Phil Salvador, library director for the Video Game History Foundation, steps over to the panel for Maxis facts, Five Nights at Freddy’s lore, and pigeon kings.
Questions this week:
- Do Maxis Sim games have an evolving line of game design you can trace from title to title? (07:29)
- What else could Maxis have done after The Sims 2? (15:16)
- What are some interesting regional differences in video games? (22:01)
- How and why do mass game company layoffs keep happening? (27:37)
- Without looking anything up, what do you think Five Nights at Freddy’s is about? (34:57)
- Slightly More Five Nights at Freddy’s talk (44:48)
- Isla asks: What is a game mechanic or system you really like that is in a game you don't like? (45:57)
- What would it be like if video games had playable forewords? (56:46)
LIGHTNING ROUND: Who Said It? (01:01:39)
Recommendations and Outro (01:13:17)
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A SMALL SELECTION OF THINGS REFERENCED:
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
- Ninja Gaiden
- Bloodborne
- Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
- Shining Force III
- Tori no Hoshi: Aerial Planet
- Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg
- Chocobo
- The Matrix Online
- Yakuza / Ryū ga Gotoku series
- Maxis
- Firaxis
- Sixaxis
- Sid Meier's SimGolf
- SimGolf
- Will Wright
- SimAnt
- SimEarth: The Living Planet
- The Sims
- Marvel Midnight Suns
- Spore
- SimTower: The Vertical Empire
- Alexey Pajitnov
- El-Fish
- The Sims 2
- The Sims 3
- Capitalism
- Diner Dash
- The Sims Online
- Kirby games
- Crash Bandicoot series
- Ratchet & Clank series
- Splatterhouse
- Exile
- Police Quest 2: The Vengeance
- Might and Magic
- J.J. & Jeff
- DJ Jazzy Jeff
- Populous
- Peter Molyneux
- Destiny 2 dev Bungie facing layoffs
- Embracer Group
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- Baldur's Gate III
- Street Fighter 6
- Diablo IV
- Five Nights at Freddy's
- Chuck E. Cheese
- ShowBiz Pizza
- The Rock-afire Explosion
- USA Store Fanon
- FNaF World
- Roblox
- Scott Cawthon
- Arachnophobia (1990)
- The Birds (1963)
- The Golem (2018)
- The Young Pope
- Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)
- Undertale
- Robot City
- P.N.03
- God Hand
- God of War
- The Last of Us series
- NieR
- David Cage
- Roman Polanski
- Martin Scorsese
- Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
- Trouble Is My Business
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Toby Fox
- Um Jammer Lammy NOW!
- Guillermo del Toro
- Death Stranding
- Æon Flux
- Peter Chung
Recommendations:
Brandon: Siege (1983), The Night Eats the World (2018), Wyrmwood (2014), Cargo (2017), The Horde (2009), Republic Z (2018), Blood Quantum (2019), 6/45 (2022), Dorohedoro, Octopus Girl
Tim: The short stories of Edogawa Ranpo
Jaffe: Rain Jerks
Recommendations:
Phil: The Video Game History Foundation.
Brandon: Fushigi and Crimson by Nakamori Akina
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Hosted by Alex Jaffe, with Frank Cifaldi, Tim Rogers, @necrosofty, and Phil Salvador. Edited by Esper Quinn, original music by Kurt Feldman.