Ep. 210 - Mario's Big Spaghetti Time, with Jenna Stoeber

Writer and Video Producer for Polygon Jenna Stoeber joins the panel to litigate whether P.T. is a complete game, milking for sport, and Zapdouglas.

Questions this week:

1. K Thor Jensen asks: does your inventory management system reflect your real-world inventory management style? (04:56)
2. What is the most incorrect prediction about video games you’ve ever heard or made? (10:25)
3. What video game series should be adapted to young adult novels? (15:35)
4. Which dormant video game series with three or more entries ended on the highest note? (19:41)
5. What twitter account would you start to influence a trend in video game development, a la Can You Pet The Dog? (24:32)
6. Dirtbag MVB asks: What are some good games made from reused assets? (30:09)
7. What’s some of the juiciest drama you’ve seen in a video game community or message board? (35:16)
8. What songs not written for video games do you associate with video games? (39:55)
9. How do you make failure in video games fun? (45:28)
10. What is the Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho of video games? (50:34)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Pokedexperts (54:03)

Recommendations and Outro (59:05)

I don’t see why you wouldn’t discuss this episode in the forums, you know?

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Metal Gear Solid 2
• Dead and Buried (1981)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Cat People (1982)
• Animorphs TV series
• Unpacking
• Resident Evil 4
• Solatorobo
• Fallout 3
• How accurate were 2009’s video game predictions?
• Curiosity: What’s Inside The Cube?
• Project Milo
• Insert Credit’s Own Mathew Kumar
• (sorry folks, Mobygames went down right at this point in the edit!! the following links will use wikipedia or something else. -Esper)
• Stardew Valley
• Halo novels
• League of Legends
• Injustice: Gods Among Us
• Uncharted
• Sonic Mania
• Silent Hill series
• Can You Pet The Dog?
• Is Something Behind The Waterfall?
• Sega Genesis Development Kit
• Rayman Fiesta Run
• Batman: Arkham Origins
• King of Fighters Dream Match 99
• The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
• I Wanna Be The Guy
• Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
• Mad World
• All I Want by Offspring
• Greensleeves
• Music of the Fallout series
• Beyond the Sea
• The Ink Spots
• The Beatles Rock Band
• Through The Fire and Flames
• Star Trek Enterprise intro
• GROW series
• Nightshade
• Celeste
• Dangerous Curves soundtrack
• QWOP
• Crime Scene Kitchen

Recommendations:

Frank: The Ink Spots baby, take Frank’s file boxes

Jenna: Inscryption

Brandon: Get a buyout from your landlord if you’re moving out of a rent-controlled apartment

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.