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00:00:16 ◼ ► my name is Greg NOS your host Jason [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/16">TS</a>]
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00:09:33 ◼ ► until I solve the thing and it went on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/573">TS</a>]
00:09:38 ◼ ► you know if you use a hole punch to add [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/578">TS</a>]
00:09:41 ◼ ► a write-protect notch to the other side [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/581">TS</a>]
00:09:43 ◼ ► of the floppy you can store on both [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/583">TS</a>]
00:09:45 ◼ ► yeah that was pretty cool storage was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/585">TS</a>]
00:09:48 ◼ ► not it was not really an issue in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/588">TS</a>]
00:09:50 ◼ ► early gaming in fact that mystery house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/590">TS</a>]
00:09:55 ◼ ► came in a ziploc bag with one blue sheet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/595">TS</a>]
00:09:59 ◼ ► of paper as the instructions and they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/599">TS</a>]
00:10:02 ◼ ► mentioned something like there's a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/602">TS</a>]
00:10:04 ◼ ► sentence fragment towards the end of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/604">TS</a>]
00:10:05 ◼ ► that that sheet of paper that said you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/605">TS</a>]
00:10:08 ◼ ► can save game as well and we know what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/608">TS</a>]
00:10:11 ◼ ► the hell that was all we do is that we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/611">TS</a>]
00:10:13 ◼ ► typed savegame that said something about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/613">TS</a>]
00:10:15 ◼ ► overriding previous games and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/615">TS</a>]
00:10:17 ◼ ► freaking us all out and so we didn't we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/617">TS</a>]
00:10:20 ◼ ► we thought we were going to write over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/620">TS</a>]
00:10:21 ◼ ► the entirety of the game and and and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/621">TS</a>]
00:10:24 ◼ ► that would be it for Mystery House the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/624">TS</a>]
00:10:26 ◼ ► CPM version of colossal cave i played [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/626">TS</a>]
00:10:28 ◼ ► had a savegame system where you type [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/628">TS</a>]
00:10:31 ◼ ► save game and it would quit the game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/631">TS</a>]
00:10:33 ◼ ► completely and then you were supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/633">TS</a>]
00:10:35 ◼ ► save the core image of the computer i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/635">TS</a>]
00:10:44 ◼ ► well we we played through mystery house [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/644">TS</a>]
00:10:47 ◼ ► without ever saving the game which was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/647">TS</a>]
00:10:49 ◼ ► massive pain because you had to visit [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/649">TS</a>]
00:10:51 ◼ ► every room before you could find the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/651">TS</a>]
00:10:54 ◼ ► trapdoor in the Attic you actually have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/654">TS</a>]
00:10:56 ◼ ► to head with bed and every single room [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/656">TS</a>]
00:10:58 ◼ ► in the game and there are several rooms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/658">TS</a>]
00:11:02 ◼ ► branching paths where there was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/662">TS</a>]
00:11:04 ◼ ► nothing there at the end of that path so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/664">TS</a>]
00:11:06 ◼ ► after having played two or three times [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/666">TS</a>]
00:11:08 ◼ ► we knew all you don't bother to go down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/668">TS</a>]
00:11:10 ◼ ► this hall on the second floor because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/670">TS</a>]
00:11:11 ◼ ► there's nothing there but a poorly drawn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/671">TS</a>]
00:11:13 ◼ ► bed and a window that looks more like a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/673">TS</a>]
00:11:17 ◼ ► and so it took us it must have been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/677">TS</a>]
00:11:22 ◼ ► weeks before somebody just accidentally [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/682">TS</a>]
00:11:25 ◼ ► you know in desperation wandered all of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/685">TS</a>]
00:11:28 ◼ ► the room and then chose to look through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/688">TS</a>]
00:11:31 ◼ ► this telescope out in the forest and saw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/691">TS</a>]
00:11:33 ◼ ► suddenly there was a trapdoor in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/693">TS</a>]
00:11:35 ◼ ► room so just the let's family finishes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/695">TS</a>]
00:11:37 ◼ ► dinner and gathers around the Apple to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/697">TS</a>]
00:11:40 ◼ ► and says I know let's play colossal cave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/700">TS</a>]
00:11:42 ◼ ► or excuse me hi res adventure number one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/702">TS</a>]
00:11:45 ◼ ► ok and they loaded up and they start [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/705">TS</a>]
00:11:47 ◼ ► from the beginning every time it was not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/707">TS</a>]
00:11:50 ◼ ► a massive game so it wasn't a big deal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/710">TS</a>]
00:11:53 ◼ ► and as I said most of the family was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/713">TS</a>]
00:11:56 ◼ ► pretty driven to finish the thing we're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/716">TS</a>]
00:11:57 ◼ ► fairly competitive so everybody was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/717">TS</a>]
00:11:59 ◼ ► trying to finish it first so it really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/719">TS</a>]
00:12:02 ◼ ► was just considered kind of a minor [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/722">TS</a>]
00:12:03 ◼ ► nuisance at the time I mean we didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/723">TS</a>]
00:12:06 ◼ ► how we hadn't seen computer games before [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/726">TS</a>]
00:12:07 ◼ ► was a wild frontier back that you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/727">TS</a>]
00:12:12 ◼ ► technology that makes you start from the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/732">TS</a>]
00:12:14 ◼ ► beginning every time as yes well you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/734">TS</a>]
00:12:17 ◼ ► know i don't i don't remember what my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/737">TS</a>]
00:12:19 ◼ ► first game I have a vague memory of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/739">TS</a>]
00:12:21 ◼ ► going over to a friend's house in like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/741">TS</a>]
00:12:23 ◼ ► junior high and he had an apple to not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/743">TS</a>]
00:12:25 ◼ ► an apple to plus an apple too and i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/745">TS</a>]
00:12:28 ◼ ► playing some scott adams adventures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/748">TS</a>]
00:12:31 ◼ ► adventureland was the first but I I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/751">TS</a>]
00:12:34 ◼ ► couldn't tell you anything about it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/754">TS</a>]
00:12:36 ◼ ► the first game I really remember is orc [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/756">TS</a>]
00:12:37 ◼ ► and the what we do is take a pirated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/757">TS</a>]
00:12:41 ◼ ► copy and punch a hole in the disk so you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/761">TS</a>]
00:12:45 ◼ ► can flip it over and store the games on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/765">TS</a>]
00:12:46 ◼ ► the other side and so you had one nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/766">TS</a>]
00:12:49 ◼ ► little five and a quarter inch package [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/769">TS</a>]
00:12:51 ◼ ► of the game on one side and all your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/771">TS</a>]
00:12:54 ◼ ► saves on the other I I completely fell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/774">TS</a>]
00:12:56 ◼ ► in love the first time I strides or it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/776">TS</a>]
00:13:01 ◼ ► surprised that that it's not what you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/781">TS</a>]
00:13:06 ◼ ► guys started with I mean it was such a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/786">TS</a>]
00:13:07 ◼ ► phenomenon as far as they went in 1980 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/787">TS</a>]
00:13:12 ◼ ► it was exciting to get sore because I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/792">TS</a>]
00:13:14 ◼ ► started before short came out so i had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/794">TS</a>]
00:13:18 ◼ ► to suffer through colossal k which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/798">TS</a>]
00:13:20 ◼ ► fairly interestingly written but mostly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/800">TS</a>]
00:13:22 ◼ ► just a bunch of descriptions of caves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/802">TS</a>]
00:13:24 ◼ ► and random treasures and then the scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/804">TS</a>]
00:13:28 ◼ ► adams adventures which are just whore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/808">TS</a>]
00:13:30 ◼ ► really written so with when Zork hit and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/810">TS</a>]
00:13:34 ◼ ► it was something that had a sense of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/814">TS</a>]
00:13:36 ◼ ► humor about itself it was tremendously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/816">TS</a>]
00:13:40 ◼ ► plus you could take more letters that it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/820">TS</a>]
00:13:43 ◼ ► adventureland only recognize the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/823">TS</a>]
00:13:45 ◼ ► three letters York 126 yeah that's my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/825">TS</a>]
00:13:50 ◼ ► the the first game i bought the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/830">TS</a>]
00:13:52 ◼ ► infocomm game i bought and my favorite [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/832">TS</a>]
00:13:54 ◼ ► to this day is deadline it was their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/834">TS</a>]
00:13:56 ◼ ► third game and it was the first one that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/836">TS</a>]
00:13:58 ◼ ► included Feelies you know the you would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/838">TS</a>]
00:14:00 ◼ ► buy the game and it came in a sealed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/840">TS</a>]
00:14:02 ◼ ► inspection envelope and you have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/842">TS</a>]
00:14:03 ◼ ► slide a knife under it to break the seal [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/843">TS</a>]
00:14:06 ◼ ► and inside were little pills that have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/846">TS</a>]
00:14:08 ◼ ► been found near the murder scene and all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/848">TS</a>]
00:14:09 ◼ ► the photographic evidence and in the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/849">TS</a>]
00:14:14 ◼ ► game there's a gazebo and I being 13 14 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/854">TS</a>]
00:14:18 ◼ ► years old I had never heard of a gazebo [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/858">TS</a>]
00:14:22 ◼ ► this was a strange in new world for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/862">TS</a>]
00:14:24 ◼ ► and so I knew however that the game only [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/864">TS</a>]
00:14:27 ◼ ► our step 26 characters and so I thought [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/867">TS</a>]
00:14:30 ◼ ► it was a bug and it was a gaze box that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/870">TS</a>]
00:14:34 ◼ ► had just left the X off and if I could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/874">TS</a>]
00:14:39 ◼ ► just briefly ask you what did you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/879">TS</a>]
00:14:41 ◼ ► a gaze box was it was something in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/881">TS</a>]
00:14:45 ◼ ► garden that you could walk into an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/885">TS</a>]
00:14:46 ◼ ► apparently look out of it was a boxy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/886">TS</a>]
00:14:50 ◼ ► structure like shake you could gaze it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/890">TS</a>]
00:14:52 ◼ ► there you go that makes perfect sense [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/892">TS</a>]
00:14:54 ◼ ► for today's box i learned lots of words [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/894">TS</a>]
00:14:58 ◼ ► from from my early infocomm like many [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/898">TS</a>]
00:15:00 ◼ ► here or plover from classical cave [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/900">TS</a>]
00:15:04 ◼ ► there's a that's not actually a word [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/904">TS</a>]
00:15:07 ◼ ► what is Steve still learning words today [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/907">TS</a>]
00:15:10 ◼ ► I think it's an emerald the size of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/910">TS</a>]
00:15:12 ◼ ► plover zeg which sounds all well and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/912">TS</a>]
00:15:16 ◼ ► plovers egg is a pole over zeg wow I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/916">TS</a>]
00:15:21 ◼ ► remember looking up men here just to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/921">TS</a>]
00:15:24 ◼ ► standing stones in the description so if [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/924">TS</a>]
00:15:27 ◼ ► you knew what those were you did no I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/927">TS</a>]
00:15:30 ◼ ► didn't slide look it up to have a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/930">TS</a>]
