Waypoint 101 - Sid Meier's Gettysburg!

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🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

Rob takes Ren, Patrick, and Cado on a journey to a different era: the late 90's. The crew has been playing Sid Meiier's Gettysburg!, a seminal strategy game that seems to be all but completely forgotten in the history of the genre. We discuss its context in the 90's Civil War pop culture boom, some of its strengths and weaknesses in UI design, and its massive manual which attempted to give context to the different playable scenarios and how they played out in history. We touch on simulation and history, and the particularity with which media depicting the Civil War requires to not fall into fraught ideological territory.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to Waypoint 101 where Waypoint and its contributors and friends
0:21.2	chat in detail about classic games or just games that were strangely hung up on.
0:26.0	For today I'm your host Rob Zachney and today I'm joined by Patrick Lopich.
0:29.4	I didn't meet myself because I was I was frantically trying to find an issue of computer gaming
0:37.1	world that I'd pulled up before and I thought I'd click on me anyway I'm here and I'm
0:40.9	still finding that issue.
0:41.9	Don't worry.
0:42.9	Oh yeah.
0:43.9	CZW Museum National Treasure.
0:44.9	Uh, run out of price.
0:46.7	Howdy gamers.
0:47.7	I'm trying to stop saying hmm continue.
0:51.5	Yeah.
0:52.5	Continue.
0:53.7	Look it's we're all works in progress and our producer Ricardo Contreras.
0:58.2	Hello.
0:59.2	Hello.
1:01.6	So today as threatened slash promised we're tackling Sid Meier's Gettysburg the Civil War
1:07.4	War game from 1997.
1:09.7	Uh, so we've had a few streams on it.
1:13.3	Uh, we've been I've been playing a bunch.
1:15.9	Uh, we've also been checking out some other games from the period and things that have been
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