Ep. 167 - The Great Great Gatsby, with Patrick Miller

Patrick Miller victoriously rejoins the panel to cover high literature, experimental film, and the ultimate fighting game tournament arc. Original music by Kurt Feldman.

Questions this week:

1. Previously on Insert Credit: What can you tell about a person based on their fighting game style and preferences? (04:41)
2. As far as video games go, what is and is not cyberpunk? (10:50)
3. What studio which has never made a fighting game before could probably make a pretty good fighting game? (16:36)
4. What did Adobe Flash mean for video games over the past 24 years, what have we lost, and what can be saved? (22:12)
5. Design The Great Gatsby 2 (28:00)
6. Which video games make you feel the heaviest? (34:40)
7. What are some games you went too easy on? (40:32)
8. What is the Eraserhead of video games? (46:34)
9. Giant-Sized Violence Island: Fighting Game Protagonists (51:35)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Patreon Suporter Grandbag’s Funeral presents Name Design: Baskin Robins Ice Cream Flavors (01:03:40)

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Terrible leaked Spider-Man pitch
• Ep. 163 - It Doesn't Get Eddie Vedder Than This, with Heather Anne Campbell
• Chipp Zanuff (Guilty Gear)
• Mito (The Rumble Fish 2)
• What Was Cyberpunk? In Memoriam: 1980-2020 by Moon
• The Jackpot Trilogy by William Gibson
• PSASBR
• Pyre
• Neobards
• Public Play: IndieCade Brings Gaming Out In the Open by Gus Mastrapa (the only mention of FISTMONGER i could find)
• Kidou Butouden G-Gundam
• Nanaca Crash
• The Behemoth
• The Great Gatsby
• Mint Julep
• Creepy Green Light by Type O Negative
• Fat Rolling
• Face/Off (1997)
• MechWarrior Online
• Robot Alchemic Drive
• Miracle Ropitt: 2100-Nen no Daibōken
• SamSho
• Sword of the Berserk: Guts' Rage
• Hatred)
• Eraserhead (1977)
• El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
• Dear Substance of Kin
• Ryu from Street Fighter
• Scorpion from Mortal Kombat
• Jin Kamaza from Tekken
• Akira Yuki from Virtua Fighter
• Nightmare from SoulCalibur
• Ryo Sakazaki from Art of Fighting)
• Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury)
• Sol Badguy from Guilty Gear
• STREETBEEFS YouTube channel
• Athena Asamiya from King of Fighters)

Recommendations:

Patrick Miller: Patrick Miller's Patreon, twitch.tv/pattheflip steam Mon-Thur ~7:30 PM PST

Brandon: Don't take Insert Credit too seriously, form your own subjective opinions, Shadow in the Cloud (2020), retracting last week's The Mandalorian Season 2 recommendation

Frank: Hollow Knight with a Benj Edwards fight stick

Jaffe: Ted Lasso

Tim: Perry Mason (2020)