Computer Gaming World

Yeah.

Especially magazines that I had, like old issues of Computer Gaming World that I actually had.

I love flipping through those online now.

Dude, I was into Half Price Books a couple days ago, and they had issues at Game Informer, and I was very tempted to just go.

demand many free tickets for this

but yeah so i i'll just say like crossy road is fun it's like a frogger and flappy bird isn't like it's endless it's just like a skill like trying to get the highest score you can without getting hit so but that's kind of it that's it for frogger i love frogger i will always love frogger that's that's the episode tyler what you've been playing

I've been playing, well, before I get into that, I did look up World's Largest Frogger is listed on Raw Thrills.

They make arcade games.

Here are the things that won.

Computer Gaming World's 2002 Strategy Game of the Year.

Computer Games Magazine named it the ninth best computer game of 2002, calling it a superhero game fans have been waiting for.

It received the magazine's Best Voice Acting Award.

One of our boilerplate questions is, like, what are some of the big games from your youth or, you know, when you just think, like, oh, huge inspirational games that meant a lot to you?

Well- I guess it, I mean, this ties in, I guess, to the Gateway era in that, um, video game-wise, I mean, during university I was kind of supporting myself partially from writing video game, uh, reviews and strategy guides for Computer Gaming World at the time.

So, um, yeah, I was writing a lot of reviews of computer games and whatnot in, uh, while I was at the University of Alberta, and eventually that led me to, uh, getting a job in San Francisco at a video game company, which was, uh, Total Entertainment Network at the time, uh, which later on, uh, got renamed Pogo.com.

Right.

Tell me a little bit about how you just were like, "Oh, yeah, I'm gonna freelance writing to these, you know, magazines."

Um, in terms of how I did it, again, the, it was a different era for sure, and I'm not too sure it's a useful strategy for anyone nowadays.

But, um, yeah, I, I was reading Computer Gaming World, obviously, and I kinda wanted to do some writing for it if it was possible.

And so what I did was I wrote a review.

I maybe don't think this situation is quite as dire as you do, just because I feel like that's always been the case for the game industry.

If I think back to in our youth, our misspent youth, Roddy, of the dawn of the game industry in the 1980s, I mean, the way you'd market a game, a big game might be a TV commercial or getting on the cover of Computer Gaming World or one of the print magazines that existed at that time.

Those paths to success all went away somewhere along the way, and they were replaced with different stuff.

You know, we saw the rise of sites like IGN, and then we saw...

It was also named Game of the Year in 2004 by the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences.

It was named Shooter of the Year for 2003 by Computer Gaming World.

The score was also highly acclaimed.

It was recorded with a full 75-piece orchestra and composed by eventual Oscar winner Michael Giacchino, best known for his scores for Up, the MCU's Spider-Man films, and The Batman.

I was about to talk about that.

There is a Chuck Yeager's Air Combat Handbook from Computer Gaming World written by Russell Seip.

Good old Russell Seip.

And Mike Wexler.

It's very long.

I can imagine with those two writing it.

Russell Seip is the guy who founded Computer Gaming World.

He was gone by the time I got there.

Adventure Gamers gave it a 3.5 out of 5.

Computer Gaming World gave it a two out of five and ign gave it an eight out of ten with x play giving it a two out of five so the path goes true if ign rates it high the game is bad if ign rates it low the game is good an eight out of ten you would say that's a good game review however it's coming from ign thus the game is bad But I'm sure it's fun in a weird, nostalgic adventure.

I like Law & Order a lot.

I like adventure games.