Ep. 188 - Mariountain Dew, with John Linneman
The Insert Credit Show
English - June 07, 2021 01:31 - 1 hour - 49.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 99 ratingsVideo Games Leisure Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Questions this week:
From Brandon Sheffield: How would you run a cafe-arcade hybrid, and what would you call it? (03:10)
How would video games be different if Microsoft bought Nintendo twenty years ago? (10:33)
What factors decide whether a video game should be first person view or third person view? (15:02)
What historical video game hardware breakthroughs are bigger deals than people realize? (20:26)
What scenes do you hope to see in the new restored version of the Super Mario Bros. Movie? (25:29)
What video games suffer the most from being played on unintended hardware? (30:37)
Dirtbag Devils Blush asks: Who is your favorite developer of games you aren’t interested in playing? (39:33)
As a player, when can you feel the absence of a cut feature the most? (43:21)
How do you make a cool video game desert? (48:01)
Who is the Guy Fieri of video games? (53:02)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Product Placement (58:47)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
Microsoft Surface coffee table
Tom Petty - Breakdown (Live 1985)
En Vogue - My Lovin’ (Never Gonna Get It)
What Are Vertex And Pixel Shaders?
U.S. Games, a subsidiary of Quaker Oats
Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankle Cut
The Thief and the Cobler: Recobbled Cut
Warlock’s transparent logo screen
The Adventures of Batman & Robin dithered and undithered
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
Recommendations:
Frank: Video Game History Foundation “Blind Box” Vintage Video Game Magazines
Brandon: Enjoy the media you’ve collected over the years, The Brat - Attitudes EP
John: DF Retro, Retrotink 5X
Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.