NEED TO KNOW
RELEASE
June 6
DEVELOPER
Super Sly Fox
PUBLISHER
Ancient Forge
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Back in 2005 Lionhead Studios released The Movies, a game about running a movie studio that was pretty good. I mention it only because Blockbuster Inc (no relation to the venerable VHS rental chain) triggers a serious rush of nostalgia for Molyneux's game.
A ‘Prologue’ version of is available on Steam, and drops you into the comfortable shoes of a movie studio head, tasked with making films, nurturing talent, winning awards and making money. It's such a good fit for the tycoon/management game genre that it's surprising that there have been so few imitators since 2005. The prologue starts in 1920 and ends in 1922, giving you remarkably little time to make movies, even by early 20th-century standards.
