Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy

Frank, Ash, and Brandon answer Jaffe’s questions about simple ways to improve any game, documentary video game adaptations, and turning consoles into anime girls.

Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

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SHOW NOTES:

• BMX XXX
• Burning Man
• Acclaim Entertainment
• David Cronenberg
• “You point a gun at me? Your own kin? Your dear papa?”
• Richter Belmont
• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Dracula

1: What is something simple you can add to any video game to make it immediately better? (03:53)

• Pac-Man series
• Klonoa series
• Sonic the Hedgehog series
• Pokémon series
• Tetris
• the Pokemon track Ash was thinking of
• Metal Gear Solid series
• Billy Mitchell
• Mystery Science Theater 3000

2: Is there something you’ve encountered in a game you can only explain as an inside joke? (10:43)

• Fantasy Life
• Nintendo DS
• Pier Solar and the Great Architects
• Indivisible
• Baba Booey
• Tetsuya Nomura
• Kingdom Hearts III secret ending
• Final Fantasy Versus XIII
• MindsEye
• Astal
• Segagaga
• Sega
• Sony
• Dreamcast

3: What are your standard practices for saving your game? (16:26)

• Resident Evil 4
• SiSTer FPGA
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System
• Yakuza series
• Baldur’s Gate series
• PlayStation 4

4: Design anthropomorphized versions of obscure video game consoles for a Hyperdimension Neptunia reboot (21:48)

• Hyperdimension Neptunia series
• Gijinka
• Playdate
• Watara Supervision
• WonderSwan
• Mega Duck/Cougar Boy
• Atari Lynx
• N-Gage
• Casio Loopy
• Game Gear
• Plug-n-play game
• Wii
• Shang Tsung
• Nex Playground
• Meta Ray-Bans
• Socrates Interactive Patient System</a