Ep. 214 - The Ocarina of Time of Anything (Patreon)

In which our heroes discuss a game you can play right now that is secretly from 2023, 100 Jeff Minters, and cheap tricks and old names. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

• Brandon Sheffield asks: What was the first time a parent of your praised a video game unprompted? (02:01)
• Has Dark Souls replaced Ocarina of Time as The Greatest Game of All Time? (07:59)
• If you could clone one person 100 times to make an entire game development team, who would it be? (15:03)
• In light of his passing, what can you tell us about NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura? (20:45)
• Is Halo cool? (26:06)
• Dirtbag Nick asks: What are the best times a game has broken its own rules? (31:55)
• You wanna talk about the Game Awards? (37:53)
• Are there really any video games that you couldn’t make today? (45:18)
• Previously on Insert Credit: What is the real life equivalent of playing a Far Cry game? (50:21)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – JAV Titles (56:22)

Recommendations and Outro (01:02:54)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Yars' Revenge
• Vic Viper
• Blaster Master
• Journey to Silius
• Fester's Quest
• Batman: The Video Game
• The Addams Family
• Bullet Witch
• Myst (Jaguar)
• Power Drive Rally
• Castle Wolfenstein
• DOOM
• ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM
• Assassin's Creed III
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• Assassins Creed III commercial
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Shenmue
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Dark Souls
• GameFaqs "Best. Game. Ever." Poll
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Yngwie Malmsteen
• Death Stranding
• Ocarina of Time decompilation
• Toby Fox
• Shigesako Itoi
• Jeff Minter
• Undertale
• Groove Coaster
• Jay Tholen
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Joakim Sandberg
• NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78
• Ralph H. Baer
• Gunpei Yokoi
• Time Crisis
• The House of the Dead
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo: Infinite
• Dwayne The Rock Johnson was in Fortnite
• The moon in Duck Tales, dude
• The Secret of Monkey Island
• Dragon Warrior
• Mother / EarthBound series
• I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie - The Game
• Fight Club
• Mega Man 11
• The Game Awards
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Resident Evil: Village
• Metroid Dread
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Swedish Erotica: Custer's Revenge
• Shenmue III
• Star Citizen
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
• Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
• Far Cry series
• Blue Man Group

Recommendations:

Brandon: School of Chocolate if you're interested in seeing a reality show that doesn't work so great, Hyper Gunsport now wishlistable on Steam

Frank: Get a Costco card

Tim: Don't even try getting a PS5 for the holiday season, get your child a MiSTer

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