Remember the console wars? 2000 fanboys where just the worst. SSS for life!
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Jon did a bit of art for demonschool - I would totally make an x-men '97 game in the style of X-Men 2 Clone Wars but it’s not in the cards.
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I was thinking of posting about Halt and Catch Fire several days ago, and then Polygon got the drop on me (with the bold title “Halt and Catch Fire understood video games better than any other show”), even going as far as to link the video I was thinking of linking.
Several real games are referenced in the show, including several references to the Famicom/NES. The fictional games were fun though:
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a text adventure game in the first season, I think supposed to be a fork of Colossal Cave Adventure, used to weed out programmers
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the dial-up games on Mutiny in the second season, especially a 2D tank fighting game
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the graphical version of that dial-up service in the third season, which probably has a direct analogue, but reminded me more of early graphical adventures
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Cameron’s first games with Atari, the Space Bike franchise, which are supposed to be this action-adventurish game where the heroine travels from planet to planet collecting the five senses in a post-apocalyptic space journey. But there are several games and it’s her big thing
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Pilgrim, her patient game, a 3D adventure game with obscure controls and goals that Atari ends up shelving. To me it looks a bit like an obscure, alien Twinsen’s Odyssey. I love the story with it, one character understanding another through solving their arbitarily difficult, obfuscatory game. I’m not sure I would enjoy actually playing it, but I can at least relate to getting really into a difficult game and coming to an understanding of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lb7SGxtu2P4&pp=ygUbcGlsZ3JpbSBoYWx0IGFuZCBjYXRjaCBmaXJl
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This is pretty close to being a real one but he does call it the BS5, so…
(this is from kaiju no. 8 which is a decent/standard feeling shonen manga)
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How’d they get Aaron Paul…!?
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i have a feeling that Overcooked is more stressing than this
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this was really funny
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great info for my upcoming chicago trip
do not pet the Chicago dogs (they are feral)
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semi fake, but Neon Genesis Evangelion 3.0+1.0 has Asuka playing a fictional Wonderswan 2 with dual analog sticks and she’s playing a virtual boy like version of Gunpey!
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And they say VR doesn’t have enough killer apps.
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X-Files - Season 7, Episode 13 - “First Person Shooter”
A whole episode about a fictional video game! Classic die in the game die in real life business. Draws some parallels between the hellish boys club of game development and cops, but is mostly just footage of people firing machine guns and standing still.
One of the game devs under investigation refers to Scully and Mulder as “our friends” after having met them a day prior which made me laugh out loud.
“Now that’s entertainment.”
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I remember feeling embarrassed to be alive when I watched this episode as a teen. I was embarrassed that people in Hollywood thought this is what I would think was cool. It felt like despite trying to pander to me they actually completely owned me out of existence.
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Haha, yea. It’s hard to tell if its antagonizing or just painfully accurate.
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Some fake Persona 3 Reload games:
I like the confusing timeline here. P3R is a 2024 game recreating a 2006 version of Innocent Sin Online, a fake MMO version of an actual 1999 Persona game released a decade before the game’s 2009 present with a player whose lingo goes back to the late 1990s or early 2000s.
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The kid in the Robocop remake playing ice hockey on some handheld device that for some reason displays on both sides.
Just saw this on the PC-98 screenshots bot, console on the TV in the background:
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That pc-98 one looks like a superb famicom, or a super famicorn. People should’ve had more fun with those clone names. Also does she have like… A cylindrical trash can with a truck on it?
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