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Frank, Ash and Brandon design games based on historical events, explain the plot of Earth Defense Force, and discover why women have hollow bones. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: Madame Web (2024) Morbius (2022) Venom (2018) Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021) Venom: The Last Dance (2024) Eminem original Venom rap Glyceo the Destroyer Lucius Aurelius Maximus Arelius Caesar Minumus Caesar Agustus Hannibal Scipio Africanus The Pope Assassin’s Creed series Games where the final boss is the pope Final Fantasy XIV Final Fantasy XIII Nights of Azure series Final Fantasy Tactics Rodrigo Borgia The Young Pope Anti-Pope Psycho-Pirate Doctor Fate Marv Wolfman 52 Pickup 1: What historical events would it be interesting to recreate in a video game? (06:03) JFK Reloaded John Brown Castle Wolfenstein series Sherman’s March Titan submersible implosion Downwell Super Mario Bros. 2 Ridiculous Fishing Amelia Erhart Microsoft Flight Simulator Bayonetta Purdue 2: What video game do you like that you believe the greatest percentage of people who have played it do not like? (11:22) Forspoken Marvel Midnight Suns Fatal Fury series Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Jekyll Sonic R Credit Report (14:58) 3: Has there ever been an unreleased video game that you were glad never came out? (15:16) Confederate Beavis and Butt-Head Marble Madness Sonic X-treme Steven Seagal Is: The Final Option (Prototype) by Crak Atak in 21:44 - Awesome Games Done Quick 2023 Desert Bus for Hope Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors Drac’s Night Out Hammerman Hammer vs. Evil D. in Soulfire Power Factory featuring C+C Music Factory Make My Video: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch Max Payne (2008) 4: Explain the lore of Earth Defense Force in 6 minutes (19:51) Elden Ring Earth Defense Force series Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon Insert Credit Quick Break: Puppycam! (25:50) 5: Rin asks, how often do you use button remapping? (26:32) Vampire Survivors Xbox 360 Super Nintendo Entertainment System Sony Playstation Neo Geo Sega Saturn SNK 40th Anniversary Collection Super Mario World Infinity Nikki 6: What’s the best prison or prison sequence in a video game? (34:32) Wolfenstein Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom Final Fantasy IX Fable series Peter Molyneux 7: What is the Christopher Nolan’s TENET of video games? (40:27) Tenet (2020) Hideo Kojima Metal Gear series Christopher Nolan LawBreakers Cliffy B Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Superhot Braid Sonic CD LIGHTNING ROUND: Famicom Feud - Past Game Awards Winners (44:26) Recommendations and Outro (54:01): Brandon: Subway (1985), Miho Nakayama’s albums Mind Game, Catch the Night, Angel Hearts and Hide ‘N’ Seek Ash: The Verge’s premium subscription This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

our Insert Credit Panel covers how a video game might be political, new games for dead consoles, and the Jaffe Cut of Rocky Horror Picture Show. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) “Penis breath” clip Tetris Spelling Bee Sub Hunt PalmPilot Katamari Damacy Guitar Hero series Circus Madden series Call of Duty series Mortal Kombat series Ms. Pac-Man Sonic the Hedgehog series The Lion King Wordle Words With Friends Myst Military Madness AKA Nectaris Advance Wars Mega Man Bayou Billy 1: Are all video games inherently political? (04:58) Circus Game & Watch Wide Screen: Fire Animal Well Metal Gear Solid series Mike Tyson Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! Galactic Saga G.I. Joe Roadblock The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 2: How do video game trailers lose you? (10:38) Demonschool Granblue Fantasy: Relink HowLongToBeat.com 3: Which game console has the best library of games released by third parties after its discontinuation? (15:37) Atari 7800 Sega Dreamcast Sega Genesis Nintendo Entertainment System Super Nintendo Entertainment System XenoCrisis Tanglewood Mad Stalker: Full Metal Force Asuka 120% series Game Boy itch.io Shantae Game Boy Advance Yuzo Koshiro Streets of Rage 2 Earthion Atari 2600 H.E.R.O. Halo 2600 4: Design a new boot-up screen for the PlayStation 6 (21:00) PlayStation 1 boot up Silent Hill 2 Silent Hill 2 remake PlayStation 5 boot up PlayStation 2 boot up PlayStation 3 boot up PlayStation 4 boot up PlayStation Studios tag Sony’s Universe of Spider-Man Characers Switch boot up Xbox Series boot up 5: Captain asks, what makes a video game coin enjoyable to pick up? (27:17) Sonic Adventure Sonic Generations Indiana Jones and the Great Circle would’ve been better as a movie Banjo-Kazooie Tomb Raider series Uncharted