I put the last 2 main eps on the backburner to catch up on my audiobooks and did them back to back now. Listening to the Y2K one really shows that history actually ended after 2001 and not in the 90s. The
The West Wing comparison is very apt and the "web economy" crash happened just after the year 2000 too as all noted.
I just turned 12 when we numbers rolled up to 2000 and was in 6th grade. I love my PC that had a Voodoo3, Chuck Dixon was my favorite writer (writing this makes me a bit sad) and the Dreamcast just launched in Europa. That console´s life cycle was something else in Europe. From the hot new thing to termination in only 1,5 years. One of the reasons I have no nostalgia for it.
Remembering all the (non-apocalyptic) possible post-2000 futures in pop-culture, T2´s deleted epilogue comes to mind, just shows that we diverted into something else altogether after the salad days of the 90s.
Remember when this was seen as terrible and worthy of deletion? About that... (T3, DF and the show are fine enough fan-fiction). And notice the
lack of phones. A 2029 worth fighting for I say!
There's no fate but what we make for ourselves Retronuats.
You guys did many, mostly great, film episodes before. I now know which film duology one I would like to see covered in the future or even a
James Cameron ep in general. Kojima, RE 1.5/2 or Halo could have only come about due to him. A lot of Fallout and every Space Marine shooter ever, so the whole last-gen, are on him too. Cameron and Ridley Scott shaped gaming more than most famous game directors now that I think about it! I wonder if Miyamoto likes
Legend 1985... That movie is worthy of a podcast of its own too as even Scott is aware of how big an influence the then flop became on other media.
Edit: Dragon Quest 7 is a mess on both versions, so is FF VIII and
bobservo saw the light. Shenmue 1 was
never good! Even back then. The 2nd half drove me crazy. Play SM2 till you had enough and that´s it. None of the Megaman Legends work either and they maybe aged even worse.