The Insert Credit Show

Trying to Make the Bleak Future a Little Bit Better. Questions this week: If a plague killed everybody in the game industry except you, your friends, and five people of your choice, who would be safe? Has a game series ever produced a better sequel for less money? Design a video game to be played for 24 hours straight without stopping. Complete this sentence -- "There are two kinds of people who p...

Tim Rogers Hosts The Jerry Bruckheimer Michael Bay Double Funeral. Questions this week: What's your favorite video game format? What are you most thankful for re: video games? When did you get your first television? When is a Batman game "Batman enough"? Is video game music dead? Theme Arcade Who do you take a heart, liver, and kidney from: Mario, Sonic, Bonk? LIGHTNING ROUND: Rank The Series Edit...

Insert Credit Is A Crate Full of Mysteries. Questions this week: What IP based on its name alone could raise $200,000 on Kickstarter regardless of team? Why would anyone need a machine that you connect to a TV and control with physical buttons? How have video games manifested in your dreams? A genie transforms the entire world to have the aesthetic of a video game, but you get to choose which one....

Insert Credit Is Chock-Full of Fruit Ions. Questions this week: What would it take to get you to back a Kickstarter and retain interest in it? What would you do if you got a new console one week earlier than everyone else? What can we say to our dads when they insist video games are a waste of time? Who are the Mozart and Salieri of video games? What innovative evolution conditions would you inclu...

Insert Credit Presents Boobs in the Sand - Championship Edition. Questions this week: Who's your favorite c-list villain from a video game? Design the free-to-play game that makes everyone get over their hatred of free-to-play games. Why are video games fun? How would you define your relationship with video games? What video games are the most personally empowering? What is the biggest argument yo...

Insert Credit Loves a Good Lady in a Shirt. Questions this week: What video game are you the most baffled actually got made? What were the best looking games of the pre-NES era? When is a video game remake or remaster different enough from its predecessor to be eligible again for award consideration? Your publisher has demanded that you punch up the dialogue for your 3D platforming game, and have...

Insert Credit Makes You a Jill Sandwich. Questions this week: Does the intended commercial reach of a game has any meaningful impact on it as a creative product? What are some topical video game costume ideas for Halloween? What are the differences between the European and the American video game scenes? Who or what is the Yoko Ono of video games? Could a non-massively multiplayer video game put o...

The Best Super Nintendo Games of All Time. The List: EarthBound Chrono Trigger Super Mario World Dragon Quest V Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals Secret of Evermore Mega Man X Final Fantasy IV Super Metroid Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island Metal Warriors Final Fantasy VI The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Contra III: The Alien Wars Super Mario RPG: Legend of t...

Insert Credit Welcomes First Time Listeners. Questions this week: Did anything actually happen at TGS? What have you gained from this latest excursion to Japan? Who should be the most excited about the Steam controller? What adjustments should be made to the Legend of Zelda formula? How can smaller game companies fight back against the giants? IMPROV ZONE: Frank and Brandon are meeting for their f...

We talk GTA V. Questions this week: What's the closest we've gotten to the Holodeck from Star Trek? Create a compelling narrative and background for a female protagonist in an add-on to GTA V. How would you compare the GTA franchise to the Yakuza franchise? What honest jobs would you like to see in the next GTA? If you and your friends were playing GTA in elementary school, what myths and exaggera...

Building Staircases on Top of People's Heads. Questions this week: What are some defining moments in your game playing history that have stuck with you? What games apart from Animal Crossing and The Sims allow you the most freedom to express yourself through interior design, and how will this subgenre evolve? What's the best Twine game you've ever played, and what Twine game would you most like to...

Insert Credit Engineers Sex with a Robot Orb. Questions this week: How was your PAX Prime time? What happened to Penny Arcade? How has Miyazaki's influence affected video games? What's going on at Capcom right now with the Kickstarter success of Mighty No. 9? Is Saints Row 4 a subversive critique of what's wrong with AAA games, or is it just another example of what's wrong with AAA games? IMPROV Z...

Insert Credit is Slick and Hand-Holdable. Questions this week: After Madden 25, other video game series could benefit from putting the number of games they made into the title? (01:30) What game has the best title music? (09:05) Will Unity's support of 2D mean more good 2D games? Should people outside of development care about this? (19:05) When is Nintendo going to give up on the second screen? (...

