Ep. 349 - Crab Up, Squad! with Simon Parkin

The New Yorker and The Observer’s Simon Parkin joins the panel to cover a new angle in game genres, the legacy of Segata Sanshiro, and aesthetic crevices. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Simon Parkin. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: DVD MiSTer FPGA Spacewar Nintendo 64 Wii Link’s Crossbow Training Wii Fit Dreamcast Donkey Konga Let’s Tap Wii Music Mad Maestro! Chainsaw Controller Hori Dragon Quest Slime Controller Question 1: What’s the correlation in game design between fun and player freedom? (03:55) Hirokazu Yasuhara Sonic the Hedgehog series Sokoban Grand Theft Auto III Fallout series SEGA Sports games Just Cause series Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series Warren Spector Uncharted series The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom Baldur’s Gate series Mass Effect series The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Question 2: What is the most widely held bad take amongst gamers? (12:12) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Dark Souls Sega Saturn PlayStation GameCube Virtual Boy Video games can never be art Street Fighter series Tommy Tallarico Question 3: Come up with a new “Sega Does What Nintendon’t”-style slogan for the Dreamcast 2 (20:29) Build Back Better Plan Mad Men Roblox en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast Segata Sanshiro Akira Kurosawa Sanshiro Sugata (1943) Hiroshi Fujioka Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth Segata Sanshiro Commercials Question 4, from CJ Mixy: at what point do games go from being “ripoffs” to part of a genre? (27:36) Genshin Impact The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Koji Igarashi Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia Metroid Super Metroid Metroid Fusion Metroid Prime Bejeweled: Deluxe Candy Crush Saga Doom Asteroids Hexen: Beyond Heretic Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller Critter Crunch Magical Drop AstroPop Deluxe Money Puzzle Exchanger Question 5: What is the reading the New Yorker for the cartoons of video games? (37:52) The New Yorker Castle Wolfenstein series Elaine Benes CNN Gran Turismo series Galaxian Ridge Racer series Galaga The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires Gears of War series Final Fantasy XV Dragon’s Dogma LIGHTNING ROUND: Their Perfect Console (44:32) Recommendations and Outro (56:31): Brandon: Orchids are very nice at Trader Joes right now, Black Cat (1991) Tim: Interview with the Vampire Simon: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin, What Went Wrong Podcast This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, and more!