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Daniel_BMS · **BANNED** Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 50

I love reading the story of Sonic X-Treme. It is an inspiration to me. Where else can I find fascinating articles about the interal affairs of video game companies?

JSzczep · Joined: 10 Jan 2005 Posts: 67 Location: On a trampoline

"Game Over" by David Sheff. It's like a whole book on the subject.

TheRedEye · Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2006 11:54 pm Post subject:

The postmortems in Game Developer magazine would be right up your ally. Plus, I work there and sometimes contribute to the mag!

I used to do a really awesome weekly column on Gamasutra.com called "Playing Catch-Up," which I think you might enjoy too. Here's a few choice cuts:

David Crane's David Crane

Bill "The Game Doctor" Kunkel

Sierra On-Line founder Ken Williams

And on that note, Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe.

There are lots more too, just go to Gamasutra, click on "Search," and search the news archives for "Playing Catch-Up." I kind of cancelled this column for the new year, because it's just too much damned work, but it had a good run.

Daniel_BMS · **BANNED** Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 50

Thanks a lot. I am realizing now that one reason why I find your site's Sonic X-Treme article so fascinating is because it regards a time in which video games were in transistion and the age of negative games like Grand Theft Auto, and hyper addictive games like Ever Quest would eventually be born.

ClamIAm · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:17 pm Post subject:

Daniel, before GTA and EQ there was Mortal Kombat and, um, Tetris. Wow, saying that makes me feel like an old grandpa or something.

BMF54123 · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 8:03 am Post subject:

Tetris for the Game Boy alone was responsible for 40,000 murder-suicides and Britney Spears's eventual rise to fame, and some researchers say the fumes given off by decaying first-gen carts are a major contributor to global warming and skin cancer.

I'm sorry, did you say something about GTA?

Daniel_BMS · **BANNED** Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 50

Show some respect for Mortal Kombat. It was the first fighting game that wasn't a rip off of Street Fighter. I remember SEGA's embarassing Burning Rivals. A game so embarassing to SEGA that they wrote it out of their history.

Also Tetris is awesome.

ClamIAm · Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject:

I'm not disrespecting either. I'm just saying that there were games percieved as "negative" before GTA, and "addictive" games before EQ. Hell, you could say all games are percieved as "negative" by a percentage of the (U.S.) population.

Daniel_BMS · **BANNED** Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 50

If only those same skeptics could have seen how much worse things were going to get with the advent of 3D.

TheRedEye · Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

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TheRedEye · Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:02 am Post subject:

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Aw. :(

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