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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

February 19, 2023

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This is a great list with expert overviews of all the games that are edifying to play, that give the rich history and show the best that has come before. There’s a curator on Steam that lists all the 1001 Games that you can buy on Steam. You can use IsThereAnyDeal.com or DekuDeals.com to tell…

Zork I

February 13, 2023

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Video Games

A great podcast about Zork I is Eaten By A Grue: Episode 1. and here’s a good article Eaten by a Grue: A Brief History of Zork from Mental Floss. The easiest way to play this game is to buy it from GOG in The Zork Anthology, which is pretty cheap for five Zork games…

1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die

February 12, 2023

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Lists, Songs

This is a work in progress. I’m trying to list all songs in the book 1001 Songs You Must Hear Before You Die in playlists on YouTube and Spotify. Update 11/25/25:: 1001 and 10,001 songs lists are done and posted on my YouTube channel. I doubt I’ll finish the Spotify 10,001 songs list, but the…

Kolchak: The Night Stalker, X-Files, Millennium

April 11, 2026

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1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

Kolchak: The Night Stalker Kolchak is on Peacock, X-Files is on Hulu, and there is no streaming for Millennium. Kolchak was the inspiration for X-Files and Millennium is a darker spin than X-Files by the same creator.

Naruto, One Piece, Ninjas or Pirates

April 10, 2026

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1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die

Naruto and One Piece are on the list 1001 Comics You Must Read Before You Die. In the sidebars on Naruto manga, creator Masashi Kishimoto said Dragon Ball and Rurouni Kenshin were inspiration for his manga. Naruto is 72 volumes. One Piece is over 100 volumes and still ongoing. One can see that pirates or…

Blendo Games

December 31, 2025

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Video Games

Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, and Quadrilateral Cowboy are amazing games in that they tell stories with low-polygon 3d models, giving it a wonderful, whimsical appearance. Thirty Flights of Loving is in the book and list 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, and it includes Gravity Bone in the copy I…

Footnotes in Gaza, Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde

August 8, 2025

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Riveting picture of war or refugees. It shows how it is in war zones or Palestine

Star Fox series

July 14, 2025

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die, Uncategorized, Video Games

First things first, the line drawing star ship game started with X. It’s pretty good for the old time hardware on Game Boy. Then comes Star Fox on SNES using an FX chip in the cartridge. Star Fox 2 was finally released on SNES mini, but Star Fox 64 is the only one on the…

Douglas Adams, Spider Robinson, Terry Pratchett

December 10, 2024

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Douglas Adams wrote Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which is both a book on the 1o01 Books You Must Read Before You Die and a video game on the 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die. He wrote many other books. I remember reading Dirk Gentley’s Holistic Detective Agency as a kid, given…

Doomsday Book, Infomocracy, and Eagle

November 27, 2024

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For me, after taking a bunch of free Political Science courses at Open Yale website or Coursera I get a good kick out of reading fiction like science fiction that doesn’t seem realistic but realistic at the same time Infomocracy talks about influencing an election when everything is plotted out in data and there’s only…

Dragon’s Lair

February 4, 2024

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

This arcade game was a very successful pioneer, melding extremely well-done animation with new LaserDisc technology and funneled that into the emerging technology of arcade games. There’s something about those times when you would go to Chuck E. Cheese and play Dragon’s Lair or see the game somewhere. The whole point of arcade games like…

Portal

January 30, 2024

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1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die

Portal, along with Half-Life, is one of the unique video games Valve made. The puzzle mechanics are quite good, but what brings it over the top is the science fiction background and quirky humor the AI robot GLaDOS. While considered a short game, it and its sequel are listed on the 1001 Video Games You…

Manhunter / Silence of the Lambs / Hannibal

January 27, 2024

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1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, 1001 TV Shows You Must Watch Before You Die

When Thomas Harris was writing the first book, Red Dragon, it came to him how Hannibal would be so evil and end up being the focus of the book. And the character portrays so well that Manhunter and The Silence of the Lambs are on the 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die and…

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