00:15:32 ◼ ► experience with gays bows and standing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/932">TS</a>]
00:15:34 ◼ ► stones standing still adjust the to tend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/934">TS</a>]
00:15:37 ◼ ► my my gaze boxes full of men here's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/937">TS</a>]
00:15:41 ◼ ► and the I just I I mean for me playing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/941">TS</a>]
00:15:47 ◼ ► adventure games and sounds like for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/947">TS</a>]
00:15:48 ◼ ► Monty at least 20 and fractionated for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/948">TS</a>]
00:15:52 ◼ ► experience I mean we would sit around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/952">TS</a>]
00:15:57 ◼ ► everybody in the neighborhood sitting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/957">TS</a>]
00:15:58 ◼ ► around but they were only one or two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/958">TS</a>]
00:16:00 ◼ ► really hardcore adventure gamers in my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/960">TS</a>]
00:16:02 ◼ ► neighborhood and we would sit around and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/962">TS</a>]
00:16:03 ◼ ► try and solve puzzles together taking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/963">TS</a>]
00:16:05 ◼ ► turns driving i remember planetfall one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/965">TS</a>]
00:16:08 ◼ ► of the later rape where I think infocomm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/968">TS</a>]
00:16:13 ◼ ► planetfall i played and my house on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/973">TS</a>]
00:16:18 ◼ ► phone with a friend who lived two blocks [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/978">TS</a>]
00:16:20 ◼ ► away he was playing it at his house and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/980">TS</a>]
00:16:23 ◼ ► we were just talking to each other the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/983">TS</a>]
00:16:25 ◼ ► whole time for three solid days saying i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/985">TS</a>]
00:16:28 ◼ ► found a circuit board i figured out how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/988">TS</a>]
00:16:32 ◼ ► oh my god have you done this and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/992">TS</a>]
00:16:34 ◼ ► killed Floyd yes that was very very sad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/994">TS</a>]
00:16:37 ◼ ► faster that that's actually the that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/997">TS</a>]
00:16:41 ◼ ► that moment in in planetfall is a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1001">TS</a>]
00:16:45 ◼ ► people site that is like the first time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1005">TS</a>]
00:16:47 ◼ ► a computer game made them cry i'm not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1007">TS</a>]
00:16:50 ◼ ► going to run up to it but I remember it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1010">TS</a>]
00:16:52 ◼ ► being an emotional moment that sounds [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1012">TS</a>]
00:16:56 ◼ ► like spelunker is weakly would have made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1016">TS</a>]
00:16:58 ◼ ► me cry a little bit i was definitely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1018">TS</a>]
00:17:02 ◼ ► by that point in the game I had spent a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1022">TS</a>]
00:17:04 ◼ ► lot of time with the innocent childlike [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1024">TS</a>]
00:17:06 ◼ ► robot Floyd and when he sacrificed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1026">TS</a>]
00:17:08 ◼ ► himself to save me and then for no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1028">TS</a>]
00:17:13 ◼ ► reason saying a song that took up the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1033">TS</a>]
00:17:19 ◼ ► star-crossed lovers yes which for no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1039">TS</a>]
00:17:22 ◼ ► recap the plot of the previous info card [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1042">TS</a>]
00:17:26 ◼ ► games star cross was a great moment I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1046">TS</a>]
00:17:30 ◼ ► think that was one of the one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1050">TS</a>]
00:17:31 ◼ ► earliest if not the first moment that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1051">TS</a>]
00:17:34 ◼ ► remember the whole debate about whether [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1054">TS</a>]
00:17:35 ◼ ► computer games can be art came up and it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1055">TS</a>]
00:17:39 ◼ ► Roger Ebert is wrong is so add money [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1059">TS</a>]
00:17:43 ◼ ► what what's your favorite game just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1063">TS</a>]
00:17:45 ◼ ► going back in history the games i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1065">TS</a>]
00:17:48 ◼ ► thought were the best were either [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1068">TS</a>]
00:17:49 ◼ ► Trinity or lurking horror trinity is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1069">TS</a>]
00:17:54 ◼ ► weird almost plotless combination of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1074">TS</a>]
00:17:58 ◼ ► Alice in Wonderland and the development [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1078">TS</a>]
00:18:01 ◼ ► of nuclear technology where you end up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1081">TS</a>]
00:18:04 ◼ ► having to go to different places in time [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1084">TS</a>]
00:18:07 ◼ ► where nuclear bombs happened and make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1087">TS</a>]
00:18:11 ◼ ► sure that they do there's also an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1091">TS</a>]
00:18:13 ◼ ► overlay of Mary Poppins and Peter Pan [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1093">TS</a>]
00:18:16 ◼ ► going on to it's very odd but very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1096">TS</a>]
00:18:20 ◼ ► evocative and the other one is lurking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1100">TS</a>]
00:18:22 ◼ ► horror which is the one that's very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1102">TS</a>]
00:18:24 ◼ ► loved crafty and set at what's in homage [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1104">TS</a>]
00:18:27 ◼ ► to love em Brian Moriarty wrote Trinity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1107">TS</a>]
00:18:30 ◼ ► right and he went on to do a lot of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1110">TS</a>]
00:18:32 ◼ ► lucasfilm stuff like the dig in bloom [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1112">TS</a>]
00:18:35 ◼ ► I don't think he was involved in the dig [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1115">TS</a>]
00:18:37 ◼ ► but he definitely did loam I i remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1117">TS</a>]
00:18:40 ◼ ► when it came out a lot of people are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1120">TS</a>]
00:18:42 ◼ ► talking about it like it was a turning [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1122">TS</a>]
00:18:43 ◼ ► point that in mind forever voyaging were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1123">TS</a>]
00:18:45 ◼ ► like like planetfall was you know in an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1125">TS</a>]
00:18:48 ◼ ► emotional moment in interactive fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1128">TS</a>]
00:18:50 ◼ ► mfv and trinity were literary moments [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1130">TS</a>]
00:18:55 ◼ ► where it wasn't just a a game anymore it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1135">TS</a>]
00:18:58 ◼ ► was it was a story I wasn't crazy about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1138">TS</a>]
00:19:02 ◼ ► a mind forever voyaging as a game there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1142">TS</a>]
00:19:05 ◼ ► was way too much of just walking through [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1145">TS</a>]
00:19:08 ◼ ► the plot there really is only one puzzle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1148">TS</a>]
00:19:11 ◼ ► to speak of it yeah there's one puzzle [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1151">TS</a>]
00:19:13 ◼ ► yeah like you had a whole lot of things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1153">TS</a>]
00:19:15 ◼ ► you are required to do but mostly your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1155">TS</a>]
00:19:17 ◼ ► job well it was a novel rather than a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1157">TS</a>]
00:19:21 ◼ ► game resisted a novel you interacted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1161">TS</a>]
00:19:27 ◼ ► experimenting with with things other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1167">TS</a>]
00:19:30 ◼ ► than just adventure games while they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1170">TS</a>]
00:19:33 ◼ ► were experimenting fairly early like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1173">TS</a>]
00:19:36 ◼ ► suspended is a crazy idea for a game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1176">TS</a>]
00:19:39 ◼ ► where you have to control six different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1179">TS</a>]
00:19:41 ◼ ► robots each of which interact with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1181">TS</a>]
00:19:44 ◼ ► world in a different way so the only way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1184">TS</a>]
00:19:46 ◼ ► to operate things you have to fix irises [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1186">TS</a>]
00:19:49 ◼ ► site because iris is the only one who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1189">TS</a>]
00:19:50 ◼ ► can see things and then once iris works [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1190">TS</a>]
00:19:52 ◼ ► you can look around and use the feeling [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1192">TS</a>]
00:19:57 ◼ ► that was written by michael Berlin who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1197">TS</a>]
00:19:59 ◼ ► is a set established science fiction [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1199">TS</a>]
00:20:01 ◼ ► author yeah that was their first attempt [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1201">TS</a>]
00:20:07 ◼ ► it was also i think the first game to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1207">TS</a>]
00:20:10 ◼ ► feature an impossible mode right yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1210">TS</a>]
00:20:12 ◼ ► that which was genuinely impossible [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1212">TS</a>]
00:20:14 ◼ ► yeah you started and the world would end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1214">TS</a>]
00:20:22 ◼ ► what I liked about that game was when we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1222">TS</a>]
00:20:25 ◼ ► my friend Mike and I figured out that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1225">TS</a>]
00:20:28 ◼ ► you could use any robots description is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1228">TS</a>]
00:20:30 ◼ ► everything in the game each robot would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1230">TS</a>]
00:20:32 ◼ ► describe differently so iris would say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1232">TS</a>]
00:20:34 ◼ ► the blue thing whereas out o would say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1234">TS</a>]
00:20:37 ◼ ► the thing that goes being without it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1237">TS</a>]
00:20:40 ◼ ► the listening robot but eventually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1240">TS</a>]
00:20:43 ◼ ► figured out that if you used wiz at who [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1243">TS</a>]
00:20:46 ◼ ► was the cursor librarian robot you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1246">TS</a>]
00:20:48 ◼ ► just call everything the LH one or the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1248">TS</a>]
00:20:51 ◼ ► PX 2 and that would save your typing a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1251">TS</a>]
00:20:54 ◼ ► lot but great thing infocomm ever did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1254">TS</a>]
00:20:57 ◼ ► with shorten inventory to I helices l [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1257">TS</a>]
00:21:00 ◼ ► and again was G which we have huge just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1260">TS</a>]
00:21:03 ◼ ► before this podcast i was playing a very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1263">TS</a>]
00:21:05 ◼ ► early version of Zork to that did not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1265">TS</a>]
00:21:08 ◼ ► have g4 again and i asked i'm steve what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1268">TS</a>]
00:21:12 ◼ ► was your what's your favorite game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1272">TS</a>]
00:21:14 ◼ ► well it's a toss up for me I don't think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1274">TS</a>]
00:21:16 ◼ ► I'm quite as as experience with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1276">TS</a>]
00:21:19 ◼ ► infocomm cannons youtube because I never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1279">TS</a>]
00:21:21 ◼ ► quite got around to doing Trinity I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1281">TS</a>]
00:21:22 ◼ ► think I move your ultimate by that point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1282">TS</a>]
00:21:24 ◼ ► good play it now no I was I had just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1284">TS</a>]
00:21:27 ◼ ► branched off onto a different path of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1287">TS</a>]
00:21:28 ◼ ► loser hood at that point I was I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1288">TS</a>]
00:21:30 ◼ ► more into the ultimate wasteland other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1290">TS</a>]
00:21:33 ◼ ► RPGs by that point but of the ones that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1293">TS</a>]
00:21:37 ◼ ► i have played it's a toss up for me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1297">TS</a>]
00:21:39 ◼ ► between chanter which I just really like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1299">TS</a>]
00:21:43 ◼ ► the dynamic of collecting spells I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1303">TS</a>]
00:21:46 ◼ ► they the OCD part of me which is like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1306">TS</a>]
00:21:47 ◼ ► ninety percent of me really enjoyed that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1307">TS</a>]
00:21:49 ◼ ► the whole experience of walking around [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1309">TS</a>]
00:21:52 ◼ ► collecting spells and it was nice to be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1312">TS</a>]
