Ep. 238 - Jackson Backcracker, Cowboy Chiropractor

Questions this week:

1. Tim Rogers asks: What’s it like going to a chiropractor? (05:08)
2. What’s the Metal Gear Solid 2-style subversion Death Stranding 2 will have? (13:23)
3. What would it take to get you to buy alternate costume DLC? (19:56)
4. What would we do if we bought EA? (25:56)
5. Jaffe Guesses The Golden Age of Konami – Attempt 2 (32:02)
6. Anonymous asks: Design a mascot for the ESRB (32:26)
7. What is the Porco Rosso of video games? (37:37)
8. Violence Island – Shadowban Championship (42:41)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As – Minecraft (01:19:16)

Recommendations & Outro (01:27:02)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• SimCopter
• Call of Duty series
• Earthworm Jim
• Killer Instinct
• Cyberpunk 2077
• Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
• A new Death Stranding is happening, Norman Reedus says
• Death Stranding
• Metal Gear series
• Zone of the Enders
• Death Stranding: The Kotaku Video Review (by Tim Rogers)
• K2
• Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
• Super Mario Odyssey
• Honda Prelude
• Ghost of Tsushima
• Report: EA Looking to Sell or Merge
• Madden series
• Burnout series
• Road Rash series
• Titanfall series
• Skate or Die series
• skate series
• EA Sports and FIFA are breaking up after 30 years
• It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
• 3DO Interactive Multiplayer
• Shadows of the Damned
• Dead Space series
• Mirror’s Edge series
• Syndicate
• Entertainment Software Rating Board
• Gunsport
• God of War
• McGruff the Crime Dog
• Porco Rosso (1992)
• Onimusha 3: Demon Siege
• SkyGunner
• Tail Concerto
• Drakengard 2
• Snoopy vs. the Red Baron
• Shadow the Hedgehog
• Yevgeny Borisovitch Volgin
• Kratos
• Rabbids
• Takahashi Meijin
• The King of All Cosmos
• Bomberman
• Sephiroth

Recommendations:

Brandon: City of Blood by Akvan

Frank: George Carlin’s American Dream

Tim: Severance

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