Library Director @ Video Game History Foundation. Tea, birds, and weird old stuff. Maxis history expert, as seen on TV. ☕🐦📚 he/him
Phil Salvador @ SGF
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for the best part of this year, I've been speaking to former Maxis developers to put together this: a near-6000 word oral history of Spore 🦠 www.designroom.site/spore-an-ora...
A wild bet in development for the better part of a decade, Spore reached for the stars — and, at times, got there. We recently spoke to eight team members, including chief designer Will Wright, to loo...
Easily the craziest part of SGF was meeting @hunty.biz, who I ran a Metroid fansite with over 20 years ago and we have not interacted since then
Thinking about the episode of Battle Dome where 2 out of 3 contestants had to quit the show early due to serious injuries
I spotted this interesting snippit on game releases in Japan in 1991. Friday being game release day was a relatively new phenomenon at that point, though Volk wouldn't have known that.
Also, more confirmation that Japan loves Wizardry.
I think @baileymeyers.bsky.social made me set this reminder
