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Vidjagame Apocalypse

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4.8 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2019

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Whether you think of them as "full-motion video," "FMV," or "a regrettable trend in game design," cheesy interactive movies once seemed poised to take over the game industry - and with the help of MacWorld's Leif Johnson, we brave stilted dialogue (and our own audio issues) to revisit five fondly remembered FMV games from the distant '90s. Then we bite into Apple Arcade's games, get charmed by Link's Awakening, and look at the dead consoles you want to return as "classic" versions.

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0:00.0	If you're Oh, Hey everybody and welcome to another exciting episode, 335 of Vigigame Apocalypse.
0:35.1	I'm your host, Michael Reparez.
0:36.9	Who else is here in the mystical, magical,
0:39.1	your name here, Memorial Studio of the Airwaves with me?
0:42.4	A blower of whistleblowers, Chris Antista.
0:45.0	And live and full motion audio, Matthew Allen.
0:49.0	And special guest.
0:50.0	It's Lafe, Apple Use My Name, Johnson.
0:53.0	Where?
0:54.0	An Apple Arcade, an Apple Arcade.
0:56.0	I used to have a column called Apple Arcade that I ran on Macworld and stuff.
1:00.0	It was kind of interesting because the reason I chose that,
1:02.6	no one else was using it, and voila,
1:04.8	it shows up a year later.
1:07.7	Shaking my fist, the listeners can't see it, but I am.
1:11.2	It's going to be an interesting show this week. We've got a bunch of new releases to talk about. I think we're firmly in the part of the year where everything starts coming in a torrent and it's only going to get busier.
1:23.2	And it's scary.
1:24.8	I'm trying to play Monster Hunter Iceborn, Gears 5 and Link's Awakening all simultaneously
1:30.7	while planning to leave the country and it isn't fair.
1:34.5	It's a mind fuck.
1:35.5	It's a yeah jumping back and forth a run among some of these games you're just like how
1:39.5	you got to get yourself in the mood for some of these and it's like impossible right now.
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