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Three Moves Ahead

Idle Thumbs

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

4.8 • 532 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2019

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Summary

Rob, Rowan, and Sean welcome Jeff Green to discuss what might be the greatest year in gaming. Looking down the release slate for that year, it was obviously stacked with brilliant games like Alpha Centauri, Freespace 2, and Jagged Alliance 2 (to name just a few). But did people know it was special at the time? And did anyone realize how fleeting that moment would prove to be, just before Microsoft entered the console wars and began to bridge the gap between console and PC?

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0:00.0	Good evening, you're all listening to Three Moves Ahead, and I'm your host Rob Zackney,
0:03.7	here with our friend, the Game King himself, the illustrious Sean Sands.
0:08.3	Hey, hello.
0:09.8	We also welcome back, Computer Gaming World, editor-in-chief, Jeff Green.
0:14.9	Hello!
0:16.5	And finally, we have GamesBeatsats ancient historian, Rowan Kaiser.
0:21.9	Resources exist to be consumed, and consumed they will be.
0:25.8	If not by this generation, then by some future.
0:28.3	Perfect.
0:28.8	By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright?
0:32.6	None, I say. Let us take what is ours, chew, and eat our fill.
0:36.8	The epitaph for our times, Nobutu K. Morgan.
0:42.1	You know, I got to say, I haven't been introduced by the job I haven't had in 11 years.
0:46.8	In 11 years.
0:48.7	But I think it's relevant here.
0:50.8	It felt so good.
0:51.4	It felt so good to hear that.
0:53.9	I'm just going to get new business cards
0:55.8	of just say editor-in-chief of computer gaming world.
0:58.0	Well, I think we're going to start that we're going to do the Kickstarter.
1:01.6	And we'll just, we'll bring it back.
1:04.9	But I think it's relevant because per Rowan's introduction,
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