00:21:55 ◼ ► in a fantasy environment where there was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1315">TS</a>]
00:21:58 ◼ ► less randomness than Zork and the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1318">TS</a>]
00:22:04 ◼ ► over-the-top and unfair i think that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1324">TS</a>]
00:22:07 ◼ ► probably the first infocomm game that I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1327">TS</a>]
00:22:10 ◼ ► played through without having to look at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1330">TS</a>]
00:22:13 ◼ ► any hint anywhere it resort kind of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1333">TS</a>]
00:22:15 ◼ ► suffers from the early adventure game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1335">TS</a>]
00:22:17 ◼ ► problem of we're just making puzzles up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1337">TS</a>]
00:22:20 ◼ ► rain another puzzle we need another [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1340">TS</a>]
00:22:22 ◼ ► puzzle we need another puzzle and a lot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1342">TS</a>]
00:22:24 ◼ ► of it feels like they just came up with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1344">TS</a>]
00:22:26 ◼ ► puzzles and slam together and in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1346">TS</a>]
00:22:28 ◼ ► totally haphazard way I mean there's not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1348">TS</a>]
00:22:30 ◼ ► really a lot of coherence in the fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1350">TS</a>]
00:22:32 ◼ ► really the baseball diamond puzzle has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1352">TS</a>]
00:22:34 ◼ ► no context in a fantasy settings i have [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1354">TS</a>]
00:22:37 ◼ ► played Zork probably 50 times by this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1357">TS</a>]
00:22:41 ◼ ► point and i can play the whole thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1361">TS</a>]
00:22:45 ◼ ► I still don't understand the baseball [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1365">TS</a>]
00:22:48 ◼ ► well there's there's a bat and it says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1368">TS</a>]
00:22:51 ◼ ► babe flathead right I you're supposed to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1371">TS</a>]
00:22:54 ◼ ► swing the bat goes to find the bat swing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1374">TS</a>]
00:23:00 ◼ ► yes I don't know what direction diamond [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1380">TS</a>]
00:23:03 ◼ ► I think you're only available directions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1383">TS</a>]
00:23:05 ◼ ► are northeast northwest southeast and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1385">TS</a>]
00:23:07 ◼ ► southwest right and you can't go north [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1387">TS</a>]
00:23:09 ◼ ► south and everything says dymond I mean [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1389">TS</a>]
00:23:12 ◼ ► it's like a diamond shape Iran angular [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1392">TS</a>]
00:23:14 ◼ ► room with a diamond-shaped window even [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1394">TS</a>]
00:23:16 ◼ ► even assuming you have the baseball [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1396">TS</a>]
00:23:18 ◼ ► context that's required to understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1398">TS</a>]
00:23:20 ◼ ► the puzzle explain why it's in a fantasy [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1400">TS</a>]
00:23:23 ◼ ► setting again like it that I cannot do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1403">TS</a>]
00:23:26 ◼ ► well you see the flatheads were famously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1406">TS</a>]
00:23:28 ◼ ► eccentric and extremely rich so they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1408">TS</a>]
00:23:31 ◼ ► would do crazy things like hollow out of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1411">TS</a>]
00:23:33 ◼ ► volcano just store there one crowd and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1413">TS</a>]
00:23:36 ◼ ► build a flood control damn yes so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1416">TS</a>]
00:23:38 ◼ ► clearly babe flathead wanted to have an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1418">TS</a>]
00:23:43 ◼ ► it was the Big Blue Ox flathead right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1423">TS</a>]
00:23:48 ◼ ► pioneering double fanucci babe flathead [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1428">TS</a>]
00:23:53 ◼ ► rudimentary version of baseball that's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1433">TS</a>]
00:23:57 ◼ ► deadline so much it was outside of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1437">TS</a>]
00:24:00 ◼ ► cannon that was dragged from you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1440">TS</a>]
00:24:02 ◼ ► MIT when they were just throwing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1442">TS</a>]
00:24:05 ◼ ► game together it was start to finish [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1445">TS</a>]
00:24:11 ◼ ► yeah that's that's that's exactly why I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1451">TS</a>]
00:24:13 ◼ ► liked enchanter because it flowed all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1453">TS</a>]
00:24:17 ◼ ► the rooms made sense they you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1457">TS</a>]
00:24:19 ◼ ► understand why they were where they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1459">TS</a>]
00:24:21 ◼ ► as a result and ended up kind of I think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1461">TS</a>]
00:24:24 ◼ ► a little bit more of a linear experience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1464">TS</a>]
00:24:26 ◼ ► but really enjoyed it for that for for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1466">TS</a>]
00:24:31 ◼ ► and then second which may or may not be [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1471">TS</a>]
00:24:35 ◼ ► first I think I kind of go back and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1475">TS</a>]
00:24:40 ◼ ► yes exactly would be leather goddesses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1480">TS</a>]
00:24:44 ◼ ► of Phobos oh you pervy little bastard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1484">TS</a>]
00:24:50 ◼ ► hitchhikers + tax 7-bit ascii sex+ far [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1490">TS</a>]
00:24:56 ◼ ► less difficulty and more reasonable [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1496">TS</a>]
00:24:58 ◼ ► puzzles and except for that stupid maze [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1498">TS</a>]
00:25:01 ◼ ► where you had to hop every set seven [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1501">TS</a>]
00:25:03 ◼ ► steps and every three steps or whatever [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1503">TS</a>]
00:25:06 ◼ ► it was and I don't for some reason I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1506">TS</a>]
00:25:08 ◼ ► don't recall that maybe black that out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1508">TS</a>]
00:25:10 ◼ ► of my memory we we wrote that out yeah [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1510">TS</a>]
00:25:12 ◼ ► you had to eventually you know just just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1512">TS</a>]
00:25:14 ◼ ► writing out the commands just so we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1514">TS</a>]
00:25:15 ◼ ► would make sure to hop and do everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1515">TS</a>]
00:25:19 ◼ ► that was necessary every proper term [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1519">TS</a>]
00:25:21 ◼ ► number okay yeah it's coming back to me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1521">TS</a>]
00:25:24 ◼ ► yeah that kind of sucked so what do you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1524">TS</a>]
00:25:27 ◼ ► like about it other than the the naughty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1527">TS</a>]
00:25:31 ◼ ► I mean it's all the all the info con [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1531">TS</a>]
00:25:33 ◼ ► games were funny on some level but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1533">TS</a>]
00:25:35 ◼ ► always enjoyed moretz keys work and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1535">TS</a>]
00:25:39 ◼ ► know I i suspect that he's largely [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1539">TS</a>]
00:25:41 ◼ ► responsible for why Hitchhiker's Guide [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1541">TS</a>]
00:25:45 ◼ ► well on the douglas adams podcast there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1545">TS</a>]
00:25:48 ◼ ► we talked about how legendarily bad [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1548">TS</a>]
00:25:52 ◼ ► adams was with deadlines ran they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1552">TS</a>]
00:25:56 ◼ ► eventually just kind of chuck the game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1556">TS</a>]
00:25:59 ◼ ► tumors etsy and and he finished it right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1559">TS</a>]
00:26:04 ◼ ► credited to the staff of infocomm and in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1564">TS</a>]
00:26:07 ◼ ► tiny little 8.5 douglas adams i'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1567">TS</a>]
00:26:11 ◼ ► actually did the infocomm implosion you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1571">TS</a>]
00:26:15 ◼ ► know they were found it is as they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1575">TS</a>]
00:26:18 ◼ ► going to write new software they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1578">TS</a>]
00:26:19 ◼ ► just going to pour torque and continue [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1579">TS</a>]
00:26:21 ◼ ► to do adventure games but it turned out [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1581">TS</a>]
00:26:23 ◼ ► to be so profitable that they just kept [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1583">TS</a>]
00:26:24 ◼ ► going gangbusters and then when they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1584">TS</a>]
00:26:26 ◼ ► actually did come out with a business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1586">TS</a>]
00:26:28 ◼ ► cornerstone in 1985 it fell flat on its [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1588">TS</a>]
00:26:31 ◼ ► face one of the advantages they had when [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1591">TS</a>]
00:26:35 ◼ ► with their adventure games was they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1595">TS</a>]
00:26:37 ◼ ► wrote a bytecode interpreter which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1597">TS</a>]
00:26:39 ◼ ► nerd talk for something that could take [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1599">TS</a>]
00:26:41 ◼ ► a very very compressed script and squash [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1601">TS</a>]
00:26:45 ◼ ► onto a single in the case of my Atari [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1605">TS</a>]
00:26:47 ◼ ► 490 k floppy drive and still included a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1607">TS</a>]
00:26:53 ◼ ► um and then they could just pour the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1613">TS</a>]
00:26:55 ◼ ► bytecode interpreter to each of the new [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1615">TS</a>]
00:26:57 ◼ ► architectures whether it's Apple to or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1617">TS</a>]
00:26:58 ◼ ► commodore 64 Monty's families CPM [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1618">TS</a>]
00:27:02 ◼ ► machine by that point we had gotten [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1622">TS</a>]
00:27:06 ◼ ► ok and and so they could release all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1626">TS</a>]
00:27:09 ◼ ► these games or all these different [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1629">TS</a>]
00:27:11 ◼ ► platforms at the same time because the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1631">TS</a>]
00:27:12 ◼ ► same script run and ran on each of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1632">TS</a>]
00:27:14 ◼ ► bike open code interpreters for each of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1634">TS</a>]
00:27:17 ◼ ► the machines but they tried the same [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1637">TS</a>]
00:27:18 ◼ ► thing with Cornerstone where the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1638">TS</a>]
00:27:22 ◼ ► product was written by code interpreted [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1642">TS</a>]
00:27:24 ◼ ► which meant it was very very very slow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1644">TS</a>]
00:27:26 ◼ ► and around 95 you know it just the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1646">TS</a>]
00:27:32 ◼ ► function of computer games is very [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1652">TS</a>]
00:27:33 ◼ ► different than the function of business [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1653">TS</a>]
00:27:35 ◼ ► software and slowness doesn't help and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1655">TS</a>]
00:27:37 ◼ ► they never ported it to anything other [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1657">TS</a>]
00:27:39 ◼ ► than the pc well there was no point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1659">TS</a>]
00:27:42 ◼ ► enterprise at that point so you just use [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1662">TS</a>]
00:27:45 ◼ ► the word enterprise it not in a Star [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1665">TS</a>]
00:27:47 ◼ ► Trek context yes i know i'm sorry their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1667">TS</a>]
00:27:50 ◼ ► whole their whole reason for in doing an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1670">TS</a>]
00:27:52 ◼ ► interpretive database was pretty much [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1672">TS</a>]
00:27:54 ◼ ► out the window at that point the driver [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1674">TS</a>]
00:27:55 ◼ ► stock so and they're stuck with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1675">TS</a>]
00:27:57 ◼ ► overhead and they're charging five [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1677">TS</a>]
00:27:59 ◼ ► hundred dollars for something that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1679">TS</a>]
00:28:00 ◼ ► didn't include a natural language parser [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1680">TS</a>]
00:28:02 ◼ ► which is what they were known for and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1682">TS</a>]
00:28:04 ◼ ► the company just kind of crumbled at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1684">TS</a>]
00:28:07 ◼ ► that point and it's their greatest work [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1687">TS</a>]
