1985 playlist

1985 playlist Massive thanks to Ryan Dee and their 470-song 1985 playlist, from which I surely pulled like 20-40 songs. A.K. Klosowski & Pyrolator - Hi-FidelityI think, though I'm not sure, that the trick here is a tape loop where for the stuttering breakdowns they're skipping the head on and off the tape? Beautiful song …

1984 playlist

On games of 1984: I covered five British games all in a row, four of which were science fiction, which was pretty much just a coincidence. The games independently caught my fancy and only when setting up my slate for 1984 did I realize what had happened. I definitely ended up overemphasizing the 80s British …

1983 playlist

The games of 1983 I played, Lode Runner aside, did have a pretty pronounced throughline: "cinematic" qualities. Games had been riffing on the movies since Spacewar [1962], so I already have a tag for it, but they had not yet really tried to ape movies formally. Obviously, Dragon's Lair made this its whole hook, but …

1982 playlist

I've already been thinking I should take a post off between years, so I've just gone and decided to make my self-indulgent playlist the end punctuation of the year. Joke's on me, because this actually wasn't much less time-consuming! I might in the future use this space to maybe reflect on the year's games I …

1980 and 1981 playlists

I'm making a tradition out of the-year-in-music threads to end every year I cover over on my Twitter. I figure I might as well do something to make those a little less susceptible to dead links! So here's links to the YouTube playlists of the first two, as well as tracklistings: 1980 Gil Scott-Heron & …