The Insert Credit Show

A relentlessly on topic smorgasbord of hard hitting video game questions as addressed by a panel of experts. Featuring Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield, and a rotating group of special guests. Hosted by Alex Jaffe. Edited by Esper Quinn. Original music by Kurt Feldman.

The Insert Credit Show is a leisure podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 474 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts The Insert Credit Show, a leisure show with 474 episodes published.

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  Episode #454

  Ep. 454 - Turtle Goblins

  Aug 17, 20261h 8m

  Editor and Media Critic Esper Quinn joins Jaffe, Frank and Brandon for an evening of video game writing, high volume of death, and the Mr. Bones Apology Tour. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Esper Quinn. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: “This isn’t a brutality. This is a fatality.” Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Field Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - Title Screen Panzer Dragoon - Title Screen X-Men - Title Screen The Beatles - A Hard Day’s Night Insert Credit Show Topic Lords Pokemon Red & Blue - Intro Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy Game Boy Advance 1 : What do you look for in a video game castle? (04:18) Unicorn Brain Age: Train Your Brain in Minutes a Day! Castlevania series Super Mario 64 Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Pokemon series Baldur’s Gate III Persona 5 Resident Evil 4 The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Crow Country 2 : What kinds of video games have the narrowest distinction between a good one and a bad one? (10:22) Deadly Premonition Earth Defense Force series Blue Archive Comiket Love and Deepspace Pokemon Trading Card Game Pocket Norm! 3 : Hey Esper, what are the hardest video games to find footage for when making the video edition of Insert Credit? (15:34) PC-98 Recommendation Guy S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Daria’s Inferno Creative Commons MobyGames MTV’s Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity Seaman World of Longplays 10min Gameplay 4 : What do video game writers get away with that would never fly in other media? (22:38) Brad Pitt Rick and Morty 5 : Magnanimus asks, other than humans, what creature has been killed the most times across all video games? (26:58) Turtle Zombie Goblin Super Mario series Goomba Fungus Minecraft Vampire Survivors Skeleton Bat Zubat Robot Cyborg Mother 3 Slime Cookie Clicker The Felling of the One Hundred Centillion Turtle Goblins: A Morality Game (download, extract html file, and open in browser to play!) 6 : On which occasions have you told someone specifically not to play a video game? (31:42) MMO Magic: the Gathering The 3rd Birthday Parasite Eve series No Man’s Sky PC-Engine Ep. 423 - Explode My Bones Mr. Bones Valis series Mr. Bones by shmumbler and Spectral in 36:09 Grateful Dead 7 : What is the FLCL of video games? (35:44) Gainax Neon Genesis Evangelion The Rub Rabbits! Star Fox series Sin & Punishment Shenmue series No More Heroes Bayonetta series Platinum Games MadWorld Persona series LIGHTNING ROUND: Magic: the Sortening (40:40) Recommendations and Outro (01:00:11) Brandon : Not Dracula 3000 (2004), Taskmaster Season 21 , Please do not hang out in the street , the commentary for Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) Esper : The Mountain Goats - Days , Ekphrasis , Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you . Thank you. Subscribe: RSS , YouTube , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more!

