Ep. 400 - The Insert Credit Best Game Developer List
Update: 2025-07-28
Description
Insert Credit nominates and celebrates the greatest, most influential, and most personally beloved game development studios of all time. Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Ash Parrish, Brandon Sheffield. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.
View the finalized list at insertcredit.com!
Watch episodes with full video on YouTube
Discuss this episode in the Insert Credit Forums
SHOW NOTES:
“Now bear my game podcast!”
ICOM Simulations
Video Game History Foundation
Divorce
Other Ocean
Demonschool
Chuck Mangione
Flugelhorn
Feels So Good
‘King of the Hill’ Reboot
Ozzy Osbourne
1: Brandon’s First Pick (08:00 )
Human Entertainment
Roger Corman
Fantastic Four (1994)
Albert Pyun
Alien (1979)
Francis Ford Coppola
Sandlot
Earth Defense Force series
Spike Chunsoft
Nude Maker
Grasshopper Manufacture
Fire Pro Wrestling series
Formation Soccer series
Human Grand Prix series
Mizzurna Falls
Grand Theft Auto III
Deadly Premonition
Clock Tower series
Twilight Syndrome series
The Firemen series
Suda51
Mechanized Attack
2: Ash’s First Pick (12:29 )
3: Frank’s First Pick (14:59 )
4: Brandon’s Second Pick (19:05 )
Taito
Space Invaders
Cadash
Growl
Darius
Night Striker
Sega Saturn
Darius Gaiden
Elevator Action Returns
Landmaker
Layer Section
Cleopatra Fortune
Bubble Bobble
Puzzle Bobble
Lufia
Densha De Go
Battle Gear
Gunbuster
Bujingai: The Forsaken City
10,000 Bullets
Spac3 Invaders Extr3me
Groove Coaster
Square Enix
Gunslinger Stratos
Taiko no Tatsujin
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Nintendo Entertainment System
Retronauts
Operation Wolf
5: Ash’s Second Pick (24:39 )
Kaizen Game Works
Paradise Killer
Neon White
Promise Mascot Agency
Ben Esposito
Donut County
Oli Clarke-Smith
forums.insertcredit.com
6: Frank’s Second Pick (28:23 )
Nintendo
Hanafuda
Super Mario Bros.
Satoru Iwata
Wii Music
Nintendo Labo
Donkey Kong Bananza
John Romero
Konami
Microsoft
Sony
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubi
Comments
In Channel