Ep. 389 - Middle Kick Button, with Any Austin (Patreon)

Youtuber, statistician, and cartographer Any Austin joins the panel to determine whether open world games should have minimaps, how to become a Sega Man, and the relationship between the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago Bears. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and Any Austin. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

SHOW NOTES:

• Atari Jaguar

• Kasumi Ninja

• Cosmic Carnage

• Sega 32X

• Kanye West

• Pope Leo XIV

• The Game of Life

• Def Jam: Rapstar

• David Cage

• Indigo Prophecy

• Star Wars

• Satoru Iwata

• Trainspotting (1996)

• r/Trains

• Ikaruga

1: Brian David Gilbert asks, which video game do you wish you could scrub from the memories of everyone in the world except for you? (08:08)

• Yesterday (2019)

• Grand Theft Auto series

• Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)

• Google

• The Beatles

• Seaman

• Dizzy series

• Fortnite

• Songs of Innocence

• Tim Sweeney

• Epic Games v. Apple

• The Walt Disney Company

• Boba Fett

• Firefall

• Mark Kern

• World of Warcraft

2: What’s the platonic ideal in open world games for you? (14:25)

• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

• Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

• Starfield

• Assassins Creed: Shadows

• Ryū ga Gotoku / Like a Dragon / Yakuza universe

• Shenmue series

• Shogi

3: What’s something you’ve seen in a video game that you’ve appreciated the developers putting much more work into than was even a little bit necessary? (20:07)

• Final Fantasy XV

• Final Fantasy XIII

• Gargoyle’s Quest

• Demon’s Crest

• Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts

• Half-Life series

• Forspoken

• NiGHTS into Dreams...

• Chao Garden

• Sonic Adventure series

• Doom: the Dark Ages

• Metroid Prime

• Starfield

• Mass Effect series

• Pokemon series

4: If you were isekai’d into a generic fantasy setting, what would your job be? (27:15)

• Isekai

• Dragon Quest series

• That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

• [My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Next_Life_as_a_VillainessAllRoutes_Lead_to_Doom!)

• Frieren

5: Psinux asks, how does a Sega kid become a Sega man? (33:23)

• Sega

• Sonic & Knuckles

• Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble

• The Conduit

• High Voltage Software

• Eric Nofsinger

• Mortal Kombat

• Game Boy

• Game Gear

• Genesis Nomad

• Sega Pico

• Sega Saturn

6: What’s the best mountain in a video game? (37:37)

• No Man’s Sky

• King of All Cosmos

• Throat of the World

• Skyrim

• Mount Gulg

• Dragonroost Island

• Mount Fuji

• Mount Everest

• Microsoft Flight Simulator series

• D2

• Blue Prince

• Death Mountain

• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

• Mt. Nibel

• Final Fantasy VII

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Space Mountain

• Denali

• Mount Tamalpais

• Celeste

• Mount Celeste

• Mount Rushmore

• Fatal Fury series

• Sam & Max: Hit the Road

• Giant Bomb Wiki

• Mount Rushmore Games

7: What is the BBC’s Planet Earth of video games? (43:30)

• Planet Earth

• The Making of Karateka

• Karateka

• Jordan Mechner

• Balatro

• Endless Ocean

• Journey

• Flower

• Everything

• Endless Ocean: Blue World

• Wisdom Tree

• Super Mario Bros. 2

• Noah’s Ark

• ActRaiser

• Yuzo Koshiro

• Prince of Egypt (1998)

• The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

• Moses: Prince of Egypt

• Zelda CD-i Games

LIGHTNING ROUND: The Price is Sprite (49:20)

Credit Report (01:01:20)

Recommendations and Outro (01:02:10):

• Brandon: If you’re looking to make friends, try joining a forum (forums.insertcredit.com or otherwise)

• Frank: Spiritual Warfare

• Ash: The Righteous Gemstones

• Austin: Shout out to air traffic controllers, Turks and Caicos Islands, forums, Any Austin on youtube

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