series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft Whiplash Knuckles’ Chaotix 6: Frank, what can you tell us about the state of game preservation this year? (33:54) Video Game History Foundation PC-FX Newgrounds LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - No Man’s Sky (39:25) Credit Scores (42:51) Recommendations and Outro (42:55): Brandon: Do stretches before you go to bed and after you wake up if you have a dog that won’t pee on dirt when it’s wet or cold try getting some mulch Wicked (2024) Jaffe: The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman Ash: Only see Gladiator II (2024) for Denzel chewing scenery The Verge’s premium subscription Frank: The return of The Video Game History Hour This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

The full Insert Credit panel covers what Xboxes are, Fatal Fury movie casting, and dog football. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: Mr. Bones Mr. Bones by Lizstar in 1:12:00 - Awesome Games Done Quick Mr. Bones shirt Cyber Monday Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) Yuji Naka Naoto Ohshima Sonic Knuckles Tails Dr. Robotnik Yasushi Yamaguchi Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Shadow Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) Sonic the Hedgehog 2 (2022) Charles Pulliam-Moore The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Jaleel White Steve Urkel Credit Report (04:06) 1: Is this podcast an Xbox? (04:48) Xbox Xbox continues its push beyond consoles with new ad campaign Microsoft’s next Xbox, coming 2028, envisions hybrid computing Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Game spending is up — and you can thank Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 The Penguin Magic: the Gathering 2: What is the most fortunate accident in video game history? (10:22) Street Fighter II Street Fighter II Turbo Super Mario 64 Sega Saturn Sony Playstation Space Invaders Alanis Morrisette 3: Which video game genre on the whole compares best to its correspondent film genre on the whole? (15:29) Uncharted (2022) Visual Novel Robert Ludlum Dune Jack Ryan John Krasinski VeggieTales The Fast and the Furious series Mario Kart series The Northman (2022) The Green Knight (2021) 4: What class should be added in the next Dragon Quest 3 remake? (21:09) Dragon Quest III (Super Famicom remake) Thief Dragon Quest III: HD-2D Remake Beastmaster Pictomancer Arithmetician Adeline Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards Dragon Quest series Cartographer Dragon Quest V Dragon Quest Monsters EarthBound Ness Dracky Final Fantasy XV Ignis Gladiolus Prompto Quina Final Fantasy IX Insert Credit Quick Break: The Storied Sword, available digitally and physically (26:57) 5: Pro Skater 4 asks, how would you cast a Fatal Fury movie? (28:36) Silent Hill 2 Cube (1997) Ezri Dax Star Trek: Deep Space 9 One Piece Avery Brooks Fatal Fury series Terry Bogard Chris Evans Mai Shiranui Scarlett Johansson Andy Bogard Chris Pratt Joe Higashi Tony Jaa Raul Julia Geese Howard Pedro Pascal Nicholas Cage John Leguizamo The Menu (2022) Duck King Marco Rodrigues AKA Khushnood Butt Namor Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) Tenoch Huerta Mejía Garou: Mark of the Wolves Billy Kane Scott Atkins Bob Wilson John Boyega Surf Dracula King of Fighters series Street Fighter series Virtua Fighter series 6: If you could instantly put any game on every iPhone, what would it be? (35:34) Songs of Innocence and of Experience U2 Fantasian Astro Bot Astro Boy Quincy Jones Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP Spider Solitaire Snake Nokia N-Gage Balatro Pokémon GO Niantic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Fi Mr. Resetti Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! Dr. Kawashima 7: What’s the Air Bud (1997) of video games? (41:02) Army Men series Air Buddies (2006) Baba Is You Scribblenauts Jerry Rice & Nitus’ Dog Football Marshawn Lynch Snoop Dogg David Beckham Shaq Space Jam (1996) Michael Vick Brett Farve Shohei Ohtani Jose Canseco Stephen Curry Simone Biles Xavier Woods Babe Ruth Pete Rose LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Bart Vs. The Simpsons (46:23) Recommendations and Outro (54:09): Frank: Please donate to the Video Game History Foundation this Giving Tuesday Brandon: more of a review than a recommendation, but The Beekeeper (2024) is like John Wick but not very good and doesn’t make any sense and doesn’t have stakes, “dune scene” from untitled louise weard castration movie, Shangri-La Frontier if you like anime with leveling up Ash: Stream Not Like Us as much as possible Jaffe: One Piece This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by The Storied Sword, available digitally and physically, and patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!

