Ep. 323 - Ntscworld

Your benevolent Insert Credit panel covers Palworld, video game mysteries, and the birth of a new speedrunning category, the 50% run. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

Frank asks: What is the proper nomenclature for the Snatcherlike video game? (13:09)

Is Palworld satire? (20:28)

Invent a new speedrunning category (28:40)

Stephanie asks: What’s a video game unsolved mystery or urban legend want solved or confirmed? (39:35)

Which individual video game enemy has killed the greatest number of players globally? (46:47)

If you could swap any two video game sound effects between games, which ones would they be? (52:03)

Who is the Batman of video games? (56:09)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As;: Sim City 2000 (01:04:37)

Recommendations and Outro (01:17:18)

Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Weetabix

Uncle O’Grimacey

FITCRUNCH Mint Chocolate Chip

Keebler Company

Trix

Jason Todd

Honeycomb

David Cronenberg

The Noid

Santa Claus

Tony & Friends: in Kellogg’s Land

Snatcher

Legend of Zelda series

Devil May Cry

Resident Evil

Shenmue

Super Mario Bros. 3

The Secret of Monkey Island

Policenauts

Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken

Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom

Quake

Call of Duty series

Palworld

South Park

Alanis Morissette

Pokémon series

Videoball

Pokémon GO

Fortnite

Awesome Games Done Quick’s adorable dog speedrun was just the start

Gyromite

Super Mario 64

Summoning Salt

Sonic the Hedgehog series

Tokimeki Memorial

Castlevania series

Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Splatterhouse

Metroid

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Magic: The Gathering

Red Dead Redemption II

Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations

David Cage

The Wizard (1989)

Sylvan Tale

Phantom Dust

Boundary Break

P.T.

oddheader

GameHut

Goomba

Pac-Man

Elden Ring

Space Invaders

Donkey Kong

Tetris

Minecraft

Grand Theft Auto series

Villager

Super Smash Brothers series

Tom Nook

Impossible Mission

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind

Tim Allen

Streets of Rage

Earthworm Jim

Batman

Michael Keaton

Robert Pattinson

George Clooney

Batman Begins (2005)

Popeye

Spider-Man licensees

Mortal Kombat series

Joker

Jack Nicholson

Batman (1989)

The Dark Knight Returns

Shigeru Miyamoto

Assassin’s Creed series

Watch_Dogs

Gunpei Yokoi

Blasterhead

Gex

Bubsy

Bruce Waynne

Def Jam: Fight for NY

MLB

Juiced

Batman: Arkham series

Ted Nugent

Wayne Knight

Ted Knight

Super Friends

SimCity 2000

Recommendations:

Brandon: Kantors Office Furniture if you want to try out office furniture in the Bay Area, use your treat dust to make new dog treats, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Jaffe: 52 Pickup

Brandon’s “Daddy’s Dusters” Dog Treat Recipe:

1 cup flour

1 egg

1/2 cup wet ingredient (pumpkin, yogurt, etc)

1/6th cup peanut butter

Treat dust

Mix ingredients “all up,” distribute on cookie sheet, bake at “lower medium” heat for 30 minutes “depending on how your oven works”

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