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Ep. 181 - All Six Of Them, with Ash Parrish

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Game journalist and friend of the show Ash Parrish returns to cover Amiga AI, alien boyfriends, and pynball.

Questions this week:

  1. From Heather Alexandra: What game has the tastiest potions? (03:53)
  2. What’s something you never want to see in a video game again? (08:27)
  3. What are the best achievements in video game AI development? (12:56)
  4. Which officially released video games are most transparently fanfiction of other games? (17:37)
  5. Design the perfect romancable alien RPG NPC, but make them distinctly nonhuman. (22:27)
  6. Dirtbag MoxBagel asks: How would you re-design pinball to be more of a 30 minute game instead of a 3 minute game? (28:40)
  7. Have you ever wished a game challenged you a little more? (34:53)
  8. What are the best liminal spaces in a video game? (39:41)
  9. Has your opinion of a game ever changed after speaking with the developer? (43:53)
  10. What is the Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” of video games? (49:52)

    11. LIGHTNING ROUND: Alphanumerous Characters (55:26)

    Think you have better answers than the panel? Politely discuss this episode in the Insert Credit forums.

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Seventh Son of a Seventh Son by Iron Maiden
    • The Seventh Sign (1988)
    • Synesthesia
    • A Healer Only Lives Twice
    • Phantasy Star
    • Bayonetta
    • Castlevania Holy Water
    • C.C. Lemon
    • Final Fantasy Potion energy drink
    • Bawls
    • Mamotte Knight
    • Ico
    • The Last Guardian
    • Enemy: Tempest of Violence
    • Final Fight
    • River City Ransom
    • X-COM
    • Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
    • Lemmings
    • Yooka Laylee
    • Fantasian
    • Doujin games
    • Melty Blood
    • Touhou fangames
    • I Wanna Be The Guy
    • Freedom Planet
    • Project X Zone
    • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
    • Inuyasha
    • Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
    • Elcor
    • Volus
    • Blue humans
    • Babylon 5
    • Trypophobia (warning: potentially upsetting)
    • Tryptophan
    • Misophonia
    • 3D Pinball
    • Pinball Quest
    • Devil’s Crush
    • Demon’s Tilt
    • Alien Crush
    • Fantastic Pinball
    • Pokemon Pinball
    • Sonic Spinball
    • Metroid Prime Pinball
    • Flipnic: Ultimate Pinball
    • Yoku’s Island Express
    • It Takes Two
    • The Witness
    • Nier: Automata
    • Deadly Premonition
    • Mega Man 2 ending cavern
    • Sonic CD soundtrack
    • “Games for which there are two soundtracks, and both are good” on the Insert Credit Forums
    • Black Athena: How Hades Gets Its Gods Right by Ash Parrish
    • Slap Happy Rhythm Busters
    • Miles Davis “Kind of Blue”
    • Super Mario Galaxy
    • Spec-Ops: The Line
    • Wii Sports
    • Take Five
    • Street Fighter IV
    • Mortal Kombat III

      Recommendations:

      Ash: Kotaku Splitscreen, twitter.com/adashtra

      Brandon: Fourth Dimension, Melinda’s Hot Sauce

      Frank: Shaquanda’s Hot Pepper Sauce

      Jaffe: The Unknown (1927)

      This Week’s Insert Credit Art Jam Topic: Cheating

      Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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