Show Notes
Editor and Media Critic Esper Quinn joins Jaffe, Frank and Brandon for an evening of video game writing, high volume of death, and the Mr. Bones Apology Tour.
Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
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“This isn’t a brutality. This is a fatality.”
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Field
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Title Screen
Panzer Dragoon - Title Screen
X-Men - Title Screen
The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
Insert Credit Show
Topic Lords
Pokemon Red & Blue - Intro
Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy
Game Boy Advance
1: What do you look for in a video game castle? (04:18)
Unicorn
Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
Castlevania series
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Pokemon series
Baldur’s Gate III
Persona 5
Resident Evil 4
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
Crow Country
2: What kinds of video games have the narrowest distinction between a good one and a bad one? (10:22)
Deadly Premonition
Earth Defense Force series
Blue Archive
Comiket
Love and Deepspace
Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
Norm!
3: Hey Esper, what are the hardest video games to find footage for when making the video edition of Insert Credit? (15:34)
PC-98
Recommendation Guy
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
Daria’s Inferno
Creative Commons
MobyGames
MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity
Seaman
World of Longplays
10min Gameplay
4: What do video game writers get away with that would never fly in other media? (22:38)
Brad Pitt
Rick and Morty
5: Magnanimus asks, other than humans, what creature has been killed the most times across all video games? (26:58)
Turtle
Zombie
Goblin
Super Mario series
Goomba
Fungus
Minecraft
Vampire Survivors
Skeleton
Bat
Zubat
Robot
Cyborg
Mother 3
Slime
Cookie Clicker
The Felling of the One Hundred Centillion Turtle Goblins: A Morality Game (download, extract html file, and open in browser to play!)
6: On which occasions have you told someone specifically not to play a video game? (31:42)
MMO
Magic: the Gathering
The 3rd Birthday
Parasite Eve series
No Man’s Sky
PC-Engine
Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones
Mr. Bones
Valis series
Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09
Grateful Dead
7: What is the FLCL of video games? (35:44)
Gainax
Neon Genesis Evangelion
The Rub Rabbits!
Star Fox series
Sin & Punishment
Shenmue series
No More Heroes
Bayonetta series
Platinum Games
MadWorld
Persona series
LIGHTNING ROUND: Magic: the Sortening (40:40)
Recommendations and Outro (01:00:11)
Brandon: Not Dracula 3000 (2004), Taskmaster Season 21, Please do not hang out in the street, the commentary for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Esper: The Mountain Goats - Days, Ekphrasis, Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn
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