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:
Gaagaagiins: Best Standardized Box Art Platform Frames (02:15)
Propelleher: Best Scoff (05:35)
rice9 : Best eSport of the 1980s (07:16)
Breadytodie: Best Overtly Political Japanese Game (08:48)
Cole: Best Campfire Scene (10:59)
IntergalacticWalrus: Best Playable Non-Anthropomorphic Animal (13:14)
Spencer: Best Game By an American Branch of a Japanese Company (16:02)
Larky: Most Incidentally Educational Game (18:59)
rearnakedwindow: Best Game Exclusive to a Legitimately Bad Console (22:13)
Alex Jaffe: Best Video Game to Name Your Band After (24:53)
ANONYMOUS GOD HAND LOVER: Game Most Like GOD HAND (27:15)
Billy: Best Underwater Tunnel in a Racing Game (28:34)
Sfwublin: Best Mine Carts (31:01)
Justin Hamrick: Most Dangerous Video Game (33:47)
Pro Skater 4: Most Evil Video Game (36:41)
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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Ep. 316 - Insert Credit Game Awards Special