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)


Discuss this episode among generally polite and universally cool people in the forums!


A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Misophonia

Ys: Origins

Thief: The Dark Project

Project Milo

insaneintherain

Microsoft Surface coffee table

uWink

SPARTAN-458

Jiu Jitsu (2020)

Breakdown

Tom Petty - Breakdown (Live 1985)

En Vogue - My Lovin’ (Never Gonna Get It)

Nvidia GeForce 3

What Are Vertex And Pixel Shaders?

Bump Mapping

U.S. Games, a subsidiary of Quaker Oats

NEMO

Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankle Cut

The Thief and the Cobler: Recobbled Cut

Video Game History Hour Ep. 23 - Working on Donkey Kong Country and Dinosaur Planet with Kev Bayliss & David Wise

Warlock

Warlock’s transparent logo screen

Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure

Eternal Champions

VectorMan

The Adventures of Batman & Robin dithered and undithered

EVE Online

Jeff Minter

Will Wright

Polyphony Digital

Final Fantasy XV Dragoon Lady

Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)

Dark Sector

Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords

Phantom Dust

Planet Earth II

Tom Brady

Guy Fieri

Cliff Bleszinski

Tingle

Daxter

Sobble

Peter Molyneux

Tomonobu Itagaki

Hideki Kamiya

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.

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