Ep. 457 - Hey Me, Pikachi

Your beloved panel covers advances in stealth games, new Pokemon types, and whether or not Marty McFly has a scrote. 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: “Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!” Pokemon series Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater Kotaku LeBron James 1: What is the correct amount of time to sit down and play a video game in front of your TV? (05:57) Marvel Cinematic Universe X-Men (2000) Thor: The Dark World (2013) Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) The Marvels (2023) The Incredible Hulk (2008) Black Panther (2018) Avengers: Endgame (2019) Zack Snyder Eternals (2021) Kingo Kumail Nanjiani 2: Which video games are most responsible for advancing their genre? (13:02) Metal Gear Solid series System Shock Deus Ex Street Fighter II Spy Fiction Resident Evil 4 Assassin’s Creed series Hitman series Immersive sim Dishonored Metroidvania Pinball John Romero discovers a 1940 first person shooter Pong 3: What even is the incentive to make video games commercially? (19:43) Wadjet Eye Games Dave Gilbert Ron Gilbert Dave Grossman EA 4: Design a new Pokemon type (25:13) Water Fire Ground Rock Normal Ghost Fairy Grass Poison Flying Dragon Dark Bug Psychic Fighting Ice Electric Yu-Gi-Oh Steel Hey You, Pikachu! Mimikyu Missingno Skylanders series Spyro Palworld Unown Rotom 5: Dr. Booperstein III asks, are all video games derivative of the first generation of video games? (32:08) Guess Who? Pac-Man Donkey Kong Q*Bert Night Driver Back to the Future Part II (1989) Leslie “Spike” O’Malley Entertainment Software Association E3 Summer Game Fest Back to the Future: The Game 6: What’s the stupidest playable race in a video game? (39:18) Pepsiman Mass Effect series Asari Quarian Turian Star Trek Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Bajoran Vulcan Spock Dwarf Fortress Dwarves Blood Elves World of WarCraft Night Elves Orc Tauren Troll Undead Pikmin Pikmin series Zerg 7: What is the Steven Spielberg’s Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) of video games? (46:16) Milo Peter Molyneux Haley Joel Osment Berserk Dune The Wheel of Time BioShock series Ken Levine Judas Fallout 3 Fallout: New Vegas Metal Gear: Survive Duke Nukem Forever Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake Dragon Age: The Veilguard Sonic CD Metropolis (1927) LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (52:58) Recommendations and Outro (58:24): Brandon: Doom Runners (1997), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), Etiene T. Boy - Jealousy, Vintage Obscura Radio Frank: Barkin’, Classic X-Men Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Prisoner of Beauty Hard Truths (XX:XX): Jaffe: If you have a work day that ends at 10 PM, you don’t get to do all the stuff you do if your work day normally ends at 5 PM. This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you. Thank you. Subscribe: RSS, YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more!