’s Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) of video games? (46:16)
Milo
Peter Molyneux
Haley Joel Osment
Berserk
Dune
The Wheel of Time
BioShock series
Ken Levine
Judas
Fallout 3
Fallout: New Vegas
Metal Gear: Survive
Duke Nukem Forever
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake
Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Sonic CD
Metropolis (1927)
LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (52:58)
Recommendations and Outro (58:24):
Brandon: Doom Runners (1997), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), Etiene T. Boy - Jealousy, Vintage Obscura Radio
Frank: Barkin’, Classic X-Men
Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Prisoner of Beauty
Hard Truths (XX:XX):
Jaffe: If you have a work day that ends at 10 PM, you don’t get to do all the stuff you do if your work day normally ends at 5 PM.
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