#gaming post

Examples of what I mean:

1) The Mexican Revolution arc isn’t romanticized. At first, you think it’s a simple tale of the evil fascist government fighting against the heroic rebellion. But then you meet the rebel leader and he turns out to be just as bad as the government. It’s a true “both sides are in the wrong” situation and, unfortunately, the ones who truly suffer are the peasants (such as Luisa Fortuna).

2) Frontier life isn’t just shooting and action. It was also watching over animals, building farms and ranches, and trading with towns. The games really make you feel the monotony of doing chores and yard work, especially when John was in his Jim Milton phase.

3) Outlaw life isn’t romanticized either. Although you start off as a happy family, it eventually devolved into backstabbing, despair, and self-destruction. Even before then, your group aren’t the greatest of people, especially with the whole robbing people at gunpoint and shooting up towns.

4) Good guys don’t always get a happy ending. Also, every action has a consequence. John Marston had to learn that the hard way.

5) The racism. I feel like a lot of Western-themed media tries to skirt around this issue, or even avoid the topic (such as the 2016 remake of Magnificent Seven, which had a diverse group of fighters). Red Dead doesn’t pull back its punches. You have the Ivy League professor who treated Native Americans as subjects for his racist research. Abraham Reyes straight up calls Chinese people an inferior race. Then there’s the Blackwater short film playfully talking about the massacre of Native American tribes.

6) Along the same lines as point 5, the sexism. For example, there was the propaganda short film about opposing the women’s suffrage movement. And, of course, Sadie Adler not wanting to be relegated to cooking for the group since she can shoot.

7) This is more for RDR2. You actually have to pay attention to the maintenance of the horses and the guns. I’ve never seen this in a Wild West movie/TV show, and yet it’s integral to someone whose life revolves around horseback riding and shooting people!

Hey everyone! I’m super excited to announce that my labor of love, Big Tech Tycoon, has officially launched on the App Store worldwide!

💡 What is Big Tech Tycoon?

Big Tech Tycoon is a retro strategy/simulation game where you take control of a tech startup in 1975 and guide it through decades of innovation, competition, and platform wars.

As a student developer obsessed with software engineering and especially computing history, I built this game to give tech enthusiasts a deep, authentic simulation experience without all the predatory cash-grabs seen in modern mobile gaming. I took time to make sure that the game has interesting mechanics that'll get you hooked for hours.

Key Features:

🖥️ Deep Tech Tree: 218 researchable tech nodes, 660 dynamic events, and handcrafted historical scenarios.

💾 Design software, hardware, and operating systems

👾Compete against rival tech giants

⚡ Native Apple Tech: Built 100% with SwiftUI, seamless Dark Mode support, and full Game Center integration across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro (through iPad layer of compatibility).

🚫 No Ads or Microtransactions: A traditional premium game. Buy once and play forever (also works offline btw).

⚙️ Custom engine: This game features a custom simulation engine built from ground up for this type of gameplay. This is not some random asset flip. This game was engineered from ground up to provide the players with a unique gameplay formula.

🌱Seed for the future: The launch won't represent the final state of the game. I'm commited to adding more FREE content/updates to this game for at least a year. Expect more scenarios, gameplay quirks and improvements along the way. We care deeply for user feedback, so leave some on our Discord server! We'll publish roadmaps of content planned for the game shortly after the release.

System requirements

Big Tech Tycoon is currently only available for Apple platforms. Read more about other platforms in the next section.

Current system requirement:

iOS 26.2 or newer

iPadOS 26.2 or newer

macOS 26.2 or newer

More platforms

We're looking forward to port it to other platforms such as PC/Linux/Android after the Apple release. But before we do that, we wanna suplement the game with a lot of content updates, so don't expect a new release for a while.

Our first focus is Windows. We've already got a early prototype of the game engine running on Windows. It's very bare bones but the simulation does run. It might take few months before the game is ready for a gold release.

Where can we see the game in action?

I'm gonna be soon recording and releasing small gameplay bits, developer commentary on some features and small video essays about this game. Expect video/text content talking in-depth about the game soon!

💬 Join the Official Discord Community!

To celebrate the launch, the Big Tech Tycoon Discord server is now officially open!

Whether you want to share your top-performing operating system builds, discuss 80s/90s tech history, report bugs, or pitch new features, come hang out with us!

📲 Get the game on the App Store: apps.apple.com/us/app/big-tech-tycoon/id6782679607

💬 Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/Z7DndZaFjm

Thanks to everyone who supported this project during development! Let’s build some tech empires.

Here's the link:

Cat asked me to hook up the N64! Took a bit of tinkering but we managed to get it connected with the 'cube's RCA cable. :D