In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the ‘90s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a...
The audience is supposed to fill in that at the same time the ecologists (Kyoto Protocol), economists (early HFT), and politicians (Karl Rove’s cutting edge get-out-the-vote-but-on-a-computer efforts of 2000-2004) were also doing world simulations according to their own personal idioms.In retrospect a big part of the wonder of the ‘90s was that even trivial vidya entertainments would be, like, part of a competition between Peter Molyneux and Will Wright and Richard Garriott and Sid Meier to create the most accurate simulation of the entire world according to their own personal theories of the underlying metaphysics
that’s not at all what I’m thinking of, I’m thinking about how they did games about the Gaia hypothesis and gestalt psychology and metamythology and New Urbanism in the 80s-mid 90s (SMAC in ‘99, Black & White ‘01 at the latest)