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#03 Alva Chua - "Beloved fiction franchises are stories told around the spirit of something."

Misspent Youth

English - May 28, 2018 08:00 - 1 hour - 96.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratings
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Previous Episode: #02 Jonathan Sims - "The suburb wasn't a collection of 90s American dreams, it was a labyrinth and we were imprisoned there."
Next Episode: #04 Samer Farag - Where can I get the video game narrative equivalent to East of Eden?

Alva Chua (MisanthroPlay) shares tales of her misspent youth across the globe; from getting drunk on Babycham and playing Space Invaders at age 4 in an English beer garden, seeing the first McDonald's open in Yugoslavia, to scouring (and working in) a physical black market for computer games in Singapore.

We also talk coding Eliza on an Atari 2600 PC, teaching oneself spells in Ultima IV without a manual, illicit console ownership, the beauty of shmups, playing Leisure Suit Larry in school, Chuck Yeager's flight sims, immersion, gate-keeping nerds through the lens of Lyotard, and what happens when you ask questions in Delta Force.

Follow Alva on twitter @vinomatic

Intro Music "Summer Vacation in Scanline" by Nurvuss
Intermission Music "At a Harbour" by Tadahiro Nitta & Ryuji Sasai, from Xak II: Rising of the Redmoon
Outro Music "トワイライトでHEART-BEAT" by パフェ♥カフェｐａｒｆａｉｔ♥ｃａｆｅ

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