Ep. 318 - Insert Credit Santacular, with Lucy James
Added 2023-12-25 14:26:04 +0000 UTCHappy holidays! Gamespot’s Lucy James drops down the Insert Credit chimney to cover Welsh elves, the first official weed strain for a video game, and Dreiblade. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, Brandon Sheffield, and Lucy James. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:
- As the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, which three video game characters would be best at teaching Ebenezer Scrooge to change his miserly ways? (09:23)
- Do sliding ice physics ever positively contribute to a video game? (15:19)
- What do you think is the best selling non-video game item at GameStop as a gift this season? (21:35)
- Design the greatest Santa Claus video game of all time (30:48)
- How could dreidel be improved? (35:49)
- Which video game company probably holds the best Christmas party? (42:43)
- Based on video games, what do we know about elves? (49:05)
- What is the Rankin Bass of video games? (54:53)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Christmas Songs (01:01:19)
Recommendations and Outro (01:12:28)
Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Mariah Carey - All I Want for Christmas Is You
- Eggnog
- The Genealogy of Jesus the Messiah
- Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
- Monstera deliciosa
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- The Da Vinci Code
- A Christmas Carol
- Ebenezer Scrooge
- Tetsuya Nomura
- Organization XIII
- The World Ends with You
- Marluxia
- Mickey Mouse
- Kazuma Kiryu
- Goro Majima
- Davy Crockett
- Bob Cratchit
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983)
- Mickey and the Beanstalk
- Pinocchio (1940)
- Jiminy Cricket
- James Stewart
- Lies of P
- Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022)
- Pinocchio: A True Story (2021)
- Pinocchio (2002)
- Navi
- Super Mario series
- Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back
- Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
- The Last of Us series
- X-Men licensees
- Kickle Cubicle
- Chip's Challenge
- Loki #248 Funko Pop! - Thor Ragnarok
- Pikachu Squishmallows Plush
- Breaking Bad
- Minecraft
- Jay and Silent Bob
- Fortnite
- Sonic the Hedgehog series
- Halo series
- The Lost and The Wicked
- Tom Holland
- Darth Vader Christmas Sweater
- Pokémon Trading Card Game
- Alan Wake: Remastered
- Tom Clancy's The Division
- Tom Hiddleston
- Santa Claus
- Mortal Kombat series
- John Wick (2014)
- BioShock
- Death Stranding
- Norman Reedus
- Stardew Valley
- Daze Before Christmas
- Hanukkah
- Dreidel
- Hanukkah gelt
- Paper fortune teller
- Beyblade
- Mario Party series
- Sega
- Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams...
- Konami
- Tokimeki Memorial games
- Wargaming
- Devolver Digital
- Keita Takahashi
- Noby Noby Boy
- Tim Schafer
- Jack Black
- Heather Hawkins
- Dreamcast
- Limp Bizkit
- Ted Lasso
- The Matrix (1999)
- The Eras Tour
- Elf Bowling
- Legend of Zelda series
- Keebler Company
- Fudge Stripes
- Elves
- The Lost Vikings
- Three Dirty Dwarves
- Two Crude Dudes
- Rankin/Bass Animated Entertainment
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
- Frosty the Snowman (1969)
- Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
- The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
- ThunderCats
- Norman Rockwell
- FromSoftware
- Doom
- Rockstar Games
- American McGee's Alice
- Kingdom Hearts series
- Super Smash Bros.
- Boba Fett
- Pornhub's Most Popular Video Game Character In 2023 Was Chun-Li From... Fortnite?
- Insomniac Games
Recommendations:
Frank: Check out gamehistory.org where there will be a video about a very strange game called Super Sushi Pinball
Brandon: Raiders of Atlantis (1983)
Tim: Ferrari (2023)
Lucy: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
Ended up listening to this over the course of TOO MANY nights but it was excellent every time. Really such a fun holiday episode, and everyone seemed in such a relaxed and good mood. Thanks for an awesome 2023 and hope you all had some kind of holiday, break or rest.
Dustin Reno
2023-12-29 05:55:12 +0000 UTC"Noel of Joel" was the funniest thing no one laughed at. Good one, Jaffe!
Death_Strandicoot
2023-12-27 00:09:46 +0000 UTC