You Can't Drink Coffee in the Lightning Round. Questions this week: How can someone most accurately assess whether a game will be worth playing during the first 5 minutes of booting it up? Are there any visual styles you can pinpoint between Saturday Morning Cartoon and hyper-realism that more video games should be using? What's the best thing you've seen from Gamescom, and what do you hope to see...

Insert Credit loves arcade pizza. Questions this week: What's the saddest a video game ever made you? What are some notable attempts games have made to allow you to play multiple characters at once in the past? Conceptualize the Breast Game of All Time. What are some games that you're glad you've played, but wouldn't recommend to others? How can we use Twitch to set up a better and more popular 24...

We Take You on a Tour of Bethesda Studios. Questions this week: What is the video game equivalent of a luxury car? Are we paying enough attention to GaymerX? Which often overlooked multiplayer game do you think deserves more of a following in the competitive community? What is the best use of rope in a video game? You have to rob a Las Vegas casino, using a crack team of 5 video game characters. B...

Insert Credit Tip: You Could Google That But Maybe You Don't Want To. Questions this week: What's your favorite browser flash game? What's your favorite implementation of a bow and arrow in a video game thus far? What tips can you give aspiring jerks to irritate game makers to their breaking point? Design an open world sandbox game based on the golden age of cartoons. Which video game sequels to t...

Insert Credit is the viscous syrup of reality. Questions this week: TIM: What would Yuji Hori's Sonic the Hedgehog be like? (04:33) What are the implications of Nintendo acquiring Atlus? (11:00) Design a video game for Google Glass. (18:07) What are the best multiplayer games for a person with one arm? (24:22) KYLE ROBINSON: What is the game you're most proud of beating without a strategy guide or...

PlayTastin' some Edward James Oatmeal. Questions this week: Which game from the video game title generator are we going to design? Which game do you feel you could write a book about? In an alternate timeline where 8 bit video games existed in the 1940s, what games would there be in America as propaganda for the war effort? What was the second-best year for video games? Other than yourselves, whic...

Insert Credit will immediately consume a chicken leg from a trash can. Questions this week: What was the best year for video games? If California were to sink into the ocean tomorrow, how would it affect video games? Which long-abandoned video game trope to you feel is long due for a comeback? How may the concept of bosses translate into nonviolent video games? IMPROV ZONE: Satoru Iwata answering...

Insert Credit is content with viewing a jpeg of the iceberg. Questions this week: How will Zynga evolve under the man behind the Xbox One? Which Nintendo 64 game best utilized the Z trigger? Which pre-existing IP would be the best fit for an adaptation by the Civilization team? Would you rather play 1,000 hours of Fire Emblem or 1,000 hours of Advance Wars? How would you run an ARG to promote the...

All things Insert Credit. Questions this week: For the listeners who missed its glory days, tell us more about the original Insert Credit. Introduce a new acronym-based term into the video game lexicon. What games have impacted you the most? What would the Insert Credit dating sim be like? IMPROV ZONE: You're a couples counselor, the couple is fighting about their video game preferences. If you we...

Insert Credit ranks the most exciting games from E3 with guest Christian Nutt. The List: Super Mario World Titanfall D4 Mad Max 1001 Spikes Super Smash Bros. Knack Ys: Memories of Celceta The Wonderful 101 Destiny The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker Ryse: Son of Rome Octodad: Dadliest Catch Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain The Witcher 3 Final Fantasy XV Battlefield IV Mirror's Edge Catalyst Ki...

What's the best Sega Genesis game of all time? The List: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Landstalker Gunstar Heroes Shining Force II Bare Knuckle 3 Thunder Force IV Sonic 3 & Knuckles Ranger X Castlevania: Bloodlines Contra: Hard Corps Phantasy Star IV Road Rash II Monster World 4 Rocket Knight Adventures Alien Soldier Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master Gain Ground Shining in the Darkness Shadowrun...

Consolation Prize: Buzzword Hand Grenade. Questions this week: Is the Xbox One a video game console? Is this thing huge? Is it just me or is the Xbox One controller pretty great? Let's address the name. Can the Xbox One see into your dreams? How many Emmys will Steven Spielberg win in his first of what is sure to be many seasons of his Halo show? Will the Xbox One change the way we play with dogs...