Pop Cultural Osmosis

So, what’s your favorite song from a movie? This week, we talk about video games! We put on our nostalgia glasses and look back at the games that shaped our childhood. We also discuss our feelings on the problems surrounding the latest release in the long beloved SimCity franchise and what this might mean for the future of gaming in general. And speaking of future, we continue our look at time travel with a discussion of 1985’s Back to the Future. Show Links: Iron Chef Opening Sequence MechWarrior 2 Intro and its equally great expansion intro SimCity (Enhanced)’s hilarious and often meaningless quicktime videos Rescue! chronology and gameplay Escape Velocity wiki page Amber: Journey’s Beyond Wikipedia page (here is one of the most terrifying moments in the game) SimCity (2013) and its reviews on Amazon [affiliate link] Back to the Future on Amazon [affiliate link] “What was the time-span of Back to the Future?” (The fifth comment has the answer) Episode Breakdown: 0:00 -