Oh and if stuff that came first on arcade counts: Street Fighter II, Fatal Fury, Sunset Riders, The Simpsons: Arcade Game

What were the noteworthy console games that year? I only know the surface stuff, like Sonic, A Link to the Past, Streets of Rage, Castlevania 4, FF4, Golden Axe 2, Battletoads, Double Dragon 3, Bomberman 2. What other important games would you point to that year? I'd love to know

Forgot to finish this sentence: "UK and Canada would be huge so you might want to either divvy them up on multiple weeklies, or instead of adding every single Football Manager/F1/Forza/DirtRally/LEGO/NHL/UFC/FIFA/PGA/AC/etc you can add one representative one for each of those long series"

I wrote too much

You've mentioned some other non-western MMOs that were bigger playerbase-wise than WoW, I remember notably MapleStory, I wonder if you have a list of them?

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Connections – Custom Puzzle Creator

Create custom puzzles based on the Connections New York Times daily game

I have a million ideas for video game based ones of these, been thinking them up far before Connections came out, inspired by Cine2Nerdle (though I like Connections' simplicity more). So I made some just now: connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-O8j3hr...connections.swellgarfo.com/game/-O8j5Py...

feel like they went from old school sexist narratives to a timid foray into progressive writing in some aspects to a quick NOPE and shift into a hyper safe, sanitized, mass appeal, aseptic product.

This is a half-formed idea but I feel like in literature there generally was a more or less gradual shift into less sexist writing (not saying perfect) once a significant amount of writers and readers started to see the issue. But a lot of video games (especially western AAA & AA)

A podcast recs thread some day would be swell!