00:28:09 ◼ ► was behind them at that point i don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1689">TS</a>]
00:28:12 ◼ ► know i think that they were still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1692">TS</a>]
00:28:15 ◼ ► trinity I think Trinity was a pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1695">TS</a>]
00:28:16 ◼ ► late one and lurking horror was in there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1696">TS</a>]
00:28:19 ◼ ► Trinity was 86 but they were all they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1699">TS</a>]
00:28:22 ◼ ► were doing James Clavell shogun you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1702">TS</a>]
00:28:25 ◼ ► they were they were grasping at straws [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1705">TS</a>]
00:28:26 ◼ ► dated plundered hearts which nothing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1706">TS</a>]
00:28:28 ◼ ► against plundered hearts but it they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1708">TS</a>]
00:28:33 ◼ ► cornerstones released in 85 and that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1713">TS</a>]
00:28:38 ◼ ► meant that Trinity leather goddesses [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1718">TS</a>]
00:28:39 ◼ ► bureaucracy station fall which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1719">TS</a>]
00:28:42 ◼ ► admittedly not as good as planetfall [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1722">TS</a>]
00:28:43 ◼ ► lurking horror you know the two somewhat [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1723">TS</a>]
00:28:48 ◼ ► lesser zor countries that those were all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1728">TS</a>]
00:28:51 ◼ ► post post cornerstone so they were still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1731">TS</a>]
00:28:53 ◼ ► putting together some decent games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1733">TS</a>]
00:28:57 ◼ ► a you know their their feeble attempt at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1737">TS</a>]
00:29:00 ◼ ► RPGs which was I think what quarter [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1740">TS</a>]
00:29:02 ◼ ► staff but they also they did they'd like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1742">TS</a>]
00:29:06 ◼ ► border zone which was a fine game but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1746">TS</a>]
00:29:09 ◼ ► was it wasn't a coherent story it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1749">TS</a>]
00:29:11 ◼ ► just a bunch of little vignettes that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1751">TS</a>]
00:29:13 ◼ ► one they were trying to add graphics but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1753">TS</a>]
00:29:16 ◼ ► they weren't doing it well and it was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1756">TS</a>]
00:29:17 ◼ ► ski graphics talent tell me that that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1757">TS</a>]
00:29:21 ◼ ► Nordenberg couldn't make heads or tails [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1761">TS</a>]
00:29:27 ◼ ► no I will not tell you that I still kind [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1767">TS</a>]
00:29:30 ◼ ► of enjoy playing that although there are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1770">TS</a>]
00:29:32 ◼ ► a couple specific parts of that still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1772">TS</a>]
00:29:35 ◼ ► the spoonerism section still runs [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1775">TS</a>]
00:29:38 ◼ ► some of those art spoonerisms keep tell [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1778">TS</a>]
00:29:43 ◼ ► us how angry it makes you if they didn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1783">TS</a>]
00:29:49 ◼ ► did anybody in the world play Sherlock I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1789">TS</a>]
00:29:52 ◼ ► played Sherlock know what Monty and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1792">TS</a>]
00:29:56 ◼ ► Sherlock is very unsatisfying what about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1796">TS</a>]
00:29:58 ◼ ► Arthur never played Arthur you can't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1798">TS</a>]
00:30:02 ◼ ► even get started in Sherlock unless you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1802">TS</a>]
00:30:06 ◼ ► stethoscope in his hat it is had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1806">TS</a>]
00:30:12 ◼ ► euphemism it could be I don't know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1812">TS</a>]
00:30:14 ◼ ► everything is written in this weird [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1814">TS</a>]
00:30:16 ◼ ► British is to use the term bowler that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1816">TS</a>]
00:30:18 ◼ ► could be anything really i just did you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1818">TS</a>]
00:30:22 ◼ ► know it seems like they were grasping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1822">TS</a>]
00:30:24 ◼ ► for new markets like see starker was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1824">TS</a>]
00:30:26 ◼ ► young person's game and that was earlier [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1826">TS</a>]
00:30:29 ◼ ► admittedly but just they didn't maybe I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1829">TS</a>]
00:30:33 ◼ ► was growing up in and discovering at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1833">TS</a>]
00:30:35 ◼ ► least my interest in girls if not actual [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1835">TS</a>]
00:30:37 ◼ ► girls and they didn't grab me the way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1837">TS</a>]
00:30:40 ◼ ► like deadline or starcross you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1840">TS</a>]
00:30:42 ◼ ► suspended did well I feel like in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1842">TS</a>]
00:30:45 ◼ ► later era while they were also doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1845">TS</a>]
00:30:47 ◼ ► rich interesting games like Trinity and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1847">TS</a>]
00:30:49 ◼ ► learning or they're also trying to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1849">TS</a>]
00:30:51 ◼ ► games that had multiple story options in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1851">TS</a>]
00:30:54 ◼ ► them the movement plundered hearts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1854">TS</a>]
00:30:56 ◼ ► cutthroats and I think Sherlock all had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1856">TS</a>]
00:30:58 ◼ ► three different possible plots you could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1858">TS</a>]
00:31:05 ◼ ► replayability yeah I which they never [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1865">TS</a>]
00:31:09 ◼ ► had in their early games you know once [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1869">TS</a>]
00:31:10 ◼ ► you were done with his work you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1870">TS</a>]
00:31:11 ◼ ► pretty much done in fact i played it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1871">TS</a>]
00:31:14 ◼ ► just out of sheer a nostalgia couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1874">TS</a>]
00:31:17 ◼ ► days ago and it took me two days and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1877">TS</a>]
00:31:19 ◼ ► still remember exactly where everything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1879">TS</a>]
00:31:20 ◼ ► was it's been two decades since i last [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1880">TS</a>]
00:31:22 ◼ ► touch the thing but then again i played [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1882">TS</a>]
00:31:25 ◼ ► it again didn't I so replayability is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1885">TS</a>]
00:31:27 ◼ ► that's why I have all the infocomm games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1887">TS</a>]
00:31:29 ◼ ► on my iPad so i can play that whatever I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1889">TS</a>]
00:31:31 ◼ ► want and feel really really smart this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1891">TS</a>]
00:31:34 ◼ ► just out of curiosity what do you think [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1894">TS</a>]
00:31:36 ◼ ► could be used in that space of your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1896">TS</a>]
00:31:37 ◼ ► brain that's taken up with infocomm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1897">TS</a>]
00:31:39 ◼ ► walkthroughs I don't know it probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1899">TS</a>]
00:31:42 ◼ ► abba lyrics or something if it wasn't in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1902">TS</a>]
00:31:44 ◼ ► focus on something I'm going to find [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1904">TS</a>]
00:31:45 ◼ ► myself west of white house and I'll know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1905">TS</a>]
00:31:47 ◼ ► if it's going to go in North up get egg [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1907">TS</a>]
00:31:49 ◼ ► down south east open window West West [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1909">TS</a>]
00:31:52 ◼ ► open case and so on but the damn thief [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1912">TS</a>]
00:31:55 ◼ ► the randomness that was my most hated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1915">TS</a>]
00:31:58 ◼ ► thing about the early infocomm is the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1918">TS</a>]
00:32:00 ◼ ► random elements always drove me nuts [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1920">TS</a>]
00:32:03 ◼ ► that you couldn't consistently kill the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1923">TS</a>]
00:32:05 ◼ ► troll or that the thief would pop up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1925">TS</a>]
00:32:08 ◼ ► swipe something and make your game on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1928">TS</a>]
00:32:09 ◼ ► when we are you can save the game right [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1929">TS</a>]
00:32:12 ◼ ► what does explain this savegame thing to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1932">TS</a>]
00:32:14 ◼ ► was the first of all you're better at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1934">TS</a>]
00:32:16 ◼ ► killing things when you have more points [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1936">TS</a>]
00:32:18 ◼ ► so you should get us i only just learned [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1938">TS</a>]
00:32:19 ◼ ► that a couple of days ago pick and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1939">TS</a>]
00:32:22 ◼ ► second you can get everything back from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1942">TS</a>]
00:32:24 ◼ ► the thief after you kill him and he's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1944">TS</a>]
00:32:26 ◼ ► used the nasty knife against the thief [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1946">TS</a>]
00:32:28 ◼ ► because that's better but the sword is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1948">TS</a>]
00:32:33 ◼ ► do not use the rusty knife against [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1953">TS</a>]
00:32:35 ◼ ► anything because it is cursed and will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1955">TS</a>]
00:32:36 ◼ ► kill you right you can throw it can you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1956">TS</a>]
00:32:39 ◼ ► can but it will the rusty knife will [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1959">TS</a>]
00:32:41 ◼ ► turn around in midair and stab you in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1961">TS</a>]
00:32:42 ◼ ► the throat oh yeah there is that one of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1962">TS</a>]
00:32:45 ◼ ► the proudest moments of my young life [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1965">TS</a>]
00:32:46 ◼ ► was figuring out that the dexterous [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1966">TS</a>]
00:32:48 ◼ ► thief is going to be able to open the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1968">TS</a>]
00:32:49 ◼ ► egg where I fumble-fingered me cannot [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1969">TS</a>]
00:32:52 ◼ ► you see you have to open the egg because [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1972">TS</a>]
00:32:54 ◼ ► there's a beautiful clockwork canary in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1974">TS</a>]
00:32:56 ◼ ► it and then you have to use the canary [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1976">TS</a>]
00:32:58 ◼ ► outside in the trees to get the ball [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1978">TS</a>]
00:33:01 ◼ ► place feuding somebody picked him down [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1981">TS</a>]
00:33:07 ◼ ► information anyway infocomm blew up that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1987">TS</a>]
00:33:11 ◼ ► it was acquired by activision they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1991">TS</a>]
00:33:13 ◼ ► spotted along for another couple of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1993">TS</a>]
00:33:15 ◼ ► years and then just started releasing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1995">TS</a>]
00:33:18 ◼ ► and I think that the reason info comms [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/1998">TS</a>]
00:33:21 ◼ ► hold up especially the early ones is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2001">TS</a>]
00:33:22 ◼ ► because they're not game so much as they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2002">TS</a>]
00:33:25 ◼ ► are novels they are experiences and you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2005">TS</a>]
00:33:27 ◼ ► have an experience and you can put on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2007">TS</a>]
00:33:29 ◼ ► the shelf and you can bring it down to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2009">TS</a>]
00:33:30 ◼ ► have the experience again that's why i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2010">TS</a>]
00:33:32 ◼ ► don't think the multiple storylines [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2012">TS</a>]
00:33:33 ◼ ► worked you don't replay Zork they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2013">TS</a>]
00:33:37 ◼ ► replayed like minor 2014 einer to throw [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2017">TS</a>]
00:33:42 ◼ ► in another mid-eighties videogame her [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2022">TS</a>]
00:33:45 ◼ ► parents their anthologies the multiple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2025">TS</a>]
00:33:50 ◼ ► neighborhoods is an anthology of three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2030">TS</a>]
00:33:52 ◼ ► fairly boring Pirates have read worse it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2032">TS</a>]
00:33:58 ◼ ► is there the airplane novels of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2038">TS</a>]
00:34:01 ◼ ► interactive fiction world I think that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2041">TS</a>]
