Journalist, podcaster, and PR person Ed Zitron joins the panel for the reveal of the Video Game History Museum Library, how to tell when a PR person is lying, and a precise rundown of how fucked video games are. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Brandon Sheffield, and Ed Zitron. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
Ed Zitron: What about Big Boy Barry, you ever run into Big Boy Barry?
Brandon Sheffield : No, who’s that?
Ed Zitron: It’s a guy called Big Boy Barry
Excitebike is fairly extensive franchise compared to some other Nintendo franchises. There’s
Excitebike
Vs Excitebike
Excitebike bunbun Mario Battle(the Satellaview one you didn’t want to count)
Excitebike 64
Excite Truck
Excite Bot and
Excitbike World Rally (this was a late Wii era Wiiware game)
Even being conservative that’s at least four games that count
Ah and for Waverace apart from 64 and Blue Storm(GameCube version) there is the original Gameboy version.
And who could forget the sequel to F-Zero, F-1 Racing?
Ed’s disdain for Nintendo PR combined with wanting marketing departments to actually play the games they’re marketing was an interesting dichotomy, because Nintendo’s PR department is one of the ones known for a fact that they extensively play the games. According to Kit Ellis and Krysta Yang who used to work there up til 2022 anyway, they describe an office where people who were working PR were playing the things as much as possible and their main antagonist on what they could or couldn’t say was the extremely cautious legal department.
oh I’ve gotta listen to this one bc while frustratingly opaque (for reasons that aren’t their fault i assume) nintendo PR is some of the best i’ve worked with.
Haven’t seen the episode, but I jotted off a quick chart before class that is undoubtedly wrong but illustrates my gut feeling that Nintendo has made a greater percentage of Sega-like racers than Sega has made Nintendo-like racers.