Ep. 165 - Best of Insert Credit 2020 (Patreon)

Some podcasts pull up old audio and call it a day, but when Insert Credit goes retro, we do it up right. All-time great questions return anew for fresh answers. Original music by Kurt Feldman. 

Questions this week:

1. Who are the greatest frauds in video games? (09:52) 
2. How would you adapt Bartleby the Scrivener into a video game? (15:13)
3. Which video game characters who have never met before would you set up for a blind date? (19:28)
4. What is the exact middle game? (24:04) 
5. What the hell is wrong with video games? (29:01)
6. A national pizza chain has hired you to choose the games to emulate on their arcade cabinet; but they can only be abandonware by defunct publishers. What do you choose? (32:13)
7. If there were a video game convention where only one company could represent each country, who would be there? (37:35)
8. Who is the Prince of video games? (43:16)
9. How could we save Sega by readjusting their timeline?  (48:50)
10. What's the Day the Clown Cried of Video Games?  (53:43)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Pokedexperts (01:00:39) 

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Aura Noir - Sons of Hades
• Peter Molydeux
• Mamoru Samuragochi
• G2A
• Shady Market G2A Offers To Pay Journalists To Run Pre-Written Article Defending Them by Nathan Grayson
• Twin Galaxies attacks Billy Mitchell as a fraud in new legal claims by Kyle Orland
• Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
• Omikron: The Nomad Soul
• Rambo: First Blood Part II
• Drawn to Death
• David Jaffe's The Bartlet Jones Supernatural Detective Agency closes down by Matthew Handrahan
• R.B.I. Baseball
• Knack
• Revolution X
• Insert Coin (that Midway Games documentary)
• Home of the Underdogs
• Antman 2
• Lars: the Wanderer
• Dungeon & Garter
• GP32
• Human Entertainment
• Hydlide
• Scorched Earth
• Controversial Taiwanese Horror Game Returns, GOG Immediately Pulls It by John Walker
• Jeff Minter
• Ring Fit Adventure
• The Day the Clown Cried
• Peter Sellers
• Jerry Lewis
• Project Milo
• Shigeru Miyamoto Wants To Create a Kinder World by Simon Parkin
• Metroid Otherm
• Game of the Year submission form

Recommendations:

Frank: Attempt to Have a Happy New Year

Brandon: The Thing (1982), The Repair Shop

Jaffe: The Joker: Year of the Villain

Tim: Succession