Historian Kevin Impellizeri shares a story of a video game controversy to his friends: Elford Stephens, John Dukes, and Phil Thomas. In today's episode, we take a closer look at the Turok naming contests, a pair of 2002 marketing campaigns for the GameCube/Xbox/PlayStation 2 game Turok Evolution where publisher Acclaim tried to convince people to change their name to "Turok." 
Topics discussed include: looking back at some fun (and some not so fun) dinosaur themed first person shooters, what it would take for you to change your name to a brand, the marketing potential of seagull attacks, and whether its a good idea to put ads on tombstones.
Today's game: Lore or Lies. Can the guys tell real parts of the Turok lore from stuff Kevin made up?
Theme Music: Occam's Sikhwee by Sikh Knowledge (Free Music Archive: https://bit.ly/33G4sLO), used under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US (https://bit.ly/33JXogQ)