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  Episode #453

  Ep. 453 - Mega Duck and Cougar Boy

  Aug 10, 20261h 4m

  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. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums 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 Amiga CD32 Atari 2600 Intellivision What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) Patty and Selma Kotaku: Oh Dang, Magic: The Gathering Made Bilbo Baggins Hot 5 : Death_Strandicoot asks, what would be the best documentary to adapt into a video game? (30:57) GIRP Super Size Me (2004) March of the Penguins (2005) March of the Penguins (DS game) National Geographic National Geographic licensees Planet Earth Critical Kate Willært The King of Kong (2007) VA-11 HALL-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action Coffee Talk Walter Day Donkey Kong Paris Is Burning (1990) Stepmania Wii Kinect Just Dance series Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) Plan 9 From Outer Space (DOS game) Her Story Cold Case Files Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective Unsolved Mysteries Mothman Grizzly Man (2005) 7 Up Indie Game: The Movie (2012) LuLaRoe Blackfish (2013) Ape Out Jaws: Unleashed Jaws series An Inconvenient Truth (2006) Solarpunk Tetris (2023) 6 : What games in the Game Industry Hardship Bundle do you think Frank, Ash, and Insert Credit listeners would like most? (36:30) Arranger: A Role-Puzzling Adventure A Short Hike Holedown Skatebird Cool Kid Cody NEC TurboGrafx-16 Wheels of Aurelia 1978 Hyper Gunsport Little Medusa FutureGrind Dirtbag Mahjong Winter Witch Magenta Horizon Purrfect Apawcalypse They Bleed Pixels Dead Finger Dice: A Billionaire Killing Game Drywall Eating Simulator 7 : Whos a cool lady? (42:23) Celeste Madeline Yasmine Bayonetta Hannah Waddingham Ted Lasso Moon Lee Cynthia Rothrock Chingmy Yau Michelle Yeoh Katie Mac Lady and the Tramp Semiramis Michelle Obama Amy Hennig Danielle Bunten Berry Esper Quinn Ash Parrish Maddy Thorson Maddy Myers Gita Jackson 52 Pickup Noa Izumi Birdo Princess Daisy Aerith Gainsborough Samus Aran Chun-Li Bullet Witch Ada Wong Vivienne Liara T’Soni Tali’Zorah Shale Amaterasu Malenia LIGHTNING ROUND: Verb Coding (48:17) Recommendations and Outro (56:36): Brandon : NEWDERY Stick Grips , Beatdown City Survivors , Napalm Death: Tiny Desk Concert Ash : Clytemnestra , Platform Decay , Ancillary Justice Jaffe : Absolute Wonder Woman This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you . Thank you. Subscribe: RSS , YouTube , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more!

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  Episode #452

  Ep. 452 - Ground Bud

  Aug 3, 20261h 13m

  The panel you know and love returns to discuss E3, user generated content, and Ryan Baby Goose. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: The Criterion Channel Kiyoshi Kurosawa The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026) Akira Kurosawa Gatorade Zero Glacier Cherry Costco Water Vitamin Water XXX xXx (2002) Stella Sacco 1: What’s everybody been up to lately? (03:13) San Diego Comic-Con Funko Pop Marvel Cinematic Universe Star Trek Steve Ditko Kimba the White Lion Batman Hutchinson Island Sea turtle Crow Lemming Sea cucumber Rabbit Florida Keys Jellyfish America the Beautiful 2 What was E3 like? (12:06) E3 Dreamcast PlayStation 2 Crash Bandicoot NEC Interchannel PC Engine The Video Game History Foundation E3 Collection Carolyn Rauch The Beatles: Rock Band Sega Saturn PlayStation Electronic Gaming Monthly Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess Game Informer Spider-Man 3: What are the best implementations of weather effects in video games? (19:27) Haunted Mansion Soulslike Final Fantasy X Ghostwire: Tokyo The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Super Mario series Looney Tunes Journey to the West Astro Boy Astro Bot Ken Griffey Jr Presents Major League Baseball Peanut Butter the Speedrunning Dog Jerry Rice & Nitus’s Dog Football Hollywood Reporter: ‘Air Bud Returns’ Movie Reboot Sets Cast Ahead of 2026 Release Variety: Ryan Gosling Cast as Ghost Rider in Marvel Movie Baby Driver (2017) Ryan Gosling Gosling 4: Design a dating game that takes place at the Cheesecake Factory (25:05) Cheesecake Factory Applebee’s Bucca di Beppo Chipotle Pia Carrot e Yōkoso!! series Date Everything 5: Room Check! (32:24) Game Developer Conference Children’s Fairyland “It’s Just Emulation!”: The Challenge of Selling Old Games It’s Still Emulation: Saving Video Game History Before It’s Too Late Preserving Game History: It’s Just Us Bubsy Gunpla MS-09 Dom Advanced Variable Geo 6: SteveWithAB asks, what was a major inflection point for video games that didn’t feel like one at the time? (40:04) Roblox Dreams LittleBigPlanet Minecraft Elden Ring Atari Games Corp. v. Nintendo of America Inc. 7: What is the Emily Wilson’s critique of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey of video games? (45:29) Emily Wilson Christopher Nolan The Odyssey (2026) NPR: ‘Odyssey’ translator Emily Wilson says Nolan shouldn’t have written the movie himself Hideo Kojima Capcom Dante’s Inferno Console Wars The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) Stellar Blade Bayonetta Dracula Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Sephiroth Anne Rice LIGHTNING ROUND: Notable Patreon Characters (54:22) Recommendations and Outro (01:05:31): Brandon : Game Industry Hardship Bundle Ash : Drink more tea Frank: Go somewhere without an agenda Jaffe : Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you . Thank you. Subscribe: RSS , YouTube , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more!

