Ep. 214 - The Ocarina of Time of Anything

Questions this week:

1. Brandon Sheffield asks: What was the first time a parent of your praised a video game unprompted? (02:01)
2. Has Dark Souls replaced Ocarina of Time as The Greatest Game of All Time? (07:59)
3. If you could clone one person 100 times to make an entire game development team, who would it be? (15:03)
4. In light of his passing, what can you tell us about NES and SNES lead architect Masayuki Uemura? (20:45)
5. Is Halo cool? (26:06)
6. Dirtbag Nick asks: What are the best times a game has broken its own rules? (31:55)
7. You wanna talk about the Game Awards? (37:53)
8. Are there really any video games that you couldn’t make today? (45:18)
9. Previously on Insert Credit: What is the real life equivalent of playing a Far Cry game? (50:21)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design – JAV Titles (56:22)

Recommendations and Outro (01:02:54)

Your post could be the Dark Souls of discussing this episode in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Yars’ Revenge
• Vic Viper
• Blaster Master
• Journey to Silius
• Fester’s Quest
• Batman: The Video Game
• The Addams Family
• Bullet Witch
• Myst (Jaguar)
• Power Drive Rally
• Castle Wolfenstein
• DOOM
• ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS DOOM
• Assassin’s Creed III
• Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag
• Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla
• Assassins Creed III commercial
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Shenmue
• Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (Game Boy)
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Dark Souls
• GameFaqs “Best. Game. Ever.” Poll
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Yngwie Malmsteen
• Death Stranding
• Ocarina of Time decompilation
• Toby Fox
• Shigesako Itoi
• Jeff Minter
• Undertale
• Groove Coaster
• Jay Tholen
• Hypnospace Outlaw
• Joakim Sandberg
• NES and SNES creator Masayuki Uemura dies at 78
• Ralph H. Baer
• Gunpei Yokoi
• Time Crisis
• The House of the Dead
• Halo: Combat Evolved
• Halo: Infinite
• Dwayne The Rock Johnson was in Fortnite
• The moon in Duck Tales, dude
• The Secret of Monkey Island
• Dragon Warrior
• Mother / EarthBound series
• I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie - The Game
• Fight Club
• Mega Man 11
• The Game Awards
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Resident Evil: Village
• Metroid Dread
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Swedish Erotica: Custer’s Revenge
• Shenmue III
• Star Citizen
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart
• Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne
• Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse
• Far Cry series
• Blue Man Group

Recommendations:

Brandon: School of Chocolate if you’re interested in seeing a reality show that doesn’t work so great, Hyper Gunsport now wishlistable on Steam

Frank: Get a Costco card

Tim: Don’t even try getting a PS5 for the holiday season, get your child a MiSTer

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.