Ep. 444 - Trickle-Down Justice
Notes de l’épisode
Our heroes confront Summer Game Fest, questions of manners when talking to swords, and another trip to the Omegaverse.
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:
- Polka dot
- “I have to stay alive and record this podcast before I die!”
- PAX
- Return of Monkey Island
- Video Game History Foundation
- Game Boy Camera
- Alexey Pajitnov
- Sonic the Hedgehog 2
- Dragon Age series
- Solas
- Thedas
- Iron Bull
- Cullen Rutherford
- Game Boy Advance
- Xeno Crisis
- Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories
- Spyro 2: Season of Flame
- Jurassic Park III: The DNA Factor
1: What did you think of the PlayStation State of Play? (05:19)
- PlayStation State of Play
- God of War: Laufey
- Kemuri: Hunt the Unseen
- Report: Payment for some TheGamer staff now tied to per-article sessions
- Gitaroo Man
- God of War: Ragnarök
- Jack Quaid
- Beauty and the Beast (1991)
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Hairy Wolverine
- Kratos
- Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis studio have used “AI-assisted tools” during development
- Bubsy
2: Why do we do these and who are they for? (16:47)
3: If you could insert one sentence into Geoff Keighley’s teleprompter at Summer Game Fest this year, what would it be? (21:10)
- Geoff Keighley
- Pong
- Free Palestine
- Black Lives Matter
- Trans Rights Are Human Rights
- Kermit the Frog
- Rainbow Connection
- Costco Connection
4: CaptainNAC asks, which game would you pick as the secret handle to open a hidden passageway behind a false wall? (26:45)
- Sega Genesis
- NCAA Football
- Columns
- Columns III: Revenge of Columns
- NBA 2K19
- Coach K College Basketball
- Sega CD
- Ready Player One
- NCAA: Road to the Final Four
- NCAA Final Four Basketball
5: What would you guess are the first five mods a community typically makes for a video game? (35:27)
6: What is the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos (1972) of video games? (40:03)
- John Waters
- Pink Flamingos (1972)
- Horses
- Divine
- Yoko Taro
- Drakengard 3
- Mouthwashing
- Danganronpa series
- The Godfather II
- Scarface: The World Is Yours
Send a one minute or less .mp3 or .wav of yourself explaining your choice for the John Waters’ Pink Flamingos of Video Games (or why The Godfather Part II might have been advertised using a pink flamingo) to [email protected] and maybe we’ll play it on air in a future episode!
LIGHTNING ROUND: Omegaversus (44:42)
Recommendations and Outro (01:11:34):
- Brandon: Read Only Memo, Dirty Kopz (2001)
- Frank: The Video Game History Hour Ep. 156 - Read Only Memo
- Ash: Find something you like on Archive of Our Own and leave a comment and kudos on something you like
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