3.21 Shedding Old Skin

Computer Game Evolution

Is a paper Call of Duty possible? Can Sid Meier design a good wargame? What's the punishment for being horny in Camelot? Would you kill if you had to?

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1. Opening & stuff (00:00:00)

2. When micros fail (00:00:57)

3. In a SPI-ral (00:06:32)

4. Dawn of the Dead, the wargame (00:07:20)

5. The Sword and the Stars and the Middle Ages (00:08:15)

6. A new Universe (00:08:45)

7. Adventure Gaming for the people (00:09:45)

8. Spies? Spies! (00:10:46)

9. The End: The Beginning (00:14:54)

10. Round 2: Japan (00:16:14)

11. Civilization comes to America (00:17:41)

12. Down with the King, unless he's our guy (00:18:25)

13. Helltank, it's about helicopters (00:20:48)

14. The Air-eaters Strike Back at Metagaming (00:21:12)

15. They've Invaded Pleasantville! (00:21:58)

16. A House Divided, a game remade (00:22:37)

17. Begun, the Car Wars have (00:23:14)

18. Axis & Allies & the mass market (00:24:28)

19. Harpoon's legacy (00:28:14)

20. Atari presents Eastern Front 1941 (00:32:12)

21. The End: The End (00:36:11)

22. A rebellious Utopia (00:40:24)

23. Legionnaire, master standing on a hill (00:44:21)

24. You coded Guadalcanal Campaign in what? (00:46:39)

25. Hello, Columbia Games, bye, Columbia Games (00:49:29)

26. The Struggle of Nations with eating well (00:49:58)

27. Gunslinger, draw and cock (00:51:54)

28. The Borderlands of Catan (00:54:08)

29. No Trumpets, No Drums, no calculator (00:56:19)

30. The Falklands War, War in the Falklands (01:00:57)

31. A Book of Sandhurst Wargames: Aquitaine (01:01:46)

32. ABoSW: Craonne (01:03:31)

33. ABoSW: Fjord (01:04:10)

34. ABoSW: Men Against Fire (01:06:13)

35. Go portable with Epoch Wargame Electronics (01:10:54)

36. Warhammer, the miniatures-selling game (01:13:45)

37. Apocalypse, the best/worst British game (01:15:35)

38. Time Lords, legally distinct? (01:16:19)

39. Gossip, all the hairy girls (01:18:35)

40. Excalibur, all the king's men (01:21:03)

41. Archon, still an EA hit (01:23:55)

42. Sid Meier regrets NATO Commander (01:24:12)

43. Blue Max, in living colour (01:30:04)

44. The end of Ares (01:31:20)

45. Who turned off the lights? Nightmare House (01:31:54)

46. Up Front. It's in the cards. (01:34:42)

47. The Victory Games corner (01:38:28)

48. VG: Gulf Strike, how to storm a desert (01:39:29)

49. VG: Ambush, a playable war drama (01:41:46)

50. Watch the shots fly in Rebelstar Raiders (01:53:40)

51. Foreshadowing Lords of Midnight (01:57:21)

52. Incunabula, a civilized conquest (01:57:53)

53. The Ancient Art of War, the game of the book (01:59:07)

54. Hong Kong wargaming: War of the Suns (02:04:30)

55. Hope that nothing happens in the book of Ranger (02:05:54)

56. VG: Cold War is all about the money (02:07:31)

57. VG: Vietnam 1965-1975 takes almost as long to play (02:08:28)

58. Go check out the Wargaming Scribe (02:18:13)

59. Why did paper fail? (02:18:49)

60. And go pick up some books (02:22:51)