“In which we discuss some things that were relevant about a month ago, and some things that were relevant years ago.”
In this remarkably focused discussion, we talk about our formative years playing video games, and specifically, about the games which captured us for marathon play sessions.
This is bracketed by a couple of rants by Dave (one of which he gets to put his game dev hat back on for) and the story of possibly one of the longest-lived Pokemon of all time.
Topics covered:
- Rob Portman
- SimCity
- Catsplosion
- Civilization IV
- The Harvard University Band
- Reinforcement Schedules (variable ratio vs. variable interval)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
- Blitzball
- Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Bioshock
- Master of Orion
- Myst
- The 7th Guest
- Star Control II
- Starship Titanic
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (playable browser version!)
- Wurmple
- Monster Rancher
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