The Insert Credit Show

Your beloved panel covers advances in stealth games, new Pokemon types, and whether or not Marty McFly has a scrote. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

“Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough!”

Pokemon series

Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater

Kotaku

LeBron James

1: What is the correct amount of time to sit down and play a video game in front of your TV? (05:57)

Marvel Cinematic Universe

X-Men (2000)

Thor: The Dark World (2013)

Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

The Marvels (2023)

The Incredible Hulk (2008)

Black Panther (2018)

Avengers: Endgame (2019)

Zack Snyder

Eternals (2021)

Kingo

Kumail Nanjiani

2: Which video games are most responsible for advancing their genre? (13:02)

Metal Gear Solid series

System Shock

Deus Ex

Street Fighter II

Spy Fiction

Resident Evil 4

Assassin’s Creed series

Hitman series

Immersive sim

Dishonored

Metroidvania

Pinball

John Romero discovers a 1940 first person shooter

Pong

3: What even is the incentive to make video games commercially? (19:43)

Wadjet Eye Games

Dave Gilbert

Ron Gilbert

Dave Grossman

EA

4: Design a new Pokemon type (25:13)

Water

Fire

Ground

Rock

Normal

Ghost

Fairy

Grass

Poison

Flying

Dragon

Dark

Bug

Psychic

Fighting

Ice

Electric

Yu-Gi-Oh

Steel

Hey You, Pikachu!

Mimikyu

Missingno

Skylanders series

Spyro

Palworld

Unown

Rotom

5: Dr. Booperstein III asks, are all video games derivative of the first generation of video games? (32:08)

Guess Who?

Pac-Man

Donkey Kong

Q*Bert

Night Driver

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Leslie “Spike” O’Malley

Entertainment Software Association

E3

Summer Game Fest

Back to the Future: The Game

6: What’s the stupidest playable race in a video game? (39:18)

Pepsiman

Mass Effect series

Asari

Quarian

Turian

Star Trek

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Bajoran

Vulcan

Spock

Dwarf Fortress

Dwarves

Blood Elves

World of WarCraft

Night Elves

Orc

Tauren

Troll

Undead

Pikmin

Pikmin series

Zerg

7: What is the Steven Spielberg’s Stanley Kubrick’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) of video games? (46:16)

Milo

Peter Molyneux

Haley Joel Osment

Berserk

Dune

The Wheel of Time

BioShock series

Ken Levine

Judas

Fallout 3

Fallout: New Vegas

Metal Gear: Survive

Duke Nukem Forever

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - Remake

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Sonic CD

Metropolis (1927)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (52:58)

Recommendations and Outro (58:24):

Brandon: Doom Runners (1997), Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning (2012), Etiene T. Boy - Jealousy, Vintage Obscura Radio

Frank: Barkin’, Classic X-Men

Ash: The Blood of Dawnwalker, The Prisoner of Beauty

Hard Truths (XX:XX):

Jaffe: If you have a work day that ends at 10 PM, you don’t get to do all the stuff you do if your work day normally ends at 5 PM.

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Narrative designer Stella Sacco joins the panel to cover Grand Theft Auto VI, detecting AI in games, and pink plush Peeps bunnies.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Stella Sacco. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

“I’m escaping to the one place that hasn’t been ruined by capitalism! Insert Credit!”

Super Smash Bros. series

PlayStation 4

Xbox One

Grand Theft Auto VI

Majestic 12

Oceans Eleven

Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony

Stella Sacco

Sex 2

PC-98

Teledildonics

Halo series

1: How are we feeling about Grand Theft Auto VI? (05:38)

Grand Theft Auto III

PlayStation 2

Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look

Kotaku: Grand Theft Auto 6’s Latest Leak Told Me All I Need To Know

Spider-Man

IGN: Rockstar Doesn’t Mind if You Dislike GTA 6’s Romantic Side

Grand Theft Auto V

Any Austin

GDC

Red Dead Redemption series

Marvel Midnight Suns

Blade

Final Fantasy XIV

Animal Crossing series

Splatoon series

Dark Souls series

Hypnospace Outlaw

web3

MySpace

Fourteenite

XIII

2: How can we trust any new video games not to use AI? (15:52)

