Ep. 299 - Are You Out of Your Mind?

Fifty listener questions taking the form of “What is the ___ of video games?” are defeated by the full panel of the Insert Credit Show. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

Vanilla Bean asks: What is the Aphex Twin to Radiohead to Coldplay of video games? (07:32)

John H: What is the Studio Trigger of video games? (08:46)

Danimal: Who (or what) is the Wednesday Campanella of video games? (10:14)

Henry: What is the Action Comics #1 competition of video games? (11:42)

Tomarrow: What is the meat and potatoes of video games? (12:49)

Kiko b: What is the peanut butter and jelly on white bread of video games? (13:42)

Ian: what’s the everything bagel of video games? (14:52)

Gaagaagiins: What is the 2 in 1 shampoo and conditioner of video games? (15:37)

Chris B: What is the “walking by a store on a hot day that has the front doors wide open with the AC blasting and you catch a sudden blast of freezing air” of video games? (16:52)

Justin: What’s the “Live Free or Die Hard” of video games? (18:24)

BrillPickle asks: What’s the Normcore of video games? (20:10)

BrillPickle asks: What’s the healthgoth of video games? (21:09)

Spencer: what is the “going to the movies but spending the whole time on your phone” of video games? (22:08)

Cwumble Fletkh: Who is the Oedipus of video games? (23:08)

Fighting fudon: What is the “I’ve had too much coffee and now I feel like death” of video games? (23:58)

JackOakLeaf: What is the Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather of video games? (25:24)

Jimi: Who are the Jerry, Elaine, George, and Kramer of video game characters? (26:21)

Jomch: What is the Frasier of videogames? (26:39)

Dillson: What is the Hatsune Miku Guitar Synthesizer Stompbox of video games? (28:00)

kory: What is the Jaws 19 from Back to the Future Part II of video games? (28:34)

Anonymous: What is the finding an onion ring in your fries of video games? (29:12)

Classic Anonymous: What is the Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud of video games? (31:22)

U G: What is the Mark Z Danielewski’s House of Leaves of video games? (32:29)

Shlooter McGavin: What is the “reading a magazine back to front” of video games? (33:26)

gordon “matty” freeman: What is the “vinyl just sounds better, dude” of video games? (34:31)

Insert Credit Quick Break: Patreon listeners, please check your info because Patreon screwed up (34:57)

Maybesheforgot: What is the O Brother Where Art Thou of video games? (35:37)

Jeff Mangum: Who or what is the Neutral Milk Hotel of video games? (36:43)

Skeletoncounter: What is the Wes Craven’s New Nightmare of video games? (38:16)

Gaagaagiins asks: What is the comparison between the theatrical and extended cuts of the Lord of the Rings trilogy? (40:52)

LeFish: What is the finding out Santa isn’t real of video games? (42:42)

Anonymous: What is the going back in time to kill baby Hitler of video games? (44:09)

Charlie: Who, or what game, is the first Mark Twain of video games? (45:28)

Arvid: What’s the “built like a brick outhouse” of video games? (46:05)

Buy Gebord: What is the Society of the Spectacle of video games? (47:20)

Marxseny: What is the “It’s not a phase, mom” of video games? (48:19)

Barclay: What is The Illuminatus! Trilogy of video games? (49:20)

Crumbling Kwelfis: who is the jean-luc godard of video games? (50:29)

Dustin: What is the high school reunion of video games? (51:31)

Cole: What is the Nissan Sileighty of video games? (52:43)

La_cuna: What or who is the Ricky Jay of video games? (53:35)

Kyle: What is the Mission Impossible of video games? (55:32)

Torbjorn: Who is the Søren Kierkegaard of video games? (56:42)

Antho: What’s the Canadian tuxedo of video games? (57:40)

ana: What is the cinéma-vérité of video games? (59:06)

Snowtire: what is the Star Citizen of video games? (01:00:08)

Smander Jettz: Who is the Ezra Miller of video games? (01:01:03)

Brayden Bunker: What is the aeropress of video games? (01:02:53)

Samf Sankey: who is the Jim Varney of video games? (01:05:47)

Swift Justice: What is the BABYMETAL of video games? (01:07:03)

nate: what is the 4’33 of video games? (01:09:06)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:27)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Super Mario series

Super Mario Bros - Star

The Stars and Stripes Forever

Turkey in the Straw

What’s The Buzz

Koji Kondo

Django Reinhardt

Limehouse Blues

The Entertainer (rag)

1812 Overture

La Marseillaise

Happy Birthday to You

Aphex Twin

Radiohead

Coldplay

Bayonetta

Devil May Cry series

Ninja Gaiden series

Final Fantasy XVI

Dragon’s Dogma

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

SNL “Dear Sister” Parody

Studio Trigger

WayForward

Gainax

Wednesday Campanella

Castlevania series

Final Fantasy XIV Online

Bonk’s Revenge

Action Comics 1

StarTropics

EarthBound

Call of Duty series

Angry Birds

Destiny

Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series

Sonic Mania

Days Gone

Assassin’s Creed series

Resident Evil series

Raw Danger!

Die Hard (film series)

Normcore

Roblox

Health Goth

Bullet Witch

P.N.03

Rez

Indiana Jones

Oedipus

David Cage

Men in Black (1997)

MadWorld

JSRF: Jet Set Radio Future

Shenmue

Skies of Arcadia

Marlon Brando

The Godfather (1972)

God of War

Seinfeld

Frasier

Cheers

Virtua Fighter

Banjo-Kazooie

Diddy Kong Racing

Donkey Kong Country

Liquid Television

MIKU STOMP

Undertale

Groove Coaster series

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

PlayStation 9

Halo: Combat Evolved

Understanding Comics

A Grammar of Gameplay

House of Leaves

What Remains of Edith Finch

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Yesterday’s Enterprise

Christopher McDonald

Tasha Yar

Grand Theft Auto series

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

Raising Arizona (1987)

Brütal Legend

Guitar Hero

Neutral Milk Hotel

Final Fantasy IX

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

Bubsy series

Broken Age

Monkey Island series

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Fable series

Blaster Master series

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Lord of the rings extended edition

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 FES

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 - Portable

Santa Claus

Tool-assisted speedrun

Castle Wolfenstein series

FarmVille

Cyberpunk 2077

Mark Twain

Octopath Traveler

The Society of the Spectacle

The Righteous Gemstones

Succession

The Illuminatus! Trilogy

Xenogears / Xenosaga universe

Jean-Luc Godard

Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983)

Game Freak

François Truffaut

Super Smash Brothers series

F-Zero

Nissan 180SX

Initial D

Ridge Racer 6

Ricky Jay

Mission: Impossible

Mission: Impossible

Søren Kierkegaard

Michael Brough

Cinéma vérité

The Stanley Parable

Among Us

Star Citizen

Star Ocean

Baldur’s Gate III

Ezra Miller

Reginald VelJohnson

Family Matters

AeroPress

Aero the Acro-Bat

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Jim Varney

Ernest P. Worrell

Paul Reubens

Nintendogs

Babymetal

BioShock

4′33″

What’s Inside the Box?

Super Mario Clouds

Recommendations:

Frank: Listen to episode 300

Tim: Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants

Brandon: Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), Trader Joes Rice Cracker Medley

Jaffe: Sandman Mystery Theatre

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