Onion AV Club To Cover Video Games

An anonymous reader writes "The Onion AV Club, the entertainment section of the satirical periodical The Onion, has expanded its coverage of movies, music and books to include reviews of video games. Also, they will host a game history column by Wil Wheaton: "Each week, [Wheaton] will take a look back to games past with his Games Of Our Lives column, reaching beyond Pac-Man and Donkey Kong to find the dusty arcade games and worn-out cartridges that paved the way for the games of today." The first expanded issue posted yesterday, featuring an interview with industry legends Will Wright (The Sims, SimCity) and Howard Scott Warshaw (Atari)."

Comments

Re:Good ol Will Wheaton

[hal2814]

Funny, I think of him as Wil Wheaton the kid who was in the movie with River Pheonix, Corey Feldman, and the Sliders kid who used to be fat but isn't anymore. And just so you know, he got his start long before ST:TNG.

I am interested in reading what he has to say about classic video games.

History of Sim City

[SpottedKuh]

Regarding the interview with Will Wright -- I found this really neat page discussing the history of the old-school Sim City franchise (prior to Sim City 4, that is): http://www.sc3000.com/knowledge/history_contents.c fm

Who else still has the disks for Sim City Classic? :)

Re:History of Sim City

[bhtooefr]

I had a copy of the code card at one time, but here's what to do to bypass the code card (haven't tried it, it may fsck up something):

To unprotect SimCity!

Use Norton and change these bytes in the SIMCITY.EXE file:

Change: 0c 87 00 75 3c
To....: 0c 87 00 eb 3c
^^
Another software crack by Bentley Bear!

I found this by googling. I'm not sure what "Norton" is in this case, but any hex editor should to the job.