Ep. 316 - Insert Credit Game Awards Special

Recorded before The Game Awards, and released the week after! The Insert Credit Panel decides the video game winners of categories unwittingly submitted by listeners. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

And The Categories Are:

1. Gaagaagiins: Best Standardized Box Art Platform Frames (02:15)
2. Propelleher: Best Scoff (05:35)
3. rice9 : Best eSport of the 1980s (07:16)
4. Breadytodie: Best Overtly Political Japanese Game (08:48)
5. Cole: Best Campfire Scene (10:59)
6. IntergalacticWalrus: Best Playable Non-Anthropomorphic Animal (13:14)
7. Spencer: Best Game By an American Branch of a Japanese Company (16:02)
8. Larky: Most Incidentally Educational Game (18:59)
9. rearnakedwindow: Best Game Exclusive to a Legitimately Bad Console (22:13)
10. Alex Jaffe: Best Video Game to Name Your Band After (24:53)
11. ANONYMOUS GOD HAND LOVER: Game Most Like GOD HAND (27:15)
12. Billy: Best Underwater Tunnel in a Racing Game (28:34)
13. Sfwublin: Best Mine Carts (31:01)
14. Justin Hamrick: Most Dangerous Video Game (33:47)
15. Pro Skater 4: Most Evil Video Game (36:41)
16. Erica: Most Video Game-Ass Video Game (39:05)

Recommendations and Outro (42:08)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• The Game Awards
• Intellivision
• PC Engine
• Master System
• PlayStation
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 3
• PlayStation Portable
• PlayStation 5
• PlayStation 4
• Xbox
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Quake II
• Terry Bogard
• X-Men
• Street Fighter series
• Punch-Out series
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
• Dog Patch
• Balloon Fight
• Metal Gear series
• Death Stranding
• Metal Wolf Chaos
• Fire Emblem series
• Independence Day (1996)
• Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)
• Chrono Trigger
• Grandia
• Final Fantasy XV
• Mother 3
• Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
• Tenchu series
• Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition
• Primal Rage
• Dog’s Life
• Tawky Tawny
• Sylvester the Cat
• Tweety
• Stray
• Secret of Evermore
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3
• Sonic & Knuckles
• Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
• Secret of Mana
• Final Fantasy Adventure
• Carmen Sandiego series
• Riichi mahjong
• Rock Band
• Gunsmith Cats
• Demonschool
• The Typing of the Dead
• The House of the Dead 2
• Call of Duty series
• Atari Jaguar
• 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
• CD-i
• Way of the Warrior
• Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon
• PC-FX
• Alien Vs Predator
• Tempest 2000
• Rayman
• Bonk’s Revenge
• Der Langrisser
• Crossed Swords II
• Neo Geo CD
• Obscure Samurai Shodown RPG finally playable in English
• Panzer Dragoon Saga
• DragonForce
• Scott Pilgrim
• Clash at Demonhead
• Rejection: Den-No Senshi
• FM Towns
• Lunatic Dawn
• Thexder
• God Hand
• Vanquish
• Hakaioh: King of Crusher
• Band of Brothers
• Stunt Race FX
• Cruis’n Blast
• Rush’n Attack
• Earthworm Jim
• Tommy Tallarico
• Lucky & Wild
• BioShock
• Donkey Kong Country
• Little Ralph’s Big Adventure
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei
• Alundra
• Landstalker
• Irritating Stick
• Pokémon GO
• The Rub Rabbits!
• Feel the Magic XY/XX
• LovePlus
• Balan Wonderworld
• Zynga
• Fortnite: Battle Royale
• FarmVille
• Mafia Wars
• Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
• Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball
• Lost Judgment
• Takuya Kimura
• Fighting Vipers
• Streets of Rage

Recommendations:

Tim: If you are part of the committee that plans The Game Awards with Geoff Keighley, please come up with better award categories

Frank: The Video Game History Foundation Patreon

Brandon: Mr. Ray’s Wig World - Faster Kitty Cat Play Play

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