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  Episode #451

  Ep. 451 - Big Dick 3, with Stella Sacco

  Jul 27, 20261h 21m

  Writer and narrative designer Stella Sacco joins Brandon and Esper to cover pandering in games, T4T energy, and dokidokidecahedrons. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Brandon Sheffield, Esper Quinn, and Stella Sacco. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: Joe Rogan “Dig ’em dig ’em dug dig ’em!” Italy Saint Patrick’s Day Scotland Czech Republic Germany England Ohio CNBC: 5 biggest risks of sharing your DNA with consumer genetic-testing companies North American fur trade Canada Russia Hungary Mario Sacco and Vanzetti Joan Baez & Ennio Morricone - Here’s To You 1 : What’s the difference between catering to an audience and pandering to an audience? (03:59) Fan service Mass Effect 3 ending controversy Love and Deepspace 2B NieR: Automata NieR Stellar Blade Tekken 3 Panda 2 : What are some things video game writers have to do that most people don’t think about? (09:19) Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker TLC - Waterfalls 3 : Are there any examples of studio notes improving a game? (14:42) I Am the Night Batman: the Animated Series Albert Pyun Cyborg Jean-Claude Van Damme Cyberpunk 2077 Pokemon Game Link Cable Hideo Kojima Metal Gear Solid series George Lucas 4 : Which video game romance has the most T4T energy? (21:51) T4T Demonschool Princess Peach Bowser Destiny Eris Morn The Drifter Avalanche Motoko Kusanagi Tachikoma Batou Link Zelda Dragon Age II Mass Effect series Lady Dimitrescu Baldur’s Gate III Shadowheart Halsin Karlach Gale Tidus Wakka Banjo-Kazooie Bridget Guilty Gear series Tracer Bernard Dowd ONLINE MULTIPLAYER: Gen Z/Gen Alpha Only! What was your first video game? (27:16) 5 : Gaagaagiins asks, why is Mario’s mustache black, but his hair is brown? (35:16) Super Mario 64 Zohran Mamdani Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez George Costanza Heihachi Mishima Persona series Auron Sam Elliott Stellar Blade 2 Diana Bayonetta Master Higgins Master Chief Cortana Green Arrow Sonic the Hedgehog Shadow the Hedgehog Espio the Chameleon 6 : In video games with dialogue, is it always preferable to have voice acting? (42:11) Fire Emblem series Resident Evil 4 Ashley Graham Forspoken Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Troy Baker Legend of Dragoon Tom Clancy’s The Division Earth Defense Force series Hulk Jonathan Hickman 7 : What is the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (2001) of video games? (52:57) Street Fighter the Movie the Game Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016) Batman: Arkham series Final Fantasy VII Remake Die Hard Arcade Die Hard (1988) Star Wars: Episode I - Racer Knights of the Old Republic series Platoon LIGHTNING ROUND: Name Design - Giallo Films (58:40) Recommendations and Outro (01:11:43): Stella : The Tainted Cup Esper : Magic Every Day with Esper Quinn starting August 3, Twinbeard Plays Mario Brandon : KALX , Poil - Pikiwa , Chubby Checker - Dig Dug , The Anime Corner Store , Freeway (1996) This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you . Thank you. Subscribe: RSS , YouTube , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more!

