The Electric Playground

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy / Oddworld Inhabitants / You Don't Know Jack! (1x11)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 05, 1997

This week Tommy interviews Interplay's Rusty Buchert about producing StarFleet Academy for the PC. Then Tommy walks down Interplay's halls to find out about the amazing animation in Die By the Sword. Final Fantasy's Producer, Hironobu Sakaguchi and Director Yoshinori Kitase talk about their decision to leave the Nintendo fold and publish for the PlayStation's CD-ROM format. Next, we find out why Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is so special. We interview Oddworld Inhabitants' President Lorne Lanning and his partner in crime, CEO Sherry McKenna. Vic flies to Seattle to get some AeroFighters Assault flight tips from Nintendo's Alan Belardinelli. Sega's Mark Subotnik makes a return visit to show us how to play Sonic R and how not to treat your Saturn controller. After that, Berkeley Systems' Julie Tarlton tells Vic, "You Don't Know Jack!" Jellyvision's Harry Gottleib explains the crazy, wacky creative process behind the writing of the digital gameshow.