Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy

Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer Jaffe’s questions about simple ways to improve any game, documentary video game adaptations, and turning consoles into anime girls. 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: BMX XXX Burning Man Acclaim Entertainment David Cronenberg “You point a gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear papa?” Richter Belmont Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Dracula 1: What is something simple you can add to any video game to make it immediately better? (03:53) Pac-Man series Klonoa series Sonic the Hedgehog series Pokémon series Tetris the Pokemon track Ash was thinking of Metal Gear Solid series Billy Mitchell Mystery Science Theater 3000 2: Is there something you’ve encountered in a game you can only explain as an inside joke? (10:43) Fantasy Life Nintendo DS Pier Solar and the Great Architects Indivisible Baba Booey Tetsuya Nomura Kingdom Hearts III secret ending Final Fantasy Versus XIII MindsEye Astal Segagaga Sega Sony Dreamcast 3: What are your standard practices for saving your game? (16:26) Resident Evil 4 SiSTer FPGA Super Nintendo Entertainment System Yakuza series Baldur’s Gate series PlayStation 4 4: Design anthropomorphized versions of obscure video game consoles for a Hyperdimension Neptunia reboot (21:48) Hyperdimension Neptunia series Gijinka Playdate Watara Supervision WonderSwan Mega Duck/Cougar Boy Atari Lynx N-Gage Casio Loopy Game Gear Plug-n-play game Wii Shang Tsung Nex Playground Meta Ray-Bans Socrates Interactive Patient System Amiga CD32 Atari 2600 Intellivision What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Patty and Selma Kotaku: Oh Dang, Magic: The Gathering Made Bilbo Baggins Hot 5: Death_Strandicoot asks, what would be the best documentary to adapt into a video game? (30:57) GIRP Super Size Me (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) March of the Penguins (DS game) National Geographic National Geographic licensees Planet Earth Critical Kate Willært The King of Kong (2007) VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Coffee Talk Walter Day Donkey Kong Paris Is Burning (1990) Stepmania Wii Kinect Just Dance series Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) Plan 9 From Outer Space (DOS game) Her Story Cold Case Files Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Unsolved Mysteries Mothman Grizzly Man (2005) 7 Up Indie Game: The Movie (2012) LuLaRoe Blackfish (2013) Ape Out Jaws: Unleashed Jaws series An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Solarpunk Tetris (2023) 6: What games in the Game Industry Hardship Bundle do you think Frank, Ash, and Insert Credit listeners would like most? (36:30) Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure A Short Hike Holedown Skatebird Cool Kid Cody NEC TurboGrafx-16 Wheels of Aurelia 1978 Hyper Gunsport Little Medusa FutureGrind Dirtbag Mahjong Winter Witch Magenta Horizon Purrfect Apawcalypse They Bleed Pixels Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game Drywall Eating Simulator 7: Whos a cool lady? (42:23) Celeste Madeline Yasmine Bayonetta Hannah Waddingham Ted Lasso Moon Lee Cynthia Rothrock Chingmy Yau Michelle Yeoh Katie Mac Lady and the Tramp Semiramis Michelle Obama Amy Hennig Danielle Bunten Berry Esper Quinn Ash Parrish Maddy Thorson Maddy Myers Gita Jackson 52 Pickup Noa Izumi Birdo Princess Daisy Aerith Gainsborough Samus Aran Chun-Li Bullet Witch Ada Wong Vivienne Liara T’Soni Tali’Zorah Shale Amaterasu Malenia LIGHTNING ROUND: Verb Coding (48:17) Recommendations and Outro (56:36): Brandon: NEWDERY Stick Grips, Beatdown City Survivors, Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert Ash: Clytemnestra, Platform Decay, Ancillary Justice Jaffe: Absolute Wonder Woman This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!