Ep. 323 - Ntscworld

Your benevolent Insert Credit panel covers Palworld, video game mysteries, and the birth of a new speedrunning category, the 50% run. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. Frank asks: What is the proper nomenclature for the Snatcherlike video game? (13:09)
2. Is Palworld satire? (20:28)
3. Invent a new speedrunning category (28:40)
4. Stephanie asks: What’s a video game unsolved mystery or urban legend want solved or confirmed? (39:35)
5. Which individual video game enemy has killed the greatest number of players globally? (46:47)
6. If you could swap any two video game sound effects between games, which ones would they be? (52:03)
7. Who is the Batman of video games? (56:09)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As: Sim City 2000 (01:04:37)

Recommendations and Outro (01:17:18)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Weetabix
• Uncle O’Grimacey
• FITCRUNCH Mint Chocolate Chip
• Keebler Company
• Trix
• Jason Todd
• Honeycomb
• David Cronenberg
• The Noid
• Santa Claus
• Tony & Friends: in Kellogg’s Land
• Snatcher
• Legend of Zelda series
• Devil May Cry
• Resident Evil
• Shenmue
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• The Secret of Monkey Island
• Policenauts
• Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken
• Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
• Quake
• Call of Duty series
• Palworld
• South Park
• Alanis Morissette
• Pokémon series
• Videoball
• Pokémon GO
• Fortnite
• Awesome Games Done Quick’s adorable dog speedrun was just the start
• Gyromite
• Super Mario 64
• Summoning Salt
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Tokimeki Memorial
• Castlevania series
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons
• Splatterhouse
• Metroid
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
• Magic: The Gathering
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations
• David Cage
• The Wizard (1989)
• Sylvan Tale
• Phantom Dust
• Boundary Break
• P.T.
• oddheader
• GameHut
• Goomba
• Pac-Man
• Elden Ring
• Space Invaders
• Donkey Kong
• Tetris
• Minecraft
• Grand Theft Auto series
• Villager
• Super Smash Brothers series
• Tom Nook
• Impossible Mission
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Tim Allen
• Streets of Rage
• Earthworm Jim
• Batman
• Michael Keaton
• Robert Pattinson
• George Clooney
• Batman Begins (2005)
• Popeye
• Spider-Man licensees
• Mortal Kombat series
• Joker
• Jack Nicholson
• Batman (1989)
• The Dark Knight Returns
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Assassin’s Creed series
• Watch_Dogs
• Gunpei Yokoi
• Blasterhead
• Gex
• Bubsy
• Bruce Waynne
• Def Jam: Fight for NY
• MLB
• Juiced
• Batman: Arkham series
• Ted Nugent
• Wayne Knight
• Ted Knight
• Super Friends
• SimCity 2000

Recommendations:

Brandon: Kantors Office Furniture if you want to try out office furniture in the Bay Area, use your treat dust to make new dog treats, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)

Jaffe: 52 Pickup

Brandon’s “Daddy’s Dusters” Dog Treat Recipe:

• 1 cup flour
• 1 egg
• 1/2 cup wet ingredient (pumpkin, yogurt, etc)
• 1/6th cup peanut butter
• Treat dust

Mix ingredients “all up,” distribute on cookie sheet, bake at “lower medium” heat for 30 minutes “depending on how your oven works”

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