Time Extension: James Pond Creator On System 3’s “Soulless” Legacy Collection

the kickstarter for that bad AI Genesis game Brandon was talking about

Wanted: Dead’s AI slop key art

3: How have video game companies most egregiously attempted to rewrite their own histories? (20:40)

Arc System Works

GDRI

BioWare

Electronic Arts

Treasure

Yakuza

Zaibatsu

Midway

4: Which movies most need a “Scarface: The World is Yours” type sequel with the protagonist coming back to life? (25:17)

Scarface: The World Is Yours

The Green Mile (1999)

Heat (1995)

The Goonies (1985)

Thelma & Louise (1991)

Bump ‘N’ Jump

Robocop 3 (1993)

John Wick: Chapter 4 (20XX)

The Fast and Furious series

Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

Judge Dread

Dead to Rights: Retribution

Sorcerer (1977)

Death Stranding

Tangerine Dream

Titanic (1997)

Ghost of Yōtei

Pirates of the Caribbean series

Point Break (1991)

5: Room Check! (32:48)

Peeps

MAGFest

Video Game History Foundation

Pony Express

Mochilla

Earth Defense Force series

Tokyo Game Show

Casio Loopy

Gematsu: Earth Defense Force 6.2: Invaders from Another World announced for PS5

6: WillaWisp asks, what is the CeraVe Daily Moisturizer of video games? (38:16)

CeraVe

Threes

Cetaphil

Tetris

Xbox Wireless Controller

Other Ocean

Eucerin

Holedown

Picross series

Squeakross: Home Squeak Home

Nintendo 3DS

Star Trek

7: If Dolly Parton asked you to show her some video games, which ones would you show her? (43:35)

Dolly Parton

Rock Band series

Night in the Woods

Nintendo Switch

RollerCoaster Tycoon series

Dollywood

Bayonetta series

Elvira

Splatterhouse

Mario Party series

Wii Sports

Desert Bus

Penn & Teller

LIGHTNING ROUND: Blind Pull Quote (48:41)

Recommendations and Outro (58:27):

Frank: Cetaphil moisturizing cream

Stella: Mortal Shell II, Terminator 2: Judgment Day 35th Anniversary (2026)

Brandon: The Tong - Dangerous Games, Val Young - Let’s Fall In Love, Save the Green Planet! (2003)

Jaffe: The Shadow with Orson Welles

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The panel reviews Resident Evil 4, a foundational 3rd person action horror game with memorable characters, a novelty controller, and an egg meta. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

Resident Evil 4

PlayStation 2

GameCube

Resident Evil 5

Game Informer

PlayStation 4

Separate Ways

“Hey, it’s that dog!”

Tetris

1: What did you know about Resident Evil 4 before playing? (03:17)

E3

CRT

Wii

Resident Evil 4 - HD Project

Resident Evil 4 Remake

Luis Serra Navarro

Leon Scott Kennedy

ShaderGlass

Dreamcast

Ingrid Hunnigan

Steam Deck

Ada Wong

The Ada Missions

Ashley Graham

Resident Evil: Village

2: Do we need to reevaluate escort missions in 2026? (18:18)

Escort Mission

Oscar the Grouch

3: How important is it for a horror game to be scary? (23:27)

Del Lago

PlayStation 5

Xbox 360

Bitores Méndez

Killer7

Resident Evil 4 - Insert Credit Challenge / Credit Spent spoilers

TMP

Merchant

Ramón Salazar

4: Is inventory management fun? (36:45)

