Waypoint 101 - Sid Meier's Gettysburg!

Rob takes Ren, Patrick, and Cado on a journey to a different era: the late 90's. The crew has been playing Sid Meiier's Gettysburg! , a seminal strategy game that seems to be all but completely forgotten in the history of the genre. We discuss its context in the 90's Civil War pop culture boom, some of its strengths and weaknesses in UI design, and its massive manual which attempted to give context to the different playable scenarios and how they played out in history. We touch on simulation and history, and the particularity with which media depicting the Civil War requires to not fall into fraught ideological territory. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Waypoint 101 - Sid Meier's Gettysburg! is an episode from Waypoint Radio by VICE.

This episode is 2:28:11 long.

This episode was published on Jun 11, 2023.

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