Ep. 180 - Insert Credit 20th Anniversary

Twenty years of insertcredit.com, as remembered by past and present contributors. Featuring Vincent Diamante, Chris Woodard, Azurelore Korrigan, Patrick Miller, and more.

Questions this week:

1. What do you remember about the GP32, and how does obscure hardware fit in Insert Credit’s taste? (07:20)
2. What are the best video game comeback stories? (11:42)
3. If Insert Credit could secure the film rights to any video game, what would it be? (16:09)
4. What gets changed when porting a video game? (19:19)
5. What Insert Credit-type games influence Vincent’s music composition? (23:06)
6. What is Tose up to now, and what other important game companies don’t we know about? (31:51)
7. Insert Credit declared the death of print video game media on April 16th, 2008. Is that about right? (36:38)
8. In 2009, there was some pontification on Insert Credit on what constituted “good” or “bad” video game journalism. Where do you stand on that now? (41:03)
9. What are some of the most striking video game convention displays you’ve seen? (44:43)
10. How did the cottage industry of new games for old consoles happen, and which ones are worth discussing? (49:50)
11. How did the forums and community shape Insert Credit’s identity? (59:03)
12. How can one still find obscurity on the internet? (01:09:03)
13. What are the biggest differences between video game culture in 2004-2006 and now? (01:14:00)
14. After all these years, how would you define your relationship to video games? (01:20:35)
15. What the hell is wrong with video games? (01:24:54)
16. How has Insert Credit changed since the start of the podcast? (01:44:53)
17. How did you all go from writing about to developing and preserving video games? (01:49:24)
18. Are video game blogs dead? (02:00:09)
19. What are the best things to come out of Insert Credit? (02:04:40)
20. Finish this sentence: Insert Credit is the _____ of video games. (02:09:15)

Discuss these questions and obscure video game hardware in the Insert Credit forum thread for this episode.

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Lost Levels
• Vincent Diamante
• thatgamecompany
• Skullgirls
• GP32
• Arcturus: The Curse and Loss of Divinity
• Astonishia Story
• White Day: A Labrynth Named School
• Corum III: Chaotic Magic
• Gamasutra
• Punch-Out!! (Wii)
• NieR
• Puyo Puyo
• Windjammers
• Wonder Boy
• Hajime no Ippo
• Asuka 120%
• Clue (1985)
• SoundTeMP
• Sky by thatgamecompany featuring music by Vincent Diamante
• Kingdom Hearts 100% ending featuring Insert Credit watermark
• Tose Co. Ltd.
• Interview: Tose: Game Development Ninjas by Brandon Sheffield
• Game Developer Research Institute
• Jason Schreier
• Gizmondo
• Phantom
• ApeXtreme
• N-Gage
• Colors
• Intellivision Amico
• Star Odyssey
• SGDK
• Super Fighter Team
• Piko Interactive
• Stone Protectors
• MadMan’s Cafe
• Peter Molyneux
• The GIA
• Insert Credit Show Episode 13 - Shave and a Haircut, with Justin McElroy
• Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
• Iron Man
• Captain America: Super Soldier
• Shoryuken Forums
• The Molydeux Game Jam
• Lost Media Wiki
• Barnyard Blast: Swine of the Night
• Edge Magazine
• Flower
• The Last Blade 2
• Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex for PS2
• Drag-On Dragoon
• cavia inc.

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.