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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