Ep. 235 - Unchardita, with Vincent Diamante (Patreon)

Insert Credit Co-founder and legendary game composer Vincent Diamante joins the panel to cover Fighters Megamix romance, Russian Adventure, and the top 5 Sonic games that aren’t the immediately great ones. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield and Vincent Diamante. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

• Kris Graft asks: Which two fighters from Fighters Megamix would make the best or worst romantic couple? (05:17)
• Now that we have a little distance, what features of the PS4/Xbox One era will feel retro someday? (09:45)
• On what occasions have you restarted a game from the beginning before finishing it? (15:02)
• What is “immersion” in video games? (19:54)
• Design an “In This House We Do Disney” piece of wall art for gamers (25:16)
• Salvatore Romano asks: Excluding 1, 2, 3, & Knuckles and Mania, what are the top 5 Sonic the Hedgehog games? (30:36)
• Which video game series took the greatest number of entries to start getting good? (36:16)
• What is the best logo design in video games? (41:38)
• Is Nintendo evil? (46:31)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Acronymizer (50:33)

Recommendations and Outro (56:30)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance
• World Trigger
• SimCity 2000
• Fighters Megamix
• Bean the Dynamite
• Bark the Polar Bear
• Daytona USA
• Virtua Cop
• Rent A Hero
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Kumachan
• Candy
• Herbie
• Jeffry McWild
• Dural
• Tomb Raider series
• Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
• Balan Wonderworld
• Yuji Naka says Square Enix doesn’t ‘value games’ after Balan Wonderworld mess
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Time Traveler
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• Super Hydlide
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Chrono Cross
• Loop Hero
• the stupid disney thing Jaffe talks about
• Fortnite series
• Elden Ring
• Battlefield 1942
• Zombie Revenge
• Disaster Report
• Sonic R
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed
• Sonic Adventure
• Sonic Rush
• Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos
• Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble
• Knuckles' Chaotix
• Rush'n Attack series
• Tetris
• Final Fantasy series
• Madden series
• Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective
• Bubsy: Paws on Fire!
• Mortal Kombat games
• Street Fighter series
• Asuka 120% series
• Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series
• Need for Speed series
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Mass Effect 2
• Capcom cubes logo
• Ibrahim Hamdi’s game logos in arabic
• Brain Grey logo
• HOT B Logo
• TWEWY logo
• original Puyo Puyo logo
• Reggie Fils-Aimé on contractor woes: ‘This isn’t the Nintendo I left’

Recommendations:

Vincent: Scritti Politti

Brandon: Halloween (1978)

Frank: Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run

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