Ep. 188 - Mariountain Dew, with John Linneman

Questions this week:

1. From Brandon Sheffield: How would you run a cafe-arcade hybrid, and what would you call it? (03:10)
2. How would video games be different if Microsoft bought Nintendo twenty years ago? (10:33)
3. What factors decide whether a video game should be first person view or third person view? (15:02)
4. What historical video game hardware breakthroughs are bigger deals than people realize? (20:26)
5. What scenes do you hope to see in the new restored version of the Super Mario Bros. Movie? (25:29)
6. What video games suffer the most from being played on unintended hardware? (30:37)
7. Dirtbag Devils Blush asks: Who is your favorite developer of games you aren’t interested in playing? (39:33)
8. As a player, when can you feel the absence of a cut feature the most? (43:21)
9. How do you make a cool video game desert? (48:01)
10. Who is the Guy Fieri of video games? (53:02)

LIGHTNING ROUND: Product Placement (58:47)

Discuss this episode among generally polite and universally cool people in the forums!

A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

• Misophonia
• Ys: Origins
• Thief: The Dark Project
• Project Milo
• insaneintherain
• Microsoft Surface coffee table
• uWink
• SPARTAN-458
• Jiu Jitsu (2020)
• Breakdown
• Tom Petty - Breakdown (Live 1985)
• En Vogue - My Lovin’ (Never Gonna Get It)
• Nvidia GeForce 3
• What Are Vertex And Pixel Shaders?
• Bump Mapping
• U.S. Games, a subsidiary of Quaker Oats
• NEMO
• Super Mario Bros: The Morton Jankle Cut
• The Thief and the Cobler: Recobbled Cut
• Video Game History Hour Ep. 23 - Working on Donkey Kong Country and Dinosaur Planet with Kev Bayliss & David Wise
• Warlock
• Warlock’s transparent logo screen
• Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
• Eternal Champions
• VectorMan
• The Adventures of Batman & Robin dithered and undithered
• EVE Online
• Jeff Minter
• Will Wright
• Polyphony Digital
• Final Fantasy XV Dragoon Lady
• Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)
• Dark Sector
• Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
• Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords
• Phantom Dust
• Planet Earth II
• Tom Brady
• Guy Fieri
• Cliff Bleszinski
• Tingle
• Daxter
• Sobble
• Peter Molyneux
• Tomonobu Itagaki
• Hideki Kamiya

Recommendations:

Frank: Video Game History Foundation “Blind Box” Vintage Video Game Magazines

Brandon: Enjoy the media you’ve collected over the years, The Brat - Attitudes EP

John: DF Retro, Retrotink 5X

Edited by Esper Quinn. Original Music by Kurt Feldman.