Ep. 316 - Insert Credit Game Awards Special

Recorded before The Game Awards, and released the week after! The Insert Credit Panel decides the video game winners of categories unwittingly submitted by listeners. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

And The Categories Are:

Gaagaagiins: Best Standardized Box Art Platform Frames (02:15)

Propelleher: Best Scoff (05:35)

rice9 : Best eSport of the 1980s (07:16)

Breadytodie: Best Overtly Political Japanese Game (08:48)

Cole: Best Campfire Scene (10:59)

IntergalacticWalrus: Best Playable Non-Anthropomorphic Animal (13:14)

Spencer: Best Game By an American Branch of a Japanese Company (16:02)

Larky: Most Incidentally Educational Game (18:59)

rearnakedwindow: Best Game Exclusive to a Legitimately Bad Console (22:13)

Alex Jaffe: Best Video Game to Name Your Band After (24:53)

ANONYMOUS GOD HAND LOVER: Game Most Like GOD HAND (27:15)

Billy: Best Underwater Tunnel in a Racing Game (28:34)

Sfwublin: Best Mine Carts (31:01)

Justin Hamrick: Most Dangerous Video Game (33:47)

Pro Skater 4: Most Evil Video Game (36:41)

Erica: Most Video Game-Ass Video Game (39:05)

Recommendations and Outro (42:08)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

The Game Awards

Intellivision

PC Engine

Master System

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

PlayStation 3

PlayStation Portable

PlayStation 5

PlayStation 4

Xbox

Nintendo Entertainment System

Quake II

Terry Bogard

X-Men

Street Fighter series

Punch-Out series

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Dog Patch

Balloon Fight

Metal Gear series

Death Stranding

Metal Wolf Chaos

Fire Emblem series

Independence Day (1996)

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

Chrono Trigger

Grandia

Final Fantasy XV

Mother 3

Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Tenchu series

Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition

Primal Rage

Dog’s Life

Tawky Tawny

Sylvester the Cat

Tweety

Stray

Secret of Evermore

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Sonic the Hedgehog: Spinball

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sonic & Knuckles

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles

Secret of Mana

Final Fantasy Adventure

Carmen Sandiego series

Riichi mahjong

Rock Band

Gunsmith Cats

Demonschool

The Typing of the Dead

The House of the Dead 2

Call of Duty series

Atari Jaguar

3DO Interactive Multiplayer

CD-i

Way of the Warrior

Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon

PC-FX

Alien Vs Predator

Tempest 2000

Rayman

Bonk’s Revenge

Der Langrisser

Crossed Swords II

Neo Geo CD

Obscure Samurai Shodown RPG finally playable in English

Panzer Dragoon Saga

DragonForce

Scott Pilgrim

Clash at Demonhead

Rejection: Den-No Senshi

FM Towns

Lunatic Dawn

Thexder

God Hand

Vanquish

Hakaioh: King of Crusher

Band of Brothers

Stunt Race FX

Cruis’n Blast

Rush’n Attack

Earthworm Jim

Tommy Tallarico

Lucky & Wild

BioShock

Donkey Kong Country

Little Ralph’s Big Adventure

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Panzer Dragoon II: Zwei

Alundra

Landstalker

Irritating Stick

Pokémon GO

The Rub Rabbits!

Feel the Magic XY/XX

LovePlus

Balan Wonderworld

Zynga

Fortnite: Battle Royale

FarmVille

Mafia Wars

Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series

Dead or Alive: Xtreme Beach Volleyball

Lost Judgment

Takuya Kimura

Fighting Vipers

Streets of Rage

Recommendations:

Tim: If you are part of the committee that plans The Game Awards with Geoff Keighley, please come up with better award categories

Frank: The Video Game History Foundation Patreon

Brandon: Mr. Ray’s Wig World - Faster Kitty Cat Play Play

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