Save Room

Crow

Las Plagas

Eggs

Snake

Metal Gear series

Kaizo

Manic pixie dream girl

Resident Evil: Code Veronica

Jack Krauser

Resident Evil 2

5: Dustin asks, what games should have a novelty controller? (51:08)

Chainsaw Controller

Sega Bass Fishing

Samba De Amigo

Donkey Konga

Guitar Hero series

Densha de Go! series

Nintendo Labo

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection

Ikari Warriors

Nintendo 3DS

Sonic Mania

Nintendo Switch

Kirby games

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Grand Theft Auto VI

6: Let’s talk about the remakes (57:53)

Monster Hunter series

Uncharted series

Star Trek

7: Why is this game important? (01:06:31)

Cliff Bleszinski

Gears of War series

God Hand

8: Where does Resident Evil 4 rank among the Capcom Five? (01:08:27)

Capcom Five

P.N.03

Bayonetta series

Dead Phoenix

Viewtiful Joe

Killer7

Suda51

House of the Dead series

LIGHTNING ROUND: What’re Ya Buyin? (01:13:57)

Recommendations and Outro (01:20:15):

Jaffe, Frank, Ash and Brandon: Resident Evil 4, either on a CRT or with the HD Project mod and ShaderGlass.

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Editor and Media Critic Esper Quinn joins Jaffe, Frank and Brandon for an evening of video game writing, high volume of death, and the Mr. Bones Apology Tour.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

“This isn’t a brutality. This is a fatality.”

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Field

Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Title Screen

Panzer Dragoon - Title Screen

X-Men - Title Screen

The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night

Insert Credit Show

Topic Lords

Pokemon Red & Blue - Intro

Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy

Game Boy Advance

1: What do you look for in a video game castle? (04:18)

Unicorn

Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day!

Castlevania series

Super Mario 64

Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Pokemon series

Baldur’s Gate III

Persona 5

Resident Evil 4

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

Crow Country

2: What kinds of video games have the narrowest distinction between a good one and a bad one? (10:22)

Deadly Premonition

Earth Defense Force series

Blue Archive

Comiket

Love and Deepspace

Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket

Norm!

3: Hey Esper, what are the hardest video games to find footage for when making the video edition of Insert Credit? (15:34)

PC-98

Recommendation Guy

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

Daria’s Inferno

Creative Commons

MobyGames

MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity

Seaman

World of Longplays

10min Gameplay

4: What do video game writers get away with that would never fly in other media? (22:38)

Brad Pitt

Rick and Morty

5: Magnanimus asks, other than humans, what creature has been killed the most times across all video games? (26:58)

Turtle

Zombie

Goblin

Super Mario series

Goomba

Fungus

Minecraft

Vampire Survivors

Skeleton

Bat

Zubat

Robot

Cyborg

Mother 3

Slime

Cookie Clicker

The Felling of the One Hundred Centillion Turtle Goblins: A Morality Game (download, extract html file, and open in browser to play!)

6: On which occasions have you told someone specifically not to play a video game? (31:42)

MMO

Magic: the Gathering

The 3rd Birthday

Parasite Eve series

No Man’s Sky

PC-Engine

Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones

Mr. Bones

Valis series

Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09

Grateful Dead

7: What is the FLCL of video games? (35:44)

Gainax

Neon Genesis Evangelion

The Rub Rabbits!

Star Fox series

Sin & Punishment

Shenmue series

No More Heroes

Bayonetta series

Platinum Games

MadWorld

Persona series

LIGHTNING ROUND: Magic: the Sortening (40:40)

Recommendations and Outro (01:00:11)

Brandon: Not Dracula 3000 (2004), Taskmaster Season 21, Please do not hang out in the street, the commentary for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Esper: The Mountain Goats - Days, Ekphrasis, Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn

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Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer Jaffe’s questions about simple ways to improve any game, documentary video game adaptations, and turning consoles into anime girls.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

BMX XXX

Burning Man

Acclaim Entertainment

David Cronenberg

“You point a gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear papa?”

