Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
speaker
1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So the students loved this shit.
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They went crazy.
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They would wait hours.
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They would go there and they would wait for hours to play this very primitive, but really, I mean, this was a tour de force technically.
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In 62, this was super high tech.
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Kids loved it.
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Not kids.
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These were like, you know, college students absolutely loved this stuff.
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And Stanford also.
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Space War was kind of replicated in other universities.
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They would tweak it and give it another galaxy game or some goofy name.
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And it was incredibly popular.
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So it wasn't the complexity.
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It seems that this is what the professor, Wardrip Fruin, is saying, that it wasn't the complexity or the instructions.
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The problem was it was the gameplay.
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It was the gameplay of computer space.
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Something was wrong with it.
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It didn't have gravity.
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And the reason why it didn't have gravity was because these students were playing on pretty sophisticated computers for the time.
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They were very sophisticated.
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