Insert Credit would win in a fight against Past, Present, and Future.

Questions this week:

1. Easily Fixable Game Ruiners
2. No More Localization
3. Best to Worst
4. Three Laws of Video Games
5. Favorite Stage One Boss
6. Themed Arcade
7. Cover Stories for a Video Game Celebrity Magazine

LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music “Boss 3” and “Stage 4” from Gunhouse. Gunhouse is available now for PS Vita and PlayStation Mobile!

The second installment of an annual series wherein we determine what may be empirically be considered the Best Game of All Time.

The List:

1. Panzer Dragoon II Zwei
2. NiGHTS into Dreams
3. Castlevania: Dracula X
4. Gunstar Heroes
5. Super Mario Brothers
6. Manica Mansion: Day of the Tentacle
7. Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals
8. Phantom Dust
9. Sonic & Knuncles
10. Ghosts in the Shell
11. Gears of War II
12. Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter
13. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
14. Thunder Force IV
15. Asuka 120% Limited Over
16. Ouendan II
17. Ufouria: The Saga
18. QWAP
19. Marble Madness
20. A Mind Forever Voyaging

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Plain Asia' from the album Arrow Rain from the game Imperishable Night, 'Mario Land Overworld Theme Remix' uploaded by YouTube user shadowmario23, and 'Stage 2' from Marble Madness for the NES.

We rank the best games of 2013.

The List:

1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
2. Gone Home
3. Attack of the Friday Monsters
4. Ridiculous Fishing
5. 868-Hack
6. The Last of Us
7. Shin Megami Tensei IV
8. Kokuga
9. Paper Please
10. Antichamber
11. Dive Kick
12. Kentucky Route Zero
13. The Stanley Parable
14. Super Mario 3D World
15. Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons
16. Fire Emblem: Awakening
17. Candy Box!
18. Pokémon X and Y
19. BioShock Infinite
20. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

LIGHTNING ROUND:

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Insert Credit GOTY Serenade 2013' by Alex Jaffe.

Broadcasting a podcast broadcast pre-recorded live from development heck.

Questions this week:

1. What's the best fake language in a video game?
2. Why do so many games that escape development hell end up a disappointment, and which games escape that fate?
3. Which third-party developers would you most like to see making the next Zelda game?
4. Design a game that takes into account the player blinking.
5. How embarrassing is the PAX Diversity Lounge?
6. Custom Soundtrack: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
7. Which game creators have the most contempt for their own creations?
8. A deep cable television network wants the three of you to produce a nightly 4 hour programming block of your own design.

LIGHTNING ROUND: Themed Arcade Again Again

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Lorule Overworld' and 'Lorule Field 2' from The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for 3DS.

Insert Credit Doesn't Wanna Be The Guy.

Questions this week:

1. What games would you want to do a single credit run on?
2. How much are video games like what you imagined they would be like in the future when you were a kid?
3. What are your "sick day" video games?
4. What are the best games that can no longer be played or acquired?
5. Custom Soundtrack: Final Fantasy VII
6. What is needed to make a good masocore game?

LIGHTNING ROUND: Playing Favorites: Holiday Edition

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Haunted Graveyard' from Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts SNES, 'Dream Dreams' from Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams Remixed by OCRemix User by Dale North, 'Maya Fey - Turnabout Sisters' Theme 2001' from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney DS Remixed by OCRemix User OA, and 'Xmas MGS Boss 4' from Merry Gear Solid 2 PC by Arthur Lee.

Trying to Make the Bleak Future a Little Bit Better.

Questions this week:

1. If a plague killed everybody in the game industry except you, your friends, and five people of your choice, who would be safe?
2. Has a game series ever produced a better sequel for less money?
3. Design a video game to be played for 24 hours straight without stopping.
4. Complete this sentence -- "There are two kinds of people who play video games:"
5. What are some creative but home-safe insults for multiplayer?
6. You're going out for lunch with a date who wants to eat at a restaurant from a video game. Where do you take her?
7. What licensed music would you put into Gears of War?
8. What is the most independent video game?
9. Who's the most competent video game princess?

LIGHTNING ROUND: Title Design - Tom Hanks Movies

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Main Theme' from Cave Story PC and 'Begin', 'Home Waters (Down)', 'Stormy Seas (Down)', 'Arctic Floes (Down)', 'Maelstrom (Down)', and 'Alternative End (Unused)' from Ridiculous Fishing iOS.

Tim Rogers Hosts The Jerry Bruckheimer Michael Bay Double Funeral.

Questions this week:

1. What's your favorite video game format?
2. What are you most thankful for re: video games?
3. When did you get your first television?
4. When is a Batman game "Batman enough"?
5. Is video game music dead?
6. Theme Arcade
7. Who do you take a heart, liver, and kidney from: Mario, Sonic, Bonk?

LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank The Series

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Adventure' by Disasterpeace from Fez PC, 'Base Theme' from Contra NES, 'Ending Theme' from Super C NES, 'Area 3' from Operation C GB, 'Stage 1' from Contra III The Alien Wars SNES, 'Stage 4' from Contra Force NES, 'The Hard Corps Blues' from Contra Hard Corps Genesis, 'Jungle Conflict' from Contra Legacy of War PSX, 'Mission 1' from Contra Adventure, 'Stage 1' from Super Contra X NES (The Unlicensed Game), 'Fortress' from Shin Contra PS2, 'Main Theme' from Neo Contra PS2, 'Stage 1' from Contra 4 NDS, 'Boss 2' from Contra ReBirth Wii, 'Final Boss' from Hard Corps Uprising XBLA and PSN.

Insert Credit Is A Crate Full of Mysteries.

Questions this week:

1. What IP based on its name alone could raise $200,000 on Kickstarter regardless of team?
2. Why would anyone need a machine that you connect to a TV and control with physical buttons?
3. How have video games manifested in your dreams?
4. A genie transforms the entire world to have the aesthetic of a video game, but you get to choose which one.
5. Who would win in a fight between a super robot designed by Sony, and a super robot designed by Microsoft?
6. Are there good racing games where the camera isn't directly behind your car?
7. What are the best death animations?
8. If we want to play games with our far-away friends turn by turn, what are our non-Zynga options?
9. How would you make Captain N: The Game Master: The Movie?
10. What are some games you should never play?

LIGHTNING ROUND: Games You Should Never Play

Edited by Blaine Brown. Music 'Opening Credits' from Space Quest IV and 'Main Theme' from Super Mario 3D World.