Ep. 194 - Kim Cardassian, with Rachel Weil and Lotte May
Added 2021-07-19 04:31:30 +0000 UTCArtist and FEMICOM founder Rachel Weil alongside gamedev Lotte May join the panel to cover the Bally Astrocade, Jaffe’s favorite isekai, and Amethyst Princess of Gemworld.
Questions this week:
- What's the deal with the Steam Deck? (03:44)
- How does femininity best express itself in video games? (08:10)
- How can we translate the appeal of mahou shoujo into video games? (13:31)
- What’s the relation between video games and glitch art? (18:35)
- Excluding Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft and Sega, who are the top 5 console manufacturers? (23:09)
- From Brandon Sheffield: What are the best action games with female protagonists? (29:23)
- Dirtbag Spencer asks: what video game allows for the most self-expression, while not specifically being about creativity? (34:29)
- What are the greatest movie tie-in games made before 1995? (39:33)
- Who would you use as the template for a “look book” for designers of female game characters? (44:11)
- Who or what is the Lisa Frank of video games? (48:37)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Pink Games (53:04)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Yakuza 0
- Steam Deck
- Stream Deck
- Saturn controller
- WaveBird
- Bally Astrocade
- Imagine: Babyz Fashion
- Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar
- Mahou shoujo
- Sally the Witch
- Majokko Daisakusen: Little Witching Mischiefs
- Super Robot Taisen
- Kim Kardashian: Hollywood
- Cardassian
- Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon: Another Story
- Magic Knight Rayearth
- Suzanne Treister's fictional video game stills
- Zgrass on youtube
- NEC
- The 3DO Company
- Casio
- Bandai
- TurboGrafx-16
- Casio Loopy
- WonderSwan
- SuFami Turbo
- Jaguar
- GamePark
- GP32
- Valis
- Barbie Fashion Designer
- Barbie Mermaid Adventure
- Crystal's Pony Tale
- Miracle Girls: Tomomi to Mikage no Miracle World Adventure.
- Lost Word of JeNnY: Ushinawareta Message
- Devil Hunter Yohko: Dai 7 no Keisho
- Kendo Rage
- Blazing Rangers
- Smarty
- Theresa Duncan
- Chop Suey
- skate 3
- Tekken 7 Character Creator
- GTA Online
- Final Fantasy XIV
- Demolition Man
- Batman Returns
- Home Alone
- Alien3
- Aladdin
- The Lion King
- Beauty and the Beast
- Hagane: The Final Conflict
- Cliffhanger
- The Goonies
- Friday the 13th
- The Little Mermaid
- Fester's Quest
- Barbie Fashion
- Amethyst Princess of Gemworld
- Jem
- Style Savvy series
- Amethyst Princess of Gemworld series
- Lisa Frank
- Nathalie Lawhead
- Andi McClure
- El Shaddai
- Paloma Dawkins
Recommendations:
Lotte: Turn A Gundam, Godzilla Singular Point
Rachel: FEMICOM Museum, Pop Cutie! Street Fashion Simulation
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
Thank you! That's lovely to hear. Sometimes we do worry whether we're still bringing you all the kind of thing you're looking for as the show has morphed over the last year, so the encouragement is appreciated!
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2021-07-21 21:08:09 +0000 UTCMaaaaaaaaan, this might be getting a little mushy... but I'm wrapping up this episode and just wanted to let you know that this show brings me so much joy. Keep up the great work! I look forward to listening to each episode every time it pops up in my new releases. Thanks for the tip on Suzanne Treister. I'd never heard of her before and her work is amazing.
Harper Sims
2021-07-21 18:47:58 +0000 UTCI (brandon) feel like sailor moon became a new prototype rather than a parody but I see where you're coming from. The idea of "you can do it" coming from the magical adventure then applying to their real lives is a definite element here though - and now I want to play card capture sakura tetris.
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2021-07-19 21:05:57 +0000 UTCI have not played it since it’s 3spooky5me, but many people with uteruses tell me they see Bloodborne as a uterus-themed video game. As for the next question, I think an important theme of magical girls (that we don’t get here because we just get the weird parodies of them like Sailor Moon) is they’re also the teaching little kids morals cartoons, something like Arthur. So when they’re done with their job fighting catboys or tokusatsu villains, they still have to come home and deal with things like “what if my parents get divorced” without powers to help. (Also CC Sakura Tetris for PS1 is good.)
MVB
2021-07-19 20:42:30 +0000 UTCI should explain that I always misheard the lyric “Turn like a wheel inside a wheel” from Talking Heads’ “Slippery People” as “It’s like a wave, it’s like a wave”
Alex Jaffe
2021-07-19 05:33:52 +0000 UTCOne day early!!!!
frankie coleman
2021-07-19 04:32:02 +0000 UTC