00:34:04 ◼ ► was one of the best stated goals of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2044">TS</a>]
00:34:06 ◼ ► infocomm early on in there there early [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2046">TS</a>]
00:34:09 ◼ ► days was that they wanted their their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2049">TS</a>]
00:34:12 ◼ ► games to eventually be up on the shelves [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2052">TS</a>]
00:34:14 ◼ ► in a bookstore you next great literature [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2054">TS</a>]
00:34:17 ◼ ► so i think a lofty goal that perhaps [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2057">TS</a>]
00:34:20 ◼ ► overstated the the reach of the computer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2060">TS</a>]
00:34:22 ◼ ► game industry in this those days well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2062">TS</a>]
00:34:24 ◼ ► they they continue I mean they're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2064">TS</a>]
00:34:25 ◼ ► they're games continued to sell long [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2065">TS</a>]
00:34:28 ◼ ► after they were released which was a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2068">TS</a>]
00:34:29 ◼ ► rarity for the industry usually game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2069">TS</a>]
00:34:31 ◼ ► comes out those up big not big like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2071">TS</a>]
00:34:34 ◼ ► today but big for the time and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2074">TS</a>]
00:34:36 ◼ ► would fade as people played it and got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2076">TS</a>]
00:34:38 ◼ ► used to it and moved on but if you come [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2078">TS</a>]
00:34:40 ◼ ► to zork you can plays work the same way [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2080">TS</a>]
00:34:42 ◼ ► today that you played it 20 years ago [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2082">TS</a>]
00:34:45 ◼ ► that I think two is part of the rapid [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2085">TS</a>]
00:34:48 ◼ ► destruction that Activision made on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2088">TS</a>]
00:34:51 ◼ ► financial com after they acquired them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2091">TS</a>]
00:34:53 ◼ ► was they take we're treated them like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2093">TS</a>]
00:34:55 ◼ ► regular video games with the other would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2095">TS</a>]
00:34:58 ◼ ► keep their their seven-year-old games on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2098">TS</a>]
00:35:00 ◼ ► the shelves because people were still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2100">TS</a>]
00:35:01 ◼ ► snapping them up i mean Zork popped up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2101">TS</a>]
00:35:03 ◼ ► on the soft talk you know top sellers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2103">TS</a>]
00:35:09 ◼ ► activation came along and they they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2109">TS</a>]
00:35:11 ◼ ► treated infocomm games like they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2111">TS</a>]
00:35:13 ◼ ► standard computer games where you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2113">TS</a>]
00:35:15 ◼ ► that the next big thing would come along [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2115">TS</a>]
00:35:16 ◼ ► with graphics that looked like you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2116">TS</a>]
00:35:19 ◼ ► that the pictures look like people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2119">TS</a>]
00:35:20 ◼ ► instead of misshapen the two-dimensional [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2120">TS</a>]
00:35:24 ◼ ► frogs of some kind and so they replace [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2124">TS</a>]
00:35:27 ◼ ► the old with the new on the shelf and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2127">TS</a>]
00:35:28 ◼ ► and they try to do that with infocomm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2128">TS</a>]
00:35:31 ◼ ► I think actually demanded after they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2131">TS</a>]
00:35:33 ◼ ► acquired them that they produce eight [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2133">TS</a>]
00:35:35 ◼ ► yeah instead of the four they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2135">TS</a>]
00:35:39 ◼ ► meanwhile the quality went down big [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2139">TS</a>]
00:35:43 ◼ ► that's a Zork is the Dark Side of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2143">TS</a>]
00:35:44 ◼ ► Moon of interactive fiction of course of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2144">TS</a>]
00:35:47 ◼ ► Activision hadn't done that I strongly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2147">TS</a>]
00:35:49 ◼ ► suspect it would have happened shortly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2149">TS</a>]
00:35:52 ◼ ► afterwards anyway just because the at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2152">TS</a>]
00:35:54 ◼ ► compusa is of the world plus the the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2154">TS</a>]
00:35:57 ◼ ► computer game industry is changing i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2157">TS</a>]
00:35:59 ◼ ► mean people wanted graphics you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2159">TS</a>]
00:36:01 ◼ ► infocomm had a famous ad where they say [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2161">TS</a>]
00:36:03 ◼ ► we stick our graphics where the Sun [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2163">TS</a>]
00:36:04 ◼ ► don't shine and it was a picture of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2164">TS</a>]
00:36:06 ◼ ► brain and you can get away with that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2166">TS</a>]
00:36:09 ◼ ► with the fanboys like say three people [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2169">TS</a>]
00:36:11 ◼ ► recording a podcast and yes 2012 but for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2171">TS</a>]
00:36:16 ◼ ► the most part people wanted their [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2176">TS</a>]
00:36:17 ◼ ► computers to do pretty colored things [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2177">TS</a>]
00:36:22 ◼ ► well even as infocomm they become part [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2182">TS</a>]
00:36:25 ◼ ► of activism still they did move into [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2185">TS</a>]
00:36:27 ◼ ► graphics beyond orchid graphics and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2187">TS</a>]
00:36:31 ◼ ► well they were still trying to to to do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2191">TS</a>]
00:36:34 ◼ ► interpreted games so they had a limited [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2194">TS</a>]
00:36:37 ◼ ► amount of simplistic graphics that they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2197">TS</a>]
00:36:39 ◼ ► could reasonably render on multiple zip [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2199">TS</a>]
00:36:43 ◼ ► boxes machines which is what which is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2203">TS</a>]
00:36:46 ◼ ► what they called their interpreter still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2206">TS</a>]
00:36:51 ◼ ► implementation language it was the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2211">TS</a>]
00:36:52 ◼ ► implementation program alright you win [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2212">TS</a>]
00:36:54 ◼ ► these you just got told which was which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2214">TS</a>]
00:36:58 ◼ ► was later shortened to Z machine it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2218">TS</a>]
00:37:01 ◼ ► actually probably worth noting that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2221">TS</a>]
00:37:02 ◼ ► stock scott adams who actually was first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2222">TS</a>]
00:37:05 ◼ ► to market with the adventure game room [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2225">TS</a>]
00:37:07 ◼ ► and if you go to his website he proudly [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2227">TS</a>]
00:37:09 ◼ ► announces himself as the progenitor of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2229">TS</a>]
00:37:11 ◼ ► the entire computer games industry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2231">TS</a>]
00:37:12 ◼ ► pointing out it is it not the dilbert [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2232">TS</a>]
00:37:15 ◼ ► scott adams this is a different scott [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2235">TS</a>]
00:37:17 ◼ ► adams no no this is the scott adams of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2237">TS</a>]
00:37:19 ◼ ► the scott adams adventure games he put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2239">TS</a>]
00:37:21 ◼ ► himself in the ads right get a big fro I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2241">TS</a>]
00:37:24 ◼ ► think he was in the ads along with some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2244">TS</a>]
00:37:27 ◼ ► very seventies looking people dressed up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2247">TS</a>]
00:37:29 ◼ ► in period costume anyway but what i was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2249">TS</a>]
00:37:32 ◼ ► getting too was that he actually wrote [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2252">TS</a>]
00:37:34 ◼ ► an interpreter as well for his games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2254">TS</a>]
00:37:36 ◼ ► previous to the resort arrival on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2256">TS</a>]
00:37:41 ◼ ► scene i'm clearly getting out nerd here [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2261">TS</a>]
00:37:43 ◼ ► so I'm going to throw down my trump card [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2263">TS</a>]
00:37:45 ◼ ► just that I've written adventure games i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2265">TS</a>]
00:37:46 ◼ ► wrote my own parser and my own lexer and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2266">TS</a>]
00:37:50 ◼ ► nothing ever happened with them but damn [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2270">TS</a>]
00:37:55 ◼ ► nerd and I think fifth grade or so I was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2275">TS</a>]
00:38:01 ◼ ► in a elementary school that had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2281">TS</a>]
00:38:02 ◼ ► computer lab full of Apple tues and we [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2282">TS</a>]
00:38:05 ◼ ► were told we had to write a complete [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2285">TS</a>]
00:38:07 ◼ ► fancy computer program and i found this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2287">TS</a>]
00:38:11 ◼ ► insulting because I at eros ad at home [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2291">TS</a>]
00:38:13 ◼ ► so naturally i hated apples so I wrote a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2293">TS</a>]
00:38:16 ◼ ► fake adventure game that looked like an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2296">TS</a>]
00:38:20 ◼ ► adventure game as long as you did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2300">TS</a>]
00:38:23 ◼ ► each time if at any point you typed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2303">TS</a>]
00:38:26 ◼ ► anything other than the required input [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2306">TS</a>]
00:38:29 ◼ ► it would just say I'm sorry I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2309">TS</a>]
00:38:31 ◼ ► understand that you realize that you've [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2311">TS</a>]
00:38:33 ◼ ► liked anticipated demos at the Consumer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2313">TS</a>]
00:38:36 ◼ ► Electronics Show by a couple of decades [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2316">TS</a>]
00:38:38 ◼ ► yep so when it came time to display it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2318">TS</a>]
00:38:41 ◼ ► to the teacher I said go ahead and try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2321">TS</a>]
00:38:43 ◼ ► it and she typed something I guess I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2323">TS</a>]
00:38:46 ◼ ► didn't anticipate that word here let me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2326">TS</a>]
00:38:47 ◼ ► show you how it works and then it worked [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2327">TS</a>]
00:38:50 ◼ ► I started out writing what amounted to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2330">TS</a>]
00:38:51 ◼ ► choose your own adventures where you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2331">TS</a>]
00:38:53 ◼ ► were presented with a situation you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2333">TS</a>]
00:38:55 ◼ ► could like you know one through four 22 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2335">TS</a>]
00:38:57 ◼ ► pick different options but then I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2337">TS</a>]
00:38:59 ◼ ► eventually did a little research and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2339">TS</a>]
00:39:01 ◼ ► a lot of trial and error and started [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2341">TS</a>]
00:39:03 ◼ ► parsing reasonably complex English [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2343">TS</a>]
00:39:05 ◼ ► sentences and having reasonable puzzles [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2345">TS</a>]
00:39:09 ◼ ► I you know had an inventory system and a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2349">TS</a>]
00:39:11 ◼ ► container system and this was all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2351">TS</a>]
00:39:13 ◼ ► without benefit of any sort of you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2353">TS</a>]
00:39:15 ◼ ► how the people who knew what they were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2355">TS</a>]
00:39:17 ◼ ► doing actually did it but I i wrote four [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2357">TS</a>]
00:39:21 ◼ ► or five games that my friends played and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2361">TS</a>]
00:39:23 ◼ ► solved and complained about the landless [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2363">TS</a>]
00:39:26 ◼ ► Lee I did write a book on solving [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2366">TS</a>]
00:39:30 ◼ ► damn i'm not going to win this nerd [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2370">TS</a>]
00:39:32 ◼ ► battle and my my friend and I were at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2372">TS</a>]
00:39:36 ◼ ► the computer store shopping for the next [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2376">TS</a>]
