Journalist, podcaster, and PR person Ed Zitron joins the panel for the reveal of the Video Game History Museum Library, how to tell when a PR person is lying, and a precise rundown of how fucked video games are. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Ed Zitron. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

Credit Report (05:01)

1: Aaron Stewart-Ahn asks, have you ever gotten in serious trouble playing a multiplayer game? (05:12)

2: Frank, tell us about the newly online Video Game History Museum Library (11:01)

3: Who do you think has the best PR team in video games? (19:52)

4: How fucked are video games? (27:31)

5: LeFish asks, rank from best to worst: 1080 Snowboarding, Excitebike, F-Zero, Mario Kart, and Wave Race. (34:13)

6: What is exactly as satisfying in real life as it is to do in a video game? (37:49)

7: What is the Queens of the Stone Age of Video Games? (40:45)

LIGHTNING ROUND: 21 Questions (43:41)

Recommendations and Outro (55:11):

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