I only liked the classics. They don't make games like they used to.
Simon Willison
@simonw
Sep 26
Replying to @AndyMasley
OK maybe I should play some new games
Grim Fandango: 1998 Team Fortress Classic: 1999 Unreal Tournament: 1999 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: 1993 Homeworld: 1999 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: 2002 Deus Ex: 2000 Command & Conquer: 1995 Sid Meier's Civilization: 1991

ALT Grim Fandango: 1998 Team Fortress Classic: 1999 Unreal Tournament: 1999 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: 1993 Homeworld: 1999 Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: 2002 Deus Ex: 2000 Command & Conquer: 1995 Sid Meier's Civilization: 1991

Sep 26, 2026 · 11:38 PM UTC

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I can't believe people think SimHat is made up. Would I also make up the gritty reboot in the early 2000s? And the online multiplayer version ("its a brimmunity!")? And the recent exploitative mobile game?
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Oh two of the commentators reminded me of the infamous ham sandwich hardlock in Impossible Text Adventure, where if you eat it in chapter 1, you can't win the game. The forums went crazy.
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I would absolutely play Mall Baron
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My parents put me in the moisture hole for getting addicted to SimHat and then the next year they sent me to vertical plants farming school. But I guess it is nice to see people making fun of what was very much a traumatic experience for me.
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how could I have forgotten Mall Baron '94?
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Impossible Text Adventure is actually pretty fun as long as you didn't make the mistake of eating the ham sandwich in Chapter 1.
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The key to Mall Barron is to put the records stores as far apart as possible so everyone has to walk past the Spencer's.
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I will never forgive Impossible Text Adventure for the hard-lock you encounter at the VERY END, from eating a ham sandwich in chapter ONE. Who wouldn't eat the sandwich?!
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I can ID every one of these. I'm not certain that's a good thing.
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I replayed Magicianry XII recently, and I couldn’t help but reminisce on the golden age… playing it now all these years later, it just didn’t feel like there were as many squares
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This really brings me back
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SimHat? Really Ethan? How many hours did you sink into that one? 😆
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Some of you would like the 100 Best Video Games (That Never Existed) by @FrogCroakley!
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still my favorite game experience, and a design and engineering wonder for its time
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Wouldn’t mind playing sim hat if I’m being honest
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grim fandango of course, what a gem! forgot to put into my 9
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lol bro did you ai make 9 game titles? These arent real games right?
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So slop cannons have always been around
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the best part about this is that you can hand those screenshots to claude and tell it to build it and it would
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Sim Gat had the best cheat codes
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435 cds…
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Holy shit.
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we forgot how
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ALT Angry Meryl Streep GIF
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