Ep. 445 - The Video Game Stork

15 juin 2026 · 1 h 17 min

Notes de l’épisode

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.

SHOW NOTES:

1: Anything interesting at the other summer game events we didn’t cover last time? (05:36)

2: What are we going to do when every triple-A new game has AI? (19:37)

3: What other Final Fantasy characters should be distributed to fighting games? (21:14)

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)

5: If you were programming a video game orchestral concert, what obscure track would you drop in there? (38:45)

6: What is the One Piece of video games? (45:15)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - AFI’s Top 100 Film Quotes (50:47)

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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