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Ep. 419 - Half-Life 3: Rd Person

Added 2025-12-15 11:26:38 +0000 UTC

Guest host Esper Quinn asks Frank, Ash, and Brandon about Xbox’s Black Friday failure, The Game Awards, and creative uses for soy sauce.

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

SHOW NOTES:

1: Vanessa B asks, what is the most ridiculous fighting game outfit you've seen and what about it irks your nerves? (04:51)

2: You guys see the Nex Cube outsold the Xbox on Black Friday? (09:29)

3: If you ran a video game history foundation, what would you do with an unreleased NES game? (18:30)

4: Given that we record this show on the Thursday before it’s released, recap what happened at The Game Awards (23:46)

5: Yeso asks, if video games had a currency, who would be on the $1, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills? (30:05)

6: What age should a person play their first video game? (37:27)

7: What is the soy sauce of video games? (41:04)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Even More Magic the Gathering Cards (45:39)

Recommendations and Outro (52:47):

Frank: The Video Game History Foundation’s Winter Fundraiser Calendar of Events
Brandon: Bullets Over Summer (1999), Jai D - Keichitsu Vol.1, Yoshie Kashiwabara - Luster, please review Demonschool

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