Please enjoy the Jason Scott documentary, GET LAMP:

There’s a documentary called “Get Lamp” about those early Interactive Fiction days, that could be right up your alley. It was made by Jason Scott, who does a lot of archival work (especially about computer games) for the Internet Archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Lamp

Brother is Phil, I presume. 

There are some books on the subject. I am waiting for that one myself : https://unbound.com/books/shareware-heroes/

Netflix: High Score is pretty close. It starts all the way at Pong and the series eventually ends right around the N64 launch.

This would be great for NoClip to cover

My mom wrote all the code in some (all?) of the old Micro Adventures books. Ironically, many of the challenges required the player to find the faulty code in the book and fix it. It was a thing!

It’s something to hear your youth referred to as ancient times. I typed in many a program that came in magazines on my trusty C-64. Even made an absolutely terrible Masters of the Universe text adventure. Good times.

Or, how after spending hours upon hours copying code out of COMPUTE! magazine into the BASIC module on my Atari 800, I knew that was definitely not going to be a career choice for me. 40 years on I’d still much rather play the end result of someone else’s hours of typing.

I’m 100% behind this.

In fairness, the only reason it’s on xbox is it’s running the 360 version. I suspect the ps3 “cell architecture” version was why it wasn’t running on ps4.

It only proves they are out of touch old men because ripping those models is child’s play for those who desire them. Hell, people make exact models from scratch if they can’t. The new God of War and both TLoUs never found their way to PC - it didn’t stop people at all.

Is the story kneecapped? If this is anything like Yakuza it’s hard to imagine huge threads left open between games.

I’m glad I didnt get into Judgement now. Really sucks to have a story kneecapped because a bunch of old men who still think its the 70s cant accept that they are a relic of a worse age and get with the fucking times.

No, Rocko and Zim are still Nickelodeon/Viacom properties. They just licensed those specials to Netflix for some reason. (IIRC, there was executive turnover at Nickelodeon between Static Cling/Enter the Florpus getting the greenlight and being completed. As is depressingly common in the entertainment world, the first…

If we’re going that route, surely we also need masked vigilante Mr. Tastee?

if we are talking about fighters, then it should have been Arnold’s Grandma.

Where is QUAIL MAN

Sticking to cartoons is exactly their problem. How the hell do you have a Nickelodeon fighting game without Artie? He’s the strongest man in the world!

This is perfect, I am now going to be disappointed if this doesn’t happen.  Like, imagine fighting on the Aggro Crag!