00:39:38 ◼ ► infocomm game which I think was infidel [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2378">TS</a>]
00:39:41 ◼ ► at the time and the smarmy guy who don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2381">TS</a>]
00:39:44 ◼ ► know how don't put the ring on got a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2384">TS</a>]
00:39:47 ◼ ► needle in it well what's the difference [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2387">TS</a>]
00:39:49 ◼ ► you're gonna die at the end of the game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2389">TS</a>]
00:39:50 ◼ ► anyway very unsatisfied speaking of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2390">TS</a>]
00:39:53 ◼ ► yeah what's your what's your view on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2393">TS</a>]
00:39:58 ◼ ► yeah it didn't make it clear the game [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2398">TS</a>]
00:40:01 ◼ ► was over i thought i had screwed up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2401">TS</a>]
00:40:03 ◼ ► yeah okay i'll give you that I I don't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2403">TS</a>]
00:40:06 ◼ ► think if they explained you have one but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2406">TS</a>]
00:40:09 ◼ ► your dad I would have understood what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2409">TS</a>]
00:40:11 ◼ ► yes now I think I realized it was over [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2411">TS</a>]
00:40:14 ◼ ► are also i probably would have had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2414">TS</a>]
00:40:16 ◼ ► similar complaint but I i thought it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2416">TS</a>]
00:40:17 ◼ ► great ending but I completely understand [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2417">TS</a>]
00:40:20 ◼ ► where people work were ticked off about [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2420">TS</a>]
00:40:21 ◼ ► it anyway this army guy that was helping [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2421">TS</a>]
00:40:23 ◼ ► us hurt us bragging about how we had one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2423">TS</a>]
00:40:25 ◼ ► planet followed three days and he said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2425">TS</a>]
00:40:28 ◼ ► that he was looking for people who were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2428">TS</a>]
00:40:30 ◼ ► good at infocomm games because he had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2430">TS</a>]
00:40:32 ◼ ► just written a book called a shortcut [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2432">TS</a>]
00:40:34 ◼ ► through Adventure land which was how to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2434">TS</a>]
00:40:36 ◼ ► solve a bunch of the Sierra online games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2436">TS</a>]
00:40:39 ◼ ► so what ended up happening was my friend [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2439">TS</a>]
00:40:42 ◼ ► and i wrote the entire book got sixty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2442">TS</a>]
00:40:45 ◼ ► percent of the royalties it was just how [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2445">TS</a>]
00:40:47 ◼ ► to solve the first ten infocomm games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2447">TS</a>]
00:40:49 ◼ ► and the publisher went bankrupt the day [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2449">TS</a>]
00:40:51 ◼ ► the book itself so I never did anything [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2451">TS</a>]
00:40:53 ◼ ► but I was like 14 or 15 that was still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2453">TS</a>]
00:40:58 ◼ ► I backpack i wrote walkthroughs you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2458">TS</a>]
00:41:00 ◼ ► step-by-step walkthrough for my friends [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2460">TS</a>]
00:41:02 ◼ ► this is before you could actually do [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2462">TS</a>]
00:41:03 ◼ ► anything like put them online but there [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2463">TS</a>]
00:41:06 ◼ ► were you know there was a brief shining [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2466">TS</a>]
00:41:09 ◼ ► moment of my childhood where it was cool [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2469">TS</a>]
00:41:11 ◼ ► to be able to solve info comes until [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2471">TS</a>]
00:41:13 ◼ ► other people how to do it and then they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2473">TS</a>]
00:41:16 ◼ ► put me in a trashcan and rolling down a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2476">TS</a>]
00:41:20 ◼ ► I ok ok I i will see you your book [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2480">TS</a>]
00:41:25 ◼ ► authorship and I I beta-tested info [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2485">TS</a>]
00:41:27 ◼ ► comes I beta-tested leather goddesses of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2487">TS</a>]
00:41:29 ◼ ► Phobos and lurking horror and money's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2489">TS</a>]
00:41:32 ◼ ► gonna bust at his bureaucracy story and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2492">TS</a>]
00:41:34 ◼ ► Hollywood hijinks and food litsky now [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2494">TS</a>]
00:41:39 ◼ ► what was flicks key cuz i've never been [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2499">TS</a>]
00:41:41 ◼ ► sure the Blitz key was a board game that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2501">TS</a>]
00:41:46 ◼ ► computer the computer had the role of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2506">TS</a>]
00:41:49 ◼ ► you know like they have modern versions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2509">TS</a>]
00:41:51 ◼ ► of monopoly where the bank is controlled [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2511">TS</a>]
00:41:53 ◼ ► by a little the government astok device [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2513">TS</a>]
00:41:56 ◼ ► that comes with it and every player has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2516">TS</a>]
00:41:58 ◼ ► a credit card rather than cash publicity [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2518">TS</a>]
00:42:00 ◼ ► was similar where it would roll the dice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2520">TS</a>]
00:42:02 ◼ ► and it would set your goals public ski [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2522">TS</a>]
00:42:04 ◼ ► can generously be chalked up as an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2524">TS</a>]
00:42:08 ◼ ► ok it was not infocomm me remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2528">TS</a>]
00:42:12 ◼ ► for it but i never understood any of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2532">TS</a>]
00:42:13 ◼ ► them there were dogs involved i have to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2533">TS</a>]
00:42:16 ◼ ► say that Greg your beta testing of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2536">TS</a>]
00:42:20 ◼ ► it's gonna be hard to top that i'm super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2540">TS</a>]
00:42:23 ◼ ► jealous it I I felt pretty damn special [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2543">TS</a>]
00:42:26 ◼ ► and I mean it was it was just like this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2546">TS</a>]
00:42:31 ◼ ► unfortunately turned out to be true [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2551">TS</a>]
00:42:33 ◼ ► oh it turned from a happy ending to a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2553">TS</a>]
00:42:37 ◼ ► 50 well here's my bureaucracy story [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2557">TS</a>]
00:42:42 ◼ ► yes in 1987 1988 infocomm was doing the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2562">TS</a>]
00:42:48 ◼ ► marathon of the minds as a way to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2568">TS</a>]
00:42:50 ◼ ► publicity for their new games what they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2570">TS</a>]
00:42:52 ◼ ► do is they take their game that was just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2572">TS</a>]
00:42:54 ◼ ► about to come out and go to a city in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2574">TS</a>]
00:42:56 ◼ ► the United States and then all the high [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2576">TS</a>]
00:42:58 ◼ ► schools in that city would send three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2578">TS</a>]
00:43:00 ◼ ► student teams to a location and then [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2580">TS</a>]
00:43:04 ◼ ► they play the game until one of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2584">TS</a>]
00:43:06 ◼ ► teams won the teams were composed of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2586">TS</a>]
00:43:09 ◼ ► people pulled out of trash cans at the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2589">TS</a>]
00:43:11 ◼ ► bottom of the hill largely yes for [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2591">TS</a>]
00:43:15 ◼ ► bureaucracy which was the second douglas [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2595">TS</a>]
00:43:18 ◼ ► adams game although had previously [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2598">TS</a>]
00:43:20 ◼ ► mentioned douglas adams may not have had [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2600">TS</a>]
00:43:21 ◼ ► that much to do with actually doing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2601">TS</a>]
00:43:25 ◼ ► his name is on the box that's an extra [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2605">TS</a>]
00:43:28 ◼ ► for bureaucracy the city of San Diego [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2608">TS</a>]
00:43:30 ◼ ► and I got to be one of the kids on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2610">TS</a>]
00:43:33 ◼ ► team which was actually highly contested [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2613">TS</a>]
00:43:36 ◼ ► because i was going to a math science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2616">TS</a>]
00:43:37 ◼ ► computer magnet school at the time so [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2617">TS</a>]
00:43:42 ◼ ► there was just a hill with thousands of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2622">TS</a>]
00:43:44 ◼ ► trash can lie on the bed and there's one [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2624">TS</a>]
00:43:46 ◼ ► exhausted bully who has to keep putting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2626">TS</a>]
00:43:50 ◼ ► well it's a weird school because it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2630">TS</a>]
00:43:51 ◼ ► in a bad bad part of town and there were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2631">TS</a>]
00:43:54 ◼ ► Crips and bloods who are the local [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2634">TS</a>]
00:43:56 ◼ ► students and then a bunch of us pasty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2636">TS</a>]
00:43:58 ◼ ► white math science computer kids being [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2638">TS</a>]
00:44:00 ◼ ► bused in well it's probably good that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2640">TS</a>]
00:44:02 ◼ ► your pasty so you can be mistaken as a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2642">TS</a>]
00:44:04 ◼ ► Crip or a blood any rate we were all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2644">TS</a>]
00:44:09 ◼ ► shipped out to these Reuben h fleet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2649">TS</a>]
00:44:12 ◼ ► space theatre and science center in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2652">TS</a>]
00:44:14 ◼ ► balboa park and each school has its own [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2654">TS</a>]
00:44:18 ◼ ► little computer station in the science [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2658">TS</a>]
00:44:20 ◼ ► center and we played for 37 hours [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2660">TS</a>]
00:44:24 ◼ ► while being supplied with endless [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2664">TS</a>]
00:44:27 ◼ ► amounts of coke and pizza getting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2667">TS</a>]
00:44:30 ◼ ► bleary-eyed and insane by the end of it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2670">TS</a>]
00:44:34 ◼ ► when you say played for 37 hours was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2674">TS</a>]
00:44:40 ◼ ► no I mean you could take a break if you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2680">TS</a>]
00:44:41 ◼ ► wanted but that meant the other teams [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2681">TS</a>]
00:44:43 ◼ ► would get ahead of you did you go to the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2683">TS</a>]
00:44:47 ◼ ► we have to just stand up to do it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2687">TS</a>]
00:44:52 ◼ ► yeah like there are three people on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2692">TS</a>]
00:44:54 ◼ ► team you don't need all three people at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2694">TS</a>]
00:44:57 ◼ ► no guys I got this great plan catheters [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2697">TS</a>]
00:45:00 ◼ ► but as it happens my team won so I can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2700">TS</a>]
00:45:05 ◼ ► first of all state that I was the first [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2705">TS</a>]
00:45:07 ◼ ► person outside infocomm one of the three [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2707">TS</a>]
00:45:10 ◼ ► first three people outside infocomm to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2710">TS</a>]
00:45:11 ◼ ► win bureaucracy and also actually got my [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2711">TS</a>]
00:45:14 ◼ ► name printed in The New York Times later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2714">TS</a>]
00:45:17 ◼ ► the status line which was their official [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2717">TS</a>]
00:45:19 ◼ ► newsletter they got sued by the new york [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2719">TS</a>]
00:45:21 ◼ ► times you have to change that and I got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2721">TS</a>]
00:45:24 ◼ ► a cool t-shirt which I still have some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2724">TS</a>]
00:45:27 ◼ ► of course you do it and we won something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2727">TS</a>]
00:45:31 ◼ ► like copies of all the games for the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2731">TS</a>]
00:45:34 ◼ ► school my favorite moment though was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2734">TS</a>]
00:45:37 ◼ ► they had copies of other games that were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2737">TS</a>]
00:45:39 ◼ ► about to come out one of which was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2739">TS</a>]
00:45:42 ◼ ► teammates snuck over and started looking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2742">TS</a>]
