Ep. 172 - Dithligonal Heckahedron (Patreon)

Permanent tracheal damage, Geoff Keigh3, and Dr. Wowy’s Pee Factory. Original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. Previously on Insert Credit #10: What can we expect from the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie? (4:56)
2. Frank’s question: What do you say to someone who wants your career in video games? (10:17)
3. Remember E3? It’s back, in streaming digital presentation form! Is there no turning back now? (16:44)
4. If we define a perfect game as one which exhausts every satisfactory application of its core concept, which games fit that definition? (22:25)
5. The Adaptation Game: Saturday Night Live (28:43)
6. Patreon Supporter Meghan Murphy asks: what game has the best post-game? (35:27)
7. What’s the right amount of random chance to use in a video game? (42:20)
8. What are the greatest lengths to which you have ever gone to play a particular video game? (48:06)
9. What are the best bombs in video games? (53:40)
10. What is the finding a long, crispy french fry in your order of onion rings of video games? (59:16)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Playing Flavorites: Mega Man Robot Masters (01:05:13)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Wind Waker Seagulls
• Big Bird's Hide and Speak
• Caroll Spinney
• Bloodborne's Carrion Crows
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
• Jordan Vogt-Roberts
• Indivisible animated series
• Friend of the show Laura Michet
• Lupin
• Stroopwafel
• 2006 Kentia Hall walkthrough
• GP32
• The Lost Vikings
• Tetris 99
• Tetris 2
• Adventures of Lolo 2
• R-Type Final
• Unreal Metahumans
• StageFright (1987)
• Nothing But Trouble (1991)
• A Man Lay Dead
• Enter a Murderer, the actual Ngaio Marsh novel tim was referencing
• Plan 9 from Outer Space (video game)
• Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime
• GDC 2010: Metaphysics of Game Design by Will Wright
• Advance Wars 2: Black Hole Rising
• GDC Classic Games Postmortem 'Civilization' by Sid Meier
• Vandal Hearts
• Recovering Nintendo's Lost SimCity for the NES by Frank Cifaldi
• Housemarque
• Suzuki Bakuhatsu
• Guy Fieri's Vegas Kitchen
• Raid on Bungeling Bay
• Young Willie Nelson
• Willie Nelson song in Red Dead Redemption 2

Recommendations:

Brandon: The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)

Frank: Classic Game Postmortem - Raid on Bungeling Bay by Will Wright

Jaffe: Toast of London

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