Richter Belmont

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Dracula

1: What is something simple you can add to any video game to make it immediately better? (03:53)

Pac-Man series

Klonoa series

Sonic the Hedgehog series

Pokémon series

Tetris

the Pokemon track Ash was thinking of

Metal Gear Solid series

Billy Mitchell

Mystery Science Theater 3000

2: Is there something you’ve encountered in a game you can only explain as an inside joke? (10:43)

Fantasy Life

Nintendo DS

Pier Solar and the Great Architects

Indivisible

Baba Booey

Tetsuya Nomura

Kingdom Hearts III secret ending

Final Fantasy Versus XIII

MindsEye

Astal

Segagaga

Sega

Sony

Dreamcast

3: What are your standard practices for saving your game? (16:26)

Resident Evil 4

SiSTer FPGA

Super Nintendo Entertainment System

Yakuza series

Baldur’s Gate series

PlayStation 4

4: Design anthropomorphized versions of obscure video game consoles for a Hyperdimension Neptunia reboot (21:48)

Hyperdimension Neptunia series

Gijinka

Playdate

Watara Supervision

WonderSwan

Mega Duck/Cougar Boy

Atari Lynx

N-Gage

Casio Loopy

Game Gear

Plug-n-play game

Wii

Shang Tsung

Nex Playground

Meta Ray-Bans

Socrates Interactive Patient System

Amiga CD32

Atari 2600

Intellivision

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

Patty and Selma

Kotaku: Oh Dang, Magic: The Gathering Made Bilbo Baggins Hot

5: Death_Strandicoot asks, what would be the best documentary to adapt into a video game? (30:57)

GIRP

Super Size Me (2004)

March of the Penguins (2005)

March of the Penguins (DS game)

National Geographic

National Geographic licensees

Planet Earth

Critical Kate Willært

The King of Kong (2007)

VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action

Coffee Talk

Walter Day

Donkey Kong

Paris Is Burning (1990)

Stepmania

Wii

Kinect

Just Dance series

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (DOS game)

Her Story

Cold Case Files

Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective

Unsolved Mysteries

Mothman

Grizzly Man (2005)

7 Up

Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

LuLaRoe

Blackfish (2013)

Ape Out

Jaws: Unleashed

Jaws series

An Inconvenient Truth (2006)

Solarpunk

Tetris (2023)

6: What games in the Game Industry Hardship Bundle do you think Frank, Ash, and Insert Credit listeners would like most? (36:30)

Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure

A Short Hike

Holedown

Skatebird

Cool Kid Cody

NEC

TurboGrafx-16

Wheels of Aurelia 1978

Hyper Gunsport

Little Medusa

FutureGrind

Dirtbag Mahjong

Winter Witch

Magenta Horizon

Purrfect Apawcalypse

They Bleed Pixels

Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game

Drywall Eating Simulator

7: Whos a cool lady? (42:23)

Celeste

Madeline

Yasmine

Bayonetta

Hannah Waddingham

Ted Lasso

Moon Lee

Cynthia Rothrock

Chingmy Yau

Michelle Yeoh

Katie Mac

Lady and the Tramp

Semiramis

Michelle Obama

Amy Hennig

Danielle Bunten Berry

Esper Quinn

Ash Parrish

Maddy Thorson

Maddy Myers

Gita Jackson

52 Pickup

Noa Izumi

Birdo

Princess Daisy

Aerith Gainsborough

Samus Aran

Chun-Li

Bullet Witch

Ada Wong

Vivienne

Liara T’Soni

Tali’Zorah

Shale

Amaterasu

Malenia

LIGHTNING ROUND: Verb Coding (48:17)

Recommendations and Outro (56:36):

Brandon: NEWDERY Stick Grips, Beatdown City Survivors, Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert

Ash: Clytemnestra, Platform Decay, Ancillary Justice

Jaffe: Absolute Wonder Woman

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