Ep. 349 - Crab Up, Squad! with Simon Parkin

The New Yorker and The Observer’s Simon Parkin joins the panel to cover a new angle in game genres, the legacy of Segata Sanshiro, and aesthetic crevices. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Simon Parkin. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• DVD
• MiSTer FPGA
• Spacewar
• Nintendo 64
• Wii
• Link’s Crossbow Training
• Wii Fit
• Dreamcast
• Donkey Konga
• Let’s Tap
• Wii Music
• Mad Maestro!
• Chainsaw Controller
• Hori Dragon Quest Slime Controller

Question 1: What’s the correlation in game design between fun and player freedom? (03:55)

• Hirokazu Yasuhara
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Sokoban
• Grand Theft Auto III
• Fallout series
• SEGA Sports games
• Just Cause series
• Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
• Warren Spector
• Uncharted series
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
• Baldur’s Gate series
• Mass Effect series
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Question 2: What is the most widely held bad take amongst gamers? (12:12)

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Dark Souls
• Sega Saturn
• PlayStation
• GameCube
• Virtual Boy
• Video games can never be art
• Street Fighter series
• Tommy Tallarico

Question 3: Come up with a new “Sega Does What Nintendon’t”-style slogan for the Dreamcast 2 (20:29)

• Build Back Better Plan
• Mad Men
• Roblox
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamcast
• Segata Sanshiro
• Akira Kurosawa
• Sanshiro Sugata (1943)
• Hiroshi Fujioka
• Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth
• Segata Sanshiro Commercials

Question 4, from CJ Mixy: at what point do games go from being “ripoffs” to part of a genre? (27:36)

• Genshin Impact
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Koji Igarashi
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
• Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow
• Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin
• Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
• Metroid
• Super Metroid
• Metroid Fusion
• Metroid Prime
• Bejeweled: Deluxe
• Candy Crush Saga
• Doom
• Asteroids
• Hexen: Beyond Heretic
• Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
• Critter Crunch
• Magical Drop
• AstroPop Deluxe
• Money Puzzle Exchanger

Question 5: What is the reading the New Yorker for the cartoons of video games? (37:52)

• The New Yorker
• Castle Wolfenstein series
• Elaine Benes
• CNN
• Gran Turismo series
• Galaxian
• Ridge Racer series
• Galaga
• The Loading Screen Game Patent Finally Expires
• Gears of War series
• Final Fantasy XV
• Dragon’s Dogma

LIGHTNING ROUND: Their Perfect Console (44:32)

Recommendations and Outro (56:31):

• Brandon: Orchids are very nice at Trader Joes right now, Black Cat (1991)
• Tim: Interview with the Vampire
• Simon: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin, What Went Wrong Podcast

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