Ep. 89: Why Toonstruck Struck Out
Jimmy Maher, author of The Digital Antiquarian, returns once more to share his recent article Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games). We examine this 1996 point-and-click adventure as an illustration of the mainstream decline of its entire genre. In this episode: \u201cSiliwood\u201d interactive movies are the next big thing, the curse of a blank check strikes again, no one ever got off Myst\u2019s first island, do peanut butter and salmon really go together?, how simple economics shaped game design, Frank drops a major bomb making us question if we even know him anymore, and Barney is a real dinosaur who wrote his own song lyrics.
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