Description

The podcast is three years old! Mike and Ting make a time capsule, do some very complicated top threes and talk about changes to the book club.

The "book club" game is: Super Mario Bros. Finish the game by the next episode!

Discuss:

@lostlevelsclub

/r/lostlevelsclub

Lost Levels Club on YouTube and Twitch

mike.and.ting@lostlevels.club

Show Notes:

Pre-Chat

• Bose SoundWear Companion speaker
• Mimic
• Sandbox VR (Mike's videos: Dodging Lasers and MVP)
• Zero Latency
• Banksy auction stunt leaves art world in shreds
• The painter painted: Melbourne loses its treasured Banksy
• Globophobia
• A Fine mess: how not to assert your copyright in the YouTube age

Time Capsule

• AAA (video game industry)
• Sony PS4 Poised to Pass PS3 Lifetime Sales, Switch Breaks 20 Million Units
• PS5: what's the latest PlayStation 5 news and when will Sony release it?
• Time is an illusion
• Google announces "Project Stream"—a "test" of game streaming in Chrome
• NVIDIA Shield TV
• Apple TV 4K
• Varjo VR headset 50MP per eye vs Oculus Rift 1.3MP (Picture taken through lenses)
• Why Google Glass Failed, and What to Expect Next
• Smartphone Zombie
• World Mind Sports Games
• Generation Z
• CitizenCon 2948

Three Genres, Three Games, Three Decades

• We're One Year Old! #7FaveGames
• There's No Scientific Basis for Race—It's a Made-Up Label
• Action Adventure (Ting)
  • Tomb Raider, 1996
  • Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, 2009
  • Red Dead Redemption, 2010
• RPG (Mike)
  • Secret of Mana, 1993
  • The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, 2002
  • Dark Souls, 2011
• Final Fantasy Mystic Quest
• Pemenie and the Boots of Blinding Speed
• FPS (Ting)
  • Half-Life, 1998
  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, 2009
  • Destiny, 2014
• Counter-Strike
• Roguelike (Mike)
  • NetHack, 1987
  • Diablo 2, 2000
  • The Binding of Isaac, 2011
• The DevTeam Thinks Of Everything
• ​The moment the action-RPG was born
• RPG / Zelda (Ting)
  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, 1998
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, 2002
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, 2017
• Real Is Brown
• Zelda: Twilight Princess tested under official Tegra X1 emulation
• FPS (Mike)
  • Half-Life, 1998
  • Deus Ex, 2000
  • PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS, 2017
• Greasel

Book Club Changes

• Nintendo Entertainment System – Nintendo Switch Online
• Super Mario Bros.
• Platform Game
• Red Dead Redemption 2's horse testicles shrink in the cold