Michael and Michael get together this week to muse over how students can address college debt via gaming, thanks to a link from co-host Phaedra. We also look at how the Internet Archive is saving games from digital extinction, while reminiscing about some of our favorite old-school games. This brings us to a deeper discussion on how newer games with server components and digital rights management, may be disabling this preservation to continue. We end-up musing about use cases for Apple’s upcoming Watch announcement and how the smart-watch ecosystem may become yet another lock in play for the mobile ecosystem. What do you think? Are you excited for this brave new world?
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Pay off Student Debt with gaming
Ken Jennings
Saving old games at the Internet Archive
Old MSDOS Games
Archon – 1984
SimCity DRM Disaster
Every thing is awesome on the Mac – Lego Game
Haptic tap for Apple Watch
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Great show guys! Sorry I missed the recording.