Ep. 404 - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield discuss Demonschool’s release date getting sniped by Silksong, thoughts on lost media, and E3ster. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• Dubai chocolate
• Labubu
• Matcha
• Latte
• Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate
• Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars
• Game Boy Advance
• Nintendo Entertainment System
• Battlefields of Napoleon
• Video Game History Foundation
• Nintendo DS
• Ace Attorney series
• Final Fantasy series
• Metroid Prime Pinball
• Pokemon series

1: Is Bubsy back? (05:44)

• Gamescom
• Bubsy 4D
• Bubsy series
• Demon Turf
• Demon Tides
• Yoshi
• Sonic
• Balan Wonderworld
• Geoff Keighley
• Silksong
• Hollow Knight
• Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles
• Demonschool
• Kirby Air Raiders

2: Victoria Tran asks, what’s the best video game purchase you made for under $20? (17:53)

• Magic Knight Rayearth
• Sega Saturn
• Personasama
• Magical Chase
• Shantae
• Game Boy Color
• Ninja Five-0
• FM Towns Marty
• Hudson Soft Company, Ltd.
• Jim Gordon
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Battle Chef Brigade
• Bejeweled
• Iron Chef
• Mount and Blade: Warband
• Crypt of the NecroDancer
• Undertale
• Void Stranger
• Crow Country

3: SteveWithAB asks, what is the most adult E-rated game? (24:03)

• ESRB
• Harvest Moon series
• Euro Truck Simulator series
• Piglet’s Big Game
• Resident Evil
• Silent Hill
• Sid Meier’s Civilization series
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• Imagine: Babyz
• Cooking Mama series
• Football Manager series
• Madden series
• American Truck Simulator
• Farming Simulator series
• That Dragon, Cancer
• Ouya

4: What most fascinates you regarding lost media? (29:55)

• Lost media
• Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021)
• Infamous ‘Lost’ Nintendo Mean Girls Game Now Fully Revealed
• Raven-Symoné
• The Keep (1983)
• Apocalypse Now (1979)
• The Warriors (1979)
• The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
• Orson Welles
• Citizen Kane (1941)
• Albert Pyun
• The Fantastic Four
• Cyborg (1989)
• Jean-Claude Van Damme
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024)
• Behind the Cancellation of ‘Batgirl’
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Sonic 2’s Lost Stages Revealed
• Dragon Age II
• Dragon Age: Inquisition
• Jodorowsky’s Dune
• Salvador Dalí
• Moebius
• Jodorowsky’s Dune (2013)

5: From a studio standpoint, what does the last two weeks look like before a video game comes out? (41:34)

• Jira
• Demonschool Press Kit
• WebP

LIGHTNING ROUND: Alphabrecs (51:50)

Recommendations and Outro (59:40):

• Brandon: My Heart Is That Eternal Rose (1989)
• Frank: King of the Hill reboot if you liked the original
• Ash: Be nice to Ash, it’s her birthday whenever today is!

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