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Curtis Lassam joins us to discuss the great failures in video games. We kick things off with Jurassic Park: Trespasser, then learn about Curtis’ Three Rules to Not Doom Yourself. We follow the rocky career of Tim Schafer, then Nigel tells us all about Daikatana. Afterwards, we bat around a bad idea for a video game, and talk couch co-op games. Research Indicates Let’s Play Trespasser Physics Bugs in Trespasser Gamasutra’s post-mortem of Trespasser Poor Tim Schafer Grim Fandango and Old Man Murray’s Death of Adventure Games Psyhonauts and Brütal Legend Big Rigs Over the Road Racing on the Angry Video Game Nerd Daikatana, one of the canonical disappointments in video gaming The Game Idea Generator Crawl