Ep. 235 - Unchardita, with Vincent Diamante

Insert Credit Co-founder and legendary game composer Vincent Diamante joins the panel to cover Fighters Megamix romance, Russian Adventure, and the top 5 Sonic games that aren’t the immediately great ones.

Questions this week:

1. Kris Graft asks: Which two fighters from Fighters Megamix would make the best or worst romantic couple? (05:17)
2. Now that we have a little distance, what features of the PS4/Xbox One era will feel retro someday? (09:45)
3. On what occasions have you restarted a game from the beginning before finishing it? (15:02)
4. What is “immersion” in video games? (19:54)
5. Design an “In This House We Do Disney” piece of wall art for gamers (25:16)
6. Dirtbag Salvatore Romano asks: Excluding 1, 2, 3, & Knuckles and Mania, what are the top 5 Sonic the Hedgehog games? (30:36)
7. Which video game series took the greatest number of entries to start getting good? (36:16)
8. What is the best logo design in video games? (41:38)
9. Is Nintendo evil? (46:31)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Acronymizer (50:33)

Recommendations and Outro (56:30)

Immerse yourself in this episode by discussing it in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Bram Stoker’s Dracula
• Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run
• Children of Virtue and Vengeance
• World Trigger
• SimCity 2000
• Fighters Megamix
• Bean the Dynamite
• Bark the Polar Bear
• Daytona USA
• Virtua Cop
• Rent A Hero
• Banjo-Kazooie
• Kumachan
• Candy
• Herbie
• Jeffry McWild
• Dural
• Tomb Raider series
• Marvel Guardians of the Galaxy
• Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
• Balan Wonderworld
• Yuji Naka says Square Enix doesn’t ‘value games’ after Balan Wonderworld mess
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Time Traveler
• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
• Super Hydlide
• Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
• Chrono Cross
• Loop Hero
• the stupid disney thing Jaffe talks about
• Fortnite series
• Elden Ring
• Battlefield 1942
• Zombie Revenge
• Disaster Report
• Sonic R
• Sonic & All-Stars Racing: Transformed
• Sonic Adventure
• Sonic Rush
• Sonic the Hedgehog Chaos
• Dr. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine
• Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble
• Knuckles’ Chaotix
• Rush’n Attack series
• Tetris
• Final Fantasy series
• Madden series
• Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective
• Bubsy: Paws on Fire!
• Mortal Kombat games
• Street Fighter series
• Asuka 120% series
• Castlevania / Akumajō Dracula series
• Need for Speed series
• The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
• Mass Effect 2
• Capcom cubes logo
• Ibrahim Hamdi’s game logos in arabic
• Brain Grey logo
• HOT B Logo
• TWEWY logo
• original Puyo Puyo logo
• Reggie Fils-Aimé on contractor woes: ‘This isn’t the Nintendo I left’

Recommendations:

Vincent: Scritti Politti

Brandon: Halloween (1978)

Frank: Dan Slott’s Spider-Man run

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield and Vincent Diamante. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.