Show Notes
Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer Jaffe’s questions about simple ways to improve any game, documentary video game adaptations, and turning consoles into anime girls.
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:
BMX XXX
Burning Man
Acclaim Entertainment
David Cronenberg
“You point a gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear papa?”
Richter Belmont
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Dracula
1: What is something simple you can add to any video game to make it immediately better? (03:53)
Pac-Man series
Klonoa series
Sonic the Hedgehog series
Pokémon series
Tetris
the Pokemon track Ash was thinking of
Metal Gear Solid series
Billy Mitchell
Mystery Science Theater 3000
2: Is there something you’ve encountered in a game you can only explain as an inside joke? (10:43)
Fantasy Life
Nintendo DS
Pier Solar and the Great Architects
Indivisible
Baba Booey
Tetsuya Nomura
Kingdom Hearts III secret ending
Final Fantasy Versus XIII
MindsEye
Astal
Segagaga
Sega
Sony
Dreamcast
3: What are your standard practices for saving your game? (16:26)
Resident Evil 4
SiSTer FPGA
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Yakuza series
Baldur’s Gate series
PlayStation 4
4: Design anthropomorphized versions of obscure video game consoles for a Hyperdimension Neptunia reboot (21:48)
Hyperdimension Neptunia series
Gijinka
Playdate
Watara Supervision
WonderSwan
Mega Duck/Cougar Boy
Atari Lynx
N-Gage
Casio Loopy
Game Gear
Plug-n-play game
Wii
Shang Tsung
Nex Playground
Meta Ray-Bans
Socrates Interactive Patient System
Amiga CD32
Atari 2600
Intellivision
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Patty and Selma
Kotaku: Oh Dang, Magic: The Gathering Made Bilbo Baggins Hot
5: Death_Strandicoot asks, what would be the best documentary to adapt into a video game? (30:57)
GIRP
Super Size Me (2004)
March of the Penguins (2005)
March of the Penguins (DS game)
National Geographic
National Geographic licensees
Planet Earth
Critical Kate Willært
The King of Kong (2007)
VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action
Coffee Talk
Walter Day
Donkey Kong
Paris Is Burning (1990)
Stepmania
Wii
Kinect
Just Dance series
Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)
Plan 9 From Outer Space (DOS game)
Her Story
Cold Case Files
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective
Unsolved Mysteries
Mothman
Grizzly Man (2005)
7 Up
Indie Game: The Movie (2012)
LuLaRoe
Blackfish (2013)
Ape Out
Jaws: Unleashed
Jaws series
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Solarpunk
Tetris (2023)
6: What games in the Game Industry Hardship Bundle do you think Frank, Ash, and Insert Credit listeners would like most? (36:30)
Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure
A Short Hike
Holedown
Skatebird
Cool Kid Cody
NEC
TurboGrafx-16
Wheels of Aurelia 1978
Hyper Gunsport
Little Medusa
FutureGrind
Dirtbag Mahjong
Winter Witch
Magenta Horizon
Purrfect Apawcalypse
They Bleed Pixels
Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game
Drywall Eating Simulator
7: Whos a cool lady? (42:23)
Celeste
Madeline
Yasmine
Bayonetta
Hannah Waddingham
Ted Lasso
Moon Lee
Cynthia Rothrock
Chingmy Yau
Michelle Yeoh
Katie Mac
Lady and the Tramp
Semiramis
Michelle Obama
Amy Hennig
Danielle Bunten Berry
Esper Quinn
Ash Parrish
Maddy Thorson
Maddy Myers
Gita Jackson
52 Pickup
Noa Izumi
Birdo
Princess Daisy
Aerith Gainsborough
Samus Aran
Chun-Li
Bullet Witch
Ada Wong
Vivienne
Liara T’Soni
Tali’Zorah
Shale
Amaterasu
Malenia
LIGHTNING ROUND: Verb Coding (48:17)
Recommendations and Outro (56:36):
Brandon: NEWDERY Stick Grips, Beatdown City Survivors, Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert
Ash: Clytemnestra, Platform Decay, Ancillary Justice
Jaffe: Absolute Wonder Woman
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