Recorded before The Game Awards, and released the week after! The Insert Credit Panel decides the video game winners of categories unwittingly submitted by listeners. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.

And The Categories Are:

  1. Gaagaagiins: Best Standardized Box Art Platform Frames (02:15)
  2. Propelleher: Best Scoff (05:35)
  3. rice9 : Best eSport of the 1980s (07:16)
  4. Breadytodie: Best Overtly Political Japanese Game (08:48)
  5. Cole: Best Campfire Scene (10:59)
  6. IntergalacticWalrus: Best Playable Non-Anthropomorphic Animal (13:14)
  7. Spencer: Best Game By an American Branch of a Japanese Company (16:02)
  8. Larky: Most Incidentally Educational Game (18:59)
  9. rearnakedwindow: Best Game Exclusive to a Legitimately Bad Console (22:13)
  10. Alex Jaffe: Best Video Game to Name Your Band After (24:53)
  11. ANONYMOUS GOD HAND LOVER: Game Most Like GOD HAND (27:15)
  12. Billy: Best Underwater Tunnel in a Racing Game (28:34)
  13. Sfwublin: Best Mine Carts (31:01)
  14. Justin Hamrick: Most Dangerous Video Game (33:47)
  15. Pro Skater 4: Most Evil Video Game (36:41)
  16. Erica: Most Video Game-Ass Video Game (39:05)

Recommendations and Outro (42:08)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Tim: If you are part of the committee that plans The Game Awards with Geoff Keighley, please come up with better award categories

Frank: The Video Game History Foundation Patreon

Brandon: Mr. Ray’s Wig World - Faster Kitty Cat Play Play

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Questions this week:

  1. Frank: Talk about video game recompilation efforts (05:58)
  2. Let’s go over the Nintendo Direct (15:39)

Insert Credit Presents: Why Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Is So Important, by Patrick Miller (25:57) 3. In video games with romanceable NPCs, should you as a player be unrestricted from pursuing any character regardless of gender or sexuality? (34:33) 4. Please explain the lore of Elden Ring to me. You have 6 minutes. (41:33)

Insert Credit Quick Break: Mannequin Deposit by The Houseflies (47:25) 5. Aaron Pickus: If you were working in a rental store, what games would you intentionally place in the wrong cases to give renters a different experience? (48:47) 6. Are esports good? (55:04)

LIGHTNING ROUND: New Robot Masters (01:04:56)

Recommendations and Outro (01:09:13)

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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:

Recommendations:

Ash: Fund independent news

Frank: Become a reader again, Indika

Jaffe: 52 Pickup, The House in Fata Morgana

This week’s Insert Credit Show is brought to you by Mannequin Deposit by The Houseflies, and patrons like you. Thank you.

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