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  Episode #450

  Ep. 450 - The Italian Hyphen

  Jul 20, 20261h 1m

  The panel covers game cancellations, Gen Z’s first games, and consummating a game. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman. Watch episodes with full video on YouTube Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums SHOW NOTES: Suikoden Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Je suis-koden “What are you doing dying! Awful! Start over!” Triceratops Tyrannosaurus Pachycephalosaurus Ankylosaurus Stegosaurus Monster Hunter series 1 : What game do you think was the first game for the highest percentage of Gen Z gamers? (03:14) Generation Z Minecraft Wii New Super Mario Bros. Wii Wii Sports Guitar Hero series Angry Birds Subway Surfers Roblox Generation Alpha Mega Man: Legacy Collection Nintendo 64 2 : What was the longest you have been stuck on a video game? (08:52) Exile: Wicked Phenomenon TurboGrafx Shenmue II Tomb Raider II PlayStation Bubsy Prima Strategy Guides GameFAQs 3 : What’s the hardest you’ve ever been hit by a video game cancellation? (15:32) Data West Bonk RPG Yakuza: Like a Dragon SNK King of Fighters series Vectorman series Sonic X-treme Final Fantasy Versus XIII Final Fantasy XIII-2 Final Fantasy XV Forbes: An ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Civil War Game Was Canceled Because Of Yasuke Reaction, US Politics Red Dead Redemption Mafia III Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry Castle Wolfenstein series Kotaku: Warner Bros. Cancels Wonder Woman Game And Shuts Down Shadow Of Mordor Studio X-Women: The Sinister Virus EarthBound 64 The Adventures of Batman & Robin Jesper Kyd Kingdom Hearts IV 4 : If you could replace the words “Press Start” on video game start up screens with any other phrase, what would it be? (21:50) Insert Credit Elite Beat Agents TurboGrafx Nintendo Entertainment System Chulip 5 : Propelleher asks, what video game character would you trust to house sit for you while you’re away? (26:44) Kazuma Kiryu Frey Holland Big the Cat Sonic the Hedgehog King Jack Blanka Chibi-Robo Servbot Dr. Robotnik Scratch Grounder Miles “Tails” Prower Cream the Rabbit Amy Rose Knuckles’ Chaotix Charmy Bee Cheese the Chao Blaze the Cat Goofy Pluto 6 : What do you predict will be the final non-Nintendo game released on a disc? (32:49) Wii U Call of Duty series Sega Genesis FIFA series Nintendo Switch 2 PlayStation 2 PlayStation 3 MLB series Just Dance series PlayStation 5 Frogger GameBoy Color Game Gear Ms. Pac-Man 7 : What is the Chubby Checker’s “Let’s Twist Again” of video games? (36:05) Chubby Checker The Twist Let’s Twist Again Twistin’ USA Twist It Up Do The Freddie Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Bubsy series Street Fighter II series Mortal Kombat series Overwatch 2 Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions Super Mario 64 Lair Sixaxis The Last of Us series LIGHTNING ROUND: Micro Maker (41:25) Recommendations and Outro (52:12): Brandon : Flamin’ Hot Doritos , dried jackfruit, check out your local physical media place and just look around Frank: That’s It Organic Fruit Crunchables , figure out how to consume media without watching ads because the social contract has been broken Ash : Fla-Vor-Ice This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by patrons like you . Thank you. Gen Z/Gen Alpha listeners ONLY! Send a one minute or less .mp3 or .wav of yourself sharing your first video game, the games you remember your older siblings playing, or what you think the final Prima Strategy Guide was to show@insertcredit.com and maybe we’ll play it on air in a future episode! Subscribe: RSS , YouTube , Apple Podcasts , Spotify , and more!

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