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Ep. 210 - Mario's Big Spaghetti Time, with Jenna Stoeber

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Writer and Video Producer for Polygon Jenna Stoeber joins the panel to litigate whether P.T. is a complete game, milking for sport, and Zapdouglas.

Questions this week:

  1. K Thor Jensen asks: does your inventory management system reflect your real-world inventory management style? (04:56)
  2. What is the most incorrect prediction about video games you’ve ever heard or made? (10:25)
  3. What video game series should be adapted to young adult novels? (15:35)
  4. Which dormant video game series with three or more entries ended on the highest note? (19:41)
  5. What twitter account would you start to influence a trend in video game development, a la Can You Pet The Dog? (24:32)
  6. Dirtbag MVB asks: What are some good games made from reused assets? (30:09)
  7. What’s some of the juiciest drama you’ve seen in a video game community or message board? (35:16)
  8. What songs not written for video games do you associate with video games? (39:55)
  9. How do you make failure in video games fun? (45:28)
  10. What is the Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho of video games? (50:34)

    11. LIGHTNING ROUND: Pokedexperts (54:03)

    Recommendations and Outro (59:05)

    I don’t see why you wouldn’t discuss this episode in the forums, you know?

    A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

    • Metal Gear Solid 2
    • Dead and Buried (1981)
    • Evil Dead II (1987)
    • Cat People (1982)
    • Animorphs TV series
    • Unpacking
    • Resident Evil 4
    • Solatorobo
    • Fallout 3
    • How accurate were 2009’s video game predictions?
    • Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube?
    • Project Milo
    • Insert Credit’s Own Mathew Kumar
    • (sorry folks, Mobygames went down right at this point in the edit!! the following links will use wikipedia or something else. -Esper)
    • Stardew Valley
    • Halo novels
    • League of Legends
    • Injustice: Gods Among Us
    • Uncharted
    • Sonic Mania
    • Silent Hill series
    • Can You Pet The Dog?
    • Is Something Behind The Waterfall?
    • Sega Genesis Development Kit
    • Rayman Fiesta Run
    • Batman: Arkham Origins
    • King of Fighters Dream Match 99
    • The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
    • I Wanna Be The Guy
    • Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
    • Mad World
    • All I Want by Offspring
    • Greensleeves
    • Music of the Fallout series
    • Beyond the Sea
    • The Ink Spots
    • The Beatles Rock Band
    • Through The Fire and Flames
    • Star Trek Enterprise intro
    • GROW series
    • Nightshade
    • Celeste
    • Dangerous Curves soundtrack
    • QWOP
    • Crime Scene Kitchen

      Recommendations:

      Frank: The Ink Spots baby, take Frank’s file boxes

      Jenna: Inscryption

      Brandon: Get a buyout from your landlord if you’re moving out of a rent-controlled apartment

      Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

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