Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan gather to discuss JOHN MADDEN FOOTBALL, the 1990 game for the Sega Genesis. Join us as we discuss how football is a hybrid real-time/turn-based strategy game! Mourn as we reveal the childhood trauma caused by being Cleveland sports fans! Hear a story about Sebastian's job interview! 

SHOW NOTES:

Madden NFL 18 - "Longshot" trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBZwjP6MpZo

Madden NFL 15 - "Madden Season":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGhwKMax3I

Nate, Sebastian, and Ryan all gather - in one place this time! - to discuss SIMCITY, the revolutionary open-ended city simulator by Maxis Games. Come to hear about the bias inherent in the simulation, stay to learn which one of us compulsively added island prisons to his cities as a child. 

SHOW NOTES:

SimCity at the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/msdos_SimCity_1989

"Micropolis":

http://www.graememcc.co.uk/micropolisJS/

SimCity SNES manual PDF (note Mr. Wright on the cover!):

http://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Nintendo_SNES/manual/Formated/SimCity_-_1991_-_Nintendo.pdf 

Paolo Pedercini's essay on the bias inherent in the Sim-ulation:

http://www.molleindustria.org/blog/multiplicity/