10/17/2023 0 Comments Connecting system shock and bioshock![]() “The computer that’s nicknamed The Thinker is nicknamed that because its designation is RODIN, spelled like the artist, and that’s why there’s a Thinker statue in the thing, and they nicknamed it The Thinker because of that,” he said. So in a completely unenforceable way, theoretically, we have caused all of these universes to coexist.” As for how Super Spitfire could have ended up coming to fruition, Gaynor theorizes that, “the art is very Japanese-style art, so what I think happened is did start a computer company when he got back to the surface, and it’s been 50 years or something, so probably the company that he started licensed the IP for that game to a Japanese company, which then made a Super Nintendo version of it.” Gaynor went on to explain that conversations during BioShock’s development theorized that, since Rapture has such advanced inventions, scientists there could have kickstarted the technology behind SHODAN in System Shock, which also links those two universes. “The airline that Katie takes to go to Europe, we never named the airline, but their logo is an ‘80s brand update to the airline that Jack’s plane crashes into Rapture. And the publisher is CMP Interactive, which stands for Charles Milton Porter, because he survived and made it back to the surface.” “There’s a couple of other little winks,” he continued. ![]() “In Gone Home, we wanted to make Super Nintendo cartridges that we put in the game, so one of them is called Super Spitfire. It’s playable, the idea being that it was a super simple representation of a fighter plane in World War II shooting down enemy Zeros,” Gaynor explained. I don’t know if you found it when you played it, but it’s like a vector graphics, like an Asteroids kind of thing. “In Minerva’s Den, there’s the world’s first video game, in theory, because there’s a video game down there and it was from the ‘50s or whatever. ![]()
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