The finest panel in video games covers Sony buying Kadokawa, relitigates what counts as games versus DLC, and brings you the exclusive reveal of the Nintendo Listo. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: Viewtiful Joe Bob & George SMS Power Forums FanFiction.Net Warlock - World of Warcraft Forums World of WarCraft Neo Geo Pocket 1: Brandon, two years ago when Microsoft bought Blizzard Activision, you proposed something that would be really funny that Sony could do to retaliate. Do you remember what it was? (05:35) Microsoft completes Activision Blizzard acquisition FromSoftware parent company confirms Sony’s acquisition interest Spike Chunsoft Acquire Octopath Traveler Tenchu series Shinobi series Stray Demon’s Souls Morbius (2022) George R. R. Martin PaRappa the Rapper Kingdom Hearts series Playstation All Stars Battle Royale Danganronpa Bloodborne 2: At what point is a game’s DLC worth judging as its own entity? (12:08) Geoff Keighley The Game Awards 2024 Nominees Elden Ring Hidetaki Miyazaki Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree D.I.C.E. Awards Emmy Awards Fortnite Marvel Spider-Man: Miles Morales Final Fantasy XIV Online Among Us Final Fantasy XIV Online: Endwalker Hideo Kojima International Game Developers Association 3: What’s the biggest gulf in difference between a game’s singleplayer and multiplayer modes, and what’s the biggest golf in video games? (21:17) Golden Tee Golf series Desert Golfing Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2005 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06 What the Golf? Golf with Your Friends PangYa Mario Party series 4: What is the Nintendo Listo? (24:58) The first mention of the Listo in ep. 363 Nintendo Alarmo Wii Fit Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! PalmPilot The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Nintendo Switch Picross Chocobo GameFAQs Playdate Listicle Resetera Apology Corner: None of the Hansons from Hanson are dead (32:54) Hanson The Hanson Brothers 5: Feral asks, what are your favorite completely missable areas in video games? Metal Slug 3 Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Hidden Palace Zone Hidden Palace Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Christian Whitehead Sonic Mania Crisis on Infinite Earths The Doomsday Zone Star Wars: Outlaws Super Mario Bros. 6: What is the Morbius of video games? (42:50) Morbius (2022) Deadly Premonition The Callisto Protocol Dead Space Playstation All Stars Battle Royale Fat Princess Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League The Sinister Six Dead2y Premonition: A Blessing in Disguise Corecell Technology Co., Ltd. Wicked Monsters: BLAST! Hidetaka Suehiro The Lord of the Rings: Gollum Aliens: Colonial Marines Bubsy series Dragon Age: Origins Jared Leto Thirty Seconds to Mars LIGHTNING ROUND: Arcade of Our Own (48:37) Recommendations and Outro (01:03:37): Frank: Maybe play Dragon Quest XI, but more specifically, just lean into being comfortable right now Brandon: Dark Crystal - Minako Yoshida, The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti, know that the Hakkaider blu-ray is a bad quality transfer Ash: (For Geoff Keighley specifically) Get the Flute Guy and ReFantazio Chanting Monk on the same stage to heal the world This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!