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Video games media and culture, seen through the lens of what rocked (and what sucked) about the retro game magazines that inspired @tyschalter.com & @aidanmoher.com to become professional journalists, authors, and critics. 📺 funfactorpod.com
It's FunFactor Fuuuuuuuuesday!
As we wrap up season one, @tyschalter.com and I dig into reader mail and answer banger questions like "how would you make the perfect gaming mag" and "who're your favourite villains?" and "how much does Aidan hate and love video production?"
It's a doozy.
New episode alert! We told you to ask us anything, and you did! Our Season 1 wrap-up continues with a special AMA/Q&A.
From assembling our own ultimate mid-90s gaming mag Voltron-style to talking through how we handle offensive/problematic content, we answered all your questions!
everyone who has spent the last two years despairing about the state of aus games media, here's your chance to put your money where your 😥 is:
Hell yeah.
This is our kinda sicko mode.
www.gamesindustry.biz/ea-says-ther...
Some #ScanlineSunday action on the FunFactor account!
A photograph of Final Fantasy VII on a CRT. Blonde haired himbo Cloud stands outside his childhood home in the quiet village of Nibelheim.
📺 Final Fantasy VII // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component
To the Marathon crew trying to take down the boss which spawned in Overflow, I'm not sorry for sneaking in while you were all preoccuped and knocking you all with a knife to the back. It was very funny.
A screenshot showing 24 Japanese magazine cover thumbnails on archive.org They're Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine's 1987 issues.
Awesome news! @ozidual.bsky.social edited the full run of the 1987 Famimaga (Nintendo's Family Computer Magazine) magazines that I scanned a while back which means they're so much easier to flip through and read now! Check them out: archive.org/details/@ozi...
The GOAT.
A photograph of Final Fantasy VII on a CRT. Blonde haired himbo Cloud stands outside his childhood home in the quiet village of Nibelheim.
📺 Final Fantasy VII // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component
Seems like there's probably more story behind this and why the $44m figure was sprung on them. But it feels like we're waist-deep in the future I've been worried about for like 10 years where the people with money are turning away from new, unproven single-player games for good
Last call for questions!
Hey, hey! We're recording tomorrow (become an ULTRA member to watch the live session!), so last chance to get your AMA questions in for this wrap-up episode!
Was Final Fantasy VII too linear?
Ty and Aidan dig into OPM's 1997 review of Final Fantasy VII and look at how its criticism's that the classic game is "too linear" match with creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's cinematic ambitions.
shut up telephone don't tell me how loud I am allowed to listen to @funfactorpod.com
I always found this critique to be so strange & it's the same reason I love Remake & not Rebirth.
The Midgar section is so tight & compelling narratively while showing you the ropes. It goes off the rails when you aimlessly search for Sephiroth for an entire disc, before finding its footing again.
Was Final Fantasy VII too linear?
Ty and Aidan dig into OPM's 1997 review of Final Fantasy VII and look at how its criticism's that the classic game is "too linear" match with creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's cinematic ambitions.
A photograph of Super Metroid on a CRT. It's a close up of Samus's helmet on the save select screen.
📺 Super Metroid // Super NES // PVM-1354Q via component
A photograph of Final Fantasy IX on a CRT. Zidane, not the footballer, stretches behind a pompom'd moogle.
📺 Final Fantasy IX // PlayStation // PVM-1354Q via component
Hey, all! As part of closing out our first season, we're going to record an AMA episode, so hit us up with all your questions!
They can be about making the pod, the magazines/era we covered, modern games, whatever! Just reply here and we'll get to as many as we can!
Managed to save the VOD of yesterday’s Illusion of Gaia stream because I had a local recording from OBS. Come watch me embarrass myself against the game’s first boss.
Mood.
Hey, all! As part of closing out our first season, we're going to record an AMA episode, so hit us up with all your questions!
They can be about making the pod, the magazines/era we covered, modern games, whatever! Just reply here and we'll get to as many as we can!
(Twitch didn't archive the stream, but fortunately Aidan's a smart guy and was recording a backup through OBS.)
VOD is up!
My hand holding an Analogue Pocket displaying a colourful roleplaying game. The main character expires a village of brown-roofed houses.
📺 Quest: Brian's Journey // Game Boy Color // Analogue Pocket
