Ep. 164 - Happy Asparagus Week (Patreon)

The most wonderful time of the year descends upon us. The panel covers fishing, fancy finishing, and Finland. Original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. What was the last innovative use of 3D space in a video game? (04:04)
2. What should I mean when a video game receives an award for “Best Direction”? (08:55)
3. Why are fishing minigames so ubiquitous, and what’s the best one? (13:40) 
4. Are there any really good adaptations of video games into physical games? (18:12) 
5. How would you adapt the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade into a video game? (22:11) 
6. Patreon Supporter Gwifblymth asks, what’s going on with Treasure? (27:17) 
7. How good was the TurboGrafx-16? (35:40) 
8. What’s the Christmas Game? (40:52) 
9. What is the Cheesecake Factory of video games? (48:34)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design: Christmas Songs (55:26)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• More Fun Than A Ferret Down Your Trousers Gameboy ad
• MiSTer FPGA Hardware
• Jumping Flash! 
• SCALE
• Superliminal
• Portal gap puzzle
• Games Made Under Crunch Conditions Don't Deserve 'Best Direction' Awards
• tim's Bioshock Infinite review
• Seinfeld's The Maestro
• National Videogame Museum (UK) Animal Crossing Diaries project
• A Short Hike
• Dark Souls board game
• The Titan Games
• Ultimate Beastmaster
• Floor Is Lava
• Takeshi's Castle and MXC
• Keita Takahashi
• Fire Pro Wrestling's character creator
• Treasure's twitter
• M2
• Gunstar Heroes
• Famous Ikaruga
• Alien Soldier
• Hideyuki Suginami's interview/monologue on Alien Soldier
• Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams
• Cheesecake Factory 
• Link to the Nachos Tim Gets

Recommendations:

Tim: Kill me Jerry, spike my corpse in the nearby dumpster after you shoot me in the neck with a bow and arrow, Demons Souls.

Frank: The New Yakuza, Voting if you live in Georgia

Brandon: Uinuos Syomein Sota by Havukruunu