Three Moves Ahead 414: 1997 in Retrospect

Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

Video Games, Games, War, War Games, Strategy, Games & Hobbies, Strategy Games

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

1997. Garry Kasparov loses a monumental chess match against Deep Blue, changing the state of chess forever. Troy Goodfellow acts as a body double for Leonardo DiCaprio in the recently released Titanic and the Notorious B.I.G. informs us that more problems are inevitable when one experiences a sudden increase in liquid assets. Also, a whole bunch of really great strategy games came out. This is the first in a series of (nonconsecutive) retrospective episodes in which the panel goes back in time to review what were some really standout years. This week Rob, Rowan, T.J. Hafer, and Troy "Did you know I had a bit part in the Fifth Element?" Goodfellow discuss all of the best titles from 1997. We award titles for Best RTS, Best Grand Strategy Game, and Best Wargame for this most auspicious of years.

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0:00.0	Good evening. You are listening to The Thru's head, and I'm your host, Rob Zakene.
0:03.4	Join me today. We welcome back through Moves Head founder, Troy Goodfellow.
0:07.5	Good evening, everyone.
0:09.6	We also have Games Beats librarian and residence, Rowan Kaiser.
0:14.2	Good morning.
0:16.0	And finally, we have freelance writer, Young T.J. Hafer.
0:20.4	Hello.
0:22.2	This is a rap name.
0:23.3	And this is also, this is the first time Troy and I have ever been on a podcast together.
0:27.2	Oh, fuck off. That can't be true.
0:29.0	No, I'm only ever on the paradox episodes.
0:31.6	We've never been on the same episode before.
0:34.0	Oh, my God.
0:35.4	Well, all right.
0:36.3	TJ's coming out of his cage.
0:39.8	Anyway, so on our last show, we talked about myth, the myth series and myth the fallen
0:45.3	lords, and myth the fallen lords turned 20 about a week or so ago.
0:50.2	And that got us thinking about what other games turned 20 this year.
0:54.1	And that made us realize that, like, holy hell, 1997 was a wild year for games and particularly for strategy games.
1:03.3	Now, Rowan, you've been thinking about these sorts of topics, but also this particular era for quite a bit.
1:11.9	Yeah, well, it's also Polygon putting out their list that was pretty mediocre for strategy games.
1:19.7	I'm not actually that mad.
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