"By 2020… “our judgment” could no longer risk straying too far from “the judgment of the crowd” voiced on Twitter. “We’re not ‘American Idol’” went the same way as “We are not resistance”—into the past. Such mottos no longer fit a media business built on soliciting subscriptions as donations."

With the slipcover off.

That sucks if true. I'll try my copy tomorrow. I only opened NSS1 and 2 while I was doing my football book. (Both worked fine.)

The Bungie chapter is about 10k words, and the Marathon trilogy is maybe half that.

You missed MacGolf from late 1985/early 1986 (def out by April 86). It was the best-selling Mac game in the 1980s and offered many of the same innovations of the Leader Board/Mean 18/World Tour trio, but in black and white at higher resolution. Plus it had digitised photos for the golfer.

I share three of those, but I'll let you guess which three.

Yep! It was my first book. (And eventually it'll get a second volume; I've done half the interviews I planned for the follow-up, but rarely have time to work on it.) The Bitmap version is great. We revised the layout, fixed errors, and added some stuff like icon galleries and more text and images.

Trampolines? I don't recognise the game from your description, but I'm curious: Could your spider/bug character jump on them?

I saw @re4mat.bsky.social speculating the same thing a few weeks ago. I'm not aware of any explicit link between them, but agree they seem similar and the approximate age of the Subspace devs would align with them potentially having played Continuum as kids.