Ep. 187 - Revealed: What War Is Actually Good For, with Gene Park
Added 2021-05-31 07:28:43 +0000 UTCWashington Post Video Games Reporter Gene Park joins the panel to cover 3D growing pains, Magic: the Gathering card theft, and the return to that mountain of murder, Violence Island.
Questions this week:
- From Mathew Kumar: what’s your “ol’ trusty” game peripheral? (03:34)
- Which franchise presented the more exciting future this week: Dragon Quest or Sonic the Hedgehog? (08:37)
- How has eBay’s recent reorganization impacted game history preservation? (14:04)
- Violence Island: Sonic’s Best Friend (19:39)
- Dirtbag Official_Danimalz asks: When was the “awkward puberty” of video games? (31:35)
- What makes a video game timeless? (36:05)
- What are the best murders in video games? (41:29)
- What should you never do when titling a video game article? (45:39)
- What is the Dragon Quest of movies? (51:27)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Achievement Detectives (57:07)
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- Mario Monsters
- Sector NGP
- Gene's Virtua Fighter 4 Review (it's at the bottom of the page)
- 30-50 Feral Hogs
- Game & Watch Multi-Screen: Green House
- Karateka
- Dragon Quest announcement stream
- Sonic announcement stream
- "Sonic Rangers"
- Rangerx
- eBay enacting adult content ban
- Tundra
- VIOLENCE ISLAND: Sonic Friends
- Miles "Tails" Prower
Shadow the Hedgehog
Amy Rose
Cream the Rabbit
Big the Cat
Blaze the Cat
Knuckles the Echidna
Rouge the Bat - Cheese the Chao
- Chao Slices
- Big the Cat meets Blaze the Cat
- Knuckles Rap
- Illyana Rasputin
- 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
- Vampire Savior
- Battle Arena Toshinden
- Jet Set Radio
- Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP
- Earth Defense Force
- Earth Defense Force: World Brothers
- OutRun
- Super Smash Bros: Mealy
- Street Fighter III: Third Strike
- Asuka 120%: Final Burning Fest
- Hitman 2: Silent Assassin
- Kasumi Ninja
- Murdered: Soul Suspect
- Tenchu: Stealth Assassins
- The real tragedy of Ethan Winters, Resident Evil’s ‘Village’ idiot by Gene Park
- Betteridge's law of headlines
- "Saturny Nights Fever"
- Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020)
Recommendations:
Gene: Subscribe to your local newspaper only if they're good, twitter.com/genepark, Launcher
Frank: The old Perry Mason is on Paramount+ (though note that this is not a recommendation of Paramount+), Good Deal Games
Brandon: Slay in Hell by Steel Bearing Hand, mention insert credit when buying Genesis games from Good Deal Games for $5 off
DIRTBAGS: You can submit your questions to the show using this form. And, thanks!
Comments
we all wanted tails to win....
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2021-06-03 22:07:58 +0000 UTCthat was a really fun violence island
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2021-06-03 20:25:30 +0000 UTCBy the way, we weren't able to get that final violence island theme in here because kurt was in the mountains! next time...
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2021-05-31 17:43:06 +0000 UTC
