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There are many things that I remember about first playing Populous (1989), Bullfrog's absolutely groundbreaking God game. 1) I had no clue what I was supposed to do. 2) That didn't matter, because the game still had this irresistible pull - mostly because it was so very different from...

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One distinct memory I have from playing games in the 80s was that every once in a while I would stumble across a game that looked epic but I had exactly zero clue what to do. Wizball was such a game. Looked and sounded pretty cool, but... "where to go, what to do, and what's the goal here?" - something along those lines went through my mind at the time. I stuck with it an eventually (much later) figured it out. Do you remember a game that you played but didn't really know what the goal was or how to get there?
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One distinct memory I have from playing games in the 80s was that every once in a while I would stumble across a game that looked epic but I had exactly zero clue what to do. Wizball was such a game. Looked and sounded pretty cool, but... "where to go, what to do, and what's the goal here?" - something along those lines went through my mind at the time. I stuck with it an eventually (much later) figured it out. Do you remember a game that you played but didn't really know what the goal was or how to get there?

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Street Fighter Zero (Alpha) 2 was the most popular entry in the series. Compared to the first game, it had much better balance, and the additional characters made it far more appealing. Personally, I didn’t like Alpha 3 because it felt too complicated. I played it a lot in arcades, but I think I played it the most on the PlayStation 1. Do you like this game?

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Early 80s games had some of the best sound effects. The lasers, the explosions, and that "outer space" growling-noise... super eerie! Zaxxon (1982) was one of my favourites at the time. The 3D isometric graphics were the first of that kind I had eevr seen in a game. Normal "shooters" were vertically or horizontally scrolling - not diagonally. Not just eye-candy but requiring you to adjust height levels throughout the game, making it feel way more challenging. I don't think there was a game before Zaxxon that had this kind of design, right?

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Let's play a game, what did you watch that made you an Austin fan? For me, it was his first interview on Jimmy Fallon. I had known about him growing up because I saw him in a few things but didn't follow him a lot because I had other interests at the time. But this interview and shortly after the puppy one made me a fan for life. I just locked eyes with him and that was it 😅

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Jamal Crawford says he walked away from a guaranteed $5,000,000 because he’d rather play than sit “I hate to say it like this, but I could die on the court and I'll be alright. I just love the game so much…” “I didn’t play to change nobody’s circumstances I, didn't play to get paid. I played because I love the game that’s why I played til 40 something because I love the game.” “Now looking back I was crazy, I gave away $5,000,000 to say I’m out of Minnesota. I’m not playing enough, I gotta go play, I just love to hoop, I just love it.”

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ELON: HERE’S HOW I BECAME VERY GOOD AT MANUFACTURING “It's not as though I wanted to insource manufacturing, it's just that I was unable to outsource it effectively. The idea, at the beginning of Tesla, was that we would outsource almost all the manufacturing. But then it turned out there were no good companies to outsource manufacturing to. Really, it wasn't feasible. Over time, we had to insource almost everything for Tesla and the same for SpaceX. I became very good at manufacturing because I had to. There was no choice. At this point, I might know more about manufacturing than any human ever has because I've manufactured so many different things in so many different arenas.” Source: Verdict Podcast with Ted Cruz, March 2025

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Weird Dreams (Rainbird Software, 1989) is indeed a very fitting title for one of the weirdest games ever. You are playing the character Steve, who is fighting for his life in the form of dream challanges. If you fail, you flatline. I wasn't a kid anymore when I first played this, but in my teenage years. Pretty much creeped me out back then, and still looks pretty funky now. The game got extremely mixed reviews, with some magazines rating it in the 80-90% range, while others hated it (scores of below 30%). If there was ever a game that had the perfect title, this would be it. Total nutcase, never played anything like it since.

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