Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy
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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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