Select and Start

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The podcast about meaningful and memorable video games. Hosted by @dannyvegito.bsky.social. New episodes every other Tuesday. Part of the @moonshotpods.bsky.social network. pinecast.com/feed/select-and-start || patreon.com/KeifersCorner

Mario in jail

Cube from Live A Live superimposed over Idris Elba’s face. Elba is sitting pensively with the words”Learn to sit back and observe. Not everything needs a reaction.” are placed in the middle of the image

Cover art for Live A Live (2022)

cover art for the super famicom game live a live

Spec Ops: The Line cover art

the words “Dark Cloud 3” in the Pokopia font

cover art for the PS2 game Sly 2 Band of Thieves

Phantasmagoria (1995)

Screenshot from the 2004 version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. Snake stands in the foreground of a garden of white flowers that rise up to his waist. Facing him in the background is his mentor, The Boss.

cover art for Spec Ops: The Line

official image of Sly 2: Band of Thieves depicting the main 3 playable characters. From left to right: Bentley, Sly, and Murray

Cover art for Super Mario 64 depicting Mario flying in the sky with wings on his red cap

Screenshot of Deadly Premonition: Francis “York” Morgan sitting in a car and holding up red seeds in a plastic bag while saying “These puppies are making me go to another town in the boondocks again.”

screenshot from the video game Deadly Premonition

cover art for Marvel vs Capcom 2 depicting Spider-Man, Ryu and Zangief from Street Fighter, and Hulk

Cover art for Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes

cover art for Guilty Gear Xrd sign

cover art for Guilty Gear Xrd -Sign-

Half Life 2 art depicting Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance

Promotional image of Half-Life 2 depicting Gordon Freeman in the foreground wielding a crowbar while Alyx Vance stands behind him with a lug wrench. A thick white fog is in the background

art by momopatchi featuring us in Link’s green tunic. they are holding the blue ocarina of time in their hands and I am wielding the Master Sword and holding it into the air. Navi is flying above us

Box art for the Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time

cover art for the Gamecube game Luigi’s Mansion

Cover art for the 1998 Nintendo 64 game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Still image of a pip boy from the video game Fallout New Vegas

Screenshot of Frank West in the video game Dead Rising

cover art for the video game Dead Rising

Screenshot from the video game shadow of the colossus

PS2 cover art for the 2005 video game Shadow of the Colossus: depicting a giant, ancient creature covered in hair and holding a club the size of a building. The human protagonist, Wander, stands underneath him on his black horse, Argo, wielding a sword. He is greatly outsized by the skyscraper sized beast. the picture has a bloom filter applied to it

The first three pictures are all screenshots of the video game Rez: a trance-y musical rail shooter with abstract visuals

screenshot of the video game Rez: a musical rail shooter with trippy digital visuals

Promo art of Super Mario Galaxy depicting Mario floating in space with Lumas: bulbous star-shaped creatures with black eyes

Official art for Super Mario Galaxy (2007)

Wolverine with his adamantium claws out, standing over a pile of dead soldiers in a snowy forest

screenshot of Sonic Adventure 2 depicting Knuckles running away from King Boom Boo, giant ghost with a rainbow colored tongue and two arms with three claws extending out from the bottom of his ghostly form

screenshot of Super Mario Galaxy depicting Mario flying away from an erupting volcano on a lava planet

In game screenshot of X-Men Origins Wolverine depicting Wolverine lunging at a military helicopter with his bone claws extended

Cover art of Octodad: Dadliest Catch depicting a family portrait of an orange octopus in a blue three piece suit and red tie with his family. On the right is his human, red-haired wife. Between them is a brown haired human child. Octodad has his arm (tentacle) around his shoulder. He is holding is youngest, a black haired human daughter in his other arm (tentacle).

Cover art for Tony Hawk’s Underground

cover art for the 2003 video game Tony Hawk’s Underground

Cover art for Jordan Mechner’s 1989 video game Prince of Persia, depicting the Sultan Jafarr grabbing the princess by her wrist. in the bottom right corner, an unnamed guard is engaging in a sword fight with the titular prince

screenshot of Prince of Persia for the MS-Dos (1990)

The unnamed player character picks up a sword and points it toward the air, a pile of bones lays at his feet

cover for Pokemon Red version

Screenshots from Night in the Woods: Mae (a black cat) riding on the back of Gregg (a yellow fox’s) bike as he pedals. They’re wearing goggles and a sunset is behind them

screenshot of the video game Night in the Woods. Mae, a black cat in an orange shirt, is standing on top of a table at a shop with a black text bubble reading “You wanna talk about it?” over her head

black and white illustration of Samus Aran from Metroid in her power suit. Art by Alzandah.

Promotional art for Metroid Dread depicting Samus in the foreground while a white EMMI unit lurks behind her

cover art for Rock Band 2

SNES Super Mario RPG Box Art

US Box Art for Breath of Fire on the SNES

GLaDOS from Portal 2

Alan Wake from the 2010 game Alan Wake

Two robots, Atlas and P-Body from the game Portal 2, firing portals on the wall