First Principles | Retrohistories
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Footage from Ready Player One © 2018 Warner Bros. Pictures.
Games in montage, in order of appearance, with links to source videos:
Sewer Shark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTdLjUn6y-0
Mutant League Football
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPrBFokTLo
Adventures of Lolo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUU4Jfj9Gjs
Little Computer People
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwVHCG0guMk
Mercenary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47PfAI18eTc
The Incredible Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTbSMKGQ_rU
Links LS: Championship Course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9i3yf5QpvU
Culdcept Saga
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNOJrochOVQ
Emergency Call Ambulance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbaxADGcA9s
Ecco the Dolphin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It_eOIPgCdE
Dark Cloud 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAu2KvwPJyg
Vib-Ribbon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8taMzEeCiOk
Tropical Angel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhFlquAajEw
Tobal 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtU4p4wqd8s
Tin Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2s6ikhOa1I
Robinson’s Requiem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k55A0s8Grto
Republic: The Revolution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5WUvw2qLEc
Densha de Go! Ryojōhen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6o2hl6-0qw
Raw Danger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bepQbWcrJxU
Echochrome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6NFvkzzKSY
Transarctica
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60OkMuX_H2o
Exile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uOSNCLEH68
Gangsters: Organized Crime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGa8CFqmn_0
Anachronox
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9D_ucIpvyCQ
Laser Squad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4DhpUn3Hkw
Comix Zone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4csjRgaXs
Music:
Sigma Tauri / Assembling the Fleet
from the Stellaris soundtrack by Andreas Waldetoft
© 2016 Paradox Interactive AB. www.paradoxplaza.com
Stills and screenshots from MobyGames, Shmuplations, Keith Smith, Ed Fries and RT-55J.