Upcoming Livestream : Whatever Happened to the Golden Age of RPGs?
And so, in my ongoing Podcast, "Whatever Happened to the Game?" I am going to have another livestream commenting on retro games. This time, we will be going into the Golden Age of Roleplaying Games in the 1990s and Early 2000s. As part of this, we will begin on roleplaying games set in the Final Frontier, or Space. This will focus on two games : Star Control II : The Ur-Quan Masters , and Escape Velocity , a Shareware Simulation/Roleplaying Game which inspired a number of similar later games in its genre. Escape Velocity can be played today through The Community Edition of the Game , similar to how Fallout games have been rendered playable on various platforms through Fallout Community Edition . Community Edition is a launcher which plays the game and reads the files in whatever operating system the launcher file is meant to run on, and Community Editions have helped play old games on newer operating systems...