Your benevolent Insert Credit panel covers Palworld, video game mysteries, and the birth of a new speedrunning category, the 50% run. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, and Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Questions this week:

Frank asks: What is the proper nomenclature for the Snatcherlike video game? (13:09)
Is Palworld satire? (20:28)
Invent a new speedrunning category (28:40)
Stephanie asks: What’s a video game unsolved mystery or urban legend want solved or confirmed? (39:35)
Which individual video game enemy has killed the greatest number of players globally? (46:47)
If you could swap any two video game sound effects between games, which ones would they be? (52:03)
Who is the Batman of video games? (56:09)

LIGHTNING ROUND: GameFAQ&As: Sim City 2000 (01:04:37)
Recommendations and Outro (01:17:18)
Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums
A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:


Weetabix


Uncle O’Grimacey


FITCRUNCH Mint Chocolate Chip


Keebler Company


Trix


Jason Todd


Honeycomb


David Cronenberg


The Noid


Santa Claus


Tony & Friends: in Kellogg’s Land


Snatcher


Legend of Zelda series


Devil May Cry


Resident Evil


Shenmue


Super Mario Bros. 3


The Secret of Monkey Island


Policenauts


Portopia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken


Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom


Quake


Call of Duty series


Palworld


South Park


Alanis Morissette


Pokémon series


Videoball


Pokémon GO


Fortnite


Awesome Games Done Quick’s adorable dog speedrun was just the start


Gyromite


Super Mario 64


Summoning Salt


Sonic the Hedgehog series


Tokimeki Memorial


Castlevania series


Animal Crossing: New Horizons


Splatterhouse


Metroid


The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild


Magic: The Gathering


Red Dead Redemption II


Study finds bigfoot sightings correlate with black bear populations


David Cage


The Wizard (1989)


Sylvan Tale


Phantom Dust


Boundary Break


P.T.


oddheader


GameHut


Goomba


Pac-Man


Elden Ring


Space Invaders


Donkey Kong


Tetris


Minecraft


Grand Theft Auto series


Villager


Super Smash Brothers series


Tom Nook


Impossible Mission


The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind


Tim Allen


Streets of Rage


Earthworm Jim


Batman


Michael Keaton


Robert Pattinson


George Clooney


Batman Begins (2005)


Popeye


Spider-Man licensees


Mortal Kombat series


Joker


Jack Nicholson


Batman (1989)


The Dark Knight Returns


Shigeru Miyamoto


Assassin’s Creed series


Watch_Dogs


Gunpei Yokoi


Blasterhead


Gex


Bubsy


Bruce Waynne


Def Jam: Fight for NY


MLB


Juiced


Batman: Arkham series


Ted Nugent


Wayne Knight


Ted Knight


Super Friends


SimCity 2000


Recommendations:
Brandon: Kantors Office Furniture if you want to try out office furniture in the Bay Area, use your treat dust to make new dog treats, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981)
Jaffe: 52 Pickup
Brandon’s “Daddy’s Dusters” Dog Treat Recipe:

1 cup flour
1 egg
1/2 cup wet ingredient (pumpkin, yogurt, etc)
1/6th cup peanut butter
Treat dust

Mix ingredients “all up,” distribute on cookie sheet, bake at “lower medium” heat for 30 minutes “depending on how your oven works”
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