Worth the wait! Hear the behind the scenes production details of Riot Games Alex Jaffe filling in for our own beloved host, Brandon and Jaffe’s progress on Nier Replicant, and much more. (editor note: unfortunately due to my own error in saving audio, I do not have any of kazuma hashimoto’s excellent post-show content. we’ll just have to have him on again sometime!)

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Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Product Placement (58:47)

Discuss this episode among generally polite and universally cool people in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Frank: Video Game History Foundation “Blind Box” Vintage Video Game Magazines

Brandon: Enjoy the media you’ve collected over the years, The Brat - Attitudes EP

John: DF Retro, Retrotink 5X

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

Washington Post Video Games Reporter Gene Park joins the panel to cover 3D growing pains, Magic: the Gathering card theft, and the return to that mountain of murder, Violence Island.

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Achievement Unlockers (57:07)

What are YOUR answers to these immaculate questions? Share in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Gene: Subscribe to your local newspaper only if they’re good, twitter.com/genepark, Launcher,

Frank: The old Perry Mason is on Paramount+, though note that this is not a recommendation of Paramount+, Good Deal Games

Brandon: Slay in Hell by Steel Bearing Hand, mention insert credit when buying Genesis games from Good Deal Games for $5 off

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

With our regular host recovering from vaccination, Riot Games’ Alex Jaffe steps in along with Insert Credit correspondent Mathew Kumar to dig into our Dirtbag of Patreon subscriber submitted questions. (Content warning: conversation takes a pretty morbid turn in question 5. Also it’s a Mathew Kumar episode, so there is some swearing.)

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Emptying the Dirtbag (54:36)

Think YOU have better answers than the panel? You don’t! But you can discuss the episode here in the insert credit forums.

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Mathew: Check out decolonizepalestine.com, BDS, donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Brandon: itch.io Solidarity Bundle for Palestine

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

Translator and media critic Kazuma Hashimoto joins the panel to cover zabbing bloboids, the three hundred and twenty six pathways of Shadow the Hedgehog, and The Masked Tuber.

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Review Scale Calibrations (56:31)

Think YOU have better answers than the panel? You don’t! But you can discuss the episode here in the insert credit forums.

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Brandon: Dreams of the Carrion Kind by Disincarnate, G2 (1999),

Frank: A big book of unreleased NES games Esper can’t find a link to because Frank doesn’t even attempt the title

Kazuma: +81 Podcast, Shusenjo (2019), HazVsRPG, Kagenaga on twitch

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

Liz Ryerson triumphantly joins the panel to cover DDR dance pads, Batman games, and Burger Time Royale with Cheese.

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Donkey Kong Universe - Phase 1 (57:11)

Think YOU have better answers than the panel? You don’t! But you can discuss the episode here in the insert credit forums.

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Frank: Beat Nier Replicant, get bored on the second playthrough and watch the endings on YouTube (both Jaffe and Esper strongly recommend against this)

Liz: Tomato Way trilogy

Brandon: Touch and Go by Toshiki Kadomatsu, Returner (2002), Get your parents and grandparents vaccinated

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

A smorgasbord of content swept neatly off the floor of the cutting room and into The Dirtbag. Marvel as Brandon discusses film, Tim discusses video games, and Jaffe discusses television (The Moving Image Trinity). Can Frank hunt down the specter of a basketball legend haunting the code of a game? Tips, tricks, reviews, previews and more abound in Bonus Credit 8!

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Jim Stormdancer, developer of Frog Fractions and host of Topic Lords joins the panel to hearld/warn of the return of The Noid, how to craft an ARG, and The Insert Credit Greatest Game of All Time (ICGGOAT). (Content warning: This episode contains strong language.)

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Adjectivity (51:33)

Think YOU have better answers than the panel? You don’t! But you can discuss the episode here in the insert credit forums.

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Brandon: Dance Volunteer by Portable Rock, Pensieri di Nessuno by Words And Actions, Gozu (2003)

Frank: Play video games on easy

Jim: The Hat DLC which is no longer on sale, Topic Lords

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

A half hour bonus episode of unaired material, previously exclusive to Patreon subscribers. Subscribe now for more like this! Original music by Kurt Feldman.

(Ep. 175) Brandon explains who could potentially enjoy the film Pyscho Gore Man and talks about how incredible Mark Dacascos is. Special Guest Topher Docfuture Florence explains what he would have liked Batman: Soul of the Dragon to be and discusses Hong Kong filmmaking economics. Frank identifies which Daredevil comic Brandon is talking about.

(Ep. 176) Brandon is frustrated by a Metal Gear Acid purchase and discusses The Grapes of Death. Frank makes a pun and recommends Metal Gear 2.

(Ep. 176) Extended break. Frank doesn’t know what to do with the phrase “Golden Teet” and the strip club Crazy Horse Too. Special Guest Ash Parrish knows which one of the panel doesn’t write erotic fanfiction. Jaffe is upset about by A to X Video Outlet. Brandon solves the problem.

(Ep. 176) Jaffe’s chewing again. Brandon just watched Reign of Fire. Frank was talking with a couple guys from Rare about Dinosaur Planet. Special Guest Ash Parrish has seen all the Olympus Has Fallen movies.

(Ep. 176) Extended post-show. The panel, joined by Special Guest Ash Parrish, absolutely dogs on the box art for Monster Maxx. Jaffe asks a question he almost saved for a future episode: What is the qualitative difference between a 94% review and a 96% review? We make fun of the British again.

(Ep. 178) Extended break. Special Guest Mathew Kumar discusses how we’re all going through it during the Pandemic and breaks down the No Woman No Cry equation. Jaffe makes a pun. Special Guest Kris Graft is taken aback by the hatred for Geometry Wars. Brandon explains how Insert Credit show works.

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Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.

Fanbyte writer and podcaster merritt k sits with the panel to cover the darkness within Viva Pinata, Bad Boy Reggie Fils Aime, and an explanation of what Touhou actually is. Original music by Kurt Feldman. (Content warning: This episode contains strong language.)

Questions this week:

LIGHTNING ROUND: Seven Virtuous Minigames (54:40)

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

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Brandon: Clazziquai - Remix Pinch Your Soul, Yukiko Tanaka - Reflection, Nobody (2021), Enter The Fat Dragon (2020), recognize the misogyny and colorism in Baahubali

Frank: Feel free to pirate games, Gumby

Merritt: Fanbyte, Fanbyte Podcasts, twitch.tv/fanbyte

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.