Ep. 392 - Neutered Hyper Fighting

Your Insert Credit panel faces parrying mechanics, Elden Ring Nightreign’s AMV theme and sexy bird men, and Hotel Rwanda but with Mario. Plus, a sneak peek at an unreleased Famicom game! Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

SHOW NOTES:

• Video Game History Foundation

• Bubsy series

• Bubsy 2 Team 02.jpg

• Nani Ga Suki

• Full Sail University

1: What makes a game edgy? (03:49)

• Nu metal

• Elden Ring Nightreign

• Bring Me To Life trailer

• Dragon Ball: Sparking Zero Toonami-style promo

• The Rehearsal

• Captain Sully

• Limp Bizkit

• Red Hot Chili Peppers

• System of a Down

• Korn

• Powerman 5000

• Lit

• Sonic Adventure series

• Shadow the Hedgehog

• Neil Druckmann

• The Last of Us: Part II

• Nier series

• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

2: How do you feel about critical hit systems in games? (10:21)

• Ghostwire: Tokyo

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Metaphor Re:Fantazio

• Why BDS Is Calling for an Xbox Boycott

• Persona series

• King of Fighters series

3: Ash Parrish asks, pro- or anti-parrying? (17:14)

• Parrying Is The Best Thing In Video Games

• Parrying Is The Worst Thing In Video Games

• David Perry

• Earthworm Jim

• Disney's Aladdin

• MDK

• Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike

• Doom series

• Bayonetta series

• Baseball

• Perry White

• J. Jonah Jameson

• Cricket

• Volleyball

• Tennis

• Phil Salvador

• Game Boy Camera

• Perry

• Guardian

4: What would JRPGs look like from other European countries? (23:37 )

• Farming Simulator

• European Truck Simulator

• Rocket League

• Sifu

• Greggs

• Final Fantasy XV

• Datsun

• The Witcher series

• Dragoon

• Street Fighter II

• Mafia series

5: Magnanimus asks, what’s the best game on the Wikipedia page “List of games notable for negative reception?” (30:41)

• List of video games notable for negative reception

• Cyberpunk 2077

• Custer’s Revenge

• Night Trap

• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

• Fallout 76

• Final Fantasy XIV

• Batman: Dark Tomorrow

• Double Dragon series

• Sonic series

• Balan Wonderworld

• Babylon’s Fall

• Robert Louis Stevenson

• Hotel Mario

• Hotel Rwanda (2004)

• Mario is Missing

6: Which video game character do you think the most actual human people have been named after? (36:49)

• Cloud Strife

• Aerith Gainsborough

• Bella Swan

• John Marston

• Princess Zelda

• Zelda Fitzgerald

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Sephiroth

• Jenova Chen

7: Create a definitive ranking of the five best Pac-Man games (40:59)

• Pac-Man 2: the New Adventures

• Ms. Pac-Man

• Pac-Man: Championship Edition

• Super Smash Brothers series

• Pac-Land

• Pac 'n Roll

• Pac-Man World

• Shadow Labyrinth

• Secret Level

• Frogger series

• Pac-Attack

• Pac-in-Time

• Pac-Man VR

• Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness

• Pac-Pix

8: If your dog or cat suddenly became a human being, what video games do you think they’d be into? (45:43)

• EA FIFA / EA Sports FC series

• Call of Duty series

• Frosty the Snowman

• Duck Hunt

• Point Blank

• Police Trainer series

• Small Saga

• Shadow of the Colossus

• Pokemon Let’s Go Eevee

• Stray

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - JAV Titles (51:47)

Credit Report (01:03:40)

Recommendations and Outro (01:07:00):

• Frank: We're Dumping 125 Mystery Prototype ROMs!

  • Exclusive debut of tiles from an unreleased Famicom game, “Nurse Hitler” batch

  • Exclusive debut of tiles from an unreleased Famicom game, “Duneish” batch

  • Picture of Corn Dog

  • Picture of Taffy

• Brandon: Wind Breaker, thanks for being a left-wing person, not the movie Blackenstein (1973)

• Ash: The Apothecary Diaries, touch grass, Dropout.tv

  • Picture of Bu

  • Picture of Gus

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