Ep. 318 - Insert Credit Santacular, with Lucy James

Happy 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)

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