Ep. 324 - Bocket Tinesters

Tim Rogers hosts the Insert Credit panel this week, exploring Hideo Kojima’s recent announcements, the first working game developer to reach 80 years old, and Korean butt animation. Hosted by Tim Rogers, with Frank Cifaldi, Alex Jaffe, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. Choose a video game coming out in 2024 and ask Frank to play it (11:16)
2. When do you think you’ll stop playing video games, Brandon Sheffield? (26:32)
3. Did you all see the Hideo Kojima stuff at PlayStation State of Play? (39:44)
4. Why aren’t there more Hideo Kojimas? (55:40)
5. Alex Jaffe, flip a coin (01:06:53)
6. Insert Credit Time Capsule (01:08:01)
7. A Brief Medical Update (01:21:48)

Recommendations and Outro (01:29:24)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• The Matrix (1999)
• Photochromic lens
• Boktai: The Sun is in Your Hand
• Pokémon
• Ambidexterity
• Bob Dylan
• Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
• video games coming out in 2024 - Google Search
• Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
• Batman: Arkham series
• Dragon’s Dogma 2
• Dogma (1999)
• Alone in the Dark series
• Persona series
• Persona 3: Reload
• Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza series
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Unicorn Overlord
• Rise of the Rōnin
• Assassin’s Creed series
• Princess Peach: Showtime!
• Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes
• Skull and Bones
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Metaphor: ReFantazio
• Demonschool
• Funko Fusion
• Earth Defense Force 6
• Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown
• Rayman Origins
• Black Myth: Wukong
• All the news from PlayStation’s 2024 State of Play
• miHoYo
• Honkai: Star Rail
• Genshin Impact
• Fortnite
• Palworld
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
• Roblox
• Stellar Blade
• Sony Interactive Entertainment
• Silent Hill 2 Remake’s New Trailer Is All About Combat
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Bonk’s Revenge
• Skibidi Toilet
• Lethal Company
• Starfield
• Gunstar Heroes
• Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn
• Baldur’s Gate III
• Street Fighter II
• Street Fighter 6
• Diablo II
• Diablo IV
• Immortals of Aveum
• NieR
• NieR: Automata
• Earthblade
• Celeste
• Maddy Thorson
• Hideo Kojima
• Death Stranding 2 On The Beach
• George Miller
• Silent Hill: The Short Message
• P.T.
• PHYSINT is the working title of Hideo Kojima’s new not-a-Metal-Gear game
• Quentin Tarantino
• Ken Levine
• BioShock series
• System Shock
• Judas
• Five Nights at Freddy’s
• Kendall Roy
• Bennett Foddy
• Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
• Jonathan Blow
• David Cage
• Tetsuya Nomura
• Kingdom Hearts series
• Cliff Bleszinski
• The Outer Worlds
• Sharknado: The Video Game
• Michael Mann
• Ferrari (2023)
• Hayao Miyazaki
• Martin Scorsese
• Dragon Quest series
• Yuji Horii
• Shigeru Miyamoto
• Jake Kazdal
• Young Yuji Hori
• Tim Schafer
• Puyo Puyo
• Yoshiro Kimura
• Random.org
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Ys series
• Gain Ground
• Xanadu games
• Electronic Gaming Monthly
• Magic Sword
• Paladin’s Quest
• Final Fight
• Kirby’s Dream Land
• Contra III: The Alien Wars
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• Knights of the Round
• Spinal disc herniation
• Ganbare Goemon series

Recommendations:

Jaffe: Reach out on Bluesky for personalized comic book recommendations between 2/5/24 and 2/11/24, 52 Pickup, Sandman Mystery Theatre for Tim specifically, Poor Things (2023)

Brandon: Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989)

Tim: FREAKHUNTER, LowercaseJai, GLYDR Kickstarter

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