Ep. 454 - Turtle Goblins

Editor and Media Critic Esper Quinn joins Jaffe, Frank and Brandon for an evening of video game writing, high volume of death, and the Mr. Bones Apology Tour.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• “This isn’t a brutality. This is a fatality.”
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Field
• Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Title Screen
• Panzer Dragoon - Title Screen
• X-Men - Title Screen
• The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night
• Insert Credit Show
• Topic Lords
• Pokemon Red & Blue - Intro
• Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy
• Game Boy Advance

1: What do you look for in a video game castle? (04:18)

• Unicorn
• Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!
• Castlevania series
• Super Mario 64
• Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• Pokemon series
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Persona 5
• Resident Evil 4
• The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
• Crow Country

2: What kinds of video games have the narrowest distinction between a good one and a bad one? (10:22)

• Deadly Premonition
• Earth Defense Force series
• Blue Archive
• Comiket
• Love and Deepspace
• Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket
• Norm!

3: Hey Esper, what are the hardest video games to find footage for when making the video edition of Insert Credit? (15:34)

• PC-98
• Recommendation Guy
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl
• Daria’s Inferno
• Creative Commons
• MobyGames
• MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity
• Seaman
• World of Longplays
• 10min Gameplay

4: What do video game writers get away with that would never fly in other media? (22:38)

• Brad Pitt
• Rick and Morty

5: Magnanimus asks, other than humans, what creature has been killed the most times across all video games? (26:58)

• Turtle
• Zombie
• Goblin
• Super Mario series
• Goomba
• Fungus
• Minecraft
• Vampire Survivors
• Skeleton
• Bat
• Zubat
• Robot
• Cyborg
• Mother 3
• Slime
• Cookie Clicker
• The Felling of the One Hundred Centillion Turtle Goblins: A Morality Game (download, extract html file, and open in browser to play!)

6: On which occasions have you told someone specifically not to play a video game? (31:42)

• MMO
• Magic: the Gathering
• The 3rd Birthday
• Parasite Eve series
• No Man’s Sky
• PC-Engine
• Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones
• Mr. Bones
• Valis series
• Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09
• Grateful Dead

7: What is the FLCL of video games? (35:44)

• Gainax
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• The Rub Rabbits!
• Star Fox series
• Sin & Punishment
• Shenmue series
• No More Heroes
• Bayonetta series
• Platinum Games
• MadWorld
• Persona series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Magic: the Sortening (40:40)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:11)

• Brandon: Not Dracula 3000 (2004), Taskmaster Season 21, Please do not hang out in the street, the commentary for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Esper: The Mountain Goats - Days, Ekphrasis, Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn

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