00:45:44 ◼ ► through the materials because he had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2744">TS</a>]
00:45:46 ◼ ► pirated copy of Hollywood hijinks and he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2746">TS</a>]
00:45:49 ◼ ► needed to read the documentation to get [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2749">TS</a>]
00:45:51 ◼ ► past the infocomm copy protection which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2751">TS</a>]
00:45:55 ◼ ► took the form of the secret hints inside [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2755">TS</a>]
00:45:57 ◼ ► the documentation itself the feelies yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2757">TS</a>]
00:46:00 ◼ ► physical items which I thought was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2760">TS</a>]
00:46:04 ◼ ► protection on their games which made [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2764">TS</a>]
00:46:06 ◼ ► them almost unique at the time but it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2766">TS</a>]
00:46:08 ◼ ► was it was copy protection that wasn't [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2768">TS</a>]
00:46:12 ◼ ► integrated into the game and that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2772">TS</a>]
00:46:17 ◼ ► something that wasn't easily reproduced [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2777">TS</a>]
00:46:19 ◼ ► like wasn't digitally reproducible and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2779">TS</a>]
00:46:22 ◼ ► you actually had to pay attention to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2782">TS</a>]
00:46:24 ◼ ► everything that came in the packet [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2784">TS</a>]
00:46:26 ◼ ► yeah and then so when you had sorcerer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2786">TS</a>]
00:46:30 ◼ ► for example you actually had this thing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2790">TS</a>]
00:46:33 ◼ ► they called an info tater which had a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2793">TS</a>]
00:46:36 ◼ ► two rotating dials that you had to line [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2796">TS</a>]
00:46:38 ◼ ► up to tell you what color a group was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2798">TS</a>]
00:46:42 ◼ ► the problem i find though is that later [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2802">TS</a>]
00:46:45 ◼ ► on when they came out with the lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2805">TS</a>]
00:46:46 ◼ ► treasures of infocomm cd-rom packages [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2806">TS</a>]
00:46:51 ◼ ► documentation for some of the games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2811">TS</a>]
00:46:55 ◼ ► well they built like they built the in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2815">TS</a>]
00:46:58 ◼ ► aftermarket in books that they would [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2818">TS</a>]
00:47:02 ◼ ► came with invisible ink and a pen that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2822">TS</a>]
00:47:04 ◼ ► you could drag across it to reveal the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2824">TS</a>]
00:47:05 ◼ ► answer guaranteed answers in increasing [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2825">TS</a>]
00:47:09 ◼ ► specificity and then they integrated [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2829">TS</a>]
00:47:11 ◼ ► those into the games later on when you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2831">TS</a>]
00:47:13 ◼ ► type hint and it would give you the end [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2833">TS</a>]
00:47:14 ◼ ► it just it it never seemed is cool [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2834">TS</a>]
00:47:18 ◼ ► what's that supposed to seem cool you're [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2838">TS</a>]
00:47:19 ◼ ► looking at hints you should hang your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2839">TS</a>]
00:47:24 ◼ ► head in shame and that's how it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2844">TS</a>]
00:47:26 ◼ ► supposed it's not supposed to feel good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2846">TS</a>]
00:47:28 ◼ ► one good thing about the lost treasures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2848">TS</a>]
00:47:31 ◼ ► of info concept was they actually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2851">TS</a>]
00:47:33 ◼ ► included all of the maps and all of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2853">TS</a>]
00:47:35 ◼ ► visit clues in book form which was great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2855">TS</a>]
00:47:38 ◼ ► because the Invisibles were usually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2858">TS</a>]
00:47:40 ◼ ► written with at least as much attention [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2860">TS</a>]
00:47:41 ◼ ► to humor as as the games themselves word [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2861">TS</a>]
00:47:45 ◼ ► so they were often as funny to read [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2865">TS</a>]
00:47:46 ◼ ► through it as playing the games were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2866">TS</a>]
00:47:49 ◼ ► they always have questions that applied [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2869">TS</a>]
00:47:52 ◼ ► that didn't have anything to do with the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2872">TS</a>]
00:47:53 ◼ ► game just so they could have a few [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2873">TS</a>]
00:47:55 ◼ ► nonsense answers and then answer saying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2875">TS</a>]
00:47:59 ◼ ► there isn't this room in this game stop [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2879">TS</a>]
00:48:01 ◼ ► just looking at answers and go back to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2881">TS</a>]
00:48:03 ◼ ► playing if they did they didn't want to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2883">TS</a>]
00:48:04 ◼ ► didn't want the questions which were [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2884">TS</a>]
00:48:06 ◼ ► printed in regular ink just to give away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2886">TS</a>]
00:48:07 ◼ ► anything about the game so that include [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2887">TS</a>]
00:48:10 ◼ ► the fake questions you know I worked at [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2890">TS</a>]
00:48:12 ◼ ► a software store years and years and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2892">TS</a>]
00:48:15 ◼ ► years ago and people would try and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2895">TS</a>]
00:48:17 ◼ ► return the Invisibles after having used [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2897">TS</a>]
00:48:19 ◼ ► she's no use to me now how a no no ma'am [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2899">TS</a>]
00:48:24 ◼ ► I'm sorry that that you you can't no [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2904">TS</a>]
00:48:31 ◼ ► I'll be right back so you guys play text [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2911">TS</a>]
00:48:34 ◼ ► adventures anymore have you had any [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2914">TS</a>]
00:48:36 ◼ ► other than the original you can go back [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2916">TS</a>]
00:48:38 ◼ ► and play the old ones but they're still [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2918">TS</a>]
00:48:39 ◼ ► being produced and there's a a small but [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2919">TS</a>]
00:48:42 ◼ ► very vibrant community that that is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2922">TS</a>]
00:48:44 ◼ ► still making games if you have you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2924">TS</a>]
00:48:46 ◼ ► played any of these anytime recently I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2926">TS</a>]
00:48:49 ◼ ► and I'm surprised if you watch the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2929">TS</a>]
00:48:55 ◼ ► documentary about text adventures the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2935">TS</a>]
00:48:57 ◼ ► DVD comes with about fifty i think text [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2937">TS</a>]
00:49:06 ◼ ► yeah frost comes with a couple hundred [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2946">TS</a>]
00:49:08 ◼ ► yeah i'm looking at it now I played two [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2948">TS</a>]
00:49:11 ◼ ► or three modern games i played vespers [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2951">TS</a>]
00:49:15 ◼ ► which is this game where you're a month [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2955">TS</a>]
00:49:18 ◼ ► trapped in a monastery at the top of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2958">TS</a>]
00:49:22 ◼ ► playground you so any kind of a downer [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2962">TS</a>]
00:49:25 ◼ ► okay well you're on top of a mountain [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2965">TS</a>]
00:49:29 ◼ ► that's really kind of the only way you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2969">TS</a>]
00:49:40 ◼ ► technically a text adventure in that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2980">TS</a>]
00:49:43 ◼ ► you're entering commands and it's got a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2983">TS</a>]
00:49:46 ◼ ► text adventure interface but really it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2986">TS</a>]
00:49:49 ◼ ► about a short story about somebody dying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2989">TS</a>]
00:49:50 ◼ ► in a car crash and are you the that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2990">TS</a>]
00:49:54 ◼ ► person you're everybody it's super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2994">TS</a>]
00:49:56 ◼ ► postmodern and I get the feeling that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2996">TS</a>]
00:49:58 ◼ ► people have gotten tired of texting [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/2998">TS</a>]
00:50:00 ◼ ► ventures as games and are really trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3000">TS</a>]
00:50:02 ◼ ► to branch out do text adventures as [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3002">TS</a>]
00:50:04 ◼ ► literature or text adventures as our or [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3004">TS</a>]
00:50:07 ◼ ► drag actually the game I was going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3007">TS</a>]
00:50:09 ◼ ► mention his lost pig which one the IAF [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3009">TS</a>]
00:50:12 ◼ ► oh yeah two or three years ago it's just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3012">TS</a>]
00:50:15 ◼ ► I hadn't played games in eons mean in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3015">TS</a>]
00:50:20 ◼ ► you know since the Paleozoic and it was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3020">TS</a>]
00:50:26 ◼ ► polished that it was a reintroduction to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3026">TS</a>]
00:50:30 ◼ ► the genre but I haven't sat like I said [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3030">TS</a>]
00:50:33 ◼ ► my kids down a couple years ago and try [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3033">TS</a>]
00:50:35 ◼ ► to get them interested in his work and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3035">TS</a>]
00:50:37 ◼ ► they got it but they just didn't follow [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3037">TS</a>]
00:50:40 ◼ ► up there right now they're currently [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3040">TS</a>]
00:50:41 ◼ ► obsessed with minecraft um but they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3041">TS</a>]
00:50:45 ◼ ► wandered around House little bit they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3045">TS</a>]
00:50:47 ◼ ► got inside and then they just drift away [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3047">TS</a>]
00:50:49 ◼ ► from it which was disappointing and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3049">TS</a>]
00:50:51 ◼ ► want to try again with lost pig just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3051">TS</a>]
00:50:53 ◼ ► because it's so funny and it's so well [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3053">TS</a>]
00:50:57 ◼ ► here's one of the room descriptions from [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3057">TS</a>]
00:50:58 ◼ ► lost pig fountain room all wall in this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3058">TS</a>]
00:51:03 ◼ ► it bright just like daytime except that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3063">TS</a>]
00:51:05 ◼ ► instead of sun it wall that glow and set [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3065">TS</a>]
00:51:08 ◼ ► of grass and tree and square room with [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3068">TS</a>]
00:51:10 ◼ ► four wall and instead of outside it all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3070">TS</a>]
00:51:12 ◼ ► underground but beside those things it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3072">TS</a>]
00:51:14 ◼ ► just like it will keep going out to east [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3074">TS</a>]
00:51:17 ◼ ► west but normal doorway go north and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3077">TS</a>]
00:51:19 ◼ ► southeast and southwest in middle of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3079">TS</a>]
00:51:21 ◼ ► room there fountain but found to not [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3081">TS</a>]
00:51:23 ◼ ► have any water south wall have big [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3083">TS</a>]
00:51:25 ◼ ► curtain hanging on it big here to pick [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3085">TS</a>]
00:51:30 ◼ ► you're basically paying a caveman trying [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3090">TS</a>]
00:51:33 ◼ ► the pig is great in that game too it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3093">TS</a>]
00:51:35 ◼ ► so well-written becomes even though it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3095">TS</a>]
00:51:39 ◼ ► has obviously no no dialogue to speak of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3099">TS</a>]
00:51:42 ◼ ► it's it's a descriptive text about the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3102">TS</a>]
00:51:45 ◼ ► pigs is so well done that it's probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3105">TS</a>]
00:51:48 ◼ ► one of the most memorable characters and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3108">TS</a>]
00:51:49 ◼ ► interactive fiction that i can remember [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3109">TS</a>]
00:51:51 ◼ ► but that's what struck me was that the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3111">TS</a>]
00:51:53 ◼ ► pros of the game is written from your [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3113">TS</a>]
