Recorded a bunch of stuff today — a bit more left to do tomorrow, but it's nearly 1AM now so I should probably go to bed, as much as it is tempting to pull a late-nighter.
Got some really interesting stuff coming up soon on Atari A to Z, probably my favourite of which is Chris Crawford's unusual social simulation Gossip, which may or may not have been released back in the day. We had a version in our Big Box of Disks for the Atari 8-bit, but we had a lot of things we weren't supposed to have in our Big Box of Disks, so that doesn't necessarily mean it ever actually got released.
I'll spare you the details of Gossip for now — watch the video when it comes out in a couple of weeks! — but suffice to say it's the sort of overly ambitious nonsense that I feel really defined the Atari 8-bit era. It's fascinating to return to now — and I sure as hell understand what it's going for a lot more than I did back in the day. It also helps that the version I recorded from today was actually a completed version rather than a beta version which never quite worked properly.
I'm doing a couple of pilot Evercade episodes, too. Those will fit right in with what I'm already doing and can be produced in a similar amount of time. It'll also provide some variety to the retro stuff. For now, I'll keep the seventh generation underdogs in with short;Play since that's where they fit best for the minute, but perhaps that's worth spinning off into its own series at some point.
Ah, I enjoy creating. Oh for infinite time and money to do it to my heart's content rather than crushing my soul for five days a week… But oh well. Think of it as a reward. Just… keep thinking of it as a reward…!
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