Questions this week:

Brandon Sheffield asks: What was the first time a parent of your praised a video game unprompted? (02:01)
Has Dark Souls replaced Ocarina of Time as The Greatest Game of All Time? (07:59)
If you could clone one person 100 times to make an entire game development team, who would it be? (15:03)
In light of his passing, what can you tell us about NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura? (20:45)
Is Halo cool? (26:06)
Dirtbag Nick asks: What are the best times a game has broken its own rules? (31:55)
You wanna talk about the Game Awards? (37:53)
Are there really any video games that you couldn’t make today? (45:18)
Previously on Insert Credit: What is the real life equivalent of playing a Far Cry game? (50:21)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – JAV Titles (56:22)


Recommendations and Outro (01:02:54)


Your post could be the Dark Souls of discussing this episode in the forums!


A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Yars’ Revenge

Vic Viper

Blaster Master

Journey to Silius

Fester’s Quest

Batman: The Video Game

The Addams Family

Bullet Witch

Myst (Jaguar)

Power Drive Rally

Castle Wolfenstein

DOOM

ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM

Assassin’s Creed III

Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag

Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla

Assassins Creed III commercial

Super Mario Bros. 3

Shenmue

Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Dark Souls

GameFaqs “Best. Game. Ever.” Poll

Red Dead Redemption II

Yngwie Malmsteen

Death Stranding

Ocarina of Time decompilation

Toby Fox

Shigesako Itoi

Jeff Minter

Undertale

Groove Coaster

Jay Tholen

Hypnospace Outlaw

Joakim Sandberg

NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78

Ralph H. Baer

Gunpei Yokoi

Time Crisis

The House of the Dead

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo: Infinite

Dwayne The Rock Johnson was in Fortnite

The moon in Duck Tales, dude

The Secret of Monkey Island

Dragon Warrior

Mother / EarthBound series

I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie - The Game

Fight Club

Mega Man 11

The Game Awards

Cyberpunk 2077

Resident Evil: Village

Metroid Dread

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Swedish Erotica: Custer’s Revenge

Shenmue III

Star Citizen

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse

Far Cry series

Blue Man Group

Recommendations:


Brandon: School of Chocolate if you’re interested in seeing a reality show that doesn’t work so great, Hyper Gunsport now wishlistable on Steam


Frank: Get a Costco card


Tim: Don’t even try getting a PS5 for the holiday season, get your child a MiSTer


Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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