00:51:56 ◼ ► perspective which you know usually [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3116">TS</a>]
00:51:58 ◼ ► there's descriptions of things going on [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3118">TS</a>]
00:52:00 ◼ ► but I've never seen the descriptions [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3120">TS</a>]
00:52:06 ◼ ► yeah a lot of info cod games are written [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3126">TS</a>]
00:52:09 ◼ ► from a sarcastic third person pointed [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3129">TS</a>]
00:52:12 ◼ ► right you right you you are here witness [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3132">TS</a>]
00:52:15 ◼ ► had some Raymond Chandler qualities to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3135">TS</a>]
00:52:20 ◼ ► the writing but not a lot and lurking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3140">TS</a>]
00:52:23 ◼ ► horror was supposed to be HP Lovecraft [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3143">TS</a>]
00:52:24 ◼ ► but yeah they were written as they they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3144">TS</a>]
00:52:28 ◼ ► were written by an author rather than [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3148">TS</a>]
00:52:29 ◼ ► writing as the perspective of the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3149">TS</a>]
00:52:32 ◼ ► character and when the character has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3152">TS</a>]
00:52:37 ◼ ► vocabulary you end up with something [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3157">TS</a>]
00:52:40 ◼ ► like lost pig and I thought that was [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3160">TS</a>]
00:52:41 ◼ ► really fun and really different and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3161">TS</a>]
00:52:43 ◼ ► something even 30 years into the sauna [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3163">TS</a>]
00:52:47 ◼ ► yeah so I've i actually did play lost [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3167">TS</a>]
00:52:49 ◼ ► pig because when i downloaded frost it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3169">TS</a>]
00:52:51 ◼ ► was recommended as has a fairly easy and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3171">TS</a>]
00:52:56 ◼ ► interacting interactive fiction but I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3176">TS</a>]
00:52:59 ◼ ► haven't really explored much on the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3179">TS</a>]
00:53:02 ◼ ► modern stuff because you know you and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3182">TS</a>]
00:53:06 ◼ ► well both of you and I the plural you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3186">TS</a>]
00:53:15 ◼ ► that nerds generally are not great [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3195">TS</a>]
00:53:17 ◼ ► writers and they tend to write pretty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3197">TS</a>]
00:53:21 ◼ ► schlocky pretty a derivative stuff and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3201">TS</a>]
00:53:25 ◼ ► so I I'm a little afraid to take a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3205">TS</a>]
00:53:27 ◼ ► chance on some random guy that you know [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3207">TS</a>]
00:53:30 ◼ ► they posted to the IAF archive and i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3210">TS</a>]
00:53:33 ◼ ► still have enough up the old infocomm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3213">TS</a>]
00:53:35 ◼ ► games that i haven't played that I can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3215">TS</a>]
00:53:37 ◼ ► still go back if I feel need and and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3217">TS</a>]
00:53:41 ◼ ► give one of those old games a shot now i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3221">TS</a>]
00:53:43 ◼ ► have actually considered maybe playing a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3223">TS</a>]
00:53:45 ◼ ► i guess a couple of there were a couple [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3225">TS</a>]
00:53:48 ◼ ► of games that were written a few years [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3228">TS</a>]
00:53:49 ◼ ► back by Yahtzee and crawshaw does the 0 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3229">TS</a>]
00:53:53 ◼ ► punctuation reviews on their hilarious [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3233">TS</a>]
00:53:58 ◼ ► probably pretty good although it's hard [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3238">TS</a>]
00:54:01 ◼ ► to say that I assume he doesn't use the [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3241">TS</a>]
00:54:03 ◼ ► same kind of a rapid fire style and his [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3243">TS</a>]
00:54:07 ◼ ► description i can't read any of this [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3247">TS</a>]
00:54:09 ◼ ► that would get fairly tedious I i find i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3249">TS</a>]
00:54:12 ◼ ► don't have the attention span anymore [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3252">TS</a>]
00:54:14 ◼ ► plus have you seen Skyrim man that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3254">TS</a>]
00:54:17 ◼ ► thing's beautiful i love text adventures [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3257">TS</a>]
00:54:19 ◼ ► but it's really really hard to not just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3259">TS</a>]
00:54:22 ◼ ► stare it a beautifully rendered portal 2 [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3262">TS</a>]
00:54:27 ◼ ► yeah yeah that's I i find that what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3267">TS</a>]
00:54:30 ◼ ► mommy said about skyrim kind of applies [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3270">TS</a>]
00:54:32 ◼ ► to me too is that I i have such limited [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3272">TS</a>]
00:54:35 ◼ ► 22 game that i can go back and play an [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3275">TS</a>]
00:54:42 ◼ ► inordinate amount of time it takes to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3282">TS</a>]
00:54:43 ◼ ► really figure all the puzzles out and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3283">TS</a>]
00:54:46 ◼ ► or i could spend 20 minutes walking [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3286">TS</a>]
00:54:48 ◼ ► around oblivion you know slaying goblins [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3288">TS</a>]
00:54:50 ◼ ► and having sadly a more rich experience [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3290">TS</a>]
00:54:55 ◼ ► really playing that and then I i could [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3295">TS</a>]
00:54:57 ◼ ► going back the old text games much as I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3297">TS</a>]
00:55:00 ◼ ► most games these days don't require a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3300">TS</a>]
00:55:02 ◼ ► pad of graph paper by your side at all [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3302">TS</a>]
00:55:04 ◼ ► times and how much how much of our [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3304">TS</a>]
00:55:07 ◼ ► affection for these games is just [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3307">TS</a>]
00:55:15 ◼ ► 61-62 point hey I mean yes they hit me [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3315">TS</a>]
00:55:20 ◼ ► at exactly the right age but the good [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3320">TS</a>]
00:55:24 ◼ ► mhm like if you see if somebody is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3324">TS</a>]
00:55:26 ◼ ► willing to spend the time to play [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3326">TS</a>]
00:55:28 ◼ ► fall Floyd's death is still a really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3328">TS</a>]
00:55:34 ◼ ► damn it and I'll fight the man who says [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3334">TS</a>]
00:55:37 ◼ ► otherwise i love these games i mean they [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3337">TS</a>]
00:55:39 ◼ ► affected my childhood they they are [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3339">TS</a>]
00:55:43 ◼ ► signposts for sadly what I've become [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3343">TS</a>]
00:55:48 ◼ ► but I don't know that I would play them [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3348">TS</a>]
00:55:52 ◼ ► these days I don't know that my kids [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3352">TS</a>]
00:55:53 ◼ ► have an interest in playing them and I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3353">TS</a>]
00:55:55 ◼ ► just wonder if they were such a product [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3355">TS</a>]
00:55:57 ◼ ► of their time and of the technology that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3357">TS</a>]
00:55:59 ◼ ► something like that is not going to [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3359">TS</a>]
00:56:03 ◼ ► what if you've displayed them in a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3363">TS</a>]
00:56:06 ◼ ► different context at one point somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3366">TS</a>]
00:56:08 ◼ ► had set up an aimbot that would place [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3368">TS</a>]
00:56:11 ◼ ► York with you that was a friend of mine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3371">TS</a>]
00:56:14 ◼ ► actually and ebay oh well I thought it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3374">TS</a>]
00:56:18 ◼ ► did either of you guys ever play any of [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3378">TS</a>]
00:56:19 ◼ ► the legend games after infocomm went [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3379">TS</a>]
00:56:23 ◼ ► kaput a couple of the guys from infocomm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3383">TS</a>]
00:56:26 ◼ ► Steve maretskiy and Bob Bates who did [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3386">TS</a>]
00:56:32 ◼ ► sadly is only really known for having [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3392">TS</a>]
00:56:34 ◼ ► done Sherlock and Arthur but they got [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3394">TS</a>]
00:56:37 ◼ ► together and formed their own company [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3397">TS</a>]
00:56:39 ◼ ► they're crowning achievement they put [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3399">TS</a>]
00:56:41 ◼ ► together again called time quest which [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3401">TS</a>]
00:56:43 ◼ ► is effectively you're you're following [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3403">TS</a>]
00:56:47 ◼ ► along behind a guy who's it was not some [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3407">TS</a>]
00:56:51 ◼ ► evil duties run across the time machine [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3411">TS</a>]
00:56:53 ◼ ► and he's gone to various periods in [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3413">TS</a>]
00:56:55 ◼ ► history and screwed things up and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3415">TS</a>]
00:56:56 ◼ ► basically you're part of some kind of a [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3416">TS</a>]
00:56:59 ◼ ► you know time police department that has [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3419">TS</a>]
00:57:04 ◼ ► problems this guy is caused and it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3424">TS</a>]
00:57:06 ◼ ► really really well done it's probably [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3426">TS</a>]
00:57:08 ◼ ► one of the best adventure games that [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3428">TS</a>]
00:57:11 ◼ ► it's well worth digging up and and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3431">TS</a>]
00:57:14 ◼ ► never even heard of it they went to more [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3434">TS</a>]
00:57:16 ◼ ► of a point and click format at one point [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3436">TS</a>]
00:57:18 ◼ ► and they did that came based on what [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3438">TS</a>]
00:57:21 ◼ ► they did a couple of sample games [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3441">TS</a>]
00:57:25 ◼ ► and something based on Shannara sorry [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3445">TS</a>]
00:57:34 ◼ ► yes and but maretskiy continue to make [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3454">TS</a>]
00:57:36 ◼ ► games and he put together something I [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3456">TS</a>]
00:57:38 ◼ ► think his last game for them was a super [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3458">TS</a>]
00:57:40 ◼ ► hero League of hoboken which was really [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3460">TS</a>]
00:57:43 ◼ ► funny and really well done to so it's [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3463">TS</a>]
00:57:46 ◼ ► worth trying to pick those up if you can [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3466">TS</a>]
00:57:47 ◼ ► find them is it Murray or merced ski [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3467">TS</a>]
00:57:50 ◼ ► maretskiy yeah I've been pronouncing it [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3470">TS</a>]
00:57:54 ◼ ► wrong for two-and-a-half decades nice [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3474">TS</a>]
00:57:57 ◼ ► days boxes keeping it on that note I'm [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3477">TS</a>]
00:58:03 ◼ ► going to end the podcast this podcast is [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3483">TS</a>]
00:58:07 ◼ ► participants today Steve let's thank you [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3487">TS</a>]
00:58:11 ◼ ► it's been a spin experience and Monty [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3491">TS</a>]
00:58:13 ◼ ► Ashley thank you good hosting reg and [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3493">TS</a>]
00:58:38 ◼ ► Roger Ebert is wrong w always look like [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3518">TS</a>]
00:58:48 ◼ ► yeah he looks like he's really enthused [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3528">TS</a>]
00:58:51 ◼ ► about what happened to those pictures he [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3531">TS</a>]
00:58:55 ◼ ► looks like you saying hi like somebody [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3535">TS</a>]
00:58:58 ◼ ► just told him to say chin up Roger [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3538">TS</a>]
00:59:00 ◼ ► attended oh if only he could chin up [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3540">TS</a>]
00:59:06 ◼ ► we seem to be wondering where yes yes [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3546">TS</a>]
00:59:10 ◼ ► look what's wrong with nostalgia i [<a href="https://overcast.fm/+kMZXJg4g/3550">TS</a>]
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